Senior Consultant Jobs

Senior Consultant
UK

The median Senior Consultant salary in the UK is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 440 469 672
Rank change year-on-year +29 +203 -230
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Consultant 577 578 717
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.61% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.67% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 389 345 455
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £54,250 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

Senior Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Consultant in the UK

Senior Consultant
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Consultant.

Salary trend for Senior Consultant in the UK

Senior Consultant
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Consultant over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Consultant in the UK

Senior Consultant
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England +75 487 £70,000 - 277
UK excluding London +39 302 £57,500 -11.54% 143
Work from Home +76 265 £70,500 -6.00% 149
London +116 221 £75,000 -6.25% 152
South East +42 70 £50,000 -25.93% 27
North of England +21 69 £65,000 - 42
Midlands +7 59 £60,000 -7.69% 18
North West -20 54 £70,000 +7.69% 30
West Midlands -2 44 £62,500 -3.85% 14
South West -5 31 £60,000 +6.19% 26
East of England -5 25 £45,000 -21.74% 4
Scotland -73 24 £70,000 - 22
Wales +22 18 £47,500 +3.92% 2
East Midlands -10 15 £37,500 -42.31% 4
Yorkshire +66 14 £55,000 -24.14% 12
Northern Ireland - 9 £85,000 - 4
North East - 1 £70,000 -

Senior Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Senior 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 featuring Senior Consultant in the job title.

1 143 (24.78%) Finance
2 128 (22.18%) Social Skills
3 125 (21.66%) Microsoft
4 103 (17.85%) Azure
5 81 (14.04%) Roadmaps
6 80 (13.86%) Project Management
7 75 (13.00%) Presales
8 73 (12.65%) Security Cleared
9 71 (12.31%) SAP
10 67 (11.61%) AWS
11 63 (10.92%) Presentation Skills
12 61 (10.57%) Azure Certification
13 59 (10.23%) Problem-Solving
14 52 (9.01%) Artificial Intelligence
15 51 (8.84%) Workflow
15 51 (8.84%) Strategic Roadmap
15 51 (8.84%) AWS Certification
15 51 (8.84%) Data Lake
16 50 (8.67%) Customer Service
16 50 (8.67%) Data Architecture
17 49 (8.49%) Migration
18 48 (8.32%) Data Warehouse
18 48 (8.32%) Degree
18 48 (8.32%) Mentoring
18 48 (8.32%) Project Delivery
18 48 (8.32%) Actionable Insight
19 47 (8.15%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
19 47 (8.15%) Analytics
20 45 (7.80%) Agile
21 44 (7.63%) Public Sector

Senior Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 19 (3.29%) IIS
2 17 (2.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.56%) Apache
4 8 (1.39%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.21%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.52%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 27 (4.68%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.17%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 32 (5.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (2.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (2.08%) SAP SCM
4 11 (1.91%) SAP FI
5 9 (1.56%) NetSuite
5 9 (1.56%) SAP CO
5 9 (1.56%) SAP FI/CO
5 9 (1.56%) SAP HR
6 7 (1.21%) Adobe Campaign
6 7 (1.21%) C-CURE
6 7 (1.21%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.87%) SAP BPC
7 5 (0.87%) SAP Travel Management
8 4 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.69%) ResourceLink
8 4 (0.69%) SAP SD
8 4 (0.69%) Unit4 Business World
9 3 (0.52%) Endur
9 3 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.52%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 103 (17.85%) Azure
2 67 (11.61%) AWS
3 41 (7.11%) Dynamics 365
4 24 (4.16%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (3.99%) Power Platform
6 22 (3.81%) SaaS
7 14 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (1.91%) Azure Stack
8 11 (1.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 11 (1.91%) SuccessFactors
9 10 (1.73%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (1.73%) Boomi
9 10 (1.73%) IaaS
9 10 (1.73%) PaaS
10 7 (1.21%) GCP
10 7 (1.21%) OCI
11 5 (0.87%) AWS IoT
11 5 (0.87%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.69%) OneDrive
12 4 (0.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 36 (6.24%) Firewall
2 29 (5.03%) WAN
3 20 (3.47%) LAN
4 16 (2.77%) Network Security
5 12 (2.08%) Cisco ASA
5 12 (2.08%) Cisco Firepower
6 11 (1.91%) Cisco IOS
6 11 (1.91%) SD-WAN
6 11 (1.91%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.56%) MPLS
8 8 (1.39%) Internet
9 7 (1.21%) BGP
9 7 (1.21%) IGRP
9 7 (1.21%) NGFW
9 7 (1.21%) VPLS
9 7 (1.21%) VPN
9 7 (1.21%) VRRP
9 7 (1.21%) Wireless
10 5 (0.87%) Cisco ISE
11 4 (0.69%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (8.84%) Data Lake
2 48 (8.32%) Data Warehouse
3 47 (8.15%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 29 (5.03%) SQL Server
5 16 (2.77%) Power BI
6 11 (1.91%) Relational Database
7 10 (1.73%) Big Data
8 6 (1.04%) SAP BW
9 5 (0.87%) Tableau
10 4 (0.69%) DB2
10 4 (0.69%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.52%) GIS
12 2 (0.35%) SAP Data Services
13 1 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 1 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
13 1 (0.17%) SAP HANA
13 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (0.69%) Burp Suite
2 3 (0.52%) Git
2 3 (0.52%) Metasploit
3 2 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (0.35%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.17%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 143 (24.78%) Finance
2 128 (22.18%) Social Skills
3 63 (10.92%) Presentation Skills
4 44 (7.63%) Public Sector
5 29 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (4.16%) Marketing
7 23 (3.99%) Retail
8 22 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (2.95%) Law
10 15 (2.60%) Legal
11 14 (2.43%) Military
12 12 (2.08%) Aerospace
12 12 (2.08%) Telecoms
13 11 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
13 11 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (1.73%) Aviation
15 9 (1.56%) Back Office
15 9 (1.56%) Electronics
15 9 (1.56%) Publishing
16 7 (1.21%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (5.03%) HTML
2 17 (2.95%) AngularJS
3 16 (2.77%) EDI
4 14 (2.43%) Web Services
5 13 (2.25%) XML
6 8 (1.39%) .NET
6 8 (1.39%) PySpark
7 5 (0.87%) CSS
7 5 (0.87%) Node.js
7 5 (0.87%) SAP TM
7 5 (0.87%) SOAP
8 4 (0.69%) Ajax
8 4 (0.69%) LDAP
9 3 (0.52%) JSON
9 3 (0.52%) RESTful
10 2 (0.35%) .NET Framework
10 2 (0.35%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.35%) Oracle Fusion
10 2 (0.35%) XSD
10 2 (0.35%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 27 (4.68%) Management Information System
2 23 (3.99%) Data Centre
3 16 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (2.60%) Driving Licence
5 14 (2.43%) CESG
6 11 (1.91%) IoT
7 10 (1.73%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.87%) Acoustics
10 5 (0.87%) Product Ownership
10 5 (0.87%) Public Cloud
10 5 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (0.87%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.69%) CMDB
11 4 (0.69%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.69%) Life Science
11 4 (0.69%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.69%) Operational Technology
11 4 (0.69%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.99%) Windows
2 16 (2.77%) Windows Server
3 12 (2.08%) Linux
4 4 (0.69%) Unix
5 3 (0.52%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.17%) Android
6 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (14.04%) Roadmaps
2 80 (13.86%) Project Management
3 75 (13.00%) Presales
4 59 (10.23%) Problem-Solving
5 52 (9.01%) Artificial Intelligence
6 51 (8.84%) Strategic Roadmap
6 51 (8.84%) Workflow
7 50 (8.67%) Customer Service
7 50 (8.67%) Data Architecture
8 49 (8.49%) Migration
9 48 (8.32%) Actionable Insight
9 48 (8.32%) Mentoring
9 48 (8.32%) Project Delivery
10 47 (8.15%) Analytics
11 45 (7.80%) Agile
12 35 (6.07%) Requirements Gathering
13 34 (5.89%) Cybersecurity
13 34 (5.89%) Data Privacy
14 32 (5.55%) CRM
15 30 (5.20%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 38 (6.59%) SQL
2 36 (6.24%) JavaScript
3 28 (4.85%) Python
4 10 (1.73%) Bicep
4 10 (1.73%) C#
4 10 (1.73%) PowerShell
5 6 (1.04%) R
6 5 (0.87%) Java
6 5 (0.87%) TypeScript
7 4 (0.69%) VB
8 2 (0.35%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.35%) XPath
9 1 (0.17%) ABAP
9 1 (0.17%) Bash
9 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.17%) Go
9 1 (0.17%) Lua
9 1 (0.17%) Ruby
9 1 (0.17%) Scala
9 1 (0.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 73 (12.65%) Security Cleared
2 61 (10.57%) Azure Certification
3 51 (8.84%) AWS Certification
4 48 (8.32%) Degree
5 30 (5.20%) SC Cleared
6 27 (4.68%) Cisco Certification
7 17 (2.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (2.43%) CISMP
9 13 (2.25%) CCNA
9 13 (2.25%) CCNP
10 12 (2.08%) IISP
11 11 (1.91%) CISSP
11 11 (1.91%) DBS Check
12 10 (1.73%) CISM
13 7 (1.21%) CISA
13 7 (1.21%) CRISC
13 7 (1.21%) PCI QSA
13 7 (1.21%) RIBA
14 5 (0.87%) CCIE
15 4 (0.69%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.33%) NIST
2 15 (2.60%) NIST 800
3 14 (2.43%) JSP 440
4 12 (2.08%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 11 (1.91%) RMADS
6 10 (1.73%) GDPR
6 10 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.73%) QA
7 9 (1.56%) Data Quality
8 8 (1.39%) PCI DSS
9 6 (1.04%) NCSC
10 4 (0.69%) ITGC
10 4 (0.69%) PMO
11 3 (0.52%) GMP
11 3 (0.52%) GRC
11 3 (0.52%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.35%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 17 (2.95%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.21%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.17%) FreeRADIUS
4 1 (0.17%) Shibboleth
4 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (1.73%) Terraform
2 7 (1.21%) FortiGate
3 4 (0.69%) HP UCMDB
4 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.52%) Nessus
4 3 (0.52%) Nmap
5 2 (0.35%) Avamar
5 2 (0.35%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.17%) VxRail
Vendors
1 125 (21.66%) Microsoft
2 71 (12.31%) SAP
3 33 (5.72%) Cisco
3 33 (5.72%) Oracle
4 26 (4.51%) Fortinet
4 26 (4.51%) ServiceNow
5 21 (3.64%) Palo Alto
6 16 (2.77%) CheckPoint
7 14 (2.43%) Dell
8 12 (2.08%) Databricks
9 11 (1.91%) McAfee
9 11 (1.91%) Meraki
10 7 (1.21%) Aderant
10 7 (1.21%) Adobe
10 7 (1.21%) VMware
10 7 (1.21%) Workday
11 6 (1.04%) Sage
12 5 (0.87%) Aruba
12 5 (0.87%) F5
13 4 (0.69%) Alteryx