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 £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 22 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
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 645 705 819
Rank change year-on-year +60 +114 -176
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Consultant 114 57 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.097% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.11% 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 54 50 25
10th Percentile £48,425 £53,757 £51,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +11.11% -1.18%
75th Percentile £83,250 £77,500 £77,500
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 68,121 52,440 69,419
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.17% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 48,105 29,890 42,562
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 22 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 22 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 +29 68 £70,000 - 5
South East +16 22 £65,000 +1.96% 2
Scotland -56 9 £67,050 -4.21%
North of England +65 7 £60,000 -14.29% 5
West Midlands +12 5 £55,000 -35.29% 1
Midlands -7 5 £55,000 -35.29% 1
Yorkshire - 5 £55,000 - 2
North West +7 2 £69,500 -0.71% 3
East of England +6 2 - -
Wales +12 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 22 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.

1 114 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 60 (52.63%) Risk Management
3 54 (47.37%) NIST
4 50 (43.86%) Security Cleared
5 36 (31.58%) Social Skills
6 34 (29.82%) JSP 440
7 31 (27.19%) Incident Management
8 30 (26.32%) Information Assurance
9 29 (25.44%) Information Security
9 29 (25.44%) Incident Response
10 28 (24.56%) Management Information System
11 23 (20.18%) CISMP
12 22 (19.30%) Security Operations
13 21 (18.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 21 (18.42%) Mentoring
14 20 (17.54%) Protective Monitoring
14 20 (17.54%) Business Development
14 20 (17.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 20 (17.54%) Innovative Thinking
15 18 (15.79%) CISSP
15 18 (15.79%) Vulnerability Management
16 17 (14.91%) Network Security
16 17 (14.91%) Finance
16 17 (14.91%) Matrix Organization
17 16 (14.04%) NIST 800
17 16 (14.04%) Creative Thinking
17 16 (14.04%) NCSC
18 15 (13.16%) Public Sector
18 15 (13.16%) CESG
19 14 (12.28%) DV 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 (10.53%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 10 (8.77%) Azure
2 7 (6.14%) AWS
3 6 (5.26%) GCP
4 3 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (14.91%) Network Security
2 2 (1.75%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.88%) BGP
3 1 (0.88%) DNS
3 1 (0.88%) Firewall
3 1 (0.88%) Software-Defined Networking
General
1 36 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 17 (14.91%) Finance
3 15 (13.16%) Public Sector
4 12 (10.53%) Aerospace
4 12 (10.53%) Military
5 10 (8.77%) Aviation
6 3 (2.63%) Retail
7 2 (1.75%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.75%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.88%) Electronics
8 1 (0.88%) Games
8 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.88%) Legal
8 1 (0.88%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.65%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 28 (24.56%) Management Information System
2 15 (13.16%) CESG
3 11 (9.65%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 9 (7.89%) Operational Technology
5 7 (6.14%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (5.26%) Data Centre
7 5 (4.39%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.88%) Blog
9 1 (0.88%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.88%) Insider Threat
9 1 (0.88%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.88%) Linux
1 1 (0.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 60 (52.63%) Risk Management
3 31 (27.19%) Incident Management
4 30 (26.32%) Information Assurance
5 29 (25.44%) Incident Response
5 29 (25.44%) Information Security
6 22 (19.30%) Security Operations
7 21 (18.42%) Mentoring
8 20 (17.54%) Business Development
8 20 (17.54%) Innovative Thinking
8 20 (17.54%) Protective Monitoring
9 18 (15.79%) Vulnerability Management
10 17 (14.91%) Matrix Organization
11 16 (14.04%) Creative Thinking
12 13 (11.40%) SIEM
13 12 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 11 (9.65%) Analytics
14 11 (9.65%) Computer Science
14 11 (9.65%) Data Analytics
14 11 (9.65%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 50 (43.86%) Security Cleared
2 23 (20.18%) CISMP
3 18 (15.79%) CISSP
4 14 (12.28%) CESG Certified Professional
4 14 (12.28%) DV Cleared
5 13 (11.40%) SC Cleared
6 12 (10.53%) IISP
7 11 (9.65%) Degree
8 8 (7.02%) CHECK Team Member
8 8 (7.02%) CISM
8 8 (7.02%) OSCP
9 7 (6.14%) CREST Certified
10 3 (2.63%) PCI QSA
11 2 (1.75%) CISA
11 2 (1.75%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (1.75%) ISACA
12 1 (0.88%) CCSK
12 1 (0.88%) GCFE
12 1 (0.88%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 1 (0.88%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (47.37%) NIST
2 34 (29.82%) JSP 440
3 21 (18.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 20 (17.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (14.04%) NCSC
5 16 (14.04%) NIST 800
6 13 (11.40%) RMADS
7 11 (9.65%) GRC
8 9 (7.89%) GDPR
9 8 (7.02%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (3.51%) COBIT
11 3 (2.63%) PCI DSS
12 2 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 11 (9.65%) vSphere
2 1 (0.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (0.88%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (0.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (9.65%) SolarWinds
1 11 (9.65%) Tanium
1 11 (9.65%) Tripwire
2 3 (2.63%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.75%) Palo Alto
4 1 (0.88%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (0.88%) Google
4 1 (0.88%) Netskope
4 1 (0.88%) QinetiQ
4 1 (0.88%) SAP
4 1 (0.88%) Thales
4 1 (0.88%) Zscaler