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 21 July 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 571 495
Rank change year-on-year +195 -76 -121
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Consultant 469 109 382
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.22% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.25% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 299 73 266
10th Percentile £48,065 - £49,375
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £57,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £74,870 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% +6.96% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £91,250 £97,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £68,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% -5.11% -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 94,323 44,218 88,743
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.27% 89.88% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 64,728 26,167 62,366
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £90,000
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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +200 417 £65,000 -13.33% 83
UK excluding London +133 298 £60,000 -7.69% 54
Work from Home +72 138 £65,000 +30.00% 45
London +72 119 £80,000 - 29
South West 0 90 £55,000 +10.00% 18
North of England +46 85 £60,000 -25.00% 12
Midlands +30 66 £70,000 -12.50% 9
North West +45 54 £60,000 -25.00% 5
East Midlands +24 47 £60,000 -25.00% 2
South East 0 40 £65,000 -25.71% 11
North East - 21 £50,000 - 2
West Midlands -3 19 £80,000 - 7
Yorkshire -36 10 £50,000 -37.50% 5
East of England - 9 £80,000 - 4
Wales - 4 £53,355 -
Northern Ireland - 3 £42,500 -
Scotland +7 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 21 July 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.

1 311 (66.31%) Cybersecurity
2 175 (37.31%) Security Cleared
3 122 (26.01%) SC Cleared
4 90 (19.19%) Risk Management
5 79 (16.84%) NIST
6 75 (15.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 72 (15.35%) CISSP
8 69 (14.71%) AWS
8 69 (14.71%) Cloud Security
9 64 (13.65%) DV Cleared
10 61 (13.01%) CISM
11 56 (11.94%) Security Architecture
12 48 (10.23%) Threat Modelling
13 43 (9.17%) Information Security
14 41 (8.74%) Azure
14 41 (8.74%) Mentoring
15 38 (8.10%) Network Security
16 36 (7.68%) AI
16 36 (7.68%) GRC
17 34 (7.25%) Penetration Testing
18 31 (6.61%) GDPR
19 30 (6.40%) Cloud Computing
19 30 (6.40%) Identity Access Management
20 27 (5.76%) AWS Certification
21 25 (5.33%) Agile
22 24 (5.12%) PCI DSS
23 23 (4.90%) Security Testing
24 22 (4.69%) Data Protection
25 20 (4.26%) CRISC
25 20 (4.26%) 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 (1.28%) SAS
2 3 (0.64%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.21%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.21%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 69 (14.71%) AWS
2 41 (8.74%) Azure
3 30 (6.40%) Cloud Computing
4 17 (3.62%) GCP
5 15 (3.20%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (2.99%) Amazon EventBridge
6 14 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (2.99%) AWS Control Tower
6 14 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (2.99%) Serverless
7 12 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (2.13%) SaaS
9 6 (1.28%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (1.07%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 5 (1.07%) Entra ID
11 3 (0.64%) Amazon Bedrock
11 3 (0.64%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (0.43%) AWS KMS
12 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 38 (8.10%) Network Security
2 19 (4.05%) Firewall
3 7 (1.49%) LAN
4 6 (1.28%) SD-WAN
4 6 (1.28%) WAN
5 3 (0.64%) VPN
6 1 (0.21%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.64%) Hadoop
1 3 (0.64%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.21%) SAP BW
2 1 (0.21%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Yeoman
2 1 (0.21%) Burp Suite
2 1 (0.21%) Metasploit
General
1 108 (23.03%) Public Sector
2 60 (12.79%) Social Skills
3 39 (8.32%) Finance
4 24 (5.12%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (2.56%) Manufacturing
6 9 (1.92%) Law
7 8 (1.71%) Telecoms
8 6 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.07%) Military
