Senior Security Architect Jobs in London

Senior Security Architect
England > London

The median Senior Security Architect salary in London is £95,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 391 486 591
Rank change year-on-year +95 +105 +250
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Architect 2 13 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.016% 0.055% 0.092%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.058% 0.097%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 3
10th Percentile - - £88,250
25th Percentile - £80,000 £89,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% - -2.50%
75th Percentile - £101,250 £119,375
90th Percentile - - £128,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% -14.29% -5.41%

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 11,624 22,265 32,087
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.18% 94.22% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 7,221 16,628 23,661
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £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 £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

Senior Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Security Architect in London

Senior Security Architect
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior Security Architect in London

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 London region featuring Senior Security Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CEH
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Management
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) Creative Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Epics
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 2 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response

Senior 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 2 (100.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Creative Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 2 (100.00%) Epics
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CEH
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST