Lead Consultant Jobs

Lead Consultant
UK

The median Lead Consultant salary in the UK is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 660 593 1058
Rank change year-on-year -67 +465 -237
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Consultant 183 310 217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.38% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.42% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 155 256 155
10th Percentile £73,750 - £57,500
25th Percentile £85,750 - £65,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -6.67% -
75th Percentile - - £87,500
90th Percentile £97,250 £96,250 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £90,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +28.57% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 85,709 74,085 167,386
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 91.81% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58,134 51,472 87,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,800 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%

Lead Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Consultant in the UK

Lead Consultant
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Consultant.

Salary trend for Lead Consultant in the UK

Lead Consultant
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Consultant over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Consultant in the UK

Lead Consultant
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 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
England -86 138 £90,000 +28.57% 23
UK excluding London -116 130 £90,000 +28.57% 12
Work from Home -90 100 £90,000 +28.57% 14
North of England -34 47 £90,000 +28.57% 5
South West +9 33 £91,500 +30.71% 1
North West -28 32 £90,000 +28.57% 3
London +34 23 £85,000 +11.48% 11
Yorkshire +34 15 £90,000 +28.57%
Midlands -18 15 £90,000 +33.33% 1
West Midlands +7 13 £90,000 +24.14%
South East -41 12 £90,000 +28.57% 2
Wales +20 7 £90,000 +28.57%
Scotland -51 7 £90,000 +28.57%
Northern Ireland - 7 £90,000 -
East of England -9 2 - - 5
East Midlands -35 2 £75,000 +36.36% 1

Lead Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, Lead 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 featuring Lead Consultant in the job title.

1 109 (59.56%) Microsoft
2 82 (44.81%) Retail
3 26 (14.21%) Analytics
4 23 (12.57%) Security Cleared
5 22 (12.02%) Cybersecurity
6 20 (10.93%) SIEM
6 20 (10.93%) NIST
6 20 (10.93%) DV Cleared
7 18 (9.84%) SolarWinds
7 18 (9.84%) Network Security
7 18 (9.84%) Incident Management
7 18 (9.84%) Tripwire
7 18 (9.84%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 18 (9.84%) Tanium
7 18 (9.84%) Vulnerability Management
7 18 (9.84%) vSphere
7 18 (9.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 18 (9.84%) Data Analytics
7 18 (9.84%) Elastic Stack
8 16 (8.74%) Asset Management
8 16 (8.74%) Resource Management
8 16 (8.74%) TETRA
9 15 (8.20%) Azure
9 15 (8.20%) Agile
10 13 (7.10%) Mentoring
10 13 (7.10%) Dynamics 365
11 12 (6.56%) Project Delivery
11 12 (6.56%) Social Skills
11 12 (6.56%) Translating Business Requirements
11 12 (6.56%) Degree

Lead Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (1.09%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.55%) SAS
Business Applications
1 7 (3.83%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (3.83%) SAP S/4HANA
1 7 (3.83%) Workday HCM
2 3 (1.64%) SAP GRC
2 3 (1.64%) SAP SD
3 2 (1.09%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (1.09%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.55%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.55%) SAP MDM
4 1 (0.55%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 15 (8.20%) Azure
2 13 (7.10%) Dynamics 365
3 11 (6.01%) Power Platform
4 6 (3.28%) SaaS
5 4 (2.19%) Power Automate
6 3 (1.64%) AWS
6 3 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (1.64%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.09%) GCP
7 2 (1.09%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.55%) Azure Stack
8 1 (0.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.55%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.84%) Network Security
2 16 (8.74%) TETRA
3 3 (1.64%) Firewall
4 1 (0.55%) BGP
4 1 (0.55%) OSPF
4 1 (0.55%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.55%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.09%) Big Data
2 2 (1.09%) Power BI
2 2 (1.09%) SAP BW
3 1 (0.55%) Ataccama
3 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.55%) Metadata
3 1 (0.55%) QlikView
3 1 (0.55%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (0.55%) SAS EBI
3 1 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (0.55%) ERwin
General
1 82 (44.81%) Retail
2 12 (6.56%) Social Skills
3 7 (3.83%) Finance
4 6 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.09%) Automotive
5 2 (1.09%) Billing
5 2 (1.09%) Law
5 2 (1.09%) Legal
5 2 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (1.09%) Police
5 2 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (1.09%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.55%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.84%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (2.19%) REST
3 3 (1.64%) CSS
3 3 (1.64%) HTML
3 3 (1.64%) XML
4 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (1.09%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.09%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (1.09%) SPFx
4 2 (1.09%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.84%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 6 (3.28%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (1.09%) PKI
4 1 (0.55%) CESG
4 1 (0.55%) FMCG
4 1 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.55%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.55%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.55%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (14.21%) Analytics
2 22 (12.02%) Cybersecurity
3 20 (10.93%) SIEM
4 18 (9.84%) Data Analytics
4 18 (9.84%) Incident Management
4 18 (9.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 18 (9.84%) Vulnerability Management
5 16 (8.74%) Asset Management
5 16 (8.74%) Resource Management
6 15 (8.20%) Agile
7 13 (7.10%) Mentoring
8 12 (6.56%) Project Delivery
8 12 (6.56%) Project Management
8 12 (6.56%) Translating Business Requirements
9 11 (6.01%) DevOps
10 10 (5.46%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (4.37%) CI/CD
11 8 (4.37%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (4.37%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (3.83%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.19%) Python
2 3 (1.64%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.09%) C#
3 2 (1.09%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (12.57%) Security Cleared
2 20 (10.93%) DV Cleared
3 12 (6.56%) Degree
4 9 (4.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.19%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.64%) CESG Certified Professional
7 3 (1.64%) CISSP
8 2 (1.09%) APMP
8 2 (1.09%) CISMP
8 2 (1.09%) CREST Certified
8 2 (1.09%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.55%) CISM
9 1 (0.55%) ISACA
9 1 (0.55%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.93%) NIST
2 9 (4.92%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.37%) QA
4 2 (1.09%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.09%) ITGC
5 1 (0.55%) COBIT
5 1 (0.55%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (9.84%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (5.46%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 109 (59.56%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.84%) SolarWinds
2 18 (9.84%) Tanium
2 18 (9.84%) Tripwire
3 10 (5.46%) SAP
4 7 (3.83%) Workday
5 5 (2.73%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.09%) Ariba
6 2 (1.09%) Concur
7 1 (0.55%) Ab Initio
7 1 (0.55%) Informatica
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle
7 1 (0.55%) Sony