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 16 September 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 573 506
Rank change year-on-year +218 -67 -140
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Consultant 585 107 312
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.22% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.24% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 366 87 177
10th Percentile £50,000 - £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -1.46% -2.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £88,500 £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 106,506 44,266 74,164
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.35% 89.67% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 73,200 26,014 44,625
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +210 502 £70,000 +3.70% 433
UK excluding London +117 375 £65,000 -3.70% 256
Work from Home +74 179 £75,000 +33.33% 272
London +67 135 £80,000 +3.23% 182
North of England +40 116 £60,000 -25.00% 76
South West -31 103 £72,500 +38.10% 59
North West +46 66 £65,000 -18.75% 51
Midlands +27 60 £70,000 -17.65% 17
South East -5 56 £70,000 -20.00% 45
East Midlands - 39 £55,000 - 4
North East - 33 £50,000 - 10
West Midlands -20 21 £80,000 - 13
East of England -13 20 £80,000 +23.08% 18
Yorkshire -23 17 £50,000 -37.50% 16
Scotland +12 12 - - 27
Northern Ireland - 5 £42,500 - 8
Wales - 3 £55,000 - 5

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 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.

1 382 (65.30%) Cybersecurity
2 163 (27.86%) Security Cleared
3 110 (18.80%) SC Cleared
4 97 (16.58%) NIST
5 93 (15.90%) Risk Management
6 88 (15.04%) Cloud Security
7 86 (14.70%) CISSP
8 85 (14.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 72 (12.31%) Threat Modelling
10 69 (11.79%) CISM
10 69 (11.79%) Security Architecture
11 68 (11.62%) AWS
12 59 (10.09%) Information Security
13 55 (9.40%) Mentoring
14 47 (8.03%) Network Security
15 45 (7.69%) GRC
16 39 (6.67%) Azure
17 38 (6.50%) GDPR
18 37 (6.32%) DV Cleared
19 35 (5.98%) AI
19 35 (5.98%) Identity Access Management
20 31 (5.30%) AWS Certification
20 31 (5.30%) NCSC
21 30 (5.13%) Degree
22 29 (4.96%) Agile
22 29 (4.96%) Cloud Computing
22 29 (4.96%) CRISC
22 29 (4.96%) Data Protection
23 25 (4.27%) Presales
23 25 (4.27%) Zero Trust

