Security Consultant Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Consultant salary in the UK excluding London is £68,500 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 529 378 716
Rank change year-on-year -151 +338 -145
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Consultant 266 405 160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.73% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.82% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 171 310 109
10th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £65,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,125 - £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £77,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £69,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.43% - +3.70%

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 74,927 49,444 72,458
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.84% 88.83% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 52,326 29,284 42,904
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 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
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%

Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Consultant in the UK excluding London

Security Consultant
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Security Consultant in the UK excluding London

Security Consultant
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Security Consultant in the UK excluding London

Security 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 Security Consultant within the UK excluding London 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 +46 130 £68,500 -2.14% 15
South East -31 45 £69,000 -1.43% 9
North of England -90 41 £55,000 -21.43% 18
Yorkshire +21 33 £55,000 -21.43% 9
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 - - 2
North West -79 8 £60,000 -14.29% 9
Wales -3 1 - -
East Midlands -34 1 £60,000 -14.29%
Security Consultant
UK

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

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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Security Consultant in the job title.

1 217 (81.58%) Cybersecurity
2 138 (51.88%) Security Cleared
3 113 (42.48%) Risk Management
4 95 (35.71%) NIST
5 82 (30.83%) Information Security
6 72 (27.07%) CISSP
6 72 (27.07%) SC Cleared
7 71 (26.69%) Information Assurance
8 66 (24.81%) Security Operations
9 62 (23.31%) Social Skills
10 58 (21.80%) CISM
11 50 (18.80%) Mentoring
12 49 (18.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 47 (17.67%) CESG Certified Professional
14 46 (17.29%) CRISC
14 46 (17.29%) Incident Management
15 44 (16.54%) Network Security
15 44 (16.54%) Incident Response
16 43 (16.17%) Agile
17 42 (15.79%) Management Information System
17 42 (15.79%) DV Cleared
18 40 (15.04%) JSP 440
19 38 (14.29%) NIST 800
20 37 (13.91%) Security Architecture
21 36 (13.53%) SIEM
22 35 (13.16%) Vulnerability Management
23 33 (12.41%) Finance
24 31 (11.65%) Military
25 27 (10.15%) NCSC
26 26 (9.77%) Operational Technology

Security 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 (4.51%) IIS
Business Applications
1 5 (1.88%) SAP GRC
2 4 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.75%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 17 (6.39%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (5.64%) Azure
3 11 (4.14%) AWS
4 8 (3.01%) GCP
5 4 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.13%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (0.75%) IaaS
7 2 (0.75%) PaaS
7 2 (0.75%) SaaS
7 2 (0.75%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.38%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 44 (16.54%) Network Security
2 13 (4.89%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.88%) Firewall
4 3 (1.13%) Cisco Firepower
4 3 (1.13%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.13%) WAN
4 3 (1.13%) Wireless
5 2 (0.75%) BGP
5 2 (0.75%) NGFW
5 2 (0.75%) VPN
6 1 (0.38%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.38%) DNS
6 1 (0.38%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.38%) IPsec
6 1 (0.38%) MPLS
6 1 (0.38%) OSPF
6 1 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.38%) SAN
6 1 (0.38%) Sourcefire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.75%) SAP BW
2 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (0.38%) JIRA
General
1 62 (23.31%) Social Skills
2 33 (12.41%) Finance
3 31 (11.65%) Military
4 24 (9.02%) Public Sector
5 22 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (5.64%) Telecoms
7 12 (4.51%) Aerospace
8 10 (3.76%) Aviation
9 4 (1.50%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.50%) Marketing
10 3 (1.13%) Electronics
10 3 (1.13%) Legal
10 3 (1.13%) Retail
11 2 (0.75%) Automotive
11 2 (0.75%) Games
11 2 (0.75%) Law
12 1 (0.38%) Advertising
12 1 (0.38%) Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Billing
12 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.64%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.38%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 42 (15.79%) Management Information System
2 26 (9.77%) Operational Technology
3 23 (8.65%) Security Operations Centre
4 19 (7.14%) Cyber Defence
5 16 (6.02%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 15 (5.64%) CESG
7 12 (4.51%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (3.76%) Data Centre
9 8 (3.01%) Cyber Threat
9 8 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (2.26%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.13%) SCADA
12 2 (0.75%) Cyberattack
13 1 (0.38%) Analytical Mindset
13 1 (0.38%) Blog
13 1 (0.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 1 (0.38%) Distributed Systems
13 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Cloud
13 1 (0.38%) Mobile App
13 1 (0.38%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.13%) Linux
1 3 (1.13%) Windows
2 1 (0.38%) Android
2 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (81.58%) Cybersecurity
2 113 (42.48%) Risk Management
3 82 (30.83%) Information Security
4 71 (26.69%) Information Assurance
5 66 (24.81%) Security Operations
6 50 (18.80%) Mentoring
7 46 (17.29%) Incident Management
8 44 (16.54%) Incident Response
9 43 (16.17%) Agile
10 37 (13.91%) Security Architecture
11 36 (13.53%) SIEM
12 35 (13.16%) Vulnerability Management
13 24 (9.02%) Security Testing
14 23 (8.65%) Analytics
14 23 (8.65%) Coaching
14 23 (8.65%) Protective Monitoring
15 22 (8.27%) Programme Management
16 21 (7.89%) Business Development
16 21 (7.89%) Penetration Testing
16 21 (7.89%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (0.75%) PowerShell
1 2 (0.75%) Python
2 1 (0.38%) Bash
2 1 (0.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 138 (51.88%) Security Cleared
2 72 (27.07%) CISSP
2 72 (27.07%) SC Cleared
3 58 (21.80%) CISM
4 47 (17.67%) CESG Certified Professional
5 46 (17.29%) CRISC
6 42 (15.79%) DV Cleared
7 23 (8.65%) CISMP
8 12 (4.51%) CASP
8 12 (4.51%) CEH
8 12 (4.51%) Degree
8 12 (4.51%) IISP
9 9 (3.38%) OSCP
10 8 (3.01%) CHECK Team Member
10 8 (3.01%) CREST Certified
11 4 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.13%) CCNP
12 3 (1.13%) GCFE
12 3 (1.13%) GCIH
12 3 (1.13%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (35.71%) NIST
2 49 (18.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 40 (15.04%) JSP 440
4 38 (14.29%) NIST 800
5 27 (10.15%) NCSC
6 23 (8.65%) Cyber Essentials
7 22 (8.27%) GDPR
8 21 (7.89%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 19 (7.14%) RMADS
10 17 (6.39%) GRC
10 17 (6.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 10 (3.76%) COBIT
12 7 (2.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (2.26%) PCI DSS
14 5 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 2 (0.75%) ITGC
16 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 1 (0.38%) Def Stans
16 1 (0.38%) ISO 31000
16 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (5.64%) vSphere
2 1 (0.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (0.75%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.38%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (0.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.38%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 21 (7.89%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.64%) SolarWinds
2 15 (5.64%) Tanium
2 15 (5.64%) Tripwire
3 10 (3.76%) SAP
4 5 (1.88%) Palo Alto
5 3 (1.13%) Aruba
5 3 (1.13%) CheckPoint
5 3 (1.13%) Cisco
5 3 (1.13%) F5
5 3 (1.13%) Fortinet
6 2 (0.75%) Ariba
6 2 (0.75%) Concur
6 2 (0.75%) Google
6 2 (0.75%) Meraki
6 2 (0.75%) Zscaler
7 1 (0.38%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.38%) Netskope
7 1 (0.38%) QinetiQ
7 1 (0.38%) Thales