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 27 June 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 573 519
Rank change year-on-year +192 -54 -115
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Consultant 415 85 413
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.19% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.21% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 272 51 285
10th Percentile £47,557 £55,000 £47,600
25th Percentile £50,000 £66,875 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £78,125 £85,625 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,750 £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 89,596 40,763 99,991
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 89.50% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 61,466 23,272 72,169
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,750
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 £76,849 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,528 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.00% - -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 27 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 27 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 +167 358 £65,000 -18.75% 61
UK excluding London +164 272 £62,500 -21.88% 40
Work from Home +104 121 £60,000 -16.66% 28
South West +36 97 £60,000 -7.69% 6
London +21 90 £80,000 - 27
Midlands +27 61 £65,000 -18.75% 2
North of England +18 60 £60,000 -25.00% 17
East Midlands +21 46 £55,000 -31.25% 1
North West +38 40 £60,000 -25.00% 8
South East +3 35 £65,000 -17.46% 12
West Midlands -3 15 £100,000 +25.00% 1
North East - 15 £50,000 - 6
Scotland +13 7 £93,750 +25.22% 1
East of England - 6 £80,000 - 1
Yorkshire -40 5 £40,000 -50.00% 4
Wales - 4 £53,355 -
Northern Ireland - 2 £40,750 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 27 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.

1 278 (66.99%) Cybersecurity
2 159 (38.31%) Security Cleared
3 118 (28.43%) SC Cleared
4 77 (18.55%) Risk Management
5 76 (18.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 74 (17.83%) NIST
7 68 (16.39%) CISSP
8 65 (15.66%) DV Cleared
9 59 (14.22%) CISM
10 55 (13.25%) Cloud Security
11 53 (12.77%) AWS
12 45 (10.84%) Security Architecture
13 42 (10.12%) Azure
13 42 (10.12%) Penetration Testing
14 33 (7.95%) GRC
14 33 (7.95%) Threat Modelling
15 32 (7.71%) Mentoring
16 30 (7.23%) Information Security
17 28 (6.75%) Network Security
18 27 (6.51%) Security Testing
19 26 (6.27%) GDPR
20 24 (5.78%) AI
20 24 (5.78%) PCI DSS
21 22 (5.30%) Information Assurance
22 21 (5.06%) Agile
22 21 (5.06%) NCSC
22 21 (5.06%) Red Team
23 20 (4.82%) Scrum
23 20 (4.82%) Threat Intelligence
24 19 (4.58%) Firewall

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 2 (0.48%) Apache Spark
1 2 (0.48%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.24%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.24%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 53 (12.77%) AWS
2 42 (10.12%) Azure
3 17 (4.10%) GCP
4 13 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
5 9 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (2.17%) SaaS
6 7 (1.69%) Entra ID
7 5 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (1.20%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 5 (1.20%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (0.96%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (0.96%) Amazon EventBridge
8 4 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (0.96%) AWS Control Tower
8 4 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (0.96%) Serverless
9 2 (0.48%) Amazon Bedrock
9 2 (0.48%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (0.48%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 28 (6.75%) Network Security
2 19 (4.58%) Firewall
3 7 (1.69%) LAN
4 6 (1.45%) SD-WAN
4 6 (1.45%) WAN
5 3 (0.72%) VPN
6 1 (0.24%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.24%) DMZ
6 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.48%) Hadoop
1 2 (0.48%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.24%) SAP BW
2 1 (0.24%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Yeoman
General
1 91 (21.93%) Public Sector
2 59 (14.22%) Social Skills
3 36 (8.67%) Finance
4 22 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (2.17%) Law
6 7 (1.69%) Telecoms
