Senior Consultant Jobs

Senior Consultant
UK

The median Senior Consultant salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 January 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 396 414 495
Rank change year-on-year +18 +81 +92
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Consultant 416 445 645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.65% 0.62% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.65% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 179 329 383
10th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £58,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -3.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,150
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% -1.75%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 59,580 68,862 102,710
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 95.25% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 27,444 51,772 65,780
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,269 £55,000 £60,250
Median % change year-on-year +5.94% -8.71% +0.42%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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 30 January 2025.

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 30 January 2025. 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 +6 370 £75,000 +7.14% 187
UK excluding London +61 213 £75,000 +25.00% 66
London -16 167 £75,000 - 121
Work from Home +7 125 £75,000 +3.45% 126
South East +57 65 £75,000 +15.38% 15
North of England +36 59 £80,000 +23.08% 25
North West +10 44 £72,500 +11.54% 12
Midlands -9 38 £80,000 +60.00% 4
West Midlands -8 32 £80,000 +60.00% 2
South West +35 16 £77,500 +29.17% 9
Scotland +34 16 £77,500 +3.33% 2
Yorkshire +34 12 £80,000 +45.45% 6
East of England -3 9 £60,000 +14.29% 9
Northern Ireland - 7 £35,000 - 2
East Midlands +1 6 - - 2
Wales +22 5 £49,104 +3.38%
North East +9 3 £80,000 +14.29% 7

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

For the 6 months to 30 January 2025, 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.

1 120 (28.85%) Microsoft
2 118 (28.37%) Finance
3 100 (24.04%) Public Sector
4 99 (23.80%) Degree
5 96 (23.08%) Windows
6 89 (21.39%) Linux
7 88 (21.15%) Coaching
8 85 (20.43%) Citrix
9 84 (20.19%) Social Skills
10 83 (19.95%) SQL
11 82 (19.71%) Customer Requirements
12 80 (19.23%) DBS Check
12 80 (19.23%) Local Government
13 75 (18.03%) Solaris
13 75 (18.03%) ISO 9001
13 75 (18.03%) BusinessObjects
13 75 (18.03%) NEC
13 75 (18.03%) NEC Housing
13 75 (18.03%) Accessibility
13 75 (18.03%) Police
13 75 (18.03%) Housing Management
14 70 (16.83%) Systems Engineering
15 67 (16.11%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
15 67 (16.11%) Ontologies
16 59 (14.18%) Security Cleared
17 51 (12.26%) Agile
18 46 (11.06%) Azure
19 42 (10.10%) ServiceNow
20 40 (9.62%) AWS
20 40 (9.62%) SC Cleared

