Which pays more, Consultant or Security Officer?

The median advertised salary for each is in the table above, along with the 25th and 75th percentiles so you can see the spread rather than one number.

Which has more openings?

Both counts are live and computed at the same moment, so the comparison is like for like.

Postings are read from company career systems continuously; the age row shows how old the listings themselves are.

Side by side

Consultant vs Security Officer

Security Officer pays more: a median of $90,500 against $79,000. There is 3.7× more demand for Security Officer.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Consultant	Security Officer	Gap
Open postings	6,137	22,900	-16,763
Posted this week	303	1,819
Median salary	$79,000	$90,500	$-11.5k
25th percentile	$62.5k	$71.5k
75th percentile	$98k	$112k
Salary disclosed	6.3%	3.6%
Remote share	12.2%	8.8%	+3.4pp
Median age of posting	52d	48d
Open over 60 days	46.9%	37.5%
Visa sponsorship	14.3%	13.3%

Pay

Pay distribution

Consultant

$36k$137k

Security Officer

$41k$157k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Consultant

just posted52d median90d+

Security Officer

just posted48d median90d+

Demand

What each side asks for

Consultant — technologies

React

72.0%

Python

65.8%

Salesforce

59.6%

Snowflake

53.4%

AWS

47.2%

PostgreSQL

41.0%

Tableau

34.8%

Security Officer — technologies

Azure

72.0%

PostgreSQL

65.8%

Python

59.6%

Terraform

53.4%

Spark

47.2%

GCP

41.0%

SQL

34.8%

Consultant — employers

Meridian Software

9.4%

Rivergate Media

8.7%

Umbra Security

8.0%

Quarry Analytics

7.2%

Northwind Systems

6.5%

Halcyon Energy

5.8%

Aperture Labs

5.1%

Security Officer — employers

Cobalt Financial

9.4%

Northwind Systems

8.7%

Solstice Biotech

8.0%

Halcyon Energy

7.2%

Fairmount Legal

6.5%

Pinewood Education

5.8%

Aperture Labs

5.1%

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Both sides are counted the same way on the same day, so the gap is comparable even where the absolute numbers move. Salary figures use only postings that publish a range — the disclosure rate is in the table because a median over 20% of a cohort is a weaker number than one over 70%.