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 to 12 May 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 155 143
Rank change year-on-year +59 -12 -60
Permanent jobs requiring a Consultant 473 316 504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.81% 2.17% 2.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.99% 2.41% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 388 235 322
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £74,688
90th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £82,375
England median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 15,795 13,135 19,055
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.97% 90.36% 96.44%
Number of salaries quoted 11,343 8,294 12,415
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +23 203 £55,000 -15.38% 67
Hampshire +35 117 £52,500 -25.00% 31
Berkshire +12 115 £55,000 -19.03% 34
Surrey +24 64 £50,000 -24.53% 22
Oxfordshire +51 48 £55,000 -8.33% 16
Kent +29 45 £43,500 +27.94% 10
Buckinghamshire +1 40 £58,750 -9.62% 17
East Sussex +32 19 £43,500 -26.27% 15
Middlesex -4 7 £77,500 +19.23%
West Sussex +24 6 £35,000 -41.67% 3
Sussex - 2 £55,000 -
Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 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.

1 190 (40.17%) Social Skills
2 162 (34.25%) Microsoft
3 111 (23.47%) Problem-Solving
4 99 (20.93%) Degree
5 94 (19.87%) Finance
6 75 (15.86%) Azure
6 75 (15.86%) Self-Motivation
7 74 (15.64%) Power Platform
8 64 (13.53%) Analytical Skills
8 64 (13.53%) SQL
9 57 (12.05%) Security Cleared
9 57 (12.05%) Customer Service
10 55 (11.63%) Business Intelligence
11 54 (11.42%) Migration
12 52 (10.99%) SAP
13 51 (10.78%) ERP
13 51 (10.78%) Project Management
13 51 (10.78%) Agile
14 50 (10.57%) Public Sector
15 49 (10.36%) Dynamics 365
16 48 (10.15%) Microsoft 365
16 48 (10.15%) Roadmaps
17 44 (9.30%) Power BI
17 44 (9.30%) DevOps
18 43 (9.09%) SC Cleared
18 43 (9.09%) SharePoint
19 42 (8.88%) ETL
19 42 (8.88%) Presales
20 41 (8.67%) Management Information System
21 40 (8.46%) Retail

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 43 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.06%) Apache
3 5 (1.06%) IIS
4 2 (0.42%) Papyrus
Applications
1 33 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (4.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (2.54%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 31 (6.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (2.33%) NetSuite
2 11 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (1.90%) SAP HCM
4 7 (1.48%) SAP FI
5 5 (1.06%) SAP CO
5 5 (1.06%) SAP FI/CO
5 5 (1.06%) SAP MM
6 4 (0.85%) SAP GRC
6 4 (0.85%) SAP PP
6 4 (0.85%) SAP SCM
6 4 (0.85%) SAP WM
7 3 (0.63%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.63%) SAP HR
7 3 (0.63%) SAP SD
7 3 (0.63%) Unit4 Business World
7 3 (0.63%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.42%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 75 (15.86%) Azure
2 74 (15.64%) Power Platform
3 49 (10.36%) Dynamics 365
4 48 (10.15%) Microsoft 365
5 30 (6.34%) AWS
5 30 (6.34%) Power Automate
6 16 (3.38%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (2.33%) PowerApps
8 9 (1.90%) Amazon S3
9 8 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (1.69%) Entra ID
9 8 (1.69%) OCI
9 8 (1.69%) SuccessFactors
10 7 (1.48%) GCP
10 7 (1.48%) SaaS
11 4 (0.85%) Alation
11 4 (0.85%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (0.85%) Collibra
11 4 (0.85%) GitHub
12 3 (0.63%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 27 (5.71%) Firewall
2 13 (2.75%) DNS
3 12 (2.54%) DHCP
4 10 (2.11%) LAN
4 10 (2.11%) WAN
5 9 (1.90%) VPN
6 8 (1.69%) Unified Communications
7 7 (1.48%) Network Security
7 7 (1.48%) SNMP
8 5 (1.06%) Internet
8 5 (1.06%) IPsec
9 4 (0.85%) HTTP
10 3 (0.63%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.42%) Broadband
11 2 (0.42%) Converged Networks
11 2 (0.42%) Radio Access Network
12 1 (0.21%) BGP
12 1 (0.21%) FTP
12 1 (0.21%) SAN
12 1 (0.21%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (9.30%) Power BI
2 34 (7.19%) SQL Server
3 27 (5.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 26 (5.50%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (2.33%) Relational Database
5 11 (2.33%) Tableau
6 7 (1.48%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (1.48%) Qlik Sense
7 6 (1.27%) Oracle Database
8 5 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.06%) Metadata
8 5 (1.06%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.85%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.85%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.85%) SAP BW
10 3 (0.63%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.63%) Looker
10 3 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.42%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (2.54%) Jenkins
2 11 (2.33%) JIRA
2 11 (2.33%) Robot Framework
3 5 (1.06%) Hudson
4 2 (0.42%) PowerBuilder
5 1 (0.21%) JMeter
5 1 (0.21%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 190 (40.17%) Social Skills
2 94 (19.87%) Finance
3 64 (13.53%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (10.57%) Public Sector
5 40 (8.46%) Retail