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 10 (2.40%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.72%) Confluence
4 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (4.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (2.16%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.44%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 75 (18.03%) NEC Housing
2 11 (2.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (1.20%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.96%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.96%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 3 (0.72%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.72%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.72%) Oracle Payroll
6 3 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.48%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.48%) Oracle FAH
7 2 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.48%) PeopleSoft HRMS
7 2 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.48%) SAP EWM
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle E-Business Tax
8 1 (0.24%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 46 (11.06%) Azure
2 40 (9.62%) AWS
3 34 (8.17%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (5.05%) Power Platform
5 18 (4.33%) Dynamics 365
5 18 (4.33%) GCP
6 14 (3.37%) IaaS
7 12 (2.88%) Entra ID
8 11 (2.64%) SaaS
9 8 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (1.92%) Amazon S3
9 8 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (1.92%) PaaS
9 8 (1.92%) Serverless
9 8 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (1.68%) OCI
11 6 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (1.44%) PowerApps
11 6 (1.44%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 25 (6.01%) Wireless
2 21 (5.05%) Cisco Nexus
2 21 (5.05%) LAN
3 15 (3.61%) Firewall
4 14 (3.37%) SD-WAN
4 14 (3.37%) WAN
5 9 (2.16%) VPN
6 8 (1.92%) Cisco IOS
6 8 (1.92%) DHCP
6 8 (1.92%) DNS
6 8 (1.92%) FTP
6 8 (1.92%) IPv4
6 8 (1.92%) Network Security
6 8 (1.92%) PBX
6 8 (1.92%) SAN
6 8 (1.92%) SMTP
6 8 (1.92%) Structured Cabling
6 8 (1.92%) VLAN
7 7 (1.68%) IPsec
8 4 (0.96%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (18.03%) BusinessObjects
2 16 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (2.64%) Relational Database
4 10 (2.40%) Power BI
5 8 (1.92%) Data Lake
6 7 (1.68%) Big Data
7 5 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (1.20%) Looker
8 2 (0.48%) Metadata
8 2 (0.48%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.48%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.24%) Base SAS
9 1 (0.24%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.24%) HDInsight
9 1 (0.24%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.24%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 4 (0.96%) JIRA
2 1 (0.24%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.24%) MLflow
General
1 118 (28.37%) Finance
2 100 (24.04%) Public Sector
3 84 (20.19%) Social Skills
4 80 (19.23%) Local Government
5 75 (18.03%) Police
6 31 (7.45%) Law
7 22 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.88%) Marketing
8 12 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (2.40%) Banking
10 8 (1.92%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.44%) Games
11 6 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.20%) Legal
12 5 (1.20%) Retail
13 3 (0.72%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.48%) Back Office
14 2 (0.48%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (7.93%) AngularJS
1 33 (7.93%) HTML
2 14 (3.37%) Web Services
3 12 (2.88%) Ajax
3 12 (2.88%) CSS
3 12 (2.88%) LDAP
4 11 (2.64%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.48%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.24%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.24%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.24%) SAP Basis
6 1 (0.24%) SOAP
6 1 (0.24%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.24%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (1.92%) Private Cloud
3 8 (1.92%) Public Cloud
4 6 (1.44%) Algorithms
4 6 (1.44%) Blockchain
4 6 (1.44%) IoT
5 5 (1.20%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.20%) Driving Licence
6 4 (0.96%) Management Information System
7 3 (0.72%) CMDB
7 3 (0.72%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (0.48%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.48%) Life Science
8 2 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.48%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.24%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.24%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.24%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.24%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 96 (23.08%) Windows
2 89 (21.39%) Linux
3 75 (18.03%) Solaris
4 10 (2.40%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.92%) Android
5 8 (1.92%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (21.15%) Coaching
2 82 (19.71%) Customer Requirements
3 75 (18.03%) Housing Management
4 70 (16.83%) Systems Engineering
5 67 (16.11%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 67 (16.11%) Ontologies
6 51 (12.26%) Agile
7 39 (9.38%) Mentoring
8 38 (9.13%) Artificial Intelligence
9 33 (7.93%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (7.45%) Presales
11 28 (6.73%) Migration
11 28 (6.73%) Stakeholder Management
12 27 (6.49%) Requirements Gathering
13 26 (6.25%) DevOps
14 25 (6.01%) Business Development
15 24 (5.77%) Cybersecurity
15 24 (5.77%) Project Management
16 22 (5.29%) Service Management
17 21 (5.05%) Requirements Workshops
Programming Languages
1 83 (19.95%) SQL
2 34 (8.17%) JavaScript
3 18 (4.33%) Python
4 9 (2.16%) PowerShell
5 7 (1.68%) VBA
6 6 (1.44%) R
7 4 (0.96%) Java
8 1 (0.24%) C#
Qualifications
1 99 (23.80%) Degree
2 80 (19.23%) DBS Check
3 59 (14.18%) Security Cleared
4 40 (9.62%) SC Cleared
5 36 (8.65%) Cisco Certification
6 24 (5.77%) CCNP
7 19 (4.57%) CCIE
8 13 (3.13%) CISSP
8 13 (3.13%) DV Cleared
9 12 (2.88%) CCNA
10 11 (2.64%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (2.40%) CISM
12 8 (1.92%) Network+ Certification
13 7 (1.68%) Master's Degree
14 6 (1.44%) APMP
14 6 (1.44%) MBA
15 5 (1.20%) AWS Certification
15 5 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 5 (1.20%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (18.03%) Accessibility
1 75 (18.03%) ISO 9001
2 13 (3.13%) NIST
3 10 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.92%) GDPR
5 6 (1.44%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 5 (1.20%) QA
6 5 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.96%) EU AI Act
7 4 (0.96%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.72%) GRC
9 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.24%) Basel III
10 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.24%) IFRS
10 1 (0.24%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.24%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.64%) Virtual Desktop
3 10 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.92%) Hyper-V
4 8 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (3.61%) Single Sign-On
2 14 (3.37%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (2.64%) Terraform
4 9 (2.16%) SCCM
5 8 (1.92%) WSUS
6 4 (0.96%) Avamar
6 4 (0.96%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (0.48%) Ansible
8 1 (0.24%) HP UCMDB
8 1 (0.24%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 120 (28.85%) Microsoft
2 85 (20.43%) Citrix
3 75 (18.03%) NEC
4 42 (10.10%) ServiceNow
5 34 (8.17%) Cisco
6 22 (5.29%) SAP
7 16 (3.85%) Oracle
7 16 (3.85%) VMware
8 14 (3.37%) Veeam
9 10 (2.40%) Fortinet
10 8 (1.92%) Dell
11 5 (1.20%) Google
12 4 (0.96%) Apple
12 4 (0.96%) EMC
12 4 (0.96%) Hyperion
12 4 (0.96%) JD Edwards
12 4 (0.96%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.96%) PeopleSoft
13 3 (0.72%) CyberArk
13 3 (0.72%) Meraki