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 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 732 827 1092
Rank change year-on-year +95 +265 -287
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Consultant 162 154 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.15% 0.083%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.17% 0.086%
Number of salaries quoted 98 122 111
10th Percentile £50,000 £54,550 £51,250
25th Percentile £53,875 £57,500 £55,813
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 £87,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,550 £70,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -7.79% +13.82% -3.53%

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 93,899 92,293 151,422
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.47% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,283 58,235 84,441
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 £71,250 £80,627 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
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 11 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 11 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 +99 151 £75,000 +7.14% 24
UK excluding London +61 115 £64,550 -7.79% 16
South West +19 70 £63,500 -9.29% 2
Work from Home +57 62 £63,500 -9.29% 15
London +108 44 £85,000 +30.77% 7
South East +13 22 £65,000 +8.33% 6
Scotland -53 9 £67,050 -7.52% 1
North of England +42 6 £60,000 -14.29% 4
West Midlands +15 5 £55,000 -35.29% 2
Midlands -2 5 £55,000 -35.29% 2
Yorkshire - 4 £55,000 - 2
East of England +15 2 - - 1
North West +4 2 £69,500 -0.71% 2
Wales +5 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 162 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 86 (53.09%) Security Cleared
3 73 (45.06%) NIST
4 62 (38.27%) Risk Management
5 48 (29.63%) Information Security
6 45 (27.78%) Incident Management
6 45 (27.78%) Social Skills
7 40 (24.69%) Security Operations
7 40 (24.69%) SIEM
8 35 (21.60%) JSP 440
9 34 (20.99%) DV Cleared
10 33 (20.37%) Network Security
10 33 (20.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 33 (20.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 32 (19.75%) Incident Response
11 32 (19.75%) Information Assurance
11 32 (19.75%) Vulnerability Management
12 31 (19.14%) Security Architecture
13 30 (18.52%) Management Information System
14 28 (17.28%) Public Sector
15 27 (16.67%) Military
15 27 (16.67%) CISMP
16 25 (15.43%) Cyber Kill Chain
16 25 (15.43%) Elastic Stack
16 25 (15.43%) Tanium
16 25 (15.43%) Agile
16 25 (15.43%) Tripwire
16 25 (15.43%) Business Development
16 25 (15.43%) SolarWinds
16 25 (15.43%) vSphere

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 (7.41%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 12 (7.41%) Azure
2 8 (4.94%) AWS
3 7 (4.32%) GCP
4 3 (1.85%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.62%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.62%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (20.37%) Network Security
2 11 (6.79%) Firewall
3 2 (1.23%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.62%) BGP
4 1 (0.62%) DNS
4 1 (0.62%) Software-Defined Networking
General
1 45 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 28 (17.28%) Public Sector
3 27 (16.67%) Military
4 18 (11.11%) Finance
5 12 (7.41%) Aerospace
6 10 (6.17%) Aviation
7 4 (2.47%) Marketing
8 3 (1.85%) Retail
9 2 (1.23%) Law
9 2 (1.23%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.23%) Police
9 2 (1.23%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.62%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.62%) Electronics
10 1 (0.62%) Games
10 1 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.62%) Legal
10 1 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (15.43%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 30 (18.52%) Management Information System
2 25 (15.43%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 17 (10.49%) Operational Technology
4 16 (9.88%) CESG
5 15 (9.26%) Cyber Defence
5 15 (9.26%) Security Operations Centre
6 11 (6.79%) Cyberattack
7 10 (6.17%) PKI
8 7 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (3.70%) Data Centre
10 5 (3.09%) Security Posture
11 2 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.62%) Blog
12 1 (0.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 1 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Cloud
12 1 (0.62%) Insider Threat
12 1 (0.62%) SCADA
12 1 (0.62%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.62%) Linux
1 1 (0.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 62 (38.27%) Risk Management
3 48 (29.63%) Information Security
4 45 (27.78%) Incident Management
5 40 (24.69%) Security Operations
5 40 (24.69%) SIEM
6 32 (19.75%) Incident Response
6 32 (19.75%) Information Assurance
6 32 (19.75%) Vulnerability Management
7 31 (19.14%) Security Architecture
8 25 (15.43%) Agile
8 25 (15.43%) Analytics
8 25 (15.43%) Business Development
8 25 (15.43%) Data Analytics
9 22 (13.58%) Mentoring
10 21 (12.96%) Innovative Thinking
10 21 (12.96%) SABSA
11 20 (12.35%) Protective Monitoring
12 19 (11.73%) TOGAF
13 17 (10.49%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 86 (53.09%) Security Cleared
2 34 (20.99%) DV Cleared
3 27 (16.67%) CISMP
4 24 (14.81%) CISSP
5 22 (13.58%) SC Cleared
6 21 (12.96%) Degree
7 17 (10.49%) CESG Certified Professional
8 12 (7.41%) CREST Certified
8 12 (7.41%) IISP
9 11 (6.79%) CISM
10 10 (6.17%) Master's Degree
11 8 (4.94%) CHECK Team Member
11 8 (4.94%) OSCP
12 4 (2.47%) CRISC
13 3 (1.85%) PCI QSA
14 2 (1.23%) CISA
14 2 (1.23%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (1.23%) Cyber Scheme
14 2 (1.23%) ISACA
15 1 (0.62%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (45.06%) NIST
2 35 (21.60%) JSP 440
3 33 (20.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 33 (20.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (11.73%) NCSC
5 16 (9.88%) NIST 800
6 14 (8.64%) RMADS
7 11 (6.79%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (6.79%) GRC
8 10 (6.17%) GDPR
9 4 (2.47%) COBIT
10 3 (1.85%) PCI DSS
11 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 25 (15.43%) vSphere
2 1 (0.62%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (0.62%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (0.62%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 25 (15.43%) SolarWinds
1 25 (15.43%) Tanium
1 25 (15.43%) Tripwire
2 4 (2.47%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.23%) Palo Alto
3 2 (1.23%) Splunk
4 1 (0.62%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (0.62%) Google
4 1 (0.62%) Netskope
4 1 (0.62%) QinetiQ
4 1 (0.62%) SAP
4 1 (0.62%) Thales
4 1 (0.62%) Zscaler