Cybersecurity Consultant Jobs in England

Cybersecurity Consultant
UK > England

The median Cybersecurity Consultant salary in England is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 685 754 1087
Rank change year-on-year +69 +333 -271
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Consultant 167 125 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.15% 0.079%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.17% 0.082%
Number of salaries quoted 99 101 98
10th Percentile £48,550 £54,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,250 £92,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 89,103 75,397 137,915
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.59% 91.21% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 65,080 49,497 75,489
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,402 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Cybersecurity Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Consultant in England

Cybersecurity Consultant
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Consultant in England.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Consultant in England

Cybersecurity Consultant
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Consultant in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity Consultant in England

Cybersecurity Consultant
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Consultant within the England region over the 6 months to 9 June 2024. 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
South West +22 76 £85,750 +27.04% 6
London +47 40 £90,000 +38.46% 10
South East +9 27 £65,000 -18.75% 5
North of England +30 10 £60,000 -14.29% 3
West Midlands -1 10 £58,750 -30.88% 2
Midlands -22 10 £58,750 -30.88% 2
Yorkshire - 8 £55,000 - 1
North West -11 2 £69,500 -0.71% 2
East of England -16 2 - -
Cybersecurity Consultant
UK

Cybersecurity Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, Cybersecurity Consultant job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Cybersecurity Consultant in the job title.

1 167 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 87 (52.10%) Security Cleared
3 75 (44.91%) NIST
4 61 (36.53%) Risk Management
5 50 (29.94%) Incident Management
6 47 (28.14%) Information Security
7 45 (26.95%) SIEM
7 45 (26.95%) Social Skills
8 43 (25.75%) Security Operations
9 40 (23.95%) DV Cleared
10 38 (22.75%) Vulnerability Management
11 37 (22.16%) Network Security
12 35 (20.96%) JSP 440
12 35 (20.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 34 (20.36%) Incident Response
14 32 (19.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 31 (18.56%) Information Assurance
16 30 (17.96%) SolarWinds
16 30 (17.96%) Data Analytics
16 30 (17.96%) vSphere
16 30 (17.96%) Analytics
16 30 (17.96%) Tripwire
16 30 (17.96%) Elastic Stack
16 30 (17.96%) Cyber Kill Chain
16 30 (17.96%) Tanium
17 29 (17.37%) Agile
17 29 (17.37%) Management Information System
18 28 (16.77%) CISMP
18 28 (16.77%) Security Architecture
18 28 (16.77%) Public Sector

Cybersecurity Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (7.19%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 13 (7.78%) Azure
2 8 (4.79%) AWS
3 7 (4.19%) GCP
4 3 (1.80%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.60%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (22.16%) Network Security
2 10 (5.99%) Firewall
3 2 (1.20%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.60%) BGP
4 1 (0.60%) DNS
4 1 (0.60%) Software-Defined Networking
General
1 45 (26.95%) Social Skills
2 28 (16.77%) Public Sector
3 27 (16.17%) Military
4 20 (11.98%) Finance
5 10 (5.99%) Aerospace
5 10 (5.99%) Aviation
6 6 (3.59%) Marketing
7 4 (2.40%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.80%) Electronics
8 3 (1.80%) Legal
8 3 (1.80%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.20%) Law
9 2 (1.20%) Police
9 2 (1.20%) Retail
10 1 (0.60%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.60%) Games
10 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (17.96%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 30 (17.96%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 29 (17.37%) Management Information System
3 20 (11.98%) Security Operations Centre
4 17 (10.18%) Operational Technology
5 16 (9.58%) Cyber Defence
6 15 (8.98%) CESG
7 9 (5.39%) PKI
8 8 (4.79%) Cyberattack
9 7 (4.19%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (3.59%) Data Centre
11 4 (2.40%) SCADA
12 3 (1.80%) Cyber Threat
13 2 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (1.20%) Security Posture
14 1 (0.60%) Blog
14 1 (0.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Cloud
14 1 (0.60%) Insider Threat
14 1 (0.60%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.20%) Linux
1 2 (1.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 61 (36.53%) Risk Management
3 50 (29.94%) Incident Management
4 47 (28.14%) Information Security
5 45 (26.95%) SIEM
6 43 (25.75%) Security Operations
7 38 (22.75%) Vulnerability Management
8 34 (20.36%) Incident Response
9 31 (18.56%) Information Assurance
10 30 (17.96%) Analytics
10 30 (17.96%) Data Analytics
11 29 (17.37%) Agile
12 28 (16.77%) Security Architecture
13 26 (15.57%) Business Development
14 22 (13.17%) Mentoring
15 21 (12.57%) Protective Monitoring
16 20 (11.98%) Innovative Thinking
16 20 (11.98%) SABSA
17 19 (11.38%) TOGAF
18 16 (9.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 87 (52.10%) Security Cleared
2 40 (23.95%) DV Cleared
3 28 (16.77%) CISMP
4 25 (14.97%) CISSP
5 18 (10.78%) Degree
5 18 (10.78%) SC Cleared
6 17 (10.18%) CESG Certified Professional
7 12 (7.19%) CISM
7 12 (7.19%) IISP
8 11 (6.59%) CREST Certified
9 9 (5.39%) Master's Degree
10 8 (4.79%) CHECK Team Member
10 8 (4.79%) OSCP
11 4 (2.40%) CRISC
12 3 (1.80%) PCI QSA
13 2 (1.20%) CISA
13 2 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (1.20%) ISACA
14 1 (0.60%) CASP
14 1 (0.60%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (44.91%) NIST
2 35 (20.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 35 (20.96%) JSP 440
3 32 (19.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 18 (10.78%) NIST 800
5 14 (8.38%) RMADS
6 11 (6.59%) GRC
7 10 (5.99%) NCSC
8 5 (2.99%) GDPR
9 4 (2.40%) COBIT
9 4 (2.40%) PCI DSS
10 3 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 30 (17.96%) vSphere
2 1 (0.60%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (0.60%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (0.60%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 30 (17.96%) SolarWinds
1 30 (17.96%) Tanium
1 30 (17.96%) Tripwire
2 4 (2.40%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.80%) SAP
4 2 (1.20%) Palo Alto
4 2 (1.20%) Splunk
5 1 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (0.60%) Google
5 1 (0.60%) Netskope
5 1 (0.60%) QinetiQ
5 1 (0.60%) Zscaler