Technical Consultant Jobs

Technical Consultant
UK

The median Technical Consultant salary in the UK 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 498 622 836
Rank change year-on-year +124 +214 -277
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Consultant 475 348 455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.37% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.40% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 392 244 368
10th Percentile £32,750 £43,750 £40,875
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £57,250
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +13.54% -4.58%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £89,625 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%

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%

Technical Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Consultant in the UK

Technical Consultant
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Technical Consultant in the UK

Technical Consultant
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Technical Consultant in the UK

Technical Consultant
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical 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 +148 414 £57,500 -11.54% 161
UK excluding London +123 296 £52,500 -8.70% 119
Work from Home +49 217 £57,250 -15.19% 81
London +93 123 £70,750 +1.07% 41
South East +28 72 £50,000 -31.03% 30
South West +27 66 £52,500 - 18
North of England +44 58 £70,000 +12.00% 26
North West +29 51 £74,000 +13.85% 18
Midlands +22 48 £42,500 -22.73% 27
West Midlands +16 36 £42,500 -30.61% 14
East of England +30 34 £55,000 +13.99% 14
East Midlands -8 12 £24,000 -55.35% 13
Isle of Man - 9 - - 5
Yorkshire +41 7 £28,000 -53.33% 8
Wales +10 6 £47,500 -20.83% 1
Scotland -66 3 £90,000 - 5

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

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

1 147 (30.95%) Microsoft
2 112 (23.58%) Social Skills
3 79 (16.63%) Presales
4 73 (15.37%) Problem-Solving
4 73 (15.37%) Azure
5 66 (13.89%) Microsoft 365
6 62 (13.05%) Windows
7 61 (12.84%) Active Directory
8 60 (12.63%) JavaScript
9 51 (10.74%) SQL
9 51 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
10 50 (10.53%) ServiceNow
10 50 (10.53%) Security Cleared
10 50 (10.53%) Requirements Gathering
11 46 (9.68%) HTML
11 46 (9.68%) Public Sector
12 45 (9.47%) Entra ID
13 44 (9.26%) Dynamics 365
13 44 (9.26%) Microsoft Exchange
14 43 (9.05%) Finance
14 43 (9.05%) Degree
14 43 (9.05%) AWS
15 40 (8.42%) Migration
16 38 (8.00%) Oracle
17 37 (7.79%) SQL Server
18 36 (7.58%) Microsoft Intune
19 34 (7.16%) Cybersecurity
20 33 (6.95%) Data Centre
20 33 (6.95%) Customer Service
21 30 (6.32%) Software Licensing

