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 30 July 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 553 510
Rank change year-on-year +168 -43 -115
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Consultant 487 121 346
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.25% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.27% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 305 84 234
10th Percentile £48,839 - £49,125
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -1.46% -2.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £86,000 £90,000 £97,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £68,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% -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 96,591 44,419 82,565
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.36% 90.03% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 66,030 26,374 56,860
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £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 30 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 30 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 +165 434 £65,000 -3.70% 91
UK excluding London +117 311 £60,000 -11.11% 61
Work from Home +57 143 £65,000 +30.00% 52
London +53 124 £80,000 +1.59% 38
North of England +41 90 £60,000 -25.00% 9
South West -22 88 £55,000 +10.00% 23
Midlands +33 69 £70,000 -12.50% 8
North West +48 55 £60,000 -25.00% 4
East Midlands +27 49 £60,000 -25.00%
South East +3 42 £65,000 -25.71% 14
North East - 23 £50,000 - 1
West Midlands -6 20 £80,000 - 8
East of England - 13 £80,000 - 3
Yorkshire -26 12 £50,000 -37.50% 4
Wales - 4 £53,355 -
Northern Ireland - 3 £42,500 -
Scotland +8 2 - - 5

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

For the 6 months to 30 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.

1 332 (68.17%) Cybersecurity
2 176 (36.14%) Security Cleared
3 119 (24.44%) SC Cleared
4 95 (19.51%) Risk Management
5 85 (17.45%) NIST
6 78 (16.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 75 (15.40%) CISSP
7 75 (15.40%) Cloud Security
8 70 (14.37%) AWS
9 65 (13.35%) DV Cleared
10 61 (12.53%) CISM
11 57 (11.70%) Security Architecture
11 57 (11.70%) Threat Modelling
12 48 (9.86%) Information Security
13 47 (9.65%) Mentoring
14 43 (8.83%) Azure
15 40 (8.21%) Network Security
16 38 (7.80%) GRC
17 37 (7.60%) AI
18 34 (6.98%) GDPR
19 32 (6.57%) Identity Access Management
20 30 (6.16%) Cloud Computing
21 29 (5.95%) AWS Certification
21 29 (5.95%) Penetration Testing
22 27 (5.54%) Agile
23 25 (5.13%) PCI DSS
24 24 (4.93%) Data Protection
24 24 (4.93%) NCSC
25 23 (4.72%) Security Testing
26 22 (4.52%) 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 (1.23%) SAS
2 3 (0.62%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.21%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.21%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.21%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 70 (14.37%) AWS
2 43 (8.83%) Azure
3 30 (6.16%) Cloud Computing
4 16 (3.29%) GCP
5 15 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
5 15 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (3.08%) Serverless
6 14 (2.87%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (2.87%) Amazon EventBridge
6 14 (2.87%) AWS Control Tower
7 13 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (2.05%) SaaS
9 6 (1.23%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (1.03%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 5 (1.03%) Entra ID
11 3 (0.62%) Amazon Bedrock
11 3 (0.62%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (0.41%) AWS KMS
12 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 40 (8.21%) Network Security
2 21 (4.31%) Firewall
3 7 (1.44%) LAN
3 7 (1.44%) SD-WAN
3 7 (1.44%) WAN
4 3 (0.62%) VPN
5 1 (0.21%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.62%) Hadoop
1 3 (0.62%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.21%) SAP BW
2 1 (0.21%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Burp Suite
1 2 (0.41%) Metasploit
1 2 (0.41%) Yeoman
General
1 111 (22.79%) Public Sector
2 62 (12.73%) Social Skills
3 39 (8.01%) Finance
4 25 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (3.08%) Manufacturing
6 9 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (1.85%) Telecoms
7 8 (1.64%) Law
8 6 (1.23%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.03%) Military
9 5 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.82%) Legal
11 3 (0.62%) Banking
11 3 (0.62%) Games
12 2 (0.41%) Advertising
12 2 (0.41%) Police
13 1 (0.21%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.21%) French Language
13 1 (0.21%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.87%) AWS CDK
2 5 (1.03%) ModSecurity
3 4 (0.82%) NumPy
3 4 (0.82%) Pandas
3 4 (0.82%) PySpark
3 4 (0.82%) scikit-learn
4 3 (0.62%) Kafka
5 2 (0.41%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.21%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.78%) PKI
2 29 (5.95%) Onboarding
3 24 (4.93%) Security Posture
4 18 (3.70%) Enterprise Cloud
5 17 (3.49%) Management Information System
6 9 (1.85%) Operational Technology
7 8 (1.64%) Blog
8 6 (1.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 6 (1.23%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.23%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.03%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.82%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (0.62%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (0.62%) Social Media
12 2 (0.41%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.41%) Mobile Computing
12 2 (0.41%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.41%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.21%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.87%) Windows
2 12 (2.46%) Linux
3 6 (1.23%) Android
3 6 (1.23%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (68.17%) Cybersecurity
2 95 (19.51%) Risk Management
3 75 (15.40%) Cloud Security
4 57 (11.70%) Security Architecture
4 57 (11.70%) Threat Modelling
5 48 (9.86%) Information Security
6 47 (9.65%) Mentoring
7 37 (7.60%) AI
8 32 (6.57%) Identity Access Management
9 29 (5.95%) Penetration Testing
10 27 (5.54%) Agile
11 24 (4.93%) Data Protection
12 23 (4.72%) Security Testing
13 22 (4.52%) Information Assurance
14 21 (4.31%) GAP Analysis
14 21 (4.31%) Presales
14 21 (4.31%) Scrum
14 21 (4.31%) SIEM
15 20 (4.11%) Infrastructure as Code
15 20 (4.11%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 19 (3.90%) Python
2 14 (2.87%) Bash
2 14 (2.87%) Java
2 14 (2.87%) Perl
2 14 (2.87%) PHP
2 14 (2.87%) Ruby
3 3 (0.62%) SQL
4 2 (0.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 176 (36.14%) Security Cleared
2 119 (24.44%) SC Cleared
3 75 (15.40%) CISSP
4 65 (13.35%) DV Cleared
5 61 (12.53%) CISM
6 29 (5.95%) AWS Certification
7 21 (4.31%) CRISC
8 20 (4.11%) Degree
9 19 (3.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 18 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
11 17 (3.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 17 (3.49%) CISA
12 15 (3.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 15 (3.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 12 (2.46%) CREST Certified
14 9 (1.85%) CCSP
14 9 (1.85%) CESG Certified Professional
15 8 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (1.64%) CompTIA CySA+
16 7 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (17.45%) NIST
2 78 (16.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 38 (7.80%) GRC
4 34 (6.98%) GDPR
5 25 (5.13%) PCI DSS
6 24 (4.93%) NCSC
7 15 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 15 (3.08%) JSP 440
7 15 (3.08%) NIST 800
8 11 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 3 (0.62%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.62%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.62%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.21%) ISO 31000
13 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.21%) QA
13 1 (0.21%) RMADS
System Software
1 12 (2.46%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.03%) Firmware
3 1 (0.21%) IAG
3 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (3.29%) Terraform
2 7 (1.44%) FortiGate
2 7 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.62%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.62%) QRadar
4 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.41%) Nmap
5 1 (0.21%) CASB
5 1 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.21%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (2.87%) Microsoft
2 9 (1.85%) Fortinet
3 8 (1.64%) CrowdStrike
4 7 (1.44%) Google
5 6 (1.23%) Splunk
6 3 (0.62%) Cisco
6 3 (0.62%) SAP
7 2 (0.41%) OneTrust
7 2 (0.41%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.41%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.21%) Netskope
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle
8 1 (0.21%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.21%) Qualys
8 1 (0.21%) Tenable
8 1 (0.21%) VMware
8 1 (0.21%) Zscaler