Consultant Jobs with Work from Home Options

Consultant
UK > Work from Home

The median Consultant salary for remote or hybrid work is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 66 128
Rank change year-on-year +21 +62 -65
Permanent jobs requiring a Consultant 1,444 1,478 2,503
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.17% 4.50% 3.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.37% 4.70% 3.29%
Number of salaries quoted 998 1,140 1,701
10th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 26,891 31,453 76,163
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.26% 95.84% 96.99%
Number of salaries quoted 19,582 23,849 44,441
10th Percentile £34,500 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,749 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,728 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Consultant
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Consultant trend for jobs with a WFH option

Consultant
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Consultant.

Consultant salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Consultant
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Consultant over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Consultant salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 453 (31.37%) Microsoft
2 362 (25.07%) Social Skills
3 350 (24.24%) Finance
4 269 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
5 208 (14.40%) Azure
6 190 (13.16%) Presales
7 184 (12.74%) Roadmaps
8 168 (11.63%) Degree
9 164 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
10 162 (11.22%) Project Management
11 140 (9.70%) Windows
12 138 (9.56%) SQL
12 138 (9.56%) Marketing
13 137 (9.49%) Power Platform
14 130 (9.00%) Dynamics 365
15 127 (8.80%) Actionable Insight
16 124 (8.59%) AWS
17 120 (8.31%) Microsoft 365
17 120 (8.31%) Firewall
17 120 (8.31%) VMware
18 119 (8.24%) Security Cleared
19 115 (7.96%) Data Architecture
20 113 (7.83%) Strategic Roadmap
21 112 (7.76%) Python
22 109 (7.55%) Agile
22 109 (7.55%) Cybersecurity
23 105 (7.27%) Presentation Skills
24 104 (7.20%) SAP
25 103 (7.13%) Retail
26 101 (6.99%) ERP

