Security Architecture Jobs in England

Security Architecture
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Security Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 480 445 330
Rank change year-on-year -35 -115 +186
Permanent jobs citing Security Architecture 207 449 874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.43% 0.51% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.60% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 155 341 357
10th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £50,049
25th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,159 £78,273 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.53% -7.91% +3.03%
75th Percentile £88,333 £95,000 £103,750
90th Percentile £103,750 £112,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £79,842 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.06% -6.07% +3.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Security Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,477 74,482 83,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.01% 84.24% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 22,533 54,432 49,691
10th Percentile £29,625 £29,000 £34,375
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,105
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,695 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 2025. 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 +45 108 £75,000 -11.76% 157
North of England +12 55 £71,991 +2.01% 127
North West -14 34 £65,000 -7.14% 61
South East +70 21 £68,750 -14.06% 186
Yorkshire +53 18 £94,637 +20.91% 47
South West +70 15 £71,991 -31.44% 79
West Midlands +48 5 £80,151 +6.87% 45
Midlands +32 5 £80,151 +6.87% 84
North East +43 3 £80,000 +0.20% 19
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 5 (2.42%) Confluence
2 2 (0.97%) IIS
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.97%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.93%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (0.97%) SAP GRC
2 2 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 79 (38.16%) AWS
2 71 (34.30%) Azure
3 28 (13.53%) GCP
4 22 (10.63%) Serverless
5 18 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
5 18 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (6.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (6.76%) AWS KMS
6 14 (6.76%) PaaS
7 13 (6.28%) Entra ID
7 13 (6.28%) SaaS
8 12 (5.80%) IaaS
9 8 (3.86%) Azure Sentinel
9 8 (3.86%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (2.90%) Apigee
10 6 (2.90%) Power Platform
11 5 (2.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (1.93%) Contentful
12 4 (1.93%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (1.45%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (23.67%) Firewall
2 44 (21.26%) Network Security
3 17 (8.21%) Intrusion Detection
4 16 (7.73%) TCP/IP
5 13 (6.28%) DNS
5 13 (6.28%) VPN
6 9 (4.35%) HTTP
6 9 (4.35%) SMTP
7 5 (2.42%) IPsec
7 5 (2.42%) SSL
8 4 (1.93%) SD-WAN
8 4 (1.93%) WAN
9 3 (1.45%) SAN
10 2 (0.97%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (0.97%) DHCP
10 2 (0.97%) DMZ
10 2 (0.97%) NAS
10 2 (0.97%) SCCP
10 2 (0.97%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (0.97%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.42%) Power BI
2 4 (1.93%) Data Lake
2 4 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (1.93%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.97%) Big Data
4 2 (0.97%) Data Mining
4 2 (0.97%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.48%) DB2
5 1 (0.48%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (1.45%) Bitbucket
1 3 (1.45%) JIRA
2 1 (0.48%) Git
2 1 (0.48%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.48%) MLflow
General
1 65 (31.40%) Social Skills
2 60 (28.99%) Finance
3 37 (17.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 29 (14.01%) Banking
5 24 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (7.73%) Telecoms
7 12 (5.80%) Law
7 12 (5.80%) Retail
8 11 (5.31%) Pharmaceutical
9 10 (4.83%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (3.86%) Legal
10 8 (3.86%) Retail Banking
11 6 (2.90%) Public Sector
12 5 (2.42%) Marketing
12 5 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.93%) Back Office
14 3 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.45%) Games
15 2 (0.97%) Local Government
15 2 (0.97%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 107 (51.69%) Architect
2 55 (26.57%) Security Architect
3 44 (21.26%) Senior
4 34 (16.43%) Security Engineer
5 23 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
6 20 (9.66%) Lead
7 19 (9.18%) Cloud Architect
8 17 (8.21%) AWS Architect
9 16 (7.73%) Security Specialist
10 15 (7.25%) Analyst
10 15 (7.25%) Senior Architect
11 14 (6.76%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (5.80%) AWS Software Engineer
12 12 (5.80%) Information Security Engineer
12 12 (5.80%) Security Analyst
12 12 (5.80%) Senior Software Engineer
12 12 (5.80%) Software Engineer
