Hybrid/Remote Technical Consultant Job Trends

Technical Consultant
UK > Work from Home

The median Technical Consultant salary for remote/hybrid work is £61,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 September 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 348 268
Rank change year-on-year -1 -80 +93
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Consultant 123 73 238
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.50% 0.45% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.49% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 82 65 179
10th Percentile £48,750 £55,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £53,125 £62,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +18.18% -18.52%
75th Percentile £81,875 £86,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £64,563 £65,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -0.67% +14.04% -12.31%

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 23,064 14,979 21,737
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.76% 92.70% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 16,125 8,882 13,898
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.73% - -8.33%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 34 (27.64%) Security Cleared
2 29 (23.58%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (21.95%) Cybersecurity
3 27 (21.95%) Presales
4 24 (19.51%) Azure
5 23 (18.70%) Microsoft
5 23 (18.70%) VMware
5 23 (18.70%) VMware Infrastructure
6 22 (17.89%) Disaster Recovery
7 19 (15.45%) SC Cleared
8 18 (14.63%) AWS
8 18 (14.63%) Workshop Facilitation
9 17 (13.82%) Active Directory
9 17 (13.82%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (13.82%) Windows
10 16 (13.01%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (13.01%) ServiceNow
11 15 (12.20%) Hyper-V
11 15 (12.20%) SQL
12 14 (11.38%) AI
12 14 (11.38%) vSphere
13 13 (10.57%) Dell
13 13 (10.57%) NetApp
13 13 (10.57%) Nimble Storage
13 13 (10.57%) Nutanix
13 13 (10.57%) PMO
14 12 (9.76%) DHCP
14 12 (9.76%) DNS
14 12 (9.76%) ITSM
14 12 (9.76%) Translating Business Requirements

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 6 (4.88%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.25%) Confluence
4 2 (1.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.81%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (6.50%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (3.25%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (2.44%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.63%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.63%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 24 (19.51%) Azure
2 18 (14.63%) AWS
3 17 (13.82%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (10.57%) Nutanix
5 10 (8.13%) SaaS
6 9 (7.32%) Entra ID
6 9 (7.32%) GCP
7 5 (4.07%) OneDrive
8 4 (3.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (3.25%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (3.25%) Azure Storage
9 3 (2.44%) GitHub
10 2 (1.63%) OCI
11 1 (0.81%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.81%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.81%) Lucidchart
11 1 (0.81%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.81%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.76%) DHCP
1 12 (9.76%) DNS
2 9 (7.32%) Firewall
2 9 (7.32%) VPN
3 7 (5.69%) VSAN
4 6 (4.88%) Fibre Channel
4 6 (4.88%) iSCSI
5 5 (4.07%) VLAN
6 4 (3.25%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.44%) Network Security
8 1 (0.81%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
1 3 (2.44%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.63%) Oracle Database
2 2 (1.63%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.81%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (4.07%) JIRA
2 3 (2.44%) Git
2 3 (2.44%) GitLab
2 3 (2.44%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (1.63%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.81%) PowerBuilder
General
1 37 (30.08%) Social Skills
2 17 (13.82%) Public Sector
3 14 (11.38%) Legal
4 10 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.88%) Finance
5 6 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (4.88%) Police
6 5 (4.07%) Law
6 5 (4.07%) Marketing
7 3 (2.44%) Automotive
7 3 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.63%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.63%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.81%) Advertising
9 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.81%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.13%) REST
2 8 (6.50%) SOAP
3 5 (4.07%) Terraform
4 3 (2.44%) XML
5 2 (1.63%) .NET
5 2 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.81%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.81%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.81%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (0.81%) boto
6 1 (0.81%) CSS
6 1 (0.81%) EDI
6 1 (0.81%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.81%) HTML
6 1 (0.81%) JSON
6 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.81%) Middleware
6 1 (0.81%) React
6 1 (0.81%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.81%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.57%) Data Centre
2 11 (8.94%) CMDB
2 11 (8.94%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (8.94%) PKI
3 6 (4.88%) Enterprise Storage
3 6 (4.88%) VxBlock/Vblock
4 5 (4.07%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.25%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.25%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (2.44%) Client/Server
6 3 (2.44%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.44%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.63%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.63%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.81%) Blog
8 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.81%) IoT
8 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.81%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 17 (13.82%) Windows
2 12 (9.76%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.07%) Linux
4 1 (0.81%) Android
4 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (23.58%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (21.95%) Cybersecurity
2 27 (21.95%) Presales
3 22 (17.89%) Disaster Recovery
4 18 (14.63%) Workshop Facilitation
5 16 (13.01%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (11.38%) AI
7 12 (9.76%) ITSM
7 12 (9.76%) Translating Business Requirements
8 11 (8.94%) Analytics
8 11 (8.94%) DevOps
8 11 (8.94%) ITIL
9 10 (8.13%) Project Delivery
9 10 (8.13%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (7.32%) Agile
10 9 (7.32%) Customer Service
10 9 (7.32%) Requirements Gathering
10 9 (7.32%) Risk Management
11 8 (6.50%) Information Security
11 8 (6.50%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 15 (12.20%) SQL
2 9 (7.32%) Python
3 7 (5.69%) JavaScript
3 7 (5.69%) PL/SQL
4 5 (4.07%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.25%) Bicep
6 3 (2.44%) C++
7 2 (1.63%) C#
8 1 (0.81%) C
8 1 (0.81%) Java
8 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.81%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.81%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 34 (27.64%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.45%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.94%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.69%) VCAP
4 7 (5.69%) VCDX
4 7 (5.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 6 (4.88%) Dell Certification
6 4 (3.25%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.44%) CISM
7 3 (2.44%) CISSP
7 3 (2.44%) CRISC
7 3 (2.44%) Degree
8 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.57%) PMO
2 8 (6.50%) QA
2 8 (6.50%) SLA
3 5 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.07%) NIST
4 3 (2.44%) GDPR
4 3 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 3 (2.44%) NCSC
4 3 (2.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (18.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (13.82%) Active Directory
3 15 (12.20%) Hyper-V
4 14 (11.38%) vSphere
5 8 (6.50%) VMware NSX
6 7 (5.69%) vCloud
7 4 (3.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (3.25%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.88%) Avamar
1 6 (4.88%) Dell DRAC
1 6 (4.88%) EMC NetWorker
1 6 (4.88%) EMC VPLEX
1 6 (4.88%) VxRail
2 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.81%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.81%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (18.70%) Microsoft
1 23 (18.70%) VMware
2 16 (13.01%) ServiceNow
3 13 (10.57%) Dell
3 13 (10.57%) NetApp
3 13 (10.57%) Nimble Storage
4 11 (8.94%) Veeam
5 10 (8.13%) Oracle
6 7 (5.69%) Broadcom
7 6 (4.88%) 3PAR
7 6 (4.88%) Isilon
8 5 (4.07%) Fortinet
8 5 (4.07%) N-able
8 5 (4.07%) Palo Alto
8 5 (4.07%) SonicWALL
8 5 (4.07%) WatchGuard
9 4 (3.25%) Adobe
9 4 (3.25%) Marketo
9 4 (3.25%) Salesforce
10 3 (2.44%) Google