Security Technical Architect Jobs

Security Technical Architect
UK

The median Security Technical Architect salary in the UK is £72,500 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 688 854 963
Rank change year-on-year +166 +109 +248
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Technical Architect 2 48 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.004% 0.048% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% 0.051% 0.011%
Number of salaries quoted 1 45 8
10th Percentile - £65,000 £69,257
25th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £81,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £90,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% -5.26% +20.63%
75th Percentile £73,750 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile - - £106,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £81,250 -

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%

Security Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Technical Architect in the UK

Security Technical Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Security Technical Architect in the UK

Security Technical Architect
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Technical 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 +126 2 £72,500 -19.44%
London +94 2 £72,500 -19.44%

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, Security Technical 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 Technical Architect in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) F5
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform

Security Technical 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) F5
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle