Senior Security Architect Jobs in England

Senior Security Architect
UK > England

The median Senior Security Architect salary in England is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 640 764 882
Rank change year-on-year +124 +118 +194
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Architect 50 65 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.075% 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.080% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 5 28 10
10th Percentile - £53,475 £67,500
25th Percentile - £56,809 £75,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -14.29% -5.41%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £109,375
90th Percentile - £101,250 £113,625
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% -5.88% -5.56%

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 45,023 81,588 81,077
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.06% 94.56% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 24,443 60,779 51,494
10th Percentile £29,913 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,800 £53,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.17% -12.83% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Senior Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Security Architect in England

Senior Security Architect
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Security Architect in England

Senior Security Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Security Architect in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Security Architect in England

Senior 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 Senior Security Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 17 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
South East +92 15 - - 4
North of England +27 12 £70,000 - 3
South West +117 9 - - 1
Yorkshire +69 8 £70,000 -36.36%
Midlands +53 6 - -
East Midlands +25 6 - -
East of England - 6 - -
North West -23 4 £70,000 +6.70% 3
London +100 2 £95,000 -2.56% 3
Senior Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Security Architect in the job title.

1 47 (94.00%) CISSP
2 45 (90.00%) Project Management
2 45 (90.00%) Management Information System
2 45 (90.00%) Finance
2 45 (90.00%) Information Security
2 45 (90.00%) Degree
2 45 (90.00%) Mentoring
2 45 (90.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (4.00%) Threat Management
3 2 (4.00%) Network Security
3 2 (4.00%) Digital Forensics
3 2 (4.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (4.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (4.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (4.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (4.00%) Threat Detection
3 2 (4.00%) GDPR
3 2 (4.00%) Creative Thinking
3 2 (4.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (4.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (4.00%) Epics
3 2 (4.00%) Technical Debt
3 2 (4.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (4.00%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (4.00%) NIST
3 2 (4.00%) Architectural Design
3 2 (4.00%) Backlog Management
3 2 (4.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (4.00%) Roadmaps

Senior 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) Firewall
1 2 (4.00%) Network Security
General
1 45 (90.00%) Finance
2 2 (4.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 45 (90.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (90.00%) Information Security
1 45 (90.00%) Mentoring
1 45 (90.00%) Project Management
2 2 (4.00%) Agile
2 2 (4.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 2 (4.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (4.00%) Creative Thinking
2 2 (4.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (4.00%) Digital Forensics
2 2 (4.00%) Epics
2 2 (4.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (4.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (4.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 2 (4.00%) Scrum
2 2 (4.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (4.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (4.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (4.00%) Technical Debt
2 2 (4.00%) Threat Detection
2 2 (4.00%) Threat Management
Qualifications
1 47 (94.00%) CISSP
2 45 (90.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 45 (90.00%) Degree
3 2 (4.00%) CEH
3 2 (4.00%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (4.00%) GDPR
1 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.00%) NIST