Consultant Jobs in the North West

Consultant
England > North West

The median Consultant salary in the North West is £57,500 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 77 70 82
Rank change year-on-year -7 +12 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Consultant 302 370 355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.83% 5.01% 3.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.98% 5.61% 3.84%
Number of salaries quoted 196 197 125
10th Percentile £27,250 £51,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £58,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £83,250
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
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North 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 North West with a recognized job title 10,124 6,596 9,240
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.88% 89.24% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 7,670 3,972 5,398
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,138 £28,250
25th Percentile £36,500 £40,791 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,525 £81,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in the North West

Consultant
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Consultant in the North West

Consultant
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Consultant in the North West over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Consultant in the North West

Consultant
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the North West region 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
Manchester -8 201 £60,000 -14.29% 138
Cheshire +19 44 £50,000 -23.08% 23
Merseyside -22 31 £85,000 +37.10% 9
Lancashire -10 15 £41,711 -37.28% 18
Cumbria -9 6 £35,000 -46.15% 1
Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 North West region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 82 (27.15%) Microsoft
2 77 (25.50%) Social Skills
3 73 (24.17%) Finance
4 55 (18.21%) Azure
5 46 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (10.60%) SQL
7 30 (9.93%) Roadmaps
8 28 (9.27%) Power Platform
8 28 (9.27%) Degree
9 27 (8.94%) Dynamics 365
9 27 (8.94%) Customer Service
10 26 (8.61%) Service Delivery
10 26 (8.61%) Agile
11 25 (8.28%) Project Management
11 25 (8.28%) DevOps
11 25 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
11 25 (8.28%) Presales
12 24 (7.95%) Windows
13 22 (7.28%) Artificial Intelligence
13 22 (7.28%) AWS
13 22 (7.28%) Public Sector
14 21 (6.95%) Self-Motivation
14 21 (6.95%) Actionable Insight
14 21 (6.95%) ERP
15 20 (6.62%) Business Intelligence
15 20 (6.62%) SAP
15 20 (6.62%) Data Centre
16 19 (6.29%) Power BI
16 19 (6.29%) Kubernetes
16 19 (6.29%) EDI

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 10 (3.31%) Apache
1 10 (3.31%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (3.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (2.32%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.33%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.33%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.33%) InDesign
3 1 (0.33%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.33%) Sketch
3 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (3.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (3.31%) Dynamics NAV
3 9 (2.98%) SAP Business One
4 6 (1.99%) Infor M3
5 5 (1.66%) Sage 200
6 4 (1.32%) SAP MM
6 4 (1.32%) SAP PM
6 4 (1.32%) SAP WM
7 3 (0.99%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.99%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.99%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.33%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.33%) SAP HCM
8 1 (0.33%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.33%) SAP Payroll
8 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.33%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 55 (18.21%) Azure
2 28 (9.27%) Power Platform
3 27 (8.94%) Dynamics 365
4 22 (7.28%) AWS
5 19 (6.29%) SaaS
6 14 (4.64%) Amazon S3
7 12 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (2.65%) Power Automate
8 8 (2.65%) PowerApps
9 5 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.66%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.66%) GCP
10 4 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (0.66%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 1 (0.33%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (0.33%) Figma
12 1 (0.33%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.64%) Firewall
2 10 (3.31%) Internet
2 10 (3.31%) IPsec
2 10 (3.31%) SNMP
2 10 (3.31%) VPN
3 8 (2.65%) Unified Communications
4 6 (1.99%) WAN
5 5 (1.66%) LAN
6 4 (1.32%) DHCP
6 4 (1.32%) DNS
6 4 (1.32%) WLAN
7 2 (0.66%) Wireless
8 1 (0.33%) Extranet
8 1 (0.33%) Intranet
8 1 (0.33%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.29%) Power BI
2 17 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (4.97%) SQL Server
4 10 (3.31%) Data Lake
4 10 (3.31%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (3.31%) MongoDB
5 8 (2.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 7 (2.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (2.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.66%) Big Data
7 2 (0.66%) Tableau
8 1 (0.33%) EDRMS
8 1 (0.33%) Power Query
General
1 77 (25.50%) Social Skills
2 73 (24.17%) Finance
3 25 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (7.28%) Public Sector
5 12 (3.97%) Marketing
6 10 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.98%) Law
7 9 (2.98%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.65%) Retail
9 6 (1.99%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.99%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.66%) Electronics
11 2 (0.66%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Games
12 1 (0.33%) Legal
12 1 (0.33%) Local Government
12 1 (0.33%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.29%) EDI
2 10 (3.31%) RabbitMQ
2 10 (3.31%) YAML
3 1 (0.33%) ADO
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.95%) Self-Motivation
2 20 (6.62%) Data Centre
3 8 (2.65%) Public Cloud
4 6 (1.99%) Low-Code
5 3 (0.99%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.66%) IoT
6 2 (0.66%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.33%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.33%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.33%) FMCG
7 1 (0.33%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.33%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.95%) Windows
2 15 (4.97%) Linux
3 10 (3.31%) Data ONTAP
4 3 (0.99%) Unix
5 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (9.93%) Roadmaps
3 27 (8.94%) Customer Service
4 26 (8.61%) Agile
4 26 (8.61%) Service Delivery
5 25 (8.28%) DevOps
5 25 (8.28%) Presales
5 25 (8.28%) Project Management
6 22 (7.28%) Artificial Intelligence
7 21 (6.95%) Actionable Insight
7 21 (6.95%) ERP
8 20 (6.62%) Business Intelligence
9 18 (5.96%) Cybersecurity
9 18 (5.96%) Data Architecture
9 18 (5.96%) Strategic Roadmap
10 17 (5.63%) Migration
11 16 (5.30%) Analytics
12 14 (4.64%) Decision-Making
12 14 (4.64%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (4.30%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 32 (10.60%) SQL
2 18 (5.96%) Python
3 8 (2.65%) Bash
3 8 (2.65%) PowerShell
4 3 (0.99%) Java
5 2 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.66%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (9.27%) Degree
2 13 (4.30%) Security Cleared
3 12 (3.97%) AWS Certification
4 9 (2.98%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (2.65%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (0.99%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.66%) CISSP
8 2 (0.66%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.33%) CCIE
9 1 (0.33%) CCIE Routing and Switching
9 1 (0.33%) CCNA
9 1 (0.33%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.33%) GCFA
9 1 (0.33%) GCFE
9 1 (0.33%) GCIH
9 1 (0.33%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.32%) QA
2 1 (0.33%) NCSC
2 1 (0.33%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (4.97%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.31%) Docker
4 4 (1.32%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (6.29%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.31%) Ansible
2 10 (3.31%) Prometheus
2 10 (3.31%) vCenter Server
3 9 (2.98%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 82 (27.15%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.62%) SAP
3 14 (4.64%) VMware
4 13 (4.30%) Oracle
5 12 (3.97%) Apple
6 10 (3.31%) NetApp
6 10 (3.31%) Palo Alto
6 10 (3.31%) Red Hat
6 10 (3.31%) SolidFire
7 9 (2.98%) Adobe
8 7 (2.32%) Sage
9 6 (1.99%) Infor
10 4 (1.32%) Sun
11 3 (0.99%) Ariba
11 3 (0.99%) IBM
12 1 (0.33%) Cisco
12 1 (0.33%) Google
12 1 (0.33%) HP
12 1 (0.33%) Juniper
12 1 (0.33%) NEC