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 £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 551 523 405
Rank change year-on-year -28 -118 +301
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Consultant 34 244 404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.087% 0.34% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.096% 0.36% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 30 160 309
10th Percentile £55,000 £49,775 £57,050
25th Percentile £67,188 £53,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £68,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.79% -2.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £85,938 £77,500 -
90th Percentile £93,875 £107,500 £76,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £69,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +15.94% -1.43% -3.45%

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 35,427 67,196 53,197
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 94.83% 89.21%
Number of salaries quoted 18,481 47,540 30,291
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

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 15 May 2025.

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 15 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
North of England +32 13 £80,000 +45.45% 38
Yorkshire +46 9 £80,000 +45.45% 9
Scotland +109 7 £80,000 +23.08% 9
Midlands +60 5 £80,000 +33.33% 6
South East +60 4 £75,000 +8.70% 40
South West 0 4 £66,250 -3.28% 18
North West -6 4 £80,000 +15.11% 29
West Midlands +50 3 £80,000 +39.13% 5
East Midlands +39 2 £81,250 +35.42%
Wales +40 1 £49,104 -
Security Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 2025, 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 12 (35.29%) Information Security
1 12 (35.29%) CISSP
1 12 (35.29%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (29.41%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (26.47%) Migration
3 9 (26.47%) Vulnerability Management
3 9 (26.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (26.47%) Network Security
3 9 (26.47%) GDPR
3 9 (26.47%) Incident Response
4 8 (23.53%) NIST
4 8 (23.53%) Palo Alto
4 8 (23.53%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (23.53%) Fortinet
4 8 (23.53%) CISM
4 8 (23.53%) Firewall
4 8 (23.53%) Microsoft
5 7 (20.59%) WAN
5 7 (20.59%) CheckPoint
5 7 (20.59%) CCNP
5 7 (20.59%) Cisco
5 7 (20.59%) CCSA
5 7 (20.59%) Incident Management
5 7 (20.59%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 7 (20.59%) SD-WAN
5 7 (20.59%) Cisco Firepower
6 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (17.65%) Risk Register
6 6 (17.65%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (17.65%) Threat Intelligence

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 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) SAP BPC
1 1 (2.94%) SAP GRC
1 1 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.94%) Azure
3 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.94%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (26.47%) Network Security
2 8 (23.53%) Firewall
3 7 (20.59%) Cisco Firepower
3 7 (20.59%) SD-WAN
3 7 (20.59%) WAN
4 1 (2.94%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) Power BI
2 1 (2.94%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Burp Suite
1 1 (2.94%) Metasploit
General
1 5 (14.71%) Law
1 5 (14.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.82%) Banking
2 3 (8.82%) Finance
3 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Automotive
4 1 (2.94%) Aviation
4 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.94%) Military
4 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) AngularJS
1 1 (2.94%) CSS
1 1 (2.94%) LDAP
1 1 (2.94%) ModSecurity
1 1 (2.94%) OAuth
1 1 (2.94%) OAuth2
1 1 (2.94%) OpenID
1 1 (2.94%) React
1 1 (2.94%) REST
1 1 (2.94%) SAML
1 1 (2.94%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (2.94%) Spring Boot
1 1 (2.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (14.71%) Cyberattack
2 5 (14.71%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (11.76%) Management Information System
4 3 (8.82%) Operational Technology
5 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.94%) CESG
6 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.94%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (2.94%) IoT
6 1 (2.94%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Kali Linux
1 1 (2.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (35.29%) Cybersecurity
1 12 (35.29%) Information Security
2 9 (26.47%) Incident Response
2 9 (26.47%) Migration
2 9 (26.47%) Vulnerability Management
3 7 (20.59%) Incident Management
3 7 (20.59%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 6 (17.65%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 6 (17.65%) Data Protection
4 6 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (17.65%) Risk Register
4 6 (17.65%) Security Testing
4 6 (17.65%) Threat Intelligence
5 5 (14.71%) Business Continuity
5 5 (14.71%) Security Auditing
5 5 (14.71%) Security Operations
6 4 (11.76%) Agile
6 4 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (11.76%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.88%) SQL
2 1 (2.94%) Groovy
2 1 (2.94%) Java
2 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
2 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (35.29%) CISSP
2 10 (29.41%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (23.53%) CISM
4 7 (20.59%) CCNP
4 7 (20.59%) CCSA
5 5 (14.71%) SC Cleared
5 5 (14.71%) Security Cleared
6 2 (5.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (5.88%) CEH
6 2 (5.88%) CESG Certified Professional
6 2 (5.88%) OSCP
7 1 (2.94%) CCNA
7 1 (2.94%) CCSP
7 1 (2.94%) CISA
7 1 (2.94%) Degree
7 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.94%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (26.47%) GDPR
1 9 (26.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (23.53%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (23.53%) NIST
3 6 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (8.82%) PCI DSS
5 2 (5.88%) NCSC
6 1 (2.94%) COBIT
6 1 (2.94%) GRC
6 1 (2.94%) JSP 440
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) IAG
1 1 (2.94%) NDS
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) CA Single Sign-On
1 1 (2.94%) Nessus
1 1 (2.94%) OpenVAS
1 1 (2.94%) PingFederate
1 1 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) Fortinet
1 8 (23.53%) Microsoft
1 8 (23.53%) Palo Alto
2 7 (20.59%) CheckPoint
2 7 (20.59%) Cisco
3 1 (2.94%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (2.94%) ForgeRock
3 1 (2.94%) NetIQ
3 1 (2.94%) Okta
3 1 (2.94%) Ping Identity
3 1 (2.94%) Qualys
3 1 (2.94%) SAP
3 1 (2.94%) Sophos