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 10 July 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 575 514
Rank change year-on-year +200 -61 -124
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Consultant 450 102 405
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.21% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.23% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 287 66 286
10th Percentile £48,065 £47,500 £47,625
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £56,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £97,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £74,870 £68,500
% change year-on-year -19.86% +9.30% -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 92,213 43,991 96,659
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.19% 89.88% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 63,185 25,842 69,287
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £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 10 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 10 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 +177 396 £65,000 -16.13% 63
UK excluding London +147 289 £60,000 -19.86% 43
Work from Home +104 130 £60,000 -4.00% 34
London +46 109 £80,000 +1.59% 26
South West +16 93 £60,000 +20.00% 9
North of England +26 78 £60,000 -25.00% 13
Midlands +29 62 £65,000 -18.75% 4
North West +44 50 £60,000 -25.00% 8
East Midlands +22 45 £55,000 -31.25% 2
South East -10 38 £65,000 -21.21% 13
North East - 20 £50,000 - 1
West Midlands +1 17 £90,000 +12.50% 2
Yorkshire -33 8 £50,000 -37.50% 5
East of England - 8 £80,000 - 3
Wales - 4 £53,355 -
Scotland +10 3 £93,750 +25.22% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 £42,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 10 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.

1 294 (65.33%) Cybersecurity
2 173 (38.44%) Security Cleared
3 124 (27.56%) SC Cleared
4 86 (19.11%) Risk Management
5 79 (17.56%) NIST
6 77 (17.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 75 (16.67%) CISSP
8 66 (14.67%) AWS
9 65 (14.44%) CISM
9 65 (14.44%) Cloud Security
10 64 (14.22%) DV Cleared
11 55 (12.22%) Security Architecture
12 42 (9.33%) Azure
12 42 (9.33%) Threat Modelling
13 39 (8.67%) Mentoring
14 38 (8.44%) Penetration Testing
15 36 (8.00%) Network Security
16 35 (7.78%) GRC
16 35 (7.78%) Information Security
17 33 (7.33%) AI
18 29 (6.44%) GDPR
19 28 (6.22%) Identity Access Management
20 27 (6.00%) Cloud Computing
21 26 (5.78%) Security Testing
22 24 (5.33%) AWS Certification
22 24 (5.33%) PCI DSS
23 23 (5.11%) Data Protection
24 22 (4.89%) Agile
24 22 (4.89%) Threat Intelligence
25 21 (4.67%) 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 5 (1.11%) SAS
2 3 (0.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.44%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.22%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.22%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 66 (14.67%) AWS
2 42 (9.33%) Azure
3 27 (6.00%) Cloud Computing
4 17 (3.78%) GCP
5 13 (2.89%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (2.67%) Amazon ECS
6 12 (2.67%) Amazon EventBridge
6 12 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (2.67%) AWS Control Tower
6 12 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (2.67%) Serverless
7 11 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (2.22%) SaaS
9 6 (1.33%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (1.33%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 3 (0.67%) Amazon Bedrock
11 3 (0.67%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (0.44%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 36 (8.00%) Network Security
2 19 (4.22%) Firewall
3 7 (1.56%) LAN
4 6 (1.33%) SD-WAN
4 6 (1.33%) WAN
5 3 (0.67%) VPN
6 1 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.67%) Hadoop
1 3 (0.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.22%) SAP BW
2 1 (0.22%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (0.44%) Yeoman
General
1 104 (23.11%) Public Sector
2 61 (13.56%) Social Skills
3 42 (9.33%) Finance
4 23 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (2.00%) Law
5 9 (2.00%) Manufacturing
6 7 (1.56%) Telecoms
7 5 (1.11%) Banking
7 5 (1.11%) Games
7 5 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.11%) Military
8 4 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.67%) Legal
10 2 (0.44%) Advertising
11 1 (0.22%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.22%) Billing
11 1 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.22%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.22%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.67%) AWS CDK
2 5 (1.11%) ModSecurity
3 3 (0.67%) Kafka
3 3 (0.67%) NumPy
3 3 (0.67%) Pandas
3 3 (0.67%) PySpark
3 3 (0.67%) scikit-learn
4 2 (0.44%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.22%) .NET
5 1 (0.22%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.22%) Security Posture
2 27 (6.00%) Onboarding
2 27 (6.00%) PKI
3 16 (3.56%) Enterprise Cloud
4 15 (3.33%) Management Information System
5 8 (1.78%) Blog
6 7 (1.56%) Cyber Defence
6 7 (1.56%) Operational Technology
7 6 (1.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 6 (1.33%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.11%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.67%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.44%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.44%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.44%) Mobile Computing
10 2 (0.44%) Social Media
11 1 (0.22%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.22%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.67%) Windows
2 11 (2.44%) Linux
3 6 (1.33%) Android
3 6 (1.33%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (65.33%) Cybersecurity
2 86 (19.11%) Risk Management
3 65 (14.44%) Cloud Security
4 55 (12.22%) Security Architecture
5 42 (9.33%) Threat Modelling
6 39 (8.67%) Mentoring
7 38 (8.44%) Penetration Testing
8 35 (7.78%) Information Security
9 33 (7.33%) AI
10 28 (6.22%) Identity Access Management
11 26 (5.78%) Security Testing
12 23 (5.11%) Data Protection
13 22 (4.89%) Agile
13 22 (4.89%) Threat Intelligence
14 21 (4.67%) Information Assurance
15 20 (4.44%) Scrum
15 20 (4.44%) SIEM
16 19 (4.22%) Incident Response
17 18 (4.00%) Presales
18 17 (3.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 16 (3.56%) Python
2 12 (2.67%) Bash
2 12 (2.67%) Java
2 12 (2.67%) Perl
2 12 (2.67%) PHP
2 12 (2.67%) Ruby
3 3 (0.67%) SQL
4 2 (0.44%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.22%) C
5 1 (0.22%) C#
5 1 (0.22%) C++
Qualifications
1 173 (38.44%) Security Cleared
2 124 (27.56%) SC Cleared
3 75 (16.67%) CISSP
4 65 (14.44%) CISM
5 64 (14.22%) DV Cleared
6 24 (5.33%) AWS Certification
7 21 (4.67%) CRISC
8 18 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (3.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 17 (3.78%) CISA
10 16 (3.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 15 (3.33%) CREST Certified
12 13 (2.89%) CEH
13 12 (2.67%) CESG Certified Professional
13 12 (2.67%) Degree
13 12 (2.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 12 (2.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 11 (2.44%) OSCP
15 9 (2.00%) CCSP
16 8 (1.78%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (17.56%) NIST
2 77 (17.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 35 (7.78%) GRC
4 29 (6.44%) GDPR
5 24 (5.33%) PCI DSS
6 20 (4.44%) NCSC
7 16 (3.56%) Cyber Essentials
8 15 (3.33%) JSP 440
9 12 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 12 (2.67%) NIST 800
10 9 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 3 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.67%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.22%) QA
13 1 (0.22%) RMADS
13 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (2.89%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.22%) IAG
Systems Management
1 13 (2.89%) Terraform
2 7 (1.56%) FortiGate
2 7 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.67%) QRadar
4 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (3.11%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.00%) CrowdStrike
3 8 (1.78%) Fortinet
4 6 (1.33%) Splunk
5 5 (1.11%) Google
6 4 (0.89%) SAP
7 2 (0.44%) Cisco
7 2 (0.44%) OneTrust
7 2 (0.44%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.22%) Qualys
8 1 (0.22%) Tenable