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Middle East & Africa Consulting Market HR Stats
2025 to 2026
Key HR indicators for the consulting industry
This collection of consulting market briefs highlights key HR statistics across three countries in the Middle East and Africa region: Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and South Africa. It offers insights into various key factors, such as the highest paying lines of businesses, market growth, starting salaries, career progression, and market pay level over the last year.
Notable highlights across the Middle East & Africa
- The year-on-year market headcount increase across these three countries ranged from 2% in South Africa to 12% in the UAE, with “AI Consulting”, “IT Enterprise Software Implementation” and “IT Risk & Cybersecurity Consulting” among the lines of business recording the strongest growth across the region.
- The average time required to progress from analyst level to partner level ranged from 24.5 to 26 years, with Saudi Arabia having the fastest track.
- “Strategy-Oriented Management Consulting” and “AI Consulting” featured among the highest-paid lines of business in all three countries, alongside “Actuarial Consulting Services” in South Africa, “IT Strategy Consulting” in the UAE and “Big Data and Analytics” in Saudi Arabia.
- The median bonus achieved across lines of business and career levels was highest in the UAE at 14%, followed by Saudi Arabia at 9% and South Africa at 8%.
The sheets also present median salaries for Vencon Research career levels as percentages of basic salaries paid in the United States. Among the three countries, consultants in Saudi Arabia and the UAE had the highest relative salaries, ranging from 60% to 88% of US levels from analyst to principal, while those in South Africa had the lowest, ranging from 22% to 41%.
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