Cybersecurity Consultant Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cybersecurity Consultant salary in the UK excluding London is £63,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 645 699 814
Rank change year-on-year +54 +115 -177
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Consultant 111 56 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.091% 0.045%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.10% 0.047%
Number of salaries quoted 54 48 30
10th Percentile £46,700 £51,271 £50,975
25th Percentile £50,313 £57,500 £56,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £70,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +9.38% -1.54%
75th Percentile £79,375 £77,500 £76,875
90th Percentile £97,250 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +7.69%

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 66,712 54,809 67,929
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.23% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,259 31,113 42,994
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +5.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Cybersecurity Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Consultant in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Consultant
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Consultant in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Consultant
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity Consultant in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Consultant
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 Cybersecurity Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South West +20 68 £62,500 -10.71% 2
South East +28 21 £65,000 +8.33% 8
Scotland -52 9 £67,050 -10.60% 2
North of England +45 5 £60,000 -22.58% 4
West Midlands +29 5 £55,000 -35.29% 1
Midlands +12 5 £55,000 -35.29% 1
Yorkshire - 3 £47,500 - 1
East of England +11 2 - - 1
North West +3 2 £69,500 -10.32% 3
Wales +11 1 - -
Cybersecurity Consultant
UK

Cybersecurity Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cybersecurity Consultant in the job title.

1 111 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 59 (53.15%) Risk Management
3 54 (48.65%) NIST
4 50 (45.05%) Security Cleared
5 34 (30.63%) JSP 440
5 34 (30.63%) Social Skills
6 30 (27.03%) Information Assurance
7 29 (26.13%) Information Security
7 29 (26.13%) Incident Management
8 27 (24.32%) Management Information System
8 27 (24.32%) Incident Response
9 23 (20.72%) CISMP
9 23 (20.72%) Security Operations
10 21 (18.92%) Mentoring
10 21 (18.92%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 20 (18.02%) Protective Monitoring
11 20 (18.02%) Business Development
11 20 (18.02%) Innovative Thinking
12 19 (17.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 18 (16.22%) NCSC
14 17 (15.32%) Matrix Organization
14 17 (15.32%) CISSP
15 16 (14.41%) Vulnerability Management
15 16 (14.41%) NIST 800
15 16 (14.41%) Creative Thinking
16 15 (13.51%) Public Sector
16 15 (13.51%) Network Security
16 15 (13.51%) Finance
16 15 (13.51%) CESG
17 14 (12.61%) SC Cleared

Cybersecurity Consultant 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (10.81%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 9 (8.11%) Azure
2 7 (6.31%) AWS
3 6 (5.41%) GCP
4 3 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (1.80%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.90%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (13.51%) Network Security
2 2 (1.80%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.90%) BGP
3 1 (0.90%) DNS
3 1 (0.90%) Firewall
3 1 (0.90%) Software-Defined Networking
General
1 34 (30.63%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.51%) Finance
2 15 (13.51%) Public Sector
3 12 (10.81%) Aerospace
3 12 (10.81%) Military
4 10 (9.01%) Aviation
5 3 (2.70%) Retail
6 1 (0.90%) Games
6 1 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.11%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 27 (24.32%) Management Information System
2 15 (13.51%) CESG
3 10 (9.01%) Operational Technology
4 9 (8.11%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 7 (6.31%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (5.41%) Data Centre
7 5 (4.50%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.80%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.90%) Blog
9 1 (0.90%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.90%) Insider Threat
9 1 (0.90%) YARA
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 59 (53.15%) Risk Management
3 30 (27.03%) Information Assurance
4 29 (26.13%) Incident Management
4 29 (26.13%) Information Security
5 27 (24.32%) Incident Response
6 23 (20.72%) Security Operations
7 21 (18.92%) Mentoring
8 20 (18.02%) Business Development
8 20 (18.02%) Innovative Thinking
8 20 (18.02%) Protective Monitoring
9 17 (15.32%) Matrix Organization
10 16 (14.41%) Creative Thinking
10 16 (14.41%) Vulnerability Management
11 11 (9.91%) Project Management
11 11 (9.91%) SIEM
12 10 (9.01%) Information Security Management
12 10 (9.01%) Penetration Testing
12 10 (9.01%) SABSA
12 10 (9.01%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 50 (45.05%) Security Cleared
2 23 (20.72%) CISMP
3 17 (15.32%) CISSP
4 14 (12.61%) CESG Certified Professional
4 14 (12.61%) SC Cleared
5 12 (10.81%) DV Cleared
5 12 (10.81%) IISP
6 10 (9.01%) Degree
7 7 (6.31%) CHECK Team Member
7 7 (6.31%) CISM
7 7 (6.31%) CREST Certified
7 7 (6.31%) OSCP
8 3 (2.70%) PCI QSA
9 2 (1.80%) CISA
9 2 (1.80%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.80%) ISACA
10 1 (0.90%) CCSK
10 1 (0.90%) GIAC
10 1 (0.90%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 1 (0.90%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (48.65%) NIST
2 34 (30.63%) JSP 440
3 21 (18.92%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 19 (17.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (16.22%) NCSC
6 16 (14.41%) NIST 800
7 14 (12.61%) RMADS
8 11 (9.91%) GRC
9 9 (8.11%) GDPR
10 8 (7.21%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (3.60%) COBIT
12 3 (2.70%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 9 (8.11%) vSphere
2 1 (0.90%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (0.90%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (0.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (8.11%) SolarWinds
1 9 (8.11%) Tanium
1 9 (8.11%) Tripwire
2 3 (2.70%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.80%) Palo Alto
4 1 (0.90%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (0.90%) Google
4 1 (0.90%) Netskope
4 1 (0.90%) QinetiQ
4 1 (0.90%) Thales
4 1 (0.90%) Zscaler