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Forecasts for 2025

Published Feb 2025

The global consulting market is forecast to grow by 5% in 2025. In a year in which the road to recovery for the consulting market will start to unwind, Source’s Market Trends Forecasts for 2025 report sets out the top opportunities for firms. 

“Aside from clients being much more likely to increase their spend on consulting this year, there’s also a much closer alignment between the areas clients think are important to their business and the consulting projects they’re willing to buy, which bodes well for firms.” Nick Jotischky, Head of Market Trends, Source 

Underpinned by our MegaModel and our annual survey of over 3,800 senior buyers of global consulting services, this report delivers an independent and objective understanding of the state of play of the global consulting market in 2025. It is full of must-have data and insights for firms looking to succeed in the market. 

You will gain access to: 

  • A snapshot of what really matters and where Source analysts think the opportunities will be in 2025.  
  • Source’s projections of the consulting market in terms of spend for 2025 across nine sectors with comprehensive profiles of each industry.  
  • A review of client priorities, which are often led by technology upgrades, process improvements and transformation. The report explores the different strategic priorities of clients, sector by sector, and for what they are most likely to invest in consulting support.  
  • The key implications for your firm, including evaluations of the sectors and regions where growth is most likely to be strongest, such as energy & resources, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals.
  • Insights into how specific sectors will need to use technology to support growth: Energy & resources clients, for instance, will want support in how automation tools can enable them to meet the needs of the clean energy transition or use augmented reality can help organisations with modelling and stress-testing pipelines to pre-empt future problems.  

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