Security Consultant Job Trends

Security Consultant
UK

The median Security Consultant salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 October 2026.

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

	6 months to 24 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	336	551	489
Rank change year-on-year	+215	-62	-50
Permanent Security Consultant jobs	652	121	279
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK	0.54%	0.24%	0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category	0.58%	0.27%	0.42%
Number of salaries quoted	382	102	153
10^th Percentile	£50,000	-	£48,750
25^th Percentile	£56,250	£47,500	£56,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£75,000	£62,500	£75,000
Median % change year-on-year	+20.00%	-16.67%	+7.14%
75^th Percentile	£90,000	£79,375	£87,500
90^th Percentile	£100,000	£91,125	£97,250
UK excluding London median annual salary	£70,000	£61,250	£70,000
% change year-on-year	+14.29%	-12.50%	-

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job adverts matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all permanent IT job adverts they make up.

	6 months to 24 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent job adverts in the UK matching a recognised job title	111,477	44,406	65,669
% of permanent job adverts matching a recognised job title	92.18%	89.83%	95.30%
Number of salaries quoted	75,138	26,267	37,427
10^th Percentile	£30,500	£28,177	£31,250
25^th Percentile	£41,250	£35,000	£41,591
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£59,300	£52,500	£56,500
Median % change year-on-year	+12.95%	-7.08%	-5.83%
75^th Percentile	£76,250	£73,750	£75,000
90^th Percentile	£98,750	£93,750	£95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary	£55,000	£45,390	£50,000
% change year-on-year	+21.17%	-9.22%	-4.76%

Security Consultant Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent Security Consultant job postings relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Security Consultant Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Security Consultant job vacancies in the UK.

Security Consultant Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for Security Consultant jobs over the 6 months to 24 October 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 Security Consultant jobs within the UK over the 6 months to 24 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
England	+179	560	£79,000	+22.15%	289
UK excluding London	+105	393	£70,000	+14.29%	170
Work from Home	+31	179	£75,000	+42.86%	191
London	+77	169	£80,000	+7.74%	109
North of England	+53	130	£60,000	-25.00%	41
South West	-54	97	£76,250	+45.24%	29
South East	-1	77	£70,000	-24.32%	51
North West	+30	70	£70,000	-22.22%	18
Midlands	-25	45	£77,500	-6.06%	14
North East	-	37	£50,000	-	8
East of England	-23	27	£62,500	-3.85%	11
Yorkshire	-18	23	£50,000	-36.51%	15
East Midlands	-23	23	£55,000	-21.43%	2
West Midlands	-26	22	£80,000	-25.58%	12
Scotland	+14	14	-	-	17
Northern Ireland	-	4	£71,250	-	2
Wales	-	1	£55,000	-	3

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

For the 6 months to 24 October 2026, Security Consultant job ads cited 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 Security Consultant job ads.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Cybersecurity	60.9%	397
2	Security Cleared	28.4%	185
3	SC Cleared	19.6%	128
4	Risk Management	16.6%	108
5	Cloud Security	15.2%	99
5	NIST	15.2%	99
7	Threat Modelling	13.3%	87
8	CISSP	12.6%	82
8	ISO/IEC 27001	12.6%	82
10	Security Architecture	11.5%	75
11	AWS	10.7%	70
12	Information Security	10.4%	68
13	CISM	10.1%	66
14	Mentoring	9.2%	60
15	Network Security	7.5%	49
16	AI	7.2%	47
17	GRC	7.1%	46
18	Azure	6.7%	44
19	NCSC	6.1%	40
20	GDPR	6.0%	39
21	Degree	5.5%	36
22	Identity Access Management	5.4%	35
22	Presales	5.4%	35
24	DV Cleared	5.2%	34
25	Business Development	5.1%	33
26	AWS Certification	4.9%	32
26	Data Protection	4.9%	32
26	Python	4.9%	32
29	CRISC	4.6%	30
29	Incident Response	4.6%	30

Security Consultant Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

Rank	Job Title	Share	Job Ads
1	Cybersecurity Consultant	34.8%	227
2	Senior Security Consultant	17.9%	117
3	Security Technical Consultant	9.5%	62
4	Lead Security Consultant	6.3%	41
4	Principal Security Consultant	6.3%	41
6	Risk Consultant	5.8%	38
7	Information Security Consultant	4.9%	32
8	Cloud Security Consultant	3.8%	25
9	Senior Cybersecurity Consultant	3.5%	23
10	Governance Consultant	3.1%	20
11	Senior Technical Consultant	2.9%	19
12	Cyber Defence Consultant	2.5%	16
13	Sales Consultant	2.1%	14
13	SC Cleared Technical Consultant	2.1%	14
13	Security Penetration Tester	2.1%	14
16	Junior Security Consultant	1.5%	10
17	AWS Consultant	1.4%	9
17	Network Security Consultant	1.4%	9
19	Security Engineer	1.1%	7
20	Graduate Consultant	0.9%	6