Cybersecurity Consultant Jobs in England

Cybersecurity Consultant
UK > England

The median Cybersecurity Consultant salary in England is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 678 809 1022
Rank change year-on-year +131 +213 -256
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Consultant 155 135 121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.15% 0.092%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.16% 0.095%
Number of salaries quoted 97 102 105
10th Percentile £49,500 £56,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £56,126
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,250 £92,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,360 84,735 126,842
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 91.51% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 60,202 53,671 75,665
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,160 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,225 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% - +9.09%

Cybersecurity Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Consultant in England

Cybersecurity Consultant
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Consultant in England.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Consultant in England

Cybersecurity Consultant
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Consultant in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity Consultant in England

Cybersecurity Consultant
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Consultant within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
South West +31 69 £62,500 -10.71% 3
London +111 50 £85,000 +30.77% 6
South East +13 21 £65,000 +8.33% 9
West Midlands +36 6 £55,000 -35.29% 1
Midlands +20 6 £55,000 -35.29% 1
North of England +30 5 £60,000 -29.41% 3
Yorkshire - 3 £47,500 -
East of England +11 2 - - 1
North West +3 2 £69,500 -18.24% 3
Cybersecurity Consultant
UK

Cybersecurity Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Cybersecurity Consultant 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 England region featuring Cybersecurity Consultant in the job title.

1 155 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 87 (56.13%) Security Cleared
3 66 (42.58%) NIST
4 58 (37.42%) Risk Management
5 49 (31.61%) Social Skills
6 48 (30.97%) Information Security
7 44 (28.39%) Incident Management
8 40 (25.81%) Security Operations
9 39 (25.16%) SIEM
10 35 (22.58%) JSP 440
11 34 (21.94%) DV Cleared
12 33 (21.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 33 (21.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 33 (21.29%) Incident Response
13 32 (20.65%) Security Architecture
14 31 (20.00%) Information Assurance
14 31 (20.00%) Network Security
14 31 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
15 27 (17.42%) CISMP
15 27 (17.42%) Public Sector
16 26 (16.77%) Military
16 26 (16.77%) Management Information System
16 26 (16.77%) SC Cleared
17 25 (16.13%) Business Development
17 25 (16.13%) Analytics
18 24 (15.48%) Cyber Kill Chain
18 24 (15.48%) Tanium
18 24 (15.48%) Elastic Stack
18 24 (15.48%) Agile
18 24 (15.48%) Tripwire

Cybersecurity Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 12 (7.74%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 12 (7.74%) Azure
2 8 (5.16%) AWS
3 7 (4.52%) GCP
4 3 (1.94%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.65%) Google Analytics
5 1 (0.65%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (20.00%) Network Security
2 11 (7.10%) Firewall
3 2 (1.29%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.65%) BGP
4 1 (0.65%) DNS
4 1 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
General
1 49 (31.61%) Social Skills
2 27 (17.42%) Public Sector
3 26 (16.77%) Military
4 16 (10.32%) Finance
5 10 (6.45%) Aerospace
5 10 (6.45%) Aviation
6 3 (1.94%) Marketing
7 2 (1.29%) Law
7 2 (1.29%) Police
7 2 (1.29%) Retail
8 1 (0.65%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.65%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Games
8 1 (0.65%) Local Government
8 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (15.48%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.77%) Management Information System
2 24 (15.48%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 15 (9.68%) CESG
3 15 (9.68%) Cyber Defence
3 15 (9.68%) Operational Technology
3 15 (9.68%) Security Operations Centre
4 12 (7.74%) Cyberattack
5 10 (6.45%) PKI
6 8 (5.16%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.87%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.29%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.65%) Blog
9 1 (0.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.65%) Insider Threat
9 1 (0.65%) SCADA
9 1 (0.65%) YARA
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 58 (37.42%) Risk Management
3 48 (30.97%) Information Security
4 44 (28.39%) Incident Management
5 40 (25.81%) Security Operations
6 39 (25.16%) SIEM
7 33 (21.29%) Incident Response
8 32 (20.65%) Security Architecture
9 31 (20.00%) Information Assurance
9 31 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
10 25 (16.13%) Analytics
10 25 (16.13%) Business Development
11 24 (15.48%) Agile
11 24 (15.48%) Data Analytics
12 23 (14.84%) Mentoring
13 21 (13.55%) SABSA
14 20 (12.90%) Innovative Thinking
14 20 (12.90%) Protective Monitoring
15 18 (11.61%) TOGAF
16 16 (10.32%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 87 (56.13%) Security Cleared
2 34 (21.94%) DV Cleared
3 27 (17.42%) CISMP
4 26 (16.77%) SC Cleared
5 23 (14.84%) CISSP
6 19 (12.26%) Degree
7 16 (10.32%) CESG Certified Professional
8 14 (9.03%) CREST Certified
9 12 (7.74%) IISP
10 11 (7.10%) CISM
11 10 (6.45%) Master's Degree
12 7 (4.52%) CHECK Team Member
12 7 (4.52%) OSCP
13 6 (3.87%) CRISC
14 4 (2.58%) Cyber Scheme
15 3 (1.94%) PCI QSA
16 2 (1.29%) CISA
16 2 (1.29%) CompTIA Security+
16 2 (1.29%) ISACA
17 1 (0.65%) GCFE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (42.58%) NIST
2 35 (22.58%) JSP 440
3 33 (21.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 33 (21.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (10.32%) NIST 800
4 16 (10.32%) RMADS
5 13 (8.39%) NCSC
6 11 (7.10%) GRC
7 9 (5.81%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (3.23%) GDPR
9 4 (2.58%) COBIT
10 3 (1.94%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 24 (15.48%) vSphere
2 1 (0.65%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (0.65%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (0.65%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 24 (15.48%) SolarWinds
1 24 (15.48%) Tanium
1 24 (15.48%) Tripwire
2 4 (2.58%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.29%) Google
3 2 (1.29%) Palo Alto
3 2 (1.29%) Splunk
4 1 (0.65%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (0.65%) Netskope
4 1 (0.65%) QinetiQ
4 1 (0.65%) Zscaler