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 10 August 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 570 517
Rank change year-on-year +192 -53 -142
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Consultant 517 122 316
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.24% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.27% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 320 86 213
10th Percentile £48,065 - £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 £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 99,566 44,909 78,876
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 89.96% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 68,087 26,709 53,036
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,650 £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 £72,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -2.50% -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 10 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 10 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 +178 452 £65,000 -3.70% 260
UK excluding London +130 338 £60,000 -11.11% 155
Work from Home +73 159 £65,000 - 189
London +29 122 £80,000 +3.23% 122
North of England +42 97 £60,000 -25.00% 40
South West -20 95 £55,000 +10.00% 58
Midlands +36 70 £70,000 -17.65% 11
North West +45 57 £62,500 -21.88% 33
East Midlands - 49 £60,000 - 2
South East +5 44 £65,000 -21.21% 20
North East - 26 £50,000 - 3
West Midlands -6 21 £80,000 - 9
East of England - 16 £80,000 - 7
Yorkshire -32 14 £50,000 -37.50% 4
Scotland +8 7 - - 13
Northern Ireland - 5 £42,500 - 6
Wales - 4 £53,355 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 10 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.

1 352 (68.09%) Cybersecurity
2 174 (33.66%) Security Cleared
3 114 (22.05%) SC Cleared
4 95 (18.38%) Risk Management
5 87 (16.83%) NIST
6 82 (15.86%) Cloud Security
7 81 (15.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 78 (15.09%) CISSP
9 71 (13.73%) AWS
10 64 (12.38%) Threat Modelling
11 63 (12.19%) CISM
12 61 (11.80%) DV Cleared
13 60 (11.61%) Security Architecture
14 55 (10.64%) Information Security
15 54 (10.44%) Mentoring
16 43 (8.32%) Azure
17 40 (7.74%) GRC
18 39 (7.54%) Network Security
19 35 (6.77%) GDPR
20 34 (6.58%) AI
21 33 (6.38%) Identity Access Management
22 30 (5.80%) AWS Certification
23 29 (5.61%) Cloud Computing
24 28 (5.42%) Agile
24 28 (5.42%) Penetration Testing
25 27 (5.22%) Degree
26 26 (5.03%) PCI DSS
27 25 (4.84%) Data Protection
27 25 (4.84%) NCSC
28 24 (4.64%) CRISC

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 (1.16%) SAS
2 3 (0.58%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.19%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.39%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.19%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.19%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 71 (13.73%) AWS
2 43 (8.32%) Azure
3 29 (5.61%) Cloud Computing
4 16 (3.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
4 16 (3.09%) GCP
4 16 (3.09%) Serverless
5 15 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (2.71%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (2.71%) Amazon EventBridge
6 14 (2.71%) AWS Control Tower
7 13 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (1.93%) SaaS
9 5 (0.97%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (0.97%) Entra ID
10 4 (0.77%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 3 (0.58%) Amazon Bedrock
11 3 (0.58%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (0.39%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 39 (7.54%) Network Security
2 20 (3.87%) Firewall
3 7 (1.35%) SD-WAN
3 7 (1.35%) WAN
4 6 (1.16%) LAN
5 2 (0.39%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.58%) Hadoop
1 3 (0.58%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.19%) SAP BW
3 1 (0.19%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (0.77%) Burp Suite
1 4 (0.77%) Metasploit
2 2 (0.39%) Yeoman
General
1 115 (22.24%) Public Sector
2 67 (12.96%) Social Skills
3 40 (7.74%) Finance
4 26 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (2.90%) Manufacturing
6 11 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (2.13%) Telecoms
7 9 (1.74%) Aerospace
8 8 (1.55%) Law
9 7 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.97%) Legal
