Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Security Architect: $199K median posted pay.
From 13 salary bands employers posted on 36 open security architect roles in it & security. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 5 | — (3 of 8 bands) | — |
| Principal | 4 | — (4 of 8 bands) | — |
| Staff | 3 | — (0 of 8 bands) | — |
Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA | 2 | — |
| Capco | 2 | — |
| Spgi | 2 | — |
| Sonoma Consulting Inc. | 2 | — |
| PlayStation Global | 2 | — |
| Paloaltonetworks | 2 | — |
| Nttlimited | 2 | — |
| Vix Technology | 1 | — |
| SteerBridge | 1 | — |
| Ghr (Us Emplsv) | 1 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open security architect roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Cybersecurity | 28 | — |
| Cloud Infrastructure | 23 | — |
| Security Engineering | 15 | — |
| Secure Coding | 15 | — |
| Security Compliance Frameworks | 12 | — |
| Security Operations | 11 | — |
| Risk Management | 11 | — |
| SIEM Monitoring | 10 | — |
| Python | 10 | — |
| Infrastructure as Code | 10 | — |
Where the work is
3% of these roles are remote.
- Remote3%1 roles
- Hybrid8%3 roles
- On site61%22 roles
- Not stated28%10 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 36 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 17, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 13 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Security Architect (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in it & security, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.