Consultant Jobs in Wales

Consultant
UK > Wales

The median Consultant salary in Wales is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 103 114
Rank change year-on-year +49 +11 -46
Permanent jobs requiring a Consultant 78 32 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 3.92% 1.94% 1.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.24% 2.26% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 42 24 18
10th Percentile £31,250 £50,000 £37,625
25th Percentile £32,500 £56,250 £46,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +13.04% +76.92%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £74,063
90th Percentile £71,250 - £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.45% +3.08% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Wales. 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 Wales with a recognized job title 1,838 1,417 1,789
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 85.72% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,249 811 1,154
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £29,825
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £62,438
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in Wales

Consultant
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Consultant in Wales

Consultant
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Consultant in Wales over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Consultant in Wales

Consultant
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the Wales region over the 6 months to 19 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
South Wales +41 66 £45,000 -35.71% 16
West Wales +8 9 £55,000 +10.00% 1
North Wales - 1 - - 1
Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 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 Wales region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 31 (39.74%) Actionable Insight
2 27 (34.62%) Social Skills
3 26 (33.33%) Data Centre
4 25 (32.05%) Oracle
5 21 (26.92%) Firewall
6 18 (23.08%) Palo Alto
7 17 (21.79%) Microsoft
8 16 (20.51%) ITIL
8 16 (20.51%) Finance
8 16 (20.51%) Migration
8 16 (20.51%) VMware Infrastructure
8 16 (20.51%) VMware
9 15 (19.23%) Customer Service
9 15 (19.23%) Security Cleared
10 14 (17.95%) SAP
11 13 (16.67%) CCNA
11 13 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (16.67%) Cisco
11 13 (16.67%) Red Hat
11 13 (16.67%) Project Management
11 13 (16.67%) CheckPoint
11 13 (16.67%) McAfee
11 13 (16.67%) SC Cleared
11 13 (16.67%) Network Design
11 13 (16.67%) Ansible
12 12 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
12 12 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
13 11 (14.10%) Change Control
13 11 (14.10%) Analytics
13 11 (14.10%) Mentoring

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 5 (6.41%) Apache
2 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.28%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.28%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (5.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.28%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 9 (11.54%) Azure
2 8 (10.26%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (6.41%) Amazon S3
3 5 (6.41%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.85%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.85%) OCI
4 3 (3.85%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.85%) SaaS
5 2 (2.56%) AWS
5 2 (2.56%) IaaS
5 2 (2.56%) PaaS
6 1 (1.28%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.28%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 21 (26.92%) Firewall
2 11 (14.10%) Cisco ASA
2 11 (14.10%) Cisco IOS
2 11 (14.10%) LAN
2 11 (14.10%) TCP/IP
2 11 (14.10%) WAN
3 8 (10.26%) VPN
4 7 (8.97%) IPsec
5 5 (6.41%) Internet
5 5 (6.41%) SNMP
6 3 (3.85%) DHCP
6 3 (3.85%) DNS
7 2 (2.56%) Network Security
7 2 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.28%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.97%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.41%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (6.41%) MongoDB
3 4 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (2.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.56%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.56%) Power BI
5 2 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.28%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.28%) GIS
6 1 (1.28%) Metadata
6 1 (1.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (1.28%) Spatial Data
General
1 27 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 16 (20.51%) Finance
3 11 (14.10%) Telecoms
4 5 (6.41%) Retail
5 4 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (5.13%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.85%) Advertising
6 3 (3.85%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.56%) Marketing
8 1 (1.28%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.28%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.41%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (6.41%) YAML
2 1 (1.28%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 26 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 10 (12.82%) Onboarding
2 10 (12.82%) Social Media
3 8 (10.26%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.56%) Operational Technology
4 2 (2.56%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.28%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.28%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.28%) Replication
5 1 (1.28%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.26%) AIX
1 8 (10.26%) Solaris
1 8 (10.26%) Unix
1 8 (10.26%) Windows
2 6 (7.69%) Linux
3 5 (6.41%) Data ONTAP
4 3 (3.85%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.56%) VMS
6 1 (1.28%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.28%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (39.74%) Actionable Insight
2 16 (20.51%) ITIL
2 16 (20.51%) Migration
3 15 (19.23%) Customer Service
4 13 (16.67%) Network Design
4 13 (16.67%) Project Management
5 12 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
5 12 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
6 11 (14.10%) Analytics
6 11 (14.10%) Change Control
6 11 (14.10%) Change Management
6 11 (14.10%) Coaching
6 11 (14.10%) Mentoring
6 11 (14.10%) Software Engineering
7 10 (12.82%) Customer Experience
7 10 (12.82%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (12.82%) Lead Generation
7 10 (12.82%) Roadmaps
8 8 (10.26%) Agile
8 8 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.69%) Python
2 4 (5.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 13 (16.67%) CCNA
2 13 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.97%) Degree
4 2 (2.56%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.56%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.56%) CCNP
4 2 (2.56%) CISSP
4 2 (2.56%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.56%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.28%) CISA
5 1 (1.28%) CISM
5 1 (1.28%) CRISC
5 1 (1.28%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.28%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.28%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (20.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (12.82%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (10.26%) Firmware
4 5 (6.41%) Docker
5 3 (3.85%) Active Directory
6 2 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (16.67%) Ansible
2 5 (6.41%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.41%) Prometheus
2 5 (6.41%) vCenter Server
3 2 (2.56%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 25 (32.05%) Oracle
2 18 (23.08%) Palo Alto
3 17 (21.79%) Microsoft
4 16 (20.51%) VMware
5 14 (17.95%) SAP
6 13 (16.67%) CheckPoint
6 13 (16.67%) Cisco
6 13 (16.67%) McAfee
6 13 (16.67%) Red Hat
7 11 (14.10%) Fortinet
8 10 (12.82%) Sage
9 5 (6.41%) NetApp
9 5 (6.41%) SolidFire
10 3 (3.85%) Veeam
11 2 (2.56%) Forcepoint
11 2 (2.56%) Juniper
12 1 (1.28%) ESRI
12 1 (1.28%) Sophos
12 1 (1.28%) Thales