Consultant Jobs in the UK excluding London

Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Consultant salary in the UK excluding London is £51,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 117 160
Rank change year-on-year +43 +43 -42
Permanent jobs requiring a Consultant 2,561 1,633 1,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.20% 2.96% 2.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.37% 3.33% 2.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,809 1,023 1,022
10th Percentile £26,500 £41,450 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £65,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.54% +11.11% +6.36%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £81,125
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
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 12 June 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 12 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
North of England +15 573 £55,000 -21.43% 255
South East +55 550 £50,000 -25.37% 196
South West +75 462 £60,000 -7.69% 191
Midlands +33 456 £47,500 -24.00% 156
North West -5 330 £57,500 -17.86% 167
West Midlands +49 314 £50,000 -23.08% 113
East of England +25 214 £51,250 -18.00% 65
Yorkshire +39 183 £50,000 -28.57% 72
Scotland -22 170 £45,000 -35.71% 61
East Midlands +17 139 £37,500 -42.31% 43
Wales +52 85 £47,500 -32.14% 23
North East +33 60 £57,500 +4.55% 16
Northern Ireland +34 40 £30,000 -51.61% 16
Isle of Man - 15 - - 3
Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 UK excluding London region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 744 (29.05%) Social Skills
2 656 (25.61%) Microsoft
3 558 (21.79%) Finance
4 445 (17.38%) Problem-Solving
5 341 (13.32%) Azure
6 324 (12.65%) Degree
7 312 (12.18%) Security Cleared
8 291 (11.36%) Cybersecurity
9 279 (10.89%) Power Platform
10 277 (10.82%) SQL
11 266 (10.39%) Agile
12 253 (9.88%) Roadmaps
13 250 (9.76%) Dynamics 365
14 243 (9.49%) Customer Service
15 239 (9.33%) Public Sector
16 229 (8.94%) Project Management
17 223 (8.71%) Presales
18 207 (8.08%) Migration
19 203 (7.93%) Analytical Skills
20 184 (7.18%) Power BI
21 182 (7.11%) Business Intelligence
22 179 (6.99%) ERP
23 172 (6.72%) Self-Motivation
24 170 (6.64%) SAP
25 169 (6.60%) Retail
26 167 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
27 161 (6.29%) Mentoring
28 157 (6.13%) SQL Server
29 155 (6.05%) AWS
30 152 (5.94%) 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
1 116 (4.53%) SharePoint
2 76 (2.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 49 (1.91%) Apache
4 24 (0.94%) IIS
5 12 (0.47%) Confluence
6 2 (0.078%) nginx
6 2 (0.078%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.078%) Papyrus
7 1 (0.039%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.039%) JOnAS
7 1 (0.039%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.039%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.039%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.039%) SAP Portal
7 1 (0.039%) SAS
7 1 (0.039%) WebLogic
Applications
1 73 (2.85%) Microsoft Office
2 41 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (0.55%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.20%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.078%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.078%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.078%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.078%) InDesign
6 2 (0.078%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.078%) Revit
7 1 (0.039%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.039%) InVision
7 1 (0.039%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 127 (4.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (1.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 34 (1.33%) Dynamics NAV
4 28 (1.09%) Sage 200
5 22 (0.86%) NetSuite
5 22 (0.86%) SAP Business One
6 16 (0.62%) SAP MM
7 15 (0.59%) Endur
8 14 (0.55%) Unit4 Business World
9 11 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
9 11 (0.43%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.43%) SAP PP
10 10 (0.39%) SAP HCM
10 10 (0.39%) SAP WM
11 9 (0.35%) Sage X3
11 9 (0.35%) SAP CO
11 9 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.35%) SAP SD
12 8 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
12 8 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 341 (13.32%) Azure
