Consultant Contracts in the South East

Consultant
England > South East

The median Consultant daily rate in the South East is £595 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 35 51
Rank change year-on-year +8 +16 -22
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 331 308 328
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 5.87% 5.46% 4.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.36% 5.77% 4.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 193 221
10th Percentile £428 £452 £405
25th Percentile £500 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £703 £638
90th Percentile £765 £750 £683
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 3
10th Percentile £52.90 £55.94 £37.50
25th Percentile £54.42 £60.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £61.60 £64.68 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.75% -19.16% +29.03%
75th Percentile - £72.80 £85.00
90th Percentile - £83.98 £86.50
England median hourly rate £61.60 £64.84 £70.50
% change year-on-year -4.99% -8.03% +22.61%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 5,201 5,337 7,358
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 94.61% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,081 3,698 5,052
10th Percentile £234 £218 £206
25th Percentile £400 £388 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £603 £589
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 523 237 309
10th Percentile £12.88 £16.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 £16.11
Median hourly rate £48.00 £50.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +150.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £61.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in the South East

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Consultant in the South East

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in the South East

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in the South East

Consultant
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Hourly rate histogram for Consultant in the South East

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the South East 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
Thames Valley +11 216 £603 +0.42% 62
Berkshire +10 191 £625 -3.85% 37
Hampshire +10 79 £582 -4.67% 37
Buckinghamshire +22 20 £475 -14.80% 15
Surrey +1 13 £500 -9.09% 29
West Sussex -10 6 £495 +0.90% 7
Oxfordshire +5 5 £450 -14.29% 10
Kent +6 4 £540 +27.06% 15
East Sussex -1 2 £475 -20.83% 13
Middlesex -4 1 - - 1
Consultant
England

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

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 South East region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 123 (37.16%) Security Cleared
2 114 (34.44%) SAP
3 78 (23.56%) SC Cleared
4 65 (19.64%) Social Skills
5 57 (17.22%) DV Cleared
6 43 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (12.08%) Oracle
7 40 (12.08%) Cybersecurity
8 38 (11.48%) Finance
9 31 (9.37%) Analytical Skills
10 27 (8.16%) Azure
10 27 (8.16%) SAP QM
10 27 (8.16%) Agile
11 26 (7.85%) Microsoft
12 25 (7.55%) Public Sector
13 24 (7.25%) Roadmaps
14 22 (6.65%) Stakeholder Management
14 22 (6.65%) Information Security
15 21 (6.34%) Migration
16 20 (6.04%) PLM
16 20 (6.04%) SAP Basis
16 20 (6.04%) SAP S/4HANA
17 19 (5.74%) Robotics
17 19 (5.74%) GAP Analysis
17 19 (5.74%) User Acceptance Testing
18 18 (5.44%) Network Security
18 18 (5.44%) Rational DOORS
19 17 (5.14%) SAP EWM
19 17 (5.14%) Oracle EBS R12
19 17 (5.14%) DevOps

