Information Security Consultant Jobs in the Midlands

Information Security Consultant
England > Midlands

The median Information Security Consultant salary in the Midlands is £67,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 314 315 341
Rank change year-on-year +1 +26 -58
Permanent jobs requiring an Information Security Consultant 3 9 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.026% 0.094% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.10% 0.058%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 6
10th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £40,625
25th Percentile £63,125 £67,500 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £73,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -7.53% +42.44% -26.79%
75th Percentile £73,125 - £56,875
90th Percentile £75,750 - £68,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £73,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -24.66% +12.31% +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 10,986 8,613 10,285
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.28% 89.50% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 8,233 4,790 7,091
10th Percentile £26,050 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,741 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%

Information Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security Consultant in the Midlands

Information Security Consultant
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Information Security Consultant in the Midlands

Information Security Consultant
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Information Security Consultant in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Information Security Consultant in the Midlands

Information Security Consultant
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Information Security Consultant within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 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
West Midlands +20 2 £67,500 -7.53% 1
Information Security Consultant
England

Information Security Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Information 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 across the Midlands region featuring Information Security Consultant in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Information Security
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (66.67%) GRC
2 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) SOC 2
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 1 (33.33%) GDPR
3 1 (33.33%) IT Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) ISO 31000
3 1 (33.33%) NIST 800
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Due Diligence
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) CISSP
3 1 (33.33%) SAN

Information Security Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) IaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) PaaS
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Advertising
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Due Diligence
3 1 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) IT Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
3 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CISM
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GRC
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) COBIT
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) ISO 31000
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 1 (33.33%) NIST 800
2 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (33.33%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Google