The Datum Report

Occupation 1258 · Managers, directors and senior officials

Directors in consultancy services

Half of directors in consultancy services in the UK earn more than £73,453 a year, and half earn less.

Directors in consultancy services plan, organise, direct and co-ordinate the activities, resources and development of consultancies working in a variety of sectors, liaise with clients and promotes their business.

How people enter it

Relevant experience is required and depending on the field you may need a relevant technical qualification at degree level or a vocational qualification at levels 4 and 5. On-the-job training may be available, and some firms offer accelerated promotion for graduates. Professional qualifications are available.

What the work involves

• determines staffing, financial and other short- and long-term requirements
• plans work schedules, assigns tasks and delegates responsibilities to staff
• builds relationships with clients, the local business community and relevant organisations and promotes their business
• oversees and advises multiples projects to ensure they are delivered on time and to a high quality and contributes to the assessment of clients' needs
• plans and directs research into business' strategy, policy, organisation, procedures, methods and markets and evaluates the results
• reviews and advises on recommendations to clients with a view to maximising growth and improving business performance

Also called

Director (environmental consultancy) · Owner (design consultancy) · Owner (management consultancy)

What it pays

How pay has changed

Only one ASHE edition is held for this occupation, so there is nothing to compare it against yet. A trend needs at least two years.

Pay by region

Median gross annual pay for all employees, ranked, against the UK figure. 0 of 11 regions are published: ONS withholds a cell where the survey sample cannot support it, and those are shown as gaps rather than dropped — an absent region is not a region without the work in it.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Period 2025. Table

Every regional figure

ONS does not publish occupational pay below region. Cells the survey could not support are shown as withheld, with its reason — adding a region split to a specific occupation leaves roughly a tenth of cells publishable.

Common questions

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