Security Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 443 267 508
Rank change year-on-year -176 +241 -57
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Architect 360 768 384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.50% 1.31% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 1.47% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 221 136 141
10th Percentile £56,809 £56,219 £57,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £63,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,000 £75,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +12.58% +4.50%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £99,375 £103,750
UK median annual salary £79,842 £87,500 £88,750
% change year-on-year -8.75% -1.41% +10.94%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 68,862 52,395 69,656
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.16% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 48,635 29,827 42,609
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,250 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +6.13% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Security Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Architect in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Security Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Security Architect
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
South East -39 101 £75,000 -16.67% 22
North of England -30 98 £79,057 +5.41% 9
North West -27 64 £70,000 +8.76% 7
Midlands -72 64 £78,273 -7.91% 7
South West -79 52 £72,500 -13.43% 6
West Midlands -39 39 £70,000 -17.65% 5
Yorkshire +30 28 £79,842 -1.73% 2
East Midlands -27 25 £78,273 - 2
East of England -1 20 £81,636 +2.05% 8
Scotland -152 11 £75,000 +8.38% 2
Wales -22 10 £78,273 -
North East -2 6 £79,842 -17.69%
Northern Ireland +19 3 £62,000 -
Channel Islands - 1 £100,000 -
Security Architect
UK

Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 136 (37.78%) Cybersecurity
2 116 (32.22%) Security Architecture
3 114 (31.67%) Azure
4 77 (21.39%) Information Security
5 76 (21.11%) CISSP
6 73 (20.28%) Cisco Certification
6 73 (20.28%) AWS
7 67 (18.61%) Microsoft
8 64 (17.78%) Social Skills
9 61 (16.94%) NIST
10 58 (16.11%) Degree
11 57 (15.83%) WAN
11 57 (15.83%) Application Security
12 56 (15.56%) Security Cleared
12 56 (15.56%) OWASP
13 53 (14.72%) Finance
13 53 (14.72%) SD-WAN
14 52 (14.44%) CISM
15 48 (13.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 44 (12.22%) CCSP
17 43 (11.94%) Presales
18 42 (11.67%) Secure Coding
19 41 (11.39%) Data Centre
19 41 (11.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
20 40 (11.11%) AWS Certification
21 39 (10.83%) Agile
22 38 (10.56%) Azure Certification
22 38 (10.56%) Roadmaps
23 37 (10.28%) CCSK
23 37 (10.28%) Management Information System

Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 114 (31.67%) Azure
2 73 (20.28%) AWS
3 28 (7.78%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (3.06%) SaaS
5 9 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (1.11%) GCP
7 3 (0.83%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (0.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (0.83%) PaaS
7 3 (0.83%) Power Platform
7 3 (0.83%) PowerApps
8 2 (0.56%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.28%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.28%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.28%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (15.83%) WAN
2 53 (14.72%) SD-WAN
3 24 (6.67%) Cisco Firepower
4 21 (5.83%) Network Security
5 17 (4.72%) Firewall
6 10 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
7 6 (1.67%) VPN
8 5 (1.39%) Internet
9 4 (1.11%) LAN
9 4 (1.11%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (1.11%) Wireless
9 4 (1.11%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.83%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.28%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.28%) RDBMS
2 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
General
1 64 (17.78%) Social Skills
2 53 (14.72%) Finance
3 16 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (3.33%) Banking
6 11 (3.06%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.06%) Retail
7 10 (2.78%) Games
8 7 (1.94%) Legal
9 5 (1.39%) Military
10 4 (1.11%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.83%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.83%) Electronics
11 3 (0.83%) Law
12 2 (0.56%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.28%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.78%) .NET
1 10 (2.78%) React
2 9 (2.50%) OAuth
3 6 (1.67%) OAuth2
3 6 (1.67%) Web Services
4 3 (0.83%) SAML
5 2 (0.56%) OpenID
6 1 (0.28%) EDI
6 1 (0.28%) JSON
6 1 (0.28%) RESTful
6 1 (0.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (11.39%) Data Centre
2 37 (10.28%) Management Information System
3 36 (10.00%) Security Posture
4 30 (8.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 24 (6.67%) Public Cloud
6 12 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
7 10 (2.78%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.50%) PKI
8 9 (2.50%) PMI
9 8 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.11%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.83%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (0.83%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.56%) Cyberattack
13 1 (0.28%) Driving Licence
13 1 (0.28%) Educational Technology
13 1 (0.28%) Enterprise Cloud
13 1 (0.28%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.89%) Linux
2 8 (2.22%) Android
2 8 (2.22%) Embedded Linux
3 6 (1.67%) Windows
4 5 (1.39%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (37.78%) Cybersecurity
2 116 (32.22%) Security Architecture
3 77 (21.39%) Information Security
4 57 (15.83%) Application Security
5 56 (15.56%) OWASP
6 43 (11.94%) Presales
7 42 (11.67%) Secure Coding
8 39 (10.83%) Agile
9 38 (10.56%) Roadmaps
10 36 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
11 34 (9.44%) Cloud Security
11 34 (9.44%) Time Management
12 32 (8.89%) Incident Response
13 30 (8.33%) Coaching
14 29 (8.06%) Identity Management
15 28 (7.78%) Vulnerability Management
16 27 (7.50%) Architectural Design
16 27 (7.50%) Mentoring
17 24 (6.67%) Analytics
17 24 (6.67%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 11 (3.06%) PowerShell
1 11 (3.06%) Python
2 10 (2.78%) C#
2 10 (2.78%) JavaScript
3 8 (2.22%) C
3 8 (2.22%) C++
3 8 (2.22%) Java
4 6 (1.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 76 (21.11%) CISSP
2 73 (20.28%) Cisco Certification
3 58 (16.11%) Degree
4 56 (15.56%) Security Cleared
5 52 (14.44%) CISM
6 48 (13.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 44 (12.22%) CCSP
8 40 (11.11%) AWS Certification
9 38 (10.56%) Azure Certification
10 37 (10.28%) CCSK
11 25 (6.94%) CCNP
12 24 (6.67%) CCNA
12 24 (6.67%) DV Cleared
13 20 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
14 14 (3.89%) CISA
15 11 (3.06%) CEH
15 11 (3.06%) CRISC
16 10 (2.78%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 10 (2.78%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 10 (2.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (16.94%) NIST
2 41 (11.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (5.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 17 (4.72%) GDPR
5 16 (4.44%) PCI DSS
6 12 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.83%) HMG Infosec
7 3 (0.83%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (0.83%) JSP 440
7 3 (0.83%) NCSC
7 3 (0.83%) RMADS
8 2 (0.56%) COBIT
8 2 (0.56%) QA
9 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.28%) GRC
9 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (8.06%) Docker
2 10 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.11%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.83%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.83%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 32 (8.89%) Kubernetes
2 31 (8.61%) Single Sign-On
3 24 (6.67%) Stealthwatch
4 5 (1.39%) Suricata
5 3 (0.83%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.83%) Terraform
Vendors
1 67 (18.61%) Microsoft
2 33 (9.17%) Cisco
3 24 (6.67%) Adobe
3 24 (6.67%) Apple
3 24 (6.67%) Meraki
4 9 (2.50%) Palo Alto
5 8 (2.22%) Splunk
6 6 (1.67%) PagerDuty
7 5 (1.39%) Juniper
8 3 (0.83%) AppDynamics
8 3 (0.83%) New Relic
8 3 (0.83%) Veracode
9 2 (0.56%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.28%) Google