Consultant Jobs in Cambridgeshire

Consultant
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Consultant salary in Cambridgeshire is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 May 2025.

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

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 30 59
Rank change year-on-year -16 +29 +88
Permanent jobs requiring a Consultant 13 81 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 2.55% 5.11% 4.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.71% 5.45% 5.19%
Number of salaries quoted 10 57 13
10th Percentile £48,988 £30,000 £56,750
25th Percentile £64,063 £35,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £45,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% -28.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile - £57,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £71,625 £60,000 -
East of England median annual salary £66,215 £47,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +39.40% -24.00% +13.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cambridgeshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. 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 Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 480 1,485 1,214
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 93.75% 86.47%
Number of salaries quoted 316 1,146 574
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,875 £27,150
25th Percentile £38,855 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +8.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £70,450
90th Percentile £78,000 £80,001 £86,250
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +10.00%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in Cambridgeshire

Consultant
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Salary trend for Consultant in Cambridgeshire

Consultant
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Consultant in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Consultant in Cambridgeshire

Consultant
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 18 May 2025. 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
Peterborough -2 4 £54,862 +21.92% 3
Huntingdon - 2 £60,000 - 1
Cambridge -13 1 - - 10
Consultant
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2025, 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 Cambridgeshire region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 6 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (23.08%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) SaaS
3 2 (15.38%) PaaS
3 2 (15.38%) IaaS
3 2 (15.38%) ISSAP
3 2 (15.38%) Project Management
3 2 (15.38%) ITIL
3 2 (15.38%) Agile
3 2 (15.38%) TOGAF
3 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
3 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Customer Service
4 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
4 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
4 1 (7.69%) Terraform
4 1 (7.69%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (7.69%) Decision-Making
4 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.69%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (7.69%) Keycloak
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.69%) Architectural Design
4 1 (7.69%) Project Delivery
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Cognito

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) IaaS
2 2 (15.38%) PaaS
2 2 (15.38%) SaaS
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (7.69%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) MS Access
General
1 2 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Law
2 1 (7.69%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) PKI
1 1 (7.69%) Private Cloud
1 1 (7.69%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (15.38%) Agile
2 2 (15.38%) Customer Service
2 2 (15.38%) ITIL
2 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
2 2 (15.38%) Project Management
2 2 (15.38%) TOGAF
3 1 (7.69%) Business Development
3 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
3 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
3 1 (7.69%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (7.69%) CRM
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Kanban
3 1 (7.69%) Project Planning
3 1 (7.69%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (7.69%) Scrum
3 1 (7.69%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
1 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (15.38%) ISSAP
2 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft