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 4 August 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 557 515
Rank change year-on-year +171 -42 -131
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Consultant 488 126 327
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.25% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.28% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 300 90 220
10th Percentile £48,009 - £50,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -1.46% -2.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £97,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £68,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% -1.46% -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 97,595 44,677 79,563
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.20% 90.06% 94.91%
Number of salaries quoted 66,719 26,547 53,755
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £90,793
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +178 431 £65,000 -3.70% 142
UK excluding London +124 315 £60,000 -11.11% 89
Work from Home +70 149 £65,000 +8.33% 86
London +44 121 £80,000 +1.59% 59
North of England +40 92 £60,000 -25.00% 17
South West -21 86 £55,000 +10.00% 37
Midlands +29 71 £70,000 -12.50% 7
North West +45 55 £60,000 -25.00% 12
East Midlands +29 49 £60,000 -25.00%
South East +3 39 £65,000 -25.71% 19
North East - 24 £50,000 - 3
West Midlands -12 22 £80,000 - 7
East of England - 14 £80,000 - 3
Yorkshire -29 13 £50,000 -37.50% 2
Scotland +4 5 - - 5
Northern Ireland - 4 £42,500 - 1
Wales - 4 £53,355 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 4 August 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.

1 332 (68.03%) Cybersecurity
2 171 (35.04%) Security Cleared
3 113 (23.16%) SC Cleared
4 92 (18.85%) Risk Management
5 82 (16.80%) NIST
6 78 (15.98%) Cloud Security
6 78 (15.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 75 (15.37%) CISSP
8 69 (14.14%) AWS
9 61 (12.50%) CISM
9 61 (12.50%) DV Cleared
10 59 (12.09%) Threat Modelling
11 56 (11.48%) Security Architecture
12 50 (10.25%) Information Security
13 49 (10.04%) Mentoring
14 42 (8.61%) Azure
15 38 (7.79%) GRC
15 38 (7.79%) Network Security
16 34 (6.97%) GDPR
17 33 (6.76%) AI
18 32 (6.56%) Identity Access Management
19 29 (5.94%) AWS Certification
19 29 (5.94%) Cloud Computing
20 27 (5.53%) Penetration Testing
21 26 (5.33%) PCI DSS
22 25 (5.12%) Agile
23 24 (4.92%) Data Protection
23 24 (4.92%) NCSC
24 23 (4.71%) Degree
25 22 (4.51%) CRISC

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 (1.23%) SAS
2 3 (0.61%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.20%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.20%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.20%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 69 (14.14%) AWS
2 42 (8.61%) Azure
3 29 (5.94%) Cloud Computing
4 15 (3.07%) Amazon EKS
4 15 (3.07%) AWS CloudFormation
4 15 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (3.07%) GCP
4 15 (3.07%) Serverless
5 14 (2.87%) Amazon ECS
5 14 (2.87%) Amazon EventBridge
5 14 (2.87%) AWS Control Tower
6 13 (2.66%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (2.05%) SaaS
8 5 (1.02%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (1.02%) Entra ID
9 4 (0.82%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 3 (0.61%) Amazon Bedrock
10 3 (0.61%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (0.41%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 38 (7.79%) Network Security
2 19 (3.89%) Firewall
3 7 (1.43%) SD-WAN
3 7 (1.43%) WAN
4 6 (1.23%) LAN
5 2 (0.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.61%) Hadoop
1 3 (0.61%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.20%) SAP BW
2 1 (0.20%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (0.61%) Burp Suite
1 3 (0.61%) Metasploit
2 2 (0.41%) Yeoman
General
1 112 (22.95%) Public Sector
2 63 (12.91%) Social Skills
3 38 (7.79%) Finance
4 26 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (3.07%) Manufacturing
6 10 (2.05%) Telecoms
7 9 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.64%) Law
9 7 (1.43%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.02%) Military
12 4 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.82%) Legal
13 3 (0.61%) Banking
13 3 (0.61%) Games
14 2 (0.41%) Advertising
14 2 (0.41%) Police
