Consultant Jobs in Wales

Consultant
UK > Wales

The median Consultant salary in Wales is £52,052 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 45 92
Rank change year-on-year -25 +47 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Consultant 11 84 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 0.98% 4.08% 2.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 4.41% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 8 43 25
10th Percentile £34,250 £31,250 £54,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,052 £47,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.58% -32.14% +21.74%
75th Percentile £72,813 £67,500 -
90th Percentile £86,875 £71,250 -
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,925
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.67% +4.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Wales. 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 Wales with a recognized job title 968 1,906 1,422
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.58% 92.66% 85.92%
Number of salaries quoted 562 1,295 801
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £26,391
25th Percentile £25,087 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.96% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £72,993 £70,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in Wales

Consultant
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Consultant in Wales

Consultant
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Consultant in Wales over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Consultant in Wales

Consultant
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the Wales region over the 6 months to 17 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
South Wales -22 9 £62,500 +38.89% 6
West Wales +9 1 £49,104 -10.72%
North Wales +8 1 £35,000 -
Consultant
UK

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, 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 across the Wales region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) Legal
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Fintech
1 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Generative AI
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (9.09%) Metadata
2 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (9.09%) Impact Analysis
2 1 (9.09%) Business Impact Analysis
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
2 1 (9.09%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) Data Science
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Security Architecture
2 1 (9.09%) Data Governance
2 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (9.09%) Metadata Management
2 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (9.09%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Metadata
General
1 2 (18.18%) Legal
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
1 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) Fintech
1 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (9.09%) Asset Management
2 1 (9.09%) Business Impact Analysis
2 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (9.09%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (9.09%) Data Governance
2 1 (9.09%) Data Management
2 1 (9.09%) Data Migration
2 1 (9.09%) Data Science
2 1 (9.09%) Generative AI
2 1 (9.09%) Impact Analysis
2 1 (9.09%) Information Security
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (9.09%) Metadata Management
2 1 (9.09%) Migration
2 1 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (9.09%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (9.09%) Security Architecture
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) CISSP
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) Sage
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) VMware