The first table below looks at the demand for the Security Consultant role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Security Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Consultant
Rank 431 474 438
Rank change year-on-year
+43 -36
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Consultant 526 491 564
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.483% 0.407% 0.439%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.512% 0.429% 0.467%
Number of salaries quoted 399 394 449
Average salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
90% offered a salary of more than £43,000 £42,500 £42,500
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £70,000 £65,500
UK excluding London average salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102828 114458 120840
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.40% 94.97% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 85533 98230 102542
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%

Security Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Security Consultant within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Security Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Security Consultant
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Security Consultant within the UK.

Security Consultant Salary Trend

Security Consultant
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Security Consultant over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 within the UK.

Security Consultant Salary Histogram

Security Consultant
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Consultant within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +40 485 £55,000 - 40
London +73 201 £60,000 -4.00% 13
South East -35 107 £50,000 -9.09% 11
South West +11 46 £50,000 -9.09% 4
Berkshire -9 45 £50,000 -9.09% 4
Yorkshire +31 39 £45,000 -30.76% 1
North West +13 37 £55,000 +7.31% 7
Reading -13 31 £52,500 -4.54% 1
Gloucestershire +18 25 £50,000 -9.09% 2
Hampshire -21 24 £55,000 - 1
West Yorkshire +8 23 £32,500 -50.00% 1
Surrey -5 22 £48,750 -11.36% 5
Bristol +4 19 £45,000 -7.69% 1
Manchester -7 18 £49,000 +15.29% 4
Gloucester +10 14 £50,000 -9.09%
North Yorkshire +10 14 £61,250 -5.76%
City of London -7 14 £64,000 +2.40% 5
York +14 13 £60,000 -7.69%
Cheshire +16 12 £55,000 -13.38% 2
Basingstoke -9 11 - -
West Midlands -18 11 £50,000 -9.09%
Cheltenham +19 10 £71,500 +33.02% 1
Guildford +1 10 £64,000 +16.36% 4
East Midlands +13 8 £55,000 +37.50% 1
East of England -17 7 £58,000 +34.88%
Aldershot - 7 £55,000 -
Oxfordshire -15 5 £51,250 - 1
Birmingham -21 5 £65,000 +18.18%
Scotland +10 4 £57,500 +21.05% 1
Bedfordshire -7 4 £58,000 -17.14%

Security Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Security Consultant in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Security Consultant in their job title.

1 504 (51.91%) Information Security
2 321 (33.06%) CISSP
3 302 (31.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 233 (24.00%) Network Security
5 201 (20.70%) CISM
6 195 (20.08%) CheckPoint
7 192 (19.77%) PCI DSS
8 190 (19.57%) Security Cleared
9 184 (18.95%) Cisco
10 175 (18.02%) Firewall
11 166 (17.10%) Finance
12 156 (16.07%) CISA
13 134 (13.80%) Juniper
14 128 (13.18%) Degree
15 122 (12.56%) Security Management
16 118 (12.15%) Risk Management
17 117 (12.05%) SC Cleared
18 116 (11.95%) Penetration Testing
19 115 (11.84%) Project Management
20 102 (10.50%) Management Information System
21 99 (10.20%) Security Architecture
22 98 (10.09%) Cisco Certification
23 92 (9.475%) Information Assurance
24 75 (7.724%) ITIL
24 75 (7.724%) Risk Assessment
25 73 (7.518%) Cisco ASA
26 72 (7.415%) Windows
27 69 (7.106%) SIEM
28 67 (6.900%) Fortinet
29 66 (6.797%) Information Security Management