2 279 (10.89%) Power Platform
3 250 (9.76%) Dynamics 365
4 167 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
5 155 (6.05%) AWS
6 83 (3.24%) Power Automate
7 82 (3.20%) SaaS
8 61 (2.38%) Amazon S3
9 48 (1.87%) Entra ID
9 48 (1.87%) PowerApps
10 32 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
11 30 (1.17%) PaaS
12 29 (1.13%) IaaS
13 28 (1.09%) OneDrive
14 24 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
14 24 (0.94%) GCP
15 23 (0.90%) OCI
16 14 (0.55%) SuccessFactors
17 12 (0.47%) Amazon EC2
18 10 (0.39%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 117 (4.57%) Firewall
2 62 (2.42%) VPN
3 54 (2.11%) IPsec
4 53 (2.07%) Network Security
5 52 (2.03%) Internet
6 51 (1.99%) SNMP
7 45 (1.76%) WAN
8 33 (1.29%) LAN
9 30 (1.17%) DNS
10 29 (1.13%) DHCP
11 28 (1.09%) TCP/IP
12 26 (1.02%) Unified Communications
13 22 (0.86%) Wireless
14 13 (0.51%) SAN
14 13 (0.51%) SD-WAN
15 12 (0.47%) VLAN
16 11 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
17 10 (0.39%) Cisco ASA
18 9 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
19 6 (0.23%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (7.18%) Power BI
2 157 (6.13%) SQL Server
3 122 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
4 86 (3.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 51 (1.99%) MongoDB
6 49 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
7 48 (1.87%) Data Lake
8 40 (1.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 17 (0.66%) Tableau
10 16 (0.62%) Power Query
10 16 (0.62%) Relational Database
10 16 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 14 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
12 11 (0.43%) Big Data
13 10 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
14 9 (0.35%) Oracle Database
15 8 (0.31%) BusinessObjects
16 7 (0.27%) Metadata
17 6 (0.23%) Crystal Reports
17 6 (0.23%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 33 (1.29%) JIRA
2 14 (0.55%) Jenkins
3 13 (0.51%) Robot Framework
4 11 (0.43%) Git
5 7 (0.27%) PowerBuilder
5 7 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
6 5 (0.20%) Hudson
7 1 (0.039%) JMeter
7 1 (0.039%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.039%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.039%) Selenium
7 1 (0.039%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.039%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 744 (29.05%) Social Skills
2 558 (21.79%) Finance
3 239 (9.33%) Public Sector
4 203 (7.93%) Analytical Skills
5 169 (6.60%) Retail
6 132 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 113 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
8 110 (4.30%) Marketing
9 88 (3.44%) Law
10 86 (3.36%) Manufacturing
11 62 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
12 56 (2.19%) Telecoms
13 43 (1.68%) Military
14 35 (1.37%) Aerospace
15 24 (0.94%) Automotive
16 22 (0.86%) Banking
17 18 (0.70%) Legal
18 11 (0.43%) Back Office
18 11 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
19 10 (0.39%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (1.91%) RabbitMQ
1 49 (1.91%) YAML
2 31 (1.21%) HTML
3 26 (1.02%) XML
4 22 (0.86%) REST
5 20 (0.78%) EDI
6 18 (0.70%) .NET
7 16 (0.62%) Elastic Stack
8 13 (0.51%) Web Services
9 10 (0.39%) CSS
9 10 (0.39%) JSON
9 10 (0.39%) Node.js
9 10 (0.39%) Oracle Fusion
9 10 (0.39%) SOAP
10 6 (0.23%) SAP ALE
11 5 (0.20%) HTML5 Canvas
12 4 (0.16%) AngularJS
12 4 (0.16%) ASP.NET
12 4 (0.16%) ASP.NET MVC
13 3 (0.12%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 172 (6.72%) Self-Motivation
2 145 (5.66%) Data Centre
3 90 (3.51%) Management Information System
4 68 (2.66%) Driving Licence
5 44 (1.72%) Public Cloud
6 38 (1.48%) IoT
7 35 (1.37%) Onboarding
8 28 (1.09%) Security Operations Centre
9 26 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
9 26 (1.02%) Low-Code
9 26 (1.02%) Operational Technology
10 20 (0.78%) Client/Server
10 20 (0.78%) Cloud Native
10 20 (0.78%) Cyber Defence
11 19 (0.74%) Blog
12 17 (0.66%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 17 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
12 17 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
12 17 (0.66%) Raspberry Pi
13 16 (0.62%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 142 (5.54%) Windows
2 140 (5.47%) Linux
3 49 (1.91%) Data ONTAP
4 45 (1.76%) Windows Server
5 22 (0.86%) Android
5 22 (0.86%) Unix
