Security Architect
UK

The median Security Architect salary in the UK is £77,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 December 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 385 488 586
Rank change year-on-year +103 +98 -33
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Architect 404 761 591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.76% 0.61% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 0.64% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 172 525 420
10th Percentile £57,875 £56,219 £62,500
25th Percentile £68,718 £72,500 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.41% +6.25% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,925 £110,000 £111,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,649 £80,000 £78,750
% change year-on-year -10.44% +1.59% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 50,797 118,142 122,028
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.42% 95.32% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 37,144 73,821 84,079
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in the UK

Security Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Security Architect in the UK

Security Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Architect over the 6 months to 4 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Security Architect in the UK

Security Architect
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 4 December 2023. 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 +120 321 £80,000 -5.88% 94
UK excluding London +203 285 £71,649 -10.44% 51
Work from Home +51 93 £80,000 -5.88% 44
London +103 89 £90,000 -2.35% 41
North of England +143 78 £70,576 -14.45% 6
Midlands +131 51 £65,000 -20.01% 8
South East +133 45 £91,250 +12.65% 17
Yorkshire +103 43 £70,576 -5.90% 1
South West +53 33 £72,500 -1.69% 5
North West +86 32 £86,250 -4.17% 5
Scotland +60 31 £70,576 -19.34% 1
West Midlands +127 28 £60,000 -27.29% 3
Wales +45 25 £59,575 - 2
East Midlands +57 23 £110,000 +46.67% 5
East of England +125 18 £75,000 -14.29% 13
Northern Ireland +38 4 - -
North East +50 3 £45,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 4 December 2023, 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 Security Architect in the job title.

1 312 (77.23%) Cybersecurity
2 281 (69.55%) Security Cleared
3 260 (64.36%) Social Skills
4 244 (60.40%) Finance
5 239 (59.16%) SIEM
6 231 (57.18%) Identity Access Management
7 226 (55.94%) Banking
8 215 (53.22%) Asset Management
9 210 (51.98%) RBAC
10 209 (51.73%) Vulnerability Management
11 208 (51.49%) Games
12 206 (50.99%) IT Asset Management
12 206 (50.99%) Virtual Machines
12 206 (50.99%) Actionable Insight
12 206 (50.99%) Network Segmentation
12 206 (50.99%) Containerisation
13 124 (30.69%) Security Architecture
14 96 (23.76%) Azure
15 73 (18.07%) Information Security
16 70 (17.33%) CISSP
17 63 (15.59%) SC Cleared
18 60 (14.85%) AWS
19 57 (14.11%) Roadmaps
20 53 (13.12%) Cloud Security
21 48 (11.88%) Microsoft
22 41 (10.15%) TOGAF
23 39 (9.65%) IT Strategy
24 37 (9.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
24 37 (9.16%) Network Security
25 36 (8.91%) Agile

