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 8 October 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 540 517
Rank change year-on-year +202 -23 -165
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Consultant 612 114 282
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.23% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.26% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 371 95 153
10th Percentile £50,000 - £48,150
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £64,350 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.78% -13.04% +5.71%
75th Percentile £90,000 £76,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £89,000 £97,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% -

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 109,143 44,565 69,871
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 89.75% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 74,344 25,695 40,313
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,825 £35,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £54,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.34% -0.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -6.50% -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 8 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 IT jobs citing Security Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +193 524 £75,000 +13.21% 324
UK excluding London +115 374 £65,000 +8.33% 189
Work from Home +56 175 £75,000 +42.86% 180
London +71 156 £80,000 +3.23% 111
North of England +44 120 £60,000 -25.00% 44
South West -45 94 £75,000 +42.86% 35
North West +44 69 £65,000 -27.78% 24
South East +10 66 £70,000 -24.32% 50
Midlands +6 50 £70,000 -3.45% 20
North East - 34 £50,000 - 7
East Midlands -2 30 £55,000 -8.33% 7
East of England -7 25 £62,500 -3.85% 17
West Midlands -21 20 £80,000 - 13
Yorkshire -22 17 £50,000 -37.50% 13
Scotland +7 12 - - 14
Northern Ireland - 5 £42,500 - 3
Wales - 2 £55,000 - 5

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

For the 6 months to 8 October 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.

1 383 (62.58%) Cybersecurity
2 170 (27.78%) Security Cleared
3 116 (18.95%) SC Cleared
4 100 (16.34%) Risk Management
5 94 (15.36%) NIST
6 89 (14.54%) Cloud Security
7 80 (13.07%) CISSP
8 79 (12.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 75 (12.25%) Threat Modelling
10 70 (11.44%) Security Architecture
11 66 (10.78%) AWS
11 66 (10.78%) Information Security
12 63 (10.29%) CISM
13 56 (9.15%) Mentoring
14 50 (8.17%) Network Security
15 41 (6.70%) GRC
16 39 (6.37%) AI
16 39 (6.37%) GDPR
17 38 (6.21%) Azure
18 35 (5.72%) NCSC
19 34 (5.56%) DV Cleared
19 34 (5.56%) Identity Access Management
20 31 (5.07%) AWS Certification
20 31 (5.07%) Data Protection
20 31 (5.07%) Degree
21 30 (4.90%) CRISC
21 30 (4.90%) Presales
22 29 (4.74%) Agile
22 29 (4.74%) Business Development
22 29 (4.74%) Cloud Computing

