Security Consultant Job Trends

Security Consultant
UK

The median Security Consultant salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 May 2026.

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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 429 575 539
Rank change year-on-year +146 -36 -114
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Consultant 348 82 379
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.19% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.21% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 249 51 262
10th Percentile £47,350 £55,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £69,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +15.11% -0.71%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £116,250 £97,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £80,000 £68,500
% change year-on-year -25.00% +16.79% -2.14%

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 87,026 38,759 95,314
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.46% 89.38% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 58,020 21,803 69,625
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.90% +1.93% -6.54%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +135 294 £65,000 -18.75% 121
UK excluding London +133 233 £60,000 -25.00% 92
Work from Home +104 102 £55,000 -23.87% 76
South West +30 91 £60,000 -9.43% 23
London -9 69 £80,000 -3.03% 38
Midlands +27 64 £55,000 -31.25% 5
East Midlands +27 49 £55,000 -31.25% 2
North of England -38 30 £60,000 -25.00% 32
South East +5 28 £65,000 -13.33% 24
North West +19 23 £65,000 -18.75% 20
West Midlands -19 15 £100,000 +25.00% 3
Scotland +12 11 £93,750 +25.22% 8
Yorkshire -51 4 - - 4
Wales - 4 £53,355 -
East of England - 4 £65,000 - 1
North East - 3 £49,250 - 8
Northern Ireland - 1 £39,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 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.

1 231 (66.38%) Cybersecurity
2 132 (37.93%) Security Cleared
3 98 (28.16%) SC Cleared
4 70 (20.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 69 (19.83%) NIST
6 64 (18.39%) DV Cleared
7 59 (16.95%) Risk Management
8 54 (15.52%) CISSP
9 49 (14.08%) CISM
10 45 (12.93%) Penetration Testing
11 41 (11.78%) Cloud Security
12 39 (11.21%) AWS
13 38 (10.92%) Azure
14 35 (10.06%) GRC
15 33 (9.48%) Security Architecture
16 30 (8.62%) Security Testing
17 28 (8.05%) Red Team
18 24 (6.90%) PCI DSS
19 23 (6.61%) Mentoring
20 21 (6.03%) Information Security
20 21 (6.03%) Microsoft
21 20 (5.75%) Scrum
21 20 (5.75%) Threat Modelling
22 19 (5.46%) CREST Certified
22 19 (5.46%) Cyber Essentials
22 19 (5.46%) GDPR
22 19 (5.46%) NCSC
23 18 (5.17%) Agile
23 18 (5.17%) Information Assurance
24 17 (4.89%) Threat Intelligence

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:

Applications
1 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.29%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.29%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 39 (11.21%) AWS
2 38 (10.92%) Azure
3 16 (4.60%) GCP
4 11 (3.16%) Entra ID
5 9 (2.59%) Microsoft Purview
6 6 (1.72%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 4 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (0.86%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (0.86%) SaaS
9 2 (0.57%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (0.57%) AWS KMS
10 1 (0.29%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.29%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.29%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.29%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.60%) Network Security
2 15 (4.31%) Firewall
3 5 (1.44%) LAN
4 4 (1.15%) SD-WAN
4 4 (1.15%) WAN
5 2 (0.57%) VPN
6 1 (0.29%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.29%) DMZ
6 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.29%) Wireless
6 1 (0.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.29%) SAP BW
1 1 (0.29%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Yeoman
2 1 (0.29%) Burp Suite
2 1 (0.29%) Metasploit
General
1 72 (20.69%) Public Sector
2 53 (15.23%) Social Skills
3 29 (8.33%) Finance
4 18 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (2.59%) Law
6 8 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.72%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.44%) Banking
8 5 (1.44%) Games
9 4 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.86%) Legal
10 3 (0.86%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.57%) Billing
11 2 (0.57%) Electronics
11 2 (0.57%) Marketing
12 1 (0.29%) Advertising
12 1 (0.29%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.29%) Military
12 1 (0.29%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.86%) ModSecurity
2 2 (0.57%) SailPoint
2 2 (0.57%) SAP CAF
3 1 (0.29%) .NET
3 1 (0.29%) NumPy
3 1 (0.29%) Pandas
3 1 (0.29%) PySpark
3 1 (0.29%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.29%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 37 (10.63%) Security Posture
2 26 (7.47%) PKI
3 10 (2.87%) Cloud Native
3 10 (2.87%) Cyber Defence
3 10 (2.87%) Operational Technology
4 8 (2.30%) Blog
5 7 (2.01%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 7 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (2.01%) Mobile App
6 6 (1.72%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.72%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (0.86%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.57%) Social Media
10 1 (0.29%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.29%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.29%) Mobile Computing
10 1 (0.29%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.29%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.16%) Windows
2 10 (2.87%) Linux
3 7 (2.01%) Android
3 7 (2.01%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (66.38%) Cybersecurity
2 59 (16.95%) Risk Management
3 45 (12.93%) Penetration Testing
4 41 (11.78%) Cloud Security
5 33 (9.48%) Security Architecture
6 30 (8.62%) Security Testing
7 28 (8.05%) Red Team
8 23 (6.61%) Mentoring
9 21 (6.03%) Information Security
10 20 (5.75%) Scrum
10 20 (5.75%) Threat Modelling
11 18 (5.17%) Agile
11 18 (5.17%) Information Assurance
12 17 (4.89%) Threat Intelligence
13 16 (4.60%) Vulnerability Management
14 15 (4.31%) AI
14 15 (4.31%) Incident Response
15 14 (4.02%) Offensive Security
15 14 (4.02%) Presales
15 14 (4.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (0.57%) Python
2 1 (0.29%) C
2 1 (0.29%) C#
2 1 (0.29%) C++
Qualifications
1 132 (37.93%) Security Cleared
2 98 (28.16%) SC Cleared
3 64 (18.39%) DV Cleared
4 54 (15.52%) CISSP
5 49 (14.08%) CISM
6 19 (5.46%) CREST Certified
7 16 (4.60%) CEH
8 15 (4.31%) OSCP
9 14 (4.02%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (3.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 11 (3.16%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 9 (2.59%) CISA
13 8 (2.30%) CRISC
14 7 (2.01%) CESG Certified Professional
14 7 (2.01%) Degree
14 7 (2.01%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 6 (1.72%) CHECK Team Member
16 5 (1.44%) CCSP
17 4 (1.15%) DBS Check
17 4 (1.15%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (20.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 69 (19.83%) NIST
3 35 (10.06%) GRC
4 24 (6.90%) PCI DSS
5 19 (5.46%) Cyber Essentials
5 19 (5.46%) GDPR
5 19 (5.46%) NCSC
6 13 (3.74%) JSP 440
7 9 (2.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 8 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 8 (2.30%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 3 (0.86%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.57%) QA
11 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.29%) RMADS
11 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.29%) IAG
Systems Management
1 7 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (1.44%) FortiGate
3 3 (0.86%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.29%) Nessus
4 1 (0.29%) Nmap
4 1 (0.29%) QRadar
4 1 (0.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (6.03%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.59%) CrowdStrike
3 7 (2.01%) SAP
4 5 (1.44%) Fortinet
5 3 (0.86%) Splunk
6 2 (0.57%) Google
7 1 (0.29%) Cisco
7 1 (0.29%) OneTrust
7 1 (0.29%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.29%) Qualys