Security Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £73,496 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 453 436 261
Rank change year-on-year -17 -175 +241
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Architect 124 368 789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.49% 1.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.52% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 52 223 131
10th Percentile £58,798 £56,809 £56,219
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £61,232
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,496 £77,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -6.06% +10.00%
75th Percentile £86,188 £85,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £88,333 £100,000 £99,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £79,842 £87,500
% change year-on-year -6.06% -8.75% +2.94%

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 35,540 70,800 51,694
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.25% 94.95% 89.10%
Number of salaries quoted 17,956 49,914 29,611
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Security Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Security Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Architect in the UK excluding London

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 Security Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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 of England -13 38 £70,000 -11.46% 60
South East +9 23 £67,335 -10.22% 100
Scotland +126 19 £81,764 +9.02% 12
North West -38 19 £75,000 +7.14% 33
South West +67 14 £70,000 -3.45% 53
Midlands +34 13 £88,901 +13.58% 47
Yorkshire +41 12 £65,000 -18.59% 17
North East +48 7 £65,000 -18.59% 10
West Midlands +24 7 £88,901 +27.00% 25
Northern Ireland +46 6 £82,801 +33.55% 12
East of England +31 6 - - 49
East Midlands +28 6 - - 18
Wales +43 5 £75,574 -3.45% 16
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, 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 Security Architect in the job title.

1 94 (75.81%) Information Security
2 79 (63.71%) CISSP
3 74 (59.68%) Degree
4 71 (57.26%) Management Information System
5 69 (55.65%) Mentoring
6 67 (54.03%) Finance
7 62 (50.00%) Project Management
8 60 (48.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 38 (30.65%) Cybersecurity
10 37 (29.84%) Security Architecture
11 31 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 30 (24.19%) Social Skills
13 26 (20.97%) NIST
13 26 (20.97%) Risk Management
14 24 (19.35%) TOGAF
14 24 (19.35%) Network Security
14 24 (19.35%) Security Cleared
15 22 (17.74%) Cloud Security
16 20 (16.13%) Information Assurance
16 20 (16.13%) Security Management
17 19 (15.32%) Risk Assessment
17 19 (15.32%) NCSC
18 17 (13.71%) Firewall
19 15 (12.10%) Information Security Management
19 15 (12.10%) SC Cleared
19 15 (12.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 14 (11.29%) Risk Analysis
20 14 (11.29%) Architectural Patterns
21 13 (10.48%) Penetration Testing
21 13 (10.48%) Decision-Making

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 2 (1.61%) IIS
1 2 (1.61%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.81%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (8.06%) Azure
2 7 (5.65%) AWS
3 5 (4.03%) Entra ID
3 5 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (4.03%) SaaS
4 4 (3.23%) GCP
4 4 (3.23%) IaaS
4 4 (3.23%) PaaS
5 2 (1.61%) OpenShift
6 1 (0.81%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (0.81%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.81%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.81%) Azure AKS
6 1 (0.81%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.81%) Cloudflare
6 1 (0.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (0.81%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.81%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 24 (19.35%) Network Security
2 17 (13.71%) Firewall
3 8 (6.45%) Intrusion Detection
4 7 (5.65%) VPN
5 4 (3.23%) DNS
6 2 (1.61%) DMZ
6 2 (1.61%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (1.61%) TACACS
6 2 (1.61%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.61%) WAN
7 1 (0.81%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.81%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.81%) LAN
7 1 (0.81%) MPLS
7 1 (0.81%) OSPF
7 1 (0.81%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.81%) VLAN
7 1 (0.81%) VoIP
7 1 (0.81%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.61%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.81%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (1.61%) GitLab
General
1 67 (54.03%) Finance
2 30 (24.19%) Social Skills
3 15 (12.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.26%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (5.65%) Legal
6 4 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.42%) Back Office
7 3 (2.42%) Law
7 3 (2.42%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.61%) Automotive
8 2 (1.61%) Local Government
8 2 (1.61%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.81%) Advertising
9 1 (0.81%) Banking
9 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.42%) LDAP
1 3 (2.42%) SAML
2 2 (1.61%) Leaflet
3 1 (0.81%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.81%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 71 (57.26%) Management Information System
2 8 (6.45%) Security Posture
3 7 (5.65%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (5.65%) Social Media
3 7 (5.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 6 (4.84%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.23%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.23%) Operational Technology
5 4 (3.23%) PKI
6 3 (2.42%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.42%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.61%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.81%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.81%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.06%) Windows
2 7 (5.65%) Windows Vista
3 2 (1.61%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.81%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (75.81%) Information Security
2 69 (55.65%) Mentoring
3 62 (50.00%) Project Management
4 38 (30.65%) Cybersecurity
5 37 (29.84%) Security Architecture
6 26 (20.97%) Risk Management
7 24 (19.35%) TOGAF
8 22 (17.74%) Cloud Security
9 20 (16.13%) Information Assurance
9 20 (16.13%) Security Management
10 19 (15.32%) Risk Assessment
11 15 (12.10%) Information Security Management
12 14 (11.29%) Architectural Patterns
12 14 (11.29%) Risk Analysis
13 13 (10.48%) Decision-Making
13 13 (10.48%) DevOps
13 13 (10.48%) Penetration Testing
13 13 (10.48%) SABSA
14 12 (9.68%) Computer Science
14 12 (9.68%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 79 (63.71%) CISSP
2 74 (59.68%) Degree
3 60 (48.39%) BPSS Clearance
4 24 (19.35%) Security Cleared
5 15 (12.10%) SC Cleared
6 12 (9.68%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (9.68%) CISM
7 11 (8.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (7.26%) CEH
9 8 (6.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 8 (6.45%) Master's Degree
10 7 (5.65%) CISA
10 7 (5.65%) DBS Check
11 6 (4.84%) DV Cleared
12 4 (3.23%) CCNP
13 3 (2.42%) GIAC
14 2 (1.61%) CESG Certified Professional
14 2 (1.61%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (1.61%) SANS
14 2 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (20.97%) NIST
3 19 (15.32%) NCSC
4 11 (8.87%) GDPR
5 7 (5.65%) QA
6 6 (4.84%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (4.03%) PCI DSS
8 3 (2.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (1.61%) COBIT
9 2 (1.61%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.81%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.81%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.23%) CASB
2 3 (2.42%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.61%) Terraform
4 1 (0.81%) Istio
4 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (7.26%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.61%) Cisco
2 2 (1.61%) F5
2 2 (1.61%) Palo Alto
3 1 (0.81%) Aruba
3 1 (0.81%) CheckPoint
3 1 (0.81%) Fortinet
3 1 (0.81%) Google
3 1 (0.81%) Graphcore
3 1 (0.81%) Meraki
3 1 (0.81%) Zscaler