6 35 (7.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (5.29%) Law
8 22 (4.65%) Manufacturing
8 22 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
9 21 (4.44%) Marketing
10 16 (3.38%) Aerospace
11 10 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.27%) Military
13 5 (1.06%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.63%) Automotive
16 2 (0.42%) Advertising
16 2 (0.42%) French Language
16 2 (0.42%) Games
16 2 (0.42%) Swedish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.96%) XML
2 11 (2.33%) HTML
3 5 (1.06%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (1.06%) YAML
4 4 (0.85%) HTML5 Canvas
4 4 (0.85%) JSON
4 4 (0.85%) Web Services
5 3 (0.63%) .NET
6 2 (0.42%) SPFx
7 1 (0.21%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.21%) jQuery
7 1 (0.21%) React
7 1 (0.21%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 75 (15.86%) Self-Motivation
2 41 (8.67%) Management Information System
3 33 (6.98%) Data Centre
4 21 (4.44%) Driving Licence
5 11 (2.33%) Data Structures
5 11 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (1.69%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.27%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (0.85%) FMCG
9 4 (0.85%) Virtual Reality
10 3 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.63%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.42%) Educational Technology
11 2 (0.42%) EPoS
11 2 (0.42%) Multi-touch
11 2 (0.42%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.42%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.42%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 30 (6.34%) Windows
2 19 (4.02%) Linux
3 14 (2.96%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.06%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (0.85%) Unix
6 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (23.47%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (12.05%) Customer Service
3 55 (11.63%) Business Intelligence
4 54 (11.42%) Migration
5 51 (10.78%) Agile
5 51 (10.78%) ERP
5 51 (10.78%) Project Management
6 48 (10.15%) Roadmaps
7 44 (9.30%) DevOps
8 42 (8.88%) ETL
8 42 (8.88%) Presales
9 39 (8.25%) CRM
10 37 (7.82%) Cybersecurity
11 36 (7.61%) Artificial Intelligence
12 31 (6.55%) Mentoring
13 28 (5.92%) Budget Management
13 28 (5.92%) Data Science
14 27 (5.71%) Decision-Making
14 27 (5.71%) Machine Learning
14 27 (5.71%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 64 (13.53%) SQL
2 29 (6.13%) Python
3 11 (2.33%) Bash
4 10 (2.11%) C#
5 8 (1.69%) Java
5 8 (1.69%) PowerShell
6 7 (1.48%) Go
6 7 (1.48%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.48%) PL/SQL
6 7 (1.48%) Ruby
7 5 (1.06%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.85%) R
9 2 (0.42%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.21%) C
10 1 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.21%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 99 (20.93%) Degree
2 57 (12.05%) Security Cleared
3 43 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.02%) DBS Check
5 13 (2.75%) AWS Certification
5 13 (2.75%) Azure Certification
5 13 (2.75%) CISSP
6 10 (2.11%) CESG Certified Professional
6 10 (2.11%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.48%) CISMP
9 7 (1.48%) CREST Certified
10 6 (1.27%) CISM
11 4 (0.85%) A+ Certification
11 4 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.63%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.63%) PCI QSA
12 3 (0.63%) SAP Certification
13 2 (0.42%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (3.38%) NIST
3 14 (2.96%) GDPR
4 9 (1.90%) GRC
5 8 (1.69%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 8 (1.69%) JSP 440
5 8 (1.69%) RMADS
6 7 (1.48%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.48%) PMO
7 4 (0.85%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.85%) COBIT
7 4 (0.85%) GMP
7 4 (0.85%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.63%) NCSC
8 3 (0.63%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.42%) ITGC
9 2 (0.42%) SLA
10 1 (0.21%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.21%) ECSS
10 1 (0.21%) QA
System Software
1 27 (5.71%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.75%) Hyper-V
3 8 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.27%) vSphere
5 5 (1.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (3.38%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.33%) vCenter Server
3 7 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.27%) VxRail
5 5 (1.06%) Ansible
5 5 (1.06%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.42%) Nagios
6 2 (0.42%) Netcool
6 2 (0.42%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.21%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 162 (34.25%) Microsoft
2 52 (10.99%) SAP
3 37 (7.82%) Oracle
4 22 (4.65%) VMware
5 21 (4.44%) Sage
6 17 (3.59%) ServiceNow
7 10 (2.11%) Epicor
8 8 (1.69%) Adobe
8 8 (1.69%) Apple
9 7 (1.48%) Dell
9 7 (1.48%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.27%) Infor
10 6 (1.27%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.06%) Adaptive Insights
11 5 (1.06%) Anaplan
11 5 (1.06%) Informatica
11 5 (1.06%) Jedox
11 5 (1.06%) NetApp
11 5 (1.06%) SolidFire
11 5 (1.06%) Tagetik