Consultant Jobs in the Thames Valley

Consultant
South East > Thames Valley

The median Consultant salary in the Thames Valley is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 December 2024.

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 110 92
Rank change year-on-year +42 -18 -30
Permanent jobs requiring a Consultant 145 79 216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.85% 2.25% 3.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.26% 2.38% 3.65%
Number of salaries quoted 80 50 138
10th Percentile £32,300 £38,750 £21,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £48,275
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,375 £82,500
South East median annual salary £53,750 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -17.31% +8.33% +4.35%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 3,402 3,315 5,912
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.29% 94.61% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,768 2,248 3,618
10th Percentile £33,125 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £43,438 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,913 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.65% -1.98% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in the Thames Valley

Consultant
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Consultant in the Thames Valley

Consultant
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Consultant in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 13 December 2024.

Salary histogram for Consultant in the Thames Valley

Consultant
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Berkshire +41 94 £55,000 -0.09% 26
Buckinghamshire +3 33 £40,000 -40.74% 9
Oxfordshire -2 18 £47,500 -34.48% 12
Consultant
South East

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 13 December 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 Thames Valley region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 48 (33.10%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (27.59%) Microsoft
3 36 (24.83%) Cybersecurity
4 34 (23.45%) Social Skills
5 33 (22.76%) Customer Service
5 33 (22.76%) SQL
6 26 (17.93%) Analytical Skills
7 24 (16.55%) Finance
8 20 (13.79%) Degree
9 19 (13.10%) Machine Learning
10 18 (12.41%) Oracle
10 18 (12.41%) Data Science
11 17 (11.72%) Computer Vision
11 17 (11.72%) Decision-Making
11 17 (11.72%) Public Sector
11 17 (11.72%) Data Analysis
11 17 (11.72%) Natural Language Processing
11 17 (11.72%) Mentoring
12 16 (11.03%) Microsoft 365
12 16 (11.03%) Artificial Intelligence
13 14 (9.66%) Risk Management
13 14 (9.66%) Azure
13 14 (9.66%) NIST
13 14 (9.66%) Self-Motivation
14 13 (8.97%) Software Engineering
14 13 (8.97%) Microsoft Office
15 12 (8.28%) GDPR
16 11 (7.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 11 (7.59%) PL/SQL
16 11 (7.59%) Statistics

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (2.07%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 13 (8.97%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (6.90%) Oracle Receivables
2 6 (4.14%) Primavera
3 4 (2.76%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (2.76%) SAP Business One
4 3 (2.07%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (1.38%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (1.38%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (1.38%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (1.38%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (1.38%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.69%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 16 (11.03%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (9.66%) Azure
3 6 (4.14%) Azure AI
4 5 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (3.45%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.76%) AWS
5 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (2.07%) Azure App Service
6 3 (2.07%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (2.07%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.38%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 2 (1.38%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 2 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.38%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.38%) GitHub
7 2 (1.38%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.38%) Serverless
8 1 (0.69%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.59%) Network Security
2 6 (4.14%) Firewall
3 4 (2.76%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (2.76%) Cisco Firepower
3 4 (2.76%) Cisco ISE
3 4 (2.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 4 (2.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 4 (2.76%) Internet
3 4 (2.76%) Reverse Proxy
3 4 (2.76%) SD-WAN
3 4 (2.76%) Sourcefire
3 4 (2.76%) WAN
4 1 (0.69%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.76%) SAP HANA
2 2 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (1.38%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (5.52%) PowerBuilder
2 2 (1.38%) Git
2 2 (1.38%) GitLab
2 2 (1.38%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.38%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.69%) SpecFlow
General
1 34 (23.45%) Social Skills
2 26 (17.93%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (16.55%) Finance
4 17 (11.72%) Public Sector
5 11 (7.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.45%) Retail
7 4 (2.76%) Avionics
7 4 (2.76%) Military
8 2 (1.38%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.38%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Legal
9 1 (0.69%) Marketing
9 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.21%) .NET
2 8 (5.52%) Web Services
2 8 (5.52%) XML
3 2 (1.38%) HTML
3 2 (1.38%) JSON
3 2 (1.38%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.38%) PyTorch
3 2 (1.38%) scikit-learn
3 2 (1.38%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.69%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.69%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.69%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.69%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (0.69%) OAuth
4 1 (0.69%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.69%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.66%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (4.14%) Data Centre
2 6 (4.14%) Driving Licence
3 5 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.76%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.07%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.83%) Windows
2 1 (0.69%) Linux
2 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (33.10%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (24.83%) Cybersecurity
3 33 (22.76%) Customer Service
4 19 (13.10%) Machine Learning
5 18 (12.41%) Data Science
6 17 (11.72%) Computer Vision
6 17 (11.72%) Data Analysis
6 17 (11.72%) Decision-Making
6 17 (11.72%) Mentoring
6 17 (11.72%) Natural Language Processing
7 16 (11.03%) Artificial Intelligence
8 14 (9.66%) Risk Management
9 13 (8.97%) Software Engineering
10 11 (7.59%) DevOps
10 11 (7.59%) Information Security
10 11 (7.59%) Presales
10 11 (7.59%) Statistical Modelling
10 11 (7.59%) Statistics
11 10 (6.90%) Identity Access Management
11 10 (6.90%) Information Security Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (22.76%) SQL
2 11 (7.59%) PL/SQL
3 9 (6.21%) C#
3 9 (6.21%) Python
4 8 (5.52%) VB.NET
5 7 (4.83%) Java
6 6 (4.14%) R
7 5 (3.45%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.38%) C++
9 1 (0.69%) Bicep
9 1 (0.69%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (13.79%) Degree
2 11 (7.59%) DBS Check
3 9 (6.21%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.45%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.76%) CCNA
5 4 (2.76%) CCNP
5 4 (2.76%) CISA
5 4 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.76%) CISM
5 4 (2.76%) CISMP
5 4 (2.76%) CISSP
5 4 (2.76%) CRISC
5 4 (2.76%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.76%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.69%) JNCIP
6 1 (0.69%) JNCIS
6 1 (0.69%) MCP
6 1 (0.69%) MCSA
6 1 (0.69%) MCSE
6 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.66%) NIST
2 12 (8.28%) GDPR
3 10 (6.90%) COBIT
4 5 (3.45%) GRC
5 4 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.76%) NCSC
5 4 (2.76%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.38%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.76%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.07%) Terraform
3 1 (0.69%) Ansible
3 1 (0.69%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.69%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 40 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.41%) Oracle
3 7 (4.83%) Juniper
3 7 (4.83%) Palo Alto
4 6 (4.14%) OpenAI
5 5 (3.45%) SAP
6 4 (2.76%) Apple
6 4 (2.76%) Aruba
6 4 (2.76%) Blue Coat
6 4 (2.76%) CheckPoint
6 4 (2.76%) Cisco
6 4 (2.76%) F5
6 4 (2.76%) Fortinet
6 4 (2.76%) McAfee
6 4 (2.76%) VMware
6 4 (2.76%) Zscaler
7 3 (2.07%) Arista
8 2 (1.38%) Databricks
8 2 (1.38%) Sage
8 2 (1.38%) ServiceNow