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (1.21%) NetWeaver
2 3 (0.91%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.30%) IIS
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 27 (8.16%) SAP QM
2 20 (6.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (5.14%) Oracle EBS R12
3 17 (5.14%) SAP EWM
4 13 (3.93%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 11 (3.32%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (2.11%) Maximo
7 4 (1.21%) SAP FI
7 4 (1.21%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
8 3 (0.91%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.91%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.91%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.91%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.91%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.60%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.60%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (0.60%) SAP BRIM
9 2 (0.60%) SAP Hybris
9 2 (0.60%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 27 (8.16%) Azure
2 12 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (2.72%) AWS
4 8 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
4 8 (2.42%) Power Platform
5 7 (2.11%) SuccessFactors
6 5 (1.51%) SaaS
7 4 (1.21%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (0.91%) Entra ID
8 3 (0.91%) GCP
8 3 (0.91%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.60%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.60%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.60%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (0.60%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (0.60%) IaaS
9 2 (0.60%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.60%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (0.60%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 1 (0.30%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.44%) Network Security
2 16 (4.83%) Ethernet
3 15 (4.53%) Radio Access Network
4 12 (3.63%) Firewall
5 9 (2.72%) 3G
5 9 (2.72%) 4G
5 9 (2.72%) 5G
6 6 (1.81%) VPN
6 6 (1.81%) WAN
7 5 (1.51%) Cisco ISE
8 4 (1.21%) DNS
9 3 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (0.91%) FTP
9 3 (0.91%) IPsec
9 3 (0.91%) MPLS
9 3 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.60%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (0.60%) DMVPN
10 2 (0.60%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 2 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.83%) Oracle Database
1 16 (4.83%) SAP HANA
2 7 (2.11%) Power BI
3 4 (1.21%) SAP BW
3 4 (1.21%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.91%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (0.91%) Oracle Database 11g
4 3 (0.91%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.60%) BusinessObjects XI
6 1 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.30%) MySQL
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.30%) Power Query
6 1 (0.30%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (5.44%) Rational DOORS
2 10 (3.02%) Oracle Forms
3 6 (1.81%) JIRA
4 2 (0.60%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.60%) JMeter
4 2 (0.60%) Maven
4 2 (0.60%) Selenium
5 1 (0.30%) NWDI
5 1 (0.30%) NWDS
General
1 65 (19.64%) Social Skills
2 38 (11.48%) Finance
3 31 (9.37%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (7.55%) Public Sector
5 16 (4.83%) Electronics
5 16 (4.83%) Telecoms
6 7 (2.11%) Manufacturing
6 7 (2.11%) Retail
7 6 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.21%) Marketing
9 3 (0.91%) Billing
9 3 (0.91%) Military
9 3 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.60%) Polish Language
11 1 (0.30%) Advertising
11 1 (0.30%) Banking
11 1 (0.30%) French Language
11 1 (0.30%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.30%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.04%) SAP Basis
2 14 (4.23%) SAP Fiori
3 4 (1.21%) Lightning Web Components
3 4 (1.21%) Visualforce
4 2 (0.60%) CSS
4 2 (0.60%) Gherkin
4 2 (0.60%) HTML
4 2 (0.60%) Web Services
4 2 (0.60%) XML
5 1 (0.30%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.30%) IDoc
5 1 (0.30%) Kafka
5 1 (0.30%) LDAP
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.30%) React
5 1 (0.30%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.30%) REST
5 1 (0.30%) SOAP
5 1 (0.30%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 19 (5.74%) Robotics
2 16 (4.83%) Analogue Electronics
3 12 (3.63%) Operational Technology
4 8 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.11%) Data Centre
6 6 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.21%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 3 (0.91%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (0.91%) IoT
8 3 (0.91%) Mainframe
8 3 (0.91%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.91%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.60%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.60%) iPad
9 2 (0.60%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (0.60%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.60%) SCADA
9 2 (0.60%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.53%) Linux
2 14 (4.23%) Windows
3 8 (2.42%) Unix
4 7 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (12.08%) Cybersecurity
3 27 (8.16%) Agile
4 24 (7.25%) Roadmaps
5 22 (6.65%) Information Security
5 22 (6.65%) Stakeholder Management
6 21 (6.34%) Migration
7 20 (6.04%) PLM
8 19 (5.74%) GAP Analysis
8 19 (5.74%) User Acceptance Testing
9 17 (5.14%) DevOps
9 17 (5.14%) Workshop Facilitation
10 16 (4.83%) Identity Access Management
10 16 (4.83%) Integration Testing
10 16 (4.83%) Prototyping
10 16 (4.83%) Requirements Management
10 16 (4.83%) Systems Engineering
11 15 (4.53%) Business Strategy
11 15 (4.53%) Design for Manufacturing
11 15 (4.53%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 11 (3.32%) SQL
2 9 (2.72%) PowerShell
3 5 (1.51%) ABAP
4 4 (1.21%) Java
4 4 (1.21%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.60%) Ada
5 2 (0.60%) C
5 2 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.60%) Groovy
5 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (0.60%) PL/SQL
5 2 (0.60%) Python
6 1 (0.30%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.30%) PHP
6 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 123 (37.16%) Security Cleared
2 78 (23.56%) SC Cleared
3 57 (17.22%) DV Cleared
4 6 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (1.81%) CISSP
4 6 (1.81%) Degree
4 6 (1.81%) SAP Certification
5 4 (1.21%) CCNP
5 4 (1.21%) CISM
5 4 (1.21%) ISACA
6 3 (0.91%) CCNA
7 2 (0.60%) CRISC
7 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.30%) ACCA
8 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.30%) CCIE
8 1 (0.30%) CIMA
8 1 (0.30%) CISA
8 1 (0.30%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.93%) GDPR
2 12 (3.63%) NIST
3 8 (2.42%) COBIT
4 6 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.51%) GRC
5 5 (1.51%) IFRS
5 5 (1.51%) RMADS
6 4 (1.21%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.60%) QA
7 2 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.30%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.30%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.30%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.30%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.30%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.30%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (1.51%) VMware NSX
2 4 (1.21%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.60%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.60%) vSphere
4 1 (0.30%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (1.21%) VxRail
2 2 (0.60%) Terraform
2 2 (0.60%) vCenter Server
2 2 (0.60%) vRealize
3 1 (0.30%) Ansible
3 1 (0.30%) Grafana
3 1 (0.30%) Graylog
3 1 (0.30%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.30%) Nagios
3 1 (0.30%) Nessus
3 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 114 (34.44%) SAP
2 40 (12.08%) Oracle
3 26 (7.85%) Microsoft
4 11 (3.32%) VMware
5 10 (3.02%) ArcSight
6 9 (2.72%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.81%) Cisco
8 5 (1.51%) CyberArk
8 5 (1.51%) Juniper
8 5 (1.51%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.21%) Concur
10 3 (0.91%) EMC
10 3 (0.91%) Informatica
10 3 (0.91%) Sage
11 2 (0.60%) Blue Coat
11 2 (0.60%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.60%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.60%) IBM
11 2 (0.60%) McAfee
11 2 (0.60%) ServiceNow