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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 488 476 298
Rank change year-on-year -12 -178 +214
Permanent jobs citing Security Architecture 235 497 1,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.49% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.58% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 173 379 415
10th Percentile £53,785 £50,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £68,734 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £79,842 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% -6.07% +3.03%
75th Percentile £88,333 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,150 £108,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,991 £78,273 £73,750
% change year-on-year -8.03% +6.13% -7.81%

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 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

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 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Architecture in the UK

Security Architecture
Top 16 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 28 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 -35 207 £73,159 -6.53% 664
UK excluding London +52 109 £71,991 -8.03% 596
London +45 108 £75,000 -11.76% 147
Work from Home -2 80 £71,991 -7.11% 317
North of England +12 55 £71,991 +2.01% 127
North West -14 34 £65,000 -7.14% 61
South East +70 21 £68,750 -14.06% 183
Yorkshire +53 18 £94,637 +20.91% 47
South West +70 15 £71,991 -31.44% 77
Scotland +122 7 £84,500 +65.69% 37
West Midlands +48 5 £80,151 +6.87% 45
Midlands +32 5 £80,151 +6.87% 84
Wales +47 3 £69,384 -11.36% 19
North East +43 3 £80,000 +0.20% 19
Northern Ireland +41 2 £76,092 - 9
Isle of Man - 1 - -

