Security Consultant Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Consultant salary in the UK excluding London is £68,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 521 404 707
Rank change year-on-year -117 +303 -147
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Consultant 246 404 145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.67% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.76% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 160 309 107
10th Percentile £49,775 £57,050 £47,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £65,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +7.69% +1.96%
75th Percentile £77,500 - £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £76,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £69,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.43% -3.45% +7.41%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 67,288 53,426 67,910
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.15% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 47,613 30,415 42,495
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Consultant in the UK excluding London

Security Consultant
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Security Consultant in the UK excluding London

Security Consultant
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Consultant in the UK excluding London

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 Security Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 May 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 +56 128 £68,500 -2.14% 1
South East -26 41 £69,000 -1.43% 13
North of England -62 37 £55,000 -21.43% 7
Yorkshire +44 28 £55,000 -21.43% 4
East of England +21 16 £90,000 +28.57% 1
Scotland -103 12 £65,000 -7.14% 5
Midlands -25 11 £60,000 -14.29% 4
West Midlands -9 9 £57,500 -21.23% 4
North West -67 9 £69,500 -0.71% 3
Wales -9 1 - -
East Midlands -17 1 £60,000 -14.29%
Security Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, 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 Security Consultant in the job title.

1 203 (82.52%) Cybersecurity
2 134 (54.47%) Security Cleared
3 113 (45.93%) Risk Management
4 96 (39.02%) NIST
5 83 (33.74%) Information Security
6 78 (31.71%) SC Cleared
7 76 (30.89%) Information Assurance
8 74 (30.08%) CISSP
9 61 (24.80%) CISM
10 60 (24.39%) Social Skills
11 52 (21.14%) Mentoring
12 51 (20.73%) Security Operations
12 51 (20.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 48 (19.51%) CESG Certified Professional
14 47 (19.11%) CRISC
15 44 (17.89%) JSP 440
16 41 (16.67%) Management Information System
16 41 (16.67%) Incident Response
17 39 (15.85%) Incident Management
18 38 (15.45%) Agile
19 37 (15.04%) Network Security
20 36 (14.63%) Security Architecture
20 36 (14.63%) NIST 800
21 35 (14.23%) DV Cleared
22 33 (13.41%) Finance
22 33 (13.41%) NCSC
23 30 (12.20%) Military
23 30 (12.20%) SIEM
24 27 (10.98%) Vulnerability Management
25 24 (9.76%) Operational Technology

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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (4.88%) IIS
Business Applications
1 6 (2.44%) SAP GRC
2 4 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.81%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.41%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 15 (6.10%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (5.28%) Azure
3 10 (4.07%) AWS
4 7 (2.85%) GCP
5 4 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (1.63%) SuccessFactors
6 3 (1.22%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (0.81%) IaaS
7 2 (0.81%) PaaS
7 2 (0.81%) SaaS
8 1 (0.41%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 37 (15.04%) Network Security
2 15 (6.10%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.22%) Firewall
4 2 (0.81%) Wireless
5 1 (0.41%) BGP
5 1 (0.41%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.41%) DNS
5 1 (0.41%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.41%) NGFW
5 1 (0.41%) SAN
5 1 (0.41%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.41%) VPN
5 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.22%) SAP BW
2 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
General
1 60 (24.39%) Social Skills
2 33 (13.41%) Finance
3 30 (12.20%) Military
4 24 (9.76%) Public Sector
5 22 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.69%) Telecoms
7 13 (5.28%) Aerospace
8 10 (4.07%) Aviation
9 3 (1.22%) Law
9 3 (1.22%) Retail
10 2 (0.81%) Automotive
10 2 (0.81%) Games
10 2 (0.81%) Legal
10 2 (0.81%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.81%) Marketing
11 1 (0.41%) Advertising
11 1 (0.41%) Banking
11 1 (0.41%) Electronics
11 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.41%) Public Speaking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.07%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.41%) Middleware
2 1 (0.41%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 41 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 24 (9.76%) Operational Technology
3 18 (7.32%) Cyber Defence
3 18 (7.32%) Security Operations Centre
4 15 (6.10%) CESG
5 11 (4.47%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 10 (4.07%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (3.25%) Data Centre
7 8 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.44%) Security Posture
9 5 (2.03%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.81%) Cyberattack
10 2 (0.81%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.41%) Blog
11 1 (0.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 1 (0.41%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.41%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.41%) PKI
11 1 (0.41%) SCADA
11 1 (0.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.22%) Linux
1 3 (1.22%) Windows
2 2 (0.81%) Android
2 2 (0.81%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (82.52%) Cybersecurity
2 113 (45.93%) Risk Management
3 83 (33.74%) Information Security
4 76 (30.89%) Information Assurance
5 52 (21.14%) Mentoring
6 51 (20.73%) Security Operations
7 41 (16.67%) Incident Response
8 39 (15.85%) Incident Management
9 38 (15.45%) Agile
10 36 (14.63%) Security Architecture
11 30 (12.20%) SIEM
12 27 (10.98%) Vulnerability Management
13 23 (9.35%) Coaching
14 22 (8.94%) Security Testing
15 21 (8.54%) Problem-Solving
16 20 (8.13%) Business Development
16 20 (8.13%) Innovative Thinking
16 20 (8.13%) Programme Management
16 20 (8.13%) Protective Monitoring
17 19 (7.72%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.22%) SQL
2 2 (0.81%) JavaScript
2 2 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (0.81%) PowerShell
2 2 (0.81%) Python
3 1 (0.41%) Bash
Qualifications
1 134 (54.47%) Security Cleared
2 78 (31.71%) SC Cleared
3 74 (30.08%) CISSP
4 61 (24.80%) CISM
5 48 (19.51%) CESG Certified Professional
6 47 (19.11%) CRISC
7 35 (14.23%) DV Cleared
8 23 (9.35%) CISMP
9 14 (5.69%) CEH
9 14 (5.69%) Degree
10 13 (5.28%) CASP
11 12 (4.88%) IISP
12 10 (4.07%) OSCP
13 8 (3.25%) CHECK Team Member
13 8 (3.25%) CREST Certified
14 4 (1.63%) PCI QSA
15 3 (1.22%) GCFE
15 3 (1.22%) GCIH
16 2 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
16 2 (0.81%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (39.02%) NIST
2 51 (20.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 44 (17.89%) JSP 440
4 36 (14.63%) NIST 800
5 33 (13.41%) NCSC
6 23 (9.35%) RMADS
7 22 (8.94%) Cyber Essentials
7 22 (8.94%) GRC
8 21 (8.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 20 (8.13%) GDPR
10 13 (5.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 10 (4.07%) COBIT
12 7 (2.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (2.44%) PCI DSS
14 3 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 2 (0.81%) ITGC
16 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 1 (0.41%) Def Stans
16 1 (0.41%) ISO 31000
16 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (4.07%) vSphere
2 1 (0.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (0.41%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (0.41%) FortiGate
1 1 (0.41%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.41%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 19 (7.72%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.07%) SAP
2 10 (4.07%) SolarWinds
2 10 (4.07%) Tanium
2 10 (4.07%) Tripwire
3 3 (1.22%) Ariba
3 3 (1.22%) Palo Alto
4 2 (0.81%) Concur
4 2 (0.81%) Google
5 1 (0.41%) Aruba
5 1 (0.41%) CheckPoint
5 1 (0.41%) Cisco
5 1 (0.41%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (0.41%) F5
5 1 (0.41%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.41%) Meraki
5 1 (0.41%) Netskope
5 1 (0.41%) QinetiQ
5 1 (0.41%) Thales
5 1 (0.41%) Zscaler