Security Consultant Job Trends

Security Consultant
UK

The median Security Consultant salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 October 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 552 481
Rank change year-on-year +218 -71 -126
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Consultant 619 115 282
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.23% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.26% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 373 96 153
10th Percentile £50,000 - £48,150
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £63,425 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.37% -14.29% +5.71%
75th Percentile £90,000 £75,625 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,750 £97,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 109,405 44,412 69,302
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.66% 89.84% 95.38%
Number of salaries quoted 74,287 25,750 39,695
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £35,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,396 £53,688 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.77% -2.39% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -4.76%

Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Security Consultant' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Security Consultant job vacancy trend in the UK

Security Consultant
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Security Consultant job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Security Consultant job vacancies in the UK

Security Consultant
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Consultant over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Security Consultant in the UK

Security Consultant
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 October 2026. 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
England +190 531 £75,000 +15.38% 401
UK excluding London +106 378 £65,000 +8.33% 250
Work from Home +45 176 £75,000 +42.86% 255
London +91 159 £80,000 +6.67% 136
North of England +55 122 £60,000 -25.00% 67
South West -47 95 £75,000 +42.86% 62
North West +44 69 £65,000 -27.78% 47
South East +5 67 £70,000 -24.32% 58
Midlands +6 50 £70,000 -3.45% 18
North East - 34 £50,000 - 7
East Midlands -6 30 £55,000 -8.33% 2
East of England -12 25 £62,500 -3.85% 13
West Midlands -27 20 £80,000 - 16
Yorkshire -16 19 £50,000 -37.50% 14
Scotland +17 12 - - 19
Northern Ireland - 5 £42,500 - 8
Wales - 2 £55,000 - 4

Security Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 10 October 2026, Security Consultant job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Security Consultant in the job title.

1 387 (62.52%) Cybersecurity
2 174 (28.11%) Security Cleared
3 120 (19.39%) SC Cleared
4 101 (16.32%) Risk Management
5 98 (15.83%) NIST
6 90 (14.54%) Cloud Security
7 81 (13.09%) CISSP
7 81 (13.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 77 (12.44%) Threat Modelling
9 71 (11.47%) Security Architecture
10 67 (10.82%) AWS
11 66 (10.66%) Information Security
12 64 (10.34%) CISM
13 56 (9.05%) Mentoring
14 51 (8.24%) Network Security
15 44 (7.11%) GRC
16 40 (6.46%) AI
16 40 (6.46%) GDPR
17 39 (6.30%) Azure
18 36 (5.82%) NCSC
19 35 (5.65%) DV Cleared
20 34 (5.49%) Identity Access Management
21 32 (5.17%) Degree
22 31 (5.01%) AWS Certification
22 31 (5.01%) CRISC
22 31 (5.01%) Data Protection
22 31 (5.01%) Presales
23 29 (4.68%) Agile
23 29 (4.68%) Business Development
23 29 (4.68%) Cloud Computing

