Consultant Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Consultant
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Consultant salary in West Yorkshire is £68,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 July 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 85 46
Rank change year-on-year +47 -39 +36
Permanent jobs requiring a Consultant 124 28 107
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 3.32% 1.83% 3.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.50% 2.05% 4.15%
Number of salaries quoted 76 24 73
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,000 £24,000
25th Percentile £49,063 £58,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £70,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +17.08% -7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,313 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,500 £96,375 £90,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +27.27% -21.43%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 3,546 1,368 2,578
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.97% 89.47% 95.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,629 793 1,884
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,150 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year - +13.86% -8.18%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,148 £90,000 £80,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Consultant' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Consultant job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Consultant
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in West Yorkshire.

Salary distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in West Yorkshire

Consultant
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Consultant in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

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 21 July 2026. 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 +13 96 £70,000 - 17
Bradford - 13 £70,000 - 5
Halifax - 6 £65,000 - 1
Wakefield -5 5 £65,000 -13.33% 1
Cleckheaton - 4 £40,000 -
Consultant
Yorkshire

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 21 July 2026, Consultant job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Yorkshire region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 38 (30.65%) SAP
2 22 (17.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 21 (16.94%) User Acceptance Testing
4 18 (14.52%) System Integration Testing
5 15 (12.10%) ABAP
6 14 (11.29%) Oracle
7 13 (10.48%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (10.48%) Software Engineering
7 13 (10.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 12 (9.68%) Mentoring
8 12 (9.68%) OpenText
9 11 (8.87%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (8.87%) SAP MDG
10 10 (8.06%) Data Governance
11 9 (7.26%) Cybersecurity
11 9 (7.26%) Oracle EBS
11 9 (7.26%) Performance Testing
11 9 (7.26%) SAP BW
12 8 (6.45%) Data Modelling
12 8 (6.45%) SAP MDG-BP
12 8 (6.45%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (6.45%) Workshop Facilitation
13 7 (5.65%) AI
13 7 (5.65%) Collaborative Culture
13 7 (5.65%) Data Quality
13 7 (5.65%) GDPR
13 7 (5.65%) High Availability
13 7 (5.65%) Python
13 7 (5.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (5.65%) Security Cleared

Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 22 (17.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (8.87%) SAP MDG
3 9 (7.26%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (6.45%) SAP MDG-BP
5 4 (3.23%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
5 4 (3.23%) SAP IBP
5 4 (3.23%) SAP MDG-F
5 4 (3.23%) SAP SD
6 2 (1.61%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.81%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 5 (4.03%) AWS
1 5 (4.03%) Azure
2 4 (3.23%) OCI
3 3 (2.42%) Amazon Bedrock
3 3 (2.42%) Amazon SageMaker
3 3 (2.42%) Azure AI
3 3 (2.42%) Azure Machine Learning
3 3 (2.42%) SaaS
4 2 (1.61%) GCP
4 2 (1.61%) Serverless
5 1 (0.81%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.81%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.03%) HTTP
2 1 (0.81%) DNS
2 1 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.26%) SAP BW
2 5 (4.03%) SAP HANA
3 4 (3.23%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (2.42%) Oracle Forms
General
1 19 (15.32%) Finance
1 19 (15.32%) Social Skills
2 17 (13.71%) Retail
3 9 (7.26%) Legal
4 5 (4.03%) Law
5 4 (3.23%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.42%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.61%) Advertising
7 2 (1.61%) Back Office
7 2 (1.61%) Banking
7 2 (1.61%) Billing
7 2 (1.61%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.61%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.61%) Marketing
7 2 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.81%) Local Government
8 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.03%) SAP ALE
1 5 (4.03%) Web Dynpro
2 2 (1.61%) Node.js
2 2 (1.61%) React
3 1 (0.81%) Express.js
3 1 (0.81%) NestJS
3 1 (0.81%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.45%) Greenfield Project
1 8 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (4.03%) Replication
3 4 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.42%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.42%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.42%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.61%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.61%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.61%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.61%) NHS
5 2 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.81%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.81%) SystemC
6 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.23%) Linux
2 1 (0.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (16.94%) User Acceptance Testing
2 18 (14.52%) System Integration Testing
3 13 (10.48%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (10.48%) Software Engineering
3 13 (10.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 12 (9.68%) Mentoring
5 11 (8.87%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (8.06%) Data Governance
7 9 (7.26%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (7.26%) Performance Testing
8 8 (6.45%) Data Modelling
8 8 (6.45%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (6.45%) Workshop Facilitation
9 7 (5.65%) AI
9 7 (5.65%) Collaborative Culture
9 7 (5.65%) High Availability
10 6 (4.84%) Analytics
10 6 (4.84%) ERP
10 6 (4.84%) Process Improvement
10 6 (4.84%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 15 (12.10%) ABAP
2 7 (5.65%) Python
3 4 (3.23%) Bash
3 4 (3.23%) Java
4 3 (2.42%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.42%) Perl
4 3 (2.42%) PL/SQL
4 3 (2.42%) SQL
5 2 (1.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (5.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.61%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.65%) Data Quality
1 7 (5.65%) GDPR
1 7 (5.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (2.42%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (0.81%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.81%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 38 (30.65%) SAP
2 14 (11.29%) Oracle
3 12 (9.68%) OpenText
4 5 (4.03%) Ariba
4 5 (4.03%) Cisco
4 5 (4.03%) Fortinet
5 4 (3.23%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.42%) Databricks
6 3 (2.42%) Foundry
7 1 (0.81%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.81%) Salesforce