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 15 October 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 540 490
Rank change year-on-year +209 -50 -100
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Consultant 627 117 282
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.24% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.26% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 371 97 154
10th Percentile £50,000 - £48,225
25th Percentile £55,625 £47,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £74,250
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -19.19% +6.07%
75th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,500 £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 109,883 44,162 67,664
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.51% 89.77% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 74,751 25,776 38,845
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £35,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% -2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -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 15 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 15 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 +182 539 £75,000 +20.00% 287
UK excluding London +71 381 £65,000 +8.33% 159
Work from Home +45 175 £75,000 +42.86% 190
London +71 163 £80,000 +7.74% 112
North of England +47 125 £60,000 -25.00% 34
South West -48 94 £75,000 +42.86% 29
South East +8 69 £70,000 -24.32% 53
North West +37 68 £70,000 -22.22% 15
Midlands +1 48 £70,000 -3.45% 12
North East - 34 £50,000 - 9
East Midlands -1 27 £55,000 -8.33% 2
East of England -19 26 £62,500 -3.85% 13
Yorkshire -17 23 £50,000 -37.50% 10
West Midlands -26 21 £80,000 - 10
Scotland +21 12 - - 13
Northern Ireland - 5 £42,500 - 2
Wales - 2 £55,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 15 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.

1 385 (61.40%) Cybersecurity
2 177 (28.23%) Security Cleared
3 120 (19.14%) SC Cleared
4 102 (16.27%) Risk Management
5 98 (15.63%) NIST
6 92 (14.67%) Cloud Security
7 81 (12.92%) CISSP
8 80 (12.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 79 (12.60%) Threat Modelling
10 71 (11.32%) Security Architecture
11 68 (10.85%) AWS
12 67 (10.69%) Information Security
13 64 (10.21%) CISM
14 57 (9.09%) Mentoring
15 49 (7.81%) Network Security
16 43 (6.86%) GRC
17 41 (6.54%) AI
18 40 (6.38%) Azure
18 40 (6.38%) GDPR
19 37 (5.90%) NCSC
20 35 (5.58%) Degree
20 35 (5.58%) DV Cleared
21 34 (5.42%) Identity Access Management
22 31 (4.94%) AWS Certification
22 31 (4.94%) CRISC
22 31 (4.94%) Data Protection
22 31 (4.94%) Presales
23 30 (4.78%) Business Development
24 29 (4.63%) Agile
24 29 (4.63%) 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 (0.96%) SAS
2 3 (0.48%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.16%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (0.32%) AutoCAD
1 2 (0.32%) Revit
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
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 68 (10.85%) AWS
2 40 (6.38%) Azure
3 29 (4.63%) Cloud Computing
4 18 (2.87%) GCP
5 17 (2.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 17 (2.71%) AWS Lambda
5 17 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (2.71%) Serverless
6 14 (2.23%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (2.23%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (2.23%) Amazon EventBridge
6 14 (2.23%) AWS Control Tower
7 11 (1.75%) SaaS
8 10 (1.59%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (0.96%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (0.96%) Entra ID
10 3 (0.48%) Amazon Bedrock
10 3 (0.48%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 3 (0.48%) Snowflake
10 3 (0.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 49 (7.81%) Network Security
2 20 (3.19%) Firewall
3 7 (1.12%) SD-WAN
4 5 (0.80%) WAN
5 4 (0.64%) LAN
6 3 (0.48%) BGP
6 3 (0.48%) VLAN
7 2 (0.32%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.32%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.32%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (0.32%) VPN
7 2 (0.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (0.48%) Hadoop
1 3 (0.48%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (0.80%) Burp Suite
1 5 (0.80%) Metasploit
2 2 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (0.32%) Yeoman
General
1 120 (19.14%) Public Sector
2 64 (10.21%) Social Skills
3 51 (8.13%) Finance
4 27 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (2.39%) Manufacturing
6 11 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (1.75%) Telecoms
7 10 (1.59%) Law
8 9 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (1.28%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (0.96%) Legal
