Security Architecture Jobs

Security Architecture
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 480 293 506
Rank change year-on-year -187 +213 -29
Permanent jobs citing Security Architecture 501 1,118 1,148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 1.18% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 1.24% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 382 397 706
10th Percentile £50,150 £52,000 £52,434
25th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £65,930
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,057 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.99% +6.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £78,273 £73,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.13% -1.67% +15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Architecture in the UK

Security Architecture
Top 18 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 1 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
England -131 448 £78,273 -7.91% 92
UK excluding London -227 267 £78,273 +6.13% 44
Work from Home -69 211 £77,500 -3.48% 25
London 0 194 £85,000 -5.56% 44
North of England -14 83 £70,576 +0.82% 9
South West -30 63 £105,000 +40.00% 4
North West -31 49 £70,000 - 4
South East -128 40 £80,000 +9.40% 15
Midlands -62 33 £75,000 -3.23% 6
East of England +8 31 £72,500 +3.57% 9
Yorkshire +37 26 £78,273 +19.77% 5
West Midlands -29 21 £75,000 -3.23% 6
East Midlands -52 12 £78,273 +52.73%
Scotland -157 9 £51,000 -26.56% 2
North East -5 8 £79,842 -15.96%
Northern Ireland -4 4 - -
Wales -42 3 £78,273 +71.24%
Channel Islands - 1 £100,000 -

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 2 (0.40%) Apache Spark
1 2 (0.40%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (0.40%) Confluence
1 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.20%) Apache
2 1 (0.20%) nginx
2 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.40%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 199 (39.72%) Azure
2 151 (30.14%) AWS
3 38 (7.58%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (5.99%) GCP
5 14 (2.79%) Cloud Computing
6 13 (2.59%) Azure Sentinel
7 12 (2.40%) PaaS
7 12 (2.40%) SaaS
8 11 (2.20%) Entra ID
8 11 (2.20%) IaaS
9 6 (1.20%) Azure Service Fabric
10 5 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (0.80%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.40%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.40%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.40%) GitHub
12 2 (0.40%) Kong
12 2 (0.40%) OCI
12 2 (0.40%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 77 (15.37%) Network Security
2 55 (10.98%) Firewall
3 36 (7.19%) WAN
4 33 (6.59%) SD-WAN
5 28 (5.59%) Intrusion Detection
6 25 (4.99%) TCP/IP
7 19 (3.79%) LAN
8 12 (2.40%) Internet
9 8 (1.60%) Wireless
10 7 (1.40%) SSL
10 7 (1.40%) VPN
11 5 (1.00%) IPsec
12 2 (0.40%) DNS
12 2 (0.40%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
13 1 (0.20%) DHCP
13 1 (0.20%) HTTP
13 1 (0.20%) NGN
13 1 (0.20%) SAN
13 1 (0.20%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.99%) Data Lake
2 8 (1.60%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.60%) MySQL
6 2 (0.40%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.40%) Big Data
6 2 (0.40%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.40%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.20%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 12 (2.40%) GitLab
2 4 (0.80%) Git
2 4 (0.80%) JIRA
3 3 (0.60%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.20%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.20%) Vagrant
General
1 143 (28.54%) Social Skills
2 123 (24.55%) Finance
3 70 (13.97%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (9.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 43 (8.58%) Law
5 43 (8.58%) Public Sector
6 36 (7.19%) Legal
7 34 (6.79%) Military
8 28 (5.59%) Aerospace
8 28 (5.59%) Presentation Skills
9 27 (5.39%) Banking
10 18 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
11 15 (2.99%) Marketing
11 15 (2.99%) Telecoms
12 10 (2.00%) Retail
12 10 (2.00%) Retail Banking
13 7 (1.40%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 254 (50.70%) Architect
2 202 (40.32%) Security Architect
3 73 (14.57%) Senior
4 69 (13.77%) Lead
5 65 (12.97%) Consultant
6 64 (12.77%) Security Consultant
7 58 (11.58%) Analyst
8 42 (8.38%) Security Analyst
9 41 (8.18%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 40 (7.98%) Lead Architect
11 36 (7.19%) Senior Architect
12 35 (6.99%) Lead Security Architect
12 35 (6.99%) Security Engineer
13 29 (5.79%) Solutions Architect
14 28 (5.59%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 27 (5.39%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 25 (4.99%) Technical Architect
17 23 (4.59%) Principal Architect
17 23 (4.59%) Principal Security Architect
18 20 (3.99%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (2.40%) Web Services
3 6 (1.20%) Kafka
3 6 (1.20%) REST
3 6 (1.20%) SOAP
4 4 (0.80%) OAuth
5 3 (0.60%) .NET
5 3 (0.60%) Node.js
5 3 (0.60%) OpenID
6 2 (0.40%) Laravel
6 2 (0.40%) Pandas
6 2 (0.40%) pytest
6 2 (0.40%) SAML
6 2 (0.40%) Smart Contracts
7 1 (0.20%) JWT
7 1 (0.20%) LEMP Stack
7 1 (0.20%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.20%) Middleware
7 1 (0.20%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.20%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 113 (22.55%) Management Information System
2 77 (15.37%) Security Posture
3 45 (8.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 42 (8.38%) Public Cloud
5 37 (7.39%) Cyber Defence
5 37 (7.39%) Cyber Threat
5 37 (7.39%) Security Operations Centre
6 35 (6.99%) Cyberattack
7 28 (5.59%) Data Centre
8 26 (5.19%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 24 (4.79%) Cloud Native
10 21 (4.19%) Operational Technology
11 17 (3.39%) Legacy Applications
12 12 (2.40%) Private Cloud
13 11 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (2.00%) iPhone
14 10 (2.00%) Onboarding
15 8 (1.60%) PKI
16 7 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
16 7 (1.40%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 29 (5.79%) Linux
2 14 (2.79%) Windows
3 11 (2.20%) Unix
4 5 (1.00%) CentOS
4 5 (1.00%) Kali Linux
4 5 (1.00%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.80%) Mac OS X
5 4 (0.80%) Solaris
5 4 (0.80%) zOS
6 3 (0.60%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.40%) AIX
7 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.20%) Android
8 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (59.28%) Cybersecurity
2 220 (43.91%) Information Security
3 117 (23.35%) Agile
4 114 (22.75%) Roadmaps
5 101 (20.16%) Coaching
6 88 (17.56%) Cloud Security
7 86 (17.17%) Application Security
8 84 (16.77%) Incident Response
9 81 (16.17%) Mentoring
9 81 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
10 80 (15.97%) Security Operations
10 80 (15.97%) SIEM
11 70 (13.97%) Risk Management
12 66 (13.17%) Incident Management
13 59 (11.78%) OWASP
14 57 (11.38%) Identity Management
15 50 (9.98%) Risk Assessment
16 48 (9.58%) Secure Coding
17 47 (9.38%) Security Management
17 47 (9.38%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 28 (5.59%) Python
2 18 (3.59%) Java
3 14 (2.79%) SQL
4 10 (2.00%) PowerShell
5 7 (1.40%) C
5 7 (1.40%) C++
6 5 (1.00%) R
6 5 (1.00%) Scala
7 3 (0.60%) C#
7 3 (0.60%) Go
7 3 (0.60%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.60%) PHP
8 2 (0.40%) Bash
9 1 (0.20%) Dart
9 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.20%) Lua
9 1 (0.20%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.20%) Ruby
9 1 (0.20%) Rust
9 1 (0.20%) Swift
Qualifications
1 195 (38.92%) CISSP
2 130 (25.95%) CISM
3 117 (23.35%) Degree
4 111 (22.16%) Security Cleared
5 71 (14.17%) Cisco Certification
6 68 (13.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 66 (13.17%) Azure Certification
7 66 (13.17%) CCSP
8 64 (12.77%) AWS Certification
9 48 (9.58%) DV Cleared
9 48 (9.58%) SC Cleared
10 45 (8.98%) CCSK
11 37 (7.39%) CRISC
12 33 (6.59%) BPSS Clearance
12 33 (6.59%) CEH
13 31 (6.19%) Master's Degree
14 29 (5.79%) GIAC
15 28 (5.59%) CISA
16 24 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
17 22 (4.39%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (35.13%) NIST
2 107 (21.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 43 (8.58%) GDPR
4 36 (7.19%) NIST 800
5 34 (6.79%) NCSC
6 25 (4.99%) GRC
6 25 (4.99%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 22 (4.39%) Cyber Essentials
8 21 (4.19%) PCI DSS
9 14 (2.79%) COBIT
10 11 (2.20%) QA
11 10 (2.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 7 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (1.20%) HIPAA
13 6 (1.20%) IASME
13 6 (1.20%) JSP 440
13 6 (1.20%) Web Application Security Consortium
14 4 (0.80%) ISO 9001
14 4 (0.80%) RMADS
System Software
1 40 (7.98%) Docker
2 28 (5.59%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.99%) vSphere
4 3 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.60%) Firmware
5 2 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.20%) LXC
6 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (8.18%) Kubernetes
2 36 (7.19%) Single Sign-On
3 22 (4.39%) Terraform
4 10 (2.00%) QRadar
5 6 (1.20%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 5 (1.00%) Suricata
7 3 (0.60%) Ansible
8 2 (0.40%) CASB
8 2 (0.40%) DatAdvantage
8 2 (0.40%) Istio
8 2 (0.40%) SCCM
8 2 (0.40%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
9 1 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.20%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.20%) Stealthwatch
9 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 101 (20.16%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.19%) Splunk
3 18 (3.59%) Tripwire
4 16 (3.19%) SolarWinds
5 15 (2.99%) Tanium
6 11 (2.20%) Cisco
7 10 (2.00%) IBM
8 9 (1.80%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.40%) Google
9 7 (1.40%) Qualys
10 5 (1.00%) CyberArk
10 5 (1.00%) Juniper
10 5 (1.00%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.80%) iManage
11 4 (0.80%) Rapid7
12 3 (0.60%) AppDynamics
12 3 (0.60%) LogRhythm
12 3 (0.60%) New Relic
13 2 (0.40%) ArcSight
13 2 (0.40%) Varonis