Projects Consultant
UK

The median Projects Consultant salary in the UK is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 829 905 1203
Rank change year-on-year +76 +298 -320
Permanent jobs requiring a Project Consultant 75 88 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.076% 0.085% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% 0.093% 0.017%
Number of salaries quoted 43 17 20
10th Percentile £27,400 £36,250 £41,100
25th Percentile £28,000 £38,500 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -17.65% +59.38%
75th Percentile £43,750 £67,500 £77,313
90th Percentile £55,500 £79,500 £80,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £39,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.26% -22.00% +25.00%

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 93,314 94,990 150,394
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.53% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,914 59,752 85,367
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £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%

Project Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Consultant in the UK

Project Consultant
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Project Consultant in the UK

Project Consultant
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Consultant over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Project Consultant in the UK

Project Consultant
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Project Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
UK excluding London +31 68 £35,000 -10.26%
England +70 51 £40,000 -23.81% 2
Work from Home +74 23 £42,500 -39.29% 1
Wales +24 21 - -
West Midlands +33 18 £42,500 -
Midlands +26 18 £42,500 -
South West -19 10 £45,000 -14.29%
South East +8 8 £31,000 -18.95%
London +114 6 £42,500 -39.29% 2
North of England +42 5 £31,500 -3.08%
North West +1 5 £31,500 -3.08%
Scotland -70 3 £30,000 -
East of England - 3 £30,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Project 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 Project Consultant in the job title.

1 56 (74.67%) Social Skills
2 31 (41.33%) Self-Motivation
3 30 (40.00%) Decision-Making
4 27 (36.00%) B2B
5 26 (34.67%) Project Management
6 24 (32.00%) Degree
7 23 (30.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (30.67%) Oracle
8 22 (29.33%) Project Delivery
8 22 (29.33%) Budget Management
9 21 (28.00%) Data Centre
9 21 (28.00%) Actionable Insight
9 21 (28.00%) Security Cleared
10 20 (26.67%) SC Cleared
11 19 (25.33%) Change Management
12 14 (18.67%) Business Process Analysis
12 14 (18.67%) Driving Licence
13 13 (17.33%) Palo Alto
13 13 (17.33%) Network Design
13 13 (17.33%) ITIL
13 13 (17.33%) Cisco
13 13 (17.33%) CheckPoint
13 13 (17.33%) McAfee
13 13 (17.33%) CCNA
13 13 (17.33%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (16.00%) Migration
14 12 (16.00%) Requirements Gathering
15 11 (14.67%) Knowledge Transfer
15 11 (14.67%) Customer Service
15 11 (14.67%) Fortinet

Project 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:

Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Primavera
2 1 (1.33%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.33%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.33%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.33%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.67%) OCI
1 2 (2.67%) Power Platform
1 2 (2.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (14.67%) Cisco ASA
1 11 (14.67%) Cisco IOS
1 11 (14.67%) Firewall
1 11 (14.67%) LAN
1 11 (14.67%) TCP/IP
1 11 (14.67%) WAN
2 2 (2.67%) IPsec
2 2 (2.67%) Network Security
2 2 (2.67%) VPN
2 2 (2.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (1.33%) JIRA
General
1 56 (74.67%) Social Skills
2 23 (30.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 11 (14.67%) Telecoms
4 5 (6.67%) Law
4 5 (6.67%) Military
5 3 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.67%) Finance
6 2 (2.67%) Swedish Language
7 1 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Billing
7 1 (1.33%) German Language
7 1 (1.33%) Local Government
7 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 31 (41.33%) Self-Motivation
2 21 (28.00%) Data Centre
3 14 (18.67%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.33%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.67%) AIX
1 8 (10.67%) Solaris
1 8 (10.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 27 (36.00%) B2B
3 26 (34.67%) Project Management
4 22 (29.33%) Budget Management
4 22 (29.33%) Project Delivery
5 21 (28.00%) Actionable Insight
6 19 (25.33%) Change Management
7 14 (18.67%) Business Process Analysis
8 13 (17.33%) ITIL
8 13 (17.33%) Network Design
9 12 (16.00%) Migration
9 12 (16.00%) Requirements Gathering
10 11 (14.67%) Change Control
10 11 (14.67%) Customer Service
10 11 (14.67%) Knowledge Transfer
10 11 (14.67%) Mentoring
11 10 (13.33%) Agile
12 8 (10.67%) Disaster Recovery
13 6 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (8.00%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (32.00%) Degree
2 21 (28.00%) Security Cleared
3 20 (26.67%) SC Cleared
4 13 (17.33%) CCNA
4 13 (17.33%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (6.67%) DV Cleared
7 3 (4.00%) PMI Certification
7 3 (4.00%) PMP
8 2 (2.67%) CCNP
9 1 (1.33%) ACCA
9 1 (1.33%) CIMA
9 1 (1.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.00%) GMP
System Software
1 8 (10.67%) Firmware
1 8 (10.67%) Virtual Machines
1 8 (10.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (10.67%) Ansible
2 2 (2.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 23 (30.67%) Oracle
2 13 (17.33%) CheckPoint
2 13 (17.33%) Cisco
2 13 (17.33%) McAfee
2 13 (17.33%) Palo Alto
3 11 (14.67%) Fortinet
4 8 (10.67%) Red Hat
4 8 (10.67%) VMware
5 6 (8.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.67%) Forcepoint
6 2 (2.67%) Juniper
7 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow