Security Architecture Jobs in the Thames Valley

Security Architecture
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 220 138
Rank change year-on-year +46 -82 +114
Permanent jobs citing Security Architecture 5 20 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.15% 0.30% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.35% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3 10 19
10th Percentile £75,250 £67,875 £69,750
25th Percentile £75,625 £70,000 £73,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.82% +19.30%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £90,750 £89,625 £106,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £78,750 £74,375
% change year-on-year -17.46% +5.88% -7.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,150 5,748 5,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.56% 85.18% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,243 3,995 3,143
10th Percentile £28,800 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £38,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,875 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £56,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.00% -9.09% -

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Security Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Security Architecture in the Thames Valley

Security Architecture
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Architecture in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Security Architecture in the Thames Valley

Security Architecture
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Architecture within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 7 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
Berkshire +35 4 £77,500 +5.08% 18
Buckinghamshire +37 1 - - 1
Security Architecture
South East

Security Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SCCP
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Information Security Specialist
1 3 (60.00%) Information Specialist
1 3 (60.00%) Security Specialist
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Information Security Specialist
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Security Specialist
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Payments Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Payments Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (60.00%) CESG
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Information Security
1 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Cost Management
3 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) CESG Certified Professional
2 3 (60.00%) CISSP
2 3 (60.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (20.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Prometheus