IT Security Architect Jobs in London

IT Security Architect
England > London

The median IT Security Architect salary in London is £97,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 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
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 396 482 618
Rank change year-on-year +86 +136 +256
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Security Architect 4 18 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.031% 0.076% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.081% 0.031%
Number of salaries quoted 1 11 6
10th Percentile - - £74,375
25th Percentile £91,250 £88,750 £79,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £100,000 £83,750
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +19.40% -20.24%
75th Percentile £103,750 - £87,500
90th Percentile - - £111,250
England median annual salary £76,271 £100,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -23.73% +17.65% -10.53%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,742 22,276 32,688
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.30% 94.14% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 7,310 16,685 24,119
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

IT Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Security Architect in London

IT Security Architect
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for IT Security Architect in London

IT Security Architect
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Security Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 13 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
Central London +22 1 £97,500 -2.50%
IT Security Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 2025, IT 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 London region featuring IT Security Architect in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) CCSP
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (100.00%) Law
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (100.00%) SDLC
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 4 (100.00%) NIST
1 4 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 3 (75.00%) Miro
2 3 (75.00%) Secrets Management
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Alibaba
2 3 (75.00%) Backlog Management
2 3 (75.00%) SOC 2
2 3 (75.00%) Major Incident Management
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (75.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 3 (75.00%) GDPR
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub
2 3 (75.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (75.00%) Progress Chef
2 3 (75.00%) Puppet
2 3 (75.00%) Machine to Machine

IT Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub
2 3 (75.00%) Miro
2 3 (75.00%) SaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Akamai
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (100.00%) Law
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 3 (75.00%) Machine to Machine
1 3 (75.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (75.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) IoT
2 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) SDLC
1 4 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Backlog Management
2 3 (75.00%) Business Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) Change Management
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (75.00%) Information Security
2 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 3 (75.00%) Major Incident Management
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (75.00%) Secrets Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (75.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) CCSP
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
2 3 (75.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 3 (75.00%) CISSP
3 1 (25.00%) ACSA
3 1 (25.00%) ACSP
3 1 (25.00%) CCSK
3 1 (25.00%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) NIST
2 3 (75.00%) GDPR
2 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (75.00%) SOC 2
3 1 (25.00%) COBIT
3 1 (25.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Progress Chef
1 3 (75.00%) Puppet
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Alibaba
1 3 (75.00%) Google
1 3 (75.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Netskope
2 1 (25.00%) Okta
2 1 (25.00%) Zscaler