Senior Consultant Job Trends

Senior Consultant
UK

The median Senior Consultant salary in the UK is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 December 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 364 401
Rank change year-on-year +47 +37 +95
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Consultant 382 420 326
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.72% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.77% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 267 223 240
10th Percentile £42,500 £51,300 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £85,313
90th Percentile £85,500 £94,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% -7.14%

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 52,344 54,757 47,045
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.08% 93.89% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 32,163 29,820 36,466
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,725 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,430 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £96,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.62% - -

Senior Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Senior Consultant job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Consultant
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Senior Consultant job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Consultant job vacancies in the UK

Senior Consultant
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Consultant over the 6 months to 14 December 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 14 December 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 +34 318 £67,500 -10.00% 255
UK excluding London +66 191 £65,000 -13.33% 235
Work from Home +75 135 £67,500 -10.00% 150
London +14 124 £68,750 -8.64% 75
South West +78 77 £67,500 -15.63% 29
South East +14 39 £60,000 -14.29% 74
North of England 0 27 £75,000 -2.60% 42
Midlands +14 22 £65,000 -16.13% 39
West Midlands +18 20 £65,000 -18.75% 21
North West +9 18 £75,000 - 22
East of England +34 14 £30,500 -49.17% 20
Scotland +18 10 £72,500 -3.33% 24
Yorkshire +2 8 £73,750 -7.81% 17
East Midlands -3 2 £67,500 -10.00% 17
Wales +4 1 £70,000 +42.55% 6
North East -1 1 - - 3
Northern Ireland -11 1 £70,000 +100.00% 5

Senior Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, Senior 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 featuring Senior Consultant in the job title.

1 86 (22.51%) Degree
2 74 (19.37%) Mentoring
3 67 (17.54%) Cybersecurity
4 66 (17.28%) Agile
5 57 (14.92%) AI
6 56 (14.66%) Microsoft
7 52 (13.61%) SAP
8 51 (13.35%) AWS
9 50 (13.09%) Stakeholder Management
10 49 (12.83%) Computer Science
11 48 (12.57%) Business Development
12 47 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
12 47 (12.30%) Security Cleared
13 43 (11.26%) Risk Management
14 42 (10.99%) IT Strategy
15 41 (10.73%) Thought Leadership
16 39 (10.21%) Azure
17 36 (9.42%) Computer Science Degree
18 34 (8.90%) ServiceNow
19 33 (8.64%) Commercial Awareness
19 33 (8.64%) Power Platform
19 33 (8.64%) Presales
20 32 (8.38%) RIBA
20 32 (8.38%) SAP S/4HANA
21 31 (8.12%) LLM
21 31 (8.12%) Machine Learning
22 30 (7.85%) Migration
22 30 (7.85%) Prompt Engineering
23 29 (7.59%) Business Strategy
23 29 (7.59%) Logistics

