Projects Consultant
UK

The median Projects Consultant salary in the UK is £38,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 827 886 1209
Rank change year-on-year +59 +323 -299
Permanent jobs requiring a Project Consultant 69 89 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.070% 0.089% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.097% 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 42 16 22
10th Percentile £27,325 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £28,000 £37,938 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £50,000 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% -25.37% +67.50%
75th Percentile £43,750 £67,500 £77,250
90th Percentile £54,575 £80,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £39,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.26% -22.00% +25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 93,739 91,836 153,630
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 91.52% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 67,104 57,926 84,939
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Project Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Consultant in the UK

Project Consultant
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Project Consultant in the UK

Project Consultant
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Consultant over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Project Consultant in the UK

Project Consultant
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Project Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
UK excluding London -5 65 £35,000 -10.26%
England +60 47 £40,000 -20.00% 3
Work from Home +57 23 £42,500 -43.33% 1
Wales +27 19 - -
West Midlands +22 18 £42,500 -
Midlands +15 18 £42,500 -
South West -22 9 £38,000 -27.62%
South East +5 8 £31,000 -18.95%
North of England +25 5 £31,500 -3.08%
North West -2 5 £31,500 -3.08%
London +118 3 £42,500 -43.33% 3
Scotland -60 3 £30,000 -
East of England - 3 £30,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, Project 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 Project Consultant in the job title.

1 53 (76.81%) Social Skills
2 31 (44.93%) Self-Motivation
3 30 (43.48%) Decision-Making
4 27 (39.13%) B2B
5 23 (33.33%) Degree
5 23 (33.33%) Project Management
5 23 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (31.88%) Budget Management
7 21 (30.43%) Oracle
8 19 (27.54%) Change Management
8 19 (27.54%) Actionable Insight
8 19 (27.54%) Data Centre
9 18 (26.09%) SC Cleared
9 18 (26.09%) Security Cleared
10 17 (24.64%) Project Delivery
11 14 (20.29%) Business Process Analysis
11 14 (20.29%) Driving Licence
12 12 (17.39%) Requirements Gathering
12 12 (17.39%) Migration
13 11 (15.94%) Network Design
13 11 (15.94%) Fortinet
13 11 (15.94%) Firewall
13 11 (15.94%) Telecoms
13 11 (15.94%) CheckPoint
13 11 (15.94%) McAfee
13 11 (15.94%) LAN
13 11 (15.94%) WAN
13 11 (15.94%) ITIL
13 11 (15.94%) Cisco
13 11 (15.94%) TCP/IP

Project 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:

Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Primavera
2 1 (1.45%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.45%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.45%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.45%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.45%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.90%) OCI
1 2 (2.90%) Power Platform
1 2 (2.90%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.94%) Cisco ASA
1 11 (15.94%) Cisco IOS
1 11 (15.94%) Firewall
1 11 (15.94%) LAN
1 11 (15.94%) TCP/IP
1 11 (15.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.35%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.90%) Power BI
General
1 53 (76.81%) Social Skills
2 23 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 11 (15.94%) Telecoms
4 5 (7.25%) Law
4 5 (7.25%) Military
5 2 (2.90%) Finance
5 2 (2.90%) Swedish Language
6 1 (1.45%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.45%) Billing
6 1 (1.45%) German Language
6 1 (1.45%) Local Government
6 1 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 31 (44.93%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (27.54%) Data Centre
3 14 (20.29%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.45%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.59%) AIX
1 8 (11.59%) Solaris
1 8 (11.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (43.48%) Decision-Making
2 27 (39.13%) B2B
3 23 (33.33%) Project Management
4 22 (31.88%) Budget Management
5 19 (27.54%) Actionable Insight
5 19 (27.54%) Change Management
6 17 (24.64%) Project Delivery
7 14 (20.29%) Business Process Analysis
8 12 (17.39%) Migration
8 12 (17.39%) Requirements Gathering
9 11 (15.94%) Change Control
9 11 (15.94%) Customer Service
9 11 (15.94%) ITIL
9 11 (15.94%) Mentoring
9 11 (15.94%) Network Design
10 9 (13.04%) Knowledge Transfer
11 8 (11.59%) Disaster Recovery
12 6 (8.70%) Agile
12 6 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (8.70%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.59%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (33.33%) Degree
2 18 (26.09%) SC Cleared
2 18 (26.09%) Security Cleared
3 11 (15.94%) CCNA
3 11 (15.94%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.90%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.45%) ACCA
6 1 (1.45%) CIMA
6 1 (1.45%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.35%) GMP
System Software
1 8 (11.59%) Firmware
1 8 (11.59%) Virtual Machines
1 8 (11.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (11.59%) Ansible
Vendors
1 21 (30.43%) Oracle
2 11 (15.94%) CheckPoint
2 11 (15.94%) Cisco
2 11 (15.94%) Fortinet
2 11 (15.94%) McAfee
2 11 (15.94%) Palo Alto
3 8 (11.59%) Red Hat
3 8 (11.59%) VMware
4 6 (8.70%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.45%) ServiceNow