13 11 (5.31%) Cybersecurity Specialist
13 11 (5.31%) Lead Architect
13 11 (5.31%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.73%) Kafka
2 14 (6.76%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (6.28%) Web Services
4 12 (5.80%) Node.js
4 12 (5.80%) REST
5 6 (2.90%) AngularJS
5 6 (2.90%) React
5 6 (2.90%) React Native
6 4 (1.93%) .NET
7 2 (0.97%) 802.1X
7 2 (0.97%) Azure Blueprints
7 2 (0.97%) Leaflet
7 2 (0.97%) SailPoint
7 2 (0.97%) SAP Fiori
8 1 (0.48%) Hugging Face
8 1 (0.48%) LangChain
8 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.48%) Middleware
8 1 (0.48%) PyTorch
8 1 (0.48%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 50 (24.15%) Management Information System
2 20 (9.66%) Security Posture
3 18 (8.70%) Cloud Native
4 15 (7.25%) Product Ownership
5 13 (6.28%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (3.86%) Social Media
6 8 (3.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 7 (3.38%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.90%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.90%) DataPower
8 6 (2.90%) Operational Technology
9 5 (2.42%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.93%) CESG
10 4 (1.93%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.93%) Marketing Technology
11 3 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.97%) CCTV
12 2 (0.97%) Cyber Defence
12 2 (0.97%) Freedom of Information
12 2 (0.97%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 26 (12.56%) Windows
2 8 (3.86%) Windows Vista
3 6 (2.90%) Android
3 6 (2.90%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.90%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.42%) Linux
5 4 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.97%) VMS
6 2 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.48%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (52.66%) Cybersecurity
2 80 (38.65%) Information Security
3 73 (35.27%) Cloud Security
4 67 (32.37%) Incident Response
5 51 (24.64%) Risk Management
6 50 (24.15%) Agile
7 43 (20.77%) Data Protection
8 38 (18.36%) SIEM
8 38 (18.36%) Vulnerability Management
9 37 (17.87%) DevOps
9 37 (17.87%) Identity Access Management
10 35 (16.91%) CI/CD
10 35 (16.91%) Software Engineering
11 34 (16.43%) TOGAF
11 34 (16.43%) Zero Trust
12 33 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
13 32 (15.46%) Computer Science
13 32 (15.46%) Mentoring
14 31 (14.98%) Roadmaps
15 30 (14.49%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 27 (13.04%) Python
2 26 (12.56%) Java
3 12 (5.80%) TypeScript
4 9 (4.35%) PowerShell
5 6 (2.90%) Bash
Qualifications
1 49 (23.67%) CISSP
2 48 (23.19%) Degree
3 35 (16.91%) Security Cleared
4 29 (14.01%) CISM
5 27 (13.04%) AWS Certification
6 26 (12.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (12.56%) SC Cleared
7 22 (10.63%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (10.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (7.25%) CISA
10 14 (6.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 13 (6.28%) CEH
12 12 (5.80%) Master's Degree
13 11 (5.31%) GIAC
14 9 (4.35%) DBS Check
15 8 (3.86%) CompTIA Security+
15 8 (3.86%) SANS
16 7 (3.38%) CCNP
16 7 (3.38%) CRISC
16 7 (3.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (35.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 63 (30.43%) NIST
3 54 (26.09%) GDPR
4 26 (12.56%) NCSC
5 22 (10.63%) HIPAA
6 18 (8.70%) PCI DSS
7 17 (8.21%) Cyber Essentials
8 12 (5.80%) SOC 2
9 7 (3.38%) COBIT
9 7 (3.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (3.38%) NIST 800
10 6 (2.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (2.42%) GRC
11 5 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 5 (2.42%) QA
12 3 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.97%) Data Quality
13 2 (0.97%) ITGC
14 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
14 1 (0.48%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 17 (8.21%) Docker
2 16 (7.73%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.97%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (12.08%) Terraform
2 22 (10.63%) Kubernetes
3 15 (7.25%) Grafana
3 15 (7.25%) Prometheus
4 7 (3.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.93%) Ansible
6 3 (1.45%) Istio
7 2 (0.97%) CASB
7 2 (0.97%) EnCase
7 2 (0.97%) FTK
7 2 (0.97%) Host Intrusion Detection System
7 2 (0.97%) linkerd
7 2 (0.97%) Nessus
7 2 (0.97%) RSA Security Analytics
7 2 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.48%) SCCM
Vendors
1 52 (25.12%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.21%) Google
3 12 (5.80%) Ping Identity
4 11 (5.31%) Cisco
5 8 (3.86%) Palo Alto
6 7 (3.38%) IBM
7 6 (2.90%) Apple
8 5 (2.42%) Splunk
9 4 (1.93%) Adobe
9 4 (1.93%) FireEye
9 4 (1.93%) Optimizely
9 4 (1.93%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.45%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.45%) Juniper
10 3 (1.45%) VMware
11 2 (0.97%) Facebook
11 2 (0.97%) NetWitness
11 2 (0.97%) Okta
11 2 (0.97%) SonicWALL
11 2 (0.97%) YouTube