IT Security Architect Jobs

IT Security Architect
UK

The median IT Security Architect salary in the UK is £97,500 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 684 882 960
Rank change year-on-year +198 +78 +241
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Security Architect 6 20 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.020% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.021% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 3 13 9
10th Percentile £61,389 £83,750 £68,350
25th Percentile £72,587 £88,750 £78,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £100,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +17.65% -10.53%
75th Percentile £120,000 - £93,750
90th Percentile £129,750 - £103,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,043 £85,000 £91,250
% change year-on-year -35.24% -6.85% +1.39%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 49,007 93,784 92,686
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.47% 94.63% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 27,411 67,216 58,370
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,375 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

IT Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Security Architect in the UK

IT Security Architect
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Security Architect.

Salary trend for IT Security Architect in the UK

IT Security Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Security Architect over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Security Architect in the UK

IT Security Architect
Top 6 Job Locations

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 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
England +148 6 £97,500 -2.50% 1
London +99 5 £115,000 +15.00%
UK excluding London +182 1 £55,043 -35.24% 1
Work from Home +142 1 £97,500 - 1
North West - 1 £55,043 -
North of England - 1 £55,043 -

IT Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

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 featuring IT Security Architect in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Information Security
1 5 (83.33%) CISSP
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) NIST
2 4 (66.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 4 (66.67%) Zero Trust
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 4 (66.67%) GCP
2 4 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 4 (66.67%) SDLC
2 4 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (66.67%) CCSP
2 4 (66.67%) ITIL
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 4 (66.67%) Law
3 3 (50.00%) Change Management
3 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 3 (50.00%) Google
3 3 (50.00%) Python
3 3 (50.00%) Terraform
3 3 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (50.00%) ServiceNow
3 3 (50.00%) Progress Chef
3 3 (50.00%) GitHub
3 3 (50.00%) Machine to Machine
3 3 (50.00%) Mentoring

IT Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (16.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 4 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 4 (66.67%) GCP
3 3 (50.00%) GitHub
3 3 (50.00%) Miro
3 3 (50.00%) SaaS
4 1 (16.67%) Akamai
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DMZ
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Law
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Local Government
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 3 (50.00%) Machine to Machine
2 3 (50.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (16.67%) IoT
3 1 (16.67%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Information Security
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 4 (66.67%) ITIL
2 4 (66.67%) SDLC
2 4 (66.67%) Zero Trust
3 3 (50.00%) Backlog Management
3 3 (50.00%) Business Strategy
3 3 (50.00%) Change Management
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (50.00%) Major Incident Management
3 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (50.00%) Secrets Management
3 3 (50.00%) Security Architecture
3 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) CISSP
2 4 (66.67%) CCSP
2 4 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (66.67%) Degree
3 3 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (33.33%) CISM
5 1 (16.67%) ACSA
5 1 (16.67%) ACSP
5 1 (16.67%) CCSK
5 1 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (16.67%) ISSAP
5 1 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (16.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) NIST
2 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (50.00%) GDPR
3 3 (50.00%) SOC 2
4 2 (33.33%) NCSC
5 1 (16.67%) COBIT
5 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 3 (50.00%) Puppet
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Alibaba
1 3 (50.00%) Google
1 3 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) CyberArk
3 1 (16.67%) Netskope
3 1 (16.67%) Okta
3 1 (16.67%) Zscaler