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 15 August 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 571 521
Rank change year-on-year +202 -50 -150
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Consultant 526 121 308
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.24% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.27% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 329 86 209
10th Percentile - - £50,000
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 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £97,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £67,500 £68,500
% change year-on-year -9.26% -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 100,207 44,834 78,907
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.02% 89.91% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 68,470 26,530 52,665
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,076 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% -6.54%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 +184 455 £65,000 -3.70% 267
UK excluding London +128 342 £61,250 -9.26% 166
Work from Home +68 163 £65,000 - 198
London +37 121 £80,000 +3.23% 126
North of England +48 98 £60,000 -25.00% 42
South West -29 98 £56,250 +12.50% 59
Midlands +37 70 £70,000 -17.65% 14
North West +48 57 £62,500 -21.88% 33
East Midlands - 49 £60,000 - 2
South East +8 44 £65,000 -21.21% 23
North East - 27 £50,000 - 4
West Midlands -7 21 £80,000 - 12
East of England - 16 £80,000 - 6
Yorkshire -22 14 £50,000 -37.50% 5
Scotland +3 7 - - 15
Northern Ireland - 5 £42,500 - 7
Wales - 4 £53,355 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 15 August 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.

1 360 (68.44%) Cybersecurity
2 172 (32.70%) Security Cleared
3 114 (21.67%) SC Cleared
4 95 (18.06%) Risk Management
5 89 (16.92%) NIST
6 82 (15.59%) Cloud Security
6 82 (15.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 80 (15.21%) CISSP
8 70 (13.31%) AWS
9 64 (12.17%) CISM
9 64 (12.17%) Threat Modelling
10 61 (11.60%) Security Architecture
11 59 (11.22%) DV Cleared
12 55 (10.46%) Information Security
13 54 (10.27%) Mentoring
14 41 (7.79%) Azure
14 41 (7.79%) GRC
15 39 (7.41%) Network Security
16 35 (6.65%) GDPR
17 34 (6.46%) AI
17 34 (6.46%) Identity Access Management
18 31 (5.89%) AWS Certification
19 29 (5.51%) Cloud Computing
20 28 (5.32%) Agile
20 28 (5.32%) Degree
20 28 (5.32%) Penetration Testing
21 27 (5.13%) Presales
22 26 (4.94%) CRISC
22 26 (4.94%) Data Protection
22 26 (4.94%) NCSC

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 (1.14%) SAS
2 3 (0.57%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.19%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.19%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.19%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 70 (13.31%) AWS
2 41 (7.79%) Azure
3 29 (5.51%) Cloud Computing
4 17 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (3.23%) Serverless
5 15 (2.85%) Amazon EKS
5 15 (2.85%) GCP
6 14 (2.66%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (2.66%) Amazon EventBridge
6 14 (2.66%) AWS Control Tower
7 13 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (1.90%) SaaS
9 5 (0.95%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (0.95%) Entra ID
10 4 (0.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 3 (0.57%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (0.57%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (0.57%) Snowflake
11 3 (0.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 39 (7.41%) Network Security
2 19 (3.61%) Firewall
3 7 (1.33%) SD-WAN
3 7 (1.33%) WAN
4 6 (1.14%) LAN
5 2 (0.38%) VPN
6 1 (0.19%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (0.57%) Hadoop
1 3 (0.57%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.19%) SAP BW
2 1 (0.19%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (0.76%) Burp Suite
1 4 (0.76%) Metasploit
2 2 (0.38%) Yeoman
3 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 113 (21.48%) Public Sector
2 67 (12.74%) Social Skills
3 39 (7.41%) Finance
4 25 (4.75%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (2.85%) Manufacturing
6 11 (2.09%) Telecoms
7 10 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (1.71%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.52%) Law
10 7 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.95%) Legal
12 5 (0.95%) Military
13 3 (0.57%) Banking
