Consultant Jobs in South Wales

Consultant
Wales > South Wales

The median Consultant salary in South Wales is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 78 87
Rank change year-on-year +37 +9 -25
Permanent jobs requiring a Consultant 68 31 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 4.72% 2.70% 1.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.20% 3.02% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 33 23 15
10th Percentile - £57,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £60,000 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% +21.74% +76.92%
75th Percentile £70,000 - £76,250
90th Percentile £71,000 - £77,500
Wales median annual salary £48,750 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -30.36% +21.74% +76.92%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in South Wales. 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 South Wales with a recognized job title 1,307 1,026 1,396
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 89.45% 97.42%
Number of salaries quoted 864 584 868
10th Percentile £27,157 £30,000 £31,175
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,604 £45,476 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% -7.19% +8.89%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,988 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in South Wales

Consultant
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Consultant in South Wales

Consultant
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Consultant in South Wales over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Consultant in South Wales

Consultant
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Bridgend +16 31 - -
Cardiff +7 31 £43,500 -37.86% 10
Newport - 3 £45,000 - 2
Torfaen - 2 £45,000 -
Monmouthshire - 1 - - 3
Consultant
Wales

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 Wales region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 31 (45.59%) Actionable Insight
2 27 (39.71%) Social Skills
3 26 (38.24%) Data Centre
4 23 (33.82%) Oracle
5 21 (30.88%) Firewall
6 18 (26.47%) Palo Alto
7 16 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
7 16 (23.53%) VMware
7 16 (23.53%) Finance
7 16 (23.53%) ITIL
8 15 (22.06%) Security Cleared
9 14 (20.59%) SAP
9 14 (20.59%) Project Management
9 14 (20.59%) Migration
10 13 (19.12%) CheckPoint
10 13 (19.12%) McAfee
10 13 (19.12%) Cisco
10 13 (19.12%) CCNA
10 13 (19.12%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (19.12%) Red Hat
10 13 (19.12%) SC Cleared
10 13 (19.12%) Network Design
10 13 (19.12%) Ansible
11 12 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
11 12 (17.65%) Knowledge Transfer
12 11 (16.18%) Mentoring
12 11 (16.18%) Coaching
12 11 (16.18%) Analytics
12 11 (16.18%) Customer Service
12 11 (16.18%) Software Engineering

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 (7.35%) Apache
2 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.47%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (13.24%) Azure
2 6 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (7.35%) Amazon S3
3 5 (7.35%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.41%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.94%) AWS
6 2 (2.94%) IaaS
6 2 (2.94%) PaaS
7 1 (1.47%) OCI
7 1 (1.47%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.47%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (30.88%) Firewall
2 11 (16.18%) Cisco ASA
2 11 (16.18%) Cisco IOS
2 11 (16.18%) LAN
2 11 (16.18%) TCP/IP
2 11 (16.18%) WAN
3 8 (11.76%) VPN
4 7 (10.29%) IPsec
5 5 (7.35%) Internet
5 5 (7.35%) SNMP
6 3 (4.41%) DHCP
6 3 (4.41%) DNS
7 2 (2.94%) Network Security
7 2 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.47%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.29%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.35%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (7.35%) MongoDB
3 4 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.94%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.94%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.94%) Power BI
4 2 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.47%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.47%) GIS
5 1 (1.47%) Metadata
5 1 (1.47%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.47%) Spatial Data
General
1 27 (39.71%) Social Skills
2 16 (23.53%) Finance
3 11 (16.18%) Telecoms
4 5 (7.35%) Retail
5 4 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.41%) Advertising
6 3 (4.41%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.41%) Marketing
6 3 (4.41%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.94%) Law
8 1 (1.47%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.35%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (7.35%) YAML
2 1 (1.47%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 26 (38.24%) Data Centre
2 10 (14.71%) Onboarding
2 10 (14.71%) Social Media
3 8 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.94%) Operational Technology
4 2 (2.94%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.47%) Replication
5 1 (1.47%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.76%) AIX
1 8 (11.76%) Solaris
1 8 (11.76%) Unix
1 8 (11.76%) Windows
2 6 (8.82%) Linux
3 5 (7.35%) Data ONTAP
4 3 (4.41%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.94%) VMS
6 1 (1.47%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.47%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (45.59%) Actionable Insight
2 16 (23.53%) ITIL
3 14 (20.59%) Migration
3 14 (20.59%) Project Management
4 13 (19.12%) Network Design
5 12 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
5 12 (17.65%) Knowledge Transfer
6 11 (16.18%) Analytics
6 11 (16.18%) Change Control
6 11 (16.18%) Change Management
6 11 (16.18%) Coaching
6 11 (16.18%) Customer Service
6 11 (16.18%) Mentoring
6 11 (16.18%) Software Engineering
7 10 (14.71%) Customer Experience
7 10 (14.71%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (14.71%) Lead Generation
8 8 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (10.29%) Infrastructure Management
9 7 (10.29%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.82%) Python
2 4 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (22.06%) Security Cleared
2 13 (19.12%) CCNA
2 13 (19.12%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (19.12%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.41%) Degree
4 2 (2.94%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.94%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.94%) CCNP
4 2 (2.94%) CISSP
4 2 (2.94%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.94%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.47%) CISA
5 1 (1.47%) CISM
5 1 (1.47%) CRISC
5 1 (1.47%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.47%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.47%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (14.71%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (11.76%) Firmware
4 5 (7.35%) Docker
5 3 (4.41%) Active Directory
6 2 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (19.12%) Ansible
2 5 (7.35%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.35%) Prometheus
2 5 (7.35%) vCenter Server
3 2 (2.94%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 23 (33.82%) Oracle
2 18 (26.47%) Palo Alto
3 16 (23.53%) VMware
4 14 (20.59%) SAP
5 13 (19.12%) CheckPoint
5 13 (19.12%) Cisco
5 13 (19.12%) McAfee
5 13 (19.12%) Red Hat
6 11 (16.18%) Fortinet
7 10 (14.71%) Sage
8 9 (13.24%) Microsoft
9 5 (7.35%) NetApp
9 5 (7.35%) SolidFire
10 3 (4.41%) Veeam
11 2 (2.94%) Forcepoint
11 2 (2.94%) Juniper
12 1 (1.47%) ESRI
12 1 (1.47%) Sophos
12 1 (1.47%) Thales