Security Architecture Jobs in London

Security Architecture
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring Security Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 278 315 312
Rank change year-on-year +37 -3 +151
Permanent jobs citing Security Architecture 117 201 371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.90% 0.85% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.93% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 85 153 210
10th Percentile £56,000 £52,500 £65,956
25th Percentile £60,000 £72,500 £75,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £89,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -4.49% +4.71%
75th Percentile £103,750 £97,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £123,500 £119,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £78,273 £85,000
% change year-on-year -4.18% -7.91% +3.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Security Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,445 21,520 32,059
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.16% 90.99% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 7,282 15,899 23,123
10th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £43,180
25th Percentile £55,813 £51,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,073 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.03% -6.57% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Security Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Architecture in London

Security Architecture
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Security Architecture in London

Security Architecture
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Security Architecture in London

Security Architecture
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 Architecture 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 -3 18 £75,000 -11.76% 8
South London +7 6 £60,000 -23.34%
West London +30 3 £67,820 - 2
Security Architecture
England

Security Architecture
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 2 (1.71%) Confluence
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.71%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.42%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.85%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 57 (48.72%) AWS
2 43 (36.75%) Azure
3 27 (23.08%) GCP
4 21 (17.95%) Serverless
5 20 (17.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (13.68%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (12.82%) AWS KMS
8 8 (6.84%) Entra ID
9 7 (5.98%) IaaS
9 7 (5.98%) SaaS
10 6 (5.13%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (4.27%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 4 (3.42%) Azure AKS
12 4 (3.42%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (3.42%) Contentful
12 4 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (3.42%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (3.42%) PaaS
12 4 (3.42%) Power Platform
12 4 (3.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 33 (28.21%) Network Security
2 21 (17.95%) Firewall
3 11 (9.40%) TCP/IP
4 8 (6.84%) Intrusion Detection
4 8 (6.84%) VPN
5 6 (5.13%) DNS
5 6 (5.13%) HTTP
5 6 (5.13%) SMTP
6 5 (4.27%) IPsec
6 5 (4.27%) SSL
7 4 (3.42%) WAN
8 2 (1.71%) NAS
8 2 (1.71%) SAN
8 2 (1.71%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.42%) Data Lake
1 4 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.56%) Power BI
3 2 (1.71%) Big Data
3 2 (1.71%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.85%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Git
1 1 (0.85%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.85%) MLflow
General
1 42 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 34 (29.06%) Finance
3 23 (19.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (12.82%) Banking
5 14 (11.97%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (8.55%) Telecoms
7 8 (6.84%) Retail Banking
8 7 (5.98%) Law
9 6 (5.13%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (5.13%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (5.13%) Retail
10 5 (4.27%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (3.42%) Legal
11 4 (3.42%) Marketing
11 4 (3.42%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.71%) Games
13 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.85%) Police
Job Titles
1 59 (50.43%) Architect
2 26 (22.22%) Security Architect
3 24 (20.51%) Senior
4 21 (17.95%) Security Engineer
5 19 (16.24%) Cloud Architect
6 18 (15.38%) Lead
7 14 (11.97%) AWS Architect
7 14 (11.97%) Solutions Architect
8 12 (10.26%) Senior Architect
9 10 (8.55%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 8 (6.84%) Analyst
10 8 (6.84%) Lead Architect
11 7 (5.98%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (5.98%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (5.98%) Information Security Engineer
12 6 (5.13%) Development Engineer
12 6 (5.13%) Security Analyst
12 6 (5.13%) Senior Software Engineer
12 6 (5.13%) Software Engineer
12 6 (5.13%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.82%) Elastic Stack
1 15 (12.82%) Kafka
2 7 (5.98%) Azure Blueprints
2 7 (5.98%) Web Services
3 6 (5.13%) Node.js
3 6 (5.13%) REST
4 2 (1.71%) .NET
4 2 (1.71%) Leaflet
4 2 (1.71%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.85%) Hugging Face
5 1 (0.85%) LangChain
5 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.85%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.85%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.85%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 26 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 19 (16.24%) Cloud Native
3 14 (11.97%) Security Posture
4 5 (4.27%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.42%) CCTV
5 4 (3.42%) Marketing Technology
5 4 (3.42%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.71%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.71%) Equities
6 2 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.71%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.71%) PKI
6 2 (1.71%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.71%) Replication
7 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.85%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.85%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.85%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.85%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.56%) VMS
2 2 (1.71%) Windows
2 2 (1.71%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (0.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
2 53 (45.30%) Cloud Security
3 42 (35.90%) Incident Response
4 38 (32.48%) Information Security
5 35 (29.91%) CI/CD
6 33 (28.21%) Identity Access Management
7 32 (27.35%) DevOps
8 28 (23.93%) Data Protection
9 27 (23.08%) Agile
9 27 (23.08%) Zero Trust
10 26 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
11 23 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (18.80%) Mentoring
13 21 (17.95%) Computer Science
13 21 (17.95%) Microservices
13 21 (17.95%) Software Engineering
14 20 (17.09%) Technical Leadership
14 20 (17.09%) Vulnerability Management
15 19 (16.24%) Containerisation
15 19 (16.24%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 22 (18.80%) Python
2 17 (14.53%) Java
3 10 (8.55%) Bash
3 10 (8.55%) PowerShell
4 6 (5.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (23.08%) AWS Certification
2 26 (22.22%) Degree
3 23 (19.66%) CISSP
4 19 (16.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (15.38%) Security Cleared
6 17 (14.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (13.68%) SC Cleared
8 15 (12.82%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (9.40%) CISM
10 7 (5.98%) GIAC
11 6 (5.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (5.13%) CCNA
11 6 (5.13%) CCNP
11 6 (5.13%) CCSP
11 6 (5.13%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (4.27%) CISA
12 5 (4.27%) CompTIA CySA+
12 5 (4.27%) MCSA
12 5 (4.27%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (4.27%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (35.04%) GDPR
2 35 (29.91%) NIST
3 31 (26.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (17.09%) HIPAA
5 14 (11.97%) PCI DSS
6 13 (11.11%) NCSC
7 8 (6.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (6.84%) SOC 2
8 7 (5.98%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (4.27%) NIST 800
10 4 (3.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (3.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (2.56%) COBIT
11 3 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (1.71%) Data Quality
13 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.85%) EU AI Act
13 1 (0.85%) GRC
13 1 (0.85%) ITGC
13 1 (0.85%) QA
System Software
1 17 (14.53%) Docker
2 8 (6.84%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.71%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (26.50%) Terraform
2 25 (21.37%) Kubernetes
3 15 (12.82%) Grafana
3 15 (12.82%) Prometheus
4 7 (5.98%) CASB
5 4 (3.42%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.56%) Istio
6 3 (2.56%) linkerd
7 2 (1.71%) Ansible
7 2 (1.71%) Nessus
7 2 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 18 (15.38%) Google
3 6 (5.13%) Ping Identity
4 5 (4.27%) Cisco
4 5 (4.27%) Palo Alto
5 4 (3.42%) Adobe
5 4 (3.42%) Optimizely
6 3 (2.56%) Splunk
7 2 (1.71%) Dell
7 2 (1.71%) EMC
7 2 (1.71%) Facebook
7 2 (1.71%) FireEye
7 2 (1.71%) Okta
7 2 (1.71%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.71%) SonicWALL
7 2 (1.71%) VMware
7 2 (1.71%) YouTube
8 1 (0.85%) Darktrace
8 1 (0.85%) Netskope
8 1 (0.85%) Zscaler