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 65 (4.50%) SharePoint
2 59 (4.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 56 (3.88%) Apache
4 8 (0.55%) IIS
5 4 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.28%) Confluence
6 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.14%) SAS
8 1 (0.069%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.069%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 37 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (0.97%) Adobe XD
4 12 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.35%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.28%) Revit
8 3 (0.21%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.069%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.069%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 57 (3.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (3.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 24 (1.66%) Dynamics NAV
4 18 (1.25%) Oracle Receivables
5 17 (1.18%) Sage 200
6 16 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
7 14 (0.97%) Oracle ERP
7 14 (0.97%) SAP Business One
8 11 (0.76%) SAP SD
9 10 (0.69%) Unit4 Business World
10 9 (0.62%) NetSuite
10 9 (0.62%) SAP FI
11 8 (0.55%) PeopleSoft HCM
11 8 (0.55%) SAP PP
12 7 (0.48%) SAP MM
12 7 (0.48%) SAP SCM
13 6 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
13 6 (0.42%) Sage X3
13 6 (0.42%) SAP EWM
14 5 (0.35%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 208 (14.40%) Azure
2 137 (9.49%) Power Platform
3 130 (9.00%) Dynamics 365
4 124 (8.59%) AWS
5 120 (8.31%) Microsoft 365
6 60 (4.16%) Entra ID
7 56 (3.88%) Amazon S3
8 46 (3.19%) Power Automate
9 43 (2.98%) SaaS
10 39 (2.70%) PowerApps
11 25 (1.73%) GCP
12 24 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
13 23 (1.59%) OneDrive
14 22 (1.52%) IaaS
15 21 (1.45%) PaaS
16 17 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
17 15 (1.04%) OCI
18 13 (0.90%) SuccessFactors
19 12 (0.83%) Azure Stack
20 9 (0.62%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 120 (8.31%) Firewall
2 66 (4.57%) VPN
3 63 (4.36%) Internet
4 58 (4.02%) IPsec
5 54 (3.74%) SNMP
6 49 (3.39%) WAN
7 33 (2.29%) Wireless
8 30 (2.08%) DNS
8 30 (2.08%) SD-WAN
9 28 (1.94%) TCP/IP
10 23 (1.59%) Network Security
11 21 (1.45%) LAN
12 20 (1.39%) DHCP
13 15 (1.04%) MPLS
14 14 (0.97%) Unified Communications
15 13 (0.90%) VLAN
16 10 (0.69%) BGP
17 9 (0.62%) Broadband
17 9 (0.62%) Cisco Firepower
17 9 (0.62%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (6.02%) Power BI
2 58 (4.02%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (3.95%) Data Lake
4 54 (3.74%) Elasticsearch
4 54 (3.74%) MongoDB
5 47 (3.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 38 (2.63%) SQL Server
7 18 (1.25%) Power Query
8 16 (1.11%) Tableau
9 14 (0.97%) Relational Database
9 14 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 10 (0.69%) GIS
11 9 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (0.42%) MySQL
13 6 (0.42%) Oracle Database
14 5 (0.35%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.35%) QlikView
14 5 (0.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (1.25%) PowerBuilder
2 15 (1.04%) Git
3 13 (0.90%) Axure RP
3 13 (0.90%) Balsamiq
4 9 (0.62%) JIRA
5 5 (0.35%) LSMW
6 2 (0.14%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.14%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.069%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.069%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.069%) GitLab
7 1 (0.069%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.069%) JMeter
7 1 (0.069%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.069%) Selenium
7 1 (0.069%) Subversion
7 1 (0.069%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.069%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.069%) WebDriver
General
1 362 (25.07%) Social Skills
2 350 (24.24%) Finance
3 164 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
4 138 (9.56%) Marketing
5 105 (7.27%) Presentation Skills
6 103 (7.13%) Retail
7 83 (5.75%) Public Sector
8 73 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 36 (2.49%) Legal
10 32 (2.22%) Manufacturing
11 26 (1.80%) Law
12 15 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (1.04%) Telecoms
13 13 (0.90%) Automotive
14 12 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (0.83%) German Language
15 10 (0.69%) Banking
15 10 (0.69%) Games
16 8 (0.55%) Advertising
16 8 (0.55%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (4.22%) HTML
2 54 (3.74%) RabbitMQ
2 54 (3.74%) YAML
3 28 (1.94%) CSS
4 26 (1.80%) .NET
5 23 (1.59%) Web Services
6 21 (1.45%) XML
7 20 (1.39%) AngularJS
8 19 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (0.48%) JSON
10 6 (0.42%) ASP.NET
10 6 (0.42%) ASP.NET MVC
11 5 (0.35%) ARM Templates
11 5 (0.35%) SAP Fiori
12 4 (0.28%) Node.js
13 3 (0.21%) HTML5
13 3 (0.21%) SAP TM
13 3 (0.21%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 3 (0.21%) Unity (Game Engine)
13 3 (0.21%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 96 (6.65%) Data Centre
2 50 (3.46%) Management Information System
3 47 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
4 41 (2.84%) Onboarding
5 22 (1.52%) Product Ownership
6 20 (1.39%) IoT
7 19 (1.32%) Operational Technology
8 16 (1.11%) Low-Code
9 14 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (0.97%) Public Cloud
10 13 (0.90%) Virtual Team
11 12 (0.83%) FMCG
12 10 (0.69%) Client/Server
12 10 (0.69%) Mobile App
12 10 (0.69%) Social Media
13 9 (0.62%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 9 (0.62%) Video Conferencing
14 8 (0.55%) CMDB
14 8 (0.55%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (0.48%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 140 (9.70%) Windows
2 84 (5.82%) Linux
3 54 (3.74%) Data ONTAP
4 45 (3.12%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.83%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.62%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.55%) Unix
8 6 (0.42%) Android
9 5 (0.35%) AIX
9 5 (0.35%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.35%) Solaris
10 4 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.14%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.14%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.14%) VMS
12 1 (0.069%) Debian
12 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
2 190 (13.16%) Presales
3 184 (12.74%) Roadmaps
4 162 (11.22%) Project Management
5 127 (8.80%) Actionable Insight
6 115 (7.96%) Data Architecture
7 113 (7.83%) Strategic Roadmap
8 109 (7.55%) Agile
8 109 (7.55%) Cybersecurity
9 101 (6.99%) ERP
10 98 (6.79%) Mentoring
11 93 (6.44%) Customer Service
11 93 (6.44%) Requirements Gathering
12 84 (5.82%) Migration
13 83 (5.75%) Service Delivery
14 80 (5.54%) Artificial Intelligence
14 80 (5.54%) CRM
14 80 (5.54%) Project Delivery
15 79 (5.47%) Business Intelligence
16 72 (4.99%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 138 (9.56%) SQL
2 112 (7.76%) Python
3 68 (4.71%) JavaScript
4 42 (2.91%) C#
5 33 (2.29%) PL/SQL
6 28 (1.94%) PowerShell
7 18 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 15 (1.04%) Bicep
9 14 (0.97%) Java
10 13 (0.90%) VB.NET
11 11 (0.76%) Bash
11 11 (0.76%) R
12 8 (0.55%) C
13 5 (0.35%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.35%) TypeScript
14 4 (0.28%) ABAP
14 4 (0.28%) VBA
15 3 (0.21%) Perl
15 3 (0.21%) Scala
16 2 (0.14%) C++
Qualifications
1 168 (11.63%) Degree
2 119 (8.24%) Security Cleared
3 71 (4.92%) SC Cleared
4 68 (4.71%) Azure Certification
5 47 (3.25%) AWS Certification
6 45 (3.12%) Microsoft Certification
7 28 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
8 27 (1.87%) CISSP
8 27 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 20 (1.39%) CCIE
9 20 (1.39%) CISM
10 19 (1.32%) CEH
11 18 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
11 18 (1.25%) CCNP
12 17 (1.18%) DBS Check
12 17 (1.18%) DV Cleared
12 17 (1.18%) Master's Degree
13 13 (0.90%) CRISC
14 11 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
15 8 (0.55%) CASP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (1.87%) NIST
3 23 (1.59%) JSP 440
4 22 (1.52%) QA
5 20 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
6 19 (1.32%) Accessibility
7 18 (1.25%) Data Quality
8 16 (1.11%) NCSC
9 13 (0.90%) WCAG
10 12 (0.83%) GRC
11 10 (0.69%) GDPR
11 10 (0.69%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.42%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.28%) COBIT
13 4 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 4 (0.28%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.28%) PMO
13 4 (0.28%) RMADS
14 3 (0.21%) SLA
15 2 (0.14%) GMP
System Software
1 89 (6.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 64 (4.43%) Active Directory
3 56 (3.88%) Docker
4 21 (1.45%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.42%) vSphere
8 5 (0.35%) Firmware
8 5 (0.35%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.14%) FreeRADIUS
9 2 (0.14%) Shibboleth
10 1 (0.069%) KVM
10 1 (0.069%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.069%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 67 (4.64%) Ansible
2 59 (4.09%) Kubernetes
3 58 (4.02%) vCenter Server
4 54 (3.74%) Prometheus
5 30 (2.08%) Terraform
6 27 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.35%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.28%) SCCM
10 2 (0.14%) Avamar
10 2 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.14%) Nessus
10 2 (0.14%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.14%) Nmap
10 2 (0.14%) PaperCut
10 2 (0.14%) VxRail
11 1 (0.069%) FTK
11 1 (0.069%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.069%) HP UCMDB
Vendors
1 453 (31.37%) Microsoft
2 120 (8.31%) VMware
3 104 (7.20%) SAP
4 97 (6.72%) Oracle
5 74 (5.12%) Palo Alto
6 60 (4.16%) Red Hat
7 57 (3.95%) ServiceNow
8 56 (3.88%) NetApp
9 54 (3.74%) SolidFire
10 42 (2.91%) Cisco
11 33 (2.29%) Adobe
12 28 (1.94%) Fortinet
12 28 (1.94%) Google
13 22 (1.52%) Sage
14 21 (1.45%) Apple
14 21 (1.45%) Salesforce
15 18 (1.25%) Meraki
16 17 (1.18%) Aruba
17 14 (0.97%) Juniper
18 10 (0.69%) Databricks