Hybrid/Remote Technical Consultant Job Trends

Technical Consultant
UK > Work from Home

The median Technical Consultant salary for remote/hybrid work is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 July 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 373 337
Rank change year-on-year +24 -36 +70
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Consultant 97 67 236
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.46% 0.41% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.44% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 60 54 197
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £68,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £76,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.48% +38.64% -18.52%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £70,250
90th Percentile - £100,000 £76,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% +26.09% -11.54%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work 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 19,926 15,150 31,300
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 92.34% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 14,489 9,444 24,245
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,804 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +0.33% +5.80% -9.56%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

Technical Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Technical Consultant' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Technical Consultant job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Technical Consultant
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for remote Technical Consultant job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Technical Consultant job vacancies

Technical Consultant
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Technical Consultant over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

Technical Consultant salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Technical Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 9 July 2026, Technical 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 jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Technical Consultant in the job title.

1 30 (30.93%) Security Cleared
2 29 (29.90%) Presales
3 24 (24.74%) Cybersecurity
4 22 (22.68%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (20.62%) VMware
5 20 (20.62%) VMware Infrastructure
6 19 (19.59%) Azure
7 17 (17.53%) Disaster Recovery
7 17 (17.53%) vSphere
8 16 (16.49%) Dell
8 16 (16.49%) NetApp
8 16 (16.49%) Nutanix
8 16 (16.49%) ServiceNow
9 15 (15.46%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (15.46%) DevOps
9 15 (15.46%) Nimble Storage
9 15 (15.46%) PMO
10 13 (13.40%) AWS
10 13 (13.40%) ITIL
10 13 (13.40%) ITSM
10 13 (13.40%) Microsoft
11 12 (12.37%) GCP
12 11 (11.34%) DV Cleared
12 11 (11.34%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (11.34%) VMware NSX
12 11 (11.34%) Workshop Facilitation
13 10 (10.31%) Active Directory
13 10 (10.31%) DHCP
13 10 (10.31%) DNS
13 10 (10.31%) SC Cleared

Technical Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (2.06%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (8.25%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.06%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (2.06%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (2.06%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 19 (19.59%) Azure
2 16 (16.49%) Nutanix
3 13 (13.40%) AWS
4 12 (12.37%) GCP
5 8 (8.25%) Entra ID
6 5 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.06%) Datadog
7 2 (2.06%) GitHub
7 2 (2.06%) OCI
7 2 (2.06%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.06%) SaaS
8 1 (1.03%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.31%) DHCP
1 10 (10.31%) DNS
2 9 (9.28%) VSAN
3 6 (6.19%) Fibre Channel
3 6 (6.19%) iSCSI
4 2 (2.06%) Firewall
4 2 (2.06%) VLAN
4 2 (2.06%) VPN
5 1 (1.03%) Broadband
5 1 (1.03%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.09%) Oracle Reports
1 3 (3.09%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.06%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.06%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.03%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.03%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (8.25%) Git
2 5 (5.15%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.09%) GitLab
3 3 (3.09%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (2.06%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.03%) JIRA
General
1 30 (30.93%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.34%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.25%) Law
4 6 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.19%) Finance
5 5 (5.15%) Legal
6 2 (2.06%) General Ledger
6 2 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.03%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.03%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.28%) REST
2 7 (7.22%) SOAP
3 5 (5.15%) OAuth
3 5 (5.15%) OpenID
3 5 (5.15%) SAML
4 2 (2.06%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (2.06%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.03%) boto
5 1 (1.03%) EDI
5 1 (1.03%) JSON
5 1 (1.03%) Middleware
5 1 (1.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.49%) PKI
2 15 (15.46%) Data Centre
3 11 (11.34%) CMDB
4 9 (9.28%) Cloud Native
5 7 (7.22%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (6.19%) VxBlock/Vblock
7 5 (5.15%) Cyberattack
8 3 (3.09%) Data Structures
8 3 (3.09%) Onboarding
9 2 (2.06%) Client/Server
9 2 (2.06%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (2.06%) Driving Licence
9 2 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (1.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.25%) Linux
2 7 (7.22%) Windows
3 2 (2.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (29.90%) Presales
2 24 (24.74%) Cybersecurity
3 22 (22.68%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (17.53%) Disaster Recovery
5 15 (15.46%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (15.46%) DevOps
6 13 (13.40%) ITIL
6 13 (13.40%) ITSM
7 11 (11.34%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (11.34%) Workshop Facilitation
8 9 (9.28%) Project Delivery
9 8 (8.25%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (7.22%) Agile
10 7 (7.22%) AI
10 7 (7.22%) Software Testing
10 7 (7.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (7.22%) Test Automation
10 7 (7.22%) Translating Business Requirements
11 6 (6.19%) Converged Infrastructure
11 6 (6.19%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.28%) SQL
2 5 (5.15%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.03%) Python
3 1 (1.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (30.93%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.34%) DV Cleared
3 10 (10.31%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 9 (9.28%) VCAP
4 9 (9.28%) VCDX
5 8 (8.25%) Degree
6 6 (6.19%) CISSP
6 6 (6.19%) Dell Certification
7 5 (5.15%) GIAC
7 5 (5.15%) ISACA
7 5 (5.15%) SANS
8 1 (1.03%) CCDA
8 1 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.03%) CISM
8 1 (1.03%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.46%) PMO
2 8 (8.25%) NIST
2 8 (8.25%) QA
3 3 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.06%) SLA
5 1 (1.03%) GDPR
5 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (1.03%) NCSC
5 1 (1.03%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (20.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (17.53%) vSphere
3 11 (11.34%) VMware NSX
4 10 (10.31%) Active Directory
5 9 (9.28%) vCloud
6 8 (8.25%) Hyper-V
7 6 (6.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.19%) Avamar
1 6 (6.19%) Dell DRAC
1 6 (6.19%) EMC NetWorker
1 6 (6.19%) EMC VPLEX
1 6 (6.19%) Kubernetes
1 6 (6.19%) VxRail
2 5 (5.15%) Ansible
3 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.06%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (20.62%) VMware
2 16 (16.49%) Dell
2 16 (16.49%) NetApp
2 16 (16.49%) ServiceNow
3 15 (15.46%) Nimble Storage
4 13 (13.40%) Microsoft
5 9 (9.28%) Broadcom
6 8 (8.25%) Oracle
6 8 (8.25%) Veeam
7 7 (7.22%) Okta
8 6 (6.19%) 3PAR
8 6 (6.19%) Google
8 6 (6.19%) Isilon
9 5 (5.15%) ForgeRock
10 2 (2.06%) AppDynamics
10 2 (2.06%) Dynatrace
10 2 (2.06%) Fortinet
10 2 (2.06%) Palo Alto
10 2 (2.06%) Splunk
10 2 (2.06%) WatchGuard