Consultant Jobs in the South West

Consultant
England > South West

The median Consultant salary in the South West is £58,750 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 48 125 182
Rank change year-on-year +77 +57 -50
Permanent jobs requiring a Consultant 431 153 140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.33% 2.33% 1.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.50% 2.62% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 310 116 70
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,625 £27,950
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,188 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% +4.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,813 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £76,525
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 9,582 5,850 8,093
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.16% 88.91% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 7,009 3,668 5,118
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £29,150
25th Percentile £36,750 £37,879 £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 £63,750 £68,750 £65,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,050 £80,000
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 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 1 June 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 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
Bristol +45 237 £68,500 -2.14% 85
Gloucestershire +33 75 £52,500 -14.29% 30
Wiltshire +27 58 £60,000 -14.29% 25
Somerset +29 30 £52,500 +77.97% 4
Devon +2 16 £31,000 -40.95% 16
Dorset -18 10 £48,750 -2.50% 5
Cornwall -11 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 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 South West region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 148 (34.34%) Security Cleared
2 140 (32.48%) Cybersecurity
2 140 (32.48%) Social Skills
3 98 (22.74%) Microsoft
4 83 (19.26%) Finance
5 77 (17.87%) Risk Management
6 74 (17.17%) DV Cleared
7 73 (16.94%) Azure
8 64 (14.85%) SC Cleared
9 60 (13.92%) Information Assurance
9 60 (13.92%) NIST
10 58 (13.46%) Mentoring
10 58 (13.46%) Agile
11 50 (11.60%) Presales
12 49 (11.37%) Problem-Solving
13 45 (10.44%) Public Sector
14 44 (10.21%) Security Operations
14 44 (10.21%) Coaching
15 42 (9.74%) Power Platform
15 42 (9.74%) Degree
16 40 (9.28%) Retail
16 40 (9.28%) Information Security
17 38 (8.82%) CISSP
17 38 (8.82%) Roadmaps
18 37 (8.58%) CESG Certified Professional
18 37 (8.58%) JSP 440
19 36 (8.35%) AWS
19 36 (8.35%) CISM
19 36 (8.35%) Microsoft 365
19 36 (8.35%) Analytics

