Consultant Jobs in the UK excluding London

Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Consultant salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 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 86 133 160
Rank change year-on-year +47 +27 -41
Permanent jobs requiring a Consultant 2,129 1,585 1,698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.00% 2.63% 2.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.16% 2.95% 2.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,556 991 996
10th Percentile £27,250 £40,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,268 53,729 68,078
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.81% 89.16% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,545 30,499 42,724
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,750 £81,251 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in the UK excluding London

Consultant
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Consultant in the UK excluding London

Consultant
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Consultant in the UK excluding London

Consultant
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the UK excluding London 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
South East +51 470 £50,000 -24.53% 175
North of England +17 465 £55,000 -21.43% 206
South West +60 387 £57,500 -11.54% 129
Midlands +59 379 £47,500 -24.30% 123
North West -6 277 £57,500 -14.81% 134
West Midlands +69 275 £50,000 -20.63% 90
East of England +22 179 £47,500 -24.00% 56
Scotland -41 135 £46,250 -33.93% 61
Yorkshire +36 130 £50,000 -28.57% 57
East Midlands +27 101 £37,500 -42.31% 33
Wales +45 83 £47,500 -32.14% 16
North East +44 58 £57,500 +4.55% 16
Northern Ireland +35 32 £30,000 -51.61% 19
Consultant
UK

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 719 (33.77%) Social Skills
2 576 (27.05%) Microsoft
3 486 (22.83%) Finance
4 412 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
5 297 (13.95%) Azure
6 295 (13.86%) Degree
7 282 (13.25%) Security Cleared
8 262 (12.31%) Cybersecurity
9 256 (12.02%) SQL
10 254 (11.93%) Power Platform
11 227 (10.66%) Agile
12 218 (10.24%) Roadmaps
13 214 (10.05%) Project Management
14 207 (9.72%) Migration
14 207 (9.72%) Customer Service
15 205 (9.63%) Public Sector
16 193 (9.07%) Dynamics 365
17 189 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
18 183 (8.60%) Presales
19 176 (8.27%) Self-Motivation
20 174 (8.17%) Power BI
21 171 (8.03%) Business Intelligence
22 166 (7.80%) Microsoft 365
23 163 (7.66%) Retail
24 159 (7.47%) Actionable Insight
25 155 (7.28%) SQL Server
26 149 (7.00%) Mentoring
27 147 (6.90%) Windows
28 146 (6.86%) SAP
29 145 (6.81%) ERP

