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 19 February 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 422 421 517
Rank change year-on-year -1 +96 +101
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Consultant 333 463 624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.60% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.63% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 156 333 382
10th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £68,750 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -3.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £103,125 £95,000 £95,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -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 54,926 73,148 103,699
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.64% 94.96% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 26,346 55,204 65,516
10th Percentile £34,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,430 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.05% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,793 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.59% -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 19 February 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Consultant in the UK

Senior Consultant
Top 18 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 19 February 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 -8 302 £75,000 +7.14% 322
UK excluding London +37 153 £75,000 +25.00% 137
London -22 149 £75,000 - 217
Work from Home +7 102 £75,000 +3.45% 192
North of England +54 48 £80,000 +23.08% 36
South East +48 43 £72,500 +26.09% 53
North West +21 39 £70,000 +7.69% 20
Midlands -16 33 £80,000 +60.00% 9
West Midlands -11 31 £80,000 +60.00% 7
South West +41 8 £80,000 +33.33% 15
Yorkshire +41 7 £80,000 +45.45% 8
Scotland +40 7 £80,000 +10.34% 10
Northern Ireland +28 7 £35,000 - 3
East of England 0 5 £60,000 +14.29% 11
Wales +28 3 £49,104 +3.38%
North East +27 2 £80,000 +14.29% 8
East Midlands +16 2 - - 2
Channel Islands - 1 £97,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 19 February 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.

1 119 (35.74%) Finance
2 113 (33.93%) Microsoft
3 96 (28.83%) Windows
4 89 (26.73%) Linux
5 87 (26.13%) Public Sector
6 85 (25.53%) Citrix
7 82 (24.62%) SQL
8 80 (24.02%) Local Government
8 80 (24.02%) Customer Requirements
8 80 (24.02%) DBS Check
9 75 (22.52%) Police
9 75 (22.52%) Housing Management
9 75 (22.52%) NEC Housing
9 75 (22.52%) Solaris
9 75 (22.52%) ISO 9001
9 75 (22.52%) NEC
9 75 (22.52%) BusinessObjects
9 75 (22.52%) Accessibility
10 69 (20.72%) Social Skills
11 51 (15.32%) Degree
12 45 (13.51%) Azure
13 44 (13.21%) Agile
14 42 (12.61%) Security Cleared
15 37 (11.11%) AWS
16 36 (10.81%) Mentoring
16 36 (10.81%) Coaching
16 36 (10.81%) ServiceNow
16 36 (10.81%) Cisco Certification
17 34 (10.21%) Cisco
18 31 (9.31%) Microsoft 365

