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 21 June 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 399 475 583
Rank change year-on-year +76 +108 +328
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Security Architect 6 23 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.047% 0.092% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.098% 0.051%
Number of salaries quoted 1 16 11
10th Percentile - £88,750 -
25th Percentile £91,250 £97,188 £78,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £100,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +21.21% -21.43%
75th Percentile £103,750 £121,250 £86,875
90th Percentile - - £87,500
England median annual salary £76,271 £100,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -23.73% +21.21% -13.16%

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 11,672 23,570 29,182
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.97% 94.44% 94.88%
Number of salaries quoted 7,020 17,367 21,984
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,270 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £54,088
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £98,750 £93,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,249
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.86% +0.42%

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 21 June 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 +14 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 21 June 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 6 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (100.00%) NIST
2 5 (83.33%) Cloud Security
2 5 (83.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (83.33%) Management Information System
2 5 (83.33%) CISSP
2 5 (83.33%) SaaS
2 5 (83.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 4 (66.67%) GCP
3 4 (66.67%) Entra ID
3 4 (66.67%) SDLC
3 4 (66.67%) Azure
3 4 (66.67%) AWS
3 4 (66.67%) Law
3 4 (66.67%) CCSP
3 4 (66.67%) Degree
3 4 (66.67%) Zero Trust
3 4 (66.67%) Azure Key Vault
4 3 (50.00%) Backlog Management
4 3 (50.00%) SOC 2
4 3 (50.00%) Major Incident Management
4 3 (50.00%) Miro
4 3 (50.00%) Secrets Management
4 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (50.00%) Business Strategy
4 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (50.00%) Security Posture
4 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (50.00%) Terraform
4 3 (50.00%) JIRA

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 5 (83.33%) SaaS
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 4 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 4 (66.67%) GCP
3 3 (50.00%) GitHub
3 3 (50.00%) Miro
4 2 (33.33%) IaaS
5 1 (16.67%) Akamai
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Law
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Military
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Management Information System
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 3 (50.00%) Machine to Machine
2 3 (50.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (16.67%) IoT
3 1 (16.67%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Security
2 4 (66.67%) SDLC
2 4 (66.67%) Zero Trust
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Backlog Management
3 3 (50.00%) Business Strategy
3 3 (50.00%) Change Management
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 3 (50.00%) Information Security
3 3 (50.00%) ITIL
3 3 (50.00%) Major Incident Management
3 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (50.00%) SABSA
3 3 (50.00%) Secrets Management
3 3 (50.00%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (83.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 5 (83.33%) CISSP
3 4 (66.67%) CCSP
3 4 (66.67%) Degree
4 2 (33.33%) GIAC
5 1 (16.67%) ACSA
5 1 (16.67%) ACSP
5 1 (16.67%) CCSK
5 1 (16.67%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) NIST
2 5 (83.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (50.00%) GDPR
3 3 (50.00%) SOC 2
4 1 (16.67%) COBIT
4 1 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 3 (50.00%) Puppet
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Alibaba
1 3 (50.00%) Google
1 3 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) CyberArk
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Netskope
2 1 (16.67%) Okta
2 1 (16.67%) Zscaler