Technical Consultant Jobs

Technical Consultant
UK

The median Technical Consultant salary in the UK is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 March 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 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 497 528 603
Rank change year-on-year +31 +75 +180
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Consultant 202 352 470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.40% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.42% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 134 287 311
10th Percentile £38,400 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £48,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -22.73% - +10.00%

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 47,447 83,374 103,901
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.74% 92.74%
Number of salaries quoted 26,289 61,710 64,769
10th Percentile £31,500 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,836 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £77,000 £72,500 £81,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,934 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.20% -4.76% +5.00%

Technical Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Consultant in the UK

Technical Consultant
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Technical Consultant in the UK

Technical Consultant
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Consultant over the 6 months to 19 March 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Consultant in the UK

Technical Consultant
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 19 March 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 +17 176 £52,500 -13.88% 142
Work from Home +71 116 £72,500 +16.00% 52
UK excluding London +33 94 £42,500 -22.73% 118
London +40 81 £72,500 +3.57% 37
North of England +63 34 £42,500 -26.09% 29
Midlands +48 30 £42,500 -15.00% 23
West Midlands +35 29 £42,500 -8.11% 15
North West +29 28 £42,500 -30.61% 16
South West +57 9 £55,000 - 13
South East +33 8 £50,000 - 30
Yorkshire +66 6 £30,000 -47.83% 10
East of England +32 5 £53,750 -6.52% 19
Scotland - 5 £100,000 - 4
Wales +43 3 £55,000 +15.79% 2
East Midlands +38 1 £80,000 +6.67% 7

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

For the 6 months to 19 March 2025, Technical 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 Technical Consultant in the job title.

1 112 (55.45%) Migration
2 95 (47.03%) Data Migration
3 76 (37.62%) Social Skills
4 69 (34.16%) Problem-Solving
5 68 (33.66%) JavaScript
5 68 (33.66%) SQL
6 66 (32.67%) Finance
7 59 (29.21%) HTML
8 57 (28.22%) Oracle
9 56 (27.72%) Public Sector
10 55 (27.23%) Local Government
11 54 (26.73%) Data Cleansing
12 52 (25.74%) Oracle Database
12 52 (25.74%) NEC Housing
12 52 (25.74%) DBS Check
12 52 (25.74%) NEC
12 52 (25.74%) PL/SQL
12 52 (25.74%) Police
12 52 (25.74%) Accessibility
13 37 (18.32%) ServiceNow
14 35 (17.33%) SOAP
14 35 (17.33%) XML
15 34 (16.83%) NetSuite
16 33 (16.34%) Legacy Systems
17 31 (15.35%) Restlet
17 31 (15.35%) API Integration
17 31 (15.35%) Data Modelling
18 28 (13.86%) AngularJS
19 27 (13.37%) Analytical Skills
20 25 (12.38%) Requirements Gathering

