Security Consultant Jobs

Security Consultant
UK

The median Security Consultant salary in the UK is £69,000 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 554 429 774
Rank change year-on-year -125 +345 -182
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Consultant 401 694 559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.75% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.82% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 275 532 361
10th Percentile £50,000 £54,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,563 £90,000
90th Percentile £97,250 £90,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.14% +7.69% +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 102,753 84,908 164,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.21% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 72,538 55,143 85,388
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,524 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Consultant in the UK

Security Consultant
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Security Consultant in the UK

Security Consultant
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Consultant over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Consultant in the UK

Security Consultant
Top 15 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 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
England -89 360 £68,750 -1.79% 72
UK excluding London -151 266 £68,500 -2.14% 44
Work from Home -162 132 £70,000 - 39
South West +46 130 £68,500 -2.14% 14
London -36 105 £77,500 +10.71% 23
South East -31 45 £69,000 -1.43% 8
North of England -90 41 £55,000 -21.43% 15
Yorkshire +21 33 £55,000 -21.43% 8
Scotland -105 20 £65,000 -7.14% 1
Midlands -34 16 £60,000 -14.29% 4
West Midlands -13 14 £60,000 -14.29% 4
East of England -12 13 - - 1
North West -79 8 £60,000 -14.29% 7
Wales -3 1 - -
East Midlands -34 1 £60,000 -14.29%

Security Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, Security 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 featuring Security Consultant in the job title.

1 285 (71.07%) Cybersecurity
2 180 (44.89%) Security Cleared
3 132 (32.92%) NIST
4 123 (30.67%) Risk Management
5 109 (27.18%) Information Security
6 93 (23.19%) CISSP
7 87 (21.70%) SC Cleared
8 84 (20.95%) Network Security
9 83 (20.70%) Security Operations
10 75 (18.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 74 (18.45%) Information Assurance
12 72 (17.96%) CISM
12 72 (17.96%) Social Skills
13 68 (16.96%) SIEM
14 66 (16.46%) Security Architecture
15 64 (15.96%) DV Cleared
16 61 (15.21%) Incident Management
17 60 (14.96%) Agile
18 55 (13.72%) Operational Technology
18 55 (13.72%) Mentoring
19 54 (13.47%) CRISC
20 51 (12.72%) Vulnerability Management
20 51 (12.72%) CESG Certified Professional
21 47 (11.72%) Incident Response
21 47 (11.72%) Management Information System
22 46 (11.47%) Military
23 41 (10.22%) JSP 440
24 40 (9.98%) NIST 800
25 39 (9.73%) Security Testing
25 39 (9.73%) Analytics

Security Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (2.99%) IIS
2 3 (0.75%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.25%) Confluence
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (1.50%) SAP GRC
2 5 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.50%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 23 (5.74%) Microsoft 365
2 22 (5.49%) Azure
3 15 (3.74%) AWS
4 11 (2.74%) GCP
5 9 (2.24%) Microsoft Purview
6 8 (2.00%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (1.00%) IaaS
8 3 (0.75%) PaaS
8 3 (0.75%) SaaS
9 2 (0.50%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.25%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.25%) Dropbox
Communications & Networking
1 84 (20.95%) Network Security
2 29 (7.23%) Firewall
3 17 (4.24%) SD-WAN
4 16 (3.99%) Cisco Firepower
4 16 (3.99%) Wireless
5 15 (3.74%) WAN
6 13 (3.24%) TCP/IP
7 9 (2.24%) NGFW
8 7 (1.75%) Cisco ISE
9 6 (1.50%) DNS
9 6 (1.50%) Internet
9 6 (1.50%) VPN
10 5 (1.25%) LAN
11 4 (1.00%) Cisco Nexus
12 3 (0.75%) Cisco ASA
12 3 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
13 2 (0.50%) 5G
13 2 (0.50%) BGP
13 2 (0.50%) VoIP
14 1 (0.25%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.50%) SAP BW
2 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.25%) Big Data
2 1 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.25%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 5 (1.25%) Burp Suite
2 4 (1.00%) Metasploit
3 2 (0.50%) JIRA
General
1 72 (17.96%) Social Skills
2 46 (11.47%) Military
3 37 (9.23%) Finance
3 37 (9.23%) Public Sector
4 26 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (4.99%) Telecoms
6 12 (2.99%) Aerospace
6 12 (2.99%) Marketing
7 11 (2.74%) Aviation
8 9 (2.24%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.50%) Law
9 6 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.00%) Legal
11 4 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.75%) Electronics
12 3 (0.75%) Retail
13 2 (0.50%) Automotive
13 2 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.50%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (7.48%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (0.50%) Middleware
3 1 (0.25%) JWT
3 1 (0.25%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 55 (13.72%) Operational Technology
2 47 (11.72%) Management Information System
3 38 (9.48%) Security Operations Centre
4 34 (8.48%) Cyber Defence
5 31 (7.73%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 16 (3.99%) CESG
7 13 (3.24%) Security Posture
8 12 (2.99%) Data Centre
8 12 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (2.74%) PKI
10 10 (2.49%) Cyberattack
10 10 (2.49%) Mobile App
11 9 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
12 8 (2.00%) IoT
13 6 (1.50%) SCADA
14 2 (0.50%) Analytical Mindset
15 1 (0.25%) Cybercrime
15 1 (0.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 1 (0.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.25%) Windows
2 4 (1.00%) Kali Linux
3 3 (0.75%) Linux
4 2 (0.50%) Android
4 2 (0.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (71.07%) Cybersecurity
2 123 (30.67%) Risk Management
3 109 (27.18%) Information Security
4 83 (20.70%) Security Operations
5 74 (18.45%) Information Assurance
6 68 (16.96%) SIEM
7 66 (16.46%) Security Architecture
8 61 (15.21%) Incident Management
9 60 (14.96%) Agile
10 55 (13.72%) Mentoring
11 51 (12.72%) Vulnerability Management
12 47 (11.72%) Incident Response
13 39 (9.73%) Analytics
13 39 (9.73%) Security Testing
14 31 (7.73%) Data Analytics
15 29 (7.23%) Cloud Security
16 28 (6.98%) Problem-Solving
17 26 (6.48%) Penetration Testing
18 24 (5.99%) Business Development
18 24 (5.99%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 3 (0.75%) Python
2 2 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (0.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.25%) Bash
3 1 (0.25%) C#
3 1 (0.25%) Dart
3 1 (0.25%) Go
3 1 (0.25%) Java
3 1 (0.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
3 1 (0.25%) Lua
3 1 (0.25%) Objective-C
3 1 (0.25%) PHP
3 1 (0.25%) Ruby
3 1 (0.25%) Rust
3 1 (0.25%) SQL
3 1 (0.25%) Swift
Qualifications
1 180 (44.89%) Security Cleared
2 93 (23.19%) CISSP
3 87 (21.70%) SC Cleared
4 72 (17.96%) CISM
5 64 (15.96%) DV Cleared
6 54 (13.47%) CRISC
7 51 (12.72%) CESG Certified Professional
8 28 (6.98%) CISMP
9 27 (6.73%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (6.48%) Degree
11 20 (4.99%) CCNP
12 16 (3.99%) CREST Certified
13 14 (3.49%) CEH
14 13 (3.24%) OSCP
15 12 (2.99%) CASP
15 12 (2.99%) IISP
16 11 (2.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 10 (2.49%) CCIE
18 9 (2.24%) CCSP
18 9 (2.24%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (32.92%) NIST
2 75 (18.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 41 (10.22%) JSP 440
4 40 (9.98%) NIST 800
5 33 (8.23%) NCSC
6 32 (7.98%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 29 (7.23%) GDPR
8 25 (6.23%) Cyber Essentials
9 22 (5.49%) GRC
10 20 (4.99%) RMADS
11 17 (4.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 10 (2.49%) COBIT
12 10 (2.49%) PCI DSS
13 7 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 4 (1.00%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.50%) ISO 22301
16 2 (0.50%) ITGC
16 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
17 1 (0.25%) ISA99
System Software
1 30 (7.48%) vSphere
2 2 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.50%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.25%) Docker
3 1 (0.25%) Firmware
3 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (2.24%) FortiGate
2 4 (1.00%) Nessus
2 4 (1.00%) Nmap
3 1 (0.25%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 1 (0.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (8.73%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.48%) SolarWinds
2 30 (7.48%) Tanium
2 30 (7.48%) Tripwire
3 26 (6.48%) Fortinet
4 23 (5.74%) Cisco
5 18 (4.49%) Palo Alto
6 12 (2.99%) Aruba
7 11 (2.74%) CheckPoint
7 11 (2.74%) SAP
8 9 (2.24%) Meraki
9 7 (1.75%) F5
10 6 (1.50%) Zscaler
11 5 (1.25%) Blue Coat
11 5 (1.25%) CrowdStrike
11 5 (1.25%) Netskope
12 4 (1.00%) Juniper
12 4 (1.00%) Qualys
12 4 (1.00%) Symantec
13 3 (0.75%) Google