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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 457 298 509
Rank change year-on-year -159 +211 -28
Permanent jobs citing Security Architecture 514 1,200 1,093
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 1.21% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 1.26% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 387 443 671
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £52,434
25th Percentile £68,718 £69,375 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,273 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.91% +3.03% +13.79%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £108,000 £114,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £78,273 £73,750 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.13% -7.81% +23.08%

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 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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% +10.53%

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 20 May 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 20 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
England -97 465 £78,273 -7.91% 83
UK excluding London -219 279 £78,273 +6.13% 49
Work from Home -46 217 £77,500 -3.48% 29
London -12 200 £85,000 -5.56% 44
North of England -9 84 £70,576 +0.82% 6
South West -31 64 £105,000 +40.00% 4
North West -30 49 £70,000 - 4
South East -121 48 £80,000 +8.47% 22
East of England +14 33 £72,500 +3.57% 14
Midlands -54 33 £75,000 -3.23% 2
Yorkshire +60 27 £78,273 +19.77% 2
West Midlands -2 21 £75,000 -6.25% 2
East Midlands -51 12 £78,273 +52.73%
Scotland -170 9 £51,000 -26.56% 2
North East +4 8 £79,842 -15.96%
Northern Ireland +6 4 - - 1
Wales -40 3 £78,273 +71.24% 1
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 (0.39%) Apache Spark
1 2 (0.39%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (0.39%) Confluence
1 2 (0.39%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.19%) Apache
2 1 (0.19%) nginx
2 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.39%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 201 (39.11%) Azure
2 155 (30.16%) AWS
3 40 (7.78%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (6.23%) GCP
5 18 (3.50%) PaaS
5 18 (3.50%) SaaS
6 17 (3.31%) IaaS
7 14 (2.72%) Azure Sentinel
7 14 (2.72%) Cloud Computing
8 11 (2.14%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.17%) Azure Service Fabric
10 5 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (0.78%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.39%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.39%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.39%) GitHub
12 2 (0.39%) Kong
12 2 (0.39%) OCI
12 2 (0.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 86 (16.73%) Network Security
2 57 (11.09%) Firewall
3 36 (7.00%) WAN
4 33 (6.42%) SD-WAN
5 28 (5.45%) Intrusion Detection
6 25 (4.86%) TCP/IP
7 19 (3.70%) LAN
8 11 (2.14%) Internet
9 9 (1.75%) Wireless
10 7 (1.36%) SSL
10 7 (1.36%) VPN
11 5 (0.97%) IPsec
12 3 (0.58%) DNS
12 3 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
13 2 (0.39%) DHCP
13 2 (0.39%) HTTPS
14 1 (0.19%) HTTP
14 1 (0.19%) NGN
14 1 (0.19%) SAN
14 1 (0.19%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.92%) Data Lake
2 8 (1.56%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.58%) MySQL
6 2 (0.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.39%) Big Data
6 2 (0.39%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.39%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.19%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.19%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 12 (2.33%) GitLab
2 4 (0.78%) Git
2 4 (0.78%) JIRA
3 3 (0.58%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.19%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.19%) Vagrant
General
1 147 (28.60%) Social Skills
2 122 (23.74%) Finance
3 69 (13.42%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (9.34%) Law
5 46 (8.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 46 (8.95%) Public Sector
6 38 (7.39%) Legal
7 34 (6.61%) Military
8 28 (5.45%) Aerospace
8 28 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
9 26 (5.06%) Banking
10 18 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
11 15 (2.92%) Marketing
11 15 (2.92%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.95%) Retail
13 9 (1.75%) Retail Banking
14 7 (1.36%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.97%) Police
Job Titles
1 251 (48.83%) Architect
2 199 (38.72%) Security Architect
3 77 (14.98%) Senior
4 73 (14.20%) Lead
5 67 (13.04%) Consultant
6 66 (12.84%) Security Consultant
7 59 (11.48%) Analyst
8 43 (8.37%) Cybersecurity Architect
9 42 (8.17%) Security Analyst
10 40 (7.78%) Lead Architect
11 37 (7.20%) Security Engineer
12 35 (6.81%) Lead Security Architect
12 35 (6.81%) Senior Architect
13 30 (5.84%) Cybersecurity Consultant
14 28 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
15 27 (5.25%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 26 (5.06%) Technical Architect
17 23 (4.47%) Principal Architect
17 23 (4.47%) Principal Security Architect
18 20 (3.89%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.50%) Web Services
2 15 (2.92%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (1.56%) Middleware
4 7 (1.36%) OAuth
5 6 (1.17%) Kafka
5 6 (1.17%) REST
5 6 (1.17%) SOAP
6 4 (0.78%) JWT
7 3 (0.58%) .NET
7 3 (0.58%) Node.js
7 3 (0.58%) OpenID
8 2 (0.39%) Laravel
8 2 (0.39%) Pandas
8 2 (0.39%) pytest
8 2 (0.39%) SAML
8 2 (0.39%) Smart Contracts
9 1 (0.19%) LEMP Stack
9 1 (0.19%) Lightning Web Components
9 1 (0.19%) ModSecurity
9 1 (0.19%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 120 (23.35%) Management Information System
2 78 (15.18%) Security Posture
3 45 (8.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 44 (8.56%) Public Cloud
5 39 (7.59%) Cyber Threat
6 37 (7.20%) Cyber Defence
7 36 (7.00%) Cyberattack
7 36 (7.00%) Security Operations Centre
8 28 (5.45%) Data Centre
9 27 (5.25%) Operational Technology
10 26 (5.06%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 25 (4.86%) Cloud Native
12 17 (3.31%) Legacy Applications
13 13 (2.53%) PKI
14 12 (2.33%) Private Cloud
15 11 (2.14%) iPhone
15 11 (2.14%) Onboarding
15 11 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
16 9 (1.75%) IoT
17 7 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 29 (5.64%) Linux
2 15 (2.92%) Windows
3 11 (2.14%) Unix
4 5 (0.97%) CentOS
4 5 (0.97%) Kali Linux
4 5 (0.97%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.78%) Mac OS X
5 4 (0.78%) Solaris
5 4 (0.78%) zOS
6 3 (0.58%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.39%) AIX
7 2 (0.39%) Android
7 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (60.89%) Cybersecurity
2 228 (44.36%) Information Security
3 117 (22.76%) Agile
4 109 (21.21%) Roadmaps
5 96 (18.68%) Coaching
6 91 (17.70%) Cloud Security
7 86 (16.73%) Application Security
8 85 (16.54%) Incident Response
9 84 (16.34%) SIEM
10 83 (16.15%) Mentoring
11 80 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
12 78 (15.18%) Security Operations
13 71 (13.81%) Risk Management
14 65 (12.65%) Incident Management
15 59 (11.48%) Identity Management
15 59 (11.48%) OWASP
16 54 (10.51%) TOGAF
17 53 (10.31%) Security Management
18 50 (9.73%) Vulnerability Management
19 49 (9.53%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 32 (6.23%) Python
2 21 (4.09%) Java
3 14 (2.72%) SQL
4 10 (1.95%) PowerShell
5 7 (1.36%) C
5 7 (1.36%) C++
6 6 (1.17%) C#
6 6 (1.17%) Go
6 6 (1.17%) JavaScript
7 5 (0.97%) R
7 5 (0.97%) Scala
8 4 (0.78%) Lua
8 4 (0.78%) PHP
8 4 (0.78%) Ruby
8 4 (0.78%) Rust
9 2 (0.39%) Bash
9 2 (0.39%) Dart
9 2 (0.39%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.39%) Objective-C
9 2 (0.39%) Swift
Qualifications
1 197 (38.33%) CISSP
2 131 (25.49%) CISM
3 122 (23.74%) Degree
4 111 (21.60%) Security Cleared
5 71 (13.81%) Cisco Certification
6 68 (13.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 66 (12.84%) Azure Certification
7 66 (12.84%) CCSP
8 65 (12.65%) AWS Certification
9 50 (9.73%) DV Cleared
10 46 (8.95%) CCSK
11 45 (8.75%) SC Cleared
12 38 (7.39%) CRISC
13 34 (6.61%) BPSS Clearance
14 33 (6.42%) CEH
14 33 (6.42%) Master's Degree
15 28 (5.45%) CISA
15 28 (5.45%) GIAC
16 26 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
17 23 (4.47%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (35.80%) NIST
2 118 (22.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 44 (8.56%) GDPR
4 36 (7.00%) NCSC
4 36 (7.00%) NIST 800
5 27 (5.25%) PCI DSS
6 26 (5.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 25 (4.86%) GRC
8 22 (4.28%) Cyber Essentials
9 20 (3.89%) COBIT
10 12 (2.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 10 (1.95%) QA
12 6 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (1.17%) HIPAA
12 6 (1.17%) JSP 440
12 6 (1.17%) Web Application Security Consortium
13 5 (0.97%) IASME
13 5 (0.97%) ISO 31000
14 4 (0.78%) RMADS
System Software
1 40 (7.78%) Docker
2 29 (5.64%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.92%) vSphere
4 4 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.58%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (0.58%) Firmware
6 1 (0.19%) LXC
6 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (7.98%) Kubernetes
2 39 (7.59%) Single Sign-On
3 22 (4.28%) Terraform
4 10 (1.95%) QRadar
5 6 (1.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 5 (0.97%) Suricata
7 3 (0.58%) Ansible
8 2 (0.39%) CASB
8 2 (0.39%) DatAdvantage
8 2 (0.39%) Istio
8 2 (0.39%) SCCM
8 2 (0.39%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
9 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.19%) Cacti
9 1 (0.19%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.19%) Icinga
9 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.19%) Puppet
9 1 (0.19%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 103 (20.04%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.25%) Splunk
3 18 (3.50%) Tripwire
4 17 (3.31%) SolarWinds
5 15 (2.92%) Tanium
6 11 (2.14%) Cisco
7 10 (1.95%) IBM
8 9 (1.75%) Palo Alto
9 8 (1.56%) Qualys
10 7 (1.36%) Google
11 5 (0.97%) CyberArk
11 5 (0.97%) Juniper
11 5 (0.97%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.78%) iManage
12 4 (0.78%) Rapid7
13 3 (0.58%) AppDynamics
13 3 (0.58%) LogRhythm
13 3 (0.58%) New Relic
14 2 (0.39%) ArcSight
14 2 (0.39%) Varonis