Consultant Jobs in the North West

Consultant
England > North West

The median Consultant salary in the North West is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 80 99
Rank change year-on-year -3 +19 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Consultant 272 341 316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.79% 4.29% 3.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.94% 4.82% 3.50%
Number of salaries quoted 174 175 119
10th Percentile £27,250 £50,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £56,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £84,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 North West with a recognized job title 9,236 7,075 9,027
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 89.06% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 7,094 4,124 5,451
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in the North West

Consultant
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the North West.

Salary trend for Consultant in the North West

Consultant
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Consultant in the North West over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Consultant in the North West

Consultant
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the North West region over the 6 months to 6 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
Manchester -2 181 £60,000 -14.29% 87
Cheshire +13 40 £50,000 -9.09% 18
Merseyside -27 26 £85,000 +37.10% 5
Lancashire +2 15 £39,211 -42.34% 6
Cumbria -4 6 £35,000 -46.15% 8
Consultant
England

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, 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 North West region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 77 (28.31%) Microsoft
2 75 (27.57%) Social Skills
3 64 (23.53%) Finance
4 49 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (17.28%) Azure
6 29 (10.66%) SQL
7 27 (9.93%) Degree
7 27 (9.93%) Power Platform
7 27 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
7 27 (9.93%) Customer Service
8 25 (9.19%) Windows
8 25 (9.19%) Agile
9 24 (8.82%) Actionable Insight
10 23 (8.46%) Project Management
11 22 (8.09%) Service Delivery
11 22 (8.09%) Dynamics 365
12 21 (7.72%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (7.72%) DevOps
12 21 (7.72%) Roadmaps
12 21 (7.72%) SAP
13 20 (7.35%) Business Intelligence
13 20 (7.35%) Presales
13 20 (7.35%) Public Sector
14 19 (6.99%) Power BI
14 19 (6.99%) Kubernetes
14 19 (6.99%) Data Centre
14 19 (6.99%) EDI
14 19 (6.99%) ERP
14 19 (6.99%) Migration
14 19 (6.99%) Cybersecurity

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 10 (3.68%) Apache
1 10 (3.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.37%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.37%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.37%) InDesign
3 1 (0.37%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.37%) Sketch
3 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.37%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 12 (4.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (3.31%) SAP Business One
3 6 (2.21%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (2.21%) Infor M3
4 5 (1.84%) Sage 200
4 5 (1.84%) SAP PM
5 4 (1.47%) SAP MM
5 4 (1.47%) SAP WM
6 3 (1.10%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (1.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (1.10%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.37%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.37%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.37%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.37%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.37%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 47 (17.28%) Azure
2 27 (9.93%) Power Platform
3 22 (8.09%) Dynamics 365
4 18 (6.62%) AWS
5 17 (6.25%) SaaS
6 14 (5.15%) Amazon S3
7 11 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (2.57%) Power Automate
8 7 (2.57%) PowerApps
9 5 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.84%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.84%) GCP
10 4 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (0.37%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 1 (0.37%) Figma
12 1 (0.37%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.04%) Firewall
2 10 (3.68%) Internet
2 10 (3.68%) IPsec
2 10 (3.68%) SNMP
2 10 (3.68%) VPN
3 8 (2.94%) Unified Communications
4 5 (1.84%) LAN
4 5 (1.84%) WAN
5 4 (1.47%) DHCP
5 4 (1.47%) DNS
5 4 (1.47%) WLAN
6 2 (0.74%) Wireless
7 1 (0.37%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.99%) Power BI
2 13 (4.78%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (4.41%) SQL Server
4 10 (3.68%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (3.68%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (2.21%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.47%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.74%) Big Data
8 2 (0.74%) Data Hub
8 2 (0.74%) Tableau
9 1 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.37%) Power Query
General
1 75 (27.57%) Social Skills
2 64 (23.53%) Finance
3 27 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.35%) Public Sector
5 10 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (2.94%) Marketing
6 8 (2.94%) Retail
7 7 (2.57%) Law
7 7 (2.57%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.74%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.74%) Banking
9 2 (0.74%) Electronics
9 2 (0.74%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.37%) Games
10 1 (0.37%) Legal
10 1 (0.37%) Local Government
10 1 (0.37%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.37%) Public Speaking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.99%) EDI
2 10 (3.68%) RabbitMQ
2 10 (3.68%) YAML
3 1 (0.37%) ADO
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.72%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (6.99%) Data Centre
3 8 (2.94%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.21%) Low-Code
5 3 (1.10%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.74%) Cyberattack
6 2 (0.74%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.37%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.37%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.37%) FMCG
7 1 (0.37%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.37%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.37%) IoT
7 1 (0.37%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 25 (9.19%) Windows
2 16 (5.88%) Linux
3 10 (3.68%) Data ONTAP
4 4 (1.47%) Unix
5 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (9.93%) Customer Service
3 25 (9.19%) Agile
4 24 (8.82%) Actionable Insight
5 23 (8.46%) Project Management
6 22 (8.09%) Service Delivery
7 21 (7.72%) DevOps
7 21 (7.72%) Roadmaps
8 20 (7.35%) Business Intelligence
8 20 (7.35%) Presales
9 19 (6.99%) Cybersecurity
9 19 (6.99%) ERP
9 19 (6.99%) Migration
10 18 (6.62%) Artificial Intelligence
11 17 (6.25%) Analytics
12 16 (5.88%) Decision-Making
13 13 (4.78%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (4.78%) Product Management
13 13 (4.78%) Software Licensing
13 13 (4.78%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (10.66%) SQL
2 18 (6.62%) Python
3 8 (2.94%) Bash
3 8 (2.94%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.10%) Java
5 2 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.74%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (9.93%) Degree
2 11 (4.04%) Security Cleared
3 9 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (2.94%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (1.47%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.47%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.74%) CISSP
6 2 (0.74%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.37%) CCNA
7 1 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.37%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.37%) GCFA
7 1 (0.37%) GCFE
7 1 (0.37%) GCIH
7 1 (0.37%) OSCP
7 1 (0.37%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.47%) QA
2 2 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (0.74%) NCSC
2 2 (0.74%) NIST
3 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.37%) GRC
3 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (5.51%) Active Directory
2 14 (5.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.68%) Docker
4 4 (1.47%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (6.99%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.68%) Ansible
2 10 (3.68%) Prometheus
2 10 (3.68%) vCenter Server
3 9 (3.31%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 77 (28.31%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.72%) SAP
3 14 (5.15%) VMware
4 13 (4.78%) Oracle
5 12 (4.41%) Apple
6 10 (3.68%) NetApp
6 10 (3.68%) Palo Alto
6 10 (3.68%) Red Hat
6 10 (3.68%) SolidFire
7 9 (3.31%) Adobe
8 7 (2.57%) Sage
9 6 (2.21%) Infor
10 4 (1.47%) Sun
11 3 (1.10%) Ariba
11 3 (1.10%) IBM
12 1 (0.37%) Aruba
12 1 (0.37%) Google
12 1 (0.37%) HP
12 1 (0.37%) IFS
12 1 (0.37%) NEC