Consultant Jobs in the UK excluding London

Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Consultant salary in the UK excluding London is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 132 157
Rank change year-on-year +49 +25 -40
Permanent jobs requiring a Consultant 2,193 1,570 1,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.06% 2.65% 2.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.23% 2.97% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,579 999 995
10th Percentile £26,900 £40,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £52,500 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,150 £81,400 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,925 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +4.50% +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 67,946 52,777 68,977
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.21% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 47,984 30,164 42,468
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,183 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +6.37% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £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 19 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 19 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
North of England +19 486 £55,000 -21.43% 233
South East +58 476 £50,000 -25.65% 210
South West +68 396 £57,500 -11.54% 166
Midlands +55 387 £47,500 -26.92% 124
North West -5 287 £57,500 -17.86% 153
West Midlands +66 277 £50,000 -23.08% 89
East of England +29 184 £47,500 -24.00% 40
Scotland -44 144 £47,500 -32.14% 68
Yorkshire +31 141 £50,000 -28.57% 68
East Midlands +26 107 £37,500 -42.31% 35
Wales +45 84 £47,500 -32.14% 16
North East +47 58 £57,500 +4.55% 14
Northern Ireland +32 35 £30,000 -51.61% 17
Isle of Man - 2 - - 8
Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 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.

1 732 (33.38%) Social Skills
2 584 (26.63%) Microsoft
3 505 (23.03%) Finance
4 414 (18.88%) Problem-Solving
5 314 (14.32%) Azure
6 297 (13.54%) Degree
7 283 (12.90%) Security Cleared
8 262 (11.95%) Cybersecurity
9 258 (11.76%) Power Platform
10 257 (11.72%) SQL
11 242 (11.04%) Agile
12 241 (10.99%) Roadmaps
13 217 (9.90%) Public Sector
14 212 (9.67%) Customer Service
15 209 (9.53%) Project Management
16 205 (9.35%) Migration
17 202 (9.21%) Dynamics 365
18 200 (9.12%) Presales
19 189 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
20 177 (8.07%) Power BI
21 175 (7.98%) Self-Motivation
22 173 (7.89%) Business Intelligence
23 164 (7.48%) Retail
24 161 (7.34%) Microsoft 365
25 156 (7.11%) Actionable Insight
26 151 (6.89%) SQL Server
27 150 (6.84%) Mentoring
28 149 (6.79%) SAP
29 147 (6.70%) ERP
30 145 (6.61%) Artificial Intelligence

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
1 120 (5.47%) SharePoint
2 76 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 49 (2.23%) Apache
4 24 (1.09%) IIS
5 11 (0.50%) Confluence
6 2 (0.091%) nginx
6 2 (0.091%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.091%) Papyrus
7 1 (0.046%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.046%) JOnAS
7 1 (0.046%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.046%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.046%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.046%) SAP Portal
7 1 (0.046%) SAS
7 1 (0.046%) WebLogic
Applications
1 72 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.73%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.091%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.091%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.091%) InDesign
6 2 (0.091%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.046%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.046%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.046%) InVision
7 1 (0.046%) Sketch
7 1 (0.046%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 111 (5.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 30 (1.37%) Dynamics NAV
4 26 (1.19%) NetSuite
5 18 (0.82%) Sage 200
5 18 (0.82%) SAP MM
6 17 (0.78%) SAP Business One
7 15 (0.68%) Endur
8 14 (0.64%) Unit4 Business World
9 13 (0.59%) SAP FI
10 12 (0.55%) SAP SD
11 11 (0.50%) SAP CO
11 11 (0.50%) SAP FI/CO
12 10 (0.46%) SAP HCM
12 10 (0.46%) SAP PP
12 10 (0.46%) SAP WM
13 9 (0.41%) Sage X3
14 7 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
14 7 (0.32%) SAP GRC
14 7 (0.32%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 314 (14.32%) Azure
2 258 (11.76%) Power Platform
3 202 (9.21%) Dynamics 365
4 161 (7.34%) Microsoft 365
5 143 (6.52%) AWS
6 73 (3.33%) Power Automate
7 71 (3.24%) SaaS
8 61 (2.78%) Amazon S3
9 47 (2.14%) Entra ID
10 46 (2.10%) PowerApps
11 32 (1.46%) PaaS
12 31 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
12 31 (1.41%) IaaS
13 28 (1.28%) OneDrive
14 23 (1.05%) GCP
15 21 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
16 14 (0.64%) SuccessFactors
17 12 (0.55%) Amazon EC2
18 11 (0.50%) OCI
19 10 (0.46%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 110 (5.02%) Firewall
2 57 (2.60%) VPN
3 52 (2.37%) Internet
4 51 (2.33%) SNMP
5 49 (2.23%) IPsec
6 41 (1.87%) Network Security
7 37 (1.69%) WAN
8 35 (1.60%) LAN
9 30 (1.37%) DNS
10 29 (1.32%) DHCP
11 27 (1.23%) TCP/IP
12 26 (1.19%) Unified Communications
13 21 (0.96%) Wireless
14 13 (0.59%) SAN
15 11 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
15 11 (0.50%) Cisco IOS
15 11 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
16 9 (0.41%) VLAN
17 5 (0.23%) WLAN
18 4 (0.18%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (8.07%) Power BI
2 151 (6.89%) SQL Server
3 122 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 86 (3.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 51 (2.33%) MongoDB
6 49 (2.23%) Data Lake
6 49 (2.23%) Elasticsearch
7 40 (1.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 17 (0.78%) Relational Database
9 16 (0.73%) Tableau
10 15 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
11 13 (0.59%) Power Query
12 12 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 11 (0.50%) Big Data
14 10 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
15 9 (0.41%) Oracle Database
16 8 (0.36%) BusinessObjects
17 7 (0.32%) Metadata
17 7 (0.32%) Qlik Sense
18 6 (0.27%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 30 (1.37%) JIRA
2 14 (0.64%) Jenkins
3 13 (0.59%) Robot Framework
4 9 (0.41%) Git
5 5 (0.23%) Hudson
6 3 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (0.091%) PowerBuilder
8 1 (0.046%) GitLab
8 1 (0.046%) JMeter
8 1 (0.046%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.046%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.046%) Selenium
8 1 (0.046%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.046%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 732 (33.38%) Social Skills
2 505 (23.03%) Finance
3 217 (9.90%) Public Sector
4 189 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
5 164 (7.48%) Retail
6 123 (5.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 109 (4.97%) Presentation Skills
8 104 (4.74%) Marketing
9 91 (4.15%) Law
10 75 (3.42%) Manufacturing
11 60 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
12 51 (2.33%) Telecoms
13 41 (1.87%) Military
14 36 (1.64%) Aerospace
15 26 (1.19%) Automotive
16 25 (1.14%) Banking
17 11 (0.50%) Back Office
17 11 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
18 10 (0.46%) Aviation
19 8 (0.36%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (2.23%) RabbitMQ
1 49 (2.23%) YAML
2 31 (1.41%) HTML
3 22 (1.00%) REST
4 20 (0.91%) EDI
4 20 (0.91%) XML
5 11 (0.50%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (0.50%) Node.js
6 10 (0.46%) CSS
6 10 (0.46%) JSON
6 10 (0.46%) SOAP
7 9 (0.41%) .NET
8 8 (0.36%) Web Services
9 5 (0.23%) HTML5 Canvas
9 5 (0.23%) SAP ALE
10 4 (0.18%) AngularJS
11 3 (0.14%) React
11 3 (0.14%) Semantic UI
11 3 (0.14%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 2 (0.091%) IDoc
Miscellaneous
1 175 (7.98%) Self-Motivation
2 135 (6.16%) Data Centre
3 89 (4.06%) Management Information System
4 65 (2.96%) Driving Licence
5 47 (2.14%) Public Cloud
6 39 (1.78%) IoT
7 33 (1.50%) Onboarding
8 26 (1.19%) Low-Code
9 21 (0.96%) Client/Server
9 21 (0.96%) Operational Technology
10 20 (0.91%) Blog
11 19 (0.87%) Cloud Native
11 19 (0.87%) Cyber Defence
11 19 (0.87%) Security Operations Centre
12 18 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
12 18 (0.82%) Raspberry Pi
13 17 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
14 16 (0.73%) Data Structures
14 16 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (0.68%) CESG
Operating Systems
1 143 (6.52%) Windows
2 139 (6.34%) Linux
