Cybersecurity Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cybersecurity Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 714 727 811
Rank change year-on-year +13 +84 -169
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Architect 41 24 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.058% 0.039% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.043% 0.030%
Number of salaries quoted 17 16 15
10th Percentile - £60,625 -
25th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £108,750 £93,041 £100,000
90th Percentile - £111,250 -
UK median annual salary £75,000 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +16.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 66,472 55,237 67,618
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.31% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 47,163 31,304 42,933
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%

Cybersecurity Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Architect in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Architect in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity Architect in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Architect
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
South East +33 11 £65,000 -39.53% 1
West Midlands +28 10 £75,000 -6.25%
Midlands +8 10 £75,000 -6.25%
North of England +47 8 £102,500 +28.13%
North West +10 8 £102,500 +28.13%
Scotland -55 7 - -
South West -21 3 - -
Channel Islands - 1 £100,000 -
East of England - 1 £68,500 -
Cybersecurity Architect
UK

Cybersecurity Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Cybersecurity 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cybersecurity Architect in the job title.

1 41 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (43.90%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (41.46%) NIST
4 14 (34.15%) Social Skills
4 14 (34.15%) CISSP
4 14 (34.15%) CISM
5 13 (31.71%) Security Architecture
6 12 (29.27%) Application Security
7 10 (24.39%) Azure
7 10 (24.39%) Finance
7 10 (24.39%) Law
8 9 (21.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (21.95%) Decision-Making
8 9 (21.95%) SDLC
8 9 (21.95%) Public Cloud
8 9 (21.95%) AWS
8 9 (21.95%) Machine Learning
8 9 (21.95%) Artificial Intelligence
8 9 (21.95%) Marketing
9 8 (19.51%) Data Security
9 8 (19.51%) Identity Access Management
10 7 (17.07%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (17.07%) Computer Science
10 7 (17.07%) Degree
11 6 (14.63%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (14.63%) Wealth Management
11 6 (14.63%) Network Security
11 6 (14.63%) OAuth
11 6 (14.63%) SAML

Cybersecurity Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 10 (24.39%) Azure
2 9 (21.95%) AWS
3 6 (14.63%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (14.63%) Network Security
2 1 (2.44%) Firewall
2 1 (2.44%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 14 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 10 (24.39%) Finance
2 10 (24.39%) Law
3 9 (21.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (21.95%) Marketing
4 7 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (9.76%) Legal
6 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.44%) Retail
6 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.63%) OAuth
1 6 (14.63%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.95%) Public Cloud
2 5 (12.20%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (12.20%) Security Posture
2 5 (12.20%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (7.32%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.32%) Replication
4 2 (4.88%) Cyberattack
4 2 (4.88%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.44%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (43.90%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (31.71%) Security Architecture
4 12 (29.27%) Application Security
5 9 (21.95%) Artificial Intelligence
5 9 (21.95%) Decision-Making
5 9 (21.95%) Machine Learning
5 9 (21.95%) SDLC
6 8 (19.51%) Data Security
6 8 (19.51%) Identity Access Management
7 7 (17.07%) Computer Science
8 6 (14.63%) Cloud Security
8 6 (14.63%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 6 (14.63%) Threat Modelling
8 6 (14.63%) Wealth Management
9 5 (12.20%) Incident Response
9 5 (12.20%) OWASP
9 5 (12.20%) Principle of Least Privilege
9 5 (12.20%) Risk Management
10 4 (9.76%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.32%) C
1 3 (7.32%) Java
1 3 (7.32%) Python
1 3 (7.32%) R
1 3 (7.32%) Scala
1 3 (7.32%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (34.15%) CISM
1 14 (34.15%) CISSP
2 7 (17.07%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (17.07%) Degree
3 6 (14.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 5 (12.20%) CEH
5 4 (9.76%) CRISC
6 3 (7.32%) CISA
6 3 (7.32%) SANS
6 3 (7.32%) SC Cleared
6 3 (7.32%) Security Cleared
7 1 (2.44%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (41.46%) NIST
2 6 (14.63%) GDPR
3 5 (12.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (4.88%) COBIT
Systems Management
1 6 (14.63%) Kubernetes