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 22 September 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 569 499
Rank change year-on-year +220 -70 -139
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Consultant 592 104 303
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 85 170
10th Percentile £50,000 - £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £89,000 £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 108,269 43,856 72,591
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 89.61% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 74,176 25,746 43,293
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £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 £74,258 £74,100
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
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 22 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 22 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 +191 505 £75,000 +11.11% 264
UK excluding London +101 373 £65,000 -3.70% 146
Work from Home +62 177 £75,000 +42.86% 180
London +61 141 £80,000 +3.23% 116
North of England +41 117 £60,000 -25.00% 30
South West -35 102 £75,000 +42.86% 31
North West +27 67 £65,000 -18.75% 18
South East +5 57 £70,000 -20.00% 35
Midlands +9 56 £70,000 -17.65% 12
East Midlands - 36 £55,000 - 4
North East - 33 £50,000 - 5
East of England -7 21 £71,250 +9.62% 10
West Midlands -30 20 £80,000 - 8
Yorkshire -33 17 £50,000 -37.50% 7
Scotland +12 12 - - 17
Northern Ireland - 5 £42,500 - 6
Wales - 3 £55,000 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 22 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.

1 382 (64.53%) Cybersecurity
2 163 (27.53%) Security Cleared
3 112 (18.92%) SC Cleared
4 94 (15.88%) Risk Management
5 93 (15.71%) NIST
6 87 (14.70%) Cloud Security
7 84 (14.19%) CISSP
7 84 (14.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 71 (11.99%) Threat Modelling
9 68 (11.49%) Security Architecture
10 67 (11.32%) CISM
11 66 (11.15%) AWS
12 62 (10.47%) Information Security
13 54 (9.12%) Mentoring
14 48 (8.11%) Network Security
15 41 (6.93%) GRC
16 38 (6.42%) Azure
16 38 (6.42%) GDPR
17 35 (5.91%) DV Cleared
18 34 (5.74%) AI
18 34 (5.74%) Identity Access Management
19 31 (5.24%) AWS Certification
19 31 (5.24%) NCSC
20 30 (5.07%) Degree
21 29 (4.90%) Agile
21 29 (4.90%) Cloud Computing
21 29 (4.90%) CRISC
21 29 (4.90%) Data Protection
22 27 (4.56%) Presales
23 26 (4.39%) 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 (1.01%) SAS
2 3 (0.51%) 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 66 (11.15%) AWS
2 38 (6.42%) Azure
3 29 (4.90%) Cloud Computing
4 17 (2.87%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (2.87%) Serverless
5 15 (2.53%) GCP
6 14 (2.36%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (2.36%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (2.36%) Amazon EventBridge
6 14 (2.36%) AWS Control Tower
7 10 (1.69%) SaaS
8 6 (1.01%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (1.01%) Entra ID
8 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (0.51%) Amazon Bedrock
9 3 (0.51%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (0.51%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (0.51%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 48 (8.11%) Network Security
2 21 (3.55%) Firewall
3 9 (1.52%) SD-WAN
4 7 (1.18%) WAN
5 6 (1.01%) LAN
6 3 (0.51%) BGP
6 3 (0.51%) VLAN
7 2 (0.34%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.17%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (0.17%) VPN
8 1 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (0.51%) Hadoop
1 3 (0.51%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (0.68%) Burp Suite
1 4 (0.68%) Metasploit
2 2 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (0.34%) Yeoman
General
1 122 (20.61%) Public Sector
2 62 (10.47%) Social Skills
3 42 (7.09%) Finance
4 24 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (2.53%) Manufacturing
6 12 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (1.69%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.35%) Aerospace
8 8 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (1.35%) Law
9 7 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (0.84%) Legal
10 5 (0.84%) Military
11 4 (0.68%) Banking
12 3 (0.51%) Games
12 3 (0.51%) Police
13 2 (0.34%) Electronics
