Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London 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 31 52 76
Rank change year-on-year +21 +24 -37
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 1,067 933 978
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.12% 4.10% 3.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.54% 4.35% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 737 599 654
10th Percentile £391 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £643 £632
90th Percentile £725 £721 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 40 6
10th Percentile £26.38 £21.00 £23.10
25th Percentile £50.73 £55.94 £28.00
Median hourly rate £58.44 £65.50 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.77% +67.95% -35.00%
75th Percentile £61.60 £86.56 £73.75
90th Percentile - £95.25 £85.00
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,247 21,469 29,158
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 94.25% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,616 14,937 20,515
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £390 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,085 1,398
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.50
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in the UK excluding London

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Consultant in the UK excluding London

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in the UK excluding London

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in the UK excluding London

Consultant
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Consultant in the UK excluding London

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the UK excluding London 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
South East +8 331 £595 +3.48% 209
North of England +20 252 £525 -2.78% 277
Midlands +12 182 £550 - 156
North West +21 160 £550 +1.85% 187
West Midlands +19 126 £550 +4.76% 113
South West +17 126 £550 +8.37% 167
East of England +28 88 £525 -4.55% 70
Yorkshire +25 85 £475 -15.56% 80
Scotland +51 77 £525 +10.53% 70
East Midlands +15 49 £550 -4.35% 43
Wales +27 20 £594 +13.10% 20
North East +5 7 £590 +18.00% 11
Northern Ireland +3 5 £488 - 14
South Coast - 1 - -
Consultant
UK

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 297 (27.84%) SAP
2 257 (24.09%) Security Cleared
3 250 (23.43%) Social Skills
4 172 (16.12%) SC Cleared
5 152 (14.25%) Finance
6 126 (11.81%) Microsoft
7 125 (11.72%) Stakeholder Management
8 123 (11.53%) Problem-Solving
9 110 (10.31%) SAP S/4HANA
10 101 (9.47%) Oracle
11 100 (9.37%) Migration
12 96 (9.00%) Public Sector
13 89 (8.34%) DV Cleared
14 86 (8.06%) Agile
15 82 (7.69%) Azure
16 81 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
17 73 (6.84%) Cybersecurity
18 62 (5.81%) Roadmaps
19 58 (5.44%) Dynamics 365
20 56 (5.25%) Power Platform
21 53 (4.97%) Data Migration
22 49 (4.59%) User Acceptance Testing
23 48 (4.50%) Business Intelligence
23 48 (4.50%) DevOps
24 44 (4.12%) ERP
25 41 (3.84%) ITIL
25 41 (3.84%) Requirements Gathering
26 40 (3.75%) Analytics
27 39 (3.66%) SQL
27 39 (3.66%) Project Management

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 20 (1.87%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.84%) NetWeaver
3 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.56%) CMS
5 4 (0.37%) Confluence
5 4 (0.37%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.19%) Alfresco
7 2 (0.19%) Appian
7 2 (0.19%) Camunda
7 2 (0.19%) IIS
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.094%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.094%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.094%) SAS
8 1 (0.094%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (0.094%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.094%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.094%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.094%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 110 (10.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (3.09%) SAP EWM
3 28 (2.62%) SAP QM
4 24 (2.25%) SAP FI
5 23 (2.16%) NetSuite
6 21 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
7 18 (1.69%) Oracle EBS R12
8 16 (1.50%) SAP CO
9 15 (1.41%) Oracle EBS
9 15 (1.41%) SAP FI/CO
10 14 (1.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 14 (1.31%) SAP SD
11 13 (1.22%) SAP PP
12 10 (0.94%) SAP IBP
13 8 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
14 7 (0.66%) Maximo
14 7 (0.66%) Oracle Receivables
15 6 (0.56%) SAP ERP
15 6 (0.56%) SAP MM
16 5 (0.47%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 82 (7.69%) Azure
2 58 (5.44%) Dynamics 365
3 56 (5.25%) Power Platform
4 34 (3.19%) SuccessFactors
5 27 (2.53%) AWS
5 27 (2.53%) OCI
6 26 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
7 20 (1.87%) Entra ID
8 18 (1.69%) Power Automate
9 16 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (1.12%) PowerApps
11 9 (0.84%) Oracle Service Cloud
12 8 (0.75%) SaaS
13 7 (0.66%) GCP
13 7 (0.66%) OneDrive
14 5 (0.47%) IaaS
15 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Purview
15 4 (0.37%) PaaS
16 3 (0.28%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.16%) Network Security
2 20 (1.87%) Firewall
3 16 (1.50%) Ethernet
4 15 (1.41%) Radio Access Network
5 13 (1.22%) VPN
6 12 (1.12%) 4G
6 12 (1.12%) 5G
7 10 (0.94%) DNS
7 10 (0.94%) WAN
8 9 (0.84%) 3G
9 8 (0.75%) LAN
10 7 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
11 6 (0.56%) TCP/IP
12 4 (0.37%) NX-OS
12 4 (0.37%) VSAN
12 4 (0.37%) Wireless
13 3 (0.28%) FTP
13 3 (0.28%) IPsec
13 3 (0.28%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (3.37%) Power BI
2 23 (2.16%) SAP HANA
3 20 (1.87%) Oracle Database
4 19 (1.78%) SAP BW
5 12 (1.12%) BusinessObjects
6 8 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
6 8 (0.75%) SQL Server
7 5 (0.47%) Big Data
7 5 (0.47%) Data Lake
7 5 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.37%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.28%) Oracle Database 11g
10 2 (0.19%) BusinessObjects XI
10 2 (0.19%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.19%) EDRMS
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle BI EE
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.19%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (2.16%) JIRA
2 18 (1.69%) Rational DOORS
3 10 (0.94%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.28%) Git
4 3 (0.28%) JMeter
4 3 (0.28%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.19%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.19%) HP UFT
5 2 (0.19%) Maven
5 2 (0.19%) Selenium
6 1 (0.094%) CA Gen
6 1 (0.094%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.094%) NWDI
6 1 (0.094%) NWDS
6 1 (0.094%) RStudio
General
1 250 (23.43%) Social Skills
2 152 (14.25%) Finance
3 96 (9.00%) Public Sector
4 81 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (3.19%) Manufacturing
6 27 (2.53%) Marketing
6 27 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
6 27 (2.53%) Telecoms
7 21 (1.97%) Electronics
8 20 (1.87%) Retail
9 18 (1.69%) Banking
10 16 (1.50%) Local Government
11 15 (1.41%) Law
11 15 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
12 13 (1.22%) Billing
13 12 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 10 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
16 9 (0.84%) Legal
17 7 (0.66%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (2.62%) SAP Basis
2 26 (2.44%) SAP Fiori
3 17 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
3 17 (1.59%) Web Services
4 10 (0.94%) HTML
5 8 (0.75%) REST
6 7 (0.66%) CSS
6 7 (0.66%) SailPoint
7 6 (0.56%) LDAP
7 6 (0.56%) SOAP
7 6 (0.56%) XML
8 5 (0.47%) IDoc
8 5 (0.47%) JSON
8 5 (0.47%) Middleware
8 5 (0.47%) Visualforce
9 4 (0.37%) .NET
9 4 (0.37%) Lightning Web Components
9 4 (0.37%) OAuth
9 4 (0.37%) OpenID
9 4 (0.37%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
1 21 (1.97%) Operational Technology
2 19 (1.78%) Robotics
3 17 (1.59%) Data Centre
3 17 (1.59%) Mainframe
4 16 (1.50%) Analogue Electronics
4 16 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
5 13 (1.22%) Cyber Defence
5 13 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 13 (1.22%) Management Information System
5 13 (1.22%) Onboarding
6 12 (1.12%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 10 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (0.94%) Life Science
7 10 (0.94%) Replication
8 8 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (0.66%) Security Posture
10 6 (0.56%) Product Ownership
10 6 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (3.09%) Linux
1 33 (3.09%) Windows
2 14 (1.31%) Unix
3 8 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (0.66%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.47%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.19%) zOS
7 1 (0.094%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.094%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.094%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (11.72%) Stakeholder Management
2 123 (11.53%) Problem-Solving
3 100 (9.37%) Migration
4 86 (8.06%) Agile
5 73 (6.84%) Cybersecurity
6 62 (5.81%) Roadmaps
7 53 (4.97%) Data Migration
8 49 (4.59%) User Acceptance Testing
9 48 (4.50%) Business Intelligence
9 48 (4.50%) DevOps
10 44 (4.12%) ERP
11 41 (3.84%) ITIL
11 41 (3.84%) Requirements Gathering
12 40 (3.75%) Analytics
13 39 (3.66%) Project Management
14 38 (3.56%) Workshop Facilitation
15 37 (3.47%) Change Management
15 37 (3.47%) Risk Management
15 37 (3.47%) Service Management
16 34 (3.19%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 39 (3.66%) SQL
2 27 (2.53%) PowerShell
3 21 (1.97%) ABAP
4 15 (1.41%) Python
5 11 (1.03%) JavaScript
6 9 (0.84%) Java
7 8 (0.75%) Bash
8 5 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (0.47%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.37%) C#
10 2 (0.19%) Ada
10 2 (0.19%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.19%) C
10 2 (0.19%) Groovy
10 2 (0.19%) JCL
10 2 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.19%) PHP
11 1 (0.094%) CLIST
11 1 (0.094%) R
11 1 (0.094%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 257 (24.09%) Security Cleared
2 172 (16.12%) SC Cleared
3 89 (8.34%) DV Cleared
4 31 (2.91%) Degree
5 16 (1.50%) CISSP
6 15 (1.41%) SAP Certification
7 14 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (0.75%) CISM
10 7 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (0.56%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.47%) CESG Certified Professional
12 5 (0.47%) CLAS
12 5 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 4 (0.37%) CCNP
13 4 (0.37%) CIPD
13 4 (0.37%) ISACA
13 4 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.28%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (2.81%) NIST
2 23 (2.16%) GDPR
2 23 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (1.12%) RMADS
4 10 (0.94%) COBIT
4 10 (0.94%) PCI DSS
4 10 (0.94%) PMO
5 9 (0.84%) GRC
6 8 (0.75%) QA
6 8 (0.75%) SLA
7 7 (0.66%) IFRS
8 6 (0.56%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.56%) JSP 440
9 4 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.19%) COSO
11 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.094%) DO-178B
System Software
1 29 (2.72%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.31%) VMware NSX
4 8 (0.75%) vSphere
5 7 (0.66%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.37%) Docker
6 4 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.19%) GPFS
7 2 (0.19%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 2 (0.19%) KVM
7 2 (0.19%) Microcode
7 2 (0.19%) QEMU
7 2 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.19%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.19%) XenApp
7 2 (0.19%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.094%) Firmware
8 1 (0.094%) NFS
Systems Management
1 10 (0.94%) Ansible
2 9 (0.84%) VxRail
3 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (0.66%) Terraform
4 5 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.47%) vRealize
5 4 (0.37%) Kubernetes
5 4 (0.37%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.28%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (0.19%) CEMLI
7 2 (0.19%) Puppet
7 2 (0.19%) SCCM
8 1 (0.094%) Grafana
8 1 (0.094%) Graylog
8 1 (0.094%) Nagios
8 1 (0.094%) Nessus
8 1 (0.094%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.094%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.094%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 297 (27.84%) SAP
2 126 (11.81%) Microsoft
3 101 (9.47%) Oracle
4 37 (3.47%) VMware
5 31 (2.91%) ServiceNow
6 15 (1.41%) Cisco
7 14 (1.31%) Salesforce
8 12 (1.12%) Ariba
9 10 (0.94%) ArcSight
9 10 (0.94%) Dell
10 9 (0.84%) EMC
10 9 (0.84%) Informatica
11 7 (0.66%) Concur
11 7 (0.66%) OpenText
11 7 (0.66%) Splunk
12 6 (0.56%) CyberArk
12 6 (0.56%) Google
12 6 (0.56%) IFS
13 5 (0.47%) CA
13 5 (0.47%) JDA