Consultant Jobs in West Yorkshire

Consultant
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Consultant salary in West Yorkshire is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 57 112
Rank change year-on-year -18 +55 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Consultant 27 113 128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.95% 3.64% 2.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.18% 3.78% 2.88%
Number of salaries quoted 25 69 56
10th Percentile £28,700 £25,000 £27,375
25th Percentile £55,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% -21.43% +24.44%
75th Percentile £90,000 £65,000 -
90th Percentile £96,000 £83,000 £73,625
Yorkshire median annual salary £71,246 £50,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +42.49% -28.57% +21.74%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,238 2,992 4,452
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.45% 96.39% 92.87%
Number of salaries quoted 637 2,183 2,230
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +9.62%
75th Percentile £76,250 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £82,500 £86,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,683 £49,136 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.96% -6.41% +5.00%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in West Yorkshire

Consultant
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Consultant in West Yorkshire

Consultant
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Consultant in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Consultant in West Yorkshire

Consultant
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 31 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
Leeds -14 26 £80,000 +45.45% 43
Consultant
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 Yorkshire region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (25.93%) Law
3 6 (22.22%) Business Continuity
3 6 (22.22%) Information Security
3 6 (22.22%) Incident Management
3 6 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (22.22%) Security Testing
3 6 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (22.22%) Data Protection
3 6 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
3 6 (22.22%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (22.22%) Cyberattack
3 6 (22.22%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 6 (22.22%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 6 (22.22%) Security Operations
3 6 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 6 (22.22%) Security Auditing
3 6 (22.22%) GDPR
3 6 (22.22%) Threat Intelligence
3 6 (22.22%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (22.22%) Risk Register
3 6 (22.22%) Incident Response
4 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
5 4 (14.81%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (14.81%) LAN
5 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
6 3 (11.11%) Roadmaps
6 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (7.41%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (7.41%) AWS
2 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
2 2 (7.41%) OneDrive
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.70%) Azure
3 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (3.70%) GCP
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (3.70%) Power Automate
3 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.70%) PowerApps
3 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) LAN
2 3 (11.11%) WAN
3 2 (7.41%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (7.41%) VPN
3 2 (7.41%) Wireless
4 1 (3.70%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (3.70%) Firewall
4 1 (3.70%) Network Security
4 1 (3.70%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Big Data
1 1 (3.70%) Data Mining
1 1 (3.70%) Power BI
General
1 7 (25.93%) Law
2 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Banking
3 2 (7.41%) Finance
3 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Czech Language
4 1 (3.70%) Health Technology
4 1 (3.70%) Legal
4 1 (3.70%) Marketing
4 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) SailPoint
2 1 (3.70%) AWS CDK
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Cyber Threat
1 6 (22.22%) Cyberattack
1 6 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.70%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.70%) Life Science
3 1 (3.70%) NHS
3 1 (3.70%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (22.22%) Business Continuity
1 6 (22.22%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) Data Protection
1 6 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
1 6 (22.22%) Incident Management
1 6 (22.22%) Incident Response
1 6 (22.22%) Information Security
1 6 (22.22%) Risk Register
1 6 (22.22%) Security Auditing
1 6 (22.22%) Security Operations
1 6 (22.22%) Security Testing
1 6 (22.22%) Threat Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
1 6 (22.22%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 3 (11.11%) Migration
2 3 (11.11%) Roadmaps
3 2 (7.41%) Agile
3 2 (7.41%) Business Development
3 2 (7.41%) ITIL
3 2 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.41%) Python
1 2 (7.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) CCNP
2 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) CCIE
4 1 (3.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (3.70%) CCSA
4 1 (3.70%) CCSP
4 1 (3.70%) CEH
4 1 (3.70%) CISM
4 1 (3.70%) CISSP
4 1 (3.70%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (22.22%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (22.22%) GDPR
1 6 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (3.70%) COBIT
2 1 (3.70%) NIST
2 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Backup Exec
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (7.41%) SCCM
2 1 (3.70%) Automic
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) Cisco
3 2 (7.41%) BeyondTrust
3 2 (7.41%) CyberArk
3 2 (7.41%) Okta
3 2 (7.41%) Veritas
4 1 (3.70%) Broadcom
4 1 (3.70%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.70%) Databricks
4 1 (3.70%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle
4 1 (3.70%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.70%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow