Security Architecture Jobs in England

Security Architecture
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Security Architecture skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Security Architecture over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 430 325 489
Rank change year-on-year -105 +164 -45
Permanent jobs citing Security Architecture 463 929 904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.54% 1.01% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 1.05% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 358 391 570
10th Percentile £51,050 £47,500 £52,434
25th Percentile £67,805 £67,751 £65,930
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,273 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.91% +3.03% +13.79%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,875 £111,250 £111,375
UK median annual salary £78,273 £82,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year -5.12% - +11.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Security Architecture is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,078 88,196 126,702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.76% 95.63% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 53,838 52,122 73,896
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £45,910 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,650 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,185 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Security Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Security Architecture in England

Security Architecture
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Security Architecture in England

Security Architecture
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Architecture in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Architecture in England

Security Architecture
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 Architecture within the England region over the 6 months to 4 May 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 -1 199 £85,000 -2.86% 40
North of England -8 84 £70,576 +0.82% 6
South West -28 65 £105,000 +40.00% 5
North West -15 50 £70,000 - 5
South East -128 49 £78,750 +5.88% 11
East of England +19 34 £72,500 +3.57% 9
Midlands -37 29 £75,000 -1.64% 5
Yorkshire +67 26 £78,273 +19.77% 1
West Midlands -2 21 £75,000 -3.23% 4
North East -1 8 £79,842 +8.26%
East Midlands -48 8 £78,273 +52.73% 1
Security Architecture
UK

