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 6 July 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 587 511
Rank change year-on-year +210 -76 -117
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Consultant 447 95 409
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.20% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.22% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 285 60 288
10th Percentile £48,839 £47,500 £47,675
25th Percentile £50,000 £62,188 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £78,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.46% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,750 £97,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £74,935 £68,500
% change year-on-year -16.59% +9.39% -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 91,659 43,150 98,619
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.16% 89.93% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 62,930 25,242 71,006
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,360 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,130 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.26% - -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 6 July 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 6 July 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 +183 390 £65,000 -18.75% 88
UK excluding London +159 291 £62,500 -16.59% 57
Work from Home +84 129 £60,000 -7.69% 48
London +38 104 £80,000 - 37
South West +20 96 £60,000 +20.00% 13
North of England +20 74 £60,000 -25.00% 22
Midlands +35 61 £65,000 -18.75% 3
North West +29 48 £60,000 -25.00% 11
East Midlands +21 45 £55,000 -31.25% 2
South East +9 38 £65,000 -20.00% 15
North East - 19 £50,000 - 5
West Midlands -8 16 £100,000 +25.00% 1
East of England - 9 £80,000 - 4
Yorkshire -28 7 £50,000 -37.50% 7
Scotland +14 6 £93,750 +25.22% 1
Wales - 4 £53,355 -
Northern Ireland - 3 £42,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 6 July 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.

1 295 (66.00%) Cybersecurity
2 171 (38.26%) Security Cleared
3 123 (27.52%) SC Cleared
4 85 (19.02%) Risk Management
5 78 (17.45%) NIST
6 77 (17.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 73 (16.33%) CISSP
8 65 (14.54%) DV Cleared
9 64 (14.32%) AWS
9 64 (14.32%) Cloud Security
10 63 (14.09%) CISM
11 54 (12.08%) Security Architecture
12 43 (9.62%) Azure
13 41 (9.17%) Threat Modelling
14 40 (8.95%) Penetration Testing
15 39 (8.72%) Mentoring
16 35 (7.83%) GRC
16 35 (7.83%) Network Security
17 33 (7.38%) Information Security
18 31 (6.94%) AI
19 29 (6.49%) GDPR
20 26 (5.82%) Identity Access Management
20 26 (5.82%) Security Testing
21 24 (5.37%) Cloud Computing
21 24 (5.37%) PCI DSS
22 23 (5.15%) Agile
23 22 (4.92%) AWS Certification
23 22 (4.92%) Information Assurance
23 22 (4.92%) Threat Intelligence
24 21 (4.70%) Data Protection

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 4 (0.89%) SAS
2 3 (0.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.45%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.22%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.22%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 64 (14.32%) AWS
2 43 (9.62%) Azure
3 24 (5.37%) Cloud Computing
4 17 (3.80%) GCP
5 11 (2.46%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (2.24%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (2.24%) Amazon EventBridge
6 10 (2.24%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (2.24%) AWS Control Tower
6 10 (2.24%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (2.24%) SaaS
6 10 (2.24%) Serverless
7 6 (1.34%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (1.12%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 5 (1.12%) Entra ID
9 3 (0.67%) Amazon Bedrock
9 3 (0.67%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (0.45%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (0.45%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (7.83%) Network Security
2 20 (4.47%) Firewall
3 7 (1.57%) LAN
4 6 (1.34%) SD-WAN
4 6 (1.34%) WAN
5 3 (0.67%) VPN
6 1 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.22%) DMZ
6 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.67%) Hadoop
1 3 (0.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.22%) SAP BW
2 1 (0.22%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Yeoman
General
1 103 (23.04%) Public Sector
2 61 (13.65%) Social Skills
3 43 (9.62%) Finance
4 23 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (2.01%) Law
5 9 (2.01%) Manufacturing
6 8 (1.79%) Telecoms
7 5 (1.12%) Banking
7 5 (1.12%) Games
7 5 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.12%) Military
8 4 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.67%) Legal
10 2 (0.45%) Advertising
10 2 (0.45%) Billing
11 1 (0.22%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.22%) Marketing
11 1 (0.22%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.24%) AWS CDK
2 5 (1.12%) ModSecurity
3 3 (0.67%) Kafka
3 3 (0.67%) NumPy
3 3 (0.67%) Pandas
3 3 (0.67%) PySpark
3 3 (0.67%) scikit-learn
4 2 (0.45%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.22%) .NET
5 1 (0.22%) SAP CAF
5 1 (0.22%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.71%) Security Posture
2 28 (6.26%) PKI
3 24 (5.37%) Onboarding
4 14 (3.13%) Enterprise Cloud
4 14 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.01%) Blog
5 9 (2.01%) Cyber Defence
6 7 (1.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 7 (1.57%) Operational Technology
7 6 (1.34%) Cloud Native
7 6 (1.34%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.67%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.45%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.45%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.45%) Mobile Computing
10 2 (0.45%) Social Media
11 1 (0.22%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.22%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.68%) Windows
2 11 (2.46%) Linux
3 6 (1.34%) Android
3 6 (1.34%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 295 (66.00%) Cybersecurity
2 85 (19.02%) Risk Management
3 64 (14.32%) Cloud Security
4 54 (12.08%) Security Architecture
5 41 (9.17%) Threat Modelling
6 40 (8.95%) Penetration Testing
7 39 (8.72%) Mentoring
8 33 (7.38%) Information Security
9 31 (6.94%) AI
10 26 (5.82%) Identity Access Management
10 26 (5.82%) Security Testing
11 23 (5.15%) Agile
12 22 (4.92%) Information Assurance
12 22 (4.92%) Threat Intelligence
13 21 (4.70%) Data Protection
14 20 (4.47%) Scrum
15 19 (4.25%) Incident Response
15 19 (4.25%) Red Team
15 19 (4.25%) SIEM
16 17 (3.80%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 14 (3.13%) Python
2 10 (2.24%) Bash
2 10 (2.24%) Java
2 10 (2.24%) Perl
2 10 (2.24%) PHP
2 10 (2.24%) Ruby
3 3 (0.67%) SQL
4 2 (0.45%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.22%) C
5 1 (0.22%) C#
5 1 (0.22%) C++
Qualifications
1 171 (38.26%) Security Cleared
2 123 (27.52%) SC Cleared
3 73 (16.33%) CISSP
4 65 (14.54%) DV Cleared
5 63 (14.09%) CISM
6 22 (4.92%) AWS Certification
7 20 (4.47%) CRISC
8 18 (4.03%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (3.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 17 (3.80%) CREST Certified
10 16 (3.58%) CISA
11 15 (3.36%) CEH
12 14 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 13 (2.91%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 13 (2.91%) OSCP
14 12 (2.68%) CESG Certified Professional
14 12 (2.68%) Degree
14 12 (2.68%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 9 (2.01%) CCSP
16 8 (1.79%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (17.45%) NIST
2 77 (17.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 35 (7.83%) GRC
4 29 (6.49%) GDPR
5 24 (5.37%) PCI DSS
6 21 (4.70%) NCSC
7 16 (3.58%) JSP 440
8 15 (3.36%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 11 (2.46%) NIST 800
10 9 (2.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 3 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.67%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.22%) QA
13 1 (0.22%) RMADS
13 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (2.91%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.22%) IAG
Systems Management
1 11 (2.46%) Terraform
2 7 (1.57%) FortiGate
2 7 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.67%) QRadar
4 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (3.36%) Microsoft
2 8 (1.79%) CrowdStrike
2 8 (1.79%) Fortinet
3 6 (1.34%) SAP
3 6 (1.34%) Splunk
4 4 (0.89%) Google
5 2 (0.45%) Cisco
5 2 (0.45%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.22%) OneTrust
6 1 (0.22%) Qualys
6 1 (0.22%) Tenable