14 1 (0.17%) Advertising
14 1 (0.17%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.21%) Terraform
2 14 (2.36%) AWS CDK
3 5 (0.84%) ModSecurity
4 4 (0.68%) NumPy
4 4 (0.68%) Pandas
4 4 (0.68%) PySpark
4 4 (0.68%) scikit-learn
5 3 (0.51%) Kafka
6 1 (0.17%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 45 (7.60%) Operational Technology
2 27 (4.56%) Onboarding
3 24 (4.05%) Security Posture
4 22 (3.72%) PKI
5 19 (3.21%) Management Information System
6 18 (3.04%) Enterprise Cloud
7 12 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.18%) Mobile App
9 5 (0.84%) AI Agents
9 5 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (0.84%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.68%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (0.68%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 3 (0.51%) Blog
11 3 (0.51%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (0.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (0.51%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.34%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.34%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.17%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.52%) Windows
2 7 (1.18%) Linux
3 6 (1.01%) Android
3 6 (1.01%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (64.53%) Cybersecurity
2 94 (15.88%) Risk Management
3 87 (14.70%) Cloud Security
4 71 (11.99%) Threat Modelling
5 68 (11.49%) Security Architecture
6 62 (10.47%) Information Security
7 54 (9.12%) Mentoring
8 34 (5.74%) AI
8 34 (5.74%) Identity Access Management
9 29 (4.90%) Agile
9 29 (4.90%) Data Protection
10 27 (4.56%) Presales
11 26 (4.39%) Business Development
11 26 (4.39%) Zero Trust
12 25 (4.22%) Penetration Testing
13 24 (4.05%) GAP Analysis
13 24 (4.05%) Incident Response
14 23 (3.89%) Security Testing
14 23 (3.89%) SIEM
15 21 (3.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 25 (4.22%) Python
2 14 (2.36%) Bash
2 14 (2.36%) Java
2 14 (2.36%) Perl
2 14 (2.36%) PHP
2 14 (2.36%) Ruby
3 5 (0.84%) PowerShell
4 3 (0.51%) SQL
5 1 (0.17%) C#
5 1 (0.17%) C++
5 1 (0.17%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.17%) Rust
Qualifications
1 163 (27.53%) Security Cleared
2 112 (18.92%) SC Cleared
3 84 (14.19%) CISSP
4 67 (11.32%) CISM
5 35 (5.91%) DV Cleared
6 31 (5.24%) AWS Certification
7 30 (5.07%) Degree
8 29 (4.90%) CRISC
9 21 (3.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 20 (3.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 18 (3.04%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 16 (2.70%) CISA
12 16 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (2.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 9 (1.52%) Azure Certification
14 9 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (1.52%) CESG Certified Professional
14 9 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
15 8 (1.35%) CREST Certified
15 8 (1.35%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (15.71%) NIST
2 84 (14.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 41 (6.93%) GRC
4 38 (6.42%) GDPR
5 31 (5.24%) NCSC
6 22 (3.72%) Cyber Essentials
7 20 (3.38%) PCI DSS
8 17 (2.87%) JSP 440
9 15 (2.53%) NIST 800
10 13 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 8 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (1.18%) Accessibility
13 4 (0.68%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.68%) QA
14 3 (0.51%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
16 1 (0.17%) ISO 22301
16 1 (0.17%) ISO 31000
16 1 (0.17%) RMADS
System Software
1 10 (1.69%) Firmware
2 7 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) IAG
3 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (1.35%) FortiGate
2 5 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.68%) Nmap
4 3 (0.51%) QRadar
5 2 (0.34%) Ansible
5 2 (0.34%) 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 20 (3.38%) Microsoft
2 10 (1.69%) Fortinet
2 10 (1.69%) Google
3 7 (1.18%) Cisco
3 7 (1.18%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (0.68%) Red Hat
4 4 (0.68%) Splunk
5 3 (0.51%) OneTrust
5 3 (0.51%) Oracle
5 3 (0.51%) OutSystems
6 2 (0.34%) Meraki
7 1 (0.17%) Acronis
7 1 (0.17%) Netskope
7 1 (0.17%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.17%) Qualys
7 1 (0.17%) SAP
7 1 (0.17%) Tenable
7 1 (0.17%) Varonis
7 1 (0.17%) VMware
7 1 (0.17%) Zscaler