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 1 August 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 553 521
Rank change year-on-year +177 -32 -127
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Consultant 496 125 336
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.25% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.28% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 308 87 227
10th Percentile £49,420 - £48,750
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 £82,500 £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 97,263 44,589 81,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.24% 90.05% 94.84%
Number of salaries quoted 66,554 26,541 55,776
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £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 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%

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 1 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 1 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 +188 441 £65,000 -3.70% 130
UK excluding London +126 318 £60,000 -11.11% 92
Work from Home +78 149 £65,000 +30.00% 89
London +55 126 £80,000 +1.59% 52
North of England +38 92 £60,000 -25.00% 19
South West -27 89 £55,000 +10.00% 33
Midlands +37 71 £70,000 -12.50% 7
North West +49 56 £60,000 -25.00% 14
East Midlands +20 49 £60,000 -25.00%
South East -2 41 £65,000 -25.71% 20
North East - 24 £50,000 - 2
West Midlands -9 22 £80,000 - 7
East of England - 14 £80,000 - 3
Yorkshire -27 12 £50,000 -37.50% 3
Scotland +9 4 - - 5
Wales - 4 £53,355 - 4
Northern Ireland - 3 £42,500 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 334 (67.34%) Cybersecurity
2 177 (35.69%) Security Cleared
3 118 (23.79%) SC Cleared
4 94 (18.95%) Risk Management
5 86 (17.34%) NIST
6 79 (15.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 77 (15.52%) Cloud Security
8 76 (15.32%) CISSP
9 70 (14.11%) AWS
10 65 (13.10%) DV Cleared
11 62 (12.50%) CISM
12 58 (11.69%) Threat Modelling
13 56 (11.29%) Security Architecture
14 49 (9.88%) Information Security
15 48 (9.68%) Mentoring
16 43 (8.67%) Azure
17 40 (8.06%) Network Security
18 38 (7.66%) GRC
19 36 (7.26%) AI
20 34 (6.85%) GDPR
21 32 (6.45%) Identity Access Management
22 29 (5.85%) AWS Certification
22 29 (5.85%) Cloud Computing
22 29 (5.85%) Penetration Testing
23 27 (5.44%) Agile
24 26 (5.24%) PCI DSS
25 25 (5.04%) NCSC
26 24 (4.84%) Data Protection
27 22 (4.44%) Degree
27 22 (4.44%) Information Assurance

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 (1.21%) SAS
2 3 (0.60%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.20%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.40%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.20%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.20%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 70 (14.11%) AWS
2 43 (8.67%) Azure
3 29 (5.85%) Cloud Computing
4 16 (3.23%) GCP
5 15 (3.02%) Amazon EKS
5 15 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (3.02%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (3.02%) Serverless
6 14 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (2.82%) Amazon EventBridge
6 14 (2.82%) AWS Control Tower
7 13 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (2.02%) SaaS
9 6 (1.21%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (1.21%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.01%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 3 (0.60%) Amazon Bedrock
11 3 (0.60%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (0.40%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 40 (8.06%) Network Security
2 21 (4.23%) Firewall
3 7 (1.41%) LAN
3 7 (1.41%) SD-WAN
3 7 (1.41%) WAN
4 3 (0.60%) VPN
5 1 (0.20%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.60%) Hadoop
1 3 (0.60%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.20%) SAP BW
2 1 (0.20%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Burp Suite
1 2 (0.40%) Metasploit
1 2 (0.40%) Yeoman
General
1 115 (23.19%) Public Sector
2 62 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 40 (8.06%) Finance
4 25 (5.04%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (3.02%) Manufacturing
6 10 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (2.02%) Telecoms
7 8 (1.61%) Law
8 7 (1.41%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.01%) Military
9 5 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.81%) Legal
