Security Consultant Job Trends

Security Consultant
UK

The median Security Consultant salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 September 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 562 514
Rank change year-on-year +215 -48 -143
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Consultant 586 113 302
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.23% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.25% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 368 87 185
10th Percentile £50,000 - £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -1.46% -2.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £88,500 £97,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £68,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% -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 105,974 44,478 74,870
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 89.66% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 73,002 26,192 45,789
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 12 September 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 12 September 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 +193 503 £70,000 +3.70% 146
UK excluding London +112 378 £65,000 -3.70% 60
Work from Home +74 182 £72,500 +18.37% 77
London +68 134 £80,000 +3.23% 90
North of England +51 117 £60,000 -25.00% 17
South West -34 104 £67,500 +28.57% 14
North West +46 67 £65,000 -18.75% 11
Midlands +22 62 £70,000 -17.65% 5
South East +12 54 £70,000 -20.00% 16
East Midlands - 41 £55,000 -
North East - 33 £50,000 - 5
West Midlands -20 21 £80,000 - 5
East of England -8 20 £80,000 +23.08% 4
Yorkshire -39 17 £50,000 -37.50% 1
Scotland +13 12 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 5 £42,500 - 1
Wales - 4 £53,355 -

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

For the 6 months to 12 September 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.

1 385 (65.70%) Cybersecurity
2 165 (28.16%) Security Cleared
3 112 (19.11%) SC Cleared
4 98 (16.72%) NIST
5 95 (16.21%) Risk Management
6 89 (15.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 88 (15.02%) CISSP
8 87 (14.85%) Cloud Security
9 71 (12.12%) CISM
9 71 (12.12%) Threat Modelling
10 70 (11.95%) AWS
11 68 (11.60%) Security Architecture
12 61 (10.41%) Information Security
13 55 (9.39%) Mentoring
14 46 (7.85%) Network Security
15 45 (7.68%) GRC
16 41 (7.00%) Azure
16 41 (7.00%) DV Cleared
17 39 (6.66%) GDPR
18 35 (5.97%) AI
18 35 (5.97%) Identity Access Management
19 31 (5.29%) AWS Certification
19 31 (5.29%) NCSC
20 30 (5.12%) Degree
21 29 (4.95%) Agile
21 29 (4.95%) Cloud Computing
21 29 (4.95%) CRISC
22 28 (4.78%) Data Protection
23 27 (4.61%) Presales
24 26 (4.44%) Penetration Testing

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 (1.02%) SAS
2 3 (0.51%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.17%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.17%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.17%) SAP GRC
1 1 (0.17%) SAP HCM
1 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 70 (11.95%) AWS
2 41 (7.00%) Azure
3 29 (4.95%) Cloud Computing
4 17 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (2.90%) GCP
4 17 (2.90%) Serverless
5 15 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
5 15 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (2.39%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (2.39%) Amazon EventBridge
6 14 (2.39%) AWS Control Tower
7 10 (1.71%) SaaS
8 6 (1.02%) Entra ID
9 5 (0.85%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (0.68%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (0.51%) Amazon Bedrock
11 3 (0.51%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (0.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 46 (7.85%) Network Security
2 22 (3.75%) Firewall
3 9 (1.54%) SD-WAN
4 7 (1.19%) WAN
5 6 (1.02%) LAN
6 2 (0.34%) BGP
6 2 (0.34%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.34%) VLAN
6 2 (0.34%) VPN
7 1 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.17%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (0.51%) Hadoop
1 3 (0.51%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (0.68%) Burp Suite
1 4 (0.68%) Metasploit
2 2 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (0.34%) Yeoman
General
1 125 (21.33%) Public Sector
2 65 (11.09%) Social Skills
3 42 (7.17%) Finance
4 25 (4.27%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (2.56%) Manufacturing
6 12 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (1.71%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.37%) Aerospace
8 8 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (1.37%) Law
9 6 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (0.85%) Legal
10 5 (0.85%) Military
11 4 (0.68%) Banking
12 3 (0.51%) Games
12 3 (0.51%) Police
13 2 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.34%) Electronics
14 1 (0.17%) Advertising
14 1 (0.17%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.24%) Terraform
2 14 (2.39%) AWS CDK
3 5 (0.85%) ModSecurity
4 4 (0.68%) NumPy
4 4 (0.68%) Pandas
4 4 (0.68%) PySpark
4 4 (0.68%) scikit-learn
5 3 (0.51%) Kafka
6 1 (0.17%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.17%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 41 (7.00%) Operational Technology
2 27 (4.61%) Onboarding
2 27 (4.61%) PKI
3 25 (4.27%) Security Posture
4 20 (3.41%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.07%) Enterprise Cloud
6 11 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.02%) Mobile App
8 5 (0.85%) Blog
8 5 (0.85%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (0.85%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 5 (0.85%) Data Centre
9 4 (0.68%) AI Agents
9 4 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.51%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.51%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (0.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (0.51%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.34%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.34%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.88%) Windows
2 9 (1.54%) Linux
3 6 (1.02%) Android
3 6 (1.02%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (65.70%) Cybersecurity
2 95 (16.21%) Risk Management
3 87 (14.85%) Cloud Security
4 71 (12.12%) Threat Modelling
5 68 (11.60%) Security Architecture
6 61 (10.41%) Information Security
7 55 (9.39%) Mentoring
8 35 (5.97%) AI
8 35 (5.97%) Identity Access Management
9 29 (4.95%) Agile
10 28 (4.78%) Data Protection
11 27 (4.61%) Presales
12 26 (4.44%) Penetration Testing
13 25 (4.27%) Incident Response
14 24 (4.10%) Business Development
14 24 (4.10%) GAP Analysis
14 24 (4.10%) SIEM
14 24 (4.10%) Zero Trust
15 23 (3.92%) Infrastructure as Code
15 23 (3.92%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (4.10%) Python
2 14 (2.39%) Bash
2 14 (2.39%) Java
2 14 (2.39%) Perl
2 14 (2.39%) PHP
2 14 (2.39%) Ruby
3 3 (0.51%) SQL
4 2 (0.34%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 165 (28.16%) Security Cleared
2 112 (19.11%) SC Cleared
3 88 (15.02%) CISSP
4 71 (12.12%) CISM
5 41 (7.00%) DV Cleared
6 31 (5.29%) AWS Certification
7 30 (5.12%) Degree
8 29 (4.95%) CRISC
9 21 (3.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 19 (3.24%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 19 (3.24%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 17 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (2.73%) CISA
13 15 (2.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 9 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (1.54%) CESG Certified Professional
14 9 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
14 9 (1.54%) CREST Certified
15 8 (1.37%) CCSP
15 8 (1.37%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (16.72%) NIST
2 89 (15.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 45 (7.68%) GRC
4 39 (6.66%) GDPR
5 31 (5.29%) NCSC
6 23 (3.92%) PCI DSS
7 21 (3.58%) Cyber Essentials
8 18 (3.07%) JSP 440
9 15 (2.56%) NIST 800
10 13 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 8 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (1.19%) Accessibility
13 4 (0.68%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.68%) QA
14 3 (0.51%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.34%) SOC 2
16 1 (0.17%) EU AI Act
16 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 10 (1.71%) Firmware
2 9 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) IAG
3 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (1.37%) FortiGate
2 6 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.68%) Nmap
4 3 (0.51%) QRadar
5 2 (0.34%) Ansible
5 2 (0.34%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.17%) CASB
6 1 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (3.24%) Microsoft
2 10 (1.71%) Fortinet
2 10 (1.71%) Google
3 8 (1.37%) CrowdStrike
4 6 (1.02%) Cisco
5 5 (0.85%) Splunk
6 4 (0.68%) Red Hat
7 3 (0.51%) OneTrust
7 3 (0.51%) Oracle
7 3 (0.51%) OutSystems
8 2 (0.34%) Meraki
9 1 (0.17%) Netskope
9 1 (0.17%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.17%) Qualys
9 1 (0.17%) SAP
9 1 (0.17%) Tenable
9 1 (0.17%) Varonis
9 1 (0.17%) VMware
9 1 (0.17%) Zscaler