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 1 February 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 450 527 513
Rank change year-on-year +77 -14 -33
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Consultant 210 179 305
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.35% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.37% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 159 87 242
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £82,500 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +11.86% +5.36%
75th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £77,500 £66,250
% change year-on-year -16.13% +16.98% +1.92%

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 58,000 47,786 67,491
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.88% 92.14% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 36,092 24,542 52,929
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
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 £79,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,439 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.15% +8.88% -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 1 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 1 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 +82 188 £67,500 -18.18% 76
UK excluding London +59 151 £65,000 -16.13% 45
South West +77 88 £67,500 -26.23% 16
Work from Home +74 80 £60,000 -27.27% 33
London +30 42 £71,000 -16.47% 31
Midlands +27 20 £55,000 -30.16% 7
South East +30 18 £57,500 -36.11% 11
East Midlands +7 15 £55,000 -33.33% 2
Scotland +3 12 £93,750 +4.17%
North of England -51 8 £77,500 +19.23% 9
Yorkshire -56 7 £77,500 +29.17% 5
East of England +25 5 £65,000 -5.80% 3
West Midlands +29 4 £72,500 -6.45% 5
North West +20 1 £100,000 +17.65% 4

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 144 (68.57%) Cybersecurity
2 96 (45.71%) Security Cleared
3 74 (35.24%) NIST
4 70 (33.33%) SC Cleared
5 64 (30.48%) CISSP
5 64 (30.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 62 (29.52%) CISM
7 60 (28.57%) Risk Management
8 57 (27.14%) GRC
9 42 (20.00%) ISMS
10 32 (15.24%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 32 (15.24%) Penetration Testing
10 32 (15.24%) SAP
11 30 (14.29%) DV Cleared
12 29 (13.81%) Cloud Security
13 28 (13.33%) Digital Marketing
13 28 (13.33%) Programme Management
14 27 (12.86%) Business Intelligence
14 27 (12.86%) Collaborative Culture
15 26 (12.38%) AWS
15 26 (12.38%) NCSC
15 26 (12.38%) SAP CAF
15 26 (12.38%) Security Architecture
16 25 (11.90%) Azure
17 24 (11.43%) Information Security
18 21 (10.00%) Agile
19 20 (9.52%) Red Team
20 19 (9.05%) Microsoft
21 18 (8.57%) Incident Response
21 18 (8.57%) Information Assurance

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 (2.86%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 2 (0.95%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (12.38%) AWS
2 25 (11.90%) Azure
3 14 (6.67%) GCP
4 10 (4.76%) Entra ID
4 10 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
5 5 (2.38%) SaaS
6 4 (1.90%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.48%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.48%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.48%) OCI
9 1 (0.48%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.19%) Network Security
2 4 (1.90%) DMZ
2 4 (1.90%) Firewall
3 1 (0.48%) Junos
3 1 (0.48%) LAN
3 1 (0.48%) VPN
3 1 (0.48%) WAN
3 1 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.48%) Wireless
3 1 (0.48%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Burp Suite
1 1 (0.48%) Metasploit
General
1 49 (23.33%) Finance
2 48 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 46 (21.90%) Public Sector
4 30 (14.29%) Telecoms
5 28 (13.33%) Marketing
6 27 (12.86%) Electronics
6 27 (12.86%) Manufacturing
7 8 (3.81%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.81%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.86%) Law
8 6 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.90%) Banking
9 4 (1.90%) Military
10 3 (1.43%) Games
11 2 (0.95%) Billing
11 2 (0.95%) Cyber-Physical System
11 2 (0.95%) Legal
11 2 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (12.38%) SAP CAF
2 2 (0.95%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.48%) .NET
3 1 (0.48%) LDAP
3 1 (0.48%) ModSecurity
3 1 (0.48%) OAuth
3 1 (0.48%) OpenID
3 1 (0.48%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.48%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.48%) SAML
3 1 (0.48%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 32 (15.24%) Security Posture
2 14 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 8 (3.81%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.81%) Cyber Defence
3 8 (3.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (3.33%) PKI
5 6 (2.86%) CESG
6 5 (2.38%) Blog
6 5 (2.38%) Operational Technology
7 4 (1.90%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (1.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 4 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.90%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.95%) Mobile Computing
9 2 (0.95%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.95%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.48%) Android
1 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.48%) Linux
1 1 (0.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (68.57%) Cybersecurity
2 60 (28.57%) Risk Management
3 42 (20.00%) ISMS
4 32 (15.24%) Penetration Testing
5 29 (13.81%) Cloud Security
6 28 (13.33%) Digital Marketing
6 28 (13.33%) Programme Management
7 27 (12.86%) Business Intelligence
7 27 (12.86%) Collaborative Culture
8 26 (12.38%) Security Architecture
9 24 (11.43%) Information Security
10 21 (10.00%) Agile
11 20 (9.52%) Red Team
12 18 (8.57%) Incident Response
12 18 (8.57%) Information Assurance
13 15 (7.14%) Mentoring
14 14 (6.67%) Creative Thinking
14 14 (6.67%) Security Management
14 14 (6.67%) Security Testing
15 12 (5.71%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.43%) Python
2 1 (0.48%) C
2 1 (0.48%) C#
2 1 (0.48%) C++
2 1 (0.48%) Go
2 1 (0.48%) Rust
Qualifications
1 96 (45.71%) Security Cleared
2 70 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 64 (30.48%) CISSP
4 62 (29.52%) CISM
5 32 (15.24%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 30 (14.29%) DV Cleared
7 14 (6.67%) CESG Certified Professional
8 12 (5.71%) OSCP
9 11 (5.24%) CEH
9 11 (5.24%) CREST Certified
10 10 (4.76%) CISMP
10 10 (4.76%) CRISC
11 9 (4.29%) Degree
12 8 (3.81%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 7 (3.33%) CISA
14 6 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (2.86%) IISP
15 5 (2.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (2.38%) CCSP
15 5 (2.38%) CHECK Team Member
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (35.24%) NIST
2 64 (30.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 57 (27.14%) GRC
4 26 (12.38%) NCSC
5 17 (8.10%) NIST 800
6 15 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
6 15 (7.14%) JSP 440
7 10 (4.76%) PCI DSS
8 9 (4.29%) RMADS
9 8 (3.81%) GDPR
10 7 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (2.86%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 6 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 5 (2.38%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 3 (1.43%) QA
14 2 (0.95%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 2 (0.95%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.48%) Nessus
2 1 (0.48%) Nmap
Vendors
1 32 (15.24%) SAP
2 19 (9.05%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.38%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (0.48%) Cisco
4 1 (0.48%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (0.48%) Fortinet
4 1 (0.48%) Google
4 1 (0.48%) Juniper
4 1 (0.48%) Netskope
4 1 (0.48%) Okta
4 1 (0.48%) Ping Identity
4 1 (0.48%) Qualys
4 1 (0.48%) Rapid7
4 1 (0.48%) VMware