Technical Consultant Jobs in the UK excluding London

Technical Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technical Consultant salary in the UK excluding London is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 532 634 651
Rank change year-on-year +102 +17 -132
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Consultant 245 128 217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.21% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.23% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 192 88 159
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,925 £27,900
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,938 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £72,188 £70,625 £63,125
90th Percentile £83,500 £80,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%

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 66,715 54,769 68,069
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.24% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 47,210 31,112 43,042
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%

Technical Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Consultant in the UK excluding London

Technical Consultant
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Technical Consultant 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 4 May 2024.

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 4 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 +36 62 £50,000 -33.33% 12
North of England +43 53 £74,000 +40.95% 13
South West +18 52 £55,000 +4.76% 14
North West +45 48 £74,000 +34.55% 11
Midlands +46 40 £50,000 -9.09% 12
West Midlands +42 31 £42,500 -22.73% 9
East of England +45 30 £55,000 +29.41% 2
East Midlands -5 9 £55,000 +2.33% 3
Wales +14 6 £47,500 -20.83% 7
Yorkshire +65 5 £28,000 -42.56% 2
Scotland -66 2 £90,000 - 2
Technical Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Technical 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 Technical Consultant in the job title.

1 87 (35.51%) Microsoft
2 67 (27.35%) Social Skills
3 57 (23.27%) Presales
4 48 (19.59%) Windows
4 48 (19.59%) Azure
5 46 (18.78%) Active Directory
6 43 (17.55%) Microsoft 365
7 37 (15.10%) AWS
8 35 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 32 (13.06%) Microsoft Exchange
9 32 (13.06%) Migration
10 31 (12.65%) Cybersecurity
10 31 (12.65%) Entra ID
11 30 (12.24%) Data Centre
11 30 (12.24%) Public Cloud
12 29 (11.84%) SQL
13 28 (11.43%) Microsoft Intune
14 27 (11.02%) JavaScript
14 27 (11.02%) Apple
14 27 (11.02%) Public Sector
15 26 (10.61%) Degree
16 25 (10.20%) Software Licensing
16 25 (10.20%) DHCP
16 25 (10.20%) DNS
16 25 (10.20%) SQL Server
16 25 (10.20%) VMware
17 24 (9.80%) Adobe
17 24 (9.80%) Unified Communications
17 24 (9.80%) Customer Service
18 23 (9.39%) DevOps

Technical 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 32 (13.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (8.57%) SharePoint
3 10 (4.08%) IIS
4 2 (0.82%) nginx
4 2 (0.82%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 10 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (4.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.22%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (1.22%) SAP HCM
2 3 (1.22%) SAP HR
2 3 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 48 (19.59%) Azure
2 43 (17.55%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (15.10%) AWS
4 31 (12.65%) Entra ID
5 15 (6.12%) Power Platform
5 15 (6.12%) SaaS
6 12 (4.90%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (4.90%) Amazon S3
7 11 (4.49%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (4.08%) OneDrive
9 8 (3.27%) IaaS
9 8 (3.27%) PaaS
10 7 (2.86%) GCP
11 3 (1.22%) OCI
11 3 (1.22%) SuccessFactors
12 2 (0.82%) Power Automate
12 2 (0.82%) PowerApps
13 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Purview
13 1 (0.41%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 25 (10.20%) DHCP
1 25 (10.20%) DNS
2 24 (9.80%) Unified Communications
3 19 (7.76%) Firewall
4 4 (1.63%) LAN
4 4 (1.63%) Remote Desktop
4 4 (1.63%) SAN
4 4 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.63%) Wireless
5 2 (0.82%) Internet
5 2 (0.82%) Intranet
5 2 (0.82%) VPN
6 1 (0.41%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.20%) SQL Server
2 15 (6.12%) Power BI
3 8 (3.27%) Oracle Database
3 8 (3.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (2.86%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.22%) GIS
5 3 (1.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 3 (1.22%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.82%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (0.82%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.82%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 3 (1.22%) Git
1 3 (1.22%) JIRA
2 1 (0.41%) GitLab
General
1 67 (27.35%) Social Skills
2 27 (11.02%) Public Sector
3 19 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.12%) Finance
5 8 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (3.27%) Retail
5 8 (3.27%) Telecoms
6 4 (1.63%) Games
6 4 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.22%) Advertising
7 3 (1.22%) Law
8 2 (0.82%) Legal
9 1 (0.41%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.12%) HTML
2 10 (4.08%) CSS
3 3 (1.22%) AngularJS
3 3 (1.22%) Semantic UI
3 3 (1.22%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 3 (1.22%) XML
4 2 (0.82%) JSON
4 2 (0.82%) SOAP
4 2 (0.82%) WCF
5 1 (0.41%) J2EE
5 1 (0.41%) LDAP
5 1 (0.41%) OAuth
5 1 (0.41%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.41%) OpenID
5 1 (0.41%) REST
5 1 (0.41%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.24%) Data Centre
1 30 (12.24%) Public Cloud
2 21 (8.57%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (4.90%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.86%) NHS
4 7 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.04%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.63%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.63%) Digital Media
6 4 (1.63%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (1.63%) Hedge funds
6 4 (1.63%) IoT
7 3 (1.22%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.22%) Home Automation
7 3 (1.22%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.22%) Smart Home
8 2 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.82%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 48 (19.59%) Windows
2 22 (8.98%) Windows Server
3 20 (8.16%) Linux
4 13 (5.31%) Windows 10
5 5 (2.04%) Unix
6 3 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.82%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.82%) VMS
8 1 (0.41%) Debian
8 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (23.27%) Presales
2 35 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (13.06%) Migration
4 31 (12.65%) Cybersecurity
5 25 (10.20%) Software Licensing
6 24 (9.80%) Customer Service
7 23 (9.39%) DevOps
8 22 (8.98%) Time Management
9 21 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (8.57%) Requirements Gathering
10 19 (7.76%) Business Intelligence
11 15 (6.12%) Project Management
11 15 (6.12%) Service Delivery
12 14 (5.71%) CRM
12 14 (5.71%) Identity Access Management
13 13 (5.31%) Decision-Making
14 12 (4.90%) Customer Requirements
14 12 (4.90%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 12 (4.90%) Service Management
15 10 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 29 (11.84%) SQL
2 27 (11.02%) JavaScript
3 15 (6.12%) Python
4 14 (5.71%) Java
5 10 (4.08%) PowerShell
5 10 (4.08%) T-SQL
6 8 (3.27%) PL/SQL
7 7 (2.86%) C#
8 5 (2.04%) C
9 4 (1.63%) Bash
10 1 (0.41%) Perl
Qualifications
1 26 (10.61%) Degree
2 22 (8.98%) AWS Certification
3 19 (7.76%) Security Cleared
4 12 (4.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (3.67%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.04%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.04%) PCI QSA
7 4 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.63%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.22%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.82%) MCP
10 1 (0.41%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (2.04%) GRC
2 5 (2.04%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.22%) QA
4 1 (0.41%) NIST
System Software
1 46 (18.78%) Active Directory
2 21 (8.57%) Hyper-V
3 16 (6.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.82%) vSphere
6 1 (0.41%) KVM
6 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (11.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (2.45%) SCCM
3 5 (2.04%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.63%) Ansible
4 4 (1.63%) Puppet
4 4 (1.63%) Terraform
5 2 (0.82%) Aspera SmartTrack
6 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 87 (35.51%) Microsoft
2 27 (11.02%) Apple
3 25 (10.20%) VMware
4 24 (9.80%) Adobe
5 17 (6.94%) Oracle
6 8 (3.27%) Adaptive Insights
6 8 (3.27%) Anaplan
6 8 (3.27%) Jedox
6 8 (3.27%) Tagetik
7 7 (2.86%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.45%) Sun
9 5 (2.04%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.63%) Aruba
11 3 (1.22%) IBM
11 3 (1.22%) SAP
11 3 (1.22%) Sophos
11 3 (1.22%) Veeam
11 3 (1.22%) WatchGuard
12 2 (0.82%) Cognos
12 2 (0.82%) Commvault