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 leading to 29 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 626 686 783
Rank change year-on-year +60 +97 +272
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Consultant 33 149 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.068% 0.17% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.18% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 12 89 100
10th Percentile £47,000 £49,750 £54,950
25th Percentile £60,500 £53,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £93,438 £95,000 £80,313
90th Percentile £118,750 £97,250 £92,750
UK median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% +7.14% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 44,066 84,104 79,158
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 94.65% 91.44%
Number of salaries quoted 23,206 62,399 50,596
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 May 2025.

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 May 2025. 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
London +89 29 £76,250 -15.28% 30
South West +49 2 £65,000 -18.75% 47
Midlands +56 1 £77,500 +40.91% 48
West Midlands +52 1 £77,500 +40.91% 26
North of England +37 1 £80,000 +33.33% 63
North West +6 1 £80,000 +15.11% 33
Cybersecurity Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 2025, 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 33 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 28 (84.85%) Business Development
3 27 (81.82%) CISM
3 27 (81.82%) CISSP
4 26 (78.79%) Social Skills
5 24 (72.73%) Life Science
6 22 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 21 (63.64%) Regulatory Compliance
8 5 (15.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (12.12%) NIST
10 3 (9.09%) Security Cleared
11 2 (6.06%) Mentoring
11 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
11 2 (6.06%) Presales
11 2 (6.06%) Risk Management
11 2 (6.06%) Finance
11 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
11 2 (6.06%) Retail
11 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
11 2 (6.06%) Vulnerability Management
11 2 (6.06%) GRC
12 1 (3.03%) Operational Technology
12 1 (3.03%) Project Delivery
12 1 (3.03%) SOAR
12 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
12 1 (3.03%) Roadmaps
12 1 (3.03%) Cloud Security
12 1 (3.03%) CEH
12 1 (3.03%) Vulnerability Assessment
12 1 (3.03%) Google

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (3.03%) AWS
1 1 (3.03%) Azure
1 1 (3.03%) GCP
General
1 26 (78.79%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (6.06%) Finance
2 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
2 2 (6.06%) Retail
3 1 (3.03%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 24 (72.73%) Life Science
2 1 (3.03%) Blog
2 1 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (3.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (3.03%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (3.03%) IoT
2 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.03%) Operational Technology
2 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 28 (84.85%) Business Development
3 22 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 21 (63.64%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (6.06%) Mentoring
5 2 (6.06%) Presales
5 2 (6.06%) Risk Management
5 2 (6.06%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (3.03%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 1 (3.03%) Digital Forensics
6 1 (3.03%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (3.03%) Incident Management
6 1 (3.03%) Information Assurance
6 1 (3.03%) ITIL
6 1 (3.03%) Security Architecture
6 1 (3.03%) Security Management
6 1 (3.03%) Service Delivery
6 1 (3.03%) SIEM
6 1 (3.03%) Threat Intelligence
6 1 (3.03%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 27 (81.82%) CISM
1 27 (81.82%) CISSP
2 3 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.03%) CEH
4 1 (3.03%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (12.12%) NIST
3 2 (6.06%) GRC
4 1 (3.03%) GDPR
4 1 (3.03%) JSP 440
4 1 (3.03%) NCSC
Vendors
1 1 (3.03%) Cisco
1 1 (3.03%) Google
1 1 (3.03%) Juniper
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft
1 1 (3.03%) Palo Alto
1 1 (3.03%) Qualys