Senior Security Consultant Job Trends

Senior Security Consultant
UK

The median Senior Security Consultant salary in the UK is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 October 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 647 713 681
Rank change year-on-year +66 -32 +325
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Consultant 24 46 52
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.048% 0.067% 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.054% 0.071% 0.100%
Number of salaries quoted 24 36 44
10th Percentile - £66,875 -
25th Percentile £63,750 £76,875 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +3.23% +6.90%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £80,875 £92,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £71,250
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +1.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 44,720 64,937 52,025
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.10% 95.28% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 26,871 36,919 40,244
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,000 £42,798
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,750 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.50% -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 29 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Security Consultant in the UK

Senior Security Consultant
Top 9 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 29 October 2025. 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
UK excluding London +94 24 £67,500 -10.00% 20
England +74 24 £67,500 -18.18% 32
Work from Home +62 19 £67,500 -18.18% 26
South West - 19 £67,500 - 3
South East +35 2 £75,000 -16.67% 13
Yorkshire - 2 £77,500 -
North of England - 2 £77,500 - 1
Midlands +44 1 £80,000 +4.92% 3
East Midlands +16 1 £80,000 +10.34% 2

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

For the 6 months to 29 October 2025, 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 22 (91.67%) Cybersecurity
2 19 (79.17%) CISM
2 19 (79.17%) CISSP
3 18 (75.00%) Information Security
3 18 (75.00%) Information Security Management
3 18 (75.00%) Risk Management
3 18 (75.00%) Security Management
4 17 (70.83%) CESG Certified Professional
4 17 (70.83%) NCSC
5 16 (66.67%) Active Listening
5 16 (66.67%) CISMP
5 16 (66.67%) Creative Thinking
5 16 (66.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 16 (66.67%) IIS
5 16 (66.67%) IISP
5 16 (66.67%) Information Assurance
5 16 (66.67%) Innovative Thinking
5 16 (66.67%) ISMS
5 16 (66.67%) JSP 440
5 16 (66.67%) Matrix Organization
5 16 (66.67%) NIST
5 16 (66.67%) NIST 800
5 16 (66.67%) RMADS
6 3 (12.50%) DV Cleared
6 3 (12.50%) GRC
6 3 (12.50%) Incident Response
6 3 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
7 2 (8.33%) Agile
7 2 (8.33%) Application Security

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 16 (66.67%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) SAP GRC
1 2 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) AWS
1 2 (8.33%) Nutanix
General
1 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 18 (75.00%) Management Information System
2 16 (66.67%) CESG
3 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 2 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (91.67%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (75.00%) Information Security
2 18 (75.00%) Information Security Management
2 18 (75.00%) Risk Management
2 18 (75.00%) Security Management
3 16 (66.67%) Active Listening
3 16 (66.67%) Creative Thinking
3 16 (66.67%) Information Assurance
3 16 (66.67%) Innovative Thinking
3 16 (66.67%) ISMS
3 16 (66.67%) Matrix Organization
4 3 (12.50%) Incident Response
5 2 (8.33%) Application Security
5 2 (8.33%) Cloud Security
5 2 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (8.33%) Cyber Resilience
5 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (8.33%) RBAC
5 2 (8.33%) SOAR
5 2 (8.33%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 19 (79.17%) CISM
1 19 (79.17%) CISSP
2 17 (70.83%) CESG Certified Professional
3 16 (66.67%) CISMP
3 16 (66.67%) IISP
4 3 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
5 2 (8.33%) CEH
6 1 (4.17%) CRISC
6 1 (4.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (4.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (70.83%) NCSC
2 16 (66.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 16 (66.67%) JSP 440
2 16 (66.67%) NIST
2 16 (66.67%) NIST 800
2 16 (66.67%) RMADS
3 3 (12.50%) GRC
3 3 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (8.33%) GDPR
5 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Extreme Networks
1 2 (8.33%) Fortinet
1 2 (8.33%) Netskope
1 2 (8.33%) Rapid7
1 2 (8.33%) SAP
1 2 (8.33%) VMware