Security Architect Jobs in London

Security Architect
England > London

The median Security Architect salary in London is £95,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 389 368
Rank change year-on-year +43 -21 +215
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Architect 49 121 284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.38% 0.51% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.54% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 28 79 149
10th Percentile £70,496 £74,307 £74,750
25th Percentile £79,317 £80,000 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £90,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £112,500 £101,250 £106,250
90th Percentile £142,500 £131,000 £123,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £79,842 £90,000
% change year-on-year -6.06% -11.29% -

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 11,676 22,285 31,986
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.22% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7,282 16,637 23,612
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,445
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 £56,500 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.60% -12.83% +1.33%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in London

Security Architect
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Security Architect in London

Security Architect
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Architect in London over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Architect in London

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 Security Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 18 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 -2 3 £97,500 +11.43% 6
Security Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2025, 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 Security Architect in the job title.

1 26 (53.06%) Security Architecture
2 24 (48.98%) AWS
3 22 (44.90%) NIST
4 19 (38.78%) Cybersecurity
4 19 (38.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (38.78%) Cloud Security
5 18 (36.73%) Risk Management
6 17 (34.69%) Firewall
6 17 (34.69%) CISSP
7 15 (30.61%) Finance
8 14 (28.57%) Management Information System
8 14 (28.57%) Azure
9 13 (26.53%) Information Security
9 13 (26.53%) Roadmaps
10 11 (22.45%) Network Security
10 11 (22.45%) GCP
11 10 (20.41%) Public Cloud
11 10 (20.41%) Data Centre
11 10 (20.41%) Social Skills
11 10 (20.41%) GDPR
11 10 (20.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (20.41%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (18.37%) Degree
12 9 (18.37%) Zero Trust
12 9 (18.37%) Terraform
12 9 (18.37%) SABSA
13 8 (16.33%) DevOps
13 8 (16.33%) Cloud Native
13 8 (16.33%) SDLC
13 8 (16.33%) CI/CD

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.04%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 24 (48.98%) AWS
2 14 (28.57%) Azure
3 11 (22.45%) GCP
4 8 (16.33%) SaaS
5 6 (12.24%) Azure Key Vault
6 5 (10.20%) Entra ID
7 3 (6.12%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (6.12%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (6.12%) GitHub
7 3 (6.12%) IaaS
7 3 (6.12%) Miro
8 2 (4.08%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (4.08%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (4.08%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (4.08%) Route 53
9 1 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (2.04%) Amazon Macie
9 1 (2.04%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (2.04%) AWS KMS
9 1 (2.04%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (34.69%) Firewall
2 11 (22.45%) Network Security
3 4 (8.16%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (8.16%) VPN
4 2 (4.08%) DNS
4 2 (4.08%) WAN
5 1 (2.04%) DHCP
5 1 (2.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (2.04%) Internet
Development Applications
1 3 (6.12%) JIRA
2 2 (4.08%) GitLab
3 1 (2.04%) MLflow
General
1 15 (30.61%) Finance
2 10 (20.41%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.16%) Law
3 4 (8.16%) Telecoms
4 3 (6.12%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.08%) Electronics
5 2 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.08%) Legal
5 2 (4.08%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.08%) Marketing
6 1 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Banking
6 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.12%) RESTful
2 2 (4.08%) SailPoint
3 1 (2.04%) Hugging Face
3 1 (2.04%) LangChain
3 1 (2.04%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.04%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 10 (20.41%) Data Centre
2 10 (20.41%) Public Cloud
3 8 (16.33%) Cloud Native
4 7 (14.29%) Security Posture
5 6 (12.24%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (6.12%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (6.12%) Cyber Security Posture
6 3 (6.12%) Machine to Machine
7 2 (4.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (2.04%) IoT
8 1 (2.04%) Low-Code
8 1 (2.04%) Operational Technology
8 1 (2.04%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.24%) Linux
1 6 (12.24%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (53.06%) Security Architecture
2 19 (38.78%) Cloud Security
2 19 (38.78%) Cybersecurity
3 18 (36.73%) Risk Management
4 13 (26.53%) Information Security
4 13 (26.53%) Roadmaps
5 10 (20.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (20.41%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (18.37%) SABSA
6 9 (18.37%) Zero Trust
7 8 (16.33%) Agile
7 8 (16.33%) CI/CD
7 8 (16.33%) DevOps
7 8 (16.33%) Penetration Testing
7 8 (16.33%) SDLC
8 7 (14.29%) DevSecOps
8 7 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
8 7 (14.29%) TOGAF
9 6 (12.24%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.24%) Python
2 3 (6.12%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.08%) Bash
Qualifications
1 17 (34.69%) CISSP
2 9 (18.37%) Degree
3 8 (16.33%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (14.29%) CISM
5 6 (12.24%) SC Cleared
5 6 (12.24%) Security Cleared
6 5 (10.20%) CRISC
7 4 (8.16%) AWS Certification
7 4 (8.16%) CCSP
8 3 (6.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (6.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (6.12%) CCNP
8 3 (6.12%) CISA
8 3 (6.12%) SANS
9 2 (4.08%) Azure Certification
9 2 (4.08%) CEH
9 2 (4.08%) DV Cleared
9 2 (4.08%) ISSAP
9 2 (4.08%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (44.90%) NIST
2 19 (38.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (20.41%) GDPR
4 8 (16.33%) NCSC
5 6 (12.24%) SOC 2
6 4 (8.16%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (6.12%) COBIT
7 3 (6.12%) NIST 800
8 2 (4.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (4.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (4.08%) HIPAA
8 2 (4.08%) QA
9 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
9 1 (2.04%) EU AI Act
9 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (2.04%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (18.37%) Terraform
2 3 (6.12%) Ansible
2 3 (6.12%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.12%) Progress Chef
2 3 (6.12%) Puppet
3 2 (4.08%) Nessus
4 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (10.20%) Google
1 5 (10.20%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.16%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.12%) Alibaba
4 2 (4.08%) F5
4 2 (4.08%) FireEye
4 2 (4.08%) Palo Alto
4 2 (4.08%) SAP
4 2 (4.08%) Splunk
5 1 (2.04%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.04%) Cisco
5 1 (2.04%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.04%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.04%) Infoblox
5 1 (2.04%) Juniper
5 1 (2.04%) Netskope
5 1 (2.04%) Okta
5 1 (2.04%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.04%) Oracle
5 1 (2.04%) Zscaler