Cybersecurity Consultant Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cybersecurity Consultant salary in the UK excluding London is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 645 681 820
Rank change year-on-year +36 +139 -158
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Consultant 123 55 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.097% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.11% 0.037%
Number of salaries quoted 58 48 24
10th Percentile £49,325 £48,646 £55,150
25th Percentile £51,250 £58,438 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -
75th Percentile £97,250 £77,500 £76,563
90th Percentile - £87,500 £79,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 72,166 50,263 70,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.90% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,782 29,433 42,686
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Cybersecurity Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Consultant in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Consultant
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Consultant in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Consultant
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity Consultant in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Consultant
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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 +21 72 £80,000 +23.08% 6
South East +5 23 £65,000 -18.75% 4
North of England +39 10 £60,000 -14.29% 4
Scotland -59 9 £67,050 -4.21% 2
Yorkshire - 8 £55,000 - 1
Midlands -8 6 £55,000 -35.29% 4
West Midlands -9 6 £55,000 -35.29% 4
East of England -6 2 - -
North West -6 2 £69,500 -0.71% 3
Wales +9 1 - -
Cybersecurity Consultant
UK

Cybersecurity Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cybersecurity Consultant in the job title.

1 123 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 61 (49.59%) Risk Management
3 59 (47.97%) NIST
4 55 (44.72%) Security Cleared
5 38 (30.89%) Social Skills
6 34 (27.64%) JSP 440
7 33 (26.83%) Incident Management
8 30 (24.39%) Information Assurance
8 30 (24.39%) Incident Response
9 29 (23.58%) Information Security
9 29 (23.58%) Management Information System
10 24 (19.51%) Security Operations
11 23 (18.70%) CISMP
12 22 (17.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 21 (17.07%) Mentoring
13 21 (17.07%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 20 (16.26%) Innovative Thinking
14 20 (16.26%) Protective Monitoring
14 20 (16.26%) Vulnerability Management
14 20 (16.26%) Network Security
14 20 (16.26%) Business Development
15 19 (15.45%) CISSP
16 18 (14.63%) Finance
16 18 (14.63%) DV Cleared
17 17 (13.82%) Public Sector
17 17 (13.82%) Matrix Organization
18 16 (13.01%) NIST 800
18 16 (13.01%) Creative Thinking
18 16 (13.01%) NCSC
19 15 (12.20%) Stakeholder Engagement

Cybersecurity Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (9.76%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 10 (8.13%) Azure
2 7 (5.69%) AWS
3 6 (4.88%) GCP
4 3 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (1.63%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.81%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 20 (16.26%) Network Security
2 2 (1.63%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.81%) BGP
3 1 (0.81%) DNS
3 1 (0.81%) Firewall
3 1 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
General
1 38 (30.89%) Social Skills
2 18 (14.63%) Finance
3 17 (13.82%) Public Sector
4 12 (9.76%) Aerospace
4 12 (9.76%) Military
5 10 (8.13%) Aviation
6 3 (2.44%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.44%) Retail
6 3 (2.44%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.63%) Electronics
7 2 (1.63%) Legal
7 2 (1.63%) Marketing
8 1 (0.81%) Games
8 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.57%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 29 (23.58%) Management Information System
2 15 (12.20%) CESG
3 13 (10.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 10 (8.13%) Operational Technology
5 7 (5.69%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (4.88%) Data Centre
7 5 (4.07%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.63%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.63%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.81%) Blog
9 1 (0.81%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.81%) Insider Threat
9 1 (0.81%) SCADA
9 1 (0.81%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.63%) Linux
1 2 (1.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 61 (49.59%) Risk Management
3 33 (26.83%) Incident Management
4 30 (24.39%) Incident Response
4 30 (24.39%) Information Assurance
5 29 (23.58%) Information Security
6 24 (19.51%) Security Operations
7 21 (17.07%) Mentoring
8 20 (16.26%) Business Development
8 20 (16.26%) Innovative Thinking
8 20 (16.26%) Protective Monitoring
8 20 (16.26%) Vulnerability Management
9 17 (13.82%) Matrix Organization
10 16 (13.01%) Creative Thinking
11 15 (12.20%) SIEM
11 15 (12.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 13 (10.57%) Analytics
12 13 (10.57%) Data Analytics
13 11 (8.94%) Computer Science
13 11 (8.94%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 55 (44.72%) Security Cleared
2 23 (18.70%) CISMP
3 19 (15.45%) CISSP
4 18 (14.63%) DV Cleared
5 14 (11.38%) CESG Certified Professional
6 13 (10.57%) SC Cleared
7 12 (9.76%) IISP
8 11 (8.94%) Degree
9 9 (7.32%) CISM
10 8 (6.50%) CHECK Team Member
10 8 (6.50%) OSCP
11 7 (5.69%) CREST Certified
12 3 (2.44%) PCI QSA
13 2 (1.63%) CISA
13 2 (1.63%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (1.63%) ISACA
14 1 (0.81%) CASP
14 1 (0.81%) GCFE
14 1 (0.81%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 1 (0.81%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (47.97%) NIST
2 34 (27.64%) JSP 440
3 22 (17.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (17.07%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 16 (13.01%) NCSC
5 16 (13.01%) NIST 800
6 13 (10.57%) RMADS
7 11 (8.94%) GRC
8 9 (7.32%) GDPR
9 8 (6.50%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (3.25%) COBIT
11 3 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 3 (2.44%) PCI DSS
12 2 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 13 (10.57%) vSphere
2 1 (0.81%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (0.81%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (0.81%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (10.57%) SolarWinds
1 13 (10.57%) Tanium
1 13 (10.57%) Tripwire
2 3 (2.44%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.63%) Palo Alto
3 2 (1.63%) SAP
4 1 (0.81%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (0.81%) Google
4 1 (0.81%) Netskope
4 1 (0.81%) QinetiQ
4 1 (0.81%) Thales
4 1 (0.81%) Zscaler