Security Architecture Jobs

Security Architecture
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Security Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 485 294 497
Rank change year-on-year -191 +203 +11
Permanent jobs citing Security Architecture 394 958 1,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 1.19% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 1.25% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 274 356 761
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,650 £48,775
25th Percentile £70,000 £68,718 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,842 £81,928 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% +2.41% +10.34%
75th Percentile £97,500 £99,188 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £78,273 £73,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.13% -1.67% +15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Security Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,969 76,929 168,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.84% 95.34% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 48,628 50,249 85,709
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Security Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Security Architecture in the UK

Security Architecture
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Security Architecture in the UK

Security Architecture
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Architecture over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Architecture in the UK

Security Architecture
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 Architecture within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 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
England -149 345 £79,842 -3.22% 56
UK excluding London -241 202 £78,273 +6.13% 40
London -9 151 £85,000 -1.84% 24
Work from Home -86 122 £79,842 -2.55% 22
North of England -67 49 £79,842 +13.13% 8
South West -22 48 £105,000 +48.78% 4
South East -70 41 £78,000 -4.00% 10
Midlands -71 29 £78,000 -17.89% 5
North West -56 27 £79,842 +6.72% 2
East of England -5 22 £72,500 +28.89% 6
West Midlands -18 19 £76,500 -19.47% 5
Yorkshire +22 17 £78,000 +10.52% 2
East Midlands -63 10 £78,000 +24.80%
Scotland -136 7 £85,000 +20.44% 1
North East -9 5 £79,842 +6.46% 4
Northern Ireland -5 4 - - 3
Wales -30 2 - - 4

