Information Security Consultant Jobs in the UK excluding London

Information Security Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Information Security Consultant salary in the UK excluding London is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 566 735 734
Rank change year-on-year +169 -1 +88
Permanent jobs requiring an Information Security Consultant 9 23 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.032% 0.047%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.034% 0.052%
Number of salaries quoted 8 21 19
10th Percentile £52,500 £40,000 £48,500
25th Percentile £54,375 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% -4.76%
75th Percentile £90,313 £60,000 £72,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £62,500 £73,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -24.66% +16.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,016 67,223 53,634
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.55% 94.80% 89.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18,742 47,591 30,483
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,906 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,225 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Information Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security Consultant in the UK excluding London

Information Security Consultant
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Information Security Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Information Security Consultant in the UK excluding London

Information Security Consultant
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Information Security Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Information Security Consultant in the UK excluding London

Information Security Consultant
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Yorkshire +52 7 £60,000 +14.29% 6
North of England +39 7 £60,000 +9.09% 7
South East +95 2 £65,000 +36.84% 8
Information Security Consultant
UK

Information Security Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Information Security Consultant in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Information Security
1 9 (100.00%) GDPR
2 8 (88.89%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (88.89%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 8 (88.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (77.78%) Data Protection
3 7 (77.78%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (77.78%) Incident Management
3 7 (77.78%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (77.78%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (77.78%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 7 (77.78%) Threat Intelligence
3 7 (77.78%) Risk Register
3 7 (77.78%) Incident Response
4 6 (66.67%) Security Testing
5 5 (55.56%) Security Operations
5 5 (55.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 5 (55.56%) Security Auditing
5 5 (55.56%) Cyberattack
5 5 (55.56%) Vulnerability Management
5 5 (55.56%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (55.56%) Business Continuity
5 5 (55.56%) Law
6 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
6 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
6 2 (22.22%) CISM
6 2 (22.22%) PCI DSS
6 2 (22.22%) CISSP
6 2 (22.22%) Programme Management

Information Security Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (77.78%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Burp Suite
1 1 (11.11%) Metasploit
General
1 5 (55.56%) Law
2 1 (11.11%) Automotive
2 1 (11.11%) Aviation
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (55.56%) Cyberattack
2 5 (55.56%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Kali Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Information Security
2 8 (88.89%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 7 (77.78%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 7 (77.78%) Data Protection
3 7 (77.78%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (77.78%) Incident Management
3 7 (77.78%) Incident Response
3 7 (77.78%) Risk Register
3 7 (77.78%) Threat Intelligence
4 6 (66.67%) Security Testing
5 5 (55.56%) Business Continuity
5 5 (55.56%) Security Auditing
5 5 (55.56%) Security Operations
5 5 (55.56%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (22.22%) Cyber Resilience
6 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (22.22%) Programme Management
6 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
7 1 (11.11%) Agile
7 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) CISM
1 2 (22.22%) CISSP
2 1 (11.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (11.11%) CEH
2 1 (11.11%) CISA
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) GIAC
2 1 (11.11%) OSCP
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (100.00%) GDPR
2 8 (88.89%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (88.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (55.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (22.22%) NIST
4 2 (22.22%) PCI DSS
5 1 (11.11%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Nessus
1 1 (11.11%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Qualys