Consultant Jobs in the South East

Consultant
England > South East

The median Consultant salary in the South East is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 128 158
Rank change year-on-year +46 +30 -61
Permanent jobs requiring a Consultant 455 305 525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.01% 2.63% 2.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.20% 2.88% 2.49%
Number of salaries quoted 362 229 346
10th Percentile £32,750 £42,500 £24,750
25th Percentile £41,750 £50,075 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £67,925 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.39% +13.21% +3.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,963 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,375 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £67,925 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +4.50% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 14,224 10,599 21,077
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.24% 91.47% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 9,733 7,232 12,510
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £40,463
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in the South East

Consultant
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the South East.

Salary trend for Consultant in the South East

Consultant
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Consultant in the South East over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Consultant in the South East

Consultant
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Thames Valley +44 216 £50,000 -26.39% 35
Berkshire +23 136 £50,000 -26.39% 16
Hampshire +29 129 £52,500 -23.64% 21
Surrey -10 57 £50,000 -25.37% 9
Oxfordshire +17 47 £50,000 -16.67% 9
Buckinghamshire +15 33 £60,000 -7.69% 10
Kent +9 26 £55,000 +61.76% 5
East Sussex +27 17 £70,000 +21.74% 6
Middlesex - 7 £77,500 -
West Sussex +7 2 £50,000 -28.57% 9
Consultant
England

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 South East region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 130 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 119 (26.15%) Social Skills
3 118 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
4 78 (17.14%) Finance
5 66 (14.51%) Customer Service
6 64 (14.07%) Analytical Skills
7 63 (13.85%) Degree
8 60 (13.19%) Security Cleared
9 54 (11.87%) ERP
10 53 (11.65%) Agile
11 52 (11.43%) SQL
11 52 (11.43%) Oracle
12 49 (10.77%) Cybersecurity
13 48 (10.55%) Power Platform
14 45 (9.89%) Azure
15 44 (9.67%) Dynamics 365
16 42 (9.23%) SC Cleared
17 35 (7.69%) Management Information System
17 35 (7.69%) Project Management
17 35 (7.69%) SAP
18 34 (7.47%) DevOps
19 33 (7.25%) Presales
19 33 (7.25%) Microsoft 365
19 33 (7.25%) Self-Motivation
20 32 (7.03%) Business Intelligence
20 32 (7.03%) Data Centre
21 31 (6.81%) Public Sector
22 30 (6.59%) Service Delivery
23 27 (5.93%) Firewall
23 27 (5.93%) Roadmaps