Security Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Security Consultant in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Security Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (1.545%) .NET
2 11 (1.133%) JSP
3 8 (0.824%) BAPI
4 3 (0.309%) ASP
5 2 (0.206%) Regular Expression
5 2 (0.206%) OpenID
5 2 (0.206%) Java EE
5 2 (0.206%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.206%) Spring
5 2 (0.206%) SAML
5 2 (0.206%) Web Services
5 2 (0.206%) HTML
6 1 (0.103%) SAP XI
6 1 (0.103%) XML
6 1 (0.103%) ODBC
6 1 (0.103%) CSS
6 1 (0.103%) SOAP
6 1 (0.103%) Middleware
6 1 (0.103%) Ajax
6 1 (0.103%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 27 (2.781%) IIS
2 11 (1.133%) Apache
3 5 (0.515%) Tomcat
3 5 (0.515%) SAS
4 4 (0.412%) NetWeaver
5 3 (0.309%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.309%) SAP Portal
6 2 (0.206%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.103%) IBM Notes
7 1 (0.103%) CICS
7 1 (0.103%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 23 (2.369%) MS Excel
2 3 (0.309%) MS Office
3 1 (0.103%) MS Project
3 1 (0.103%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 30 (3.090%) SAP GRC
2 14 (1.442%) SAP FI
3 8 (0.824%) SAP CO
3 8 (0.824%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.309%) SAP HR
4 3 (0.309%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.103%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.103%) SAP R/3
5 1 (0.103%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.103%) SAP GTS
Communications & Networking
1 233 (24.00%) Network Security
2 175 (18.02%) Firewall
3 73 (7.518%) Cisco ASA
4 52 (5.355%) TCP/IP
5 48 (4.943%) VPN
6 46 (4.737%) LAN
7 36 (3.708%) Intrusion Detection
7 36 (3.708%) Wireless
7 36 (3.708%) WAN
8 35 (3.605%) WLAN
9 34 (3.502%) Cisco PIX
10 27 (2.781%) Cisco Nexus
11 24 (2.472%) Internet
12 17 (1.751%) DNS
12 17 (1.751%) Unified Communications
13 15 (1.545%) MPLS
14 14 (1.442%) OSPF
14 14 (1.442%) BGP
15 10 (1.030%) Junos
16 9 (0.927%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (0.824%) SAP BW
2 5 (0.515%) SQL Server
2 5 (0.515%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (0.206%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 11 (1.133%) Metasploit
2 5 (0.515%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (0.412%) SilkTest
3 4 (0.412%) QuickTest Pro
3 4 (0.412%) LoadRunner
4 2 (0.206%) AppScan
General
1 166 (17.10%) Finance
2 50 (5.149%) Telecoms
3 41 (4.222%) Banking
4 32 (3.296%) Aerospace
5 26 (2.678%) Retail
6 18 (1.854%) Legal
7 13 (1.339%) Military
8 12 (1.236%) Electronics
9 11 (1.133%) Law
10 10 (1.030%) Manufacturing
11 7 (0.721%) Local Government
12 6 (0.618%) Marketing
12 6 (0.618%) Back Office
13 5 (0.515%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.515%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.309%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.206%) French Language
15 2 (0.206%) Publishing
16 1 (0.103%) Advertising
16 1 (0.103%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 102 (10.50%) Management Information System
2 52 (5.355%) RMADS
3 46 (4.737%) Cryptography
4 45 (4.634%) PKI
5 28 (2.884%) Data Protection Act
6 25 (2.575%) CESG
7 24 (2.472%) CESG CLAS
8 17 (1.751%) Mathematics
9 15 (1.545%) Blog
10 9 (0.927%) Computer Science
11 7 (0.721%) SaaS
11 7 (0.721%) Mobile App
12 6 (0.618%) Statistics
13 5 (0.515%) Chip and PIN
13 5 (0.515%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (0.515%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (0.412%) Digital Media
14 4 (0.412%) Client/Server
14 4 (0.412%) Mainframe
15 2 (0.206%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 72 (7.415%) Windows
2 40 (4.119%) UNIX
3 27 (2.781%) Linux
4 13 (1.339%) Windows Server 2008
5 10 (1.030%) Android
5 10 (1.030%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.721%) Windows XP
6 7 (0.721%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (0.618%) AIX
8 5 (0.515%) Windows 7
9 3 (0.309%) Solaris
10 1 (0.103%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 504 (51.91%) Information Security
2 122 (12.56%) Security Management
3 118 (12.15%) Risk Management
4 116 (11.95%) Penetration Testing
5 115 (11.84%) Project Management
6 99 (10.20%) Security Architecture
7 92 (9.475%) Information Assurance
8 75 (7.724%) ITIL
8 75 (7.724%) Risk Assessment
9 69 (7.106%) SIEM
10 66 (6.797%) Information Security Management
11 63 (6.488%) Stakeholder Management
12 60 (6.179%) ISMS
13 59 (6.076%) Data Protection
14 57 (5.870%) Cyber Security
15 56 (5.767%) SAP Security
16 51 (5.252%) Business Continuity
17 47 (4.840%) Service Management
18 38 (3.913%) Vulnerability Assessment
19 37 (3.811%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 28 (2.884%) Java
2 15 (1.545%) C
3 9 (0.927%) SQL
4 6 (0.618%) Perl
5 4 (0.412%) PHP
6 3 (0.309%) C++
6 3 (0.309%) VB.NET
7 2 (0.206%) Bourne shell
7 2 (0.206%) Ruby
7 2 (0.206%) Korn
7 2 (0.206%) Python
7 2 (0.206%) VBScript
8 1 (0.103%) VB6
8 1 (0.103%) VB
8 1 (0.103%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.103%) ABAP
8 1 (0.103%) Bash shell
8 1 (0.103%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 321 (33.06%) CISSP
2 201 (20.70%) CISM
3 190 (19.57%) Security Cleared
4 156 (16.07%) CISA
5 128 (13.18%) Degree
6 117 (12.05%) SC Cleared
7 98 (10.09%) Cisco Certification
8 59 (6.076%) CCNP
9 56 (5.767%) PCI QSA
10 46 (4.737%) DV Cleared
11 45 (4.634%) CCSA
12 44 (4.531%) CCSE
13 32 (3.296%) CCIE
14 31 (3.193%) CEH
15 29 (2.987%) Check Point Certification
