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Management consultant jobs
Going into a business to work out what is wrong and what to do about it, then helping make it stick.
£53,295 median full-time pay, UK, ONS 2025
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What management consultant jobs pay
Median full-time pay for management consultants and business analysts was £53,295 across the UK in 2025. Full-time work of every kind had a median of £39,039, so this occupation sits about 1.4 times that. It is a median, so half of those jobs paid less, and it describes the occupation nationally rather than any advert on this page.
That figure is the reason this role is on the board. Every role here has a published ONS median full-time salary at or above £50,000, and it is checked against the ONS table each time the site is built rather than asserted in the copy. A role that stopped clearing it would stop the build.
Pay varies more by region than most people expect. ONS publishes it for groups of related occupations rather than single job titles, so the table beside this covers management consultants, business analysts, marketing and commercial managers, actuaries, economists and statisticians, not management consultant jobs alone.
Median full-time pay by region, 2025
| Region | Median full-time pay |
|---|---|
| London | £58,597 |
| South East | £51,583 |
| East of England | £51,757 |
| South West | £49,875 |
| West Midlands | £45,670 |
| East Midlands | £42,864 |
| Yorkshire and The Humber | £42,974 |
| North West | £45,866 |
| North East | £39,118 |
| Wales | £43,467 |
| Scotland | £45,516 |
What the local data covers
Adding up the published local figures across the 175 areas with data gives 343,155 people in work in this occupation group at the 2021 census. The middle area records 1,263. That is arithmetic over local releases, not a national statistic, and areas the publisher withholds are simply absent from it.
The largest are Surrey at 11,449, Hertfordshire at 9,590, Wandsworth at 8,315, Hampshire at 8,221, Lambeth at 7,896. Coverage runs across 10 regions of England and Wales.
Census counts follow where people live, not where the jobs are, and they are not a count of vacancies. The business survey figures on each area page count employee jobs located in that area in 2024, which is a different population again. Neither is ever divided by the other.
Management consultant: the full picture
Where consultants actually work
Large firms run structured career paths, formal training and staffing models that move you across clients regularly. Boutiques are deeper in one sector or discipline and give you more responsibility sooner with less scaffolding. Independent consulting is a business, not a job, and the skills that matter are different again.
A great deal of UK consulting work is public sector, and the procurement frameworks behind it shape the work more than clients realise.
The parts of the job nobody advertises
Travel and client-site weeks are real, even in a hybrid world, because the work depends on access to people. Utilisation targets are real too: the percentage of your time billed to a client is a number you will become familiar with.
Firms recruit heavily from industry as well as from graduates. If you know one sector properly, that is a more credible entry than a general analytical CV, and it tends to arrive at a more senior grade.
Before you apply
- A strong analytical background; consultancies recruit from industry as well as graduates
- Expect travel and client-site weeks
- Right to work in the UK
Management consultant jobs: common questions
Does management consultant work pay more than £50,000 a year?
On the national figures, yes, and that is why the role is on this board at all. Median full-time pay for management consultants and business analysts was £53,295 across the UK in 2025, against £39,039 for full-time work of every kind. It is a median, so half of those jobs paid less, and it says nothing about what any individual advert pays.
What qualifications do I need to work as a management consultant?
A strong analytical background; consultancies recruit from industry as well as graduates. Expect travel and client-site weeks. Right to work in the UK.
Where does AboveMedian have local figures for management consultant jobs?
In 175 county and unitary areas across England and Wales, from the 2021 census. Scotland ran a separate census in 2022 through National Records of Scotland which is not published in the same place, so Scottish areas have no local figure. Adverts themselves are UK wide.
Do you decide who gets sent to an employer?
No. You read the adverts, you choose one, and you apply to that employer yourself. Nothing on this site forwards a person to a job they did not apply to, and no employer is given a list of people.
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