Consultant Jobs in the UK excluding London

Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Consultant salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 February 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 86 168
Rank change year-on-year -23 +82 -53
Permanent jobs requiring a Consultant 1,094 1,648 1,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.59% 3.15% 2.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.82% 3.31% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 447 1,301 885
10th Percentile £36,250 £25,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,875 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 38,809 49,853 58,371
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.82% 95.17% 93.80%
Number of salaries quoted 17,228 37,009 33,070
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £59,430 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.05% -8.33% -

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in the UK excluding London

Consultant
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Consultant in the UK excluding London

Consultant
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 February 2025.

Salary histogram for Consultant in the UK excluding London

Consultant
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 February 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 of England +41 368 £60,000 +9.09% 195
North West +36 258 £60,000 +0.75% 118
Midlands -27 235 £50,000 +5.26% 97
South East -21 197 £62,500 +25.00% 299
West Midlands -19 195 £42,500 -15.00% 71
Yorkshire +42 100 £62,500 +19.05% 56
South West -37 95 £67,500 +17.39% 119
Scotland -5 84 £62,500 +150.00% 55
East of England -39 81 £66,240 +39.45% 61
East Midlands -21 40 £60,000 +60.00% 24
Northern Ireland +36 22 £50,000 +66.67% 7
Wales -18 12 £50,000 +7.53% 9
North East -7 10 £45,000 -25.00% 21
Channel Islands - 2 £78,750 -
Consultant
UK

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 18 February 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 UK excluding London region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 330 (30.16%) Finance
2 315 (28.79%) Social Skills
3 293 (26.78%) SQL
4 233 (21.30%) Public Sector
5 219 (20.02%) Microsoft
6 196 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
6 196 (17.92%) DBS Check
7 185 (16.91%) Degree
8 184 (16.82%) Local Government
9 177 (16.18%) NEC
9 177 (16.18%) NEC Housing
10 175 (16.00%) Police
10 175 (16.00%) Accessibility
11 173 (15.81%) Migration
12 149 (13.62%) Housing Management
13 128 (11.70%) Security Cleared
14 121 (11.06%) Data Migration
15 114 (10.42%) Unix
15 114 (10.42%) Social Housing
15 114 (10.42%) Cybersecurity
16 109 (9.96%) Housing Association
17 106 (9.69%) Azure
18 103 (9.41%) Project Management
18 103 (9.41%) Presales
19 99 (9.05%) Microsoft 365
20 95 (8.68%) Windows
20 95 (8.68%) ERP
21 92 (8.41%) SAP
21 92 (8.41%) Agile
22 91 (8.32%) Analytical Skills

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 38 (3.47%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.27%) IIS
4 1 (0.091%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.091%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.091%) CMS
4 1 (0.091%) Confluence
4 1 (0.091%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 28 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 28 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.73%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.37%) Adobe Premiere
4 4 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.18%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.091%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.091%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 177 (16.18%) NEC Housing
2 57 (5.21%) NetSuite
3 41 (3.75%) SAP Business One
4 22 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
5 19 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
6 12 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
6 12 (1.10%) Oracle Receivables
7 11 (1.01%) Oracle ERP
8 9 (0.82%) Oracle Retail
9 8 (0.73%) Oracle Financials
10 7 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
11 6 (0.55%) PeopleSoft HCM
12 5 (0.46%) Sage 200
12 5 (0.46%) SAP HR
12 5 (0.46%) SAP MDG
12 5 (0.46%) SAP SD
13 4 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
13 4 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
13 4 (0.37%) Oracle Cash Management
14 3 (0.27%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 106 (9.69%) Azure
2 99 (9.05%) Microsoft 365
3 82 (7.50%) Power Platform
4 75 (6.86%) AWS
5 57 (5.21%) Dynamics 365
6 34 (3.11%) SaaS
7 22 (2.01%) GCP
8 20 (1.83%) PowerApps
9 19 (1.74%) Power Automate
10 16 (1.46%) OneDrive
11 15 (1.37%) PaaS
12 13 (1.19%) Entra ID
13 11 (1.01%) OCI
14 10 (0.91%) Snowflake
15 9 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
16 7 (0.64%) Azure DevOps
17 6 (0.55%) SuccessFactors
18 5 (0.46%) Asana
18 5 (0.46%) Boomi
18 5 (0.46%) MailChimp
Communications & Networking
1 49 (4.48%) Firewall
2 32 (2.93%) WAN
3 30 (2.74%) LAN
3 30 (2.74%) Wireless
4 26 (2.38%) Network Security
5 20 (1.83%) TCP/IP
5 20 (1.83%) VLAN
6 19 (1.74%) SD-WAN
7 16 (1.46%) Cisco Nexus
8 15 (1.37%) BGP
8 15 (1.37%) OSPF
8 15 (1.37%) VPN
9 14 (1.28%) Internet
10 11 (1.01%) Cisco Firepower
11 10 (0.91%) Cisco ISE
11 10 (0.91%) DNS
12 7 (0.64%) DHCP
12 7 (0.64%) IPsec
13 6 (0.55%) GLBP
13 6 (0.55%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (4.75%) BusinessObjects
2 43 (3.93%) Power BI
3 28 (2.56%) Oracle Database
4 22 (2.01%) Relational Database
4 22 (2.01%) SQL Server
5 20 (1.83%) Triplestore
6 16 (1.46%) SAP HANA
7 10 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (0.82%) Crystal Reports
9 8 (0.73%) QlikView
10 7 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (0.64%) Tableau
11 6 (0.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.46%) Looker
13 4 (0.37%) Apache Iceberg
13 4 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
14 2 (0.18%) Oracle Reports
15 1 (0.091%) DB2
15 1 (0.091%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (0.64%) JIRA
2 6 (0.55%) Git
3 4 (0.37%) LSMW
4 3 (0.27%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.091%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.091%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.091%) SpecFlow
General
1 330 (30.16%) Finance
2 315 (28.79%) Social Skills
3 233 (21.30%) Public Sector
4 184 (16.82%) Local Government
5 175 (16.00%) Police
6 114 (10.42%) Social Housing
7 91 (8.32%) Analytical Skills
8 55 (5.03%) Law
9 49 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 37 (3.38%) Manufacturing
10 37 (3.38%) Organisational Skills
11 33 (3.02%) Marketing
12 30 (2.74%) Retail
13 18 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (1.28%) Legal
15 8 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.64%) Advertising
16 7 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (0.64%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.55%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (4.11%) HTML
2 24 (2.19%) Web Services
2 24 (2.19%) XML
3 22 (2.01%) Restlet
3 22 (2.01%) SOAP
4 14 (1.28%) SailPoint
5 11 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
6 9 (0.82%) JSON
7 8 (0.73%) .NET
8 6 (0.55%) 802.1X
9 4 (0.37%) SAP Fiori
10 3 (0.27%) Ajax
10 3 (0.27%) AngularJS
10 3 (0.27%) Django
10 3 (0.27%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.27%) Flask
10 3 (0.27%) LDAP
10 3 (0.27%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (0.27%) pytest
10 3 (0.27%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 109 (9.96%) Housing Association
2 55 (5.03%) Management Information System
3 39 (3.56%) Self-Motivation
4 27 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
5 22 (2.01%) Onboarding
6 16 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (1.37%) Driving Licence
8 13 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (1.19%) Operational Technology
9 10 (0.91%) Data Centre
9 10 (0.91%) Virtual Team
10 9 (0.82%) Cyber Threat
10 9 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (0.73%) NHS
11 8 (0.73%) SCADA
11 8 (0.73%) Security Posture
12 6 (0.55%) EPoS
13 5 (0.46%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.46%) e-Learning
13 5 (0.46%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 114 (10.42%) Unix
2 95 (8.68%) Windows
3 82 (7.50%) Linux
4 40 (3.66%) Solaris
5 17 (1.55%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.37%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.27%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.091%) AIX
9 1 (0.091%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
2 173 (15.81%) Migration
3 149 (13.62%) Housing Management
4 121 (11.06%) Data Migration
5 114 (10.42%) Cybersecurity
6 103 (9.41%) Presales
6 103 (9.41%) Project Management
7 95 (8.68%) ERP
8 92 (8.41%) Agile
9 85 (7.77%) Coaching
10 80 (7.31%) CRM
11 78 (7.13%) Customer Service
12 68 (6.22%) Roadmaps
13 64 (5.85%) Collaborative Working
14 63 (5.76%) Project Delivery
15 60 (5.48%) Requirements Gathering
16 59 (5.39%) Customer Requirements
17 58 (5.30%) Information Security
18 54 (4.94%) DevOps
19 47 (4.30%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 293 (26.78%) SQL
2 51 (4.66%) JavaScript
3 42 (3.84%) Python
4 28 (2.56%) PL/SQL
5 13 (1.19%) PowerShell
6 9 (0.82%) C#
6 9 (0.82%) Java
7 8 (0.73%) ABAP
8 7 (0.64%) T-SQL
8 7 (0.64%) VBA
9 6 (0.55%) C++
9 6 (0.55%) R
10 3 (0.27%) Bash
11 2 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.091%) Bicep
12 1 (0.091%) Scala
Qualifications
1 196 (17.92%) DBS Check
2 185 (16.91%) Degree
3 128 (11.70%) Security Cleared
4 75 (6.86%) SC Cleared
5 42 (3.84%) CISSP
6 39 (3.56%) Cisco Certification
7 32 (2.93%) CCNP
8 30 (2.74%) CISM
9 29 (2.65%) DV Cleared
10 22 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
10 22 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (1.55%) CEH
12 16 (1.46%) CCIE
13 13 (1.19%) CCNA
14 11 (1.01%) CRISC
15 10 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
16 9 (0.82%) Master's Degree
17 8 (0.73%) GCFE
17 8 (0.73%) GCIA
17 8 (0.73%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (16.00%) Accessibility
2 54 (4.94%) NIST
3 43 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 40 (3.66%) ISO 9001
5 29 (2.65%) GRC
6 26 (2.38%) GDPR
7 20 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
8 17 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 15 (1.37%) Data Quality
10 13 (1.19%) NCSC
11 10 (0.91%) PMO
12 9 (0.82%) COBIT
12 9 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 9 (0.82%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 7 (0.64%) IASME
14 7 (0.64%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.64%) RMADS
15 5 (0.46%) ISO 22301
15 5 (0.46%) QA
System Software
1 23 (2.10%) Hyper-V
2 19 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (1.65%) Docker
4 16 (1.46%) Active Directory
5 10 (0.91%) vSphere
6 7 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.27%) Firmware
8 1 (0.091%) NFS
8 1 (0.091%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (2.19%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (1.65%) Ansible
4 17 (1.55%) Terraform
5 13 (1.19%) Puppet
6 7 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.37%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.37%) SCCM
8 2 (0.18%) Backup Exec
8 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.18%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.091%) cPanel
9 1 (0.091%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.091%) Nessus
9 1 (0.091%) OpenVAS
9 1 (0.091%) QRadar
9 1 (0.091%) SCOM
9 1 (0.091%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 219 (20.02%) Microsoft
2 177 (16.18%) NEC
3 92 (8.41%) SAP
4 78 (7.13%) Oracle
5 47 (4.30%) Cisco
6 42 (3.84%) Citrix
7 32 (2.93%) VMware
8 22 (2.01%) Fortinet
9 20 (1.83%) Sage
10 19 (1.74%) ServiceNow
11 17 (1.55%) Juniper
12 16 (1.46%) Palo Alto
12 16 (1.46%) Salesforce
13 14 (1.28%) CyberArk
13 14 (1.28%) IFS
14 12 (1.10%) ForgeRock
14 12 (1.10%) Ping Identity
15 11 (1.01%) CheckPoint
16 10 (0.91%) Aruba
17 9 (0.82%) Cognos