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 (1.03%) SAS
2 3 (0.51%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.17%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.17%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.17%) SAP GRC
1 1 (0.17%) SAP HCM
1 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 68 (11.62%) AWS
2 39 (6.67%) Azure
3 29 (4.96%) Cloud Computing
4 17 (2.91%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (2.91%) GCP
4 17 (2.91%) Serverless
5 15 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
5 15 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (2.39%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (2.39%) Amazon EventBridge
6 14 (2.39%) AWS Control Tower
7 10 (1.71%) SaaS
8 6 (1.03%) Entra ID
9 5 (0.85%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (0.68%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (0.51%) Amazon Bedrock
11 3 (0.51%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (0.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 47 (8.03%) Network Security
2 23 (3.93%) Firewall
3 9 (1.54%) SD-WAN
4 7 (1.20%) WAN
5 6 (1.03%) LAN
6 3 (0.51%) BGP
6 3 (0.51%) VLAN
7 2 (0.34%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.34%) VPN
8 1 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.17%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (0.51%) Hadoop
1 3 (0.51%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (0.68%) Burp Suite
1 4 (0.68%) Metasploit
2 2 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (0.34%) Yeoman
General
1 123 (21.03%) Public Sector
2 62 (10.60%) Social Skills
3 42 (7.18%) Finance
4 24 (4.10%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (2.56%) Manufacturing
6 11 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (1.71%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.37%) Aerospace
8 8 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (1.37%) Law
9 6 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (0.85%) Legal
10 5 (0.85%) Military
11 4 (0.68%) Banking
12 3 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.51%) Games
12 3 (0.51%) Police
13 2 (0.34%) Electronics
14 1 (0.17%) Advertising
14 1 (0.17%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.25%) Terraform
2 14 (2.39%) AWS CDK
3 5 (0.85%) ModSecurity
4 4 (0.68%) NumPy
4 4 (0.68%) Pandas
4 4 (0.68%) PySpark
4 4 (0.68%) scikit-learn
5 3 (0.51%) Kafka
6 1 (0.17%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.17%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 41 (7.01%) Operational Technology
2 27 (4.62%) Onboarding
3 26 (4.44%) Security Posture
4 25 (4.27%) PKI
5 19 (3.25%) Management Information System
6 18 (3.08%) Enterprise Cloud
7 12 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.03%) Mobile App
9 5 (0.85%) AI Agents
9 5 (0.85%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (0.85%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 5 (0.85%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.51%) Blog
11 3 (0.51%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.51%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (0.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (0.51%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.34%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.34%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.54%) Windows
2 7 (1.20%) Linux
3 6 (1.03%) Android
3 6 (1.03%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (65.30%) Cybersecurity
2 93 (15.90%) Risk Management
3 88 (15.04%) Cloud Security
4 72 (12.31%) Threat Modelling
5 69 (11.79%) Security Architecture
6 59 (10.09%) Information Security
7 55 (9.40%) Mentoring
8 35 (5.98%) AI
8 35 (5.98%) Identity Access Management
9 29 (4.96%) Agile
9 29 (4.96%) Data Protection
10 25 (4.27%) Presales
10 25 (4.27%) Zero Trust
11 24 (4.10%) Business Development
11 24 (4.10%) GAP Analysis
11 24 (4.10%) Incident Response
11 24 (4.10%) Penetration Testing
11 24 (4.10%) SIEM
12 23 (3.93%) Infrastructure as Code
12 23 (3.93%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (4.10%) Python
2 14 (2.39%) Bash
2 14 (2.39%) Java
2 14 (2.39%) Perl
2 14 (2.39%) PHP
2 14 (2.39%) Ruby
3 3 (0.51%) SQL
4 2 (0.34%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 163 (27.86%) Security Cleared
2 110 (18.80%) SC Cleared
3 86 (14.70%) CISSP
4 69 (11.79%) CISM
5 37 (6.32%) DV Cleared
6 31 (5.30%) AWS Certification
7 30 (5.13%) Degree
8 29 (4.96%) CRISC
9 21 (3.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 19 (3.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 19 (3.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 17 (2.91%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (2.74%) CISA
13 15 (2.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 9 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (1.54%) CESG Certified Professional
14 9 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
15 8 (1.37%) CCSP
15 8 (1.37%) DBS Check
16 7 (1.20%) CISMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (16.58%) NIST
2 85 (14.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 45 (7.69%) GRC
4 38 (6.50%) GDPR
5 31 (5.30%) NCSC
6 21 (3.59%) Cyber Essentials
6 21 (3.59%) PCI DSS
7 18 (3.08%) JSP 440
8 15 (2.56%) NIST 800
9 13 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 8 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (1.20%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.68%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 4 (0.68%) QA
13 3 (0.51%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.34%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.17%) EU AI Act
15 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 10 (1.71%) Firmware
2 7 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) IAG
3 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (1.37%) FortiGate
2 6 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.68%) Nmap
4 3 (0.51%) QRadar
5 2 (0.34%) Ansible
5 2 (0.34%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.17%) CASB
6 1 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (3.42%) Microsoft
2 10 (1.71%) Fortinet
2 10 (1.71%) Google
3 8 (1.37%) CrowdStrike
4 7 (1.20%) Cisco
5 5 (0.85%) Splunk
6 4 (0.68%) Red Hat
7 3 (0.51%) OneTrust
7 3 (0.51%) Oracle
7 3 (0.51%) OutSystems
8 2 (0.34%) Meraki
9 1 (0.17%) Acronis
9 1 (0.17%) Netskope
9 1 (0.17%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.17%) Qualys
9 1 (0.17%) SAP
9 1 (0.17%) Tenable
9 1 (0.17%) Varonis
9 1 (0.17%) VMware
9 1 (0.17%) Zscaler