Security Solutions Architect Jobs in England

Security Solution Architect
UK > England

The median Security Solution Architect salary in England is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 660 800 914
Rank change year-on-year +140 +114 +193
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Solutions Architect 10 37 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.021% 0.043% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.046% 0.032%
Number of salaries quoted 7 26 17
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £72,750
25th Percentile £71,250 £58,125 £78,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £71,250 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -16.18% -5.56%
75th Percentile £97,500 £76,250 £90,000
90th Percentile - £108,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £70,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +28.57% -17.65% +3.03%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 43,436 80,761 84,301
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.39% 94.49% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,713 60,391 53,470
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,995 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

Security Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Solutions Architect in England

Security Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Security Solutions Architect in England

Security Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Solutions Architect in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Solutions Architect in England

Security Solutions 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 Solutions Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 7 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 +94 8 £95,000 +5.56% 5
North of England +57 2 £55,000 -46.34% 1
Yorkshire +69 1 £55,000 -21.43%
North West +8 1 £55,000 -46.34% 1
Security Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2025, Security Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 6 (60.00%) Degree
1 6 (60.00%) Security Posture
2 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (50.00%) NIST
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Information Security
2 5 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (50.00%) ITIL
3 3 (30.00%) Python
3 3 (30.00%) Change Management
3 3 (30.00%) CCSP
3 3 (30.00%) CISSP
3 3 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (30.00%) JIRA
3 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (30.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (30.00%) Law
3 3 (30.00%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Google
3 3 (30.00%) Incident Management
3 3 (30.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 3 (30.00%) GDPR
3 3 (30.00%) Alibaba
3 3 (30.00%) Cyber Resilience
3 3 (30.00%) Puppet
3 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (30.00%) GitHub

Security Solutions 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (30.00%) GCP
2 3 (30.00%) GitHub
2 3 (30.00%) Miro
2 3 (30.00%) SaaS
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (20.00%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DHCP
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (20.00%) LAN
1 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (20.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (30.00%) Law
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Security Posture
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 3 (30.00%) Cyber Security Posture
2 3 (30.00%) Machine to Machine
2 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (20.00%) CCTV
3 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
1 5 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (50.00%) Information Security
1 5 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (30.00%) Backlog Management
2 3 (30.00%) Change Management
2 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (30.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 3 (30.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (30.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 3 (30.00%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (30.00%) Presales
2 3 (30.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (30.00%) SDLC
2 3 (30.00%) Secrets Management
2 3 (30.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (30.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 3 (30.00%) CCSP
2 3 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (30.00%) CISSP
3 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (50.00%) NIST
2 3 (30.00%) GDPR
2 3 (30.00%) SOC 2
3 2 (20.00%) COBIT
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Progress Chef
1 3 (30.00%) Puppet
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Alibaba
1 3 (30.00%) Google
1 3 (30.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (20.00%) IBM
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) VMware