Senior Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (4.19%) IIS
2 11 (2.88%) Confluence
3 4 (1.05%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 20 (5.24%) Maya
2 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 32 (8.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (4.45%) SAP CO
2 17 (4.45%) SAP FI
2 17 (4.45%) SAP FI/CO
3 16 (4.19%) SAP IBP
4 12 (3.14%) SAP FSCM
5 11 (2.88%) SAP IS-U
6 9 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
7 6 (1.57%) SAP PP
8 4 (1.05%) SAP HCM
9 3 (0.79%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.79%) SAP MII
9 3 (0.79%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.79%) SAP SCM
10 2 (0.52%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.52%) Oracle Payroll
10 2 (0.52%) SAP GRC
11 1 (0.26%) SAP HR
11 1 (0.26%) SAP Payroll
11 1 (0.26%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 51 (13.35%) AWS
2 39 (10.21%) Azure
3 33 (8.64%) Power Platform
4 27 (7.07%) Vertex AI
5 26 (6.81%) Amazon Bedrock
6 18 (4.71%) Dynamics 365
7 14 (3.66%) Entra ID
8 13 (3.40%) Microsoft Copilot
9 12 (3.14%) GCP
10 11 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (2.62%) OCI
12 9 (2.36%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (2.09%) GitHub
13 8 (2.09%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (1.83%) PowerApps
15 6 (1.57%) Nutanix
15 6 (1.57%) SaaS
15 6 (1.57%) Snowflake
15 6 (1.57%) SuccessFactors
16 5 (1.31%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.52%) LAN
1 2 (0.52%) Network Security
1 2 (0.52%) SD-WAN
1 2 (0.52%) WAN
2 1 (0.26%) BGP
2 1 (0.26%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (0.26%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (0.26%) EIGRP
2 1 (0.26%) Firewall
2 1 (0.26%) IGMP
2 1 (0.26%) Internet
2 1 (0.26%) NGFW
2 1 (0.26%) OSPF
2 1 (0.26%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (0.26%) VLAN
2 1 (0.26%) VoIP
2 1 (0.26%) VPN
2 1 (0.26%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (3.14%) SAP BW
3 11 (2.88%) Power BI
4 5 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (1.31%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.05%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.79%) SAP Data Services
7 2 (0.52%) Tableau
8 1 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.26%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.26%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 1 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.26%) GIS
8 1 (0.26%) IMS/DB
8 1 (0.26%) Looker
8 1 (0.26%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (2.88%) JIRA
2 8 (2.09%) Bitbucket
2 8 (2.09%) GitLab
2 8 (2.09%) Subversion
3 4 (1.05%) Git
4 3 (0.79%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.52%) MLflow
6 1 (0.26%) LSMW
General
1 144 (37.70%) Social Skills
2 73 (19.11%) Finance
3 59 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (10.47%) Law
5 24 (6.28%) Public Sector
6 20 (5.24%) Games
6 20 (5.24%) Presentation Skills
7 19 (4.97%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.62%) Billing
8 10 (2.62%) Marketing
9 9 (2.36%) Telecoms
10 8 (2.09%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (1.83%) Local Government
12 6 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.31%) Banking
14 4 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.79%) Dutch Language
15 3 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.79%) Military
15 3 (0.79%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (7.07%) LangChain
2 5 (1.31%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (0.52%) PySpark
3 2 (0.52%) PyTorch
3 2 (0.52%) React
3 2 (0.52%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.26%) CSS
4 1 (0.26%) Faiss
4 1 (0.26%) JSON
4 1 (0.26%) Node.js
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.26%) REST
4 1 (0.26%) RESTful
4 1 (0.26%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.26%) SAP Basis
4 1 (0.26%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.26%) Spring
4 1 (0.26%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.26%) XGBoost
4 1 (0.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.38%) Acoustics
2 26 (6.81%) Legacy Systems
3 22 (5.76%) Enterprise Software
4 19 (4.97%) Management Information System
5 16 (4.19%) CESG
6 8 (2.09%) Blockchain
7 5 (1.31%) Life Science
7 5 (1.31%) NHS
7 5 (1.31%) Social Media
8 4 (1.05%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.05%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.05%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.79%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.52%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.52%) GNSS
10 2 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.62%) Linux
2 4 (1.05%) Windows
2 4 (1.05%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.26%) Unix
3 1 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (19.37%) Mentoring
2 67 (17.54%) Cybersecurity
3 66 (17.28%) Agile
4 57 (14.92%) AI
5 50 (13.09%) Stakeholder Management
6 49 (12.83%) Computer Science
7 48 (12.57%) Business Development
8 47 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (11.26%) Risk Management
10 42 (10.99%) IT Strategy
11 41 (10.73%) Thought Leadership
12 33 (8.64%) Commercial Awareness
12 33 (8.64%) Presales
13 31 (8.12%) LLM
13 31 (8.12%) Machine Learning
14 30 (7.85%) Migration
14 30 (7.85%) Prompt Engineering
15 29 (7.59%) Business Strategy
15 29 (7.59%) Logistics
16 28 (7.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 13 (3.40%) Python
2 8 (2.09%) SQL
3 4 (1.05%) ABAP
3 4 (1.05%) Bash
3 4 (1.05%) Go
3 4 (1.05%) PowerShell
4 3 (0.79%) C#
4 3 (0.79%) VB
4 3 (0.79%) VBScript
5 2 (0.52%) Java
5 2 (0.52%) VBA
6 1 (0.26%) Assembly Language
6 1 (0.26%) Embedded C
6 1 (0.26%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.26%) JCL
6 1 (0.26%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.26%) Perl
6 1 (0.26%) R
6 1 (0.26%) REXX
6 1 (0.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 86 (22.51%) Degree
2 47 (12.30%) Security Cleared
3 36 (9.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 32 (8.38%) RIBA
5 29 (7.59%) SC Cleared
6 23 (6.02%) CISM
6 23 (6.02%) CISSP
7 17 (4.45%) CESG Certified Professional
8 16 (4.19%) CISMP
8 16 (4.19%) IISP
9 12 (3.14%) DV Cleared
9 12 (3.14%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.83%) SAP Certification
11 5 (1.31%) CRISC
12 4 (1.05%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.05%) CREST Certified
12 4 (1.05%) PhD
13 3 (0.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.97%) NIST
2 18 (4.71%) NCSC
2 18 (4.71%) NIST 800
3 16 (4.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 16 (4.19%) JSP 440
3 16 (4.19%) RMADS
4 9 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.83%) GRC
6 5 (1.31%) GDPR
7 3 (0.79%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.79%) QA
7 3 (0.79%) SLA
8 2 (0.52%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.26%) ITGC
9 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (3.14%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.79%) vSphere
4 2 (0.52%) Docker
5 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (2.62%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (2.09%) Terraform
3 4 (1.05%) Ansible
3 4 (1.05%) ZABBIX
4 1 (0.26%) CA Endevor
4 1 (0.26%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.26%) SCCM
4 1 (0.26%) VxRail
Vendors
1 56 (14.66%) Microsoft
2 52 (13.61%) SAP
3 34 (8.90%) ServiceNow
4 27 (7.07%) Google
5 20 (5.24%) Oracle
6 8 (2.09%) Atlassian
7 6 (1.57%) Databricks
7 6 (1.57%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.57%) Workday
8 5 (1.31%) VMware
9 4 (1.05%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.79%) Cisco
10 3 (0.79%) Computacenter
10 3 (0.79%) Duck Creek
10 3 (0.79%) Guidewire
10 3 (0.79%) IBM
10 3 (0.79%) IFS
11 2 (0.52%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (0.52%) Extreme Networks
11 2 (0.52%) Rapid7