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 33 (7.66%) SharePoint
2 22 (5.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.25%) IIS
4 6 (1.39%) Confluence
5 4 (0.93%) Apache
6 2 (0.46%) nginx
6 2 (0.46%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.23%) JOnAS
Applications
1 17 (3.94%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.23%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.23%) Revit
Business Applications
1 9 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.46%) Primavera
3 1 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.23%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 73 (16.94%) Azure
2 42 (9.74%) Power Platform
3 36 (8.35%) AWS
3 36 (8.35%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (5.10%) OneDrive
4 22 (5.10%) PaaS
5 20 (4.64%) IaaS
6 17 (3.94%) Dynamics 365
6 17 (3.94%) Power Automate
7 15 (3.48%) Entra ID
8 8 (1.86%) SaaS
9 6 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (1.39%) GCP
10 5 (1.16%) PowerApps
11 4 (0.93%) Amazon S3
12 3 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (0.70%) Nutanix
13 1 (0.23%) Azure Sentinel
13 1 (0.23%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 32 (7.42%) Network Security
2 19 (4.41%) Firewall
3 9 (2.09%) SAN
3 9 (2.09%) VLAN
4 8 (1.86%) Wireless
5 4 (0.93%) Internet
5 4 (0.93%) IPsec
5 4 (0.93%) Remote Desktop
5 4 (0.93%) SNMP
5 4 (0.93%) VPN
6 3 (0.70%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.46%) DHCP
7 2 (0.46%) DNS
7 2 (0.46%) LAN
7 2 (0.46%) NAS
7 2 (0.46%) VXLAN
7 2 (0.46%) WAN
8 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.34%) Power BI
2 21 (4.87%) SQL Server
3 15 (3.48%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (2.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (1.62%) Data Lake
6 6 (1.39%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.93%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.93%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (0.93%) OLAP
7 4 (0.93%) OLAP Cube
7 4 (0.93%) Oracle OLAP
7 4 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (0.93%) Power Query
8 3 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.46%) Big Data
9 2 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.23%) Data Hub
10 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (1.39%) JIRA
2 4 (0.93%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.23%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (0.23%) Selenium
General
1 140 (32.48%) Social Skills
2 83 (19.26%) Finance
3 45 (10.44%) Public Sector
4 40 (9.28%) Retail
5 34 (7.89%) Military
6 31 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (3.02%) Marketing
8 12 (2.78%) Aerospace
9 10 (2.32%) Aviation
9 10 (2.32%) Banking
10 8 (1.86%) Law
10 8 (1.86%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.16%) Automotive
14 4 (0.93%) Legal
14 4 (0.93%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.70%) Brand Awareness
15 3 (0.70%) Games
16 1 (0.23%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.02%) Elastic Stack
1 13 (3.02%) REST
2 4 (0.93%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (0.93%) YAML
3 3 (0.70%) JSON
3 3 (0.70%) SOAP
4 2 (0.46%) WCF
5 1 (0.23%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (0.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.34%) Self-Motivation
2 22 (5.10%) Security Operations Centre
3 19 (4.41%) Public Cloud
4 18 (4.18%) Cyber Defence
5 16 (3.71%) Cloud Native
5 16 (3.71%) Enterprise Cloud
6 14 (3.25%) CESG
6 14 (3.25%) Management Information System
7 13 (3.02%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 10 (2.32%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (2.09%) Driving Licence
10 8 (1.86%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.39%) Hedge funds
11 6 (1.39%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.39%) Product Ownership
12 4 (0.93%) Operational Technology
13 3 (0.70%) Client/Server
13 3 (0.70%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (0.70%) Onboarding
14 2 (0.46%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 30 (6.96%) Linux
2 28 (6.50%) Windows
3 19 (4.41%) Windows Server
4 18 (4.18%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.93%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.23%) Android
7 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.23%) Debian
7 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (32.48%) Cybersecurity
2 77 (17.87%) Risk Management
3 60 (13.92%) Information Assurance
4 58 (13.46%) Agile
4 58 (13.46%) Mentoring
5 50 (11.60%) Presales
6 49 (11.37%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (10.21%) Coaching
7 44 (10.21%) Security Operations
8 40 (9.28%) Information Security
9 38 (8.82%) Roadmaps
10 36 (8.35%) Analytics
11 33 (7.66%) Incident Management
12 32 (7.42%) SIEM
13 31 (7.19%) DevOps
14 28 (6.50%) Business Development
14 28 (6.50%) Incident Response
14 28 (6.50%) Migration
15 27 (6.26%) Project Delivery
16 26 (6.03%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (8.12%) Python
2 30 (6.96%) SQL
3 14 (3.25%) PowerShell
4 8 (1.86%) JavaScript
5 4 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (0.93%) VBA
6 2 (0.46%) C#
6 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.23%) Bash
7 1 (0.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 148 (34.34%) Security Cleared
2 74 (17.17%) DV Cleared
3 64 (14.85%) SC Cleared
4 42 (9.74%) Degree
5 38 (8.82%) CISSP
6 37 (8.58%) CESG Certified Professional
7 36 (8.35%) CISM
8 33 (7.66%) CRISC
9 16 (3.71%) CISMP
10 12 (2.78%) IISP
11 10 (2.32%) DBS Check
11 10 (2.32%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (2.09%) AWS Certification
13 8 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (1.86%) CHECK Team Member
13 8 (1.86%) OSCP
14 5 (1.16%) PCI QSA
15 4 (0.93%) MCP
15 4 (0.93%) MCSA
15 4 (0.93%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (13.92%) NIST
2 37 (8.58%) JSP 440
3 30 (6.96%) NIST 800
4 14 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (3.25%) RMADS
5 13 (3.02%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 11 (2.55%) GRC
7 8 (1.86%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (1.39%) GDPR
9 5 (1.16%) NCSC
9 5 (1.16%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.23%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.23%) ECSS
10 1 (0.23%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.23%) QA
System Software
1 26 (6.03%) Active Directory
2 17 (3.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (3.25%) Hyper-V
3 14 (3.25%) vSphere
4 5 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.93%) Docker
6 1 (0.23%) KVM
Systems Management
1 25 (5.80%) Kubernetes
2 24 (5.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (4.64%) Ansible
4 16 (3.71%) Puppet
4 16 (3.71%) Terraform
5 4 (0.93%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.93%) SCCM
5 4 (0.93%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 98 (22.74%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.87%) VMware
3 13 (3.02%) SolarWinds
3 13 (3.02%) Tanium
3 13 (3.02%) Tripwire
4 6 (1.39%) BiZZdesign
4 6 (1.39%) Oracle
4 6 (1.39%) SAP
4 6 (1.39%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.16%) Red Hat
6 4 (0.93%) Aruba
6 4 (0.93%) Cognos
6 4 (0.93%) IBM
6 4 (0.93%) NetApp
6 4 (0.93%) Palo Alto
6 4 (0.93%) SolidFire
7 3 (0.70%) Databricks
8 2 (0.46%) Supermicro
9 1 (0.23%) Google
9 1 (0.23%) Splunk