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 20 June 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 594 539
Rank change year-on-year +198 -55 -135
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Consultant 396 81 419
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.18% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.20% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 268 47 288
10th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £47,675
25th Percentile £50,000 £68,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +15.94% -1.43%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £91,250 £97,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £80,000 £68,500
% change year-on-year -21.88% +16.79% -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 88,490 40,188 103,482
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.00% 89.54% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 60,699 22,814 74,733
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,620
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +156 339 £65,000 -18.75% 67
UK excluding London +161 260 £62,500 -21.88% 46
Work from Home +105 116 £57,500 -20.41% 35
South West +29 98 £61,250 -7.55% 11
London +18 83 £80,000 +1.59% 26
Midlands +31 60 £65,000 -18.75% 3
North of England +12 51 £60,000 -25.00% 21
East Midlands +13 47 £55,000 -31.25% 1
North West +35 36 £60,000 -25.00% 9
South East +6 33 £65,000 -13.33% 8
West Midlands -7 13 £100,000 +25.00% 2
North East - 12 £50,000 - 7
Scotland +12 8 £93,750 +25.22% 1
East of England - 4 £65,000 - 2
Wales - 4 £53,355 -
Yorkshire -45 3 - - 6
Northern Ireland - 2 £40,750 -

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 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.

1 265 (66.92%) Cybersecurity
2 154 (38.89%) Security Cleared
3 115 (29.04%) SC Cleared
4 75 (18.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 73 (18.43%) NIST
6 71 (17.93%) Risk Management
7 65 (16.41%) DV Cleared
8 64 (16.16%) CISSP
9 57 (14.39%) CISM
10 51 (12.88%) Cloud Security
11 48 (12.12%) AWS
12 43 (10.86%) Azure
12 43 (10.86%) Penetration Testing
13 40 (10.10%) Security Architecture
14 32 (8.08%) GRC
15 28 (7.07%) Information Security
15 28 (7.07%) Threat Modelling
16 27 (6.82%) Security Testing
17 26 (6.57%) Mentoring
18 25 (6.31%) GDPR
19 24 (6.06%) Network Security
19 24 (6.06%) PCI DSS
20 23 (5.81%) Red Team
21 22 (5.56%) Information Assurance
22 21 (5.30%) AI
22 21 (5.30%) NCSC
23 20 (5.05%) Agile
23 20 (5.05%) Scrum
24 19 (4.80%) Firewall
24 19 (4.80%) Microsoft

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 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.25%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.25%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 48 (12.12%) AWS
2 43 (10.86%) Azure
3 17 (4.29%) GCP
4 9 (2.27%) Entra ID
4 9 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (2.27%) SaaS
5 7 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (1.52%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (1.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 5 (1.26%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (0.76%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.51%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (0.51%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (0.51%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (0.51%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (0.51%) AWS Control Tower
9 2 (0.51%) AWS KMS
9 2 (0.51%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.51%) Serverless
10 1 (0.25%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.06%) Network Security
2 19 (4.80%) Firewall
3 7 (1.77%) LAN
4 6 (1.52%) SD-WAN
4 6 (1.52%) WAN
5 3 (0.76%) VPN
6 1 (0.25%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.25%) DMZ
6 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.25%) Hadoop
1 1 (0.25%) NoSQL
1 1 (0.25%) SAP BW
1 1 (0.25%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Yeoman
General
1 87 (21.97%) Public Sector
2 58 (14.65%) Social Skills
3 32 (8.08%) Finance
4 21 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (2.27%) Law
6 6 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (1.52%) Telecoms
7 5 (1.26%) Banking
7 5 (1.26%) Games
7 5 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (0.76%) Legal
8 3 (0.76%) Military
9 2 (0.51%) Advertising
9 2 (0.51%) Billing
9 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.25%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.25%) Electronics
10 1 (0.25%) Marketing
10 1 (0.25%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.26%) ModSecurity
2 3 (0.76%) NumPy
2 3 (0.76%) Pandas
2 3 (0.76%) PySpark
2 3 (0.76%) scikit-learn
3 2 (0.51%) AWS CDK
3 2 (0.51%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.25%) .NET
4 1 (0.25%) Kafka
4 1 (0.25%) SAP CAF
4 1 (0.25%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.84%) Security Posture
2 28 (7.07%) PKI
3 10 (2.53%) Cyber Defence
3 10 (2.53%) Onboarding
4 8 (2.02%) Blog
4 8 (2.02%) Cloud Native
4 8 (2.02%) Management Information System
5 7 (1.77%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 7 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (1.77%) Operational Technology
6 6 (1.52%) Mobile App
7 3 (0.76%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.51%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.51%) Social Media
9 1 (0.25%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.25%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.25%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.78%) Windows
2 10 (2.53%) Linux
3 6 (1.52%) Android
3 6 (1.52%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (66.92%) Cybersecurity
2 71 (17.93%) Risk Management
3 51 (12.88%) Cloud Security
4 43 (10.86%) Penetration Testing
5 40 (10.10%) Security Architecture
6 28 (7.07%) Information Security
6 28 (7.07%) Threat Modelling
7 27 (6.82%) Security Testing
8 26 (6.57%) Mentoring
9 23 (5.81%) Red Team
10 22 (5.56%) Information Assurance
11 21 (5.30%) AI
12 20 (5.05%) Agile
12 20 (5.05%) Scrum
13 19 (4.80%) Threat Intelligence
14 18 (4.55%) Vulnerability Management
15 17 (4.29%) Presales
16 16 (4.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 15 (3.79%) GAP Analysis
17 15 (3.79%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 6 (1.52%) Python
2 2 (0.51%) Bash
2 2 (0.51%) Java
2 2 (0.51%) Perl
2 2 (0.51%) PHP
2 2 (0.51%) PowerShell
2 2 (0.51%) Ruby
3 1 (0.25%) C
3 1 (0.25%) C#
3 1 (0.25%) C++
3 1 (0.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 154 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 115 (29.04%) SC Cleared
3 65 (16.41%) DV Cleared
4 64 (16.16%) CISSP
5 57 (14.39%) CISM
6 18 (4.55%) CREST Certified
7 17 (4.29%) CRISC
8 16 (4.04%) CEH
8 16 (4.04%) Cisco Certification
9 15 (3.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 14 (3.54%) OSCP
11 12 (3.03%) CISA
11 12 (3.03%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 11 (2.78%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 10 (2.53%) CESG Certified Professional
14 9 (2.27%) Degree
15 8 (2.02%) AWS Certification
16 7 (1.77%) CCSP
17 6 (1.52%) DBS Check
18 5 (1.26%) CHECK Team Member
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (18.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 73 (18.43%) NIST
3 32 (8.08%) GRC
4 25 (6.31%) GDPR
5 24 (6.06%) PCI DSS
6 21 (5.30%) NCSC
7 17 (4.29%) Cyber Essentials
8 16 (4.04%) JSP 440
9 9 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 9 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 8 (2.02%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 3 (0.76%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.25%) QA
12 1 (0.25%) RMADS
12 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (3.03%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.25%) IAG
Systems Management
1 7 (1.77%) FortiGate
1 7 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (0.76%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.76%) Terraform
3 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.51%) QRadar
4 1 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (4.80%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.27%) CrowdStrike
3 8 (2.02%) Fortinet
4 6 (1.52%) SAP
5 5 (1.26%) Splunk
6 4 (1.01%) Google
7 2 (0.51%) Cisco
7 2 (0.51%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.25%) OneTrust
8 1 (0.25%) Qualys
8 1 (0.25%) Tenable