16 25 (2.575%) CCNA
17 22 (2.266%) CCSP
17 22 (2.266%) CRISC
18 18 (1.854%) SSCP
19 17 (1.751%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 302 (31.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 192 (19.77%) PCI DSS
3 40 (4.119%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 25 (2.575%) JSP 440
5 23 (2.369%) COBIT
6 18 (1.854%) BS7799
7 10 (1.030%) ISO 9001
8 8 (0.824%) ISO/IEC 17799
9 7 (0.721%) SLA
10 5 (0.515%) QA
10 5 (0.515%) HMG Infosec
11 4 (0.412%) ISO 9002
12 3 (0.309%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.103%) Basel II
System Software
1 27 (2.781%) Active Directory
2 21 (2.163%) Forefront TMG
3 20 (2.060%) UAG
4 15 (1.545%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.618%) Snort
6 4 (0.412%) Nmap
6 4 (0.412%) ISA Server
6 4 (0.412%) VMware ESX
6 4 (0.412%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.103%) RACF
7 1 (0.103%) vSphere
7 1 (0.103%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 1 (0.103%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 12 (1.236%) Nessus
2 8 (0.824%) Tivoli
3 7 (0.721%) CORE IMPACT
4 4 (0.412%) HP Quality Center
5 3 (0.309%) MIIS
5 3 (0.309%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.206%) AppDetective
7 1 (0.103%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 1 (0.103%) WebInspect
7 1 (0.103%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 195 (20.08%) CheckPoint
2 184 (18.95%) Cisco
3 134 (13.80%) Juniper
4 67 (6.900%) Fortinet
5 58 (5.973%) Microsoft
5 58 (5.973%) Blue Coat
6 57 (5.870%) SAP
7 45 (4.634%) McAfee
8 42 (4.325%) HP
9 37 (3.811%) F5
10 33 (3.399%) IBM
11 30 (3.090%) Sourcefire
12 26 (2.678%) Websense
13 25 (2.575%) Oracle
14 23 (2.369%) Symantec
15 22 (2.266%) ArcSight
16 16 (1.648%) ProCurve
16 16 (1.648%) VMware
17 14 (1.442%) Twitter
17 14 (1.442%) Tripwire
Berkshire
Your role will be to participate in teh delivery of consultancy assignments in Information and Technical Security projects. At least 3 years experience in customer facing support, presales...
OSM Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + company benefits
Posted: 15 June 2013
Guildford, Surrey
I am looking for an experienced ISO27001 Information Security Consultant with exceptional client facing and technical skills... You should hold the relevant qualifications, CISSP, CISM, CLAS or equivalent,...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £45000.00 - £55000.00 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 12 June 2013
Guildford, South East
I am looking for an experienced ISO27001 Information Security Consultant with exceptional client facing and technical skills... You should hold the relevant qualifications, CISSP, CISM, CLAS or equivalent,...
JAM
Salary: £45000.00 - £55000.00 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 12 June 2013
Guildford, Surrey
They have a proven track record within a wide variety of public secotr agencies and due to expansion this company is looking for an Information Security Consultant. You...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £45000.00 - £55000.00 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 17 June 2013
Guildford, South East
They have a proven track record within a wide variety of public secotr agencies and due to expansion this company is looking for an Information Security Consultant. YouAs...
JAM
Salary: £45000.00 - £55000.00 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
Experis IT
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: Up to 45K +
Posted: 14 June 2013
Gloucestershire
Alderbridge Network Recruitment
Salary: Up to £60,000 per annum to £60k+ + car allowance + benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Head Resourcing
Salary: £40000 - £56000 per annum + Excellent package
Posted: 13 June 2013
Surrey
Experis IT
Salary: £45000 - £65000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Berkshire
Advanced Resource Managers
Salary: £38000.0000 - £42500.0000 per annum + + Car Allowance + Bonus
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: Up to £55,000 per annum + Banking Bonus and Flexible Benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: Up to 70K + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Lorien Resourcing
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
Lorien Resourcing
Posted: 14 June 2013
Oxfordshire
Experis IT
Salary: £60000 - £80000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
Acumin
Salary: From £50,000 to £65,000 per annum Benefits package
Posted: 13 June 2013
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 50,000 + benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Bristol, South West
Williams McKinley Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 25 May 2013
Berkshire
Lawrence Harvey IT & Change
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
Cornucopia IT Resourcing Limited
Salary: £50000 - £70000 per annum + Car allowance + Pension + Bonus
Posted: 4 June 2013
Bournemouth, Dorset
Circle Recruitment
Salary: Market rates+bens
Posted: 12 June 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Proprius Recruitment
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum + Bonus + Bens
Posted: 14 June 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Proprius Recruitment
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum +Excellent Bens
Posted: 14 June 2013
England
Harrington Boyd
Salary: £31000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
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