Consultant Jobs in the West Midlands

Consultant
England > West Midlands

The median Consultant salary in the West Midlands is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 60 129
Rank change year-on-year -34 +69 -36
Permanent jobs requiring a Consultant 110 274 158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.56% 3.72% 2.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.83% 3.95% 2.73%
Number of salaries quoted 78 232 131
10th Percentile £32,500 £22,650 £40,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -22.48% +17.27%
75th Percentile £82,500 £65,313 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +3.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 3,890 6,941 5,781
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.57% 94.19% 90.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,758 5,207 3,296
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,625 £35,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in the West Midlands

Consultant
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Consultant in the West Midlands

Consultant
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Consultant in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Consultant in the West Midlands

Consultant
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 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
Birmingham +10 92 £65,000 +8.33% 51
Staffordshire -17 5 £85,000 +196.17% 39
Warwickshire -10 2 - - 17
Halesowen - 2 £36,000 -
Worcestershire +17 1 £51,000 -11.30% 4
Shropshire +6 1 £55,000 +15.79% 8
Dudley 0 1 - -
Kingswinford - 1 £37,500 -
Herefordshire - 1 £25,500 - 1
Consultant
England

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 14 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 West Midlands region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 46 (41.82%) Social Skills
2 35 (31.82%) Finance
3 34 (30.91%) Collaborative Working
3 34 (30.91%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (29.09%) Project Management
5 29 (26.36%) ERP
6 27 (24.55%) SAP
7 24 (21.82%) Migration
7 24 (21.82%) CRM
8 23 (20.91%) Security Cleared
9 22 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
10 21 (19.09%) NetSuite
10 21 (19.09%) Data Migration
11 19 (17.27%) Requirements Gathering
11 19 (17.27%) Microsoft
11 19 (17.27%) Data Privacy
12 18 (16.36%) Dynamics 365
13 17 (15.45%) Project Delivery
14 16 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
15 14 (12.73%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (10.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 11 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
17 11 (10.00%) Degree
18 10 (9.09%) ITIL
18 10 (9.09%) SQL
19 9 (8.18%) Oracle
19 9 (8.18%) Service Delivery
19 9 (8.18%) Azure
19 9 (8.18%) Mentoring
19 9 (8.18%) Analytics

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (0.91%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.82%) Adobe Captivate
3 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 21 (19.09%) NetSuite
2 11 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (6.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (4.55%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (3.64%) SAP CO
5 4 (3.64%) SAP FI
5 4 (3.64%) SAP HR
6 3 (2.73%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (1.82%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (1.82%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (1.82%) PeopleSoft HCM
8 1 (0.91%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.91%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.91%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.91%) SAP HCM
8 1 (0.91%) SAP Payroll
8 1 (0.91%) SAP PS
8 1 (0.91%) SAP SCM
8 1 (0.91%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.91%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 18 (16.36%) Dynamics 365
2 9 (8.18%) Azure
3 8 (7.27%) Power Platform
4 4 (3.64%) Boomi
4 4 (3.64%) SaaS
4 4 (3.64%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (1.82%) AWS
5 2 (1.82%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.82%) OCI
6 1 (0.91%) MailChimp
6 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (0.91%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.73%) Network Security
2 2 (1.82%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (1.82%) IPsec
2 2 (1.82%) LAN
2 2 (1.82%) VPN
2 2 (1.82%) Wireless
3 1 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (0.91%) Firewall
3 1 (0.91%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.91%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.45%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.64%) DB2
2 4 (3.64%) MaxDB
2 4 (3.64%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (3.64%) SAP HANA
3 3 (2.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (2.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.82%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.91%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.91%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (2.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 3 (2.73%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.91%) LSMW
General
1 46 (41.82%) Social Skills
2 35 (31.82%) Finance
3 22 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (12.73%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (10.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (4.55%) Law
6 5 (4.55%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.64%) Billing
8 3 (2.73%) Legal
8 3 (2.73%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.73%) Marketing
9 2 (1.82%) Multimedia
9 2 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.91%) Czech Language
10 1 (0.91%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.55%) HTML
1 5 (4.55%) Restlet
1 5 (4.55%) SOAP
1 5 (4.55%) XML
2 4 (3.64%) SAP Basis
3 2 (1.82%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.91%) BAPI
4 1 (0.91%) EJB
4 1 (0.91%) JDBC
4 1 (0.91%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.91%) SAP ALE
4 1 (0.91%) SAP PI
4 1 (0.91%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.27%) Management Information System
2 7 (6.36%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.64%) e-Learning
4 4 (3.64%) Hackathon
5 3 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.73%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.73%) NHS
5 3 (2.73%) Social Media
6 2 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.82%) Learning Management System
6 2 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.82%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.91%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.91%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.91%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (0.91%) IoT
7 1 (0.91%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.91%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.55%) Windows
2 4 (3.64%) AIX
2 4 (3.64%) Unix
3 2 (1.82%) Linux
3 2 (1.82%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (30.91%) Collaborative Working
1 34 (30.91%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (29.09%) Project Management
3 29 (26.36%) ERP
4 24 (21.82%) CRM
4 24 (21.82%) Migration
5 21 (19.09%) Data Migration
6 19 (17.27%) Data Privacy
6 19 (17.27%) Requirements Gathering
7 17 (15.45%) Project Delivery
8 16 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (9.09%) ITIL
10 9 (8.18%) Analytics
10 9 (8.18%) Mentoring
10 9 (8.18%) Service Delivery
11 8 (7.27%) Architectural Design
11 8 (7.27%) Business Transformation
11 8 (7.27%) Capacity Planning
12 7 (6.36%) Agile
12 7 (6.36%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.09%) SQL
2 7 (6.36%) JavaScript
3 6 (5.45%) ABAP
4 4 (3.64%) Java
5 3 (2.73%) C
5 3 (2.73%) C#
5 3 (2.73%) X++
Qualifications
1 23 (20.91%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.00%) Degree
3 5 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.64%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.73%) CCNP
5 3 (2.73%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.73%) HNC
5 3 (2.73%) HND
5 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.82%) CCIE
7 1 (0.91%) CCA
7 1 (0.91%) CCSA
7 1 (0.91%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.64%) PMO
2 3 (2.73%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.73%) NIST
3 2 (1.82%) GDPR
4 1 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.91%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (1.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.82%) Ansible
1 2 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (1.82%) Terraform
2 1 (0.91%) Automic
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.91%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 27 (24.55%) SAP
2 19 (17.27%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.18%) Oracle
4 4 (3.64%) Dell
5 3 (2.73%) Cisco
6 2 (1.82%) Adobe
6 2 (1.82%) Hyperion
6 2 (1.82%) IBM
6 2 (1.82%) JD Edwards
6 2 (1.82%) PeopleSoft
6 2 (1.82%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.82%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.91%) Broadcom
7 1 (0.91%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.91%) Epicor
7 1 (0.91%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.91%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.91%) Pegasus
7 1 (0.91%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.91%) Veeam