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 18 (3.96%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.10%) Apache
4 2 (0.44%) IIS
5 1 (0.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (3.96%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.42%) Chatbot
2 11 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (1.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (3.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (3.08%) Oracle Receivables
3 7 (1.54%) NetSuite
4 6 (1.32%) Primavera
4 6 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (1.10%) SAP FI
6 4 (0.88%) SAP PP
6 4 (0.88%) SAP SCM
7 3 (0.66%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.66%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.66%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.66%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.66%) SAP GRC
7 3 (0.66%) SAP WM
7 3 (0.66%) Unit4 Business World
7 3 (0.66%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.44%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.44%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 48 (10.55%) Power Platform
2 45 (9.89%) Azure
3 44 (9.67%) Dynamics 365
4 33 (7.25%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (5.05%) AWS
6 15 (3.30%) Power Automate
7 14 (3.08%) SaaS
8 13 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (1.98%) PowerApps
10 8 (1.76%) Amazon S3
10 8 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.54%) GCP
12 5 (1.10%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.10%) OCI
13 4 (0.88%) Alation
13 4 (0.88%) Collibra
13 4 (0.88%) GitHub
13 4 (0.88%) Serverless
14 3 (0.66%) OneDrive
14 3 (0.66%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 27 (5.93%) Firewall
2 10 (2.20%) Network Security
3 9 (1.98%) DHCP
3 9 (1.98%) DNS
3 9 (1.98%) VPN
3 9 (1.98%) WAN
4 8 (1.76%) LAN
5 6 (1.32%) IPsec
6 5 (1.10%) Internet
6 5 (1.10%) SNMP
7 4 (0.88%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.44%) BGP
8 2 (0.44%) Broadband
8 2 (0.44%) Converged Networks
8 2 (0.44%) HTTP
8 2 (0.44%) OSPF
8 2 (0.44%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (0.44%) VLAN
9 1 (0.22%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (0.22%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.62%) Power BI
2 7 (1.54%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (1.10%) Metadata
3 5 (1.10%) MongoDB
3 5 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (1.10%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (1.10%) Tableau
4 4 (0.88%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 4 (0.88%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.66%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.66%) Looker
5 3 (0.66%) Oracle Database
5 3 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.44%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (0.44%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 16 (3.52%) Jenkins
2 15 (3.30%) JIRA
3 13 (2.86%) Robot Framework
4 12 (2.64%) PowerBuilder
5 5 (1.10%) Hudson
6 2 (0.44%) GitLab
7 1 (0.22%) JMeter
7 1 (0.22%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 119 (26.15%) Social Skills
2 78 (17.14%) Finance
3 64 (14.07%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (6.81%) Public Sector
5 19 (4.18%) Aerospace
6 18 (3.96%) Marketing
6 18 (3.96%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (3.08%) Manufacturing
8 13 (2.86%) Retail
9 12 (2.64%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (2.42%) Law
11 7 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.54%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.10%) Legal
12 5 (1.10%) Military
13 3 (0.66%) Electronics
14 2 (0.44%) Automotive
14 2 (0.44%) Billing
14 2 (0.44%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.44%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.71%) XML
2 13 (2.86%) .NET
2 13 (2.86%) HTML
2 13 (2.86%) Web Services
3 5 (1.10%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (1.10%) YAML
4 4 (0.88%) JSON
5 2 (0.44%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (0.44%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.44%) SPFx
6 1 (0.22%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.22%) jQuery
6 1 (0.22%) React
6 1 (0.22%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 33 (7.25%) Self-Motivation
3 32 (7.03%) Data Centre
4 16 (3.52%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.86%) Driving Licence
5 13 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
6 12 (2.64%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.10%) Low-Code
9 4 (0.88%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.66%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.66%) Video Conferencing
11 2 (0.44%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.44%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.44%) Educational Technology
11 2 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.44%) Replication
11 2 (0.44%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.49%) Windows
2 21 (4.62%) Linux
3 8 (1.76%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.10%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
2 66 (14.51%) Customer Service
3 54 (11.87%) ERP
4 53 (11.65%) Agile
5 49 (10.77%) Cybersecurity
6 35 (7.69%) Project Management
7 34 (7.47%) DevOps
8 33 (7.25%) Presales
9 32 (7.03%) Business Intelligence
10 30 (6.59%) Service Delivery
11 27 (5.93%) Roadmaps
12 26 (5.71%) Software Testing
13 25 (5.49%) CRM
13 25 (5.49%) Decision-Making
14 24 (5.27%) Actionable Insight
14 24 (5.27%) Artificial Intelligence
14 24 (5.27%) Visualisation
15 22 (4.84%) Budget Management
15 22 (4.84%) Project Planning
16 21 (4.62%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 52 (11.43%) SQL
2 25 (5.49%) Python
3 24 (5.27%) PL/SQL
4 14 (3.08%) C#
5 13 (2.86%) Bash
6 12 (2.64%) VB.NET
7 4 (0.88%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.88%) PowerShell
7 4 (0.88%) R
8 2 (0.44%) Java
8 2 (0.44%) Perl
8 2 (0.44%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.22%) C
9 1 (0.22%) Go
9 1 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.22%) Ruby
9 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 63 (13.85%) Degree
2 60 (13.19%) Security Cleared
3 42 (9.23%) SC Cleared
4 22 (4.84%) DBS Check
5 17 (3.74%) CISSP
6 10 (2.20%) Azure Certification
6 10 (2.20%) CESG Certified Professional
7 9 (1.98%) CISM
8 7 (1.54%) CISMP
8 7 (1.54%) CREST Certified
8 7 (1.54%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.32%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.88%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.66%) ISACA
12 3 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.66%) PCI QSA
12 3 (0.66%) SAP Certification
13 2 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (3.08%) NIST
3 12 (2.64%) GDPR
4 8 (1.76%) GRC
4 8 (1.76%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 7 (1.54%) PMO
6 6 (1.32%) COBIT
6 6 (1.32%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.32%) NIST 800
7 5 (1.10%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.10%) SLA
8 4 (0.88%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 3 (0.66%) NCSC
10 2 (0.44%) ITGC
10 2 (0.44%) JSP 440
10 2 (0.44%) RMADS
11 1 (0.22%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.22%) QA
System Software
1 18 (3.96%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (1.32%) vSphere
3 5 (1.10%) Docker
4 3 (0.66%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (3.96%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.42%) vCenter Server
3 6 (1.32%) Ansible
3 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (1.32%) VxRail
4 5 (1.10%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.88%) Terraform
6 2 (0.44%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.22%) Puppet
7 1 (0.22%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 130 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 52 (11.43%) Oracle
3 35 (7.69%) SAP
4 26 (5.71%) ServiceNow
5 17 (3.74%) VMware
6 14 (3.08%) Sage
7 13 (2.86%) Palo Alto
8 9 (1.98%) Dell
9 7 (1.54%) Epicor
9 7 (1.54%) NetApp
10 6 (1.32%) Juniper
11 5 (1.10%) Arista
11 5 (1.10%) Informatica
11 5 (1.10%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.10%) SolidFire
12 4 (0.88%) Adobe
12 4 (0.88%) Alteryx
12 4 (0.88%) Apple
12 4 (0.88%) Talend
13 3 (0.66%) Google