Technical Consultant Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Technical Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technical Consultant salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 152 461
Rank change year-on-year -157 +309 +149
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Consultant 209 648 112
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.49% 1.80% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 1.94% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 116 122 91
10th Percentile £26,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £62,500 £69,375
90th Percentile £85,000 £71,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +23.81% -16.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 38,388 33,377 32,893
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.52% 92.91% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 23,454 16,215 24,936
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,609 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% +5.22% -5.25%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

Technical Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Technical Consultant' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Technical Consultant job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Technical Consultant
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Technical Consultant job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Technical Consultant job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Technical Consultant
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Technical Consultant in the UK excluding London

Technical 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 Technical Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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 -167 70 £77,500 +82.35% 6
Yorkshire -112 43 £24,000 -56.36% 1
South West +13 38 £60,000 +6.67% 9
Midlands +19 37 £55,000 +29.41% 1
South East +26 28 £55,000 +15.79% 5
North West +15 27 £85,000 +100.00% 5
East Midlands +6 19 £55,000 +37.50%
West Midlands +5 18 £100,000 +135.29% 1
Scotland +6 14 £67,500 -22.86%
East of England +14 9 £55,000 -
Wales +15 8 £60,000 +9.09%
Isle of Man - 3 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
Technical Consultant
UK

Technical Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Technical Consultant job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Technical Consultant in the job title.

1 42 (20.10%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (13.40%) Degree
3 27 (12.92%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (12.92%) Physics
4 20 (9.57%) SC Cleared
4 20 (9.57%) Security Cleared
5 19 (9.09%) DevOps
6 18 (8.61%) Presales
7 14 (6.70%) Microsoft
8 12 (5.74%) Service Management
9 11 (5.26%) ITSM
10 10 (4.78%) ITIL
11 9 (4.31%) Agile
11 9 (4.31%) SaaS
12 8 (3.83%) Avaloq
12 8 (3.83%) Azure
12 8 (3.83%) Cisco
12 8 (3.83%) Incident Management
12 8 (3.83%) Problem Management
12 8 (3.83%) ServiceNow
12 8 (3.83%) Technical Leadership
12 8 (3.83%) Wealth Management
13 7 (3.35%) Business Strategy
13 7 (3.35%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (3.35%) Cybersecurity
13 7 (3.35%) Decision-Making
13 7 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (3.35%) Sales Enablement
13 7 (3.35%) Technology Transformation
14 6 (2.87%) Business Analysis

Technical Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 27 (12.92%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 9 (4.31%) SaaS
2 8 (3.83%) Azure
3 7 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (1.91%) Power Platform
5 3 (1.44%) AWS
6 2 (0.96%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.48%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.48%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.48%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.48%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.48%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.48%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.87%) Unified Communications
2 4 (1.91%) Junos
2 4 (1.91%) LAN
2 4 (1.91%) VPN
2 4 (1.91%) WAN
2 4 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.48%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.91%) GIS
2 2 (0.96%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (0.96%) Metadata
2 2 (0.96%) MS Access
2 2 (0.96%) SAP HANA
2 2 (0.96%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.48%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Oracle Forms
General
1 37 (17.70%) Social Skills
2 28 (13.40%) Marketing
3 24 (11.48%) Spanish Language
4 23 (11.00%) Finance
5 14 (6.70%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.74%) Legal
7 8 (3.83%) Financial Institution
7 8 (3.83%) Law
8 5 (2.39%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.39%) Banking
8 5 (2.39%) Retail
9 3 (1.44%) German Language
10 2 (0.96%) Billing
10 2 (0.96%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.48%) Automotive
11 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.91%) CSS
1 4 (1.91%) HTML
1 4 (1.91%) JSON
1 4 (1.91%) SAP Basis
1 4 (1.91%) XML
2 2 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (0.96%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (0.96%) SAPUI5
3 1 (0.48%) .NET
3 1 (0.48%) Kafka
3 1 (0.48%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (1.44%) Private Cloud
2 2 (0.96%) Cloud Native
2 2 (0.96%) Public Cloud
2 2 (0.96%) Replication
2 2 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (0.48%) Data Structures
3 1 (0.48%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.96%) Linux
1 2 (0.96%) SUSE
1 2 (0.96%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
1 2 (0.96%) Windows
1 2 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (20.10%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (12.92%) Physics
3 19 (9.09%) DevOps
4 18 (8.61%) Presales
5 12 (5.74%) Service Management
6 11 (5.26%) ITSM
7 10 (4.78%) ITIL
8 9 (4.31%) Agile
9 8 (3.83%) Incident Management
9 8 (3.83%) Problem Management
9 8 (3.83%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (3.83%) Wealth Management
10 7 (3.35%) Business Strategy
10 7 (3.35%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (3.35%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (3.35%) Decision-Making
10 7 (3.35%) Sales Enablement
10 7 (3.35%) Technology Transformation
11 6 (2.87%) Business Analysis
11 6 (2.87%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (2.87%) Java
1 6 (2.87%) JavaScript
2 4 (1.91%) Python
3 3 (1.44%) SQL
4 2 (0.96%) PL/SQL
4 2 (0.96%) VBA
5 1 (0.48%) C#
Qualifications
1 28 (13.40%) Degree
2 20 (9.57%) SC Cleared
2 20 (9.57%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.91%) CCNA
3 4 (1.91%) CCNP
3 4 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (1.91%) DV Cleared
3 4 (1.91%) JNCIA
4 1 (0.48%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.44%) QA
2 2 (0.96%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.96%) GRC
3 1 (0.48%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 1 (0.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.48%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (6.70%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.83%) Avaloq
2 8 (3.83%) Cisco
2 8 (3.83%) ServiceNow
3 4 (1.91%) Juniper
3 4 (1.91%) Oracle
3 4 (1.91%) SAP
4 2 (0.96%) Genesys
5 1 (0.48%) Computacenter