Cybersecurity Consultant Jobs

Cybersecurity Consultant
UK

The median Cybersecurity Consultant salary in the UK is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 733 827 1114
Rank change year-on-year +94 +287 -291
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Consultant 158 150 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.15% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.17% 0.084%
Number of salaries quoted 93 120 111
10th Percentile £50,000 £54,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,250 £92,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +11.11% +1.61%

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 94,593 90,744 154,424
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.51% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,603 57,335 84,442
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Cybersecurity Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Consultant in the UK

Cybersecurity Consultant
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Consultant in the UK

Cybersecurity Consultant
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Consultant over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity Consultant in the UK

Cybersecurity Consultant
Top 14 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 May 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 +104 147 £75,000 +9.09% 24
UK excluding London +29 115 £65,000 -7.14% 17
South West +20 69 £70,000 - 6
Work from Home +50 60 £62,500 -10.71% 13
London +87 40 £90,000 +38.46% 9
South East +9 22 £65,000 +1.96% 5
Scotland -56 9 £67,050 -4.21% 1
North of England +56 7 £60,000 -14.29% 4
West Midlands +16 5 £55,000 -35.29% 1
Midlands -5 5 £55,000 -35.29% 1
Yorkshire - 5 £55,000 - 2
North West +4 2 £69,500 -0.71% 2
East of England -1 2 - -
Wales +6 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 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 featuring Cybersecurity Consultant in the job title.

1 158 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 81 (51.27%) Security Cleared
3 72 (45.57%) NIST
4 62 (39.24%) Risk Management
5 47 (29.75%) Information Security
6 46 (29.11%) Incident Management
7 42 (26.58%) Social Skills
8 40 (25.32%) Security Operations
8 40 (25.32%) SIEM
9 35 (22.15%) DV Cleared
9 35 (22.15%) JSP 440
10 34 (21.52%) Network Security
11 33 (20.89%) Vulnerability Management
12 32 (20.25%) Information Assurance
12 32 (20.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 32 (20.25%) Incident Response
13 31 (19.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 30 (18.99%) Security Architecture
14 30 (18.99%) Management Information System
15 27 (17.09%) Military
15 27 (17.09%) CISMP
15 27 (17.09%) Public Sector
16 26 (16.46%) Tanium
16 26 (16.46%) Elastic Stack
16 26 (16.46%) Cyber Kill Chain
16 26 (16.46%) Tripwire
16 26 (16.46%) vSphere
16 26 (16.46%) Data Analytics
16 26 (16.46%) Analytics
16 26 (16.46%) SolarWinds

Cybersecurity 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 (7.59%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 13 (8.23%) Azure
2 8 (5.06%) AWS
3 7 (4.43%) GCP
4 3 (1.90%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.63%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (21.52%) Network Security
2 10 (6.33%) Firewall
3 2 (1.27%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.63%) BGP
4 1 (0.63%) DNS
4 1 (0.63%) Software-Defined Networking
General
1 42 (26.58%) Social Skills
2 27 (17.09%) Military
2 27 (17.09%) Public Sector
3 18 (11.39%) Finance
4 12 (7.59%) Aerospace
5 10 (6.33%) Aviation
6 4 (2.53%) Marketing
7 3 (1.90%) Retail
8 2 (1.27%) Law
8 2 (1.27%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.27%) Police
8 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.63%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.63%) Electronics
9 1 (0.63%) Games
9 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.63%) Legal
9 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (16.46%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 30 (18.99%) Management Information System
2 26 (16.46%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 16 (10.13%) CESG
4 15 (9.49%) Cyber Defence
4 15 (9.49%) Operational Technology
4 15 (9.49%) Security Operations Centre
5 10 (6.33%) Cyberattack
6 9 (5.70%) PKI
7 7 (4.43%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (3.80%) Data Centre
9 5 (3.16%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.63%) Blog
11 1 (0.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 1 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.63%) Insider Threat
11 1 (0.63%) SCADA
11 1 (0.63%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.63%) Linux
1 1 (0.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 62 (39.24%) Risk Management
3 47 (29.75%) Information Security
4 46 (29.11%) Incident Management
5 40 (25.32%) Security Operations
5 40 (25.32%) SIEM
6 33 (20.89%) Vulnerability Management
7 32 (20.25%) Incident Response
7 32 (20.25%) Information Assurance
8 30 (18.99%) Security Architecture
9 26 (16.46%) Analytics
9 26 (16.46%) Data Analytics
10 25 (15.82%) Agile
10 25 (15.82%) Business Development
11 22 (13.92%) Mentoring
12 21 (13.29%) Innovative Thinking
13 20 (12.66%) Protective Monitoring
13 20 (12.66%) SABSA
14 18 (11.39%) TOGAF
15 17 (10.76%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 81 (51.27%) Security Cleared
2 35 (22.15%) DV Cleared
3 27 (17.09%) CISMP
4 24 (15.19%) CISSP
5 20 (12.66%) Degree
6 17 (10.76%) CESG Certified Professional
6 17 (10.76%) SC Cleared
7 12 (7.59%) IISP
8 11 (6.96%) CISM
9 10 (6.33%) CREST Certified
10 9 (5.70%) Master's Degree
11 8 (5.06%) CHECK Team Member
11 8 (5.06%) OSCP
12 4 (2.53%) CRISC
13 3 (1.90%) PCI QSA
14 2 (1.27%) CISA
14 2 (1.27%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (1.27%) ISACA
15 1 (0.63%) GCIH
15 1 (0.63%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (45.57%) NIST
2 35 (22.15%) JSP 440
3 32 (20.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 31 (19.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (10.76%) NCSC
6 16 (10.13%) NIST 800
7 14 (8.86%) RMADS
8 11 (6.96%) GRC
9 10 (6.33%) GDPR
10 8 (5.06%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (2.53%) COBIT
12 3 (1.90%) PCI DSS
13 2 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 26 (16.46%) vSphere
2 1 (0.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (0.63%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (0.63%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 26 (16.46%) SolarWinds
1 26 (16.46%) Tanium
1 26 (16.46%) Tripwire
2 4 (2.53%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.27%) Palo Alto
3 2 (1.27%) Splunk
4 1 (0.63%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (0.63%) Google
4 1 (0.63%) Netskope
4 1 (0.63%) QinetiQ
4 1 (0.63%) SAP
4 1 (0.63%) Thales
4 1 (0.63%) Zscaler