Senior Security Consultant Job Trends

Senior Security Consultant
UK

The median Senior Security Consultant salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 September 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 692 658 747
Rank change year-on-year -34 +89 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Consultant 95 22 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.085% 0.044% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.091% 0.050% 0.062%
Number of salaries quoted 50 22 37
10th Percentile £55,000 - £65,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -15.63% +12.28%
75th Percentile £90,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £79,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £81,250 £67,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +20.37% -6.90% +3.57%

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 104,733 44,390 75,643
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.79% 89.68% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 72,126 26,208 47,516
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,132 £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 £76,500 £74,813 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £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%

Senior Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Security Consultant' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Senior Security Consultant job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Security Consultant
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Senior Security Consultant job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Security Consultant job vacancies in the UK

Senior Security Consultant
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Security Consultant over the 6 months to 6 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Security Consultant in the UK

Senior Security Consultant
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Security Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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 -48 86 £80,000 +18.52% 41
London -21 47 £80,000 -3.03% 20
UK excluding London -68 47 £81,250 +20.37% 22
Work from Home -31 28 £65,000 -3.70% 26
South West -73 16 £82,500 +22.22% 7
South East -33 9 £70,000 -12.50% 4
North West - 7 £90,000 - 5
East of England - 7 - - 1
North of England - 7 £90,000 - 7
Wales - 4 £53,355 -
Scotland - 4 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 6 September 2026, Senior 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 Senior Security Consultant in the job title.

1 63 (66.32%) Cybersecurity
2 48 (50.53%) Security Cleared
3 30 (31.58%) Threat Modelling
4 27 (28.42%) AWS
5 26 (27.37%) Risk Management
6 23 (24.21%) Cloud Computing
6 23 (24.21%) NIST
6 23 (24.21%) SC Cleared
6 23 (24.21%) Security Architecture
7 20 (21.05%) CISSP
7 20 (21.05%) Cloud Security
8 19 (20.00%) Agile
9 18 (18.95%) AI
9 18 (18.95%) CISM
9 18 (18.95%) Degree
9 18 (18.95%) Information Security
10 17 (17.89%) AWS Certification
10 17 (17.89%) Cryptography
10 17 (17.89%) Customer Engagement
10 17 (17.89%) Generative AI
10 17 (17.89%) Mentoring
10 17 (17.89%) Network Security
11 15 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 15 (15.79%) NCSC
12 14 (14.74%) Amazon ECS
12 14 (14.74%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (14.74%) Amazon EventBridge
12 14 (14.74%) Architectural Patterns
12 14 (14.74%) AWS CDK
12 14 (14.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Senior 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 (6.32%) SAS
2 3 (3.16%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 27 (28.42%) AWS
2 23 (24.21%) Cloud Computing
3 14 (14.74%) Amazon ECS
3 14 (14.74%) Amazon EKS
3 14 (14.74%) Amazon EventBridge
3 14 (14.74%) AWS CloudFormation
3 14 (14.74%) AWS Control Tower
3 14 (14.74%) AWS Lambda
3 14 (14.74%) Serverless
4 4 (4.21%) Azure
4 4 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.16%) Amazon Bedrock
5 3 (3.16%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 3 (3.16%) Amazon Kinesis
5 3 (3.16%) GCP
6 1 (1.05%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 17 (17.89%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.16%) Hadoop
1 3 (3.16%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Yeoman
General
1 28 (29.47%) Finance
2 21 (22.11%) Public Sector
3 10 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (8.42%) Aerospace
4 8 (8.42%) Social Skills
4 8 (8.42%) Telecoms
5 6 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.16%) Military
7 2 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.11%) Legal
8 1 (1.05%) Law
8 1 (1.05%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.74%) AWS CDK
1 14 (14.74%) Terraform
2 3 (3.16%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 24 (25.26%) Operational Technology
2 23 (24.21%) Onboarding
3 14 (14.74%) Enterprise Cloud
4 12 (12.63%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.16%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.05%) SCADA
7 1 (1.05%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (66.32%) Cybersecurity
2 30 (31.58%) Threat Modelling
3 26 (27.37%) Risk Management
4 23 (24.21%) Security Architecture
5 20 (21.05%) Cloud Security
6 19 (20.00%) Agile
7 18 (18.95%) AI
7 18 (18.95%) Information Security
8 17 (17.89%) Cryptography
8 17 (17.89%) Customer Engagement
8 17 (17.89%) Generative AI
8 17 (17.89%) Mentoring
9 14 (14.74%) Architectural Patterns
9 14 (14.74%) Data Protection
9 14 (14.74%) Identity Access Management
9 14 (14.74%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (14.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 14 (14.74%) Risk Assessment
10 12 (12.63%) Application Security
11 9 (9.47%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 14 (14.74%) Bash
1 14 (14.74%) Java
1 14 (14.74%) Perl
1 14 (14.74%) PHP
1 14 (14.74%) Python
1 14 (14.74%) Ruby
2 3 (3.16%) SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (50.53%) Security Cleared
2 23 (24.21%) SC Cleared
3 20 (21.05%) CISSP
4 18 (18.95%) CISM
4 18 (18.95%) Degree
5 17 (17.89%) AWS Certification
6 14 (14.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 14 (14.74%) DV Cleared
7 7 (7.37%) CISA
7 7 (7.37%) CRISC
7 7 (7.37%) Master's Degree
8 6 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (6.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 5 (5.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (4.21%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (4.21%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 3 (3.16%) CESG Certified Professional
11 3 (3.16%) CREST Certified
11 3 (3.16%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (24.21%) NIST
2 15 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (15.79%) NCSC
3 13 (13.68%) GDPR
4 11 (11.58%) GRC
5 10 (10.53%) NIST 800
6 6 (6.32%) PCI DSS
7 4 (4.21%) Accessibility
7 4 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 2 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (2.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (1.05%) JSP 440
9 1 (1.05%) RMADS
System Software
1 8 (8.42%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (4.21%) Google
1 4 (4.21%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.05%) OneTrust