Senior Consultant Job Trends in the City of London

Senior Consultant
Central London > City of London

The median Senior Consultant salary in the City of London is £76,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 141 160
Rank change year-on-year +14 +19 +79
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Consultant 9 21 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.40% 0.79% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.86% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 6 9 5
10th Percentile £59,000 £67,500 £55,250
25th Percentile £62,875 £72,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £75,500 £76,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -0.66% +16.92%
75th Percentile £85,000 £101,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £104,500 £95,000
Central London median annual salary £76,250 £75,500 £78,000
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.21% +20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of London. 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 City of London with a recognized job title 2,121 2,447 2,724
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.18% 92.20% 95.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,587 1,593 2,432
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,500 £74,500 £74,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% - -0.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £113,750
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%

Senior Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Consultant' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Senior Consultant job vacancy trend in the City of London

Senior Consultant
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for Senior Consultant job vacancies in the City of London.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Consultant job vacancies in the City of London

Senior Consultant
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Consultant in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Consultant in the City of London

Senior Consultant
Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Consultant within the City of London region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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
London Bridge - 1 £110,000 -
Senior Consultant
Central London

Senior Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 11 January 2026, Senior Consultant job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the City of London region featuring Senior Consultant in the job title.

1 4 (44.44%) Azure
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) AI
2 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
2 3 (33.33%) Project Management
2 3 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
3 2 (22.22%) Copilot Studio
3 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (22.22%) Degree
3 2 (22.22%) LLM
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 2 (22.22%) Presales
3 2 (22.22%) Prompt Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Target Operating Model
4 1 (11.11%) Azure AI
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) Change Management
4 1 (11.11%) CISM
4 1 (11.11%) CISSP
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
4 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
4 1 (11.11%) CRISC
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineering

Senior Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (22.22%) Copilot Studio
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
4 1 (11.11%) Azure AI
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Advertising
4 1 (11.11%) Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Billing
4 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Local Government
4 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (11.11%) Retail
4 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Security Posture
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Life Science
2 1 (11.11%) Reinsurance
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Agile
1 3 (33.33%) AI
1 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 3 (33.33%) Project Management
1 3 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
2 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (22.22%) LLM
2 2 (22.22%) Presales
2 2 (22.22%) Prompt Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Target Operating Model
3 1 (11.11%) Change Management
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Database Optimisation
3 1 (11.11%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Information Security
3 1 (11.11%) Internal Audit
3 1 (11.11%) Line Management
3 1 (11.11%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) CISM
2 1 (11.11%) CISSP
2 1 (11.11%) CRISC
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) PMI Certification
2 1 (11.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GRC
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
1 1 (11.11%) NIST 800
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) IBM