Principal Consultant Job Trends in Liverpool

Principal Consultant
Merseyside > Liverpool

The median Principal Consultant salary in Liverpool is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 July 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Consultant 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Liverpool 0.30% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - -
75th Percentile £71,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Merseyside median annual salary £62,500 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Liverpool

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Liverpool. 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 Liverpool with a recognized job title 956 304 969
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.60% 95.30% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 583 180 795
10th Percentile £29,250 £25,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £39,375 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,625 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Merseyside median annual salary £50,000 £46,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% +2.22% -5.26%

Principal Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Principal Consultant job vacancy trend in Liverpool

Principal Consultant
Salary Trend in Liverpool

Salary distribution trend for Principal Consultant job vacancies in Liverpool.

Salary distribution trend for Principal Consultant job vacancies in Liverpool

Principal Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool

For the 6 months to 2 July 2026, Principal 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 Liverpool region featuring Principal Consultant in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 3 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 3 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 3 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Management
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 3 (100.00%) Data Vault
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks
1 3 (100.00%) dbt
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (100.00%) Economics
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Data Management
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code

Principal Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool 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 3 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 3 (100.00%) dbt
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (33.33%) Collibra
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 3 (100.00%) Data Vault
1 3 (100.00%) Metadata
1 3 (100.00%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Retail
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Management
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (100.00%) Economics
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Data Management
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) Kimball Methodology
1 3 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 3 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks