Security Consultant
UK

The median Security Consultant salary in the UK is £69,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 545 426 734
Rank change year-on-year -119 +308 -183
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Consultant 389 747 530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.72% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.78% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 274 566 381
10th Percentile £50,000 £54,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -3.45% +7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £97,250 £87,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.14% +7.69% +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 92,813 95,219 148,250
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.52% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,625 59,878 85,347
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Consultant in the UK

Security Consultant
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Security Consultant in the UK

Security Consultant
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Consultant over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Consultant in the UK

Security Consultant
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England -47 354 £68,750 -1.79% 62
UK excluding London -115 251 £68,500 -2.14% 36
Work from Home -155 133 £72,500 +3.57% 34
South West +45 128 £68,500 -2.14% 5
London +23 107 £76,750 +9.64% 23
South East -18 43 £69,000 -1.43% 12
North of England -72 36 £55,000 -21.43% 9
Yorkshire +53 27 £55,000 -21.43% 5
East of England +17 16 £90,000 +28.57% 1
Midlands -12 13 £57,500 -21.23% 3
Scotland -105 13 £67,500 -3.57% 6
West Midlands +17 11 £55,000 -24.66% 3
North West -56 9 £69,500 -0.71% 4
Wales -1 2 £58,000 -17.14%
East Midlands -15 1 £60,000 -14.29%

Security Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Security 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 featuring Security Consultant in the job title.

1 286 (73.52%) Cybersecurity
2 185 (47.56%) Security Cleared
3 141 (36.25%) NIST
4 131 (33.68%) Risk Management
5 124 (31.88%) Information Security
6 107 (27.51%) CISSP
7 103 (26.48%) SC Cleared
8 86 (22.11%) Information Assurance
8 86 (22.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 84 (21.59%) CISM
10 78 (20.05%) Social Skills
11 71 (18.25%) Network Security
11 71 (18.25%) Security Architecture
12 70 (17.99%) Security Operations
13 65 (16.71%) CRISC
14 60 (15.42%) SIEM
15 59 (15.17%) Mentoring
15 59 (15.17%) DV Cleared
16 56 (14.40%) CESG Certified Professional
17 55 (14.14%) Operational Technology
18 53 (13.62%) Incident Management
18 53 (13.62%) Agile
19 48 (12.34%) Management Information System
20 45 (11.57%) Military
20 45 (11.57%) JSP 440
21 44 (11.31%) Incident Response
22 42 (10.80%) Vulnerability Management
23 40 (10.28%) Public Sector
24 39 (10.03%) NCSC
25 38 (9.77%) NIST 800