Technical 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 44 (9.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (5.89%) SharePoint
3 17 (3.58%) IIS
4 2 (0.42%) CMS
4 2 (0.42%) nginx
4 2 (0.42%) NServiceBus
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.21%) Apache
Applications
1 13 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.32%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 20 (4.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.26%) Adobe Campaign
3 5 (1.05%) Oracle Financials
3 5 (1.05%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.05%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.84%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.63%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.21%) Maximo
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle iProcurement
7 1 (0.21%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.21%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.21%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 73 (15.37%) Azure
2 66 (13.89%) Microsoft 365
3 45 (9.47%) Entra ID
4 44 (9.26%) Dynamics 365
5 43 (9.05%) AWS
6 26 (5.47%) SaaS
7 19 (4.00%) Power Platform
8 17 (3.58%) OneDrive
9 13 (2.74%) GCP
10 12 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (2.53%) Amazon S3
11 9 (1.89%) OCI
12 6 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (0.84%) IaaS
13 4 (0.84%) PaaS
13 4 (0.84%) SuccessFactors
14 3 (0.63%) Power Automate
15 2 (0.42%) Azure DevOps
15 2 (0.42%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 27 (5.68%) DHCP
1 27 (5.68%) DNS
2 24 (5.05%) Firewall
2 24 (5.05%) Unified Communications
3 12 (2.53%) VPN
4 9 (1.89%) LAN
5 7 (1.47%) WAN
6 5 (1.05%) TETRA
6 5 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.84%) Remote Desktop
7 4 (0.84%) SAN
7 4 (0.84%) SSL
7 4 (0.84%) VLAN
7 4 (0.84%) Wireless
8 3 (0.63%) Internet
8 3 (0.63%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.63%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.42%) Cisco Firepower
9 2 (0.42%) Intranet
10 1 (0.21%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (7.79%) SQL Server
2 18 (3.79%) Power BI
3 13 (2.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 12 (2.53%) Oracle Database
5 10 (2.11%) Oracle Reports
6 9 (1.89%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 9 (1.89%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.63%) GIS
8 3 (0.63%) MySQL
9 2 (0.42%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.42%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.42%) QlikView
9 2 (0.42%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.42%) SQLite
10 1 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.21%) DB2
10 1 (0.21%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.21%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 7 (1.47%) Git
2 5 (1.05%) PowerBuilder
3 3 (0.63%) JIRA
3 3 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (0.63%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.42%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.42%) Subversion
4 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.21%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
General
1 112 (23.58%) Social Skills
2 51 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 43 (9.05%) Finance
5 21 (4.42%) Presentation Skills
6 20 (4.21%) Retail
7 14 (2.95%) Law
7 14 (2.95%) Marketing
8 13 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (1.89%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.47%) Electronics
11 6 (1.26%) Publishing
12 5 (1.05%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.84%) Games
13 4 (0.84%) German Language
13 4 (0.84%) Legal
14 3 (0.63%) Advertising
14 3 (0.63%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.63%) Banking
14 3 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (9.68%) HTML
2 22 (4.63%) Web Services
2 22 (4.63%) XML
3 21 (4.42%) AngularJS
4 18 (3.79%) CSS
5 9 (1.89%) .NET
6 8 (1.68%) SOAP
7 6 (1.26%) JSON
8 5 (1.05%) LDAP
9 4 (0.84%) Ajax
10 3 (0.63%) .NET Framework
10 3 (0.63%) React
10 3 (0.63%) Semantic UI
10 3 (0.63%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 3 (0.63%) XSD
11 2 (0.42%) .NET Core
11 2 (0.42%) Express.js
11 2 (0.42%) Node.js
11 2 (0.42%) REST
11 2 (0.42%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.95%) Data Centre
2 25 (5.26%) Public Cloud
3 23 (4.84%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (3.79%) Management Information System
5 8 (1.68%) Digital Media
5 8 (1.68%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.47%) IoT
6 7 (1.47%) NHS
7 6 (1.26%) Hedge funds
7 6 (1.26%) Home Automation
7 6 (1.26%) Smart Home
8 5 (1.05%) CMDB
8 5 (1.05%) Driving Licence
8 5 (1.05%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.05%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.63%) CCTV
9 3 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.42%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.42%) Learning Management System
10 2 (0.42%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 62 (13.05%) Windows
2 30 (6.32%) Windows Server
3 20 (4.21%) Windows 10
4 18 (3.79%) Linux
5 6 (1.26%) Unix
6 2 (0.42%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.42%) VMS
7 1 (0.21%) Debian
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (16.63%) Presales
2 73 (15.37%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (10.53%) Requirements Gathering
4 40 (8.42%) Migration
5 34 (7.16%) Cybersecurity
6 33 (6.95%) Customer Service
7 30 (6.32%) Business Intelligence
7 30 (6.32%) Software Licensing
8 29 (6.11%) CRM
9 25 (5.26%) Project Management
9 25 (5.26%) Time Management
10 24 (5.05%) Customer Requirements
10 24 (5.05%) DevOps
10 24 (5.05%) Service Management
11 22 (4.63%) Agile
12 20 (4.21%) ITIL
12 20 (4.21%) Requirements Workshops
13 18 (3.79%) ERP
14 17 (3.58%) Decision-Making
14 17 (3.58%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 60 (12.63%) JavaScript
2 51 (10.74%) SQL
3 23 (4.84%) PL/SQL
4 17 (3.58%) C#
5 16 (3.37%) T-SQL
6 14 (2.95%) Java
7 13 (2.74%) PowerShell
7 13 (2.74%) Python
8 5 (1.05%) C
8 5 (1.05%) VB.NET
9 4 (0.84%) Bash
10 2 (0.42%) XPath
11 1 (0.21%) ABAP
11 1 (0.21%) Perl
11 1 (0.21%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.21%) XAML
Qualifications
1 50 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 43 (9.05%) Degree
3 26 (5.47%) SC Cleared
4 22 (4.63%) AWS Certification
5 12 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.26%) DBS Check
6 6 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.05%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.05%) PCI QSA
8 3 (0.63%) CEH
8 3 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (0.63%) RIBA
9 2 (0.42%) CCIE
9 2 (0.42%) CCNP
9 2 (0.42%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.42%) MCP
10 1 (0.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (1.26%) GRC
3 5 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (1.05%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.63%) QA
4 3 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.42%) NIST
5 2 (0.42%) SLA
6 1 (0.21%) GDPR
System Software
1 61 (12.84%) Active Directory
2 22 (4.63%) Hyper-V
3 18 (3.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.42%) vSphere
6 1 (0.21%) FreeRADIUS
6 1 (0.21%) KVM
6 1 (0.21%) Shibboleth
6 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 36 (7.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (2.11%) SCCM
3 4 (0.84%) Backup Exec
3 4 (0.84%) HP UCMDB
4 2 (0.42%) Aspera SmartTrack
4 2 (0.42%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.21%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 147 (30.95%) Microsoft
2 50 (10.53%) ServiceNow
3 38 (8.00%) Oracle
4 30 (6.32%) Adobe
5 27 (5.68%) Apple
5 27 (5.68%) VMware
6 11 (2.32%) Adaptive Insights
7 10 (2.11%) Anaplan
7 10 (2.11%) Jedox
7 10 (2.11%) Tagetik
8 8 (1.68%) Cisco
9 7 (1.47%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.26%) Juniper
10 6 (1.26%) Sun
10 6 (1.26%) Veeam
11 5 (1.05%) Aruba
11 5 (1.05%) BMC
11 5 (1.05%) Remedy
11 5 (1.05%) SAP
12 4 (0.84%) Commvault