Consultant Contracts in England

Consultant
UK > England

The median Consultant daily rate in England is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 45 57
Rank change year-on-year +18 +12 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 2,209 2,219 2,807
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.99% 4.67% 3.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.45% 4.94% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,429 1,325 1,734
10th Percentile £400 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 52 15
10th Percentile £27.00 £22.60 £33.50
25th Percentile £51.45 £55.71 £56.50
Median hourly rate £61.60 £64.84 £70.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.99% -8.03% +22.61%
75th Percentile - £80.44 £83.75
90th Percentile £72.00 £93.75 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £66.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -6.67% +0.76% +28.43%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,226 44,888 67,264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,546 31,942 48,134
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,576 1,314 1,782
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.51
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.57 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in England

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Consultant in England.

Daily rate trend for Consultant in England

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in England

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Consultant in England.

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in England

Consultant
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Consultant in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Consultant in England

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +24 1,099 £550 -4.35% 664
South East +8 331 £595 +3.48% 208
North of England +20 252 £525 -2.78% 275
Midlands +12 182 £550 - 155
North West +21 160 £550 +1.85% 187
West Midlands +19 126 £550 +4.76% 114
South West +17 126 £550 +8.37% 167
East of England +28 88 £525 -4.55% 69
Yorkshire +25 85 £475 -15.56% 77
East Midlands +15 49 £550 -4.35% 41
North East +5 7 £590 +18.00% 12
South Coast - 1 - -
Consultant
UK

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 586 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 564 (25.53%) SAP
3 464 (21.00%) Finance
4 375 (16.98%) Security Cleared
5 317 (14.35%) Microsoft
6 262 (11.86%) SC Cleared
7 256 (11.59%) Migration
8 254 (11.50%) Azure
9 238 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
10 223 (10.10%) Stakeholder Management
11 211 (9.55%) Oracle
11 211 (9.55%) Analytical Skills
12 210 (9.51%) SAP S/4HANA
13 187 (8.47%) Public Sector
14 167 (7.56%) Agile
15 149 (6.75%) Cybersecurity
16 141 (6.38%) Degree
17 139 (6.29%) Dynamics 365
18 130 (5.89%) DevOps
19 129 (5.84%) SQL
20 123 (5.57%) Business Intelligence
21 119 (5.39%) Project Management
21 119 (5.39%) DV Cleared
22 118 (5.34%) Data Migration
23 115 (5.21%) Power Platform
24 103 (4.66%) AWS
25 101 (4.57%) ERP
26 98 (4.44%) Requirements Gathering
27 91 (4.12%) Power BI
27 91 (4.12%) Analytics

