Consultant Jobs in the North of England

Consultant
England > North of England

The median Consultant salary in the North of England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 196 75 90
Rank change year-on-year -121 +15 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Consultant 151 580 609
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.28% 2.86% 3.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.44% 3.01% 4.38%
Number of salaries quoted 125 399 346
10th Percentile £31,850 £25,000 £42,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £38,000 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -21.43% +16.67%
75th Percentile £76,250 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,250 £82,625 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £59,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +9.24% -11.85% +3.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North 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 North of England with a recognized job title 10,515 19,259 13,892
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.30% 94.97% 89.28%
Number of salaries quoted 5,506 14,467 7,910
10th Percentile £25,086 £27,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £69,136
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,259
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.88% +0.43%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in the North of England

Consultant
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the North of England.

Salary trend for Consultant in the North of England

Consultant
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Consultant in the North of England over the 6 months to 15 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Consultant in the North of England

Consultant
Job Locations in the North 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 15 June 2025. 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
North West -115 101 £52,500 -8.70% 301
Yorkshire -53 43 £70,000 +40.00% 95
North East -1 7 £35,000 -39.13% 54
Consultant
England

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 15 June 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 North of England region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 49 (32.45%) Social Skills
2 36 (23.84%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (19.87%) ERP
3 30 (19.87%) Finance
4 27 (17.88%) Law
5 26 (17.22%) Microsoft
6 24 (15.89%) CRM
6 24 (15.89%) Migration
7 19 (12.58%) NetSuite
7 19 (12.58%) Project Management
7 19 (12.58%) Security Cleared
8 18 (11.92%) Analytical Skills
9 17 (11.26%) Data Migration
9 17 (11.26%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (11.26%) Collaborative Working
9 17 (11.26%) Organisational Skills
10 16 (10.60%) Requirements Gathering
11 13 (8.61%) Power Platform
12 12 (7.95%) Degree
13 11 (7.28%) SQL
13 11 (7.28%) Vulnerability Management
13 11 (7.28%) ServiceNow
13 11 (7.28%) SC Cleared
13 11 (7.28%) Presales
14 10 (6.62%) Dynamics 365
14 10 (6.62%) Business Development
14 10 (6.62%) Business Continuity
15 9 (5.96%) Agile
15 9 (5.96%) Legal
15 9 (5.96%) Incident Management

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (3.31%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.32%) ArcGIS
2 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (1.32%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 19 (12.58%) NetSuite
2 5 (3.31%) Sage 200
2 5 (3.31%) Sage CRM
3 4 (2.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (2.65%) Unit4 Business World
4 2 (1.32%) SAP EWM
4 2 (1.32%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.66%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.66%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.66%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 17 (11.26%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (8.61%) Power Platform
3 10 (6.62%) Dynamics 365
4 9 (5.96%) Azure
5 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (1.99%) AWS
6 3 (1.99%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (1.32%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.32%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.32%) PowerApps
7 2 (1.32%) SaaS
8 1 (0.66%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.66%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.66%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.66%) Cloudflare
8 1 (0.66%) GCP
8 1 (0.66%) OCI
8 1 (0.66%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.97%) WAN
2 5 (3.31%) Firewall
3 4 (2.65%) Cisco Firepower
3 4 (2.65%) Network Security
3 4 (2.65%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.32%) LAN
4 2 (1.32%) VPN
5 1 (0.66%) Internet
5 1 (0.66%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.66%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.32%) Power BI
2 1 (0.66%) Big Data
2 1 (0.66%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (0.66%) Data Mining
2 1 (0.66%) MySQL
2 1 (0.66%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (0.66%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 1 (0.66%) JIRA
General
1 49 (32.45%) Social Skills
2 30 (19.87%) Finance
3 27 (17.88%) Law
4 18 (11.92%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (11.26%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (5.96%) Legal
7 7 (4.64%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.31%) Marketing
8 5 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.31%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.32%) Banking
9 2 (1.32%) Czech Language
10 1 (0.66%) Games
10 1 (0.66%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (1.32%) SailPoint
1 2 (1.32%) SOAP
2 1 (0.66%) AWS CDK
2 1 (0.66%) HTML
2 1 (0.66%) ModSecurity
2 1 (0.66%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (0.66%) REST
2 1 (0.66%) Restlet
2 1 (0.66%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.97%) Cyber Threat
1 6 (3.97%) Cyberattack
1 6 (3.97%) Data Protection Act
1 6 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (2.65%) Onboarding
2 4 (2.65%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (1.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (1.99%) Life Science
3 3 (1.99%) NHS
4 2 (1.32%) ASTM
4 2 (1.32%) Augmented Reality
4 2 (1.32%) Blog
4 2 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.32%) Learning Management System
4 2 (1.32%) Low-Code
4 2 (1.32%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.32%) Virtual Reality
5 1 (0.66%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.66%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.99%) Windows
2 2 (1.32%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.66%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (23.84%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (19.87%) ERP
3 24 (15.89%) CRM
3 24 (15.89%) Migration
4 19 (12.58%) Project Management
5 17 (11.26%) Collaborative Working
5 17 (11.26%) Data Migration
6 16 (10.60%) Requirements Gathering
7 11 (7.28%) Presales
7 11 (7.28%) Vulnerability Management
8 10 (6.62%) Business Continuity
8 10 (6.62%) Business Development
9 9 (5.96%) Agile
9 9 (5.96%) Customer Service
9 9 (5.96%) Fintech
9 9 (5.96%) Incident Management
9 9 (5.96%) Roadmaps
9 9 (5.96%) Workshop Facilitation
10 8 (5.30%) Incident Response
10 8 (5.30%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 11 (7.28%) SQL
2 3 (1.99%) Java
2 3 (1.99%) Python
3 2 (1.32%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.66%) Groovy
4 1 (0.66%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 19 (12.58%) Security Cleared
2 12 (7.95%) Degree
3 11 (7.28%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.65%) CCNP
5 4 (2.65%) CCSA
6 3 (1.99%) AAT
6 3 (1.99%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.32%) CISSP
7 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.66%) APMG
8 1 (0.66%) CCSP
8 1 (0.66%) CEH
8 1 (0.66%) CISM
8 1 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.66%) OSCP
8 1 (0.66%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.97%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (3.97%) GDPR
2 6 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (1.99%) ISO 22301
3 3 (1.99%) NIST
4 2 (1.32%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.32%) PMO
4 2 (1.32%) QA
4 2 (1.32%) SLA
5 1 (0.66%) COBIT
5 1 (0.66%) GRC
5 1 (0.66%) NCSC
5 1 (0.66%) P3O
5 1 (0.66%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (1.32%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.66%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.32%) Automic
2 2 (1.32%) Backup Exec
2 2 (1.32%) SCCM
3 1 (0.66%) cPanel
3 1 (0.66%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.66%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (17.22%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.28%) ServiceNow
3 8 (5.30%) Oracle
4 7 (4.64%) Cisco
4 7 (4.64%) Fortinet
4 7 (4.64%) Palo Alto
5 6 (3.97%) Sage
6 4 (2.65%) CheckPoint
6 4 (2.65%) SAP
7 2 (1.32%) Adobe
7 2 (1.32%) BeyondTrust
7 2 (1.32%) Broadcom
7 2 (1.32%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.32%) Databricks
7 2 (1.32%) HP
7 2 (1.32%) Okta
7 2 (1.32%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.32%) Veritas
7 2 (1.32%) Workday
8 1 (0.66%) CrowdStrike