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 2 September 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 552 512
Rank change year-on-year +197 -40 -144
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Consultant 565 119 307
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.24% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.27% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 354 89 201
10th Percentile £50,000 - £50,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -1.46% -2.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £97,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £68,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% -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 103,220 44,750 77,447
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.83% 89.79% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 70,976 26,578 49,466
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,750 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £91,250
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 2 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 2 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 +190 485 £70,000 +3.70% 286
UK excluding London +134 373 £65,000 -3.70% 155
Work from Home +83 180 £70,000 +9.80% 194
London +35 121 £80,000 +3.23% 144
North of England +53 113 £60,000 -25.00% 49
South West -19 107 £65,000 +30.00% 50
North West +49 65 £65,000 -18.75% 35
Midlands +21 64 £70,000 -17.65% 9
South East +4 51 £70,000 -13.85% 24
East Midlands - 43 £55,000 -
North East - 31 £50,000 - 7
West Midlands -7 21 £80,000 - 9
East of England -4 18 £80,000 +23.08% 10
Yorkshire -36 17 £50,000 -37.50% 7
Scotland +5 11 - - 6
Northern Ireland - 5 £42,500 - 7
Wales - 4 £53,355 -

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

For the 6 months to 2 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.

1 378 (66.90%) Cybersecurity
2 162 (28.67%) Security Cleared
3 109 (19.29%) SC Cleared
4 93 (16.46%) NIST
4 93 (16.46%) Risk Management
5 87 (15.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 84 (14.87%) CISSP
6 84 (14.87%) Cloud Security
7 71 (12.57%) AWS
8 69 (12.21%) CISM
9 68 (12.04%) Threat Modelling
10 67 (11.86%) Security Architecture
11 57 (10.09%) Information Security
12 54 (9.56%) Mentoring
13 48 (8.50%) DV Cleared
14 44 (7.79%) Network Security
15 43 (7.61%) GRC
16 42 (7.43%) Azure
17 38 (6.73%) GDPR
18 35 (6.19%) Identity Access Management
19 32 (5.66%) AI
20 31 (5.49%) AWS Certification
21 29 (5.13%) Agile
21 29 (5.13%) Cloud Computing
21 29 (5.13%) CRISC
21 29 (5.13%) Degree
22 28 (4.96%) NCSC
22 28 (4.96%) Penetration Testing
23 27 (4.78%) Data Protection
23 27 (4.78%) Presales

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 (1.06%) SAS
2 3 (0.53%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.18%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.18%) SAP GRC
1 1 (0.18%) SAP HCM
1 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 71 (12.57%) AWS
2 42 (7.43%) Azure
3 29 (5.13%) Cloud Computing
4 17 (3.01%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (3.01%) Serverless
5 16 (2.83%) GCP
6 15 (2.65%) Amazon EKS
6 15 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (2.48%) Amazon ECS
7 14 (2.48%) Amazon EventBridge
7 14 (2.48%) AWS Control Tower
8 10 (1.77%) SaaS
9 6 (1.06%) Entra ID
10 5 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (0.71%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 3 (0.53%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (0.53%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (0.53%) Amazon S3
12 3 (0.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 44 (7.79%) Network Security
2 20 (3.54%) Firewall
3 8 (1.42%) SD-WAN
4 7 (1.24%) WAN
5 6 (1.06%) LAN
6 2 (0.35%) VPN
7 1 (0.18%) BGP
7 1 (0.18%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.18%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (0.53%) Hadoop
1 3 (0.53%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Burp Suite
1 4 (0.71%) Metasploit
2 2 (0.35%) Yeoman
3 1 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 128 (22.65%) Public Sector
2 64 (11.33%) Social Skills
3 40 (7.08%) Finance
4 25 (4.42%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (2.65%) Manufacturing
6 10 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (1.59%) Aerospace
7 9 (1.59%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (1.42%) Law
9 6 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (0.88%) Legal
10 5 (0.88%) Military
11 3 (0.53%) Banking
11 3 (0.53%) Games
11 3 (0.53%) Police
12 2 (0.35%) Electronics
13 1 (0.18%) Advertising
13 1 (0.18%) French Language
13 1 (0.18%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.19%) Terraform
2 14 (2.48%) AWS CDK
3 5 (0.88%) ModSecurity
4 4 (0.71%) NumPy
4 4 (0.71%) Pandas
4 4 (0.71%) PySpark
4 4 (0.71%) scikit-learn
5 3 (0.53%) Kafka
6 1 (0.18%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.18%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 32 (5.66%) Operational Technology
2 29 (5.13%) PKI
3 27 (4.78%) Onboarding
4 25 (4.42%) Security Posture
5 19 (3.36%) Management Information System
6 18 (3.19%) Enterprise Cloud
7 10 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.24%) Blog
9 6 (1.06%) Mobile App
10 5 (0.88%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (0.88%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 5 (0.88%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.53%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.53%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (0.53%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (0.53%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.35%) AI Agents
12 2 (0.35%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.30%) Windows
2 11 (1.95%) Linux
3 6 (1.06%) Android
3 6 (1.06%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (66.90%) Cybersecurity
2 93 (16.46%) Risk Management
3 84 (14.87%) Cloud Security
4 68 (12.04%) Threat Modelling
5 67 (11.86%) Security Architecture
6 57 (10.09%) Information Security
7 54 (9.56%) Mentoring
8 35 (6.19%) Identity Access Management
9 32 (5.66%) AI
10 29 (5.13%) Agile
11 28 (4.96%) Penetration Testing
12 27 (4.78%) Data Protection
12 27 (4.78%) Presales
13 24 (4.25%) SIEM
14 23 (4.07%) GAP Analysis
14 23 (4.07%) Incident Response
14 23 (4.07%) Infrastructure as Code
14 23 (4.07%) Security Testing
14 23 (4.07%) Zero Trust
15 22 (3.89%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 22 (3.89%) Python
2 14 (2.48%) Bash
2 14 (2.48%) Java
2 14 (2.48%) Perl
2 14 (2.48%) PHP
2 14 (2.48%) Ruby
3 3 (0.53%) SQL
4 2 (0.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 162 (28.67%) Security Cleared
2 109 (19.29%) SC Cleared
3 84 (14.87%) CISSP
4 69 (12.21%) CISM
5 48 (8.50%) DV Cleared
6 31 (5.49%) AWS Certification
7 29 (5.13%) CRISC
7 29 (5.13%) Degree
8 21 (3.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 19 (3.36%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 19 (3.36%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 16 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
11 15 (2.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 15 (2.65%) CISA
12 11 (1.95%) CREST Certified
13 9 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (1.59%) CESG Certified Professional
13 9 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
14 8 (1.42%) CCSP
15 7 (1.24%) CISMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (16.46%) NIST
2 87 (15.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 43 (7.61%) GRC
4 38 (6.73%) GDPR
5 28 (4.96%) NCSC
6 25 (4.42%) PCI DSS
7 19 (3.36%) Cyber Essentials
8 18 (3.19%) JSP 440
9 15 (2.65%) NIST 800
10 14 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 7 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.71%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.71%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 4 (0.71%) QA
13 3 (0.53%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.35%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.18%) ISO 31000
15 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 11 (1.95%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.77%) Firmware
3 1 (0.18%) IAG
3 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (1.24%) FortiGate
2 6 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.71%) Nmap
4 3 (0.53%) QRadar
5 2 (0.35%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.18%) Ansible
6 1 (0.18%) CASB
6 1 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.18%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (3.36%) Microsoft
2 10 (1.77%) Google
3 9 (1.59%) Fortinet
4 8 (1.42%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (0.88%) Splunk
6 4 (0.71%) Cisco
6 4 (0.71%) Red Hat
7 3 (0.53%) Oracle
7 3 (0.53%) OutSystems
8 2 (0.35%) OneTrust
9 1 (0.18%) Meraki
9 1 (0.18%) Netskope
9 1 (0.18%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.18%) Qualys
9 1 (0.18%) SAP
9 1 (0.18%) Tenable
9 1 (0.18%) VMware
9 1 (0.18%) Zscaler