Technical Consultant Job Trends

Technical Consultant
UK

The median Technical Consultant salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 April 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 441 506
Rank change year-on-year +61 +65 +113
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Consultant 372 190 405
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.46% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.51% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 260 142 340
10th Percentile £26,225 £36,250 £37,375
25th Percentile £55,000 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +21.74% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 79,728 37,132 89,450
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.61% 89.29% 94.58%
Number of salaries quoted 51,035 23,360 66,363
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -10.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Technical Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Technical Consultant job vacancy trend in the UK

Technical Consultant
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for Technical Consultant job vacancies in the UK

Technical Consultant
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Consultant over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Technical Consultant in the UK

Technical 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 Technical Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 17 April 2026. 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 +37 312 £70,000 - 60
UK excluding London +53 236 £60,000 +20.00% 39
Work from Home +4 110 £60,000 -17.24% 29
London +27 102 £77,500 +6.90% 26
Midlands -10 61 £65,000 +52.94% 10
North of England -26 59 £67,500 -3.57% 8
East Midlands -4 43 £55,000 -31.25% 9
South East -14 43 £55,000 +10.00% 12
South West -15 42 £60,000 +71.43% 7
North West -9 30 £77,500 +82.35% 5
Yorkshire -38 29 £24,000 -70.00% 3
West Midlands -25 18 £100,000 +135.29% 1
Scotland -17 11 - - 1
Wales -24 9 £60,000 -9.43% 1
East of England -19 6 £65,000 +30.00%
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Northern Ireland -35 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 17 April 2026, Technical 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 Technical Consultant in the job title.

1 44 (11.83%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (10.22%) ServiceNow
3 37 (9.95%) Cybersecurity
4 36 (9.68%) Presales
5 26 (6.99%) DevOps
5 26 (6.99%) Microsoft
5 26 (6.99%) Security Cleared
6 22 (5.91%) Azure
7 20 (5.38%) ITIL
8 19 (5.11%) ITSM
9 18 (4.84%) Degree
10 17 (4.57%) Agile
10 17 (4.57%) SC Cleared
11 16 (4.30%) Java
12 15 (4.03%) Linux
12 15 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
12 15 (4.03%) SQL
13 14 (3.76%) Observability
14 13 (3.49%) Service Management
15 12 (3.23%) Decision-Making
15 12 (3.23%) Project Delivery
15 12 (3.23%) Security Operations
16 11 (2.96%) Technical Leadership
17 10 (2.69%) JavaScript
18 9 (2.42%) AI
18 9 (2.42%) Business Intelligence
18 9 (2.42%) Business Strategy
18 9 (2.42%) Incident Response
18 9 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
18 9 (2.42%) Physics

Technical 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 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.08%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (5.91%) Azure
2 15 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (2.15%) AWS
4 7 (1.88%) Entra ID
4 7 (1.88%) GCP
5 6 (1.61%) Datadog
5 6 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (1.61%) Microsoft Copilot
5 6 (1.61%) Nutanix
6 5 (1.34%) SaaS
7 4 (1.08%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.27%) Azure AI
8 1 (0.27%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.27%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.27%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (0.27%) GitHub
8 1 (0.27%) IaaS
8 1 (0.27%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.27%) PaaS
8 1 (0.27%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.42%) VPN
2 7 (1.88%) DHCP
2 7 (1.88%) DNS
2 7 (1.88%) Unified Communications
3 4 (1.08%) VSAN
4 3 (0.81%) VoIP
5 1 (0.27%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.27%) Firewall
5 1 (0.27%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.27%) Junos
5 1 (0.27%) LAN
5 1 (0.27%) WAN
5 1 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.15%) Electronic Patient Records
1 8 (2.15%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (1.61%) Git
2 5 (1.34%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.27%) GitLab
General
1 38 (10.22%) Finance
2 27 (7.26%) Social Skills
3 19 (5.11%) Legal
4 15 (4.03%) Public Sector
5 13 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.96%) Marketing
7 9 (2.42%) Law
7 9 (2.42%) Spanish Language
8 8 (2.15%) Banking
8 8 (2.15%) Health Technology
8 8 (2.15%) Retail
9 7 (1.88%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.61%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.08%) Advertising
13 3 (0.81%) Billing
14 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.27%) Automotive
15 1 (0.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.15%) FHIR
1 8 (2.15%) JSON
2 6 (1.61%) REST
2 6 (1.61%) SOAP
3 5 (1.34%) OAuth
3 5 (1.34%) OpenID
3 5 (1.34%) SAML
4 3 (0.81%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.57%) PKI
2 8 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (2.15%) NHS
3 6 (1.61%) Cloud Native
4 5 (1.34%) Cyberattack
4 5 (1.34%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.08%) Smart Home
6 3 (0.81%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.54%) Client/Server
7 2 (0.54%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.54%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (0.54%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.27%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.27%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.27%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.27%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.27%) VxBlock/Vblock
8 1 (0.27%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.03%) Linux
2 4 (1.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (11.83%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (9.95%) Cybersecurity
3 36 (9.68%) Presales
4 26 (6.99%) DevOps
5 20 (5.38%) ITIL
6 19 (5.11%) ITSM
7 17 (4.57%) Agile
8 14 (3.76%) Observability
9 13 (3.49%) Service Management
10 12 (3.23%) Decision-Making
10 12 (3.23%) Project Delivery
10 12 (3.23%) Security Operations
11 11 (2.96%) Technical Leadership
12 9 (2.42%) AI
12 9 (2.42%) Business Intelligence
12 9 (2.42%) Business Strategy
12 9 (2.42%) Incident Response
12 9 (2.42%) Physics
12 9 (2.42%) Risk Management
12 9 (2.42%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (4.30%) Java
2 15 (4.03%) SQL
3 10 (2.69%) JavaScript
4 6 (1.61%) Python
5 2 (0.54%) X++
6 1 (0.27%) C#
6 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (6.99%) Security Cleared
2 18 (4.84%) Degree
3 17 (4.57%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.34%) CISSP
4 5 (1.34%) GIAC
4 5 (1.34%) ISACA
4 5 (1.34%) SANS
4 5 (1.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (1.08%) VCAP
5 4 (1.08%) VCDX
6 2 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.54%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.27%) CCDA
7 1 (0.27%) CCNA
7 1 (0.27%) CCNP
7 1 (0.27%) Dell Certification
7 1 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.27%) JNCIA
7 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.15%) HL7
2 5 (1.34%) NIST
2 5 (1.34%) PMO
3 2 (0.54%) QA
4 1 (0.27%) GRC
System Software
1 8 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (1.88%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.88%) vSphere
3 6 (1.61%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.34%) Docker
5 4 (1.08%) vCloud
6 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (1.34%) Ansible
1 5 (1.34%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.54%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.27%) Avamar
3 1 (0.27%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (0.27%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (0.27%) EMC VPLEX
3 1 (0.27%) VxRail
Vendors
1 38 (10.22%) ServiceNow
2 26 (6.99%) Microsoft
3 9 (2.42%) VMware
4 8 (2.15%) Cisco
5 7 (1.88%) Avaloq
5 7 (1.88%) Okta
6 6 (1.61%) AppDynamics
6 6 (1.61%) Dell
6 6 (1.61%) Dynatrace
6 6 (1.61%) Google
6 6 (1.61%) NetApp
7 5 (1.34%) ForgeRock
7 5 (1.34%) Nimble Storage
8 4 (1.08%) Broadcom
8 4 (1.08%) Draytek
8 4 (1.08%) Ruckus Wireless
8 4 (1.08%) Samsung
9 3 (0.81%) BigPanda
9 3 (0.81%) Splunk
10 1 (0.27%) Palantir