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 leading to 25 March 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 547 701 750
Rank change year-on-year +154 +49 +66
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Architect 9 25 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.025% 0.039% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.041% 0.053%
Number of salaries quoted 7 8 21
10th Percentile £66,700 £66,600 £42,700
25th Percentile £71,000 £72,938 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -3.13% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,125 £87,500
90th Percentile £92,000 £94,750 £111,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £86,250
% change year-on-year - -13.04% -4.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 32,003 60,527 58,652
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.87% 94.88% 90.55%
Number of salaries quoted 17,645 43,755 32,730
10th Percentile £29,750 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,560 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.65% -8.33% -

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 25 March 2025.

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 25 March 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
East of England +49 3 £75,000 +9.49%
South East +100 2 £65,000 -18.75% 2
Midlands +45 2 £85,000 +13.33%
West Midlands +22 2 £85,000 +13.33%
Scotland +102 1 £97,500 +14.71% 1
North of England +84 1 £85,000 - 1
North West +25 1 £85,000 - 1
Cybersecurity Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 March 2025, 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 9 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (66.67%) CISSP
3 5 (55.56%) CISM
4 4 (44.44%) Firewall
4 4 (44.44%) Security Management
4 4 (44.44%) Finance
4 4 (44.44%) SIEM
4 4 (44.44%) ISMS
4 4 (44.44%) Cloud Security
5 3 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 3 (33.33%) Degree
5 3 (33.33%) COBIT
5 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
5 3 (33.33%) Security Architecture
5 3 (33.33%) Data Privacy
5 3 (33.33%) GDPR
5 3 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (33.33%) NCSC
5 3 (33.33%) NIST
5 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
5 3 (33.33%) Information Security Management
5 3 (33.33%) Information Security
5 3 (33.33%) Cryptography
5 3 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (33.33%) PCI DSS
6 2 (22.22%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (22.22%) SAML
6 2 (22.22%) LDAP
6 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
6 2 (22.22%) Social Skills

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 1 (11.11%) IaaS
1 1 (11.11%) PaaS
1 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) Kerberos
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Advertising
3 1 (11.11%) Automotive
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) LDAP
1 2 (22.22%) SAML
2 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
2 1 (11.11%) OpenID
2 1 (11.11%) React
2 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) PKI
2 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (44.44%) Cloud Security
2 4 (44.44%) ISMS
2 4 (44.44%) Security Management
2 4 (44.44%) SIEM
3 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 3 (33.33%) Cryptography
3 3 (33.33%) Data Privacy
3 3 (33.33%) Information Security
3 3 (33.33%) Information Security Management
3 3 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 3 (33.33%) Security Architecture
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Information Governance
4 2 (22.22%) Presales
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Groovy
1 1 (11.11%) Java
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) CISSP
2 5 (55.56%) CISM
3 3 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (33.33%) Degree
4 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) COBIT
1 3 (33.33%) GDPR
1 3 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (33.33%) NCSC
1 3 (33.33%) NIST
1 3 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) ForgeRock
1 1 (11.11%) Ping Identity