11 3 (0.60%) Banking
11 3 (0.60%) Games
12 2 (0.40%) Advertising
12 2 (0.40%) Police
13 1 (0.20%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.20%) Electronics
13 1 (0.20%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.82%) AWS CDK
2 5 (1.01%) ModSecurity
3 4 (0.81%) NumPy
3 4 (0.81%) Pandas
3 4 (0.81%) PySpark
3 4 (0.81%) scikit-learn
4 3 (0.60%) Kafka
5 2 (0.40%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.20%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.65%) PKI
2 29 (5.85%) Onboarding
3 24 (4.84%) Security Posture
4 18 (3.63%) Enterprise Cloud
4 18 (3.63%) Management Information System
5 9 (1.81%) Operational Technology
6 7 (1.41%) Blog
7 6 (1.21%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 6 (1.21%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.21%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.01%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.81%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (0.60%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (0.60%) Social Media
11 2 (0.40%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.40%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.40%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.20%) Cyber Threat
12 1 (0.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.82%) Windows
2 12 (2.42%) Linux
3 6 (1.21%) Android
3 6 (1.21%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (67.34%) Cybersecurity
2 94 (18.95%) Risk Management
3 77 (15.52%) Cloud Security
4 58 (11.69%) Threat Modelling
5 56 (11.29%) Security Architecture
6 49 (9.88%) Information Security
7 48 (9.68%) Mentoring
8 36 (7.26%) AI
9 32 (6.45%) Identity Access Management
10 29 (5.85%) Penetration Testing
11 27 (5.44%) Agile
12 24 (4.84%) Data Protection
13 22 (4.44%) Information Assurance
13 22 (4.44%) Presales
13 22 (4.44%) Security Testing
13 22 (4.44%) SIEM
14 21 (4.23%) GAP Analysis
14 21 (4.23%) Scrum
15 20 (4.03%) Infrastructure as Code
16 19 (3.83%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 19 (3.83%) Python
2 14 (2.82%) Bash
2 14 (2.82%) Java
2 14 (2.82%) Perl
2 14 (2.82%) PHP
2 14 (2.82%) Ruby
3 3 (0.60%) SQL
4 2 (0.40%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 177 (35.69%) Security Cleared
2 118 (23.79%) SC Cleared
3 76 (15.32%) CISSP
4 65 (13.10%) DV Cleared
5 62 (12.50%) CISM
6 29 (5.85%) AWS Certification
7 22 (4.44%) Degree
8 21 (4.23%) CRISC
9 19 (3.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 18 (3.63%) Cisco Certification
11 17 (3.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 17 (3.43%) CISA
12 15 (3.02%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 15 (3.02%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 12 (2.42%) CREST Certified
14 9 (1.81%) CCSP
14 9 (1.81%) CESG Certified Professional
15 8 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (1.61%) CompTIA CySA+
15 8 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (17.34%) NIST
2 79 (15.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 38 (7.66%) GRC
4 34 (6.85%) GDPR
5 26 (5.24%) PCI DSS
6 25 (5.04%) NCSC
7 16 (3.23%) NIST 800
8 15 (3.02%) JSP 440
9 14 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 11 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.60%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.60%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 3 (0.60%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.20%) ISO 31000
14 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 1 (0.20%) RMADS
System Software
1 12 (2.42%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.41%) Firmware
3 1 (0.20%) IAG
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (3.23%) Terraform
2 7 (1.41%) FortiGate
2 7 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.60%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.60%) QRadar
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.40%) Nmap
5 1 (0.20%) CASB
5 1 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (3.02%) Microsoft
2 9 (1.81%) CrowdStrike
2 9 (1.81%) Fortinet
3 7 (1.41%) Google
4 6 (1.21%) Splunk
5 3 (0.60%) Cisco
6 2 (0.40%) OneTrust
6 2 (0.40%) Palo Alto
6 2 (0.40%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.40%) SAP
7 1 (0.20%) Netskope
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle
7 1 (0.20%) OutSystems
7 1 (0.20%) Qualys
7 1 (0.20%) Tenable
7 1 (0.20%) VMware
7 1 (0.20%) Zscaler