Technical Consultant Jobs

Technical Consultant
UK

The median Technical Consultant salary in the UK is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 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
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 522 619
Rank change year-on-year +16 +97 +193
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Consultant 196 419 390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.42% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.45% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 136 349 268
10th Percentile £35,625 £36,000 £41,825
25th Percentile £39,688 £46,250 £47,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.09% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £82,500 £76,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £89,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +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 49,356 93,784 92,686
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.47% 94.63% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 27,595 67,216 58,370
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -
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 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

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 10 May 2025.

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 10 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 -19 181 £72,500 +26.09% 128
UK excluding London +54 115 £55,000 +4.76% 76
Work from Home +49 92 £72,500 +27.19% 94
London +55 66 £72,500 +3.57% 73
Midlands +60 33 £42,500 - 10
South East +67 31 £51,250 +2.50% 30
North of England +32 26 £75,000 +1.35% 21
West Midlands +41 18 £42,500 - 4
North West -19 16 £56,250 -23.99% 15
East Midlands +51 15 £80,000 +45.45% 6
South West +70 13 £35,000 -30.00% 7
Yorkshire +65 9 £80,000 +185.71% 3
Wales +38 4 £77,500 +63.16%
East of England +17 4 £57,500 +4.55% 4
Scotland +132 2 £100,000 +11.11% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £100,000 - 1
North East - 1 £95,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 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 68 (34.69%) Migration
2 58 (29.59%) JavaScript
3 55 (28.06%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (27.55%) Data Migration
5 53 (27.04%) Social Skills
6 49 (25.00%) ServiceNow
7 46 (23.47%) HTML
8 42 (21.43%) Oracle
9 35 (17.86%) SQL
10 34 (17.35%) Legacy Systems
11 31 (15.82%) AngularJS
12 29 (14.80%) Microsoft
13 25 (12.76%) PL/SQL
13 25 (12.76%) Data Cleansing
13 25 (12.76%) Public Sector
14 23 (11.73%) Security Cleared
15 22 (11.22%) SOAP
15 22 (11.22%) Requirements Gathering
16 21 (10.71%) Requirements Workshops
16 21 (10.71%) XML
16 21 (10.71%) Finance
16 21 (10.71%) Firewall
17 20 (10.20%) ERP
18 19 (9.69%) Azure
18 19 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
19 18 (9.18%) Mentoring
19 18 (9.18%) API Integration
19 18 (9.18%) Continuous Improvement
19 18 (9.18%) Restlet
19 18 (9.18%) NetSuite

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 9 (4.59%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.53%) OpenEdge
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.53%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.02%) SOLIDWORKS
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 18 (9.18%) NetSuite
2 15 (7.65%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (4.08%) NEC Housing
4 5 (2.55%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 19 (9.69%) Azure
2 10 (5.10%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
3 8 (4.08%) OneDrive
4 7 (3.57%) Entra ID
5 6 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.55%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.04%) AWS
8 3 (1.53%) GCP
8 3 (1.53%) SaaS
9 2 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.02%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 21 (10.71%) Firewall
2 18 (9.18%) WAN
3 15 (7.65%) SD-WAN
4 13 (6.63%) Network Security
5 11 (5.61%) Cisco Firepower
6 6 (3.06%) VPN
7 3 (1.53%) LAN
8 2 (1.02%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (1.02%) MPLS
8 2 (1.02%) VXLAN
8 2 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.02%) Wireless
9 1 (0.51%) SAN
9 1 (0.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.67%) Oracle ODI
2 8 (4.08%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (1.53%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.02%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.51%) Metadata
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.51%) Power BI
6 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (1.53%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.51%) JIRA
3 1 (0.51%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 53 (27.04%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.76%) Public Sector
3 21 (10.71%) Finance
4 19 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (8.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (5.61%) Local Government
7 8 (4.08%) Police
8 7 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.55%) Law
9 5 (2.55%) Marketing
10 3 (1.53%) Social Housing
11 2 (1.02%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.02%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.02%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.51%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.51%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (23.47%) HTML
2 31 (15.82%) AngularJS
3 22 (11.22%) SOAP
4 21 (10.71%) XML
5 18 (9.18%) Restlet
6 16 (8.16%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (2.55%) CSS
8 4 (2.04%) .NET
8 4 (2.04%) Web Services
9 3 (1.53%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.53%) REST
10 1 (0.51%) Ajax
10 1 (0.51%) ASP.NET
10 1 (0.51%) JSON
10 1 (0.51%) LDAP
10 1 (0.51%) WSDL
10 1 (0.51%) XML Messaging
10 1 (0.51%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 34 (17.35%) Legacy Systems
2 15 (7.65%) Data Structures
2 15 (7.65%) e-Learning
2 15 (7.65%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (1.53%) Data Centre
3 3 (1.53%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (1.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.51%) CMDB
5 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.51%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.51%) PropTech
5 1 (0.51%) Social Media
5 1 (0.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.55%) Windows
2 2 (1.02%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.02%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.51%) Linux
3 1 (0.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (34.69%) Migration
2 55 (28.06%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (27.55%) Data Migration
4 25 (12.76%) Data Cleansing
5 22 (11.22%) Requirements Gathering
6 21 (10.71%) Requirements Workshops
7 20 (10.20%) ERP
8 18 (9.18%) API Integration
8 18 (9.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (9.18%) Data Modelling
8 18 (9.18%) Mentoring
9 17 (8.67%) Coaching
9 17 (8.67%) ETL
10 16 (8.16%) Artificial Intelligence
11 15 (7.65%) API Management
11 15 (7.65%) Data Extraction
11 15 (7.65%) Data Mapping
11 15 (7.65%) Data Security
11 15 (7.65%) Validation
12 14 (7.14%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 58 (29.59%) JavaScript
2 35 (17.86%) SQL
3 25 (12.76%) PL/SQL
4 9 (4.59%) C#
5 6 (3.06%) X++
6 3 (1.53%) C
6 3 (1.53%) Progress 4GL
6 3 (1.53%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.02%) Groovy
8 1 (0.51%) Python
Qualifications
1 23 (11.73%) Security Cleared
2 16 (8.16%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (6.63%) CCNP
5 12 (6.12%) Degree
6 11 (5.61%) CCSA
6 11 (5.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (4.08%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.02%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.02%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.02%) MCP
8 2 (1.02%) MCSA
8 2 (1.02%) MCSE
9 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.51%) CCNA
9 1 (0.51%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.08%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.55%) QA
3 3 (1.53%) GRC
4 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.04%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.53%) Backup Exec
2 3 (1.53%) SCCM
3 2 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.51%) HP UCMDB
4 1 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 49 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 42 (21.43%) Oracle
3 29 (14.80%) Microsoft
4 16 (8.16%) IBM
5 15 (7.65%) Red Hat
6 13 (6.63%) Cisco
6 13 (6.63%) Fortinet
7 11 (5.61%) CheckPoint
7 11 (5.61%) Palo Alto
8 8 (4.08%) NEC
9 5 (2.55%) Adobe
9 5 (2.55%) Salesforce
9 5 (2.55%) VMware
10 4 (2.04%) Marketo
11 3 (1.53%) Epicor
11 3 (1.53%) Progress
11 3 (1.53%) Veritas
12 2 (1.02%) HP
12 2 (1.02%) SAP
12 2 (1.02%) ScienceLogic