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 37 (1.67%) SharePoint
2 17 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (0.68%) NetWeaver
4 12 (0.54%) CMS
5 9 (0.41%) Confluence
6 5 (0.23%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 4 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.18%) IIS
7 4 (0.18%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.14%) Alfresco
8 3 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (0.14%) IBM Domino
8 3 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.091%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.091%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.091%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.091%) GroupWise
9 2 (0.091%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.091%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.091%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.14%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.091%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.091%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.091%) Revit
6 2 (0.091%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.045%) FileZilla
7 1 (0.045%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 210 (9.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 55 (2.49%) SAP EWM
3 38 (1.72%) SAP FI
4 37 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
5 36 (1.63%) SAP SD
6 34 (1.54%) SAP QM
7 32 (1.45%) Dynamics AX
7 32 (1.45%) NetSuite
8 28 (1.27%) Oracle EBS
9 26 (1.18%) Oracle EBS R12
9 26 (1.18%) SAP CO
10 25 (1.13%) SAP FI/CO
11 20 (0.91%) Workday HCM
12 19 (0.86%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 18 (0.81%) SAP MDG
14 17 (0.77%) Oracle Payables
14 17 (0.77%) SAP PP
15 16 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
16 15 (0.68%) SAP IBP
17 14 (0.63%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 254 (11.50%) Azure
2 139 (6.29%) Dynamics 365
3 115 (5.21%) Power Platform
4 103 (4.66%) AWS
5 67 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
6 64 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (2.67%) GCP
8 56 (2.54%) SuccessFactors
9 52 (2.35%) OCI
9 52 (2.35%) Power Automate
10 51 (2.31%) Entra ID
11 42 (1.90%) PowerApps
12 24 (1.09%) SaaS
13 22 (1.00%) WhatsApp
14 21 (0.95%) IaaS
15 14 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
15 14 (0.63%) Microsoft Purview
16 12 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
17 9 (0.41%) PaaS
17 9 (0.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 44 (1.99%) Firewall
2 34 (1.54%) Network Security
3 28 (1.27%) WAN
4 20 (0.91%) VPN
5 19 (0.86%) DNS
6 18 (0.81%) Ethernet
7 16 (0.72%) Radio Access Network
7 16 (0.72%) SD-WAN
8 13 (0.59%) 4G
8 13 (0.59%) 5G
9 11 (0.50%) LAN
9 11 (0.50%) Wireless
10 10 (0.45%) Cisco ISE
11 9 (0.41%) 3G
11 9 (0.41%) SSH
11 9 (0.41%) TCP/IP
12 8 (0.36%) DHCP
13 7 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (0.27%) WLAN
15 5 (0.23%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (4.12%) Power BI
2 56 (2.54%) SAP HANA
3 44 (1.99%) Data Lake
4 43 (1.95%) SQL Server
5 26 (1.18%) SAP BW
6 22 (1.00%) Oracle Database
7 21 (0.95%) Big Data
8 19 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
10 15 (0.68%) Metadata
11 13 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
12 12 (0.54%) Relational Database
13 11 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
14 8 (0.36%) MySQL
14 8 (0.36%) Tableau
15 7 (0.32%) EDRMS
15 7 (0.32%) RDBMS
16 6 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
16 6 (0.27%) Siebel EIM
17 5 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 32 (1.45%) JIRA
2 21 (0.95%) Rational DOORS
3 17 (0.77%) Git
4 12 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
5 8 (0.36%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.32%) Selenium
7 6 (0.27%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.23%) Postman
9 4 (0.18%) Appium
9 4 (0.18%) eggPlant
9 4 (0.18%) JUnit
9 4 (0.18%) REST Assured
9 4 (0.18%) SoapUI
9 4 (0.18%) SOAtest
9 4 (0.18%) TestNG
9 4 (0.18%) WebDriver
10 3 (0.14%) JMeter
10 3 (0.14%) LoadRunner
10 3 (0.14%) LSMW
10 3 (0.14%) Maven
General
1 586 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 464 (21.00%) Finance
3 211 (9.55%) Analytical Skills
4 187 (8.47%) Public Sector
5 89 (4.03%) Banking
6 78 (3.53%) Manufacturing
7 76 (3.44%) Presentation Skills
8 74 (3.35%) Retail
9 65 (2.94%) Marketing
10 47 (2.13%) Telecoms
11 35 (1.58%) General Ledger
11 35 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
12 31 (1.40%) Law
13 30 (1.36%) Electronics
14 28 (1.27%) Legal
15 25 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 24 (1.09%) Local Government
17 22 (1.00%) Billing
18 19 (0.86%) German Language
19 17 (0.77%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (2.22%) Oracle Fusion
2 43 (1.95%) Web Services
3 42 (1.90%) SAP Basis
4 41 (1.86%) SAP Fiori
5 28 (1.27%) SailPoint
6 22 (1.00%) XML
7 21 (0.95%) HTML
8 19 (0.86%) OpenID
9 18 (0.81%) LDAP
10 17 (0.77%) EDI
11 14 (0.63%) JSON
11 14 (0.63%) SAML
12 13 (0.59%) CSS
12 13 (0.59%) REST
13 12 (0.54%) Middleware
13 12 (0.54%) SOAP
14 10 (0.45%) .NET
15 9 (0.41%) OAuth
15 9 (0.41%) RESTful
15 9 (0.41%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 38 (1.72%) Data Structures
2 36 (1.63%) Onboarding
3 35 (1.58%) Management Information System
4 34 (1.54%) Data Centre