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 123 (5.78%) SharePoint
2 79 (3.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 49 (2.30%) Apache
4 24 (1.13%) IIS
5 11 (0.52%) Confluence
6 2 (0.094%) nginx
6 2 (0.094%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.094%) Papyrus
7 1 (0.047%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.047%) JOnAS
7 1 (0.047%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.047%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.047%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.047%) SAP Portal
7 1 (0.047%) SAS
7 1 (0.047%) WebLogic
Applications
1 73 (3.43%) Microsoft Office
2 41 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.75%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.094%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.094%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.094%) InDesign
6 2 (0.094%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.047%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.047%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.047%) InVision
7 1 (0.047%) Sketch
7 1 (0.047%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 108 (5.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 38 (1.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 28 (1.32%) Dynamics NAV
4 27 (1.27%) NetSuite
5 18 (0.85%) Sage 200
5 18 (0.85%) SAP MM
6 17 (0.80%) SAP Business One
7 15 (0.70%) Endur
8 14 (0.66%) Unit4 Business World
9 13 (0.61%) SAP FI
10 11 (0.52%) SAP CO
10 11 (0.52%) SAP FI/CO
10 11 (0.52%) SAP SD
11 10 (0.47%) SAP HCM
11 10 (0.47%) SAP PP
11 10 (0.47%) SAP WM
12 9 (0.42%) Sage X3
13 7 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
13 7 (0.33%) SAP GRC
13 7 (0.33%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 297 (13.95%) Azure
2 254 (11.93%) Power Platform
3 193 (9.07%) Dynamics 365
4 166 (7.80%) Microsoft 365
5 135 (6.34%) AWS
6 72 (3.38%) Power Automate
7 68 (3.19%) SaaS
8 61 (2.87%) Amazon S3
9 48 (2.25%) Entra ID
10 45 (2.11%) PowerApps
11 32 (1.50%) PaaS
12 31 (1.46%) IaaS
13 28 (1.32%) OneDrive
14 27 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
15 23 (1.08%) GCP
16 21 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
17 14 (0.66%) SuccessFactors
18 12 (0.56%) Amazon EC2
19 11 (0.52%) OCI
20 10 (0.47%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 109 (5.12%) Firewall
2 59 (2.77%) VPN
3 52 (2.44%) Internet
4 51 (2.40%) IPsec
4 51 (2.40%) SNMP
5 41 (1.93%) Network Security
6 38 (1.78%) WAN
7 36 (1.69%) LAN
8 31 (1.46%) DNS
9 30 (1.41%) DHCP
10 29 (1.36%) TCP/IP
11 26 (1.22%) Unified Communications
12 21 (0.99%) Wireless
13 13 (0.61%) SAN
13 13 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
14 11 (0.52%) Cisco ASA
14 11 (0.52%) Cisco IOS
15 8 (0.38%) VLAN
16 5 (0.23%) HTTP
16 5 (0.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (8.17%) Power BI
2 155 (7.28%) SQL Server
3 113 (5.31%) Data Warehouse
4 86 (4.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 52 (2.44%) MongoDB
6 50 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
7 39 (1.83%) Data Lake
8 31 (1.46%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 17 (0.80%) Relational Database
10 16 (0.75%) Tableau
11 15 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
11 15 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 12 (0.56%) Power Query
13 11 (0.52%) Big Data
13 11 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
14 9 (0.42%) Oracle Database
15 8 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
16 7 (0.33%) Metadata
16 7 (0.33%) Qlik Sense
17 6 (0.28%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 28 (1.32%) JIRA
2 12 (0.56%) Jenkins
3 11 (0.52%) Robot Framework
4 9 (0.42%) Git
5 5 (0.23%) Hudson
6 3 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (0.094%) PowerBuilder
8 1 (0.047%) GitLab
8 1 (0.047%) JMeter
8 1 (0.047%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.047%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.047%) Selenium
8 1 (0.047%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.047%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 719 (33.77%) Social Skills
2 486 (22.83%) Finance
3 205 (9.63%) Public Sector
4 189 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
5 163 (7.66%) Retail
6 127 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 95 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
8 91 (4.27%) Marketing
9 88 (4.13%) Law
10 75 (3.52%) Manufacturing
11 62 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
12 49 (2.30%) Telecoms
13 41 (1.93%) Military
14 33 (1.55%) Aerospace
15 27 (1.27%) Automotive
16 25 (1.17%) Banking
17 11 (0.52%) Back Office
18 10 (0.47%) Aviation
18 10 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
19 8 (0.38%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (2.30%) RabbitMQ
1 49 (2.30%) YAML
2 29 (1.36%) HTML
3 22 (1.03%) REST
4 20 (0.94%) EDI
5 18 (0.85%) XML
6 11 (0.52%) Node.js
7 10 (0.47%) CSS
7 10 (0.47%) Elastic Stack
7 10 (0.47%) SOAP
8 9 (0.42%) JSON
9 8 (0.38%) .NET
9 8 (0.38%) Web Services
10 6 (0.28%) HTML5 Canvas
11 4 (0.19%) AngularJS
12 3 (0.14%) OpenID
12 3 (0.14%) React
