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 21 September 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 561 504
Rank change year-on-year +214 -57 -147
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Consultant 589 104 307
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.21% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.24% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 369 85 173
10th Percentile £50,000 - £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £89,000 £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 108,248 44,029 73,823
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 89.64% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 74,086 25,880 44,136
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 21 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 21 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 +202 503 £75,000 +11.11% 383
UK excluding London +120 374 £65,000 -3.70% 220
Work from Home +56 176 £75,000 +42.86% 276
London +54 138 £80,000 +3.23% 168
North of England +39 116 £60,000 -25.00% 52
South West -32 102 £75,000 +42.86% 60
North West +32 66 £65,000 -18.75% 39
Midlands +3 58 £70,000 -17.65% 14
South East -7 57 £70,000 -20.00% 42
East Midlands - 38 £55,000 - 3
North East - 33 £50,000 - 5
East of England -16 21 £71,250 +9.62% 18
West Midlands -29 20 £80,000 - 11
Yorkshire -27 17 £50,000 -37.50% 9
Scotland +20 12 - - 20
Northern Ireland - 5 £42,500 - 9
Wales - 3 £55,000 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 21 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.

1 382 (64.86%) Cybersecurity
2 161 (27.33%) Security Cleared
3 110 (18.68%) SC Cleared
4 93 (15.79%) NIST
5 91 (15.45%) Risk Management
6 85 (14.43%) Cloud Security
7 84 (14.26%) CISSP
8 82 (13.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 71 (12.05%) Threat Modelling
10 67 (11.38%) CISM
11 66 (11.21%) Security Architecture
12 65 (11.04%) AWS
13 62 (10.53%) Information Security
14 54 (9.17%) Mentoring
15 47 (7.98%) Network Security
16 41 (6.96%) GRC
17 36 (6.11%) GDPR
18 35 (5.94%) Azure
18 35 (5.94%) DV Cleared
19 34 (5.77%) AI
20 32 (5.43%) Identity Access Management
21 31 (5.26%) NCSC
22 30 (5.09%) AWS Certification
22 30 (5.09%) Degree
23 29 (4.92%) Agile
23 29 (4.92%) Cloud Computing
23 29 (4.92%) CRISC
23 29 (4.92%) Data Protection
24 24 (4.07%) Business Development
24 24 (4.07%) GAP Analysis

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 65 (11.04%) AWS
2 35 (5.94%) Azure
3 29 (4.92%) Cloud Computing
4 17 (2.89%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (2.89%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (2.89%) Serverless
5 15 (2.55%) GCP
5 15 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (2.38%) Amazon EventBridge
6 14 (2.38%) AWS Control Tower
7 10 (1.70%) SaaS
8 4 (0.68%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (0.68%) Entra ID
8 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (0.51%) Amazon Bedrock
9 3 (0.51%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (0.51%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (0.51%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 47 (7.98%) Network Security
2 21 (3.57%) Firewall
3 9 (1.53%) SD-WAN
4 7 (1.19%) WAN
5 6 (1.02%) LAN
6 3 (0.51%) BGP
6 3 (0.51%) VLAN
7 2 (0.34%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.17%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (0.17%) VPN
8 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
1 122 (20.71%) Public Sector
2 59 (10.02%) Social Skills
3 42 (7.13%) Finance
4 24 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (2.55%) Manufacturing
6 11 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (1.70%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.36%) Aerospace
8 8 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (1.36%) Law
9 5 (0.85%) Legal
9 5 (0.85%) Military
9 5 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.68%) Banking
11 3 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.51%) Games
11 3 (0.51%) Police
12 2 (0.34%) Electronics
13 1 (0.17%) Advertising
13 1 (0.17%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.23%) Terraform
2 14 (2.38%) 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%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 45 (7.64%) Operational Technology
2 27 (4.58%) Onboarding
3 24 (4.07%) PKI
4 23 (3.90%) Security Posture
5 19 (3.23%) Management Information System
6 18 (3.06%) Enterprise Cloud
7 12 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.02%) Mobile App
9 5 (0.85%) AI Agents
9 5 (0.85%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.68%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (0.68%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 4 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.51%) Blog
11 3 (0.51%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (0.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (0.51%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.34%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.34%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.17%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.36%) Windows
2 6 (1.02%) Android
2 6 (1.02%) Apple iOS
2 6 (1.02%) Linux
3 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (64.86%) Cybersecurity
2 91 (15.45%) Risk Management
3 85 (14.43%) Cloud Security
4 71 (12.05%) Threat Modelling
5 66 (11.21%) Security Architecture
6 62 (10.53%) Information Security
7 54 (9.17%) Mentoring
8 34 (5.77%) AI
9 32 (5.43%) Identity Access Management
10 29 (4.92%) Agile
10 29 (4.92%) Data Protection
11 24 (4.07%) Business Development
11 24 (4.07%) GAP Analysis
11 24 (4.07%) Incident Response
11 24 (4.07%) Penetration Testing
11 24 (4.07%) Presales
11 24 (4.07%) Zero Trust
12 23 (3.90%) Security Testing
12 23 (3.90%) SIEM
13 21 (3.57%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 24 (4.07%) Python
2 14 (2.38%) Bash
2 14 (2.38%) Java
2 14 (2.38%) Perl
2 14 (2.38%) PHP
2 14 (2.38%) Ruby
3 3 (0.51%) SQL
4 2 (0.34%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 161 (27.33%) Security Cleared
2 110 (18.68%) SC Cleared
3 84 (14.26%) CISSP
4 67 (11.38%) CISM
5 35 (5.94%) DV Cleared
6 30 (5.09%) AWS Certification
6 30 (5.09%) Degree
7 29 (4.92%) CRISC
8 21 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 20 (3.40%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 18 (3.06%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 16 (2.72%) CISA
11 16 (2.72%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (2.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 9 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (1.53%) CESG Certified Professional
13 9 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
14 8 (1.36%) DBS Check
15 7 (1.19%) CCSP
15 7 (1.19%) CISMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (15.79%) NIST
2 82 (13.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 41 (6.96%) GRC
4 36 (6.11%) GDPR
5 31 (5.26%) NCSC
6 20 (3.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 20 (3.40%) PCI DSS
7 17 (2.89%) JSP 440
8 15 (2.55%) NIST 800
9 13 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 8 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (1.19%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.68%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 4 (0.68%) QA
13 3 (0.51%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.17%) EU AI Act
15 1 (0.17%) ISO 31000
15 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (1.70%) Firmware
2 5 (0.85%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) IAG
3 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (1.36%) FortiGate
2 5 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.68%) Nmap
4 3 (0.51%) QRadar
5 2 (0.34%) Ansible
5 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.17%) CASB
6 1 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.17%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (3.06%) Microsoft
2 10 (1.70%) Fortinet
2 10 (1.70%) Google
3 7 (1.19%) Cisco
3 7 (1.19%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (0.68%) Red Hat
4 4 (0.68%) Splunk
5 3 (0.51%) OneTrust
5 3 (0.51%) Oracle
5 3 (0.51%) OutSystems
6 2 (0.34%) Meraki
7 1 (0.17%) Acronis
7 1 (0.17%) Netskope
7 1 (0.17%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.17%) Qualys
7 1 (0.17%) SAP
7 1 (0.17%) Tenable
7 1 (0.17%) Varonis
7 1 (0.17%) VMware
7 1 (0.17%) Zscaler