Consultant Jobs in Leeds

Consultant
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Consultant salary in Leeds is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 48 75
Rank change year-on-year -4 +27 +36
Permanent jobs requiring a Consultant 26 95 120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 3.36% 4.04% 4.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.58% 4.20% 4.39%
Number of salaries quoted 24 57 55
10th Percentile £28,650 £25,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £50,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -28.57% +40.00%
75th Percentile £90,313 £60,000 -
90th Percentile £96,375 £82,500 £74,150
West Yorkshire median annual salary £80,000 £55,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +45.45% -18.52% +22.73%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 727 2,263 2,735
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 96.26% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 477 1,638 1,648
10th Percentile £28,300 £31,250 £32,675
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £69,914 £73,750
90th Percentile £96,000 £84,964 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +9.62%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in Leeds

Consultant
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for Consultant in Leeds

Consultant
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Consultant in Leeds over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Consultant in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 Leeds region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (26.92%) Law
3 6 (23.08%) Business Continuity
3 6 (23.08%) Information Security
3 6 (23.08%) Incident Management
3 6 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (23.08%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (23.08%) Security Testing
3 6 (23.08%) Data Protection
3 6 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (23.08%) Vulnerability Management
3 6 (23.08%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 6 (23.08%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (23.08%) Cyberattack
3 6 (23.08%) Security Operations
3 6 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 6 (23.08%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 6 (23.08%) Security Auditing
3 6 (23.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (23.08%) Threat Intelligence
3 6 (23.08%) GDPR
3 6 (23.08%) Risk Register
3 6 (23.08%) Incident Response
4 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
5 4 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (15.38%) LAN
5 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
6 3 (11.54%) Roadmaps
6 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (7.69%) AWS
2 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
2 2 (7.69%) OneDrive
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.85%) GCP
3 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) LAN
2 3 (11.54%) WAN
3 2 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (7.69%) VPN
3 2 (7.69%) Wireless
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (3.85%) Firewall
4 1 (3.85%) Network Security
4 1 (3.85%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Big Data
1 1 (3.85%) Data Mining
General
1 7 (26.92%) Law
2 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Banking
3 2 (7.69%) Finance
3 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Czech Language
4 1 (3.85%) Health Technology
4 1 (3.85%) Legal
4 1 (3.85%) Marketing
4 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) SailPoint
2 1 (3.85%) AWS CDK
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Cyber Threat
1 6 (23.08%) Cyberattack
1 6 (23.08%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.85%) Life Science
3 1 (3.85%) NHS
3 1 (3.85%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (23.08%) Business Continuity
1 6 (23.08%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) Data Protection
1 6 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
1 6 (23.08%) Incident Management
1 6 (23.08%) Incident Response
1 6 (23.08%) Information Security
1 6 (23.08%) Risk Register
1 6 (23.08%) Security Auditing
1 6 (23.08%) Security Operations
1 6 (23.08%) Security Testing
1 6 (23.08%) Threat Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) Vulnerability Management
1 6 (23.08%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 3 (11.54%) Migration
2 3 (11.54%) Roadmaps
3 2 (7.69%) Business Development
3 2 (7.69%) ITIL
3 2 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (7.69%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.69%) Python
1 2 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) CCNP
2 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) CCIE
4 1 (3.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (3.85%) CCSA
4 1 (3.85%) CCSP
4 1 (3.85%) CEH
4 1 (3.85%) CISM
4 1 (3.85%) CISSP
4 1 (3.85%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (23.08%) GDPR
1 6 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (3.85%) COBIT
2 1 (3.85%) NIST
2 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Backup Exec
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (7.69%) SCCM
2 1 (3.85%) Automic
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) Cisco
3 2 (7.69%) BeyondTrust
3 2 (7.69%) CyberArk
3 2 (7.69%) Okta
3 2 (7.69%) Veritas
4 1 (3.85%) Broadcom
4 1 (3.85%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.85%) Databricks
4 1 (3.85%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle
4 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow