Cybersecurity Consultant Jobs in the South East

Cybersecurity Consultant
England > South East

The median Cybersecurity Consultant salary in the South East is £65,000 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 364 398 469
Rank change year-on-year +34 +71 -124
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Consultant 21 16 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.13% 0.11% 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.12% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 14 11 18
10th Percentile £45,125 - £55,350
25th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £79,250 £92,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 15,620 13,675 18,997
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.89% 90.62% 96.39%
Number of salaries quoted 11,331 8,566 12,620
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £39,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%

Cybersecurity Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Consultant in the South East

Cybersecurity Consultant
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Consultant in the South East.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Consultant in the South East

Cybersecurity Consultant
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Consultant in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity Consultant in the South East

Cybersecurity Consultant
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Consultant within the South East 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
Surrey +15 7 £52,500 - 1
Thames Valley +16 6 £75,000 +25.00% 5
Hampshire -9 6 £65,000 - 3
Berkshire +14 5 £75,000 +25.00% 5
Buckinghamshire - 1 - -
Cybersecurity Consultant
England

Cybersecurity Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 26 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 South East region featuring Cybersecurity Consultant in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (61.90%) Security Cleared
3 12 (57.14%) Risk Management
4 11 (52.38%) CISSP
4 11 (52.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (47.62%) Management Information System
5 10 (47.62%) SABSA
5 10 (47.62%) CESG Certified Professional
6 8 (38.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 8 (38.10%) Information Assurance
6 8 (38.10%) Information Security
6 8 (38.10%) NIST
6 8 (38.10%) Public Sector
7 7 (33.33%) GRC
7 7 (33.33%) Application Security
7 7 (33.33%) Agile
7 7 (33.33%) TOGAF
7 7 (33.33%) CISMP
7 7 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
7 7 (33.33%) Security Testing
7 7 (33.33%) Information Security Management
7 7 (33.33%) Security Management
7 7 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
7 7 (33.33%) CREST Certified
7 7 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
7 7 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (23.81%) Data Centre
9 5 (23.81%) Azure
10 4 (19.05%) AWS

Cybersecurity Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (23.81%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) GCP
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) Network Security
2 1 (4.76%) BGP
2 1 (4.76%) DNS
2 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
General
1 8 (38.10%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.76%) Military
2 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 10 (47.62%) Management Information System
2 7 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (23.81%) Data Centre
4 2 (9.52%) Security Posture
5 1 (4.76%) Blog
5 1 (4.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (4.76%) YARA
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (57.14%) Risk Management
3 10 (47.62%) SABSA
4 8 (38.10%) Information Assurance
4 8 (38.10%) Information Security
5 7 (33.33%) Agile
5 7 (33.33%) Application Security
5 7 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
5 7 (33.33%) Information Security Management
5 7 (33.33%) Security Management
5 7 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
5 7 (33.33%) Security Testing
5 7 (33.33%) TOGAF
5 7 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
6 6 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (19.05%) Conflict Resolution
7 4 (19.05%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (19.05%) ITIL
7 4 (19.05%) OWASP
8 3 (14.29%) Cyber Assurance
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 13 (61.90%) Security Cleared
2 11 (52.38%) CISSP
3 10 (47.62%) CESG Certified Professional
4 7 (33.33%) CISMP
4 7 (33.33%) CREST Certified
5 4 (19.05%) CISM
5 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
6 3 (14.29%) PCI QSA
7 2 (9.52%) ISACA
8 1 (4.76%) CCSK
8 1 (4.76%) CISA
8 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (52.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (38.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 8 (38.10%) NIST
3 7 (33.33%) GRC
4 4 (19.05%) COBIT
4 4 (19.05%) GDPR
5 3 (14.29%) NCSC
5 3 (14.29%) NIST 800
5 3 (14.29%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (4.76%) Netskope
1 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
1 1 (4.76%) QinetiQ
1 1 (4.76%) Zscaler