Security Architecture Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Architecture
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Security Architecture skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Security Architecture over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 512 284 466
Rank change year-on-year -228 +182 -24
Permanent jobs citing Security Architecture 273 724 433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.39% 1.18% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 1.23% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 211 193 283
10th Percentile £43,300 £27,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,184 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £73,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.08% -7.81% +18.52%
75th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £99,750 £105,000
UK median annual salary £78,273 £82,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year -5.12% - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Security Architecture is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,358 58,642 66,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.33% 95.62% 94.03%
Number of salaries quoted 41,086 30,131 41,542
10th Percentile £27,004 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Security Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Architecture in the UK excluding London

Security Architecture
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Security Architecture in the UK excluding London

Security Architecture
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Architecture in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Architecture in the UK excluding London

Security Architecture
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 Architecture within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
North of England +1 84 £70,576 +0.82% 8
South West -35 65 £105,000 +40.00% 9
North West -13 50 £70,000 - 6
South East -120 49 £78,750 +5.88% 13
East of England +15 34 £72,500 +3.57% 9
Midlands -36 29 £75,000 -1.64% 6
Yorkshire +61 26 £78,273 +19.77% 2
West Midlands +2 21 £75,000 -3.23% 5
North East -5 8 £79,842 +8.26%
East Midlands -47 8 £78,273 +52.73% 1
Scotland -171 7 £51,000 -26.94% 1
Northern Ireland -1 2 - - 3
Wales -34 2 £78,273 +22.10% 1
Channel Islands - 1 £100,000 -
Security Architecture
UK

Security Architecture
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 (0.37%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.73%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 99 (36.26%) Azure
2 85 (31.14%) AWS
3 21 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (3.66%) GCP
5 8 (2.93%) Azure Sentinel
6 7 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (2.56%) IaaS
6 7 (2.56%) PaaS
6 7 (2.56%) SaaS
7 2 (0.73%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (0.73%) Serverless
8 1 (0.37%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 54 (19.78%) Network Security
2 31 (11.36%) WAN
3 29 (10.62%) SD-WAN
4 17 (6.23%) TCP/IP
5 9 (3.30%) Internet
6 8 (2.93%) Firewall
7 7 (2.56%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (1.83%) VPN
9 2 (0.73%) LAN
9 2 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.37%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (0.37%) DHCP
10 1 (0.37%) DNS
10 1 (0.37%) NAS
10 1 (0.37%) SAN
10 1 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.73%) Big Data
1 2 (0.73%) DynamoDB
1 2 (0.73%) MySQL
2 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (4.40%) GitLab
General
1 71 (26.01%) Finance
2 62 (22.71%) Social Skills
3 32 (11.72%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (9.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (8.42%) Law
6 18 (6.59%) Military
7 14 (5.13%) Public Sector
8 13 (4.76%) Telecoms
9 11 (4.03%) Banking
10 10 (3.66%) Legal
11 9 (3.30%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.83%) Marketing
13 4 (1.47%) Electronics
13 4 (1.47%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.47%) Retail
14 2 (0.73%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.73%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.37%) Games
15 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 138 (50.55%) Architect
2 119 (43.59%) Security Architect
3 47 (17.22%) Lead
4 40 (14.65%) Senior
5 38 (13.92%) Consultant
6 37 (13.55%) Security Consultant
7 35 (12.82%) Analyst
7 35 (12.82%) Lead Architect
8 30 (10.99%) Lead Security Architect
9 28 (10.26%) Security Analyst
10 21 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 19 (6.96%) Security Engineer
11 19 (6.96%) Senior Analyst
11 19 (6.96%) Senior Architect
12 18 (6.59%) Solutions Architect
13 17 (6.23%) Principal Architect
13 17 (6.23%) Principal Security Architect
14 15 (5.49%) Cybersecurity Architect
14 15 (5.49%) Senior Security Analyst
15 14 (5.13%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.66%) Web Services
2 6 (2.20%) Middleware
3 2 (0.73%) Laravel
3 2 (0.73%) Node.js
3 2 (0.73%) OAuth
3 2 (0.73%) OpenID
3 2 (0.73%) SAML
3 2 (0.73%) Smart Contracts
4 1 (0.37%) .NET
4 1 (0.37%) EDI
4 1 (0.37%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 64 (23.44%) Management Information System
2 35 (12.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 31 (11.36%) Security Posture
4 29 (10.62%) Public Cloud
5 22 (8.06%) Cyber Defence
5 22 (8.06%) Operational Technology
6 21 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
7 18 (6.59%) Security Operations Centre
8 12 (4.40%) Cyberattack
8 12 (4.40%) Private Cloud
9 9 (3.30%) Data Centre
10 8 (2.93%) Cloud Native
11 5 (1.83%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.83%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.83%) Replication
12 4 (1.47%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 4 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.47%) PMI
13 3 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (1.10%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.93%) Windows
2 6 (2.20%) Linux
3 4 (1.47%) Kali Linux
3 4 (1.47%) Mac OS X
4 2 (0.73%) Unix
4 2 (0.73%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (55.31%) Cybersecurity
2 108 (39.56%) Information Security
3 79 (28.94%) Mentoring
4 68 (24.91%) Coaching
5 58 (21.25%) Agile
6 41 (15.02%) Incident Response
7 40 (14.65%) Roadmaps
7 40 (14.65%) SIEM
8 39 (14.29%) Application Security
9 38 (13.92%) OWASP
10 36 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
11 35 (12.82%) Cloud Security
11 35 (12.82%) Risk Management
11 35 (12.82%) Secure Coding
11 35 (12.82%) Security Operations
12 30 (10.99%) Identity Management
13 28 (10.26%) Risk Assessment
14 26 (9.52%) Architectural Patterns
14 26 (9.52%) Incident Management
15 25 (9.16%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 18 (6.59%) Python
2 13 (4.76%) Java
3 7 (2.56%) C
4 5 (1.83%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.83%) R
4 5 (1.83%) Scala
4 5 (1.83%) SQL
5 3 (1.10%) C++
6 2 (0.73%) PHP
7 1 (0.37%) C#
Qualifications
1 95 (34.80%) CISSP
2 72 (26.37%) CISM
3 57 (20.88%) Degree
4 56 (20.51%) Security Cleared
5 42 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
6 41 (15.02%) CCSP
7 40 (14.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 38 (13.92%) CCSK
9 35 (12.82%) AWS Certification
10 33 (12.09%) Azure Certification
11 29 (10.62%) CRISC
12 27 (9.89%) DV Cleared
13 21 (7.69%) CEH
14 20 (7.33%) BPSS Clearance
14 20 (7.33%) CISA
15 18 (6.59%) SC Cleared
16 13 (4.76%) CASP
16 13 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
17 10 (3.66%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 10 (3.66%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (42.49%) NIST
2 62 (22.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (10.62%) NIST 800
4 27 (9.89%) NCSC
5 25 (9.16%) GDPR
6 18 (6.59%) GRC
7 17 (6.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 16 (5.86%) PCI DSS
9 15 (5.49%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (3.30%) COBIT
11 4 (1.47%) JSP 440
11 4 (1.47%) RMADS
12 3 (1.10%) HMG Infosec
12 3 (1.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (1.10%) SLA
13 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.37%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.37%) MiFID
13 1 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (10.62%) Docker
2 5 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.10%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (1.10%) Firmware
4 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (11.36%) Single Sign-On
2 30 (10.99%) Kubernetes
3 15 (5.49%) Terraform
4 4 (1.47%) QRadar
4 4 (1.47%) Suricata
5 2 (0.73%) DatAdvantage
5 2 (0.73%) SCCM
5 2 (0.73%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
6 1 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.37%) Stealthwatch
6 1 (0.37%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 48 (17.58%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.13%) Splunk
3 6 (2.20%) Cisco
4 4 (1.47%) Juniper
4 4 (1.47%) Palo Alto
5 3 (1.10%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.10%) New Relic
6 2 (0.73%) ForgeRock
6 2 (0.73%) Qualys
6 2 (0.73%) SAP
6 2 (0.73%) Symantec
6 2 (0.73%) Varonis
7 1 (0.37%) Darktrace
7 1 (0.37%) Google
7 1 (0.37%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.37%) Thales
7 1 (0.37%) VMware