Security Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (0.97%) SAS
2 3 (0.48%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.16%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.16%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.16%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.16%) SAP GRC
1 1 (0.16%) SAP HCM
1 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 67 (10.82%) AWS
2 39 (6.30%) Azure
3 29 (4.68%) Cloud Computing
4 17 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (2.75%) GCP
4 17 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (2.75%) Serverless
5 14 (2.26%) Amazon ECS
5 14 (2.26%) Amazon EKS
5 14 (2.26%) Amazon EventBridge
5 14 (2.26%) AWS Control Tower
6 11 (1.78%) SaaS
7 10 (1.62%) Microsoft Purview
8 6 (0.97%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (0.97%) Entra ID
9 3 (0.48%) Amazon Bedrock
9 3 (0.48%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (0.48%) Snowflake
9 3 (0.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 51 (8.24%) Network Security
2 22 (3.55%) Firewall
3 9 (1.45%) SD-WAN
4 7 (1.13%) WAN
5 6 (0.97%) LAN
6 3 (0.48%) BGP
6 3 (0.48%) VLAN
7 2 (0.32%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.32%) VPN
8 1 (0.16%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.16%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (0.48%) Hadoop
1 3 (0.48%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (0.65%) Burp Suite
1 4 (0.65%) Metasploit
2 2 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (0.32%) Yeoman
General
1 121 (19.55%) Public Sector
2 62 (10.02%) Social Skills
3 51 (8.24%) Finance
4 26 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (2.42%) Manufacturing
6 11 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (1.62%) Law
7 10 (1.62%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.29%) Aerospace
8 8 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (0.97%) Legal
10 5 (0.81%) Banking
10 5 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (0.81%) Military
11 3 (0.48%) Electronics
11 3 (0.48%) Games
11 3 (0.48%) Police
12 1 (0.16%) Advertising
12 1 (0.16%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.07%) Terraform
2 14 (2.26%) AWS CDK
3 5 (0.81%) ModSecurity
4 4 (0.65%) NumPy
4 4 (0.65%) Pandas
4 4 (0.65%) PySpark
4 4 (0.65%) scikit-learn
5 3 (0.48%) Kafka
6 1 (0.16%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 45 (7.27%) Operational Technology
2 27 (4.36%) Onboarding
3 26 (4.20%) Security Posture
4 20 (3.23%) PKI
5 18 (2.91%) Enterprise Cloud
5 18 (2.91%) Management Information System
6 13 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (1.45%) AI Agents
8 7 (1.13%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (0.97%) Mobile App
10 5 (0.81%) Data Centre
11 4 (0.65%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (0.65%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 3 (0.48%) Blog
12 3 (0.48%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (0.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 3 (0.48%) Public Cloud
13 2 (0.32%) Driving Licence
13 2 (0.32%) SCADA
13 2 (0.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.62%) Windows
2 6 (0.97%) Linux
3 5 (0.81%) Android
3 5 (0.81%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 387 (62.52%) Cybersecurity
2 101 (16.32%) Risk Management
3 90 (14.54%) Cloud Security
4 77 (12.44%) Threat Modelling
5 71 (11.47%) Security Architecture
6 66 (10.66%) Information Security
7 56 (9.05%) Mentoring
8 40 (6.46%) AI
9 34 (5.49%) Identity Access Management
10 31 (5.01%) Data Protection
10 31 (5.01%) Presales
11 29 (4.68%) Agile
11 29 (4.68%) Business Development
12 27 (4.36%) Incident Response
13 26 (4.20%) Zero Trust
14 25 (4.04%) GAP Analysis
15 24 (3.88%) Security Testing
16 23 (3.72%) Roadmaps
17 21 (3.39%) Application Security
17 21 (3.39%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 28 (4.52%) Python
2 14 (2.26%) Bash
2 14 (2.26%) Java
2 14 (2.26%) Perl
2 14 (2.26%) PHP
2 14 (2.26%) Ruby
3 5 (0.81%) PowerShell
4 3 (0.48%) SQL
5 1 (0.16%) C#
5 1 (0.16%) C++
5 1 (0.16%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.16%) Rust
Qualifications
1 174 (28.11%) Security Cleared
2 120 (19.39%) SC Cleared
3 81 (13.09%) CISSP
4 64 (10.34%) CISM
5 35 (5.65%) DV Cleared
6 32 (5.17%) Degree
7 31 (5.01%) AWS Certification
7 31 (5.01%) CRISC
8 21 (3.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 21 (3.39%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 19 (3.07%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 16 (2.58%) Cisco Certification
11 15 (2.42%) CISA
12 14 (2.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 10 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
14 9 (1.45%) Azure Certification
14 9 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (1.45%) CESG Certified Professional
14 9 (1.45%) DBS Check
15 7 (1.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (15.83%) NIST
2 81 (13.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 44 (7.11%) GRC
4 40 (6.46%) GDPR
5 36 (5.82%) NCSC
6 24 (3.88%) Cyber Essentials
7 19 (3.07%) PCI DSS
8 18 (2.91%) JSP 440
9 16 (2.58%) NIST 800
10 13 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 9 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (1.13%) Accessibility
12 7 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 5 (0.81%) QA
14 4 (0.65%) EU AI Act
14 4 (0.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 3 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.48%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.32%) RMADS
16 2 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (1.78%) Firmware
2 5 (0.81%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.16%) Docker
3 1 (0.16%) IAG
3 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (1.45%) FortiGate
2 5 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.65%) Nmap
4 3 (0.48%) QRadar
5 2 (0.32%) Ansible
5 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.16%) CASB
6 1 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.16%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (3.88%) Microsoft
2 11 (1.78%) Fortinet
3 10 (1.62%) Google
4 7 (1.13%) Cisco
5 6 (0.97%) CrowdStrike
5 6 (0.97%) OneTrust
6 4 (0.65%) Red Hat
6 4 (0.65%) Splunk
6 4 (0.65%) Varonis
7 3 (0.48%) Oracle
7 3 (0.48%) OutSystems
8 2 (0.32%) Meraki
8 2 (0.32%) SAP
9 1 (0.16%) Acronis
9 1 (0.16%) Netskope
9 1 (0.16%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.16%) Qualys
9 1 (0.16%) Tenable
9 1 (0.16%) VMware
9 1 (0.16%) Zscaler