IT Security Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

IT Security Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT Security Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £55,043 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 574 756 758
Rank change year-on-year +182 +2 +80
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Security Architect 1 2 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.003% 0.003% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.003% 0.003% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - - £70,225
25th Percentile £53,924 £82,500 £82,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,043 £85,000 £91,250
Median % change year-on-year -35.24% -6.85% +1.39%
75th Percentile £56,161 £87,500 £94,063
90th Percentile - - £94,625
UK median annual salary £97,500 £100,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -2.50% +17.65% -10.53%

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 35,016 67,223 53,634
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.55% 94.80% 89.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18,742 47,591 30,483
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,906 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,225 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

IT Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Security Architect in the UK excluding London

IT Security Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for IT Security Architect in the UK excluding London

IT Security 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 IT Security Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North West - 1 £55,043 -
North of England - 1 £55,043 -
IT Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, IT 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 UK excluding London region featuring IT Security Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (100.00%) DMZ
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Local Government
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server

IT Security 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DMZ
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Break/Fix
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft