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 22 July 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 578 500
Rank change year-on-year +207 -78 -113
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Consultant 473 111 379
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.23% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.25% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 300 74 263
10th Percentile £48,065 - £49,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £74,870 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% +6.96% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £85,100 £91,250 £97,450
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £68,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% -5.11% -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 94,464 44,263 88,687
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 90.01% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 64,822 26,191 62,318
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,183
90th Percentile £96,000 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 +193 421 £65,000 -13.33% 91
UK excluding London +128 300 £60,000 -7.69% 62
Work from Home +86 139 £65,000 +30.00% 52
London +55 121 £80,000 - 32
South West -9 92 £55,000 +10.00% 19
North of England +42 86 £60,000 -25.00% 14
Midlands +40 66 £70,000 -12.50% 11
North West +44 54 £60,000 -25.00% 7
East Midlands +21 47 £60,000 -25.00% 2
South East +4 39 £65,000 -25.71% 11
North East - 22 £50,000 - 2
West Midlands +2 19 £80,000 - 9
Yorkshire -38 10 £50,000 -37.50% 5
East of England - 9 £80,000 - 5
Wales - 4 £53,355 -
Northern Ireland - 3 £42,500 -
Scotland +9 1 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 22 July 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.

1 315 (66.60%) Cybersecurity
2 174 (36.79%) Security Cleared
3 121 (25.58%) SC Cleared
4 92 (19.45%) Risk Management
5 80 (16.91%) NIST
6 76 (16.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 73 (15.43%) CISSP
7 73 (15.43%) Cloud Security
8 69 (14.59%) AWS
9 64 (13.53%) DV Cleared
10 62 (13.11%) CISM
11 56 (11.84%) Security Architecture
12 50 (10.57%) Threat Modelling
13 43 (9.09%) Information Security
14 41 (8.67%) Azure
14 41 (8.67%) Mentoring
15 38 (8.03%) Network Security
16 37 (7.82%) GRC
17 36 (7.61%) AI
18 34 (7.19%) Penetration Testing
19 32 (6.77%) GDPR
20 30 (6.34%) Cloud Computing
20 30 (6.34%) Identity Access Management
21 27 (5.71%) AWS Certification
22 25 (5.29%) Agile
22 25 (5.29%) PCI DSS
23 22 (4.65%) Data Protection
23 22 (4.65%) Security Testing
24 20 (4.23%) CRISC
24 20 (4.23%) Firewall

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 (1.27%) SAS
2 3 (0.63%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.42%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.21%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.21%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 69 (14.59%) AWS
2 41 (8.67%) Azure
3 30 (6.34%) Cloud Computing
4 17 (3.59%) GCP
5 15 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (2.96%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (2.96%) Amazon EventBridge
6 14 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (2.96%) AWS Control Tower
6 14 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (2.96%) Serverless
7 12 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (2.11%) SaaS
9 6 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (1.06%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 5 (1.06%) Entra ID
11 3 (0.63%) Amazon Bedrock
11 3 (0.63%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (0.42%) Google Workspace
12 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 38 (8.03%) Network Security
2 20 (4.23%) Firewall
3 7 (1.48%) LAN
3 7 (1.48%) SD-WAN
3 7 (1.48%) WAN
4 3 (0.63%) VPN
5 1 (0.21%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.63%) Hadoop
1 3 (0.63%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.21%) SAP BW
2 1 (0.21%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Yeoman
2 1 (0.21%) Burp Suite
2 1 (0.21%) Metasploit
General
1 108 (22.83%) Public Sector
2 60 (12.68%) Social Skills
3 39 (8.25%) Finance
4 24 (5.07%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (2.54%) Manufacturing
6 9 (1.90%) Law
7 8 (1.69%) Telecoms
8 6 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.06%) Military
9 5 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.85%) Legal