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 5 (2.13%) Confluence
2 2 (0.85%) IIS
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.85%) NetWeaver
2 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.70%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (0.85%) SAP GRC
2 2 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 81 (34.47%) AWS
2 73 (31.06%) Azure
3 29 (12.34%) GCP
4 23 (9.79%) Serverless
5 20 (8.51%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (7.66%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (6.38%) PaaS
8 14 (5.96%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (5.96%) AWS KMS
8 14 (5.96%) Entra ID
8 14 (5.96%) SaaS
9 13 (5.53%) IaaS
10 9 (3.83%) Azure Sentinel
11 8 (3.40%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (2.55%) Apigee
12 6 (2.55%) Power Platform
13 5 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (1.70%) Contentful
15 3 (1.28%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (25.11%) Firewall
2 51 (21.70%) Network Security
3 24 (10.21%) Intrusion Detection
4 16 (6.81%) TCP/IP
5 14 (5.96%) DNS
5 14 (5.96%) VPN
6 9 (3.83%) HTTP
6 9 (3.83%) SMTP
7 5 (2.13%) IPsec
7 5 (2.13%) SD-WAN
7 5 (2.13%) SSL
7 5 (2.13%) WAN
8 3 (1.28%) SAN
9 2 (0.85%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (0.85%) DHCP
9 2 (0.85%) DMZ
9 2 (0.85%) NAS
9 2 (0.85%) SCCP
9 2 (0.85%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.85%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.13%) Power BI
2 4 (1.70%) Data Lake
2 4 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (1.70%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.85%) Big Data
4 2 (0.85%) Data Mining
4 2 (0.85%) SAP BW
4 2 (0.85%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.43%) DB2
5 1 (0.43%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Bitbucket
1 3 (1.28%) JIRA
2 1 (0.43%) Git
2 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.43%) MLflow
General
1 84 (35.74%) Social Skills
2 65 (27.66%) Finance
3 43 (18.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 32 (13.62%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (13.19%) Banking
6 21 (8.94%) Influencing Skills
7 17 (7.23%) Law
8 16 (6.81%) Telecoms
9 13 (5.53%) Retail
10 11 (4.68%) Legal
10 11 (4.68%) Marketing
10 11 (4.68%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (3.40%) Public Sector
11 8 (3.40%) Retail Banking
12 5 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.70%) Back Office
14 3 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.28%) Games
15 2 (0.85%) Local Government
15 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 125 (53.19%) Architect
2 71 (30.21%) Security Architect
3 47 (20.00%) Senior
4 35 (14.89%) Security Engineer
5 25 (10.64%) Solutions Architect
6 24 (10.21%) Lead
7 19 (8.09%) Cloud Architect
8 17 (7.23%) AWS Architect
8 17 (7.23%) Senior Architect
9 16 (6.81%) Analyst
9 16 (6.81%) Security Specialist
10 15 (6.38%) Lead Architect
11 14 (5.96%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (5.53%) Security Analyst
12 13 (5.53%) Senior Solutions Architect
13 12 (5.11%) AWS Software Engineer
13 12 (5.11%) Information Security Engineer
13 12 (5.11%) Principal Architect
13 12 (5.11%) Senior Software Engineer
13 12 (5.11%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.81%) Kafka
2 14 (5.96%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (5.53%) Web Services
4 12 (5.11%) Node.js
4 12 (5.11%) REST
5 6 (2.55%) AngularJS
5 6 (2.55%) React
5 6 (2.55%) React Native
6 4 (1.70%) .NET
7 2 (0.85%) 802.1X
7 2 (0.85%) Azure Blueprints
7 2 (0.85%) Leaflet
7 2 (0.85%) SailPoint
7 2 (0.85%) SAP Fiori
7 2 (0.85%) Spring
7 2 (0.85%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.43%) Hugging Face
8 1 (0.43%) LangChain
8 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.43%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 60 (25.53%) Management Information System
2 33 (14.04%) Security Posture
3 20 (8.51%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (8.09%) Cloud Native
5 15 (6.38%) Product Ownership
5 15 (6.38%) Social Media
5 15 (6.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 9 (3.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.55%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.55%) DataPower
7 6 (2.55%) Operational Technology
7 6 (2.55%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.70%) CESG
8 4 (1.70%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.70%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.85%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.85%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 34 (14.47%) Windows
2 15 (6.38%) Windows Vista
3 6 (2.55%) Android
3 6 (2.55%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.55%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.13%) Linux
5 4 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.85%) VMS
6 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (55.32%) Cybersecurity
2 98 (41.70%) Information Security
3 83 (35.32%) Cloud Security
4 75 (31.91%) Incident Response
5 66 (28.09%) Risk Management
6 51 (21.70%) Data Protection
7 50 (21.28%) Agile
8 49 (20.85%) TOGAF
9 47 (20.00%) SIEM
9 47 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
10 40 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
11 39 (16.60%) Computer Science
11 39 (16.60%) DevOps
12 38 (16.17%) Architectural Patterns
13 37 (15.74%) Identity Access Management
14 35 (14.89%) CI/CD
14 35 (14.89%) Information Assurance
14 35 (14.89%) Mentoring
14 35 (14.89%) Software Engineering
14 35 (14.89%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 28 (11.91%) Java
1 28 (11.91%) Python
2 12 (5.11%) TypeScript
3 10 (4.26%) PowerShell
4 6 (2.55%) Bash
5 2 (0.85%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 59 (25.11%) CISSP
2 55 (23.40%) Degree
3 43 (18.30%) Security Cleared
4 37 (15.74%) CISM
5 32 (13.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (13.62%) SC Cleared
6 29 (12.34%) Cisco Certification
7 28 (11.91%) AWS Certification
8 23 (9.79%) CISA
9 21 (8.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 21 (8.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 20 (8.51%) CEH
11 19 (8.09%) Master's Degree
12 16 (6.81%) DBS Check
13 11 (4.68%) GIAC
14 9 (3.83%) CompTIA Security+
14 9 (3.83%) SANS
15 7 (2.98%) CCNP
15 7 (2.98%) CRISC
15 7 (2.98%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (37.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 78 (33.19%) NIST
3 64 (27.23%) GDPR
4 32 (13.62%) NCSC
5 22 (9.36%) HIPAA
6 18 (7.66%) PCI DSS
7 17 (7.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 12 (5.11%) SOC 2
9 8 (3.40%) NIST 800
9 8 (3.40%) QA
10 7 (2.98%) COBIT
10 7 (2.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (2.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (2.13%) GRC
12 5 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.85%) Data Quality
14 2 (0.85%) ITGC
15 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
15 1 (0.43%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 18 (7.66%) Docker
2 17 (7.23%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.85%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (11.49%) Terraform
2 23 (9.79%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.38%) Grafana
3 15 (6.38%) Prometheus
4 7 (2.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.70%) Ansible
6 3 (1.28%) Istio
7 2 (0.85%) CASB
7 2 (0.85%) EnCase
7 2 (0.85%) FTK
7 2 (0.85%) Host Intrusion Detection System
7 2 (0.85%) linkerd
7 2 (0.85%) Nessus
7 2 (0.85%) RSA Security Analytics
7 2 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 54 (22.98%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.23%) Google
3 12 (5.11%) Cisco
3 12 (5.11%) Ping Identity
4 9 (3.83%) Palo Alto
5 7 (2.98%) IBM
6 6 (2.55%) Apple
6 6 (2.55%) Carbon Black
6 6 (2.55%) Symantec
7 5 (2.13%) Splunk
8 4 (1.70%) Adobe
8 4 (1.70%) FireEye
8 4 (1.70%) Optimizely
8 4 (1.70%) SAP
8 4 (1.70%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.28%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.28%) Juniper
9 3 (1.28%) VMware
10 2 (0.85%) Facebook
10 2 (0.85%) NetWitness