Consultant Jobs in the North of England

Consultant
England > North of England

The median Consultant salary in the North of England is £58,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 91 106
Rank change year-on-year -88 +15 +34
Permanent jobs requiring a Consultant 176 474 562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.53% 2.71% 3.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.66% 2.86% 3.64%
Number of salaries quoted 154 325 317
10th Percentile £33,750 £26,650 £40,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -21.43% +16.67%
75th Percentile £81,875 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £89,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +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 10,578 16,586 15,451
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.99% 94.87% 89.58%
Number of salaries quoted 5,737 12,834 8,216
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,265 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,577
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £63,500 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £78,100 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -103 126 £52,500 -8.70% 243
Yorkshire -8 40 £71,991 +43.98% 91
North East -4 10 £40,000 -30.43% 36
Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 North of England region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 64 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 47 (26.70%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (22.73%) Migration
4 37 (21.02%) Finance
5 33 (18.75%) Law
6 31 (17.61%) ERP
7 30 (17.05%) CRM
8 26 (14.77%) Microsoft
9 25 (14.20%) NetSuite
9 25 (14.20%) Data Migration
10 22 (12.50%) Project Management
11 21 (11.93%) Security Cleared
11 21 (11.93%) Collaborative Working
11 21 (11.93%) Organisational Skills
11 21 (11.93%) Requirements Gathering
12 20 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
13 19 (10.80%) Degree
13 19 (10.80%) Cisco
13 19 (10.80%) Cisco Certification
14 18 (10.23%) Presales
15 17 (9.66%) Power Platform
15 17 (9.66%) Microsoft 365
16 16 (9.09%) LAN
17 14 (7.95%) CCNP
18 12 (6.82%) Dynamics 365
18 12 (6.82%) SQL
18 12 (6.82%) ServiceNow
18 12 (6.82%) Business Development
19 11 (6.25%) Data Protection
19 11 (6.25%) SC Cleared

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 7 (3.98%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.14%) ArcGIS
2 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (2.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.14%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 25 (14.20%) NetSuite
2 6 (3.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.27%) SAP SD
4 3 (1.70%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (1.70%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (1.70%) Sage 200
4 3 (1.70%) Sage CRM
5 2 (1.14%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (1.14%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.57%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.57%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 17 (9.66%) Microsoft 365
1 17 (9.66%) Power Platform
2 12 (6.82%) Dynamics 365
3 7 (3.98%) Azure
3 7 (3.98%) SaaS
4 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (1.70%) Entra ID
5 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (1.70%) Power Automate
5 3 (1.70%) PowerApps
6 2 (1.14%) AWS
6 2 (1.14%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.57%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.57%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.57%) GCP
7 1 (0.57%) OCI
7 1 (0.57%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.09%) LAN
2 10 (5.68%) Cisco Nexus
2 10 (5.68%) WAN
2 10 (5.68%) Wireless
3 9 (5.11%) Firewall
4 5 (2.84%) Network Security
5 4 (2.27%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (2.27%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.14%) VPN
7 1 (0.57%) Internet
7 1 (0.57%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.70%) Power BI
2 1 (0.57%) Big Data
2 1 (0.57%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (0.57%) Data Mining
2 1 (0.57%) MySQL
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle ODI
General
1 64 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 37 (21.02%) Finance
3 33 (18.75%) Law
4 21 (11.93%) Organisational Skills
5 20 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (5.68%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (5.11%) Legal
8 7 (3.98%) Marketing
9 5 (2.84%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.84%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.27%) Billing
11 3 (1.70%) Social Housing
12 2 (1.14%) Banking
12 2 (1.14%) Czech Language
13 1 (0.57%) Games
13 1 (0.57%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.57%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.41%) SOAP
2 5 (2.84%) HTML
2 5 (2.84%) Restlet
2 5 (2.84%) XML
3 3 (1.70%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.14%) EDI
4 2 (1.14%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (1.14%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.57%) ModSecurity
5 1 (0.57%) REST
5 1 (0.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (3.41%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (2.84%) Cyberattack
3 5 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.70%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.70%) NHS
5 2 (1.14%) ASTM
5 2 (1.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (1.14%) Learning Management System
5 2 (1.14%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.14%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.57%) Blog
6 1 (0.57%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.57%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.57%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.57%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.70%) Windows
2 2 (1.14%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (26.70%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (22.73%) Migration
3 31 (17.61%) ERP
4 30 (17.05%) CRM
5 25 (14.20%) Data Migration
6 22 (12.50%) Project Management
7 21 (11.93%) Collaborative Working
7 21 (11.93%) Requirements Gathering
8 18 (10.23%) Presales
9 12 (6.82%) Business Development
10 11 (6.25%) Data Protection
11 10 (5.68%) Agile
12 9 (5.11%) Business Continuity
12 9 (5.11%) Fintech
12 9 (5.11%) Incident Management
12 9 (5.11%) Roadmaps
12 9 (5.11%) Vulnerability Management
12 9 (5.11%) Workshop Facilitation
13 8 (4.55%) Incident Response
13 8 (4.55%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 12 (6.82%) SQL
2 5 (2.84%) JavaScript
3 4 (2.27%) ABAP
3 4 (2.27%) Java
4 2 (1.14%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.57%) Groovy
5 1 (0.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (11.93%) Security Cleared
2 19 (10.80%) Cisco Certification
2 19 (10.80%) Degree
3 14 (7.95%) CCNP
4 11 (6.25%) SC Cleared
5 10 (5.68%) CCIE
6 4 (2.27%) CCNA
6 4 (2.27%) CCSA
6 4 (2.27%) JNCIA
7 3 (1.70%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.14%) AAT
8 2 (1.14%) CISSP
8 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.14%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.57%) APMG
9 1 (0.57%) CCSP
9 1 (0.57%) CEH
9 1 (0.57%) CISM
9 1 (0.57%) OSCP
9 1 (0.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.41%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (3.41%) GDPR
3 5 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (1.70%) ISO 22301
5 2 (1.14%) NIST
5 2 (1.14%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.14%) QA
6 1 (0.57%) COBIT
6 1 (0.57%) GRC
6 1 (0.57%) NCSC
6 1 (0.57%) P3O
6 1 (0.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (1.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.57%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.14%) Automic
2 2 (1.14%) Backup Exec
2 2 (1.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.14%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.14%) SCCM
3 1 (0.57%) cPanel
Vendors
1 26 (14.77%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.80%) Cisco
3 12 (6.82%) ServiceNow
4 9 (5.11%) Fortinet
4 9 (5.11%) Oracle
5 8 (4.55%) SAP
6 7 (3.98%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.84%) Juniper
7 5 (2.84%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.27%) Aruba
8 4 (2.27%) CheckPoint
8 4 (2.27%) Sage
9 3 (1.70%) Workday
10 2 (1.14%) Adobe
10 2 (1.14%) BeyondTrust
10 2 (1.14%) Broadcom
10 2 (1.14%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.14%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.14%) Okta
10 2 (1.14%) Veritas