Security Architect Jobs in England

Security Architect
UK > England

The median Security Architect salary in England is £79,842 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 434 363 634
Rank change year-on-year -71 +271 -132
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Architect 430 850 579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.51% 0.90% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.98% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 277 328 323
10th Percentile £57,224 £56,219 £62,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £72,188 £73,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,842 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% - +16.13%
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,313 £105,000
90th Percentile £112,750 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £79,842 £87,500 £88,750
% change year-on-year -8.75% -1.41% +10.94%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 79,522 86,974 124,954
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.61% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 59,823 54,838 76,240
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,386
25th Percentile £38,087 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,433 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Security Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in England

Security Architect
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Architect in England.

Salary trend for Security Architect in England

Security Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Architect in England over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Architect in England

Security Architect
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -7 120 £90,000 -5.26% 32
North of England -3 93 £78,273 +12.13% 2
South East -38 86 £75,000 -16.67% 13
North West -10 59 £70,000 +1.16% 2
Midlands -37 58 £75,000 -11.76% 4
South West -61 54 £72,500 -8.23% 3
West Midlands -8 34 £70,000 -17.65% 2
Yorkshire +57 28 £79,842 +14.06%
East Midlands -28 24 £78,273 - 2
East of England +28 16 £77,500 -3.13% 5
North East 0 6 £79,842 -19.35%
Security Architect
UK

Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Security Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 176 (40.93%) Cybersecurity
2 167 (38.84%) Security Architecture
3 151 (35.12%) Azure
4 116 (26.98%) CISSP
5 108 (25.12%) Information Security
6 107 (24.88%) Microsoft
7 97 (22.56%) AWS
8 84 (19.53%) Finance
9 79 (18.37%) Cisco Certification
10 77 (17.91%) Social Skills
11 76 (17.67%) Application Security
12 75 (17.44%) NIST
13 71 (16.51%) Security Cleared
14 69 (16.05%) CISM
14 69 (16.05%) Cloud Security
15 65 (15.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 65 (15.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
16 61 (14.19%) Degree
17 58 (13.49%) CCSP
18 57 (13.26%) OWASP
19 55 (12.79%) Roadmaps
20 52 (12.09%) Azure Certification
20 52 (12.09%) AWS Certification
21 51 (11.86%) WAN
22 49 (11.40%) Agile
23 47 (10.93%) Management Information System
23 47 (10.93%) Security Posture
23 47 (10.93%) SD-WAN
24 46 (10.70%) Problem-Solving
25 44 (10.23%) CCSK

Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 151 (35.12%) Azure
2 97 (22.56%) AWS
3 40 (9.30%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (3.49%) SaaS
5 13 (3.02%) GCP
6 9 (2.09%) Power Platform
7 7 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (0.93%) PaaS
9 3 (0.70%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (0.70%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (0.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (0.70%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (0.70%) Entra ID
9 3 (0.70%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.47%) Azure AKS
10 2 (0.47%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.47%) IaaS
11 1 (0.23%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.23%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 51 (11.86%) WAN
2 47 (10.93%) SD-WAN
3 29 (6.74%) Network Security
4 22 (5.12%) Firewall
5 12 (2.79%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (1.16%) DNS
6 5 (1.16%) LAN
7 4 (0.93%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (0.93%) Wireless
7 4 (0.93%) WLAN
8 3 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (0.70%) VPN
9 2 (0.47%) Internet
9 2 (0.47%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.23%) DHCP
10 1 (0.23%) HTTP
10 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.40%) Power BI
1 6 (1.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 3 (0.70%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.47%) Big Data
4 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.23%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.23%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (0.93%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.23%) Vagrant
General
1 84 (19.53%) Finance
2 77 (17.91%) Social Skills
3 18 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (3.95%) Public Sector
5 12 (2.79%) Law
6 10 (2.33%) Retail
7 8 (1.86%) Banking
7 8 (1.86%) Games
8 7 (1.63%) Legal
9 6 (1.40%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.70%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.70%) Electronics
10 3 (0.70%) Military
11 2 (0.47%) Marketing
11 2 (0.47%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.23%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (6.05%) .NET
2 10 (2.33%) React
3 7 (1.63%) OAuth
4 6 (1.40%) CSS
4 6 (1.40%) OAuth2
5 4 (0.93%) ASP.NET Web API
6 3 (0.70%) Web Services
7 2 (0.47%) SAML
8 1 (0.23%) EDI
8 1 (0.23%) HTML
8 1 (0.23%) JSON
8 1 (0.23%) OpenID
8 1 (0.23%) RESTful
8 1 (0.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (10.93%) Management Information System
1 47 (10.93%) Security Posture
2 38 (8.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 27 (6.28%) PKI
4 26 (6.05%) Data Centre
4 26 (6.05%) Public Cloud
5 21 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (3.95%) Cyber Threat
7 10 (2.33%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.09%) Cloud Native
8 9 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.86%) PMI
10 6 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.16%) Cloud Security Posture
12 3 (0.70%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (0.70%) Cyberattack
13 2 (0.47%) IoT
13 2 (0.47%) Onboarding
14 1 (0.23%) Cyber Security Posture
14 1 (0.23%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 29 (6.74%) Linux
2 19 (4.42%) Android
3 16 (3.72%) Apple iOS
4 11 (2.56%) Windows
5 3 (0.70%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.47%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (40.93%) Cybersecurity
2 167 (38.84%) Security Architecture
3 108 (25.12%) Information Security
4 76 (17.67%) Application Security
5 69 (16.05%) Cloud Security
6 57 (13.26%) OWASP
7 55 (12.79%) Roadmaps
8 49 (11.40%) Agile
9 46 (10.70%) Problem-Solving
10 44 (10.23%) Secure Coding
11 39 (9.07%) Identity Management
11 39 (9.07%) Presales
12 38 (8.84%) TOGAF
13 36 (8.37%) CI/CD
14 34 (7.91%) Identity Access Management
15 30 (6.98%) DevOps
15 30 (6.98%) Incident Response
15 30 (6.98%) Mentoring
16 29 (6.74%) Coaching
17 27 (6.28%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (5.12%) C
2 12 (2.79%) Python
3 10 (2.33%) C#
3 10 (2.33%) JavaScript
4 8 (1.86%) PowerShell
5 7 (1.63%) C++
6 6 (1.40%) Bash
7 4 (0.93%) Java
8 1 (0.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 116 (26.98%) CISSP
2 79 (18.37%) Cisco Certification
3 71 (16.51%) Security Cleared
4 69 (16.05%) CISM
5 65 (15.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 61 (14.19%) Degree
7 58 (13.49%) CCSP
8 52 (12.09%) AWS Certification
8 52 (12.09%) Azure Certification
9 44 (10.23%) CCSK
10 30 (6.98%) DV Cleared
11 23 (5.35%) SC Cleared
12 21 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
13 19 (4.42%) CRISC
14 15 (3.49%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 14 (3.26%) CCNP
15 14 (3.26%) CISA
15 14 (3.26%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 12 (2.79%) CCNA
16 12 (2.79%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (17.44%) NIST
2 65 (15.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (5.12%) PCI DSS
4 18 (4.19%) GDPR
5 16 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 13 (3.02%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (1.40%) COBIT
7 6 (1.40%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.93%) NCSC
8 4 (0.93%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.70%) HMG Infosec
9 3 (0.70%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.70%) JSP 440
9 3 (0.70%) RMADS
10 2 (0.47%) QA
11 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.23%) GRC
System Software
1 34 (7.91%) Docker
2 8 (1.86%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.70%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (0.70%) Firmware
4 2 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.23%) LXC
Systems Management
1 37 (8.60%) Kubernetes
2 33 (7.67%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (2.79%) Stealthwatch
4 5 (1.16%) Terraform
5 4 (0.93%) Ansible
6 3 (0.70%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.47%) Suricata
8 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 107 (24.88%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.19%) Cisco
3 12 (2.79%) Adobe
3 12 (2.79%) Apple
3 12 (2.79%) Meraki
4 10 (2.33%) Google
5 9 (2.09%) Palo Alto
6 6 (1.40%) Oracle
6 6 (1.40%) PagerDuty
6 6 (1.40%) Splunk
7 4 (0.93%) Alibaba
8 3 (0.70%) AppDynamics
8 3 (0.70%) New Relic
8 3 (0.70%) Veracode
9 2 (0.47%) Juniper
9 2 (0.47%) Veeam
9 2 (0.47%) VMware
10 1 (0.23%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.23%) LogRhythm
10 1 (0.23%) Rapid7