Security Consultant Job Trends

Security Consultant
UK

The median Security Consultant salary in the UK is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 February 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 448 496 506
Rank change year-on-year +48 +10 -22
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Consultant 224 188 311
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.37% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.40% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 171 94 247
10th Percentile £48,750 £49,875 £50,000
25th Percentile £53,125 £65,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £112,500 £102,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £80,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -18.75% +23.08% -

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 59,148 46,920 69,596
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.99% 91.95% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 36,872 24,291 54,623
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 6 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Security Consultant in the UK

Security Consultant
Top 14 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 6 February 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 +73 201 £67,500 -15.63% 77
UK excluding London +63 156 £65,000 -18.75% 54
South West +77 88 £65,000 -28.96% 17
Work from Home +95 79 £60,000 -27.27% 35
London +22 50 £71,000 -16.47% 29
South East +18 21 £63,750 -29.17% 14
Midlands +24 20 £55,000 -31.25% 13
East Midlands -1 15 £55,000 -32.31% 4
Scotland -1 12 £93,750 +4.17%
North of England -60 10 £77,500 -3.13% 8
Yorkshire -64 7 £77,500 +7.65% 5
East of England +23 5 £65,000 -5.80% 3
West Midlands +22 4 £72,500 -7.94% 9
North West +6 3 £80,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 6 February 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.

1 149 (66.52%) Cybersecurity
2 104 (46.43%) Security Cleared
3 76 (33.93%) SC Cleared
4 75 (33.48%) NIST
5 66 (29.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 62 (27.68%) CISSP
7 60 (26.79%) CISM
8 59 (26.34%) Risk Management
9 58 (25.89%) GRC
10 38 (16.96%) ISMS
11 35 (15.63%) DV Cleared
11 35 (15.63%) Penetration Testing
12 33 (14.73%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 32 (14.29%) SAP
14 30 (13.39%) Cloud Security
15 28 (12.50%) AWS
15 28 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
15 28 (12.50%) Programme Management
15 28 (12.50%) Security Architecture
16 27 (12.05%) Azure
16 27 (12.05%) Business Intelligence
16 27 (12.05%) Collaborative Culture
17 26 (11.61%) SAP CAF
18 23 (10.27%) Agile
18 23 (10.27%) NCSC
19 22 (9.82%) Red Team
20 20 (8.93%) Information Security
20 20 (8.93%) Microsoft
21 18 (8.04%) Incident Response
22 17 (7.59%) Mentoring

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 2 (0.89%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) GNU Octave
1 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.89%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 28 (12.50%) AWS
2 27 (12.05%) Azure
3 16 (7.14%) GCP
4 11 (4.91%) Entra ID
5 10 (4.46%) Microsoft Purview
6 5 (2.23%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 5 (2.23%) SaaS
7 3 (1.34%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.89%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.89%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.45%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (0.45%) AWS KMS
9 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.45%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.45%) OCI
9 1 (0.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.70%) Network Security
2 6 (2.68%) Firewall
3 4 (1.79%) DMZ
4 2 (0.89%) LAN
4 2 (0.89%) VPN
5 1 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.45%) Junos
5 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.45%) WAN
5 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.45%) Wireless
5 1 (0.45%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Burp Suite
1 1 (0.45%) Metasploit
General
1 52 (23.21%) Public Sector
2 51 (22.77%) Finance
3 49 (21.88%) Social Skills
4 30 (13.39%) Telecoms
5 28 (12.50%) Marketing
6 27 (12.05%) Electronics
6 27 (12.05%) Manufacturing
7 9 (4.02%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.68%) Law
10 6 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.79%) Banking
11 4 (1.79%) Military
12 3 (1.34%) Games
13 2 (0.89%) Billing
13 2 (0.89%) Cyber-Physical System
13 2 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.89%) Legal
13 2 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (11.61%) SAP CAF
2 2 (0.89%) SailPoint
2 2 (0.89%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.45%) .NET
3 1 (0.45%) LDAP
3 1 (0.45%) ModSecurity
3 1 (0.45%) OAuth
3 1 (0.45%) OpenID
3 1 (0.45%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.45%) SAML
3 1 (0.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 35 (15.63%) Security Posture
2 11 (4.91%) Management Information System
3 10 (4.46%) Cyber Defence
4 9 (4.02%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (3.13%) PKI
7 5 (2.23%) Blog
7 5 (2.23%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.79%) Cloud Security Posture
8 4 (1.79%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.79%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.89%) Mobile Computing
10 2 (0.89%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.89%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.45%) Android
1 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.45%) Linux
1 1 (0.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (66.52%) Cybersecurity
2 59 (26.34%) Risk Management
3 38 (16.96%) ISMS
4 35 (15.63%) Penetration Testing
5 30 (13.39%) Cloud Security
6 28 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
6 28 (12.50%) Programme Management
6 28 (12.50%) Security Architecture
7 27 (12.05%) Business Intelligence
7 27 (12.05%) Collaborative Culture
8 23 (10.27%) Agile
9 22 (9.82%) Red Team
10 20 (8.93%) Information Security
11 18 (8.04%) Incident Response
12 17 (7.59%) Mentoring
13 16 (7.14%) Security Testing
14 14 (6.25%) Information Assurance
15 13 (5.80%) Business Strategy
15 13 (5.80%) Offensive Security
16 12 (5.36%) Creative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.34%) Python
2 1 (0.45%) C
2 1 (0.45%) C#
2 1 (0.45%) C++
2 1 (0.45%) Go
2 1 (0.45%) Rust
Qualifications
1 104 (46.43%) Security Cleared
2 76 (33.93%) SC Cleared
3 62 (27.68%) CISSP
4 60 (26.79%) CISM
5 35 (15.63%) DV Cleared
6 33 (14.73%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 14 (6.25%) CEH
7 14 (6.25%) OSCP
8 13 (5.80%) CREST Certified
9 10 (4.46%) CESG Certified Professional
9 10 (4.46%) CRISC
10 9 (4.02%) CISA
10 9 (4.02%) Degree
11 8 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (3.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 6 (2.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (2.68%) CCSP
12 6 (2.68%) CISMP
13 5 (2.23%) CHECK Team Member
14 3 (1.34%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (33.48%) NIST
2 66 (29.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 58 (25.89%) GRC
4 23 (10.27%) NCSC
5 15 (6.70%) Cyber Essentials
6 14 (6.25%) NIST 800
7 11 (4.91%) JSP 440
8 10 (4.46%) PCI DSS
9 8 (3.57%) GDPR
10 7 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 5 (2.23%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 5 (2.23%) RMADS
13 3 (1.34%) QA
13 3 (1.34%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.89%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 1 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 3 (1.34%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.45%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.45%) Nessus
2 1 (0.45%) Nmap
2 1 (0.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (14.29%) SAP
2 20 (8.93%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.68%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (0.89%) Cisco
4 2 (0.89%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.45%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (0.45%) Google
5 1 (0.45%) Juniper
5 1 (0.45%) Netskope
5 1 (0.45%) Okta
5 1 (0.45%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.45%) Ping Identity
5 1 (0.45%) Qualys
5 1 (0.45%) Rapid7
5 1 (0.45%) Splunk
5 1 (0.45%) VMware