Principal Consultant Jobs in England

Principal Consultant
UK > England

The median Principal Consultant salary in England is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 748 895 1022
Rank change year-on-year +147 +127 -263
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Consultant 75 55 122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.088% 0.059% 0.092%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.093% 0.065% 0.096%
Number of salaries quoted 67 38 56
10th Percentile £50,000 £65,000 £60,625
25th Percentile £71,875 £69,688 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £81,250 £96,250
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -15.58% +24.19%
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,969 £130,000
90th Percentile £113,500 £93,250 £140,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year - -8.57% +9.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,480 84,673 126,830
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 60,246 53,649 75,658
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,635 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.45% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% - +9.09%

Principal Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Consultant in England

Principal Consultant
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Principal Consultant in England

Principal Consultant
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Consultant in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Consultant in England

Principal Consultant
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Consultant within the England region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
London +159 51 £89,000 +5.33% 28
South East +25 16 £63,000 -13.10% 3
Yorkshire +84 3 £102,500 +46.43% 1
North of England +35 3 £102,500 +10.81% 8
South West -13 2 £92,500 +8.82% 6
West Midlands +19 1 £72,500 -14.71% 2
East of England +9 1 - - 3
Midlands -6 1 £72,500 -9.38% 3
Principal Consultant
UK

Principal Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, Principal 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 England region featuring Principal Consultant in the job title.

1 27 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 22 (29.33%) Project Management
2 22 (29.33%) Degree
3 21 (28.00%) Microsoft
4 20 (26.67%) Agile
5 19 (25.33%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (21.33%) Azure
7 15 (20.00%) Python
7 15 (20.00%) Data Strategy
8 14 (18.67%) Public Sector
8 14 (18.67%) SQL
8 14 (18.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (17.33%) AWS
9 13 (17.33%) Decision-Making
9 13 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (16.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 12 (16.00%) Security Cleared
11 11 (14.67%) Mentoring
11 11 (14.67%) Cybersecurity
12 10 (13.33%) SC Cleared
12 10 (13.33%) Presales
13 9 (12.00%) Power Platform
13 9 (12.00%) Analytics
13 9 (12.00%) SharePoint
14 8 (10.67%) SQL Server
14 8 (10.67%) Microsoft Exchange
14 8 (10.67%) ETL
14 8 (10.67%) PMP
14 8 (10.67%) PMI Certification
14 8 (10.67%) Microsoft 365

Principal Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (12.00%) SharePoint
2 8 (10.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (8.00%) Apache
3 6 (8.00%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.67%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 5 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (8.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (6.67%) SAP CO
2 5 (6.67%) SAP FI
2 5 (6.67%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.33%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 16 (21.33%) Azure
2 13 (17.33%) AWS
3 9 (12.00%) Power Platform
4 8 (10.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 8 (10.67%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (9.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (8.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (5.33%) SaaS
8 1 (1.33%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (1.33%) Anthos
8 1 (1.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.33%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.67%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (1.33%) Firewall
2 1 (1.33%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.67%) SQL Server
2 7 (9.33%) Tableau
3 6 (8.00%) Big Data
4 5 (6.67%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.67%) GIS
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.33%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.33%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.33%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.33%) MySQL
6 1 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.33%) Power BI
General
1 27 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 19 (25.33%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (18.67%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.67%) Finance
5 1 (1.33%) Marketing
5 1 (1.33%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.00%) PySpark
2 1 (1.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.33%) Kafka
2 1 (1.33%) SAP TM
2 1 (1.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (1.33%) Blog
2 1 (1.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.33%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (29.33%) Project Management
2 20 (26.67%) Agile
3 15 (20.00%) Data Strategy
4 13 (17.33%) Decision-Making
4 13 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (16.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 11 (14.67%) Cybersecurity
6 11 (14.67%) Mentoring
7 10 (13.33%) Presales
8 9 (12.00%) Analytics
9 8 (10.67%) Application Security
9 8 (10.67%) Cloud Security
9 8 (10.67%) ETL
9 8 (10.67%) Requirements Gathering
10 7 (9.33%) Business Strategy
10 7 (9.33%) CI/CD
10 7 (9.33%) Continuous Delivery
10 7 (9.33%) Data Engineering
10 7 (9.33%) Roadmaps
10 7 (9.33%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 15 (20.00%) Python
2 14 (18.67%) SQL
3 8 (10.67%) Kotlin
3 8 (10.67%) PowerShell
3 8 (10.67%) R
4 1 (1.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (29.33%) Degree
2 14 (18.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (16.00%) Security Cleared
4 10 (13.33%) SC Cleared
5 8 (10.67%) Azure Certification
5 8 (10.67%) PMI Certification
5 8 (10.67%) PMP
6 4 (5.33%) CISM
6 4 (5.33%) CISSP
7 2 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.33%) CASP
8 1 (1.33%) CCSK
8 1 (1.33%) CISA
8 1 (1.33%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.33%) CRISC
8 1 (1.33%) GCFA
8 1 (1.33%) GCFE
8 1 (1.33%) GCIH
8 1 (1.33%) GREM
8 1 (1.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.33%) NIST
2 3 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.00%) NCSC
3 2 (2.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (1.33%) GRC
4 1 (1.33%) IASME
4 1 (1.33%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 8 (10.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.33%) Databricks
2 7 (9.33%) F5
2 7 (9.33%) Salesforce
3 6 (8.00%) SAP
4 4 (5.33%) Splunk
5 2 (2.67%) ESRI
6 1 (1.33%) Oracle