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 4 (0.99%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.25%) Drupal
3 1 (0.25%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 96 (23.76%) Azure
2 60 (14.85%) AWS
3 28 (6.93%) PaaS
4 17 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (3.47%) GCP
6 11 (2.72%) SaaS
7 10 (2.48%) IaaS
8 8 (1.98%) Azure Sentinel
9 7 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.24%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.50%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.25%) Apigee
12 1 (0.25%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.25%) Kong
12 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 37 (9.16%) Network Security
2 20 (4.95%) LAN
3 15 (3.71%) Firewall
4 9 (2.23%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.49%) VPN
5 6 (1.49%) WAN
6 4 (0.99%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (0.50%) HTTP
7 2 (0.50%) Internet
7 2 (0.50%) MPLS
7 2 (0.50%) VLAN
8 1 (0.25%) BGP
8 1 (0.25%) DHCP
8 1 (0.25%) DNS
8 1 (0.25%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.25%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.25%) OSPF
8 1 (0.25%) SAN
8 1 (0.25%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.50%) Big Data
1 2 (0.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.25%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (0.25%) JIRA
General
1 260 (64.36%) Social Skills
2 244 (60.40%) Finance
3 226 (55.94%) Banking
4 208 (51.49%) Games
5 26 (6.44%) Retail
6 23 (5.69%) Presentation Skills
7 21 (5.20%) Law
8 18 (4.46%) Public Sector
9 11 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.48%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (1.98%) Marketing
12 5 (1.24%) Tech for Good
13 4 (0.99%) Local Government
14 2 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.50%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.25%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.25%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.25%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.25%) Publishing
15 1 (0.25%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.46%) OpenID
2 17 (4.21%) OAuth
3 2 (0.50%) JSON
3 2 (0.50%) Middleware
3 2 (0.50%) SOAP
3 2 (0.50%) XML
4 1 (0.25%) .NET
4 1 (0.25%) HTML
4 1 (0.25%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.25%) REST
4 1 (0.25%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.25%) SAML
4 1 (0.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.93%) Data Centre
2 25 (6.19%) Management Information System
3 17 (4.21%) Cyberattack
4 11 (2.72%) Onboarding
5 8 (1.98%) iPhone
6 7 (1.73%) Cloud Native
7 6 (1.49%) IoT
7 6 (1.49%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.49%) Security Operations Centre
8 5 (1.24%) Operational Technology
9 4 (0.99%) PKI
9 4 (0.99%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.74%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.50%) Clustering
11 2 (0.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.50%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.50%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.25%) Algorithms
12 1 (0.25%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.23%) Linux
2 8 (1.98%) Windows
3 4 (0.99%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.25%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (77.23%) Cybersecurity
2 239 (59.16%) SIEM
3 231 (57.18%) Identity Access Management
4 215 (53.22%) Asset Management
5 210 (51.98%) RBAC
6 209 (51.73%) Vulnerability Management
7 206 (50.99%) Actionable Insight
7 206 (50.99%) Containerisation
7 206 (50.99%) IT Asset Management
7 206 (50.99%) Network Segmentation
8 124 (30.69%) Security Architecture
9 73 (18.07%) Information Security
10 57 (14.11%) Roadmaps
11 53 (13.12%) Cloud Security
12 41 (10.15%) TOGAF
13 39 (9.65%) IT Strategy
14 36 (8.91%) Agile
15 33 (8.17%) SABSA
15 33 (8.17%) Stakeholder Management
16 32 (7.92%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (1.24%) Python
2 3 (0.74%) Perl
3 2 (0.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.25%) C#
4 1 (0.25%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (0.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 281 (69.55%) Security Cleared
2 70 (17.33%) CISSP
3 63 (15.59%) SC Cleared
4 30 (7.43%) CISM
5 27 (6.68%) Azure Certification
5 27 (6.68%) Degree
6 21 (5.20%) AWS Certification
7 17 (4.21%) CISMP
7 17 (4.21%) TOGAF Certification
8 16 (3.96%) CEH
8 16 (3.96%) ISSAP
8 16 (3.96%) OSCP
9 14 (3.47%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (3.47%) DV Cleared
9 14 (3.47%) GIAC
10 10 (2.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 10 (2.48%) CCSP
11 9 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (1.49%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (9.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (6.93%) NIST
3 22 (5.45%) GRC
4 19 (4.70%) NCSC
5 11 (2.72%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (1.98%) NIST 800
7 7 (1.73%) SOC 2
8 6 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (1.24%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.99%) COBIT
10 4 (0.99%) IASME
10 4 (0.99%) QA
11 3 (0.74%) GDPR
11 3 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 3 (0.74%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.50%) ISO 31000
12 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.25%) RMADS
System Software
1 206 (50.99%) Virtual Machines
2 24 (5.94%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.99%) Docker
4 2 (0.50%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.50%) Squid
4 2 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.74%) Terraform
3 2 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (0.50%) FortiGate
3 2 (0.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.25%) Istio
4 1 (0.25%) Nessus
Vendors
1 48 (11.88%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.72%) Palo Alto
3 9 (2.23%) Cisco
4 8 (1.98%) Google
4 8 (1.98%) Splunk
5 4 (0.99%) VMware
6 3 (0.74%) ArcSight
6 3 (0.74%) Fortinet
7 2 (0.50%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.50%) Capita
7 2 (0.50%) Forcepoint
7 2 (0.50%) HP
7 2 (0.50%) Juniper
7 2 (0.50%) LogRhythm
7 2 (0.50%) Meraki
7 2 (0.50%) New Relic
7 2 (0.50%) Oracle
7 2 (0.50%) Veeam
8 1 (0.25%) Micro Focus
8 1 (0.25%) SolarWinds