Security Architecture
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 2 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (0.51%) Confluence
1 2 (0.51%) OpenStack
1 2 (0.51%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.51%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.51%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 170 (43.15%) Azure
2 145 (36.80%) AWS
3 47 (11.93%) GCP
4 26 (6.60%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (3.05%) Azure Sentinel
6 10 (2.54%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (2.03%) Entra ID
8 7 (1.78%) IaaS
8 7 (1.78%) PaaS
9 5 (1.27%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (1.27%) SaaS
10 4 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.02%) Serverless
11 3 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.51%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.51%) Azure Service Fabric
12 2 (0.51%) Kong
13 1 (0.25%) Amazon EMR
13 1 (0.25%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 65 (16.50%) Network Security
2 44 (11.17%) Firewall
3 27 (6.85%) WAN
4 25 (6.35%) SD-WAN
5 22 (5.58%) TCP/IP
6 19 (4.82%) Intrusion Detection
7 17 (4.31%) LAN
8 14 (3.55%) Internet
9 9 (2.28%) VPN
10 7 (1.78%) SSL
11 5 (1.27%) IPsec
12 3 (0.76%) DNS
13 2 (0.51%) DHCP
13 2 (0.51%) HTTPS
13 2 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
13 2 (0.51%) Wireless
14 1 (0.25%) Cisco ISE
14 1 (0.25%) NGN
14 1 (0.25%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.81%) Data Lake
2 7 (1.78%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.51%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.51%) Big Data
4 2 (0.51%) DynamoDB
4 2 (0.51%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.51%) MySQL
4 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.25%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 3 (0.76%) Burp Suite
1 3 (0.76%) Git
1 3 (0.76%) JIRA
2 2 (0.51%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.51%) Metasploit
General
1 106 (26.90%) Social Skills
2 97 (24.62%) Finance
3 47 (11.93%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (10.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (6.85%) Aerospace
5 27 (6.85%) Banking
6 26 (6.60%) Public Sector
7 24 (6.09%) Law
8 22 (5.58%) Presentation Skills
9 18 (4.57%) Legal
10 17 (4.31%) Retail Banking
11 15 (3.81%) Military
12 13 (3.30%) Telecoms
13 10 (2.54%) Retail
14 8 (2.03%) Marketing
15 7 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
17 5 (1.27%) Advertising
17 5 (1.27%) Manufacturing
18 4 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 209 (53.05%) Architect
2 146 (37.06%) Security Architect
3 57 (14.47%) Senior
4 56 (14.21%) Lead
5 46 (11.68%) Analyst
6 42 (10.66%) Consultant
7 41 (10.41%) Security Consultant
7 41 (10.41%) Solutions Architect
8 39 (9.90%) Security Analyst
9 38 (9.64%) Senior Architect
10 35 (8.88%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 35 (8.88%) Lead Architect
11 30 (7.61%) Lead Security Architect
12 23 (5.84%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 23 (5.84%) Security Manager
13 22 (5.58%) Security Engineer
14 21 (5.33%) Enterprise Architect
15 20 (5.08%) Senior Solutions Architect
15 20 (5.08%) Technical Architect
16 19 (4.82%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.03%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (1.78%) Web Services
3 6 (1.52%) Kafka
4 4 (1.02%) .NET
5 3 (0.76%) Node.js
5 3 (0.76%) OAuth
5 3 (0.76%) SAML
6 2 (0.51%) Laravel
6 2 (0.51%) OpenID
6 2 (0.51%) REST
6 2 (0.51%) SOAP
7 1 (0.25%) EDI
7 1 (0.25%) Pandas
7 1 (0.25%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 89 (22.59%) Management Information System
2 61 (15.48%) Security Posture
3 35 (8.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 32 (8.12%) Cyberattack
5 31 (7.87%) Cyber Threat
6 28 (7.11%) Data Centre
7 22 (5.58%) Cloud Native
8 20 (5.08%) Operational Technology
8 20 (5.08%) Security Operations Centre
9 19 (4.82%) Cyber Defence
9 19 (4.82%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 17 (4.31%) Public Cloud
11 15 (3.81%) Legacy Applications
12 12 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.78%) PKI
14 6 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
14 6 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (1.52%) IoT
15 5 (1.27%) Onboarding
15 5 (1.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.11%) Linux
2 15 (3.81%) Windows
3 7 (1.78%) Unix
4 6 (1.52%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.27%) Kali Linux
5 5 (1.27%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.02%) CentOS
6 4 (1.02%) Mac OS X
6 4 (1.02%) Solaris
6 4 (1.02%) zOS
7 2 (0.51%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (55.08%) Cybersecurity
2 179 (45.43%) Information Security
3 96 (24.37%) Roadmaps
4 75 (19.04%) Cloud Security
5 74 (18.78%) Incident Response
6 69 (17.51%) Agile
7 65 (16.50%) Risk Management
8 64 (16.24%) Coaching
9 63 (15.99%) Security Operations
10 62 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
11 60 (15.23%) Application Security
11 60 (15.23%) SIEM
12 54 (13.71%) Incident Management
13 52 (13.20%) TOGAF
14 46 (11.68%) Identity Management
15 45 (11.42%) Computer Science
16 42 (10.66%) Vulnerability Management
17 41 (10.41%) Identity Access Management
18 38 (9.64%) OWASP
19 37 (9.39%) Customer-Centricity
Programming Languages
1 26 (6.60%) Python
2 14 (3.55%) PowerShell
3 8 (2.03%) SQL
4 7 (1.78%) C
4 7 (1.78%) Java
5 6 (1.52%) C++
6 5 (1.27%) Bash
6 5 (1.27%) R
6 5 (1.27%) Scala
7 2 (0.51%) C#
7 2 (0.51%) PHP
8 1 (0.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 172 (43.65%) CISSP
2 123 (31.22%) CISM
3 86 (21.83%) Degree
4 81 (20.56%) Security Cleared
5 67 (17.01%) Cisco Certification
6 61 (15.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 60 (15.23%) CCSP
8 54 (13.71%) AWS Certification
9 52 (13.20%) Azure Certification
10 42 (10.66%) SC Cleared
11 35 (8.88%) CEH
12 34 (8.63%) CRISC
13 31 (7.87%) CISA
14 30 (7.61%) DV Cleared
15 28 (7.11%) CCSK
15 28 (7.11%) Master's Degree
16 23 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
17 18 (4.57%) GIAC
18 16 (4.06%) CASP
19 15 (3.81%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (30.46%) NIST
2 90 (22.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (8.12%) NCSC
4 28 (7.11%) GDPR
5 23 (5.84%) NIST 800
6 20 (5.08%) Cyber Essentials
7 19 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 17 (4.31%) PCI DSS
9 16 (4.06%) GRC
10 12 (3.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 12 (3.05%) QA
11 11 (2.79%) IASME
12 9 (2.28%) COBIT
13 8 (2.03%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 7 (1.78%) HIPAA
15 5 (1.27%) JSP 440
15 5 (1.27%) RMADS
16 4 (1.02%) ISO 31000
16 4 (1.02%) ISO 9001
17 3 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 30 (7.61%) Active Directory
2 27 (6.85%) Docker
3 8 (2.03%) vSphere
4 2 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.25%) Firmware
5 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (7.11%) Kubernetes
2 26 (6.60%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (2.03%) Terraform
4 6 (1.52%) QRadar
5 5 (1.27%) Suricata
6 2 (0.51%) Ansible
6 2 (0.51%) CASB
6 2 (0.51%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 2 (0.51%) DatAdvantage
6 2 (0.51%) Istio
6 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.51%) Nmap
6 2 (0.51%) SCCM
6 2 (0.51%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
7 1 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.25%) Host Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.25%) Stealthwatch
7 1 (0.25%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 65 (16.50%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.82%) Splunk
3 14 (3.55%) Salesforce
4 10 (2.54%) Palo Alto
5 9 (2.28%) Cisco
5 9 (2.28%) Tripwire
6 8 (2.03%) SolarWinds
6 8 (2.03%) Tanium
7 7 (1.78%) Google
7 7 (1.78%) Qualys
8 5 (1.27%) CyberArk
8 5 (1.27%) Juniper
8 5 (1.27%) Rapid7
8 5 (1.27%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.02%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.02%) iManage
9 4 (1.02%) New Relic
10 3 (0.76%) IBM
10 3 (0.76%) LogRhythm
11 2 (0.51%) Red Hat