Senior Consultant Jobs in the West Midlands

Senior Consultant
England > West Midlands

The median Senior Consultant salary in the West Midlands is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 203 246
Rank change year-on-year +25 +43 +14
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Consultant 22 47 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.49% 0.65% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.69% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 13 39 12
10th Percentile £68,000 £46,500 £46,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £47,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.00% -3.85% +40.62%
75th Percentile £125,000 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile - £80,000 -
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

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 3,992 6,812 5,981
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.37% 94.09% 89.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,797 5,151 3,348
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £38,966
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 £63,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Senior Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Consultant in the West Midlands

Senior Consultant
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Senior Consultant in the West Midlands

Senior Consultant
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Consultant in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Consultant in the West Midlands

Senior 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 Senior Consultant within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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 +18 22 £85,000 +36.00% 10
Senior Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Consultant in the job title.

1 11 (50.00%) Finance
2 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 6 (27.27%) Linux
3 6 (27.27%) Mentoring
4 5 (22.73%) Customer Requirements
4 5 (22.73%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (22.73%) Public Sector
4 5 (22.73%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (22.73%) CRM
5 4 (18.18%) NEC
5 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (18.18%) Agile
5 4 (18.18%) SQL
5 4 (18.18%) Windows
5 4 (18.18%) Solaris
5 4 (18.18%) ISO 9001
5 4 (18.18%) BusinessObjects
5 4 (18.18%) Citrix
5 4 (18.18%) Local Government
5 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
5 4 (18.18%) Azure
5 4 (18.18%) Police
5 4 (18.18%) NEC Housing
5 4 (18.18%) DBS Check
5 4 (18.18%) Accessibility
5 4 (18.18%) Housing Management
5 4 (18.18%) Hackathon
6 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
6 3 (13.64%) Business Case
6 3 (13.64%) Feasibility Study

Senior 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:

Business Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (18.18%) NEC Housing
3 2 (9.09%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (9.09%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (9.09%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 2 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (4.55%) SAP CO
4 1 (4.55%) SAP ERP
4 1 (4.55%) SAP FI
4 1 (4.55%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (4.55%) SAP HCM
4 1 (4.55%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (18.18%) Azure
3 2 (9.09%) AWS
3 2 (9.09%) OCI
3 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (9.09%) IPsec
1 2 (9.09%) LAN
1 2 (9.09%) Network Security
1 2 (9.09%) VPN
1 2 (9.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 11 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (22.73%) Public Sector
3 4 (18.18%) Local Government
3 4 (18.18%) Police
4 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.55%) BAPI
2 1 (4.55%) EJB
2 1 (4.55%) JDBC
2 1 (4.55%) SAP ALE
2 1 (4.55%) SAP PI
2 1 (4.55%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Hackathon
2 3 (13.64%) NHS
3 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (4.55%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Linux
2 4 (18.18%) Solaris
2 4 (18.18%) Windows
3 2 (9.09%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) Mentoring
2 5 (22.73%) CRM
2 5 (22.73%) Customer Requirements
3 4 (18.18%) Agile
3 4 (18.18%) Housing Management
3 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (13.64%) Asset Management
4 3 (13.64%) Business Case
4 3 (13.64%) ERP
4 3 (13.64%) Feasibility Study
4 3 (13.64%) Psychology
4 3 (13.64%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (9.09%) Analytics
5 2 (9.09%) Coaching
5 2 (9.09%) Customer Retention
5 2 (9.09%) DevOps
5 2 (9.09%) ITIL
5 2 (9.09%) Migration
6 1 (4.55%) Test Scripting
6 1 (4.55%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) SQL
2 2 (9.09%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) DBS Check
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 3 (13.64%) HNC
2 3 (13.64%) HND
2 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) CCIE
3 2 (9.09%) CCNP
3 2 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) Accessibility
1 4 (18.18%) ISO 9001
2 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.55%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Ansible
1 2 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 4 (18.18%) Citrix
2 4 (18.18%) NEC
3 3 (13.64%) SAP
4 2 (9.09%) Cisco
4 2 (9.09%) Hyperion
4 2 (9.09%) JD Edwards
4 2 (9.09%) Oracle
4 2 (9.09%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow