Principal Consultant Job Trends in Merseyside

Principal Consultant
North West > Merseyside

The median Principal Consultant salary in Merseyside 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 75 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Consultant 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 0.25% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% - -
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 - - -
North West median annual salary £75,000 - £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -17.65%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Merseyside

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Merseyside. 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 Merseyside with a recognized job title 1,149 435 1,204
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 89.32% 94.95%
Number of salaries quoted 736 217 979
10th Percentile £29,625 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +2.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £60,125
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £80,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.84% +2.00% -9.09%

Principal Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Principal Consultant job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Principal Consultant
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for Principal Consultant job vacancies in Merseyside.

Salary distribution trend for Principal Consultant job vacancies in Merseyside

Principal Consultant
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Consultant within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 2 July 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
Liverpool - 3 £62,500 - 1
Principal Consultant
North West

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

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 Merseyside 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 Merseyside 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