13 3 (0.57%) Games
13 3 (0.57%) Police
14 2 (0.38%) Electronics
15 1 (0.19%) Advertising
15 1 (0.19%) French Language
15 1 (0.19%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.66%) AWS CDK
2 5 (0.95%) ModSecurity
3 4 (0.76%) NumPy
3 4 (0.76%) Pandas
3 4 (0.76%) PySpark
3 4 (0.76%) scikit-learn
4 3 (0.57%) Kafka
5 1 (0.19%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.19%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.27%) PKI
2 29 (5.51%) Onboarding
3 25 (4.75%) Security Posture
4 18 (3.42%) Enterprise Cloud
4 18 (3.42%) Management Information System
4 18 (3.42%) Operational Technology
5 7 (1.33%) Blog
5 7 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (1.14%) Mobile App
7 5 (0.95%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (0.95%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 5 (0.95%) Data Centre
8 4 (0.76%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.57%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (0.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (0.57%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.57%) Social Media
10 2 (0.38%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.38%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.66%) Windows
2 12 (2.28%) Linux
3 6 (1.14%) Android
3 6 (1.14%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (68.44%) Cybersecurity
2 95 (18.06%) Risk Management
3 82 (15.59%) Cloud Security
4 64 (12.17%) Threat Modelling
5 61 (11.60%) Security Architecture
6 55 (10.46%) Information Security
7 54 (10.27%) Mentoring
8 34 (6.46%) AI
8 34 (6.46%) Identity Access Management
9 28 (5.32%) Agile
9 28 (5.32%) Penetration Testing
10 27 (5.13%) Presales
11 26 (4.94%) Data Protection
12 24 (4.56%) Infrastructure as Code
12 24 (4.56%) SIEM
13 23 (4.37%) Incident Response
13 23 (4.37%) Security Testing
14 22 (4.18%) GAP Analysis
15 21 (3.99%) Information Assurance
15 21 (3.99%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 22 (4.18%) Python
2 14 (2.66%) Bash
2 14 (2.66%) Java
2 14 (2.66%) Perl
2 14 (2.66%) PHP
2 14 (2.66%) Ruby
3 3 (0.57%) SQL
4 2 (0.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 172 (32.70%) Security Cleared
2 114 (21.67%) SC Cleared
3 80 (15.21%) CISSP
4 64 (12.17%) CISM
5 59 (11.22%) DV Cleared
6 31 (5.89%) AWS Certification
7 28 (5.32%) Degree
8 26 (4.94%) CRISC
9 21 (3.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 18 (3.42%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 18 (3.42%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 16 (3.04%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (2.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 14 (2.66%) CISA
14 11 (2.09%) CREST Certified
15 9 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
15 9 (1.71%) CESG Certified Professional
15 9 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
16 8 (1.52%) CCSP
17 7 (1.33%) CISMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (16.92%) NIST
2 82 (15.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 41 (7.79%) GRC
4 35 (6.65%) GDPR
5 26 (4.94%) NCSC
6 24 (4.56%) PCI DSS
7 16 (3.04%) Cyber Essentials
7 16 (3.04%) JSP 440
8 15 (2.85%) NIST 800
9 13 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 6 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.76%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.76%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.57%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 3 (0.57%) QA
13 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.38%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.19%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 11 (2.09%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.90%) Firmware
3 1 (0.19%) IAG
3 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (3.42%) Terraform
2 6 (1.14%) FortiGate
2 6 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.76%) Nmap
4 3 (0.57%) QRadar
5 2 (0.38%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.19%) Ansible
6 1 (0.19%) CASB
6 1 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (3.04%) Microsoft
2 8 (1.52%) CrowdStrike
2 8 (1.52%) Fortinet
2 8 (1.52%) Google
3 5 (0.95%) Splunk
4 4 (0.76%) Red Hat
5 3 (0.57%) Cisco
5 3 (0.57%) Oracle
5 3 (0.57%) OutSystems
6 2 (0.38%) OneTrust
6 2 (0.38%) SAP
7 1 (0.19%) Meraki
7 1 (0.19%) Netskope
7 1 (0.19%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.19%) Qualys
7 1 (0.19%) Tenable
7 1 (0.19%) VMware
7 1 (0.19%) Zscaler