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 29 August 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 554 506
Rank change year-on-year +202 -48 -137
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Consultant 554 121 308
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.24% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.27% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 347 89 203
10th Percentile £50,000 - £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -1.46% -2.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,000 £90,000 £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 102,744 44,989 77,310
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.86% 89.84% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 70,528 26,760 49,758
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,888 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £91,250
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 29 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 29 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 +189 475 £70,000 +3.70% 260
UK excluding London +133 364 £65,000 -3.70% 142
Work from Home +76 176 £67,500 +5.88% 174
London +37 119 £80,000 +3.23% 132
North of England +44 109 £60,000 -25.00% 44
South West -15 107 £60,000 +20.00% 51
Midlands +28 65 £70,000 -17.65% 6
North West +46 62 £65,000 -18.75% 31
South East -1 47 £65,000 -20.00% 20
East Midlands - 44 £55,000 -
North East - 31 £50,000 - 3
West Midlands -1 21 £80,000 - 6
East of England +3 17 £80,000 +23.08% 8
Yorkshire -31 16 £50,000 -37.50% 10
Scotland 0 10 - - 6
Northern Ireland - 5 £42,500 - 7
Wales - 4 £53,355 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 29 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.

1 375 (67.69%) Cybersecurity
2 165 (29.78%) Security Cleared
3 111 (20.04%) SC Cleared
4 93 (16.79%) Risk Management
5 92 (16.61%) NIST
6 86 (15.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 84 (15.16%) Cloud Security
8 83 (14.98%) CISSP
9 70 (12.64%) AWS
10 68 (12.27%) CISM
11 67 (12.09%) Threat Modelling
12 65 (11.73%) Security Architecture
13 56 (10.11%) Information Security
14 53 (9.57%) Mentoring
15 51 (9.21%) DV Cleared
16 44 (7.94%) GRC
17 41 (7.40%) Azure
18 39 (7.04%) Network Security
19 37 (6.68%) GDPR
20 35 (6.32%) Identity Access Management
21 32 (5.78%) AI
22 31 (5.60%) AWS Certification
23 29 (5.23%) Cloud Computing
23 29 (5.23%) Degree
24 28 (5.05%) Agile
24 28 (5.05%) CRISC
24 28 (5.05%) Penetration Testing
25 27 (4.87%) Data Protection
25 27 (4.87%) NCSC
25 27 (4.87%) Presales

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 (1.08%) SAS
2 3 (0.54%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.18%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.18%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.18%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 70 (12.64%) AWS
2 41 (7.40%) Azure
3 29 (5.23%) Cloud Computing
4 17 (3.07%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (3.07%) Serverless
5 15 (2.71%) Amazon EKS
5 15 (2.71%) GCP
6 14 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (2.53%) Amazon EventBridge
6 14 (2.53%) AWS Control Tower
6 14 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (1.81%) SaaS
8 6 (1.08%) Entra ID
9 5 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (0.72%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 3 (0.54%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (0.54%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (0.54%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 39 (7.04%) Network Security
2 19 (3.43%) Firewall
3 7 (1.26%) SD-WAN
3 7 (1.26%) WAN
4 6 (1.08%) LAN
5 2 (0.36%) VPN
6 1 (0.18%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (0.54%) Hadoop
1 3 (0.54%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.18%) SAP BW
2 1 (0.18%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (0.72%) Burp Suite
1 4 (0.72%) Metasploit
2 2 (0.36%) Yeoman
3 1 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 124 (22.38%) Public Sector
2 66 (11.91%) Social Skills
3 40 (7.22%) Finance
4 25 (4.51%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (2.71%) Manufacturing
6 10 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (1.62%) Aerospace
7 9 (1.62%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (1.44%) Law
9 6 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (0.90%) Legal
10 5 (0.90%) Military
11 3 (0.54%) Banking
11 3 (0.54%) Games
11 3 (0.54%) Police
12 2 (0.36%) Electronics
13 1 (0.18%) Advertising
13 1 (0.18%) French Language
13 1 (0.18%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.25%) Terraform
2 14 (2.53%) AWS CDK
3 5 (0.90%) ModSecurity
4 4 (0.72%) NumPy
4 4 (0.72%) Pandas
4 4 (0.72%) PySpark
4 4 (0.72%) scikit-learn
5 3 (0.54%) Kafka
6 1 (0.18%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.18%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.42%) PKI
2 29 (5.23%) Operational Technology
3 28 (5.05%) Onboarding
4 25 (4.51%) Security Posture
5 19 (3.43%) Management Information System
6 18 (3.25%) Enterprise Cloud
7 10 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.26%) Blog
9 6 (1.08%) Mobile App
10 5 (0.90%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (0.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 5 (0.90%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.54%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.54%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (0.54%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (0.54%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.36%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.36%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.36%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.35%) Windows
2 11 (1.99%) Linux
3 6 (1.08%) Android
3 6 (1.08%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (67.69%) Cybersecurity
2 93 (16.79%) Risk Management
3 84 (15.16%) Cloud Security
4 67 (12.09%) Threat Modelling
5 65 (11.73%) Security Architecture
6 56 (10.11%) Information Security
7 53 (9.57%) Mentoring
8 35 (6.32%) Identity Access Management
9 32 (5.78%) AI
10 28 (5.05%) Agile
10 28 (5.05%) Penetration Testing
11 27 (4.87%) Data Protection
11 27 (4.87%) Presales
12 24 (4.33%) SIEM
13 23 (4.15%) Incident Response
13 23 (4.15%) Infrastructure as Code
13 23 (4.15%) Security Testing
14 22 (3.97%) GAP Analysis
14 22 (3.97%) Zero Trust
15 21 (3.79%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 22 (3.97%) Python
2 14 (2.53%) Bash
2 14 (2.53%) Java
2 14 (2.53%) Perl
2 14 (2.53%) PHP
2 14 (2.53%) Ruby
3 3 (0.54%) SQL
4 2 (0.36%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 165 (29.78%) Security Cleared
2 111 (20.04%) SC Cleared
3 83 (14.98%) CISSP
4 68 (12.27%) CISM
5 51 (9.21%) DV Cleared
6 31 (5.60%) AWS Certification
7 29 (5.23%) Degree
8 28 (5.05%) CRISC
9 21 (3.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 19 (3.43%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 19 (3.43%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 16 (2.89%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (2.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 15 (2.71%) CISA
13 11 (1.99%) CREST Certified
14 9 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (1.62%) CESG Certified Professional
14 9 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
15 8 (1.44%) CCSP
16 7 (1.26%) CISMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (16.61%) NIST
2 86 (15.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 44 (7.94%) GRC
4 37 (6.68%) GDPR
5 27 (4.87%) NCSC
6 24 (4.33%) PCI DSS
7 19 (3.43%) Cyber Essentials
8 18 (3.25%) JSP 440
9 15 (2.71%) NIST 800
10 13 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 7 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.72%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.72%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 4 (0.72%) QA
13 3 (0.54%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.18%) ISO 31000
15 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 11 (1.99%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.81%) Firmware
3 1 (0.18%) IAG
3 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (1.08%) FortiGate
1 6 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (0.72%) Nmap
3 3 (0.54%) QRadar
4 2 (0.36%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.18%) Ansible
5 1 (0.18%) CASB
5 1 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.18%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (3.25%) Microsoft
2 9 (1.62%) Google
3 8 (1.44%) CrowdStrike
3 8 (1.44%) Fortinet
4 5 (0.90%) Splunk
5 4 (0.72%) Red Hat
6 3 (0.54%) Cisco
6 3 (0.54%) Oracle
6 3 (0.54%) OutSystems
7 2 (0.36%) OneTrust
7 2 (0.36%) SAP
8 1 (0.18%) Meraki
8 1 (0.18%) Netskope
8 1 (0.18%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.18%) Qualys
8 1 (0.18%) Tenable
8 1 (0.18%) VMware
8 1 (0.18%) Zscaler