Security Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (3.08%) IIS
2 1 (0.26%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 7 (1.80%) SAP GRC
2 5 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.51%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.26%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 20 (5.14%) Azure
2 18 (4.63%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (3.60%) AWS
4 9 (2.31%) GCP
5 7 (1.80%) Entra ID
6 6 (1.54%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (1.03%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (1.03%) IaaS
7 4 (1.03%) SuccessFactors
8 3 (0.77%) PaaS
8 3 (0.77%) SaaS
9 1 (0.26%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.26%) Dropbox
9 1 (0.26%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 71 (18.25%) Network Security
2 18 (4.63%) Firewall
3 15 (3.86%) TCP/IP
4 8 (2.06%) Internet
5 7 (1.80%) VPN
6 6 (1.54%) Cisco Firepower
6 6 (1.54%) Cisco ISE
6 6 (1.54%) DNS
7 5 (1.29%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (1.03%) Wireless
9 3 (0.77%) LAN
9 3 (0.77%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.77%) WAN
9 3 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.51%) 5G
10 2 (0.51%) VoIP
11 1 (0.26%) BGP
11 1 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.26%) SAN
11 1 (0.26%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.77%) SAP BW
2 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.26%) Big Data
2 1 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.26%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 4 (1.03%) Burp Suite
2 3 (0.77%) Metasploit
General
1 78 (20.05%) Social Skills
2 45 (11.57%) Military
3 40 (10.28%) Public Sector
4 35 (9.00%) Finance
5 25 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.63%) Telecoms
7 13 (3.34%) Aerospace
8 11 (2.83%) Aviation
9 8 (2.06%) Law
9 8 (2.06%) Marketing
10 6 (1.54%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.77%) Retail
13 2 (0.51%) Advertising
13 2 (0.51%) Automotive
13 2 (0.51%) Games
13 2 (0.51%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.17%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (0.51%) Middleware
3 1 (0.26%) JWT
3 1 (0.26%) ModSecurity
3 1 (0.26%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 55 (14.14%) Operational Technology
2 48 (12.34%) Management Information System
3 33 (8.48%) Cyber Defence
3 33 (8.48%) Security Operations Centre
4 25 (6.43%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 16 (4.11%) CESG
5 16 (4.11%) Cyberattack
6 15 (3.86%) Security Posture
7 12 (3.08%) PKI
8 10 (2.57%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.80%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.80%) IoT
10 6 (1.54%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (1.03%) SCADA
13 2 (0.51%) Analytical Mindset
14 1 (0.26%) Cybercrime
14 1 (0.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 1 (0.26%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.03%) Android
1 4 (1.03%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.77%) Kali Linux
2 3 (0.77%) Linux
2 3 (0.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (73.52%) Cybersecurity
2 131 (33.68%) Risk Management
3 124 (31.88%) Information Security
4 86 (22.11%) Information Assurance
5 71 (18.25%) Security Architecture
6 70 (17.99%) Security Operations
7 60 (15.42%) SIEM
8 59 (15.17%) Mentoring
9 53 (13.62%) Agile
9 53 (13.62%) Incident Management
10 44 (11.31%) Incident Response
11 42 (10.80%) Vulnerability Management
12 34 (8.74%) Security Testing
13 30 (7.71%) Penetration Testing
13 30 (7.71%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (6.94%) Coaching
15 26 (6.68%) Analytics
16 25 (6.43%) Data Analytics
17 24 (6.17%) SABSA
18 23 (5.91%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (0.77%) JavaScript
1 3 (0.77%) Python
1 3 (0.77%) SQL
2 2 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (0.51%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.26%) Bash
3 1 (0.26%) C#
3 1 (0.26%) Dart
3 1 (0.26%) Go
3 1 (0.26%) Java
3 1 (0.26%) Kotlin
3 1 (0.26%) Lua
3 1 (0.26%) Objective-C
3 1 (0.26%) PHP
3 1 (0.26%) Ruby
3 1 (0.26%) Rust
3 1 (0.26%) Swift
Qualifications
1 185 (47.56%) Security Cleared
2 107 (27.51%) CISSP
3 103 (26.48%) SC Cleared
4 84 (21.59%) CISM
5 65 (16.71%) CRISC
6 59 (15.17%) DV Cleared
7 56 (14.40%) CESG Certified Professional
8 27 (6.94%) CISMP
9 24 (6.17%) Degree
10 23 (5.91%) CREST Certified
11 20 (5.14%) Cisco Certification
12 19 (4.88%) CEH
13 13 (3.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 13 (3.34%) CASP
13 13 (3.34%) CCNP
14 12 (3.08%) IISP
14 12 (3.08%) OSCP
15 11 (2.83%) CCSP
16 10 (2.57%) Master's Degree
16 10 (2.57%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (36.25%) NIST
2 86 (22.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 45 (11.57%) JSP 440
4 39 (10.03%) NCSC
5 38 (9.77%) NIST 800
6 33 (8.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 31 (7.97%) Cyber Essentials
7 31 (7.97%) GRC
8 29 (7.46%) RMADS
9 27 (6.94%) GDPR
10 14 (3.60%) PCI DSS
11 12 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 10 (2.57%) COBIT
13 7 (1.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (1.03%) ISO 9001
15 3 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 3 (0.77%) SOC 2
16 2 (0.51%) ISO 22301
16 2 (0.51%) ITGC
17 1 (0.26%) Def Stans
System Software
1 24 (6.17%) vSphere
2 1 (0.26%) Firmware
2 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.77%) Nessus
1 3 (0.77%) Nmap
2 1 (0.26%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (0.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.26%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (6.68%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.17%) SolarWinds
2 24 (6.17%) Tanium
2 24 (6.17%) Tripwire
3 16 (4.11%) Cisco
3 16 (4.11%) Fortinet
4 10 (2.57%) Palo Alto
4 10 (2.57%) SAP
5 7 (1.80%) CheckPoint
5 7 (1.80%) CrowdStrike
5 7 (1.80%) Netskope
5 7 (1.80%) Zscaler
6 6 (1.54%) Blue Coat
6 6 (1.54%) Symantec
7 3 (0.77%) Ariba
7 3 (0.77%) Aruba
7 3 (0.77%) Google
7 3 (0.77%) Meraki
7 3 (0.77%) Qualys
8 2 (0.51%) Splunk