Senior Consultant Jobs

Senior Consultant
UK

The median Senior Consultant salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 416 570
Rank change year-on-year +73 +154 -43
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Consultant 548 398 705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.72% 0.69% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 0.72% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 258 271 408
10th Percentile £35,000 £51,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -3.45%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,313
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £91,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% -4.44%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 71,968 55,098 132,518
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.73% 95.65% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 37,505 40,133 78,004
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,604 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,525 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,404 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.99% - +5.00%

Senior Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Consultant in the UK

Senior Consultant
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Consultant in the UK

Senior Consultant
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Consultant over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Consultant in the UK

Senior Consultant
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 31 October 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 +71 473 £75,000 +7.14% 84
UK excluding London +74 273 £60,000 -7.69% 49
London +64 203 £75,000 +1.69% 43
Work from Home +70 198 £75,000 -6.25% 72
South East +53 103 £50,000 -28.57% 7
Midlands -20 52 £75,000 +15.38% 3
North of England -16 51 £75,000 +15.38% 13
North West -43 39 £75,000 +15.38% 11
West Midlands -24 34 £67,500 +3.85% 3
Scotland +3 24 £72,500 -3.33% 3
South West +9 19 £80,000 +10.34% 12
East Midlands -30 18 £75,000 +17.65%
East of England -57 17 £60,000 -14.29% 2
Yorkshire +31 10 £50,000 -20.00% 1
Northern Ireland - 6 - - 10
Wales +23 5 - - 2
North East - 2 £75,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Senior 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 Senior Consultant in the job title.

1 134 (24.45%) Finance
2 127 (23.18%) Microsoft
3 106 (19.34%) Degree
4 97 (17.70%) Coaching
5 90 (16.42%) Public Sector
6 87 (15.88%) Security Cleared
7 85 (15.51%) Social Skills
8 84 (15.33%) SQL
9 78 (14.23%) DBS Check
10 77 (14.05%) Windows
11 76 (13.87%) Linux
12 75 (13.69%) Artificial Intelligence
13 71 (12.96%) Systems Engineering
14 69 (12.59%) Customer Requirements
14 69 (12.59%) Presales
15 68 (12.41%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
15 68 (12.41%) Ontologies
16 65 (11.86%) Azure
17 64 (11.68%) Local Government
18 63 (11.50%) NEC
18 63 (11.50%) Solaris
18 63 (11.50%) ISO 9001
18 63 (11.50%) BusinessObjects
18 63 (11.50%) Citrix
18 63 (11.50%) NEC Housing
18 63 (11.50%) Police
18 63 (11.50%) Housing Management
18 63 (11.50%) Accessibility
19 54 (9.85%) AWS
20 48 (8.76%) Agile

Senior 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 8 (1.46%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.55%) ArcGIS
2 3 (0.55%) Confluence
3 1 (0.18%) Apache
3 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.18%) CMS
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.09%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 63 (11.50%) NEC Housing
2 21 (3.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (2.19%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (1.82%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (1.09%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 5 (0.91%) SAP CO
6 5 (0.91%) SAP FI
6 5 (0.91%) SAP FI/CO
6 5 (0.91%) SAP SD
6 5 (0.91%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.55%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.55%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.55%) Oracle Payroll
7 3 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.55%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.36%) Oracle FAH
8 2 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 65 (11.86%) Azure
2 54 (9.85%) AWS
3 30 (5.47%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (3.28%) Power Platform
5 15 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
6 13 (2.37%) SaaS
7 11 (2.01%) GCP
7 11 (2.01%) IaaS
7 11 (2.01%) OCI
8 10 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (1.82%) Serverless
9 8 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (1.46%) Amazon S3
9 8 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (1.46%) Azure AI
9 8 (1.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (0.91%) Entra ID
12 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 33 (6.02%) Firewall
2 32 (5.84%) SD-WAN
3 25 (4.56%) Network Security
3 25 (4.56%) WAN
4 20 (3.65%) Cisco Firepower
5 13 (2.37%) Wireless
6 10 (1.82%) NGFW
7 9 (1.64%) Cisco ASA
7 9 (1.64%) Cisco ISE
8 6 (1.09%) LAN
9 4 (0.73%) MPLS
9 4 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.55%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (0.55%) VPN
11 2 (0.36%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 2 (0.36%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 1 (0.18%) Broadband
12 1 (0.18%) Cisco Wireless
12 1 (0.18%) NAS
12 1 (0.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (11.50%) BusinessObjects
2 32 (5.84%) Data Lake
3 25 (4.56%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (4.38%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 13 (2.37%) Power BI
6 12 (2.19%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (1.46%) Big Data
8 6 (1.09%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.55%) GIS
10 3 (0.55%) SAP BW
11 2 (0.36%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (0.36%) SAP HANA
12 1 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.18%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.18%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.18%) HDInsight
12 1 (0.18%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.18%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 4 (0.73%) JIRA
2 2 (0.36%) GitLab
2 2 (0.36%) Jenkins
General
1 134 (24.45%) Finance
2 90 (16.42%) Public Sector
3 85 (15.51%) Social Skills
4 64 (11.68%) Local Government
5 63 (11.50%) Police
6 32 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (5.84%) Presentation Skills
7 30 (5.47%) Law
8 20 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (2.74%) Legal
9 15 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (2.19%) Marketing
11 10 (1.82%) Retail
12 9 (1.64%) Back Office
12 9 (1.64%) Banking
12 9 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.28%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.09%) Games
14 6 (1.09%) Publishing
15 4 (0.73%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (7.30%) HTML
2 34 (6.20%) AngularJS
3 16 (2.92%) Oracle Fusion
4 15 (2.74%) CSS
4 15 (2.74%) Web Services
5 12 (2.19%) Ajax
5 12 (2.19%) LDAP
6 5 (0.91%) .NET
7 4 (0.73%) HTML5
8 3 (0.55%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 3 (0.55%) Unreal Engine
9 2 (0.36%) SAP Basis
9 2 (0.36%) SAP Fiori
9 2 (0.36%) SOAP
9 2 (0.36%) XML
10 1 (0.18%) Apache FOP
10 1 (0.18%) SailPoint
10 1 (0.18%) SAML
10 1 (0.18%) XSL
10 1 (0.18%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 20 (3.65%) Self-Motivation
2 17 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (1.64%) Data Centre
4 8 (1.46%) Management Information System
5 7 (1.28%) Cloud Native
5 7 (1.28%) Driving Licence
5 7 (1.28%) IoT
6 6 (1.09%) Algorithms
6 6 (1.09%) Blockchain
7 5 (0.91%) Mobile App
8 4 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.55%) CMDB
10 2 (0.36%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.36%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.36%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.36%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.18%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.18%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.18%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.18%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 77 (14.05%) Windows
2 76 (13.87%) Linux
3 63 (11.50%) Solaris
4 4 (0.73%) Unix
5 3 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (17.70%) Coaching
2 75 (13.69%) Artificial Intelligence
3 71 (12.96%) Systems Engineering
4 69 (12.59%) Customer Requirements
4 69 (12.59%) Presales
5 68 (12.41%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 68 (12.41%) Ontologies
6 63 (11.50%) Housing Management
7 48 (8.76%) Agile
8 46 (8.39%) Roadmaps
9 43 (7.85%) Mentoring
10 41 (7.48%) Problem-Solving
11 33 (6.02%) Customer Service
11 33 (6.02%) Requirements Gathering
12 32 (5.84%) Analytics
13 31 (5.66%) DevOps
14 30 (5.47%) Migration
14 30 (5.47%) Stakeholder Management
15 28 (5.11%) Data Architecture
16 27 (4.93%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 84 (15.33%) SQL
2 41 (7.48%) JavaScript
3 19 (3.47%) Python
4 9 (1.64%) R
5 8 (1.46%) C#
6 7 (1.28%) Java
7 6 (1.09%) VBA
8 5 (0.91%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.73%) C++
9 4 (0.73%) Perl
10 1 (0.18%) Bash
10 1 (0.18%) Go
10 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.18%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.18%) XPath
Qualifications
1 106 (19.34%) Degree
2 87 (15.88%) Security Cleared
3 78 (14.23%) DBS Check
4 45 (8.21%) SC Cleared
5 33 (6.02%) Cisco Certification
6 28 (5.11%) AWS Certification
7 26 (4.74%) CCNP
8 24 (4.38%) Azure Certification
9 20 (3.65%) CCIE
10 17 (3.10%) DV Cleared
11 9 (1.64%) CISM
11 9 (1.64%) CISSP
12 8 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (1.28%) CCSA
13 7 (1.28%) CCSE
14 6 (1.09%) Master's Degree
15 5 (0.91%) APMP
15 5 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (0.91%) MBA
16 4 (0.73%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (11.50%) Accessibility
1 63 (11.50%) ISO 9001
2 17 (3.10%) GDPR
3 13 (2.37%) NIST
4 10 (1.82%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 4 (0.73%) GRC
7 3 (0.55%) NCSC
8 2 (0.36%) QA
8 2 (0.36%) RMADS
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.18%) PMO
9 1 (0.18%) SLA
9 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (2.01%) VMware NSX
2 9 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.73%) Lustre
3 4 (0.73%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 4 (0.73%) vSphere
4 3 (0.55%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.18%) FreeRADIUS
5 1 (0.18%) NFS
5 1 (0.18%) Shibboleth
5 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (2.37%) Single Sign-On
2 9 (1.64%) Terraform
3 8 (1.46%) FortiGate
4 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.55%) Avamar
5 3 (0.55%) EMC NetWorker
6 2 (0.36%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.36%) VxRail
7 1 (0.18%) Ansible
7 1 (0.18%) HP UCMDB
7 1 (0.18%) Matomo
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Identity Management
7 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.18%) Puppet
7 1 (0.18%) RSA Security Analytics
7 1 (0.18%) SCCM
Vendors
1 127 (23.18%) Microsoft
2 63 (11.50%) Citrix
2 63 (11.50%) NEC
3 47 (8.58%) ServiceNow
4 42 (7.66%) SAP
5 33 (6.02%) Cisco
6 31 (5.66%) Palo Alto
7 29 (5.29%) Fortinet
7 29 (5.29%) Oracle
8 22 (4.01%) F5
9 19 (3.47%) Juniper
9 19 (3.47%) VMware
10 17 (3.10%) Aruba
11 14 (2.55%) CheckPoint
12 9 (1.64%) Arista
12 9 (1.64%) Meraki
13 8 (1.46%) Dell
14 6 (1.09%) Hyperion
14 6 (1.09%) JD Edwards
14 6 (1.09%) PeopleSoft