7 6 (1.45%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.20%) Banking
8 5 (1.20%) Games
8 5 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (0.96%) Military
10 3 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.72%) Legal
11 2 (0.48%) Advertising
11 2 (0.48%) Billing
12 1 (0.24%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.24%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.24%) Marketing
12 1 (0.24%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.20%) ModSecurity
2 4 (0.96%) AWS CDK
3 3 (0.72%) NumPy
3 3 (0.72%) Pandas
3 3 (0.72%) PySpark
3 3 (0.72%) scikit-learn
4 2 (0.48%) Kafka
4 2 (0.48%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.24%) .NET
5 1 (0.24%) SAP CAF
5 1 (0.24%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.95%) Security Posture
2 28 (6.75%) PKI
3 15 (3.61%) Onboarding
4 11 (2.65%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.41%) Cyber Defence
6 8 (1.93%) Blog
7 7 (1.69%) Cloud Native
7 7 (1.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 7 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
7 7 (1.69%) Operational Technology
8 6 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.45%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.72%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.48%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.48%) Social Media
11 1 (0.24%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.24%) Cyberattack
11 1 (0.24%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.24%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.65%) Windows
2 10 (2.41%) Linux
3 6 (1.45%) Android
3 6 (1.45%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (66.99%) Cybersecurity
2 77 (18.55%) Risk Management
3 55 (13.25%) Cloud Security
4 45 (10.84%) Security Architecture
5 42 (10.12%) Penetration Testing
6 33 (7.95%) Threat Modelling
7 32 (7.71%) Mentoring
8 30 (7.23%) Information Security
9 27 (6.51%) Security Testing
10 24 (5.78%) AI
11 22 (5.30%) Information Assurance
12 21 (5.06%) Agile
12 21 (5.06%) Red Team
13 20 (4.82%) Scrum
13 20 (4.82%) Threat Intelligence
14 19 (4.58%) Identity Access Management
15 18 (4.34%) Vulnerability Management
16 17 (4.10%) Incident Response
16 17 (4.10%) Presales
16 17 (4.10%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 8 (1.93%) Python
2 4 (0.96%) Bash
2 4 (0.96%) Java
2 4 (0.96%) Perl
2 4 (0.96%) PHP
2 4 (0.96%) Ruby
3 2 (0.48%) PowerShell
3 2 (0.48%) SQL
4 1 (0.24%) C
4 1 (0.24%) C#
4 1 (0.24%) C++
Qualifications
1 159 (38.31%) Security Cleared
2 118 (28.43%) SC Cleared
3 68 (16.39%) CISSP
4 65 (15.66%) DV Cleared
5 59 (14.22%) CISM
6 18 (4.34%) CREST Certified
6 18 (4.34%) CRISC
7 17 (4.10%) Cisco Certification
8 16 (3.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 16 (3.86%) CEH
9 14 (3.37%) OSCP
10 13 (3.13%) AWS Certification
10 13 (3.13%) CISA
11 12 (2.89%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 12 (2.89%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 11 (2.65%) CESG Certified Professional
13 10 (2.41%) Degree
14 8 (1.93%) CCSP
15 7 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 6 (1.45%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (18.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 74 (17.83%) NIST
3 33 (7.95%) GRC
4 26 (6.27%) GDPR
5 24 (5.78%) PCI DSS
6 21 (5.06%) NCSC
7 16 (3.86%) Cyber Essentials
7 16 (3.86%) JSP 440
8 9 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 9 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 9 (2.17%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 3 (0.72%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.24%) QA
10 1 (0.24%) RMADS
10 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (2.89%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.24%) IAG
Systems Management
1 7 (1.69%) FortiGate
1 7 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (1.20%) Terraform
3 3 (0.72%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.48%) QRadar
5 1 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.24%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (4.10%) Microsoft
2 8 (1.93%) CrowdStrike
2 8 (1.93%) Fortinet
3 6 (1.45%) SAP
4 5 (1.20%) Splunk
5 4 (0.96%) Google
6 2 (0.48%) Cisco
6 2 (0.48%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.24%) OneTrust
7 1 (0.24%) Qualys
7 1 (0.24%) Tenable