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 3 August 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 568 519
Rank change year-on-year +186 -49 -141
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Consultant 495 127 328
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.26% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.28% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 308 89 221
10th Percentile £48,065 - £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 97,698 44,800 78,990
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.23% 90.07% 94.90%
Number of salaries quoted 66,827 26,689 53,699
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £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 £71,915
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £90,844
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%

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 3 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 3 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 +185 438 £65,000 -3.70% 126
UK excluding London +114 318 £60,000 -11.11% 87
Work from Home +77 149 £65,000 +18.18% 79
London +46 124 £80,000 +1.59% 49
North of England +40 93 £60,000 -25.00% 20
South West -28 89 £55,000 +10.00% 34
Midlands +40 71 £70,000 -12.50% 9
North West +52 56 £60,000 -25.00% 14
East Midlands +28 49 £60,000 -25.00%
South East +13 39 £65,000 -25.71% 15
North East - 24 £50,000 - 3
West Midlands -11 22 £80,000 - 9
East of England - 14 £80,000 - 3
Yorkshire -32 13 £50,000 -37.50% 3
Scotland +5 4 - - 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 3 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.

1 335 (67.68%) Cybersecurity
2 176 (35.56%) Security Cleared
3 117 (23.64%) SC Cleared
4 93 (18.79%) Risk Management
5 84 (16.97%) NIST
6 79 (15.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 78 (15.76%) Cloud Security
8 76 (15.35%) CISSP
9 69 (13.94%) AWS
10 65 (13.13%) DV Cleared
11 62 (12.53%) CISM
12 59 (11.92%) Threat Modelling
13 56 (11.31%) Security Architecture
14 50 (10.10%) Information Security
14 50 (10.10%) Mentoring
15 42 (8.48%) Azure
16 39 (7.88%) GRC
16 39 (7.88%) Network Security
17 35 (7.07%) AI
18 34 (6.87%) GDPR
19 32 (6.46%) Identity Access Management
20 29 (5.86%) AWS Certification
20 29 (5.86%) Cloud Computing
20 29 (5.86%) Penetration Testing
21 26 (5.25%) Agile
21 26 (5.25%) PCI DSS
22 25 (5.05%) NCSC
23 24 (4.85%) Data Protection
24 23 (4.65%) Degree
25 22 (4.44%) 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 (1.21%) SAS
2 3 (0.61%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.20%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.40%) 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 (13.94%) AWS
2 42 (8.48%) Azure
3 29 (5.86%) Cloud Computing
4 15 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
4 15 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
4 15 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (3.03%) GCP
4 15 (3.03%) Serverless
5 14 (2.83%) Amazon ECS
5 14 (2.83%) Amazon EventBridge
5 14 (2.83%) AWS Control Tower
6 13 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (2.02%) SaaS
8 5 (1.01%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (1.01%) Entra ID
9 4 (0.81%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 3 (0.61%) Amazon Bedrock
10 3 (0.61%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (0.40%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 39 (7.88%) Network Security
2 20 (4.04%) Firewall
3 7 (1.41%) LAN
3 7 (1.41%) SD-WAN
3 7 (1.41%) WAN
4 2 (0.40%) VPN
5 1 (0.20%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
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 (0.40%) Yeoman
General
1 114 (23.03%) Public Sector
2 64 (12.93%) Social Skills
3 39 (7.88%) Finance
4 26 (5.25%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (3.03%) Manufacturing
6 10 (2.02%) Telecoms
7 9 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.62%) Law
9 7 (1.41%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.01%) Military
12 4 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.81%) Legal
13 3 (0.61%) Banking
13 3 (0.61%) Games
14 2 (0.40%) Advertising
14 2 (0.40%) Police
15 1 (0.20%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.20%) French Language
15 1 (0.20%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.83%) AWS CDK
2 5 (1.01%) ModSecurity
3 4 (0.81%) NumPy
3 4 (0.81%) Pandas
3 4 (0.81%) PySpark
3 4 (0.81%) scikit-learn
4 3 (0.61%) Kafka
5 1 (0.20%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.20%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.67%) PKI
2 29 (5.86%) Onboarding
3 24 (4.85%) Security Posture
4 18 (3.64%) Enterprise Cloud
4 18 (3.64%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.02%) Operational Technology
6 7 (1.41%) Blog
7 6 (1.21%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 6 (1.21%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.21%) Mobile App
8 4 (0.81%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.61%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (0.61%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (0.61%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.61%) Social Media
10 2 (0.40%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.40%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.20%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.83%) Windows
2 12 (2.42%) Linux
3 6 (1.21%) Android
3 6 (1.21%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (67.68%) Cybersecurity
2 93 (18.79%) Risk Management
3 78 (15.76%) Cloud Security
4 59 (11.92%) Threat Modelling
5 56 (11.31%) Security Architecture
6 50 (10.10%) Information Security
6 50 (10.10%) Mentoring
7 35 (7.07%) AI
8 32 (6.46%) Identity Access Management
9 29 (5.86%) Penetration Testing
10 26 (5.25%) Agile
11 24 (4.85%) Data Protection
12 22 (4.44%) GAP Analysis
12 22 (4.44%) Information Assurance
12 22 (4.44%) Presales
12 22 (4.44%) Security Testing
13 21 (4.24%) Infrastructure as Code
13 21 (4.24%) Scrum
13 21 (4.24%) SIEM
14 20 (4.04%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 19 (3.84%) Python
2 14 (2.83%) Bash
2 14 (2.83%) Java
2 14 (2.83%) Perl
2 14 (2.83%) PHP
2 14 (2.83%) Ruby
3 3 (0.61%) SQL
4 2 (0.40%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 176 (35.56%) Security Cleared
2 117 (23.64%) SC Cleared
3 76 (15.35%) CISSP
4 65 (13.13%) DV Cleared
5 62 (12.53%) CISM
6 29 (5.86%) AWS Certification
7 23 (4.65%) Degree
8 22 (4.44%) CRISC
9 19 (3.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (3.43%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (3.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 16 (3.23%) CISA
11 16 (3.23%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 15 (3.03%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 11 (2.22%) CREST Certified
14 9 (1.82%) CESG Certified Professional
15 8 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (1.62%) CCSP
15 8 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
16 7 (1.41%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (16.97%) NIST
2 79 (15.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 39 (7.88%) GRC
4 34 (6.87%) GDPR
5 26 (5.25%) PCI DSS
6 25 (5.05%) NCSC
7 15 (3.03%) JSP 440
7 15 (3.03%) NIST 800
8 13 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 12 (2.42%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.61%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.40%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.20%) ISO 31000
13 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 11 (2.22%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.41%) Firmware
3 1 (0.20%) IAG
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (3.03%) Terraform
2 7 (1.41%) FortiGate
3 6 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.61%) Nmap
4 3 (0.61%) QRadar
5 2 (0.40%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.20%) CASB
6 1 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (2.83%) Microsoft
2 9 (1.82%) Fortinet
3 8 (1.62%) CrowdStrike
3 8 (1.62%) Google
4 5 (1.01%) Splunk
5 3 (0.61%) Cisco
6 2 (0.40%) OneTrust
6 2 (0.40%) Palo Alto
6 2 (0.40%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.40%) SAP
7 1 (0.20%) Netskope
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle
7 1 (0.20%) OutSystems
7 1 (0.20%) Qualys
7 1 (0.20%) Tenable
7 1 (0.20%) VMware
7 1 (0.20%) Zscaler