Technical 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 (4.95%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.49%) OpenEdge
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.50%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 52 (25.74%) NEC Housing
2 34 (16.83%) NetSuite
3 4 (1.98%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 21 (10.40%) Azure
2 15 (7.43%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (3.47%) Entra ID
4 6 (2.97%) AWS
4 6 (2.97%) OneDrive
5 5 (2.48%) SaaS
6 4 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.49%) GCP
8 2 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (0.99%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 20 (9.90%) Firewall
2 16 (7.92%) WAN
3 13 (6.44%) Network Security
3 13 (6.44%) SD-WAN
4 11 (5.45%) Cisco Firepower
5 3 (1.49%) LAN
5 3 (1.49%) SAN
5 3 (1.49%) VPN
5 3 (1.49%) Wireless
6 2 (0.99%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.99%) VLAN
7 1 (0.50%) Internet
7 1 (0.50%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (25.74%) Oracle Database
2 5 (2.48%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.98%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (1.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (1.49%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (0.99%) Power BI
6 1 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.50%) Metadata
6 1 (0.50%) QlikView
6 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (1.98%) SoapUI
1 4 (1.98%) Team Foundation Server
1 4 (1.98%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.50%) Git
2 1 (0.50%) JIRA
General
1 76 (37.62%) Social Skills
2 66 (32.67%) Finance
3 56 (27.72%) Public Sector
4 55 (27.23%) Local Government
5 52 (25.74%) Police
6 27 (13.37%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (4.95%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (3.47%) Marketing
9 6 (2.97%) Law
10 4 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.98%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.49%) Social Housing
12 2 (0.99%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.99%) Electronics
12 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.50%) French Language
13 1 (0.50%) Games
13 1 (0.50%) German Language
13 1 (0.50%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (29.21%) HTML
2 35 (17.33%) SOAP
2 35 (17.33%) XML
3 31 (15.35%) Restlet
4 28 (13.86%) AngularJS
5 9 (4.46%) .NET
6 7 (3.47%) .NET Framework
7 5 (2.48%) CSS
7 5 (2.48%) Web Services
8 4 (1.98%) JSON
8 4 (1.98%) REST
8 4 (1.98%) WSDL
8 4 (1.98%) XML Messaging
8 4 (1.98%) XSD
9 1 (0.50%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.50%) DOM
9 1 (0.50%) Express.js
9 1 (0.50%) Node.js
9 1 (0.50%) Oracle Fusion
9 1 (0.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 33 (16.34%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (2.48%) Data Centre
2 5 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (1.98%) PropTech
4 3 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.49%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (0.99%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.50%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.50%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.50%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.50%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.50%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.96%) Windows
2 6 (2.97%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.49%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.50%) Linux
4 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (55.45%) Migration
2 95 (47.03%) Data Migration
3 69 (34.16%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (26.73%) Data Cleansing
5 31 (15.35%) API Integration
5 31 (15.35%) Data Modelling
6 25 (12.38%) Requirements Gathering
7 21 (10.40%) Requirements Workshops
8 18 (8.91%) Project Management
9 12 (5.94%) ERP
10 11 (5.45%) Customer Service
11 10 (4.95%) ITIL
12 9 (4.46%) Presales
13 8 (3.96%) Computer Science
13 8 (3.96%) CRM
13 8 (3.96%) Cybersecurity
13 8 (3.96%) Time Management
14 7 (3.47%) Agile
14 7 (3.47%) Analytics
14 7 (3.47%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 68 (33.66%) JavaScript
1 68 (33.66%) SQL
2 52 (25.74%) PL/SQL
3 11 (5.45%) C#
4 7 (3.47%) T-SQL
5 3 (1.49%) Progress 4GL
6 1 (0.50%) C
6 1 (0.50%) Java
6 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 52 (25.74%) DBS Check
2 13 (6.44%) CCNP
2 13 (6.44%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (5.94%) Degree
3 12 (5.94%) Security Cleared
4 11 (5.45%) CCSA
5 5 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.99%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.99%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.50%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.50%) HP ASE
8 1 (0.50%) HP MASE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (25.74%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.97%) GRC
3 5 (2.48%) QA
4 3 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 2 (0.99%) NCSC
6 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.50%) PMO
6 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (4.95%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.96%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.98%) vSphere
5 3 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (2.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (2.48%) SCCM
3 3 (1.49%) Backup Exec
4 2 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.99%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 57 (28.22%) Oracle
2 52 (25.74%) NEC
3 37 (18.32%) ServiceNow
4 25 (12.38%) Microsoft
5 14 (6.93%) Fortinet
6 13 (6.44%) Cisco
6 13 (6.44%) VMware
7 12 (5.94%) Palo Alto
8 11 (5.45%) CheckPoint
9 6 (2.97%) Salesforce
9 6 (2.97%) SAP
10 4 (1.98%) Adobe
10 4 (1.98%) Marketo
11 3 (1.49%) Epicor
11 3 (1.49%) Progress
11 3 (1.49%) Veeam
11 3 (1.49%) Veritas
12 2 (0.99%) Dell
12 2 (0.99%) HP
12 2 (0.99%) Sage