15 1 (0.20%) Electronics
15 1 (0.20%) French Language
15 1 (0.20%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.87%) AWS CDK
2 5 (1.02%) ModSecurity
3 4 (0.82%) NumPy
3 4 (0.82%) Pandas
3 4 (0.82%) PySpark
3 4 (0.82%) scikit-learn
4 3 (0.61%) Kafka
5 1 (0.20%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.20%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.76%) PKI
2 29 (5.94%) Onboarding
3 23 (4.71%) Security Posture
4 18 (3.69%) Enterprise Cloud
5 17 (3.48%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.05%) Operational Technology
7 7 (1.43%) Blog
8 6 (1.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 6 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.23%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.02%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.82%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.61%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (0.61%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.61%) Social Media
12 2 (0.41%) Cyber Defence
12 2 (0.41%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.41%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.20%) Cyber Threat
13 1 (0.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.87%) Windows
2 12 (2.46%) Linux
3 6 (1.23%) Android
3 6 (1.23%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (68.03%) Cybersecurity
2 92 (18.85%) Risk Management
3 78 (15.98%) Cloud Security
4 59 (12.09%) Threat Modelling
5 56 (11.48%) Security Architecture
6 50 (10.25%) Information Security
7 49 (10.04%) Mentoring
8 33 (6.76%) AI
9 32 (6.56%) Identity Access Management
10 27 (5.53%) Penetration Testing
11 25 (5.12%) Agile
12 24 (4.92%) Data Protection
13 22 (4.51%) GAP Analysis
13 22 (4.51%) Information Assurance
13 22 (4.51%) Presales
14 21 (4.30%) Infrastructure as Code
14 21 (4.30%) Security Testing
14 21 (4.30%) SIEM
15 20 (4.10%) Incident Response
16 19 (3.89%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 19 (3.89%) Python
2 14 (2.87%) Bash
2 14 (2.87%) Java
2 14 (2.87%) Perl
2 14 (2.87%) PHP
2 14 (2.87%) Ruby
3 3 (0.61%) SQL
4 2 (0.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 171 (35.04%) Security Cleared
2 113 (23.16%) SC Cleared
3 75 (15.37%) CISSP
4 61 (12.50%) CISM
4 61 (12.50%) DV Cleared
5 29 (5.94%) AWS Certification
6 23 (4.71%) Degree
7 22 (4.51%) CRISC
8 19 (3.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 16 (3.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 16 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
9 16 (3.28%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 15 (3.07%) CISA
10 15 (3.07%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 10 (2.05%) CREST Certified
12 9 (1.84%) CESG Certified Professional
13 8 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (1.64%) CCSP
13 8 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (1.43%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (16.80%) NIST
2 78 (15.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 38 (7.79%) GRC
4 34 (6.97%) GDPR
5 26 (5.33%) PCI DSS
6 24 (4.92%) NCSC
7 15 (3.07%) JSP 440
7 15 (3.07%) NIST 800
8 12 (2.46%) Cyber Essentials
8 12 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 6 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.61%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 2 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.41%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.20%) ISO 31000
12 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.20%) RMADS
System Software
1 11 (2.25%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.43%) Firmware
3 1 (0.20%) IAG
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (3.07%) Terraform
2 6 (1.23%) FortiGate
2 6 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.61%) Nmap
3 3 (0.61%) QRadar
4 2 (0.41%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.20%) CASB
5 1 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (2.87%) Microsoft
2 8 (1.64%) CrowdStrike
2 8 (1.64%) Fortinet
2 8 (1.64%) Google
3 5 (1.02%) Splunk
4 2 (0.41%) Cisco
4 2 (0.41%) OneTrust
4 2 (0.41%) Red Hat
4 2 (0.41%) SAP
5 1 (0.20%) Netskope
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle
5 1 (0.20%) OutSystems
5 1 (0.20%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.20%) Qualys
5 1 (0.20%) Tenable
5 1 (0.20%) VMware
5 1 (0.20%) Zscaler