Directors in consultancy services: salary in the UK
About £61,129 a year after tax (England, Wales and Northern Ireland, 2026/27)
median salary a year, full-time
£7,266 a month About £5,094 a month after tax 10 thousand full-time jobs
Gross pay before tax, including bonuses, commission and overtime. Not included: benefits in kind such as a company car. About the data
Pay range
The dark part is the middle half of full-time employees (25% to 75%); the light bar runs from 10% to 90%. ONS doesn't publish the highest or lowest salary, and x means a figure wasn't published.
Half of full-time employees in this occupation earn less than £87,192 a year and half earn more. That is 113% more than the median for all full-time employees in the UK (£40,911).
Ranked by median, it is number 6 of the 362 occupations with a published figure.
The mean (£142,144) is well above the median: a minority in this job earn much more than most.
At the median salary, take-home pay after Income Tax and National Insurance is about £5,094 a month in England, Wales or Northern Ireland and £4,872 in Scotland.
Percentiles
| Percentile | Annual | Monthly |
|---|---|---|
| 10th (P10) | x | x |
| 20th | £53,574 | £4,464 |
| 25th (P25) | £58,766 | £4,897 |
| 30th | £64,358 | £5,363 |
| 40th | £70,291 | £5,858 |
| Median (50th) | £87,192 | £7,266 |
| 60th | x | x |
| 70th | x | x |
| 75th (P75) | x | x |
| 80th | x | x |
| 90th (P90) | x | x |
Take-home pay at the median
| Where you live | Per year | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| England, Wales, NI | £61,129 | £5,094 |
| Scotland | £58,469 | £4,872 |
After Income Tax and National Insurance for 2026 to 2027, with the standard tax code and no pension or student loan. Work out your own take-home pay · Take-home pay on £87,000
Job titles in this occupation
ONS codes these 6 job titles to SOC 1258 Directors in consultancy services. Pay figures are for the whole occupation, not for each title.
- Company director
- Director
- Manager
- Managing director
- Owner
- Technical director
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Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2026 provisional, Table 14.7a (full-time employees, gross annual pay, UK, tax year ending 5 April 2026). Provisional figures may be revised.