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 to 30 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 669 815 1023
Rank change year-on-year +146 +208 -234
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Consultant 154 135 121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.15% 0.092%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.16% 0.095%
Number of salaries quoted 96 102 105
10th Percentile £49,375 £56,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £53,438 £57,500 £56,126
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,250 £92,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 80,480 84,673 126,830
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 60,246 53,649 75,658
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,635 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.45% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% - +9.09%

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 30 April 2024.

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 30 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
South West +38 69 £62,500 -10.71% 2
London +112 50 £85,000 +30.77% 7
South East +24 21 £65,000 +8.33% 9
North of England +39 5 £60,000 -29.41% 3
West Midlands +25 5 £55,000 -35.29% 1
Midlands +1 5 £55,000 -35.29% 1
Yorkshire - 3 £47,500 -
North West +9 2 £69,500 -18.24% 3
East of England +9 2 - - 1
Cybersecurity Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 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 England region featuring Cybersecurity Consultant in the job title.

1 154 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 86 (55.84%) Security Cleared
3 65 (42.21%) NIST
4 57 (37.01%) Risk Management
5 48 (31.17%) Information Security
5 48 (31.17%) Social Skills
6 44 (28.57%) Incident Management
7 40 (25.97%) Security Operations
8 39 (25.32%) SIEM
9 35 (22.73%) JSP 440
10 34 (22.08%) DV Cleared
11 33 (21.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 33 (21.43%) Incident Response
12 32 (20.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 31 (20.13%) Security Architecture
13 31 (20.13%) Network Security
13 31 (20.13%) Information Assurance
13 31 (20.13%) Vulnerability Management
14 27 (17.53%) CISMP
14 27 (17.53%) Public Sector
15 26 (16.88%) Military
15 26 (16.88%) Management Information System
16 25 (16.23%) Analytics
16 25 (16.23%) SC Cleared
16 25 (16.23%) Business Development
17 24 (15.58%) Cyber Kill Chain
17 24 (15.58%) Tanium
17 24 (15.58%) Elastic Stack
17 24 (15.58%) SolarWinds
17 24 (15.58%) Data Analytics

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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (7.79%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 12 (7.79%) Azure
2 8 (5.19%) AWS
3 7 (4.55%) GCP
4 3 (1.95%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (1.95%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.65%) Google Analytics
5 1 (0.65%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (20.13%) Network Security
2 11 (7.14%) Firewall
3 2 (1.30%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.65%) BGP
4 1 (0.65%) DNS
4 1 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
General
1 48 (31.17%) Social Skills
2 27 (17.53%) Public Sector
3 26 (16.88%) Military
4 16 (10.39%) Finance
5 10 (6.49%) Aerospace
5 10 (6.49%) Aviation
6 3 (1.95%) Marketing
7 2 (1.30%) Law
7 2 (1.30%) Police
7 2 (1.30%) Retail
8 1 (0.65%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.65%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Games
8 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (15.58%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.88%) Management Information System
2 24 (15.58%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 15 (9.74%) CESG
3 15 (9.74%) Cyber Defence
3 15 (9.74%) Operational Technology
3 15 (9.74%) Security Operations Centre
4 12 (7.79%) Cyberattack
5 10 (6.49%) PKI
6 8 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.90%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.30%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.65%) Blog
9 1 (0.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.65%) Insider Threat
9 1 (0.65%) SCADA
9 1 (0.65%) YARA
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 57 (37.01%) Risk Management
3 48 (31.17%) Information Security
4 44 (28.57%) Incident Management
5 40 (25.97%) Security Operations
6 39 (25.32%) SIEM
7 33 (21.43%) Incident Response
8 31 (20.13%) Information Assurance
8 31 (20.13%) Security Architecture
8 31 (20.13%) Vulnerability Management
9 25 (16.23%) Analytics
9 25 (16.23%) Business Development
10 24 (15.58%) Agile
10 24 (15.58%) Data Analytics
11 23 (14.94%) Mentoring
12 21 (13.64%) SABSA
13 20 (12.99%) Innovative Thinking
13 20 (12.99%) Protective Monitoring
14 18 (11.69%) TOGAF
15 16 (10.39%) Creative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 86 (55.84%) Security Cleared
2 34 (22.08%) DV Cleared
3 27 (17.53%) CISMP
4 25 (16.23%) SC Cleared
5 23 (14.94%) CISSP
6 19 (12.34%) Degree
7 16 (10.39%) CESG Certified Professional
8 14 (9.09%) CREST Certified
9 12 (7.79%) IISP
10 11 (7.14%) CISM
11 10 (6.49%) Master's Degree
12 7 (4.55%) CHECK Team Member
12 7 (4.55%) OSCP
13 6 (3.90%) CRISC
14 4 (2.60%) Cyber Scheme
15 3 (1.95%) PCI QSA
16 2 (1.30%) CISA
16 2 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
16 2 (1.30%) ISACA
17 1 (0.65%) GCFE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (42.21%) NIST
2 35 (22.73%) JSP 440
3 33 (21.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 32 (20.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (10.39%) NIST 800
6 15 (9.74%) RMADS
7 12 (7.79%) NCSC
8 11 (7.14%) GRC
9 9 (5.84%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (3.25%) GDPR
11 4 (2.60%) COBIT
12 3 (1.95%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 24 (15.58%) vSphere
2 1 (0.65%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (0.65%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (0.65%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 24 (15.58%) SolarWinds
1 24 (15.58%) Tanium
1 24 (15.58%) Tripwire
2 4 (2.60%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.30%) Google
3 2 (1.30%) Palo Alto
3 2 (1.30%) Splunk
4 1 (0.65%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (0.65%) Netskope
4 1 (0.65%) QinetiQ
4 1 (0.65%) Zscaler