Security Architecture
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (0.43%) Apache
1 2 (0.43%) Apache Spark
1 2 (0.43%) Confluence
1 2 (0.43%) nginx
2 1 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (0.22%) Gunicorn
2 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.22%) uWSGI
Applications
1 6 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 168 (36.29%) Azure
2 130 (28.08%) AWS
3 37 (7.99%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (7.13%) GCP
5 14 (3.02%) Azure Sentinel
6 13 (2.81%) Cloud Computing
7 12 (2.59%) PaaS
7 12 (2.59%) SaaS
8 11 (2.38%) IaaS
9 5 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (0.86%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.65%) Entra ID
11 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (0.43%) GitHub
12 2 (0.43%) Kong
12 2 (0.43%) OpenShift
12 2 (0.43%) Serverless
13 1 (0.22%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.22%) Azure Stack
13 1 (0.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 85 (18.36%) Network Security
2 57 (12.31%) Firewall
3 35 (7.56%) WAN
4 33 (7.13%) SD-WAN
5 26 (5.62%) Intrusion Detection
5 26 (5.62%) TCP/IP
6 10 (2.16%) Internet
7 8 (1.73%) Wireless
8 7 (1.51%) SSL
8 7 (1.51%) VPN
9 5 (1.08%) IPsec
10 3 (0.65%) DHCP
10 3 (0.65%) DNS
11 2 (0.43%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.43%) LAN
12 1 (0.22%) BGP
12 1 (0.22%) HTTP
12 1 (0.22%) OSPF
12 1 (0.22%) SAN
12 1 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.73%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.43%) Big Data
3 2 (0.43%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.22%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.22%) MySQL
4 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (2.59%) GitLab
2 4 (0.86%) Git
2 4 (0.86%) JIRA
3 3 (0.65%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.22%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.22%) Vagrant
General
1 125 (27.00%) Social Skills
2 121 (26.13%) Finance
3 67 (14.47%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (11.23%) Law
5 39 (8.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 39 (8.42%) Legal
6 34 (7.34%) Military
7 31 (6.70%) Public Sector
8 25 (5.40%) Banking
9 18 (3.89%) Documentation Skills
10 17 (3.67%) Telecoms
11 15 (3.24%) Marketing
12 12 (2.59%) Aerospace
12 12 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.51%) Retail
13 7 (1.51%) Retail Banking
14 6 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.30%) Manufacturing
15 5 (1.08%) Police
Job Titles
1 211 (45.57%) Architect
2 172 (37.15%) Security Architect
3 71 (15.33%) Senior
4 68 (14.69%) Lead
5 66 (14.25%) Consultant
6 65 (14.04%) Security Consultant
7 55 (11.88%) Analyst
8 39 (8.42%) Lead Architect
8 39 (8.42%) Security Analyst
9 37 (7.99%) Security Engineer
10 34 (7.34%) Lead Security Architect
11 31 (6.70%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 29 (6.26%) Solutions Architect
13 28 (6.05%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 28 (6.05%) Senior Architect
14 26 (5.62%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 22 (4.75%) Principal Architect
15 22 (4.75%) Principal Security Architect
16 21 (4.54%) Security Manager
16 21 (4.54%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.24%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (2.59%) Web Services
3 7 (1.51%) Middleware
4 6 (1.30%) Kafka
5 3 (0.65%) .NET
5 3 (0.65%) OAuth
6 2 (0.43%) JWT
6 2 (0.43%) Pandas
6 2 (0.43%) pytest
6 2 (0.43%) Smart Contracts
7 1 (0.22%) EDI
7 1 (0.22%) HTML
7 1 (0.22%) LAMP
7 1 (0.22%) LEMP Stack
7 1 (0.22%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.22%) ModSecurity
7 1 (0.22%) Node.js
7 1 (0.22%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.22%) OpenID
7 1 (0.22%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 97 (20.95%) Management Information System
2 68 (14.69%) Security Posture
3 44 (9.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 40 (8.64%) Public Cloud
5 37 (7.99%) Cyber Defence
6 33 (7.13%) Cyber Threat
6 33 (7.13%) Security Operations Centre
7 25 (5.40%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 24 (5.18%) Operational Technology
9 19 (4.10%) Cyberattack
10 12 (2.59%) PKI
10 12 (2.59%) Private Cloud
10 12 (2.59%) Product Ownership
11 11 (2.38%) Data Centre
11 11 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (2.16%) Cloud Native
13 7 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (1.30%) IoT
15 5 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
15 5 (1.08%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.81%) Linux
1 13 (2.81%) Windows
2 7 (1.51%) Unix
3 6 (1.30%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.08%) CentOS
5 4 (0.86%) Kali Linux
5 4 (0.86%) Mac OS X
5 4 (0.86%) Solaris
5 4 (0.86%) zOS
6 2 (0.43%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.43%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.22%) Android
7 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (60.48%) Cybersecurity
2 203 (43.84%) Information Security
3 102 (22.03%) Agile
4 89 (19.22%) Cloud Security
5 85 (18.36%) SIEM
6 82 (17.71%) Mentoring
7 78 (16.85%) Application Security
7 78 (16.85%) Coaching
8 77 (16.63%) Problem-Solving
9 76 (16.41%) Roadmaps
10 75 (16.20%) Incident Response
11 68 (14.69%) Risk Management
12 67 (14.47%) Security Operations
13 60 (12.96%) Incident Management
14 53 (11.45%) TOGAF
15 52 (11.23%) OWASP
16 47 (10.15%) CI/CD
17 45 (9.72%) Risk Assessment
17 45 (9.72%) Vulnerability Management
18 43 (9.29%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (6.48%) Python
2 24 (5.18%) Java
3 8 (1.73%) PowerShell
3 8 (1.73%) SQL
4 7 (1.51%) C
5 6 (1.30%) C++
6 5 (1.08%) R
6 5 (1.08%) Scala
7 4 (0.86%) C#
7 4 (0.86%) Go
8 3 (0.65%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.43%) Bash
9 2 (0.43%) Lua
9 2 (0.43%) Ruby
9 2 (0.43%) Rust
10 1 (0.22%) Dart
10 1 (0.22%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.22%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.22%) PHP
10 1 (0.22%) Swift
Qualifications
1 168 (36.29%) CISSP
2 111 (23.97%) Degree
3 106 (22.89%) CISM
4 98 (21.17%) Security Cleared
5 62 (13.39%) Cisco Certification
6 60 (12.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 58 (12.53%) CCSP
8 52 (11.23%) DV Cleared
9 49 (10.58%) Azure Certification
10 48 (10.37%) AWS Certification
11 46 (9.94%) CCSK
12 37 (7.99%) CRISC
13 31 (6.70%) CEH
14 30 (6.48%) SC Cleared
15 28 (6.05%) Master's Degree
16 27 (5.83%) CISA
17 22 (4.75%) BPSS Clearance
18 21 (4.54%) GIAC
19 19 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
20 18 (3.89%) CASP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (36.29%) NIST
2 116 (25.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 43 (9.29%) GDPR
4 37 (7.99%) NCSC
5 34 (7.34%) NIST 800
6 27 (5.83%) PCI DSS
7 23 (4.97%) GRC
7 23 (4.97%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 15 (3.24%) Cyber Essentials
9 13 (2.81%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 12 (2.59%) COBIT
11 6 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (1.30%) HIPAA
12 5 (1.08%) ISO 31000
12 5 (1.08%) QA
13 4 (0.86%) JSP 440
13 4 (0.86%) RMADS
14 3 (0.65%) HMG Infosec
14 3 (0.65%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (9.07%) Docker
2 15 (3.24%) vSphere
3 12 (2.59%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.65%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.65%) Firmware
4 3 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.22%) LXC
Systems Management
1 41 (8.86%) Kubernetes
2 35 (7.56%) Single Sign-On
3 22 (4.75%) Terraform
4 9 (1.94%) QRadar
5 4 (0.86%) Suricata
6 3 (0.65%) Ansible
7 2 (0.43%) CASB
7 2 (0.43%) DatAdvantage
7 2 (0.43%) Istio
7 2 (0.43%) SCCM
7 2 (0.43%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 1 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.22%) Cacti
8 1 (0.22%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.22%) Stealthwatch
8 1 (0.22%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 94 (20.30%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.18%) Splunk
3 17 (3.67%) SolarWinds
4 16 (3.46%) Tripwire
5 15 (3.24%) Tanium
6 9 (1.94%) IBM
6 9 (1.94%) Palo Alto
7 8 (1.73%) Cisco
7 8 (1.73%) Qualys
8 7 (1.51%) Google
9 5 (1.08%) CyberArk
9 5 (1.08%) Juniper
10 4 (0.86%) iManage
10 4 (0.86%) Rapid7
11 3 (0.65%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.65%) LogRhythm
11 3 (0.65%) New Relic
11 3 (0.65%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.43%) Symantec
12 2 (0.43%) Varonis