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 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 532 412 708
Rank change year-on-year -120 +296 -150
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Consultant 246 404 141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.66% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.74% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 161 311 108
10th Percentile £47,750 £57,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £65,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £70,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +9.38% +0.39%
75th Percentile £77,500 - £83,750
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 66,718 54,726 68,124
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.24% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,226 31,089 43,036
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 £82,500 £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 5 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 5 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 +47 128 £68,500 -2.14% 4
South East -10 41 £69,000 -1.43% 17
North of England -65 36 £55,000 -21.43% 7
Yorkshire +42 27 £55,000 -21.43% 4
East of England +20 16 £90,000 +28.57% 1
Scotland -107 13 £67,500 -3.57% 2
Midlands +6 11 £60,000 -16.08% 5
West Midlands +10 9 £57,500 -21.23% 5
North West -58 9 £69,500 -0.71% 3
Wales -3 1 - -
East Midlands -13 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 5 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.

1 202 (82.11%) Cybersecurity
2 133 (54.07%) Security Cleared
3 114 (46.34%) Risk Management
4 95 (38.62%) NIST
5 84 (34.15%) Information Security
6 78 (31.71%) SC Cleared
6 78 (31.71%) Information Assurance
7 75 (30.49%) CISSP
8 62 (25.20%) CISM
9 59 (23.98%) Social Skills
10 52 (21.14%) Mentoring
11 51 (20.73%) Security Operations
12 50 (20.33%) CESG Certified Professional
12 50 (20.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 49 (19.92%) CRISC
14 44 (17.89%) JSP 440
15 40 (16.26%) Management Information System
15 40 (16.26%) Incident Response
16 38 (15.45%) Incident Management
17 37 (15.04%) Agile
17 37 (15.04%) Security Architecture
18 36 (14.63%) NIST 800
19 35 (14.23%) Network Security
20 34 (13.82%) DV Cleared
21 33 (13.41%) NCSC
22 31 (12.60%) Finance
23 30 (12.20%) Military
24 29 (11.79%) SIEM
25 26 (10.57%) Vulnerability Management
26 25 (10.16%) RMADS

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 35 (14.23%) 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 59 (23.98%) Social Skills
2 31 (12.60%) Finance
3 30 (12.20%) Military
4 23 (9.35%) Public Sector
5 22 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.28%) Aerospace
6 13 (5.28%) Telecoms
7 10 (4.07%) Aviation
8 3 (1.22%) Law
8 3 (1.22%) Retail
9 2 (0.81%) Automotive
9 2 (0.81%) Games
10 1 (0.41%) Advertising
10 1 (0.41%) Banking
10 1 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.41%) Legal
10 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.41%) Marketing
10 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Public Speaking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.66%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.41%) Middleware
2 1 (0.41%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 40 (16.26%) Management Information System
2 23 (9.35%) Operational Technology
3 18 (7.32%) Cyber Defence
3 18 (7.32%) Security Operations Centre
4 15 (6.10%) CESG
5 10 (4.07%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 10 (4.07%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (3.25%) Data Centre
6 8 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.44%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.03%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.81%) Cyberattack
9 2 (0.81%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.41%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.41%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.41%) Insider Threat
10 1 (0.41%) SCADA
10 1 (0.41%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.81%) Android
1 2 (0.81%) Apple iOS
1 2 (0.81%) Linux
1 2 (0.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (82.11%) Cybersecurity
2 114 (46.34%) Risk Management
3 84 (34.15%) Information Security
4 78 (31.71%) Information Assurance
5 52 (21.14%) Mentoring
6 51 (20.73%) Security Operations
7 40 (16.26%) Incident Response
8 38 (15.45%) Incident Management
9 37 (15.04%) Agile
9 37 (15.04%) Security Architecture
10 29 (11.79%) SIEM
11 26 (10.57%) Vulnerability Management
12 23 (9.35%) Coaching
13 22 (8.94%) Security Testing
14 21 (8.54%) Problem-Solving
15 20 (8.13%) Business Development
15 20 (8.13%) Innovative Thinking
15 20 (8.13%) Protective Monitoring
16 19 (7.72%) Programme Management
16 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
1 133 (54.07%) Security Cleared
2 78 (31.71%) SC Cleared
3 75 (30.49%) CISSP
4 62 (25.20%) CISM
5 50 (20.33%) CESG Certified Professional
6 49 (19.92%) CRISC
7 34 (13.82%) 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%) GCFA
16 2 (0.81%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (38.62%) NIST
2 50 (20.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 44 (17.89%) JSP 440
4 36 (14.63%) NIST 800
5 33 (13.41%) NCSC
6 25 (10.16%) RMADS
7 22 (8.94%) Cyber Essentials
7 22 (8.94%) GRC
8 21 (8.54%) GDPR
8 21 (8.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 12 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 10 (4.07%) COBIT
11 7 (2.85%) PCI DSS
11 7 (2.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 2 (0.81%) ITGC
12 2 (0.81%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.41%) Def Stans
13 1 (0.41%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 9 (3.66%) 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 9 (3.66%) SAP
2 9 (3.66%) SolarWinds
2 9 (3.66%) Tanium
2 9 (3.66%) 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