Security Architecture Jobs in the West Midlands

Security Architecture
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 191 232 231
Rank change year-on-year +41 -1 +6
Permanent jobs citing Security Architecture 5 21 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.12% 0.28% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.34% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 4 20 15
10th Percentile £68,031 £40,267 £69,700
25th Percentile £73,315 £49,450 £73,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,151 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £90,624 £84,919 £95,000
90th Percentile £94,750 £85,000 £97,850
England median annual salary £75,000 £78,273 £85,000
% change year-on-year -4.18% -7.91% +3.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,903 6,174 6,037
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.13% 82.45% 96.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,622 4,565 3,154
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,905 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Security Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Security Architecture in the West Midlands

Security Architecture
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Security Architecture in the West Midlands

Security Architecture
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Architecture in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Architecture in the West Midlands

Security Architecture
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Architecture within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 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
Birmingham +23 3 £77,500 +3.33% 1
Warwickshire - 1 £95,000 -
Security Architecture
England

Security Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) IaaS
1 2 (40.00%) PaaS
1 2 (40.00%) SaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DB2
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (20.00%) Automotive
3 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Legal
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Architect
2 4 (80.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Security Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Principal Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Principal Security Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (60.00%) Risk Assessment
1 3 (60.00%) SABSA
1 3 (60.00%) Security Management
1 3 (60.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) Information Assurance
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security Management
2 2 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (40.00%) Runbook
2 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (20.00%) Application Security
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (80.00%) NIST
2 3 (60.00%) NCSC
3 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle