Security Architect: market
A Security Architect designs the security of systems and the whole infrastructure: threat models, access and segmentation architecture, data-protection requirements and the standards teams follow. We currently track 381 open positions for this role, 376 of them fresh. Postings expect extensive security experience, cloud and network architecture, IAM and Zero Trust, standards (ISO 27001, NIST), threat modeling and defending decisions before the business. By co-occurrence in requirements, AWS, Azure, DevSecOps and GCP appear most often. 33% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is a live slice of the Security Architect market: geography, seniority, adjacent stack and sources.
The Security Architect market currently has 381 open roles, 376 of them freshly observed. Median salary $8,750/mo.
33% of Security Architect postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the format.
⚠ salary known for 47 of 381 jobs; remote share from 344 with a stated format; 376 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Timeline: postings and sources
How many Security Architect postings appeared each week since 4 May, and from how many sources. The second line separates market growth from coverage growth: a jump in the week new sources were connected means we started seeing more, not that the market grew.
New postings and active sources per week
Sources over the period: 76
New sources connected: 11 May +4 · 25 May +2 · 1 Jun +2 · 8 Jun +1 · 15 Jun +2 · 22 Jun +3 · 29 Jun +6 · 6 Jul +11 · 13 Jul +9 · 20 Jul +2 · 27 Jul +2 · 3 Aug +4 · 17 Aug +1 · 31 Aug +3 · 7 Sept +3 · 14 Sept +4 · 21 Sept +8 · 28 Sept +2 · 5 Oct +1 · 12 Oct +3
Week = posting first-seen date, all statuses; postings are selected by the same rule as this page's counter. Sources are distinct collection channels; their names are not published.
Remote work over time
Share of Security Architect postings offering fully remote work, per week.
Remote postings, %
The share is among postings that state a format (remote, hybrid, office). Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank.
Technologies over time
How the share of Security Architect postings mentioning each of the top technologies changed.
Postings mentioning the technology, %
Share among postings with a tagged stack; the series starts on 10 Aug: earlier stack tags were assigned differently. Weeks with fewer than 20 tagged postings are left blank.
Countries over time
How the share of Security Architect postings in each of the top countries changed, per week.
Postings in the country, %
Share among postings with a known country; the chart shows the five countries with the most postings over six months. Weeks with fewer than 20 postings with a known country are left blank. A rising share can mean a newly connected source in that country rather than market growth.
Demand and observed supply: Security Architect
| Open demand | 381 |
| Observed supply | — not published |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution: Security Architect
One in ten earns under $5,253, one in ten over $21,172. Half the market falls between $6,829 and $15,833. Sample: 47.
The range histogram for Security Architect uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
Demand geography: Security Architect
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| US | 100 |
| GB | 78 |
| PL | 42 |
| IN | 27 |
| DE | 12 |
| SG | 7 |
| IE | 7 |
| PT | 6 |
| SA | 6 |
| IL | 6 |
The top country for Security Architect demand is the US (100 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
In Security Architect requirements the most frequently named skills and technologies are AWS, Azure, DevSecOps and GCP.
Demand by grade: Security Architect
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 135 |
| principal | 40 |
| lead | 37 |
| middle | 5 |
| junior | 1 |
Senior-and-above is about 97% of 218 Security Architect postings with an explicit grade.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers: Security Architect
Demand is spread across 258 employers. The largest accounts for 2.1%, the top ten for 15.9%; the remaining 84.1% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 2.1% |
| top-3 | 5.9% |
| top-10 | 15.9% |
| long tail | 84.1% |
Security Architect openings come from 258 distinct employers; the largest one accounts for only 2.1% of postings — the market is not tied to a single hirer.
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 45 sources; the largest accounts for 15.8% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Security Architect postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
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Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 8.
Data as of 2026-10-23
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the Security Architect role — short answers from the same data slice.
What does a Security Architect do?
A Security Architect designs the security of systems and the whole infrastructure: threat models, access and segmentation architecture, data-protection requirements and the standards teams follow.
Which skills do Security Architect postings require?
Postings expect extensive security experience, cloud and network architecture, IAM and Zero Trust, standards (ISO 27001, NIST), threat modeling and defending decisions before the business. In the current slice, AWS, Azure, DevSecOps and GCP appear in requirements most often.
How do people become Security Architects?
Usually after several years in security engineering (cloud, network or application): the role requires seeing the whole system and understanding the cost of every control.
How remote-friendly are Security Architect jobs?
33% of postings with an explicit format allow fully remote work; the slice tracks 381 open positions.
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