5 22 (0.86%) Windows 10
6 20 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.31%) AIX
7 8 (0.31%) Solaris
8 4 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (0.16%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.078%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.078%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.078%) VMS
9 2 (0.078%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.078%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.039%) Debian
10 1 (0.039%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 445 (17.38%) Problem-Solving
2 291 (11.36%) Cybersecurity
3 266 (10.39%) Agile
4 253 (9.88%) Roadmaps
5 243 (9.49%) Customer Service
6 229 (8.94%) Project Management
7 223 (8.71%) Presales
8 207 (8.08%) Migration
9 182 (7.11%) Business Intelligence
10 179 (6.99%) ERP
11 161 (6.29%) Mentoring
12 152 (5.94%) Artificial Intelligence
13 150 (5.86%) Actionable Insight
14 148 (5.78%) CRM
15 142 (5.54%) DevOps
15 142 (5.54%) Risk Management
16 135 (5.27%) Analytics
17 124 (4.84%) Service Delivery
18 113 (4.41%) Project Delivery
19 111 (4.33%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 277 (10.82%) SQL
2 132 (5.15%) Python
3 49 (1.91%) JavaScript
4 35 (1.37%) C#
5 34 (1.33%) Java
6 30 (1.17%) PowerShell
7 23 (0.90%) PL/SQL
8 22 (0.86%) Bash
9 19 (0.74%) C
10 16 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 12 (0.47%) T-SQL
12 11 (0.43%) TypeScript
13 9 (0.35%) C++
14 7 (0.27%) VB.NET
15 6 (0.23%) ABAP
15 6 (0.23%) Go
15 6 (0.23%) Ruby
16 5 (0.20%) Bicep
16 5 (0.20%) R
17 4 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 324 (12.65%) Degree
2 312 (12.18%) Security Cleared
3 142 (5.54%) SC Cleared
4 87 (3.40%) DV Cleared
5 75 (2.93%) CISSP
6 62 (2.42%) AWS Certification
7 61 (2.38%) CISM
8 60 (2.34%) Azure Certification
9 47 (1.84%) CESG Certified Professional
9 47 (1.84%) CRISC
10 45 (1.76%) DBS Check
11 31 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
12 23 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (0.90%) CISMP
13 21 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
14 20 (0.78%) Master's Degree
15 17 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
16 16 (0.62%) CEH
17 12 (0.47%) CASP
17 12 (0.47%) IISP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (3.83%) NIST
2 64 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 40 (1.56%) JSP 440
4 39 (1.52%) NIST 800
5 38 (1.48%) GDPR
6 28 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
6 28 (1.09%) NCSC
7 24 (0.94%) GRC
8 21 (0.82%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 18 (0.70%) RMADS
10 17 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 14 (0.55%) QA
12 13 (0.51%) GMP
12 13 (0.51%) PMO
13 12 (0.47%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.39%) COBIT
15 9 (0.35%) Data Quality
16 7 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 6 (0.23%) ITGC
18 5 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 93 (3.63%) Active Directory
2 82 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 49 (1.91%) Docker
4 28 (1.09%) Hyper-V
5 24 (0.94%) vSphere
6 15 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.35%) Firmware
9 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.039%) KVM
Systems Management
1 94 (3.67%) Kubernetes
2 73 (2.85%) Ansible
3 57 (2.23%) vCenter Server
4 49 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
4 49 (1.91%) Prometheus
5 25 (0.98%) Terraform
6 16 (0.62%) Puppet
7 6 (0.23%) SCCM
7 6 (0.23%) VxRail
8 4 (0.16%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.16%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.078%) Aspera SmartTrack
9 2 (0.078%) Backup Exec
9 2 (0.078%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.078%) Nagios
9 2 (0.078%) Netcool
9 2 (0.078%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.039%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 1 (0.039%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 656 (25.61%) Microsoft
2 170 (6.64%) SAP
3 135 (5.27%) Oracle
4 101 (3.94%) VMware
5 67 (2.62%) Sage
6 66 (2.58%) Palo Alto
7 65 (2.54%) ServiceNow
8 59 (2.30%) Red Hat
9 51 (1.99%) NetApp
10 49 (1.91%) SolidFire
11 35 (1.37%) Cisco
12 29 (1.13%) Apple
13 27 (1.05%) Adobe
14 21 (0.82%) Fortinet
14 21 (0.82%) SolarWinds
15 16 (0.62%) Tanium
15 16 (0.62%) Tripwire
16 13 (0.51%) Epicor
16 13 (0.51%) Infor
17 12 (0.47%) CheckPoint