11 5 (0.97%) Military
12 3 (0.58%) Banking
12 3 (0.58%) Games
12 3 (0.58%) Police
13 2 (0.39%) Advertising
13 2 (0.39%) Electronics
14 1 (0.19%) French Language
14 1 (0.19%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.71%) AWS CDK
2 5 (0.97%) ModSecurity
3 4 (0.77%) NumPy
3 4 (0.77%) Pandas
3 4 (0.77%) PySpark
3 4 (0.77%) scikit-learn
4 3 (0.58%) Kafka
5 1 (0.19%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.19%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.58%) PKI
2 29 (5.61%) Onboarding
3 25 (4.84%) Security Posture
4 18 (3.48%) Enterprise Cloud
4 18 (3.48%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.71%) Operational Technology
6 7 (1.35%) Blog
6 7 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.16%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 6 (1.16%) Mobile App
8 5 (0.97%) Data Centre
9 4 (0.77%) Cloud Native
9 4 (0.77%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (0.58%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (0.58%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.58%) Social Media
11 2 (0.39%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.39%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.71%) Windows
2 12 (2.32%) Linux
3 6 (1.16%) Android
3 6 (1.16%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 352 (68.09%) Cybersecurity
2 95 (18.38%) Risk Management
3 82 (15.86%) Cloud Security
4 64 (12.38%) Threat Modelling
5 60 (11.61%) Security Architecture
6 55 (10.64%) Information Security
7 54 (10.44%) Mentoring
8 34 (6.58%) AI
9 33 (6.38%) Identity Access Management
10 28 (5.42%) Agile
10 28 (5.42%) Penetration Testing
11 25 (4.84%) Data Protection
12 24 (4.64%) Presales
13 23 (4.45%) GAP Analysis
13 23 (4.45%) Infrastructure as Code
13 23 (4.45%) Security Testing
13 23 (4.45%) SIEM
14 22 (4.26%) Incident Response
14 22 (4.26%) Information Assurance
15 21 (4.06%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 20 (3.87%) Python
2 14 (2.71%) Bash
2 14 (2.71%) Java
2 14 (2.71%) Perl
2 14 (2.71%) PHP
2 14 (2.71%) Ruby
3 3 (0.58%) SQL
4 2 (0.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 174 (33.66%) Security Cleared
2 114 (22.05%) SC Cleared
3 78 (15.09%) CISSP
4 63 (12.19%) CISM
5 61 (11.80%) DV Cleared
6 30 (5.80%) AWS Certification
7 27 (5.22%) Degree
8 24 (4.64%) CRISC
9 20 (3.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 18 (3.48%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 17 (3.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 16 (3.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 16 (3.09%) Cisco Certification
13 15 (2.90%) CISA
14 11 (2.13%) CREST Certified
15 9 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
15 9 (1.74%) CESG Certified Professional
15 9 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
16 8 (1.55%) CCSP
17 7 (1.35%) CISMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (16.83%) NIST
2 81 (15.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 40 (7.74%) GRC
4 35 (6.77%) GDPR
5 26 (5.03%) PCI DSS
6 25 (4.84%) NCSC
7 16 (3.09%) JSP 440
7 16 (3.09%) NIST 800
8 14 (2.71%) Cyber Essentials
9 13 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 6 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.77%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.77%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 2 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.39%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.39%) QA
13 2 (0.39%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.19%) RMADS
14 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.93%) Firmware
3 1 (0.19%) IAG
3 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (3.09%) Terraform
2 6 (1.16%) FortiGate
2 6 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.77%) Nmap
4 3 (0.58%) QRadar
5 2 (0.39%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.19%) CASB
6 1 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (2.90%) Microsoft
2 8 (1.55%) CrowdStrike
2 8 (1.55%) Fortinet
2 8 (1.55%) Google
3 5 (0.97%) Splunk
4 3 (0.58%) Red Hat
5 2 (0.39%) Cisco
5 2 (0.39%) OneTrust
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle
5 2 (0.39%) OutSystems
5 2 (0.39%) SAP
6 1 (0.19%) Netskope
6 1 (0.19%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.19%) Qualys
6 1 (0.19%) Tenable
6 1 (0.19%) VMware
6 1 (0.19%) Zscaler