Consultant Job Trends in the East of England

Consultant
England > East of England

The median Consultant salary in the East of England is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 May 2026.

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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 119 72
Rank change year-on-year +71 -47 +25
Permanent jobs requiring a Consultant 190 50 180
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 3.06% 1.68% 2.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.29% 1.84% 3.13%
Number of salaries quoted 103 41 139
10th Percentile £25,500 £39,878 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £47,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £66,215 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% +39.40% -24.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 East of England with a recognized job title 5,772 2,711 5,743
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.92% 90.85% 93.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3,744 1,472 4,386
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £25,809
25th Percentile £35,250 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,967 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +7.30% -13.64%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,200 £63,446
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £53,847
% change year-on-year -5.17% +7.71% -11.44%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Consultant job vacancy trend in the East of England

Consultant
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in the East of England.

Salary distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in the East of England

Consultant
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Consultant in the East of England over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Consultant in the East of England

Consultant
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the East of England region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
Hertfordshire +39 78 £70,000 -6.67% 33
Cambridgeshire +2 46 £35,000 -50.00% 13
Norfolk +5 40 £27,000 -50.91% 8
Essex -8 16 £90,000 - 6
Suffolk +20 10 £100,000 +51.02% 3
Consultant
England

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 15 May 2026, 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 East of England region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 36 (18.95%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.58%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (10.53%) Commercial Awareness
4 19 (10.00%) Roadmaps
4 19 (10.00%) Windows
5 17 (8.95%) Azure
5 17 (8.95%) Computacenter
5 17 (8.95%) Cybersecurity
6 16 (8.42%) Security Cleared
6 16 (8.42%) Service Management
7 14 (7.37%) Business Development
7 14 (7.37%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (6.84%) AI
8 13 (6.84%) Project Delivery
9 12 (6.32%) ERP
9 12 (6.32%) Presales
9 12 (6.32%) SharePoint
10 11 (5.79%) Machine Learning
10 11 (5.79%) Prototyping
10 11 (5.79%) ServiceNow
11 10 (5.26%) Collaborative Working
11 10 (5.26%) Degree
11 10 (5.26%) DV Cleared
11 10 (5.26%) Firewall
11 10 (5.26%) GRC
11 10 (5.26%) Impact Assessments
11 10 (5.26%) ITIL
11 10 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (5.26%) Process Improvement
11 10 (5.26%) Remedy

Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 12 (6.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 22 (11.58%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (8.95%) Azure
3 8 (4.21%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (3.16%) AWS
4 6 (3.16%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.63%) Power Automate
5 5 (2.63%) PowerApps
6 4 (2.11%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 4 (2.11%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (2.11%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (2.11%) Entra ID
6 4 (2.11%) IaaS
6 4 (2.11%) OneDrive
6 4 (2.11%) PaaS
7 3 (1.58%) OCI
8 1 (0.53%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.26%) Firewall
2 6 (3.16%) DMZ
2 6 (3.16%) Network Security
3 4 (2.11%) DHCP
3 4 (2.11%) DNS
3 4 (2.11%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.11%) VLAN
4 1 (0.53%) Broadband
4 1 (0.53%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.63%) Power BI
2 4 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.53%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.53%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.53%) MySQL
3 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.53%) SAP BW
3 1 (0.53%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Git
1 1 (0.53%) GitLab
1 1 (0.53%) JIRA
General
1 58 (30.53%) Finance
2 46 (24.21%) Social Skills
3 37 (19.47%) Organisational Skills
4 33 (17.37%) Legal
5 17 (8.95%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.79%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (5.26%) Law
7 10 (5.26%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.68%) Electronics
9 4 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.58%) Billing
11 2 (1.05%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.05%) Environmental Health
11 2 (1.05%) Local Government
11 2 (1.05%) Retail
12 1 (0.53%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.68%) Google JAX
1 7 (3.68%) JAX
1 7 (3.68%) PyTorch
1 7 (3.68%) TensorFlow
2 4 (2.11%) .NET
2 4 (2.11%) .NET Core
2 4 (2.11%) CSS
2 4 (2.11%) HTML
2 4 (2.11%) HTML5 Canvas
2 4 (2.11%) JSON
2 4 (2.11%) Microsoft Graph
2 4 (2.11%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 35 (18.42%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (3.68%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.68%) CUDA
3 6 (3.16%) Blog
3 6 (3.16%) Cloud Security Posture
3 6 (3.16%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 6 (3.16%) PKI
3 6 (3.16%) Security Posture
4 4 (2.11%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (2.11%) Life Science
5 3 (1.58%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.05%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.05%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.05%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.53%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.00%) Windows
2 7 (3.68%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.11%) VMS
3 4 (2.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (10.53%) Commercial Awareness
2 19 (10.00%) Roadmaps
3 17 (8.95%) Cybersecurity
4 16 (8.42%) Service Management
5 14 (7.37%) Business Development
5 14 (7.37%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (6.84%) AI
6 13 (6.84%) Project Delivery
7 12 (6.32%) ERP
7 12 (6.32%) Presales
8 11 (5.79%) Machine Learning
8 11 (5.79%) Prototyping
9 10 (5.26%) Collaborative Working
9 10 (5.26%) Impact Assessments
9 10 (5.26%) ITIL
9 10 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (5.26%) Process Improvement
10 7 (3.68%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (3.68%) Mathematics
10 7 (3.68%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.21%) PowerShell
2 7 (3.68%) Python
2 7 (3.68%) SQL
3 4 (2.11%) C#
3 4 (2.11%) JavaScript
3 4 (2.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (8.42%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.26%) Degree
2 10 (5.26%) DV Cleared
3 7 (3.68%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (2.11%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.11%) Network+ Certification
4 4 (2.11%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (1.58%) Postgraduate
5 3 (1.58%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.53%) CISM
6 1 (0.53%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.26%) GRC
2 7 (3.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.68%) NIST
3 6 (3.16%) GDPR
3 6 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 6 (3.16%) JSP 440
3 6 (3.16%) NCSC
3 6 (3.16%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.63%) QA
5 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (2.11%) Active Directory
1 4 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (2.11%) vSphere
2 1 (0.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (5.26%) SCCM
2 4 (2.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 4 (2.11%) SolarWinds Orion
2 4 (2.11%) vCenter Server
3 2 (1.05%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 36 (18.95%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.95%) Computacenter
3 11 (5.79%) ServiceNow
4 10 (5.26%) Remedy
5 6 (3.16%) IFS
6 4 (2.11%) Adobe
6 4 (2.11%) SolarWinds
6 4 (2.11%) VMware
7 3 (1.58%) Genesys
7 3 (1.58%) Oracle
8 2 (1.05%) SAP
9 1 (0.53%) BMC
9 1 (0.53%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.53%) Salesforce