Senior Consultant Jobs

Senior Consultant
UK

The median Senior Consultant salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 446 475
Rank change year-on-year -24 +29 +147
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Consultant 229 527 623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.54% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.57% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 176 358 375
10th Percentile £49,500 £46,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £95,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -14.29% -

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 46,902 93,183 95,132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,275 66,883 59,840
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Senior Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Consultant in the UK

Senior Consultant
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Consultant in the UK

Senior Consultant
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Consultant over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Consultant in the UK

Senior Consultant
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 -21 205 £75,000 +7.14% 362
London +19 112 £72,500 -3.33% 245
UK excluding London +49 98 £80,000 +33.33% 165
Work from Home +64 97 £75,000 +5.26% 233
North of England +49 29 £80,000 +25.49% 45
Midlands +47 22 £85,000 +70.00% 16
West Midlands +25 22 £85,000 +36.00% 14
North West +1 20 £75,000 +7.14% 29
South East +75 18 £75,000 +25.00% 64
South West +90 14 £45,250 -24.58% 13
Northern Ireland +38 8 £67,500 -20.59% 3
Yorkshire +70 7 £80,000 +45.45% 11
Scotland +117 4 £80,000 +23.08% 13
Wales +33 3 £49,104 +3.38% 4
North East +51 2 £80,000 +14.29% 5
East of England +38 1 £67,500 +50.00% 8
Channel Islands - 1 £97,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Consultant in the job title.

1 71 (31.00%) Finance
2 47 (20.52%) Security Cleared
3 42 (18.34%) Azure
3 42 (18.34%) Microsoft
4 41 (17.90%) Social Skills
5 35 (15.28%) ServiceNow
6 32 (13.97%) Mentoring
6 32 (13.97%) Degree
7 30 (13.10%) Cisco Certification
7 30 (13.10%) SC Cleared
8 29 (12.66%) AWS
8 29 (12.66%) Presales
8 29 (12.66%) Agile
9 28 (12.23%) Cisco
9 28 (12.23%) Windows
10 25 (10.92%) SAP
10 25 (10.92%) Dynamics 365
11 24 (10.48%) Wireless
11 24 (10.48%) Requirements Gathering
12 23 (10.04%) Migration
12 23 (10.04%) HTML
12 23 (10.04%) JavaScript
12 23 (10.04%) Linux
12 23 (10.04%) AngularJS
13 22 (9.61%) SAP S/4HANA
13 22 (9.61%) Citrix
13 22 (9.61%) Business Development
13 22 (9.61%) Requirements Workshops
14 21 (9.17%) Power Platform
14 21 (9.17%) Project Delivery

Senior 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 9 (3.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.44%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (4.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.93%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.87%) Maya
Business Applications
1 22 (9.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (8.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (5.24%) NEC Housing
4 7 (3.06%) SAP CO
4 7 (3.06%) SAP FI
4 7 (3.06%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (1.75%) SAP IBP
6 3 (1.31%) SAP FSCM
7 2 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.87%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 2 (0.87%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.87%) SAP EWM
7 2 (0.87%) SAP GRC
7 2 (0.87%) SAP IS-U
7 2 (0.87%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.87%) SAP SCM
8 1 (0.44%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.44%) SAP PLM
8 1 (0.44%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 42 (18.34%) Azure
2 29 (12.66%) AWS
3 25 (10.92%) Dynamics 365
4 21 (9.17%) Power Platform
5 13 (5.68%) GCP
5 13 (5.68%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (4.37%) SaaS
7 9 (3.93%) Entra ID
7 9 (3.93%) OCI
8 8 (3.49%) IaaS
8 8 (3.49%) PaaS
9 7 (3.06%) Microsoft Copilot
9 7 (3.06%) Rubrik
10 5 (2.18%) dbt
11 4 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.87%) AWS CloudTrail
12 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (0.87%) Serverless
12 2 (0.87%) SuccessFactors
12 2 (0.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (10.48%) Wireless
2 18 (7.86%) Cisco Nexus
2 18 (7.86%) LAN
3 9 (3.93%) Firewall
3 9 (3.93%) SD-WAN
3 9 (3.93%) WAN
4 8 (3.49%) Cisco IOS
4 8 (3.49%) DHCP
4 8 (3.49%) DNS
4 8 (3.49%) FTP
4 8 (3.49%) IPv4
4 8 (3.49%) PBX
4 8 (3.49%) SAN
4 8 (3.49%) SMTP
4 8 (3.49%) Structured Cabling
4 8 (3.49%) VLAN
4 8 (3.49%) VPN
5 6 (2.62%) IPsec
6 4 (1.75%) Network Security
7 3 (1.31%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.24%) BusinessObjects
2 10 (4.37%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (2.18%) Looker
4 4 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.31%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.31%) Power BI
5 3 (1.31%) SAP BW
6 2 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.87%) Metadata
6 2 (0.87%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.87%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.44%) Base SAS
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.44%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 1 (0.44%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (0.87%) JIRA
2 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.44%) MLflow
General
1 71 (31.00%) Finance
2 41 (17.90%) Social Skills
3 20 (8.73%) Law
3 20 (8.73%) Public Sector
4 16 (6.99%) Local Government
5 14 (6.11%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (5.24%) Police
7 11 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (3.49%) Banking
9 6 (2.62%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.18%) Billing
10 5 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.75%) Marketing
12 3 (1.31%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.31%) French Language
12 3 (1.31%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.87%) Games
13 2 (0.87%) Italian Language
13 2 (0.87%) Polish Language
13 2 (0.87%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.04%) AngularJS
1 23 (10.04%) HTML
2 7 (3.06%) SAP Fiori
3 5 (2.18%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (1.75%) Web Services
5 2 (0.87%) Loki
6 1 (0.44%) .NET
6 1 (0.44%) Ajax
6 1 (0.44%) BAPI
6 1 (0.44%) EJB
6 1 (0.44%) IDoc
6 1 (0.44%) JSON
6 1 (0.44%) LDAP
6 1 (0.44%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.44%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.44%) SAP ALE
6 1 (0.44%) SAP PI
6 1 (0.44%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.44%) XML
6 1 (0.44%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.49%) Hackathon
1 8 (3.49%) Private Cloud
1 8 (3.49%) Public Cloud
2 6 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (2.18%) Low-Code
3 5 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.75%) IoT
4 4 (1.75%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.31%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 3 (1.31%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.31%) NHS
6 2 (0.87%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.87%) Life Science
6 2 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (0.87%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.44%) CMDB
7 1 (0.44%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.44%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (12.23%) Windows
2 23 (10.04%) Linux
3 12 (5.24%) Solaris
4 8 (3.49%) Android
4 8 (3.49%) Windows 10
4 8 (3.49%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.87%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (13.97%) Mentoring
2 29 (12.66%) Agile
2 29 (12.66%) Presales
3 24 (10.48%) Requirements Gathering
4 23 (10.04%) Migration
5 22 (9.61%) Business Development
5 22 (9.61%) Requirements Workshops
6 21 (9.17%) Project Delivery
7 20 (8.73%) CRM
8 19 (8.30%) Customer Requirements
9 17 (7.42%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (7.42%) Thought Leadership
10 16 (6.99%) ERP
11 15 (6.55%) Cybersecurity
11 15 (6.55%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (5.68%) Coaching
13 12 (5.24%) Analytics
13 12 (5.24%) Housing Management
13 12 (5.24%) ITSM
13 12 (5.24%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 23 (10.04%) JavaScript
2 15 (6.55%) SQL
3 14 (6.11%) Python
4 8 (3.49%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.31%) ABAP
6 2 (0.87%) Bash
6 2 (0.87%) C#
6 2 (0.87%) Go
6 2 (0.87%) VBA
7 1 (0.44%) Ada
7 1 (0.44%) C
7 1 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.44%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 47 (20.52%) Security Cleared
2 32 (13.97%) Degree
3 30 (13.10%) Cisco Certification
3 30 (13.10%) SC Cleared
4 20 (8.73%) CCNP
5 18 (7.86%) CCIE
6 13 (5.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (5.24%) DBS Check
8 10 (4.37%) CCNA
9 8 (3.49%) Master's Degree
9 8 (3.49%) Network+ Certification
10 7 (3.06%) CISSP
11 5 (2.18%) CISM
12 3 (1.31%) CCSAM
12 3 (1.31%) CCSAS
12 3 (1.31%) CHECK Team Leader
12 3 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.31%) CRISC
12 3 (1.31%) HNC
12 3 (1.31%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.24%) Accessibility
1 12 (5.24%) ISO 9001
2 6 (2.62%) QA
3 5 (2.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.75%) NIST
4 4 (1.75%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.87%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.87%) GDPR
6 1 (0.44%) Basel III
6 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.44%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.44%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.44%) GRC
6 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.44%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.44%) IFRS
6 1 (0.44%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.44%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 11 (4.80%) Virtual Desktop
2 10 (4.37%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.49%) Hyper-V
3 8 (3.49%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (3.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.87%) IAG
Systems Management
1 10 (4.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (3.49%) SCCM
2 8 (3.49%) WSUS
3 7 (3.06%) Terraform
4 5 (2.18%) Avamar
4 5 (2.18%) EMC NetWorker
5 4 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.87%) Ansible
6 2 (0.87%) Grafana
6 2 (0.87%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.44%) HP UCMDB
7 1 (0.44%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 42 (18.34%) Microsoft
2 35 (15.28%) ServiceNow
3 28 (12.23%) Cisco
4 25 (10.92%) SAP
5 22 (9.61%) Citrix
6 15 (6.55%) Veeam
6 15 (6.55%) VMware
7 14 (6.11%) Oracle
8 12 (5.24%) NEC
9 7 (3.06%) Dell
10 6 (2.62%) Google
11 5 (2.18%) EMC
12 4 (1.75%) Fortinet
13 3 (1.31%) CyberArk
13 3 (1.31%) Salesforce
14 2 (0.87%) Hitachi
14 2 (0.87%) Hyperion
14 2 (0.87%) Ivanti
14 2 (0.87%) JD Edwards
14 2 (0.87%) PeopleSoft