5 23 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
5 23 (1.04%) Operational Technology
5 23 (1.04%) Security Posture
6 21 (0.95%) CMDB
6 21 (0.95%) Robotics
7 20 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
7 20 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 20 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (0.86%) Mainframe
9 18 (0.81%) Analogue Electronics
9 18 (0.81%) Replication
10 17 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (0.77%) Public Cloud
11 16 (0.72%) Life Science
11 16 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (0.68%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 72 (3.26%) Windows
2 56 (2.54%) Linux
3 33 (1.49%) Unix
4 12 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.32%) Windows 10
5 7 (0.32%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.23%) VMS
7 3 (0.14%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.14%) Mac OS X
7 3 (0.14%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.14%) zOS
8 2 (0.091%) NetWare
8 2 (0.091%) OpenVMS
8 2 (0.091%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.091%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.045%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.045%) OS/390
9 1 (0.045%) Solaris
9 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (11.59%) Migration
2 238 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
3 223 (10.10%) Stakeholder Management
4 167 (7.56%) Agile
5 149 (6.75%) Cybersecurity
6 130 (5.89%) DevOps
7 123 (5.57%) Business Intelligence
8 119 (5.39%) Project Management
9 118 (5.34%) Data Migration
10 101 (4.57%) ERP
11 98 (4.44%) Requirements Gathering
12 91 (4.12%) Analytics
13 90 (4.07%) Roadmaps
14 80 (3.62%) User Acceptance Testing
15 76 (3.44%) Workshop Facilitation
16 74 (3.35%) Risk Management
17 71 (3.21%) CRM
18 70 (3.17%) Information Security
19 69 (3.12%) Change Management
19 69 (3.12%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 129 (5.84%) SQL
2 69 (3.12%) ABAP
3 65 (2.94%) Python
4 52 (2.35%) PowerShell
5 51 (2.31%) Java
6 36 (1.63%) JavaScript
7 19 (0.86%) C#
8 15 (0.68%) PL/SQL
9 12 (0.54%) Bash
10 9 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
11 8 (0.36%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.32%) Perl
13 6 (0.27%) C++
13 6 (0.27%) Groovy
13 6 (0.27%) R
14 5 (0.23%) C
15 4 (0.18%) AWK
15 4 (0.18%) Go
15 4 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 375 (16.98%) Security Cleared
2 262 (11.86%) SC Cleared
3 141 (6.38%) Degree
4 119 (5.39%) DV Cleared
5 32 (1.45%) CISSP
6 30 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 29 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (1.04%) CISM
9 20 (0.91%) SAP Certification
10 18 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
10 18 (0.81%) Master's Degree
11 17 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (0.50%) AWS Certification
13 10 (0.45%) CCNP
13 10 (0.45%) CRISC
14 7 (0.32%) ACCA
14 7 (0.32%) CCNA
14 7 (0.32%) CISA
14 7 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (2.81%) NIST
2 47 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 43 (1.95%) Data Quality
4 31 (1.40%) QA
5 30 (1.36%) GDPR
6 20 (0.91%) PCI DSS
7 19 (0.86%) GRC
8 18 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 16 (0.72%) SLA
10 13 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 12 (0.54%) PMO
11 12 (0.54%) RMADS
12 11 (0.50%) COBIT
13 9 (0.41%) NIST 800
14 8 (0.36%) NCSC
15 7 (0.32%) IFRS
16 6 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.27%) JSP 440
17 5 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
17 5 (0.23%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 65 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 20 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (0.86%) VMware NSX
4 14 (0.63%) Docker
5 10 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.27%) vSphere
7 5 (0.23%) XenApp
7 5 (0.23%) XenDesktop
8 4 (0.18%) KVM
9 2 (0.091%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 2 (0.091%) Firmware
9 2 (0.091%) GPFS
9 2 (0.091%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 2 (0.091%) Microcode
9 2 (0.091%) QEMU
9 2 (0.091%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.091%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (0.091%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.091%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 26 (1.18%) Terraform
2 23 (1.04%) Kubernetes
3 18 (0.81%) Ansible
4 15 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.41%) SCCM
7 8 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 7 (0.32%) VxRail
9 6 (0.27%) Grafana
9 6 (0.27%) vRealize
10 5 (0.23%) EnCase
10 5 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.18%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.18%) PingFederate
11 4 (0.18%) Puppet
12 3 (0.14%) HP Quality Center
12 3 (0.14%) Nessus
12 3 (0.14%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.091%) Avamar
13 2 (0.091%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 564 (25.53%) SAP
2 317 (14.35%) Microsoft
3 211 (9.55%) Oracle
4 58 (2.63%) ServiceNow
5 51 (2.31%) VMware
6 33 (1.49%) Workday
7 26 (1.18%) Cisco
7 26 (1.18%) Salesforce
8 25 (1.13%) Adobe
9 22 (1.00%) CyberArk
10 21 (0.95%) Ariba
10 21 (0.95%) Google
11 18 (0.81%) Informatica
12 14 (0.63%) EMC
12 14 (0.63%) IBM
13 13 (0.59%) Dell
13 13 (0.59%) Palantir
13 13 (0.59%) Sage
14 12 (0.54%) Foundry
14 12 (0.54%) Splunk