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 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 694 790 1056
Rank change year-on-year +96 +266 -242
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Consultant 155 124 114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.15% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.16% 0.084%
Number of salaries quoted 91 99 99
10th Percentile £50,000 £54,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £54,375 £57,500 £58,750
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 £81,875 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,250 £93,000 £94,000
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 86,435 76,952 135,807
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.31% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 63,785 50,234 75,047
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £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 2 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 2 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 +19 72 £80,000 +23.08% 6
London +89 40 £90,000 +38.46% 13
South East 0 23 £65,000 -18.75% 4
North of England +39 10 £60,000 -14.29% 4
Yorkshire - 8 £55,000 - 1
West Midlands -5 6 £55,000 -35.29% 4
Midlands -6 6 £55,000 -35.29% 4
East of England -10 2 - -
North West -14 2 £69,500 -0.71% 3
Cybersecurity Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 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.

1 155 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 81 (52.26%) Security Cleared
3 70 (45.16%) NIST
4 59 (38.06%) Risk Management
5 48 (30.97%) Incident Management
6 46 (29.68%) Information Security
7 44 (28.39%) Social Skills
8 42 (27.10%) SIEM
9 40 (25.81%) Security Operations
10 37 (23.87%) DV Cleared
11 35 (22.58%) Network Security
11 35 (22.58%) JSP 440
11 35 (22.58%) Vulnerability Management
12 33 (21.29%) Incident Response
13 32 (20.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 32 (20.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 31 (20.00%) Information Assurance
15 28 (18.06%) SolarWinds
15 28 (18.06%) Data Analytics
15 28 (18.06%) Analytics
15 28 (18.06%) vSphere
15 28 (18.06%) Tripwire
15 28 (18.06%) CISMP
15 28 (18.06%) Management Information System
15 28 (18.06%) Elastic Stack
15 28 (18.06%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 28 (18.06%) Tanium
16 27 (17.42%) Public Sector
16 27 (17.42%) Agile
16 27 (17.42%) Security Architecture

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 (7.74%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 13 (8.39%) Azure
2 8 (5.16%) AWS
3 7 (4.52%) GCP
4 3 (1.94%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.65%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (22.58%) Network Security
2 10 (6.45%) Firewall
3 2 (1.29%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.65%) BGP
4 1 (0.65%) DNS
4 1 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
General
1 44 (28.39%) Social Skills
2 27 (17.42%) Public Sector
3 26 (16.77%) Military
4 19 (12.26%) Finance
5 10 (6.45%) Aerospace
5 10 (6.45%) Aviation
6 5 (3.23%) Marketing
7 3 (1.94%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.29%) Electronics
8 2 (1.29%) Law
8 2 (1.29%) Legal
8 2 (1.29%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.29%) Police
8 2 (1.29%) Retail
9 1 (0.65%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.65%) Games
9 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (18.06%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 28 (18.06%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 28 (18.06%) Management Information System
2 17 (10.97%) Security Operations Centre
3 15 (9.68%) CESG
3 15 (9.68%) Cyber Defence
4 13 (8.39%) Operational Technology
5 9 (5.81%) PKI
6 8 (5.16%) Cyberattack
7 7 (4.52%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (3.87%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.29%) SCADA
9 2 (1.29%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.65%) Blog
10 1 (0.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.65%) Insider Threat
10 1 (0.65%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.29%) Linux
1 2 (1.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 59 (38.06%) Risk Management
3 48 (30.97%) Incident Management
4 46 (29.68%) Information Security
5 42 (27.10%) SIEM
6 40 (25.81%) Security Operations
7 35 (22.58%) Vulnerability Management
8 33 (21.29%) Incident Response
9 31 (20.00%) Information Assurance
10 28 (18.06%) Analytics
10 28 (18.06%) Data Analytics
11 27 (17.42%) Agile
11 27 (17.42%) Security Architecture
12 25 (16.13%) Business Development
13 22 (14.19%) Mentoring
14 20 (12.90%) Innovative Thinking
14 20 (12.90%) Protective Monitoring
14 20 (12.90%) SABSA
15 19 (12.26%) TOGAF
16 16 (10.32%) Creative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 81 (52.26%) Security Cleared
2 37 (23.87%) DV Cleared
3 28 (18.06%) CISMP
4 24 (15.48%) CISSP
5 18 (11.61%) Degree
6 17 (10.97%) CESG Certified Professional
7 16 (10.32%) SC Cleared
8 12 (7.74%) IISP
9 11 (7.10%) CISM
9 11 (7.10%) CREST Certified
10 9 (5.81%) Master's Degree
11 8 (5.16%) CHECK Team Member
11 8 (5.16%) OSCP
12 4 (2.58%) CRISC
13 3 (1.94%) PCI QSA
14 2 (1.29%) CISA
14 2 (1.29%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (1.29%) ISACA
15 1 (0.65%) GCFE
15 1 (0.65%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (45.16%) NIST
2 35 (22.58%) JSP 440
3 32 (20.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 32 (20.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (10.32%) NIST 800
5 14 (9.03%) RMADS
6 11 (7.10%) GRC
7 10 (6.45%) NCSC
8 5 (3.23%) GDPR
9 4 (2.58%) COBIT
10 3 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (1.94%) PCI DSS
11 2 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 28 (18.06%) vSphere
2 1 (0.65%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (0.65%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (0.65%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 28 (18.06%) SolarWinds
1 28 (18.06%) Tanium
1 28 (18.06%) Tripwire
2 4 (2.58%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.29%) Palo Alto
3 2 (1.29%) SAP
3 2 (1.29%) Splunk
4 1 (0.65%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (0.65%) Google
4 1 (0.65%) Netskope
4 1 (0.65%) QinetiQ
4 1 (0.65%) Zscaler