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 29 September 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 555 482
Rank change year-on-year +205 -73 -128
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Consultant 599 105 297
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.21% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.24% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 370 86 159
10th Percentile £50,000 - £48,600
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £89,375 £77,500 £86,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £97,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £68,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -8.76% -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 109,377 44,042 71,502
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 89.72% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 74,715 25,470 41,572
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 29 September 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 29 September 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 +183 510 £75,000 +11.11% 258
UK excluding London +106 373 £65,000 +4.00% 135
Work from Home +61 177 £75,000 +42.86% 165
London +67 144 £80,000 +1.59% 109
North of England +39 119 £60,000 -25.00% 26
South West -46 97 £75,000 +42.86% 29
North West +42 69 £65,000 -18.75% 13
South East +3 60 £70,000 -20.00% 38
Midlands 0 56 £70,000 -3.45% 9
East Midlands -7 36 £55,000 -8.33% 3
North East - 33 £50,000 - 7
East of England -10 22 £62,500 -3.85% 11
West Midlands -26 20 £80,000 - 6
Yorkshire -21 17 £50,000 -37.50% 6
Scotland +19 12 - - 16
Northern Ireland - 5 £42,500 - 1
Wales - 2 £55,000 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 29 September 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.

1 383 (63.94%) Cybersecurity
2 162 (27.05%) Security Cleared
3 109 (18.20%) SC Cleared
4 94 (15.69%) Risk Management
5 93 (15.53%) NIST
6 88 (14.69%) Cloud Security
7 82 (13.69%) CISSP
8 81 (13.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 73 (12.19%) Threat Modelling
10 69 (11.52%) Security Architecture
11 67 (11.19%) AWS
12 65 (10.85%) CISM
13 63 (10.52%) Information Security
14 55 (9.18%) Mentoring
15 50 (8.35%) Network Security
16 41 (6.84%) GRC
17 39 (6.51%) Azure
18 38 (6.34%) GDPR
19 36 (6.01%) AI
20 35 (5.84%) DV Cleared
21 34 (5.68%) Identity Access Management
22 33 (5.51%) NCSC
23 31 (5.18%) AWS Certification
23 31 (5.18%) Data Protection
24 30 (5.01%) CRISC
24 30 (5.01%) Degree
24 30 (5.01%) Presales
25 29 (4.84%) Agile
25 29 (4.84%) Cloud Computing
26 26 (4.34%) Business Development

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 (1.00%) SAS
2 3 (0.50%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.17%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.17%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.17%) SAP GRC
1 1 (0.17%) SAP HCM
1 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 67 (11.19%) AWS
2 39 (6.51%) Azure
3 29 (4.84%) Cloud Computing
4 17 (2.84%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (2.84%) Serverless
5 16 (2.67%) GCP
6 14 (2.34%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (2.34%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (2.34%) Amazon EventBridge
6 14 (2.34%) AWS Control Tower
7 10 (1.67%) SaaS
8 8 (1.34%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (1.00%) Entra ID
10 3 (0.50%) Amazon Bedrock
10 3 (0.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 3 (0.50%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (0.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 50 (8.35%) Network Security
2 22 (3.67%) Firewall
3 9 (1.50%) SD-WAN
4 7 (1.17%) WAN
5 6 (1.00%) LAN
6 3 (0.50%) BGP
6 3 (0.50%) VLAN
7 2 (0.33%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.33%) VPN
8 1 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.17%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (0.50%) Hadoop
1 3 (0.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (0.67%) Burp Suite
1 4 (0.67%) Metasploit
2 2 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (0.33%) Yeoman
General
1 121 (20.20%) Public Sector
2 61 (10.18%) Social Skills
3 47 (7.85%) Finance
4 25 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (2.50%) Manufacturing
6 11 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (1.67%) Law
7 10 (1.67%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.34%) Aerospace
8 8 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.00%) Legal
11 5 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.83%) Military
12 4 (0.67%) Banking
13 3 (0.50%) Games
13 3 (0.50%) Police
14 2 (0.33%) Electronics
15 1 (0.17%) Advertising
15 1 (0.17%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.17%) Terraform
2 14 (2.34%) AWS CDK
3 5 (0.83%) ModSecurity
4 4 (0.67%) NumPy
4 4 (0.67%) Pandas
4 4 (0.67%) PySpark
4 4 (0.67%) scikit-learn
5 3 (0.50%) Kafka
6 1 (0.17%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 45 (7.51%) Operational Technology
2 27 (4.51%) Onboarding
3 25 (4.17%) Security Posture
4 22 (3.67%) PKI
5 18 (3.01%) Enterprise Cloud
5 18 (3.01%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.00%) AI Agents
7 6 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (1.00%) Mobile App
8 5 (0.83%) Data Centre
9 4 (0.67%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (0.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 3 (0.50%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (0.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (0.50%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.33%) Blog
11 2 (0.33%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.33%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.17%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.84%) Windows
2 7 (1.17%) Linux
3 5 (0.83%) Android
3 5 (0.83%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (63.94%) Cybersecurity
2 94 (15.69%) Risk Management
3 88 (14.69%) Cloud Security
4 73 (12.19%) Threat Modelling
5 69 (11.52%) Security Architecture
6 63 (10.52%) Information Security
7 55 (9.18%) Mentoring
8 36 (6.01%) AI
9 34 (5.68%) Identity Access Management
10 31 (5.18%) Data Protection
11 30 (5.01%) Presales
12 29 (4.84%) Agile
13 26 (4.34%) Business Development
13 26 (4.34%) Zero Trust
14 25 (4.17%) Incident Response
15 24 (4.01%) GAP Analysis
16 23 (3.84%) SIEM
17 22 (3.67%) Penetration Testing
17 22 (3.67%) Security Testing
18 21 (3.51%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 26 (4.34%) Python
2 14 (2.34%) Bash
2 14 (2.34%) Java
2 14 (2.34%) Perl
2 14 (2.34%) PHP
2 14 (2.34%) Ruby
3 5 (0.83%) PowerShell
4 3 (0.50%) SQL
5 1 (0.17%) C#
5 1 (0.17%) C++
5 1 (0.17%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.17%) Rust
Qualifications
1 162 (27.05%) Security Cleared
2 109 (18.20%) SC Cleared
3 82 (13.69%) CISSP
4 65 (10.85%) CISM
5 35 (5.84%) DV Cleared
6 31 (5.18%) AWS Certification
7 30 (5.01%) CRISC
7 30 (5.01%) Degree
8 21 (3.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 20 (3.34%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 18 (3.01%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 16 (2.67%) CISA
11 16 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (2.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 9 (1.50%) Azure Certification
13 9 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (1.50%) CESG Certified Professional
13 9 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (1.50%) DBS Check
14 7 (1.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (15.53%) NIST
2 81 (13.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 41 (6.84%) GRC
4 38 (6.34%) GDPR
5 33 (5.51%) NCSC
6 24 (4.01%) Cyber Essentials
7 19 (3.17%) PCI DSS
8 17 (2.84%) JSP 440
9 15 (2.50%) NIST 800
10 13 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 9 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (1.17%) Accessibility
13 5 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 4 (0.67%) QA
15 3 (0.50%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
16 2 (0.33%) EU AI Act
17 1 (0.17%) ISO 31000
17 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (1.67%) Firmware
2 6 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) Docker
3 1 (0.17%) IAG
3 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (1.50%) FortiGate
2 5 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.67%) Nmap
4 3 (0.50%) QRadar
5 2 (0.33%) Ansible
5 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.17%) CASB
6 1 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.17%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (4.01%) Microsoft
2 11 (1.84%) Fortinet
3 10 (1.67%) Google
4 7 (1.17%) Cisco
4 7 (1.17%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (0.67%) OneTrust
5 4 (0.67%) Red Hat
5 4 (0.67%) Splunk
6 3 (0.50%) Oracle
6 3 (0.50%) OutSystems
7 2 (0.33%) Meraki
7 2 (0.33%) Varonis
8 1 (0.17%) Acronis
8 1 (0.17%) Netskope
8 1 (0.17%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.17%) Qualys
8 1 (0.17%) SAP
8 1 (0.17%) Tenable
8 1 (0.17%) VMware
8 1 (0.17%) Zscaler