11 5 (0.80%) Banking
11 5 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.80%) Military
12 4 (0.64%) Electronics
13 3 (0.48%) Games
13 3 (0.48%) Police
14 1 (0.16%) Advertising
14 1 (0.16%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.03%) Terraform
2 14 (2.23%) AWS CDK
3 5 (0.80%) ModSecurity
4 4 (0.64%) NumPy
4 4 (0.64%) Pandas
4 4 (0.64%) PySpark
4 4 (0.64%) scikit-learn
5 3 (0.48%) Kafka
6 1 (0.16%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 46 (7.34%) Operational Technology
2 27 (4.31%) Onboarding
2 27 (4.31%) Security Posture
3 18 (2.87%) Enterprise Cloud
3 18 (2.87%) Management Information System
4 17 (2.71%) PKI
5 14 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (1.59%) AI Agents
7 8 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (0.96%) Mobile App
9 5 (0.80%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.64%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (0.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 3 (0.48%) Blog
11 3 (0.48%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (0.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (0.48%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.48%) SCADA
12 2 (0.32%) CCTV
12 2 (0.32%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.59%) Windows
2 6 (0.96%) Linux
3 5 (0.80%) Android
3 5 (0.80%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.16%) macOS
4 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (61.40%) Cybersecurity
2 102 (16.27%) Risk Management
3 92 (14.67%) Cloud Security
4 79 (12.60%) Threat Modelling
5 71 (11.32%) Security Architecture
6 67 (10.69%) Information Security
7 57 (9.09%) Mentoring
8 41 (6.54%) AI
9 34 (5.42%) Identity Access Management
10 31 (4.94%) Data Protection
10 31 (4.94%) Presales
11 30 (4.78%) Business Development
12 29 (4.63%) Agile
13 28 (4.47%) Incident Response
14 27 (4.31%) Zero Trust
15 25 (3.99%) GAP Analysis
16 24 (3.83%) Roadmaps
16 24 (3.83%) Security Testing
17 21 (3.35%) Application Security
17 21 (3.35%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 28 (4.47%) Python
2 14 (2.23%) Bash
2 14 (2.23%) Java
2 14 (2.23%) Perl
2 14 (2.23%) PHP
2 14 (2.23%) Ruby
3 5 (0.80%) PowerShell
4 3 (0.48%) SQL
5 1 (0.16%) C#
5 1 (0.16%) C++
5 1 (0.16%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.16%) Rust
Qualifications
1 177 (28.23%) Security Cleared
2 120 (19.14%) SC Cleared
3 81 (12.92%) CISSP
4 64 (10.21%) CISM
5 35 (5.58%) Degree
5 35 (5.58%) DV Cleared
6 31 (4.94%) AWS Certification
6 31 (4.94%) CRISC
7 21 (3.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 21 (3.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 19 (3.03%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 16 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (2.39%) CISA
11 14 (2.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 11 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
13 10 (1.59%) CESG Certified Professional
14 9 (1.44%) Azure Certification
14 9 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (1.12%) DBS Check
15 7 (1.12%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (15.63%) NIST
2 80 (12.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 43 (6.86%) GRC
4 40 (6.38%) GDPR
5 37 (5.90%) NCSC
6 24 (3.83%) Cyber Essentials
7 19 (3.03%) PCI DSS
8 18 (2.87%) JSP 440
9 16 (2.55%) NIST 800
10 13 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 9 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 8 (1.28%) Accessibility
13 7 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 5 (0.80%) QA
15 4 (0.64%) EU AI Act
15 4 (0.64%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 3 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
16 3 (0.48%) HIPAA
17 2 (0.32%) RMADS
17 2 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (2.07%) Firmware
2 5 (0.80%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.16%) Docker
3 1 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.16%) IAG
3 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (1.12%) FortiGate
2 5 (0.80%) Nmap
2 5 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.48%) QRadar
4 2 (0.32%) Ansible
4 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.16%) CASB
5 1 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.16%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (3.83%) Microsoft
2 10 (1.59%) Google
3 9 (1.44%) Fortinet
4 7 (1.12%) Cisco
5 6 (0.96%) CrowdStrike
5 6 (0.96%) OneTrust
6 4 (0.64%) Red Hat
6 4 (0.64%) Splunk
6 4 (0.64%) Varonis
7 3 (0.48%) Oracle
7 3 (0.48%) OutSystems
7 3 (0.48%) SAP
8 2 (0.32%) Meraki
9 1 (0.16%) Acronis
9 1 (0.16%) Netskope
9 1 (0.16%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.16%) Qualys
9 1 (0.16%) Tenable
9 1 (0.16%) VMware
9 1 (0.16%) Zscaler