9 5 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.85%) Legal
11 3 (0.64%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.64%) Banking
11 3 (0.64%) Games
11 3 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.43%) Advertising
13 1 (0.21%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.21%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.21%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.99%) AWS CDK
2 5 (1.07%) ModSecurity
3 4 (0.85%) NumPy
3 4 (0.85%) Pandas
3 4 (0.85%) PySpark
3 4 (0.85%) scikit-learn
4 3 (0.64%) Kafka
5 2 (0.43%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.21%) .NET
6 1 (0.21%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.40%) PKI
2 29 (6.18%) Onboarding
3 24 (5.12%) Security Posture
4 18 (3.84%) Enterprise Cloud
5 16 (3.41%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.71%) Blog
7 7 (1.49%) Operational Technology
8 6 (1.28%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 6 (1.28%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.07%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.07%) Cyber Defence
9 5 (1.07%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.43%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (0.43%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.43%) Mobile Computing
11 2 (0.43%) Social Media
12 1 (0.21%) Cyber Threat
12 1 (0.21%) Cyberattack
12 1 (0.21%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.56%) Windows
2 11 (2.35%) Linux
3 6 (1.28%) Android
3 6 (1.28%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (66.31%) Cybersecurity
2 90 (19.19%) Risk Management
3 69 (14.71%) Cloud Security
4 56 (11.94%) Security Architecture
5 48 (10.23%) Threat Modelling
6 43 (9.17%) Information Security
7 41 (8.74%) Mentoring
8 36 (7.68%) AI
9 34 (7.25%) Penetration Testing
10 30 (6.40%) Identity Access Management
11 25 (5.33%) Agile
12 23 (4.90%) Security Testing
13 22 (4.69%) Data Protection
14 20 (4.26%) Information Assurance
14 20 (4.26%) Scrum
14 20 (4.26%) SIEM
14 20 (4.26%) Threat Intelligence
15 19 (4.05%) Cryptography
15 19 (4.05%) GAP Analysis
16 18 (3.84%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 19 (4.05%) Python
2 14 (2.99%) Bash
2 14 (2.99%) Java
2 14 (2.99%) Perl
2 14 (2.99%) PHP
2 14 (2.99%) Ruby
3 3 (0.64%) SQL
4 2 (0.43%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.21%) C
5 1 (0.21%) C#
5 1 (0.21%) C++
Qualifications
1 175 (37.31%) Security Cleared
2 122 (26.01%) SC Cleared
3 72 (15.35%) CISSP
4 64 (13.65%) DV Cleared
5 61 (13.01%) CISM
6 27 (5.76%) AWS Certification
7 20 (4.26%) CRISC
8 18 (3.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 17 (3.62%) CISA
9 17 (3.62%) Cisco Certification
10 16 (3.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 16 (3.41%) Degree
11 13 (2.77%) CREST Certified
11 13 (2.77%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 13 (2.77%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 9 (1.92%) CESG Certified Professional
13 8 (1.71%) CCSP
13 8 (1.71%) CEH
13 8 (1.71%) CompTIA CySA+
14 7 (1.49%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (16.84%) NIST
2 75 (15.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 36 (7.68%) GRC
4 31 (6.61%) GDPR
5 24 (5.12%) PCI DSS
6 20 (4.26%) NCSC
7 15 (3.20%) JSP 440
8 14 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 13 (2.77%) NIST 800
10 12 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 3 (0.64%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.21%) Accessibility
15 1 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 1 (0.21%) QA
15 1 (0.21%) RMADS
15 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (2.77%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.43%) Firmware
3 1 (0.21%) IAG
Systems Management
1 15 (3.20%) Terraform
2 7 (1.49%) FortiGate
2 7 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.64%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.64%) QRadar
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.21%) Nmap
5 1 (0.21%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (2.77%) Microsoft
2 9 (1.92%) CrowdStrike
3 8 (1.71%) Fortinet
4 7 (1.49%) Google
5 6 (1.28%) Splunk
6 4 (0.85%) SAP
7 2 (0.43%) Cisco
7 2 (0.43%) OneTrust
7 2 (0.43%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.21%) Qualys
8 1 (0.21%) Tenable