Cybersecurity Consultant Jobs in England

Cybersecurity Consultant
UK > England

The median Cybersecurity Consultant salary in England is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 647 698 778
Rank change year-on-year +51 +80 +292
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Consultant 32 152 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.065% 0.17% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.071% 0.18% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 11 89 101
10th Percentile £47,000 £49,750 £54,500
25th Percentile £56,000 £53,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £101,875 £95,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £118,750 £97,250 £92,500
UK median annual salary £76,250 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.67% +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 44,774 85,031 77,815
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.67% 91.36%
Number of salaries quoted 23,692 62,917 50,230
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £38,066 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.32% +0.95%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £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 31 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 31 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 +94 29 £76,250 -15.28% 23
South West +44 2 £65,000 -18.75% 17
North of England +29 1 £80,000 +33.33% 10
North West +1 1 £80,000 +15.11% 8
Cybersecurity Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 32 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 28 (87.50%) Business Development
3 27 (84.38%) CISM
3 27 (84.38%) CISSP
4 26 (81.25%) Social Skills
5 24 (75.00%) Life Science
6 22 (68.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 21 (65.63%) Regulatory Compliance
8 4 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (9.38%) NIST
9 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
10 2 (6.25%) Presales
10 2 (6.25%) Mentoring
10 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
10 2 (6.25%) Risk Management
10 2 (6.25%) Finance
10 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
10 2 (6.25%) Retail
10 2 (6.25%) Vulnerability Management
10 2 (6.25%) GRC
11 1 (3.13%) CEH
11 1 (3.13%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 1 (3.13%) Google
11 1 (3.13%) Blog
11 1 (3.13%) Qualys
11 1 (3.13%) JSP 440
11 1 (3.13%) Azure
11 1 (3.13%) AWS
11 1 (3.13%) Security Architecture

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 (3.13%) AWS
1 1 (3.13%) Azure
1 1 (3.13%) GCP
General
1 26 (81.25%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (6.25%) Finance
2 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
2 2 (6.25%) Retail
3 1 (3.13%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 24 (75.00%) Life Science
2 1 (3.13%) Blog
2 1 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (3.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 28 (87.50%) Business Development
3 22 (68.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 21 (65.63%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (6.25%) Mentoring
5 2 (6.25%) Presales
5 2 (6.25%) Risk Management
5 2 (6.25%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (3.13%) Cyber Resilience
6 1 (3.13%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 1 (3.13%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (3.13%) Information Assurance
6 1 (3.13%) ITIL
6 1 (3.13%) Project Delivery
6 1 (3.13%) Security Architecture
6 1 (3.13%) Security Management
6 1 (3.13%) Service Delivery
6 1 (3.13%) SIEM
6 1 (3.13%) Threat Intelligence
6 1 (3.13%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 27 (84.38%) CISM
1 27 (84.38%) CISSP
2 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.13%) CEH
4 1 (3.13%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (9.38%) NIST
3 2 (6.25%) GRC
4 1 (3.13%) JSP 440
4 1 (3.13%) NCSC
Vendors
1 1 (3.13%) Cisco
1 1 (3.13%) Google
1 1 (3.13%) Juniper
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
1 1 (3.13%) Palo Alto
1 1 (3.13%) Qualys