Consultant Jobs in Edinburgh

Consultant
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Consultant salary in Edinburgh is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 113 87
Rank change year-on-year +48 -26 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Consultant 46 38 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.00% 1.77% 3.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.13% 1.85% 3.22%
Number of salaries quoted 19 19 45
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £53,625 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -17.65% +54.55%
75th Percentile £107,500 £82,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £105,000 -
Scotland median annual salary £47,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -32.14% +16.67% +13.21%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 1,470 2,051 2,266
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.83% 95.53% 97.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,037 1,207 1,413
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,331 £33,488
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £77,715 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,934 £90,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in Edinburgh

Consultant
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Consultant in Edinburgh

Consultant
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Consultant in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Consultant in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 Edinburgh region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 20 (43.48%) Finance
2 17 (36.96%) Social Skills
3 13 (28.26%) Project Management
3 13 (28.26%) Agile
3 13 (28.26%) Actionable Insight
4 11 (23.91%) Data Analytics
4 11 (23.91%) Analytics
5 10 (21.74%) Banking
5 10 (21.74%) Microsoft
6 9 (19.57%) Windows
6 9 (19.57%) Linux
6 9 (19.57%) Strategic Roadmap
6 9 (19.57%) Roadmaps
7 8 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (15.22%) ServiceNow
8 7 (15.22%) Enterprise Architecture
8 7 (15.22%) Python
9 6 (13.04%) SharePoint
9 6 (13.04%) SQL
9 6 (13.04%) Oracle
9 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Office
9 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (13.04%) Public Sector
9 6 (13.04%) Business Strategy
9 6 (13.04%) GDPR
10 5 (10.87%) vCenter Server
10 5 (10.87%) Customer Requirements
10 5 (10.87%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (10.87%) SolidFire

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 6 (13.04%) SharePoint
2 5 (10.87%) Apache
2 5 (10.87%) Confluence
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.87%) Amazon S3
1 5 (10.87%) Azure
2 4 (8.70%) SaaS
3 3 (6.52%) Snowflake
4 2 (4.35%) AWS
4 2 (4.35%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.87%) Firewall
1 5 (10.87%) Internet
1 5 (10.87%) IPsec
1 5 (10.87%) SNMP
1 5 (10.87%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.87%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (10.87%) MongoDB
2 4 (8.70%) DB2
3 3 (6.52%) Data Hub
3 3 (6.52%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.35%) Power BI
4 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.35%) Tableau
5 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (10.87%) JIRA
General
1 20 (43.48%) Finance
2 17 (36.96%) Social Skills
3 10 (21.74%) Banking
4 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (13.04%) Public Sector
5 5 (10.87%) Marketing
6 4 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (4.35%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.17%) General Ledger
8 1 (2.17%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.87%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (10.87%) YAML
2 2 (4.35%) J2EE
2 2 (4.35%) LDAP
2 2 (4.35%) OAuth
2 2 (4.35%) OAuth2
2 2 (4.35%) OpenID
2 2 (4.35%) REST
2 2 (4.35%) SAML
3 1 (2.17%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.87%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 9 (19.57%) Linux
1 9 (19.57%) Windows
2 5 (10.87%) Data ONTAP
3 4 (8.70%) Unix
3 4 (8.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (28.26%) Actionable Insight
1 13 (28.26%) Agile
1 13 (28.26%) Project Management
2 11 (23.91%) Analytics
2 11 (23.91%) Data Analytics
3 9 (19.57%) Roadmaps
3 9 (19.57%) Strategic Roadmap
4 8 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (15.22%) Enterprise Architecture
6 6 (13.04%) Business Strategy
7 5 (10.87%) ArchiMate
7 5 (10.87%) Customer Requirements
7 5 (10.87%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Management
7 5 (10.87%) Presales
7 5 (10.87%) Project Planning
7 5 (10.87%) Release Management
7 5 (10.87%) Storage Management
7 5 (10.87%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.22%) Python
2 6 (13.04%) SQL
3 2 (4.35%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (8.70%) CISA
1 4 (8.70%) Degree
2 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) GDPR
2 5 (10.87%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (10.87%) NCSC
2 5 (10.87%) NIST
3 4 (8.70%) ITGC
3 4 (8.70%) PMO
4 3 (6.52%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (2.17%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (10.87%) Docker
1 5 (10.87%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (10.87%) Ansible
1 5 (10.87%) Kubernetes
1 5 (10.87%) Prometheus
1 5 (10.87%) vCenter Server
2 2 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.22%) ServiceNow
3 6 (13.04%) Oracle
4 5 (10.87%) BiZZdesign
4 5 (10.87%) NetApp
4 5 (10.87%) Palo Alto
4 5 (10.87%) Red Hat
4 5 (10.87%) SolidFire
4 5 (10.87%) VMware
5 4 (8.70%) Sage
5 4 (8.70%) SAP
6 2 (4.35%) Databricks
6 2 (4.35%) Okta
6 2 (4.35%) Salesforce
6 2 (4.35%) Splunk