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 10 (3.00%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.90%) Confluence
4 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (5.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (2.70%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.80%) Chatbot
5 4 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 75 (22.52%) NEC Housing
2 11 (3.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (3.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.50%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (1.20%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (1.20%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 3 (0.90%) Oracle Cash Management
5 3 (0.90%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle FAH
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.60%) PeopleSoft HRMS
6 2 (0.60%) SAP EWM
6 2 (0.60%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.60%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.30%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.30%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 45 (13.51%) Azure
2 37 (11.11%) AWS
3 31 (9.31%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (6.31%) Dynamics 365
5 20 (6.01%) Power Platform
6 16 (4.80%) GCP
7 12 (3.60%) IaaS
8 10 (3.00%) Entra ID
8 10 (3.00%) SaaS
9 8 (2.40%) PaaS
10 7 (2.10%) OCI
10 7 (2.10%) Rubrik
11 6 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.80%) Amazon S3
11 6 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (1.80%) PowerApps
11 6 (1.80%) Serverless
11 6 (1.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.51%) Wireless
2 21 (6.31%) Cisco Nexus
2 21 (6.31%) LAN
3 15 (4.50%) Firewall
4 14 (4.20%) SD-WAN
4 14 (4.20%) WAN
5 8 (2.40%) Cisco IOS
5 8 (2.40%) DHCP
5 8 (2.40%) DNS
5 8 (2.40%) FTP
5 8 (2.40%) IPv4
5 8 (2.40%) Network Security
5 8 (2.40%) PBX
5 8 (2.40%) SAN
5 8 (2.40%) SMTP
5 8 (2.40%) Structured Cabling
5 8 (2.40%) VLAN
5 8 (2.40%) VPN
6 7 (2.10%) IPsec
7 4 (1.20%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (22.52%) BusinessObjects
2 14 (4.20%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (2.70%) Power BI
4 7 (2.10%) Big Data
5 6 (1.80%) Data Lake
5 6 (1.80%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.50%) Looker
7 4 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.60%) Metadata
8 2 (0.60%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.60%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.30%) Base SAS
9 1 (0.30%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.30%) HDInsight
9 1 (0.30%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.30%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 6 (1.80%) JIRA
2 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.30%) MLflow
General
1 119 (35.74%) Finance
2 87 (26.13%) Public Sector
3 80 (24.02%) Local Government
4 75 (22.52%) Police
5 69 (20.72%) Social Skills
6 29 (8.71%) Law
7 21 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (3.60%) Banking
8 12 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (3.60%) Marketing
9 9 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.10%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.80%) Games
12 5 (1.50%) Legal
12 5 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.90%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.60%) Military
14 2 (0.60%) Publishing
14 2 (0.60%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (8.71%) AngularJS
2 28 (8.41%) HTML
3 9 (2.70%) Oracle Fusion
4 8 (2.40%) Web Services
5 6 (1.80%) Ajax
5 6 (1.80%) CSS
5 6 (1.80%) LDAP
6 2 (0.60%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.30%) BAPI
7 1 (0.30%) EJB
7 1 (0.30%) JDBC
7 1 (0.30%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.30%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.30%) SAP ALE
7 1 (0.30%) SAP PI
7 1 (0.30%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.30%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.11%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (2.40%) Private Cloud
3 8 (2.40%) Public Cloud
4 6 (1.80%) Blockchain
4 6 (1.80%) IoT
5 5 (1.50%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.50%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.20%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.20%) Hackathon
7 3 (0.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 3 (0.90%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.60%) CMDB
8 2 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.60%) Life Science
8 2 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.60%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.30%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.30%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.30%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 96 (28.83%) Windows
2 89 (26.73%) Linux
3 75 (22.52%) Solaris
4 9 (2.70%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.40%) Android
5 8 (2.40%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (24.02%) Customer Requirements
2 75 (22.52%) Housing Management
3 44 (13.21%) Agile
4 36 (10.81%) Coaching
4 36 (10.81%) Mentoring
5 30 (9.01%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (8.11%) Requirements Gathering
7 26 (7.81%) Presales
8 25 (7.51%) Migration
9 24 (7.21%) Systems Engineering
10 23 (6.91%) DevOps
11 22 (6.61%) Requirements Workshops
12 21 (6.31%) Artificial Intelligence
12 21 (6.31%) Cybersecurity
12 21 (6.31%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
12 21 (6.31%) Ontologies
12 21 (6.31%) Project Management
13 19 (5.71%) Business Development
14 18 (5.41%) CRM
14 18 (5.41%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 82 (24.62%) SQL
2 28 (8.41%) JavaScript
3 16 (4.80%) Python
4 9 (2.70%) PowerShell
5 7 (2.10%) VBA
6 4 (1.20%) R
7 2 (0.60%) Java
8 1 (0.30%) ABAP
8 1 (0.30%) C#
8 1 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 80 (24.02%) DBS Check
2 51 (15.32%) Degree
3 42 (12.61%) Security Cleared
4 36 (10.81%) Cisco Certification
5 30 (9.01%) SC Cleared
6 24 (7.21%) CCNP
7 19 (5.71%) CCIE
8 12 (3.60%) CCNA
9 11 (3.30%) CISSP
10 9 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (2.40%) CISM
11 8 (2.40%) DV Cleared
11 8 (2.40%) Network+ Certification
12 7 (2.10%) Master's Degree
13 6 (1.80%) APMP
13 6 (1.80%) MBA
14 4 (1.20%) AWS Certification
14 4 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (1.20%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (22.52%) Accessibility
1 75 (22.52%) ISO 9001
2 10 (3.00%) NIST
3 8 (2.40%) GDPR
4 7 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.80%) QA
6 5 (1.50%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (1.20%) EU AI Act
7 4 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 4 (1.20%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.60%) GRC
9 1 (0.30%) Basel III
9 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.30%) IFRS
9 1 (0.30%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.30%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (3.30%) Active Directory
1 11 (3.30%) Virtual Desktop
2 10 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.40%) Hyper-V
3 8 (2.40%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.60%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (3.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (2.70%) SCCM
2 9 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
2 9 (2.70%) Terraform
3 8 (2.40%) WSUS
4 5 (1.50%) Avamar
4 5 (1.50%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (0.60%) Ansible
6 1 (0.30%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 113 (33.93%) Microsoft
2 85 (25.53%) Citrix
3 75 (22.52%) NEC
4 36 (10.81%) ServiceNow
5 34 (10.21%) Cisco
6 19 (5.71%) SAP
7 17 (5.11%) VMware
8 15 (4.50%) Veeam
9 13 (3.90%) Oracle
10 10 (3.00%) Fortinet
11 9 (2.70%) Dell
12 5 (1.50%) EMC
12 5 (1.50%) Google
13 4 (1.20%) Apple
13 4 (1.20%) Hyperion
13 4 (1.20%) JD Edwards
13 4 (1.20%) PeopleSoft
14 3 (0.90%) CyberArk
14 3 (0.90%) Extreme Networks
14 3 (0.90%) Meraki