Principal Consultant Jobs in the UK excluding London

Principal Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Principal Consultant salary in the UK excluding London is £63,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 747 734 818
Rank change year-on-year -13 +84 -193
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Consultant 24 28 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.034% 0.046% 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% 0.051% 0.046%
Number of salaries quoted 22 16 19
10th Percentile - - £66,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £65,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £73,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.90% +5.36% -7.28%
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £107,500
90th Percentile £104,625 £93,750 £120,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £81,250 £87,500
% change year-on-year -1.54% -7.14% +9.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 66,718 54,726 68,124
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.24% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,226 31,089 43,036
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Principal Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Consultant in the UK excluding London

Principal Consultant
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Principal Consultant in the UK excluding London

Principal Consultant
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Consultant in the UK excluding London

Principal 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 Principal Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 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
South East +33 16 £63,000 -13.10% 5
Yorkshire +84 3 £102,500 +46.43% 4
North of England +42 3 £102,500 +20.59% 9
South West -28 2 £92,500 +2.78% 7
West Midlands +18 1 £72,500 -14.71% 2
Midlands +14 1 £72,500 -9.38% 3
East of England +13 1 - - 3
Scotland -63 1 £64,100 -35.90% 1
Principal Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Principal 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 Principal Consultant in the job title.

1 14 (58.33%) Public Sector
2 12 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 9 (37.50%) Security Cleared
3 9 (37.50%) Mentoring
4 8 (33.33%) Degree
4 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
5 7 (29.17%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (29.17%) Agile
5 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
5 7 (29.17%) Decision-Making
6 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (25.00%) Programme Management
6 6 (25.00%) Validation
6 6 (25.00%) Machine Learning
6 6 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
6 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
7 5 (20.83%) Requirements Management
7 5 (20.83%) Project Management
7 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (20.83%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (20.83%) Relational Database
7 5 (20.83%) Active Listening
7 5 (20.83%) Systems Engineering
7 5 (20.83%) DevSecOps
8 4 (16.67%) NIST
8 4 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (12.50%) AWS
9 3 (12.50%) Information Assurance

Principal 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 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.50%) AWS
2 2 (8.33%) Azure
2 2 (8.33%) SaaS
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (4.17%) Anthos
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
3 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Firewall
1 1 (4.17%) SD-WAN
1 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.17%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.17%) MariaDB
2 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.17%) MySQL
2 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.17%) Power BI
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
General
1 14 (58.33%) Public Sector
2 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Military
4 1 (4.17%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (4.17%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Blog
1 1 (4.17%) CESG
1 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.17%) Cyberattack
1 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
1 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 9 (37.50%) Mentoring
3 7 (29.17%) Agile
3 7 (29.17%) Artificial Intelligence
3 7 (29.17%) Decision-Making
4 6 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 6 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (25.00%) Programme Management
4 6 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 6 (25.00%) Validation
5 5 (20.83%) Active Listening
5 5 (20.83%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (20.83%) DevSecOps
5 5 (20.83%) Project Management
5 5 (20.83%) Requirements Management
5 5 (20.83%) Systems Engineering
6 3 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (12.50%) DevOps
6 3 (12.50%) Information Assurance
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.17%) Python
1 1 (4.17%) R
1 1 (4.17%) Scala
1 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (33.33%) Degree
2 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) CISM
3 3 (12.50%) CISSP
4 1 (4.17%) CASP
4 1 (4.17%) CCSK
4 1 (4.17%) CESG Certified Professional
4 1 (4.17%) CISA
4 1 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (4.17%) CRISC
4 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) GCFA
4 1 (4.17%) GCFE
4 1 (4.17%) GCIH
4 1 (4.17%) GREM
4 1 (4.17%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (16.67%) NIST
2 3 (12.50%) NCSC
3 2 (8.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (4.17%) GRC
4 1 (4.17%) IASME
4 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (4.17%) NIST 800
4 1 (4.17%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Splunk
3 1 (4.17%) Databricks
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle