Consultant Jobs in the South West

Consultant
England > South West

The median Consultant salary in the South West is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 119 196
Rank change year-on-year +60 +77 -60
Permanent jobs requiring a Consultant 387 175 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.16% 2.56% 1.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.33% 2.87% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 279 136 65
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,875 £31,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,800 £87,500 £75,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 8,945 6,087 7,773
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.22% 89.19% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,520 3,772 5,137
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £29,450
25th Percentile £36,365 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £64,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,650 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in the South West

Consultant
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Consultant in the South West

Consultant
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Consultant in the South West over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Consultant in the South West

Consultant
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the South West region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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
Bristol +39 225 £68,500 -2.14% 64
Gloucestershire +29 71 £55,000 -0.45% 18
Wiltshire +6 35 £60,000 -11.11% 19
Somerset +34 27 £47,500 +61.02% 5
Devon -5 15 £31,000 -40.95% 17
Dorset -16 9 £47,500 -5.00% 4
Cornwall -18 2 £18,000 -52.00%
Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 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 job ads across the South West region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 142 (36.69%) Security Cleared
2 137 (35.40%) Cybersecurity
2 137 (35.40%) Social Skills
3 90 (23.26%) Microsoft
4 77 (19.90%) Risk Management
4 77 (19.90%) Finance
5 69 (17.83%) DV Cleared
6 62 (16.02%) SC Cleared
6 62 (16.02%) Azure
7 61 (15.76%) Information Assurance
8 59 (15.25%) Mentoring
9 58 (14.99%) Agile
10 57 (14.73%) NIST
11 45 (11.63%) Coaching
12 42 (10.85%) Presales
12 42 (10.85%) Security Operations
13 40 (10.34%) Information Security
14 39 (10.08%) Public Sector
14 39 (10.08%) Power Platform
15 38 (9.82%) Problem-Solving
15 38 (9.82%) CISSP
16 37 (9.56%) Retail
16 37 (9.56%) JSP 440
16 37 (9.56%) CESG Certified Professional
17 36 (9.30%) AWS
17 36 (9.30%) CISM
18 35 (9.04%) Degree
19 34 (8.79%) Military
19 34 (8.79%) SharePoint
19 34 (8.79%) Python

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 34 (8.79%) SharePoint
2 22 (5.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.62%) IIS
4 6 (1.55%) Confluence
5 4 (1.03%) Apache
6 2 (0.52%) nginx
6 2 (0.52%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.26%) JOnAS
Applications
1 17 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.26%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 9 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.52%) Primavera
3 1 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 62 (16.02%) Azure
2 39 (10.08%) Power Platform
3 36 (9.30%) AWS
4 34 (8.79%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (5.94%) PaaS
6 22 (5.68%) OneDrive
7 21 (5.43%) IaaS
8 17 (4.39%) Power Automate
9 16 (4.13%) Dynamics 365
10 15 (3.88%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (1.55%) GCP
11 6 (1.55%) SaaS
12 5 (1.29%) PowerApps
13 4 (1.03%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
14 3 (0.78%) Nutanix
15 1 (0.26%) Amazon Kinesis
15 1 (0.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 1 (0.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 29 (7.49%) Network Security
2 17 (4.39%) Firewall
3 9 (2.33%) SAN
4 8 (2.07%) Wireless
5 6 (1.55%) VLAN
6 4 (1.03%) Internet
6 4 (1.03%) IPsec
6 4 (1.03%) Remote Desktop
6 4 (1.03%) SNMP
6 4 (1.03%) VPN
7 3 (0.78%) DHCP
7 3 (0.78%) DNS
8 2 (0.52%) LAN
8 2 (0.52%) NAS
8 2 (0.52%) VXLAN
8 2 (0.52%) WAN
9 1 (0.26%) HTTP
9 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.68%) SQL Server
2 21 (5.43%) Power BI
3 15 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (2.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (1.81%) MongoDB
6 6 (1.55%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.03%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.03%) BusinessObjects
8 4 (1.03%) OLAP
8 4 (1.03%) OLAP Cube
8 4 (1.03%) Oracle OLAP
8 4 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.52%) Power Query
11 1 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.26%) Data Hub
11 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (1.81%) JIRA
2 2 (0.52%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.26%) GitLab
3 1 (0.26%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (0.26%) Selenium
General
1 137 (35.40%) Social Skills
2 77 (19.90%) Finance
3 39 (10.08%) Public Sector
4 37 (9.56%) Retail
5 34 (8.79%) Military
6 30 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (3.10%) Aerospace
8 10 (2.58%) Aviation
8 10 (2.58%) Banking
8 10 (2.58%) Marketing
9 9 (2.33%) Law
10 8 (2.07%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.29%) Automotive
14 4 (1.03%) Legal
15 3 (0.78%) Brand Awareness
15 3 (0.78%) Games
15 3 (0.78%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.36%) REST
2 10 (2.58%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (1.03%) YAML
4 3 (0.78%) JSON
4 3 (0.78%) SOAP
5 2 (0.52%) WCF
6 1 (0.26%) HTML
6 1 (0.26%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (0.26%) Kafka
6 1 (0.26%) OpenID
6 1 (0.26%) SAML
6 1 (0.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.20%) Self-Motivation
2 21 (5.43%) Public Cloud
3 19 (4.91%) Cloud Native
3 19 (4.91%) Security Operations Centre
4 18 (4.65%) Cyber Defence
5 17 (4.39%) Enterprise Cloud
6 14 (3.62%) CESG
6 14 (3.62%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (2.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 9 (2.33%) Driving Licence
9 8 (2.07%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.81%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.29%) Hedge funds
11 5 (1.29%) Operational Technology
11 5 (1.29%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.03%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.78%) Client/Server
13 3 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (0.78%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (8.01%) Linux
2 29 (7.49%) Windows
3 20 (5.17%) Windows Server
4 18 (4.65%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.03%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (0.52%) Android
6 2 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.26%) Debian
7 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (35.40%) Cybersecurity
2 77 (19.90%) Risk Management
3 61 (15.76%) Information Assurance
4 59 (15.25%) Mentoring
5 58 (14.99%) Agile
6 45 (11.63%) Coaching
7 42 (10.85%) Presales
7 42 (10.85%) Security Operations
8 40 (10.34%) Information Security
9 38 (9.82%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (8.79%) Roadmaps
11 32 (8.27%) Analytics
12 29 (7.49%) DevOps
12 29 (7.49%) Incident Management
12 29 (7.49%) Project Delivery
13 28 (7.24%) Incident Response
13 28 (7.24%) SIEM
14 27 (6.98%) Business Development
15 26 (6.72%) Migration
16 23 (5.94%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 34 (8.79%) Python
2 28 (7.24%) SQL
3 14 (3.62%) PowerShell
4 8 (2.07%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.52%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.52%) VBA
6 1 (0.26%) Bash
6 1 (0.26%) C#
6 1 (0.26%) Java
6 1 (0.26%) Perl
6 1 (0.26%) R
6 1 (0.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 142 (36.69%) Security Cleared
2 69 (17.83%) DV Cleared
3 62 (16.02%) SC Cleared
4 38 (9.82%) CISSP
5 37 (9.56%) CESG Certified Professional
6 36 (9.30%) CISM
7 35 (9.04%) Degree
8 33 (8.53%) CRISC
9 16 (4.13%) CISMP
10 12 (3.10%) IISP
11 9 (2.33%) AWS Certification
12 8 (2.07%) CHECK Team Member
12 8 (2.07%) OSCP
13 7 (1.81%) DBS Check
13 7 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (1.29%) PCI QSA
15 4 (1.03%) MCP
15 4 (1.03%) MCSA
15 4 (1.03%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (14.73%) NIST
2 37 (9.56%) JSP 440
3 30 (7.75%) NIST 800
4 15 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (3.62%) RMADS
6 13 (3.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 12 (3.10%) GRC
8 8 (2.07%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (1.81%) NCSC
10 6 (1.55%) GDPR
11 5 (1.29%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.52%) QA
13 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.26%) Def Stans
13 1 (0.26%) ECSS
13 1 (0.26%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 26 (6.72%) Active Directory
2 17 (4.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (2.84%) Hyper-V
4 10 (2.58%) vSphere
5 4 (1.03%) Docker
5 4 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.26%) KVM
Systems Management
1 25 (6.46%) Kubernetes
1 25 (6.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (5.43%) Ansible
3 18 (4.65%) Terraform
4 17 (4.39%) Puppet
5 4 (1.03%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.03%) SCCM
5 4 (1.03%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.26%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 90 (23.26%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.65%) VMware
3 9 (2.33%) SolarWinds
3 9 (2.33%) Tanium
3 9 (2.33%) Tripwire
4 7 (1.81%) Oracle
5 6 (1.55%) BiZZdesign
5 6 (1.55%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.29%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.29%) SAP
7 4 (1.03%) Aruba
7 4 (1.03%) Cognos
7 4 (1.03%) Databricks
7 4 (1.03%) IBM
7 4 (1.03%) NetApp
7 4 (1.03%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.03%) SolidFire
8 2 (0.52%) Supermicro
9 1 (0.26%) Google
9 1 (0.26%) Splunk