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 (0.98%) SAS
2 3 (0.49%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.16%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.16%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.16%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.16%) SAP GRC
1 1 (0.16%) SAP HCM
1 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 66 (10.78%) AWS
2 38 (6.21%) Azure
3 29 (4.74%) Cloud Computing
4 17 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (2.78%) Serverless
5 16 (2.61%) GCP
6 14 (2.29%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (2.29%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (2.29%) Amazon EventBridge
6 14 (2.29%) AWS Control Tower
7 10 (1.63%) SaaS
8 9 (1.47%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (0.98%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (0.98%) Entra ID
10 3 (0.49%) Amazon Bedrock
10 3 (0.49%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 3 (0.49%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (0.49%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 50 (8.17%) Network Security
2 22 (3.59%) Firewall
3 9 (1.47%) SD-WAN
4 7 (1.14%) WAN
5 6 (0.98%) LAN
6 3 (0.49%) BGP
6 3 (0.49%) VLAN
7 2 (0.33%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.33%) VPN
8 1 (0.16%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.16%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (0.49%) Hadoop
1 3 (0.49%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (0.65%) Burp Suite
1 4 (0.65%) Metasploit
2 2 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (0.33%) Yeoman
General
1 121 (19.77%) Public Sector
2 60 (9.80%) Social Skills
3 49 (8.01%) Finance
4 26 (4.25%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (2.45%) Manufacturing
6 11 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (1.63%) Law
7 10 (1.63%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.31%) Aerospace
8 8 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (0.98%) Legal
10 5 (0.82%) Banking
10 5 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (0.82%) Military
11 3 (0.49%) Electronics
11 3 (0.49%) Games
11 3 (0.49%) Police
12 1 (0.16%) French Language
12 1 (0.16%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.10%) Terraform
2 14 (2.29%) AWS CDK
3 5 (0.82%) ModSecurity
4 4 (0.65%) NumPy
4 4 (0.65%) Pandas
4 4 (0.65%) PySpark
4 4 (0.65%) scikit-learn
5 3 (0.49%) Kafka
6 1 (0.16%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 45 (7.35%) Operational Technology
2 27 (4.41%) Onboarding
3 26 (4.25%) Security Posture
4 20 (3.27%) PKI
5 18 (2.94%) Enterprise Cloud
5 18 (2.94%) Management Information System
6 13 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (1.31%) AI Agents
8 7 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (0.98%) Mobile App
10 5 (0.82%) Data Centre
11 4 (0.65%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (0.65%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 3 (0.49%) Blog
12 3 (0.49%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (0.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 3 (0.49%) Public Cloud
13 2 (0.33%) Driving Licence
13 2 (0.33%) SCADA
13 2 (0.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.63%) Windows
2 6 (0.98%) Linux
3 5 (0.82%) Android
3 5 (0.82%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (62.58%) Cybersecurity
2 100 (16.34%) Risk Management
3 89 (14.54%) Cloud Security
4 75 (12.25%) Threat Modelling
5 70 (11.44%) Security Architecture
6 66 (10.78%) Information Security
7 56 (9.15%) Mentoring
8 39 (6.37%) AI
9 34 (5.56%) Identity Access Management
10 31 (5.07%) Data Protection
11 30 (4.90%) Presales
12 29 (4.74%) Agile
12 29 (4.74%) Business Development
13 26 (4.25%) Incident Response
13 26 (4.25%) Zero Trust
14 25 (4.08%) GAP Analysis
15 24 (3.92%) Security Testing
16 23 (3.76%) Roadmaps
17 21 (3.43%) Application Security
17 21 (3.43%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 27 (4.41%) Python
2 14 (2.29%) Bash
2 14 (2.29%) Java
2 14 (2.29%) Perl
2 14 (2.29%) PHP
2 14 (2.29%) Ruby
3 5 (0.82%) PowerShell
4 3 (0.49%) SQL
5 1 (0.16%) C#
5 1 (0.16%) C++
5 1 (0.16%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.16%) Rust
Qualifications
1 170 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 116 (18.95%) SC Cleared
3 80 (13.07%) CISSP
4 63 (10.29%) CISM
5 34 (5.56%) DV Cleared
6 31 (5.07%) AWS Certification
6 31 (5.07%) Degree
7 30 (4.90%) CRISC
8 21 (3.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 20 (3.27%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 18 (2.94%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 16 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (2.45%) CISA
13 14 (2.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 10 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
15 9 (1.47%) Azure Certification
15 9 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
15 9 (1.47%) CESG Certified Professional
15 9 (1.47%) DBS Check
16 7 (1.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (15.36%) NIST
2 79 (12.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 41 (6.70%) GRC
4 39 (6.37%) GDPR
5 35 (5.72%) NCSC
6 23 (3.76%) Cyber Essentials
7 19 (3.10%) PCI DSS
8 17 (2.78%) JSP 440
9 16 (2.61%) NIST 800
10 13 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 9 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (1.14%) Accessibility
13 6 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 4 (0.65%) QA
15 3 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.49%) EU AI Act
15 3 (0.49%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.33%) SOC 2
17 1 (0.16%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 11 (1.80%) Firmware
2 5 (0.82%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.16%) Docker
3 1 (0.16%) IAG
3 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (1.47%) FortiGate
2 5 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.65%) Nmap
4 3 (0.49%) QRadar
5 2 (0.33%) Ansible
5 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.16%) CASB
6 1 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.16%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (3.92%) Microsoft
2 11 (1.80%) Fortinet
3 10 (1.63%) Google
4 7 (1.14%) Cisco
5 6 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
6 5 (0.82%) OneTrust
7 4 (0.65%) Red Hat
7 4 (0.65%) Splunk
8 3 (0.49%) Oracle
8 3 (0.49%) OutSystems
8 3 (0.49%) Varonis
9 2 (0.33%) Meraki
10 1 (0.16%) Acronis
10 1 (0.16%) Netskope
10 1 (0.16%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.16%) Qualys
10 1 (0.16%) SAP
10 1 (0.16%) Tenable
10 1 (0.16%) VMware
10 1 (0.16%) Zscaler