3 49 (2.23%) Data ONTAP
4 46 (2.10%) Windows Server
5 23 (1.05%) Android
5 23 (1.05%) Unix
6 22 (1.00%) Windows 10
7 21 (0.96%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.36%) AIX
8 8 (0.36%) Solaris
9 4 (0.18%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.091%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.091%) VMS
10 2 (0.091%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.091%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.046%) Debian
11 1 (0.046%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 414 (18.88%) Problem-Solving
2 262 (11.95%) Cybersecurity
3 242 (11.04%) Agile
4 241 (10.99%) Roadmaps
5 212 (9.67%) Customer Service
6 209 (9.53%) Project Management
7 205 (9.35%) Migration
8 200 (9.12%) Presales
9 173 (7.89%) Business Intelligence
10 156 (7.11%) Actionable Insight
11 150 (6.84%) Mentoring
12 147 (6.70%) ERP
13 145 (6.61%) Artificial Intelligence
14 139 (6.34%) Risk Management
15 136 (6.20%) CRM
16 135 (6.16%) DevOps
17 120 (5.47%) Analytics
18 115 (5.24%) Service Delivery
19 111 (5.06%) Project Delivery
20 110 (5.02%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 257 (11.72%) SQL
2 130 (5.93%) Python
3 48 (2.19%) JavaScript
4 36 (1.64%) Java
5 32 (1.46%) PowerShell
6 25 (1.14%) C#
7 23 (1.05%) Bash
8 20 (0.91%) C
9 13 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 12 (0.55%) T-SQL
10 12 (0.55%) TypeScript
11 11 (0.50%) PL/SQL
12 10 (0.46%) C++
13 7 (0.32%) Go
13 7 (0.32%) Ruby
14 5 (0.23%) Bicep
14 5 (0.23%) R
15 4 (0.18%) ABAP
16 3 (0.14%) VBA
17 2 (0.091%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 297 (13.54%) Degree
2 283 (12.90%) Security Cleared
3 135 (6.16%) SC Cleared
4 76 (3.47%) DV Cleared
5 71 (3.24%) CISSP
6 62 (2.83%) AWS Certification
7 58 (2.64%) CISM
8 56 (2.55%) Azure Certification
9 48 (2.19%) CESG Certified Professional
10 46 (2.10%) CRISC
11 37 (1.69%) DBS Check
12 28 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
13 23 (1.05%) CISMP
14 19 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
15 16 (0.73%) Master's Degree
16 15 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
17 14 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
18 13 (0.59%) CEH
19 12 (0.55%) CCNA
19 12 (0.55%) IISP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (4.33%) NIST
2 64 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 46 (2.10%) JSP 440
4 36 (1.64%) GDPR
4 36 (1.64%) NIST 800
5 31 (1.41%) NCSC
6 27 (1.23%) GRC
7 26 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
8 23 (1.05%) RMADS
9 21 (0.96%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 14 (0.64%) QA
11 13 (0.59%) GMP
11 13 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 13 (0.59%) PMO
12 11 (0.50%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.46%) COBIT
14 9 (0.41%) Data Quality
15 7 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.27%) ITGC
17 5 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 92 (4.20%) Active Directory
2 83 (3.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 49 (2.23%) Docker
4 26 (1.19%) Hyper-V
5 19 (0.87%) vSphere
6 10 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.41%) Firmware
8 3 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.046%) KVM
Systems Management
1 94 (4.29%) Kubernetes
2 74 (3.37%) Ansible
3 57 (2.60%) vCenter Server
4 50 (2.28%) Microsoft Intune
5 49 (2.23%) Prometheus
6 22 (1.00%) Terraform
7 17 (0.78%) Puppet
8 6 (0.27%) SCCM
8 6 (0.27%) VxRail
9 4 (0.18%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.14%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.091%) Aspera SmartTrack
11 2 (0.091%) Backup Exec
11 2 (0.091%) Nagios
11 2 (0.091%) Netcool
11 2 (0.091%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.046%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 1 (0.046%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.046%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 584 (26.63%) Microsoft
2 149 (6.79%) SAP
3 112 (5.11%) Oracle
4 99 (4.51%) VMware
5 64 (2.92%) Palo Alto
6 59 (2.69%) Red Hat
7 57 (2.60%) Sage
8 51 (2.33%) NetApp
9 49 (2.23%) SolidFire
10 42 (1.92%) ServiceNow
11 29 (1.32%) Apple
12 26 (1.19%) Adobe
12 26 (1.19%) Cisco
13 15 (0.68%) SolarWinds
14 13 (0.59%) Fortinet
15 12 (0.55%) CheckPoint
15 12 (0.55%) Infor
16 11 (0.50%) McAfee
16 11 (0.50%) OpenLink
16 11 (0.50%) Tripwire