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 £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 456 439 257
Rank change year-on-year -17 -182 +255
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Architect 127 358 768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.50% 1.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.53% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 56 218 136
10th Percentile £58,990 £56,266 £56,219
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £63,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -8.82% +7.94%
75th Percentile £85,250 £85,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £88,333 £102,250 £99,375
UK median annual salary £75,000 £79,842 £87,500
% change year-on-year -6.06% -8.75% -2.78%

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 35,201 68,043 52,511
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.45% 94.85% 89.20%
Number of salaries quoted 17,750 48,018 29,945
10th Percentile £26,929 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,325
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -6.24% +6.65%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -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 22 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 22 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 -3 42 £75,000 -4.18% 48
North West -40 24 £75,000 +7.14% 27
South East +16 23 £67,335 -10.22% 62
Scotland +133 18 £81,764 +9.02% 9
South West +64 14 £70,000 -3.45% 38
Midlands +6 13 £88,901 +13.58% 24
Yorkshire +51 12 £65,000 -18.59% 12
West Midlands +37 7 £88,901 +27.00% 14
Northern Ireland +44 6 £82,801 +33.55% 14
North East +44 6 £67,192 -15.84% 9
East of England +27 6 - - 17
East Midlands +9 6 - - 7
Wales +38 5 £75,574 -3.45% 8
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 98 (77.17%) Information Security
2 84 (66.14%) CISSP
3 79 (62.20%) Degree
4 76 (59.84%) Management Information System
5 68 (53.54%) Mentoring
6 67 (52.76%) Finance
7 62 (48.82%) Project Management
8 60 (47.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 42 (33.07%) Cybersecurity
9 42 (33.07%) Security Architecture
10 35 (27.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 35 (27.56%) Social Skills
11 31 (24.41%) NIST
11 31 (24.41%) Risk Management
12 29 (22.83%) TOGAF
13 27 (21.26%) Cloud Security
14 25 (19.69%) Information Assurance
15 24 (18.90%) Security Cleared
16 23 (18.11%) Network Security
17 22 (17.32%) Firewall
18 20 (15.75%) Security Management
19 19 (14.96%) Risk Analysis
19 19 (14.96%) Risk Assessment
20 18 (14.17%) NCSC
21 17 (13.39%) SIEM
21 17 (13.39%) Computer Science
21 17 (13.39%) CISM
22 16 (12.60%) Cisco Certification
22 16 (12.60%) Continuous Improvement
22 16 (12.60%) GDPR

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 (1.57%) IIS
2 1 (0.79%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (7.09%) Azure
2 6 (4.72%) AWS
3 5 (3.94%) Entra ID
3 5 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (3.94%) SaaS
4 4 (3.15%) IaaS
4 4 (3.15%) PaaS
5 3 (2.36%) GCP
6 1 (0.79%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.79%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.79%) Azure AKS
6 1 (0.79%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.79%) Cloudflare
6 1 (0.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (0.79%) OpenShift
6 1 (0.79%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.79%) Serverless
6 1 (0.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (18.11%) Network Security
2 22 (17.32%) Firewall
3 13 (10.24%) Intrusion Detection
4 7 (5.51%) VPN
5 3 (2.36%) DNS
6 2 (1.57%) DMZ
6 2 (1.57%) TACACS
6 2 (1.57%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.57%) WAN
7 1 (0.79%) BGP
7 1 (0.79%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.79%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (0.79%) LAN
7 1 (0.79%) MPLS
7 1 (0.79%) OSPF
7 1 (0.79%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.79%) VLAN
7 1 (0.79%) VoIP
7 1 (0.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.79%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (0.79%) GitLab
General
1 67 (52.76%) Finance
2 35 (27.56%) Social Skills
3 15 (11.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (11.02%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.09%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (5.51%) Legal
7 4 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.36%) Back Office
8 3 (2.36%) Law
8 3 (2.36%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.57%) Automotive
9 2 (1.57%) Local Government
9 2 (1.57%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.79%) Advertising
10 1 (0.79%) Banking
10 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.36%) LDAP
1 3 (2.36%) SAML
2 2 (1.57%) Leaflet
3 1 (0.79%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.79%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 76 (59.84%) Management Information System
2 13 (10.24%) Security Posture
3 12 (9.45%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (9.45%) Social Media
3 12 (9.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 6 (4.72%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.15%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.15%) Operational Technology
5 4 (3.15%) PKI
6 3 (2.36%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.57%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.79%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.79%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.79%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.79%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.81%) Windows
2 12 (9.45%) Windows Vista
3 2 (1.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.79%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (77.17%) Information Security
2 68 (53.54%) Mentoring
3 62 (48.82%) Project Management
4 42 (33.07%) Cybersecurity
4 42 (33.07%) Security Architecture
5 31 (24.41%) Risk Management
6 29 (22.83%) TOGAF
7 27 (21.26%) Cloud Security
8 25 (19.69%) Information Assurance
9 20 (15.75%) Security Management
10 19 (14.96%) Risk Analysis
10 19 (14.96%) Risk Assessment
11 17 (13.39%) Computer Science
11 17 (13.39%) SIEM
12 16 (12.60%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (11.81%) Incident Response
13 15 (11.81%) Information Security Management
13 15 (11.81%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (11.02%) Architectural Patterns
14 14 (11.02%) Identity Management
Qualifications
1 84 (66.14%) CISSP
2 79 (62.20%) Degree
3 60 (47.24%) BPSS Clearance
4 24 (18.90%) Security Cleared
5 17 (13.39%) CISM
6 16 (12.60%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (12.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (11.81%) SC Cleared
8 14 (11.02%) CEH
9 13 (10.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 13 (10.24%) Master's Degree
10 12 (9.45%) CISA
10 12 (9.45%) DBS Check
11 6 (4.72%) DV Cleared
12 3 (2.36%) CCNP
12 3 (2.36%) GIAC
13 2 (1.57%) AWS Certification
13 2 (1.57%) CISMP
13 2 (1.57%) ISSAP
13 2 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (27.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (24.41%) NIST
3 18 (14.17%) NCSC
4 16 (12.60%) GDPR
5 7 (5.51%) QA
6 6 (4.72%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (3.94%) PCI DSS
8 3 (2.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (1.57%) COBIT
9 2 (1.57%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.15%) CASB
2 2 (1.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.79%) Istio
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (7.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.57%) Cisco
2 2 (1.57%) Palo Alto
3 1 (0.79%) Aruba
3 1 (0.79%) CheckPoint
3 1 (0.79%) F5
3 1 (0.79%) Fortinet
3 1 (0.79%) Google
3 1 (0.79%) Graphcore
3 1 (0.79%) Meraki
3 1 (0.79%) Zscaler