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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 432 254 488
Rank change year-on-year -178 +234 -31
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Architect 369 785 399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.49% 1.39% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 1.56% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 224 126 144
10th Percentile £56,809 £56,219 £57,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £60,713 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% +10.00% +3.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £99,750 £103,750
UK median annual salary £79,842 £87,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +2.94% +6.25%

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 72,166 50,263 70,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.90% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,782 29,433 42,686
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
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 1 June 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 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
North of England -40 103 £79,057 +10.96% 8
South East -56 100 £75,000 -16.67% 10
North West -34 66 £70,000 +17.60% 8
Midlands -75 66 £78,273 -10.55% 5
South West -86 52 £72,500 -6.45% 4
West Midlands -57 42 £70,000 -20.00% 4
Yorkshire +12 31 £79,842 -3.22%
East of England -8 24 £85,000 +6.25% 5
East Midlands -42 24 £78,273 - 1
Scotland -157 11 £75,000 +16.53%
Wales -25 9 £78,273 -
North East -6 6 £79,842 -17.69%
Northern Ireland +12 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 1 June 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.

1 141 (38.21%) Cybersecurity
2 113 (30.62%) Azure
2 113 (30.62%) Security Architecture
3 75 (20.33%) CISSP
3 75 (20.33%) Cisco Certification
4 74 (20.05%) Information Security
5 73 (19.78%) AWS
6 68 (18.43%) Microsoft
7 60 (16.26%) Social Skills
7 60 (16.26%) Degree
7 60 (16.26%) WAN
8 59 (15.99%) NIST
9 57 (15.45%) Application Security
10 56 (15.18%) SD-WAN
10 56 (15.18%) OWASP
11 53 (14.36%) Security Cleared
12 52 (14.09%) CISM
13 50 (13.55%) Finance
14 47 (12.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 46 (12.47%) Presales
16 45 (12.20%) Data Centre
17 43 (11.65%) CCSP
18 42 (11.38%) Secure Coding
19 40 (10.84%) AWS Certification
20 39 (10.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
20 39 (10.57%) Agile
21 38 (10.30%) Azure Certification
21 38 (10.30%) Roadmaps
22 37 (10.03%) Time Management
22 37 (10.03%) 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
1 113 (30.62%) Azure
2 73 (19.78%) AWS
3 26 (7.05%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (2.98%) SaaS
5 9 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (1.08%) GCP
7 3 (0.81%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (0.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (0.81%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (0.81%) PaaS
7 3 (0.81%) Power Platform
7 3 (0.81%) PowerApps
8 2 (0.54%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.27%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.27%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.27%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (16.26%) WAN
2 56 (15.18%) SD-WAN
3 27 (7.32%) Cisco Firepower
4 20 (5.42%) Network Security
5 17 (4.61%) Firewall
6 10 (2.71%) Intrusion Detection
7 6 (1.63%) VPN
8 5 (1.36%) Internet
9 4 (1.08%) LAN
9 4 (1.08%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (1.08%) Wireless
9 4 (1.08%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.81%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.27%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.27%) RDBMS
2 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
General
1 60 (16.26%) Social Skills
2 50 (13.55%) Finance
3 16 (4.34%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (2.98%) Retail
6 10 (2.71%) Banking
6 10 (2.71%) Public Sector
7 8 (2.17%) Games
8 7 (1.90%) Legal
9 5 (1.36%) Military
10 4 (1.08%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.81%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.81%) Electronics
12 2 (0.54%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.27%) Law
13 1 (0.27%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.71%) .NET
1 10 (2.71%) React
2 9 (2.44%) OAuth
3 6 (1.63%) OAuth2
3 6 (1.63%) Web Services
4 3 (0.81%) SAML
5 2 (0.54%) OpenID
6 1 (0.27%) EDI
6 1 (0.27%) JSON
6 1 (0.27%) RESTful
6 1 (0.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (12.20%) Data Centre
2 37 (10.03%) Management Information System
3 35 (9.49%) Security Posture
4 30 (8.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 24 (6.50%) Public Cloud
6 11 (2.98%) Cyber Threat
7 10 (2.71%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.44%) PKI
8 9 (2.44%) PMI
9 8 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.81%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.81%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (0.81%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.54%) Cyberattack
12 1 (0.27%) Driving Licence
12 1 (0.27%) Educational Technology
12 1 (0.27%) Enterprise Cloud
12 1 (0.27%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.15%) Linux
2 13 (3.52%) Android
2 13 (3.52%) Embedded Linux
3 6 (1.63%) Windows
4 5 (1.36%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (38.21%) Cybersecurity
2 113 (30.62%) Security Architecture
3 74 (20.05%) Information Security
4 57 (15.45%) Application Security
5 56 (15.18%) OWASP
6 46 (12.47%) Presales
7 42 (11.38%) Secure Coding
8 39 (10.57%) Agile
9 38 (10.30%) Roadmaps
10 37 (10.03%) Time Management
11 36 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
12 34 (9.21%) Cloud Security
13 32 (8.67%) Architectural Design
14 31 (8.40%) Incident Response
15 29 (7.86%) Coaching
15 29 (7.86%) Identity Management
16 27 (7.32%) Analytics
16 27 (7.32%) Customer Engagement
16 27 (7.32%) Software Licensing
17 26 (7.05%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 13 (3.52%) C
1 13 (3.52%) C++
1 13 (3.52%) Java
2 11 (2.98%) PowerShell
2 11 (2.98%) Python
3 10 (2.71%) C#
3 10 (2.71%) JavaScript
4 6 (1.63%) Bash
Qualifications
1 75 (20.33%) Cisco Certification
1 75 (20.33%) CISSP
2 60 (16.26%) Degree
3 53 (14.36%) Security Cleared
4 52 (14.09%) CISM
5 47 (12.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 43 (11.65%) CCSP
7 40 (10.84%) AWS Certification
8 38 (10.30%) Azure Certification
9 36 (9.76%) CCSK
10 28 (7.59%) CCNP
11 27 (7.32%) CCNA
12 24 (6.50%) DV Cleared
13 20 (5.42%) BPSS Clearance
14 14 (3.79%) CISA
15 11 (2.98%) CEH
15 11 (2.98%) CRISC
16 10 (2.71%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 10 (2.71%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 9 (2.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (15.99%) NIST
2 39 (10.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 16 (4.34%) GDPR
4 16 (4.34%) PCI DSS
5 11 (2.98%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.81%) HMG Infosec
6 3 (0.81%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 3 (0.81%) JSP 440
6 3 (0.81%) RMADS
7 2 (0.54%) COBIT
7 2 (0.54%) NCSC
7 2 (0.54%) QA
8 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.27%) GRC
8 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (7.86%) Docker
2 8 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.08%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.81%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.81%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 32 (8.67%) Kubernetes
2 31 (8.40%) Single Sign-On
3 27 (7.32%) Stealthwatch
4 5 (1.36%) Suricata
5 3 (0.81%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.81%) Terraform
Vendors
1 68 (18.43%) Microsoft
2 36 (9.76%) Cisco
3 27 (7.32%) Adobe
3 27 (7.32%) Apple
3 27 (7.32%) Meraki
4 9 (2.44%) Palo Alto
5 8 (2.17%) Splunk
6 6 (1.63%) PagerDuty
7 5 (1.36%) Juniper
8 3 (0.81%) AppDynamics
8 3 (0.81%) New Relic
8 3 (0.81%) Veracode
9 2 (0.54%) Cognizant
9 2 (0.54%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.27%) Google