12 3 (0.14%) SAML
12 3 (0.14%) SAP ALE
12 3 (0.14%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 176 (8.27%) Self-Motivation
2 136 (6.39%) Data Centre
3 89 (4.18%) Management Information System
4 66 (3.10%) Driving Licence
5 47 (2.21%) Public Cloud
6 38 (1.78%) IoT
7 33 (1.55%) Onboarding
8 28 (1.32%) Low-Code
9 23 (1.08%) Operational Technology
10 21 (0.99%) Client/Server
11 20 (0.94%) Blog
11 20 (0.94%) Cloud Native
12 19 (0.89%) Cyber Defence
12 19 (0.89%) Security Operations Centre
13 18 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
13 18 (0.85%) Raspberry Pi
14 16 (0.75%) Data Structures
15 15 (0.70%) CESG
15 15 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
16 14 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 147 (6.90%) Windows
2 137 (6.43%) Linux
3 50 (2.35%) Windows Server
4 49 (2.30%) Data ONTAP
5 24 (1.13%) Android
6 23 (1.08%) Unix
7 22 (1.03%) Apple iOS
7 22 (1.03%) Windows 10
8 8 (0.38%) AIX
8 8 (0.38%) Solaris
9 4 (0.19%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.094%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.094%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.094%) VMS
10 2 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.047%) Debian
11 1 (0.047%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 412 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
2 262 (12.31%) Cybersecurity
3 227 (10.66%) Agile
4 218 (10.24%) Roadmaps
5 214 (10.05%) Project Management
6 207 (9.72%) Customer Service
6 207 (9.72%) Migration
7 183 (8.60%) Presales
8 171 (8.03%) Business Intelligence
9 159 (7.47%) Actionable Insight
10 149 (7.00%) Mentoring
11 145 (6.81%) ERP
12 139 (6.53%) Risk Management
13 137 (6.43%) Artificial Intelligence
14 133 (6.25%) CRM
15 124 (5.82%) DevOps
16 116 (5.45%) Analytics
17 115 (5.40%) Project Delivery
18 109 (5.12%) ETL
19 100 (4.70%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 256 (12.02%) SQL
2 128 (6.01%) Python
3 49 (2.30%) JavaScript
4 36 (1.69%) Java
5 32 (1.50%) PowerShell
6 25 (1.17%) C#
7 21 (0.99%) Bash
8 20 (0.94%) C
9 12 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 12 (0.56%) T-SQL
9 12 (0.56%) TypeScript
10 11 (0.52%) PL/SQL
11 10 (0.47%) C++
12 7 (0.33%) Go
12 7 (0.33%) Ruby
13 6 (0.28%) R
14 5 (0.23%) Bicep
15 3 (0.14%) ABAP
16 2 (0.094%) SAPscript
16 2 (0.094%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 295 (13.86%) Degree
2 282 (13.25%) Security Cleared
3 138 (6.48%) SC Cleared
4 80 (3.76%) DV Cleared
5 74 (3.48%) CISSP
6 61 (2.87%) CISM
7 53 (2.49%) AWS Certification
8 48 (2.25%) CESG Certified Professional
9 47 (2.21%) CRISC
10 44 (2.07%) Azure Certification
11 36 (1.69%) DBS Check
12 27 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
13 23 (1.08%) CISMP
14 17 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
15 16 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
15 16 (0.75%) Master's Degree
16 14 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
16 14 (0.66%) CCNA
16 14 (0.66%) CEH
17 13 (0.61%) CASP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (4.56%) NIST
2 64 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 46 (2.16%) JSP 440
4 36 (1.69%) GDPR
4 36 (1.69%) NIST 800
5 35 (1.64%) NCSC
6 28 (1.32%) GRC
7 27 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
8 23 (1.08%) RMADS
9 21 (0.99%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 15 (0.70%) QA
11 14 (0.66%) PMO
12 13 (0.61%) GMP
13 12 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 11 (0.52%) PCI DSS
15 10 (0.47%) COBIT
16 9 (0.42%) Data Quality
17 7 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 6 (0.28%) ITGC
19 5 (0.23%) Accessibility
System Software
1 92 (4.32%) Active Directory
2 85 (3.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 49 (2.30%) Docker
4 29 (1.36%) Hyper-V
5 17 (0.80%) vSphere
6 10 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.42%) Firmware
8 6 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.047%) KVM
Systems Management
1 92 (4.32%) Kubernetes
2 74 (3.48%) Ansible
3 57 (2.68%) vCenter Server
4 51 (2.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 49 (2.30%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.08%) Terraform
7 17 (0.80%) Puppet
8 6 (0.28%) SCCM
8 6 (0.28%) VxRail
9 4 (0.19%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.14%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.094%) Aspera SmartTrack
11 2 (0.094%) Backup Exec
11 2 (0.094%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.094%) Nagios
11 2 (0.094%) Netcool
11 2 (0.094%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.047%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 1 (0.047%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 576 (27.05%) Microsoft
2 146 (6.86%) SAP
3 115 (5.40%) Oracle
4 102 (4.79%) VMware
5 66 (3.10%) Palo Alto
6 59 (2.77%) Red Hat
7 57 (2.68%) Sage
8 51 (2.40%) NetApp
9 49 (2.30%) SolidFire
10 40 (1.88%) ServiceNow
11 29 (1.36%) Apple
12 28 (1.32%) Cisco
13 26 (1.22%) Adobe
14 14 (0.66%) CheckPoint
15 13 (0.61%) Fortinet
15 13 (0.61%) McAfee
15 13 (0.61%) SolarWinds
16 12 (0.56%) Infor
17 11 (0.52%) BiZZdesign
17 11 (0.52%) OpenLink