Security Architecture Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Architecture
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Security Architecture skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Security Architecture over the 6 months to 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 508 290 449
Rank change year-on-year -218 +159 +24
Permanent jobs citing Security Architecture 270 649 513
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.34% 1.16% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 1.22% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 200 155 326
10th Percentile £42,675 £29,150 £48,125
25th Percentile £61,875 £56,325 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,273 £73,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.13% -1.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,625 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £79,842 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.07% +6.25% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Security Architecture is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 63,849 53,205 71,475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.12% 95.49% 94.29%
Number of salaries quoted 43,309 28,441 41,725
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Security Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Architecture in the UK excluding London

Security Architecture
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Security Architecture in the UK excluding London

Security Architecture
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Architecture in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Architecture in the UK excluding London

Security Architecture
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 Architecture within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
North of England -33 83 £70,576 +0.82% 8
South West -34 64 £105,000 +40.00% 4
North West -37 49 £70,000 - 5
South East -105 41 £80,000 +8.47% 11
Midlands -89 34 £75,000 -3.23% 8
East of England -4 31 £72,500 +3.57% 5
Yorkshire +43 26 £78,273 +19.77% 3
West Midlands -21 22 £75,000 -16.67% 8
East Midlands -67 12 £78,273 +36.13%
Scotland -152 9 £51,000 -30.85% 3
North East -10 8 £79,842 -5.37%
Northern Ireland -4 4 - -
Wales -44 3 £78,273 +71.24%
Channel Islands - 1 £100,000 -
Security Architecture
UK

Security Architecture
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (0.74%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (0.74%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.74%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.74%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 97 (35.93%) Azure
2 85 (31.48%) AWS
3 19 (7.04%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (2.96%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (2.59%) Azure Sentinel
5 7 (2.59%) GCP
6 2 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (0.74%) Serverless
7 1 (0.37%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.37%) IaaS
7 1 (0.37%) PaaS
7 1 (0.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (18.52%) Network Security
2 32 (11.85%) WAN
3 29 (10.74%) SD-WAN
4 16 (5.93%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.70%) Internet
6 9 (3.33%) Firewall
7 8 (2.96%) Intrusion Detection
8 6 (2.22%) VPN
9 3 (1.11%) LAN
10 2 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.74%) Wireless
11 1 (0.37%) Cisco ISE
11 1 (0.37%) DHCP
11 1 (0.37%) DNS
11 1 (0.37%) NAS
11 1 (0.37%) SAN
11 1 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.81%) Data Lake
2 2 (0.74%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.74%) Big Data
2 2 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.74%) DynamoDB
2 2 (0.74%) MySQL
2 2 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (4.44%) GitLab
General
1 65 (24.07%) Finance
2 55 (20.37%) Social Skills
3 32 (11.85%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (8.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (8.15%) Aerospace
6 19 (7.04%) Military
7 17 (6.30%) Law
8 13 (4.81%) Public Sector
9 12 (4.44%) Telecoms
10 9 (3.33%) Legal
11 8 (2.96%) Banking
12 5 (1.85%) Marketing
12 5 (1.85%) Retail
13 4 (1.48%) Electronics
13 4 (1.48%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.74%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.74%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.37%) Games
15 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 143 (52.96%) Architect
2 113 (41.85%) Security Architect
3 46 (17.04%) Lead
4 38 (14.07%) Consultant
5 37 (13.70%) Security Consultant
5 37 (13.70%) Senior
6 35 (12.96%) Lead Architect
7 33 (12.22%) Analyst
8 30 (11.11%) Lead Security Architect
9 27 (10.00%) Security Analyst
10 19 (7.04%) Security Engineer
10 19 (7.04%) Senior Architect
11 18 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 17 (6.30%) Junior
12 17 (6.30%) Principal Architect
12 17 (6.30%) Principal Security Architect
13 16 (5.93%) Senior Analyst
14 15 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
15 14 (5.19%) Cybersecurity Architect
15 14 (5.19%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.85%) Web Services
2 2 (0.74%) Laravel
2 2 (0.74%) Node.js
2 2 (0.74%) OAuth
2 2 (0.74%) OpenID
2 2 (0.74%) SAML
2 2 (0.74%) Smart Contracts
3 1 (0.37%) .NET
3 1 (0.37%) EDI
3 1 (0.37%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 59 (21.85%) Management Information System
2 35 (12.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 30 (11.11%) Public Cloud
3 30 (11.11%) Security Posture
4 23 (8.52%) Cyber Defence
5 20 (7.41%) Cyber Threat
6 19 (7.04%) Cloud Native
6 19 (7.04%) Security Operations Centre
7 16 (5.93%) Operational Technology
8 15 (5.56%) Legacy Applications
9 14 (5.19%) Cyberattack
10 12 (4.44%) Private Cloud
11 10 (3.70%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.85%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 5 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.85%) Replication
13 4 (1.48%) PMI
14 3 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
14 3 (1.11%) IoT
14 3 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.04%) Linux
2 9 (3.33%) Windows
3 5 (1.85%) Kali Linux
4 4 (1.48%) Mac OS X
5 3 (1.11%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (52.96%) Cybersecurity
2 102 (37.78%) Information Security
3 76 (28.15%) Mentoring
4 69 (25.56%) Agile
5 67 (24.81%) Coaching
6 54 (20.00%) Roadmaps
7 42 (15.56%) Incident Response
8 40 (14.81%) SIEM
9 39 (14.44%) Application Security
9 39 (14.44%) OWASP
9 39 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
10 37 (13.70%) Security Operations
11 36 (13.33%) Secure Coding
12 34 (12.59%) Cloud Security
12 34 (12.59%) Risk Management
13 30 (11.11%) Identity Management
14 28 (10.37%) Incident Management
14 28 (10.37%) Risk Assessment
15 27 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
16 25 (9.26%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 18 (6.67%) Python
2 10 (3.70%) Java
3 7 (2.59%) C
4 6 (2.22%) PowerShell
5 5 (1.85%) R
5 5 (1.85%) Scala
5 5 (1.85%) SQL
6 3 (1.11%) C++
7 2 (0.74%) PHP
8 1 (0.37%) C#
Qualifications
1 96 (35.56%) CISSP
2 75 (27.78%) CISM
3 57 (21.11%) Degree
4 53 (19.63%) Security Cleared
5 41 (15.19%) Cisco Certification
6 39 (14.44%) CCSP
7 38 (14.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 36 (13.33%) AWS Certification
8 36 (13.33%) CCSK
9 34 (12.59%) Azure Certification
10 29 (10.74%) CRISC
11 26 (9.63%) DV Cleared
12 24 (8.89%) CEH
13 20 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
14 19 (7.04%) CISA
15 16 (5.93%) SC Cleared
16 13 (4.81%) CASP
16 13 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
17 10 (3.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 10 (3.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (40.37%) NIST
2 53 (19.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (10.74%) NIST 800
4 24 (8.89%) NCSC
5 23 (8.52%) GDPR
6 18 (6.67%) GRC
7 16 (5.93%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 14 (5.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (3.70%) PCI DSS
10 5 (1.85%) JSP 440
10 5 (1.85%) RMADS
11 3 (1.11%) COBIT
11 3 (1.11%) HMG Infosec
11 3 (1.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (1.11%) SLA
12 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.37%) GxP
12 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.37%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.37%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 29 (10.74%) Docker
2 7 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.11%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (1.11%) Firmware
4 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (11.48%) Single Sign-On
2 30 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 15 (5.56%) Terraform
4 5 (1.85%) Suricata
5 4 (1.48%) QRadar
6 2 (0.74%) DatAdvantage
6 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.74%) SCCM
6 2 (0.74%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
7 1 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.37%) Stealthwatch
7 1 (0.37%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 46 (17.04%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.19%) Splunk
3 8 (2.96%) Cisco
4 5 (1.85%) Juniper
4 5 (1.85%) Palo Alto
5 3 (1.11%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.11%) New Relic
6 2 (0.74%) ForgeRock
6 2 (0.74%) Qualys
6 2 (0.74%) SAP
6 2 (0.74%) Symantec
6 2 (0.74%) Varonis
7 1 (0.37%) Darktrace
7 1 (0.37%) Google
7 1 (0.37%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.37%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.37%) Tanium
7 1 (0.37%) Thales
7 1 (0.37%) Tripwire
7 1 (0.37%) VMware