11 3 (0.63%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.63%) Banking
11 3 (0.63%) Games
11 3 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.42%) Advertising
13 1 (0.21%) French Language
13 1 (0.21%) German Language
13 1 (0.21%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.21%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.96%) AWS CDK
2 5 (1.06%) ModSecurity
3 4 (0.85%) NumPy
3 4 (0.85%) Pandas
3 4 (0.85%) PySpark
3 4 (0.85%) scikit-learn
4 3 (0.63%) Kafka
5 2 (0.42%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.21%) .NET
6 1 (0.21%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.34%) PKI
2 29 (6.13%) Onboarding
3 24 (5.07%) Security Posture
4 18 (3.81%) Enterprise Cloud
5 16 (3.38%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.69%) Blog
7 7 (1.48%) Operational Technology
8 6 (1.27%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 6 (1.27%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.06%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.06%) Cyber Defence
9 5 (1.06%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.42%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (0.42%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.42%) Mobile Computing
11 2 (0.42%) Social Media
12 1 (0.21%) Cyber Threat
12 1 (0.21%) Cyberattack
12 1 (0.21%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.54%) Windows
2 11 (2.33%) Linux
3 6 (1.27%) Android
3 6 (1.27%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (66.60%) Cybersecurity
2 92 (19.45%) Risk Management
3 73 (15.43%) Cloud Security
4 56 (11.84%) Security Architecture
5 50 (10.57%) Threat Modelling
6 43 (9.09%) Information Security
7 41 (8.67%) Mentoring
8 36 (7.61%) AI
9 34 (7.19%) Penetration Testing
10 30 (6.34%) Identity Access Management
11 25 (5.29%) Agile
12 22 (4.65%) Data Protection
12 22 (4.65%) Security Testing
13 20 (4.23%) Information Assurance
13 20 (4.23%) Scrum
13 20 (4.23%) SIEM
13 20 (4.23%) Threat Intelligence
14 19 (4.02%) Cryptography
14 19 (4.02%) GAP Analysis
14 19 (4.02%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 19 (4.02%) Python
2 14 (2.96%) Bash
2 14 (2.96%) Java
2 14 (2.96%) Perl
2 14 (2.96%) PHP
2 14 (2.96%) Ruby
3 3 (0.63%) SQL
4 2 (0.42%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.21%) C
5 1 (0.21%) C#
5 1 (0.21%) C++
Qualifications
1 174 (36.79%) Security Cleared
2 121 (25.58%) SC Cleared
3 73 (15.43%) CISSP
4 64 (13.53%) DV Cleared
5 62 (13.11%) CISM
6 27 (5.71%) AWS Certification
7 20 (4.23%) CRISC
8 18 (3.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 18 (3.81%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (3.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 17 (3.59%) CISA
10 16 (3.38%) Degree
11 13 (2.75%) CREST Certified
11 13 (2.75%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 13 (2.75%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 9 (1.90%) CCSP
12 9 (1.90%) CESG Certified Professional
13 8 (1.69%) CEH
13 8 (1.69%) CompTIA CySA+
14 7 (1.48%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (16.91%) NIST
2 76 (16.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 37 (7.82%) GRC
4 32 (6.77%) GDPR
5 25 (5.29%) PCI DSS
6 20 (4.23%) NCSC
7 15 (3.17%) JSP 440
8 14 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 13 (2.75%) NIST 800
10 12 (2.54%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 3 (0.63%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.21%) Accessibility
15 1 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 1 (0.21%) QA
15 1 (0.21%) RMADS
15 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (2.75%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.42%) Firmware
3 1 (0.21%) IAG
Systems Management
1 15 (3.17%) Terraform
2 7 (1.48%) FortiGate
2 7 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.63%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.63%) QRadar
4 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.21%) CASB
5 1 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.21%) Nmap
5 1 (0.21%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (2.75%) Microsoft
2 9 (1.90%) CrowdStrike
2 9 (1.90%) Fortinet
3 7 (1.48%) Google
4 6 (1.27%) Splunk
5 4 (0.85%) SAP
6 3 (0.63%) Cisco
7 2 (0.42%) OneTrust
7 2 (0.42%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.21%) Netskope
8 1 (0.21%) Qualys
8 1 (0.21%) Tenable
8 1 (0.21%) Zscaler