HR Consultant Contracts

Human Resources Consultant
UK

The median Human Resources Consultant daily rate in the UK is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 674 824
Rank change year-on-year +139 +150 -117
Contract jobs requiring an HR Consultant 49 23 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.041% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.044% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 13 19
10th Percentile £416 £450 £325
25th Percentile £453 £575 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £580 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% +22.11% +2.70%
75th Percentile £627 £600 £559
90th Percentile £638 £624 £571
UK excluding London median daily rate £603 £590 £488
% change year-on-year +2.12% +21.03% -7.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

HR Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for HR Consultant in the UK

HR Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for HR Consultant in the UK

HR Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HR Consultant over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for HR Consultant in the UK

HR Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for HR Consultant in the UK

HR Consultant
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HR Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +104 36 £588 -0.42% 7
Work from Home +125 23 £538 -6.93% 6
UK excluding London +30 15 £603 +2.12% 5
London +93 12 £450 -25.00% 2
Midlands +18 7 £500 -13.04%
East Midlands +7 5 £675 +16.88%
South West - 3 £638 - 3
West Midlands +19 2 £438 -23.91%
North of England +17 2 - - 1
North West +15 2 - -
South East +13 2 £613 +2.08%
East of England +5 1 £500 -20.00% 1

HR Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, HR 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 featuring HR Consultant in the job title.

1 16 (32.65%) SAP
1 16 (32.65%) Stakeholder Management
2 15 (30.61%) SuccessFactors
3 14 (28.57%) Oracle
3 14 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 11 (22.45%) Agile
5 9 (18.37%) Oracle EBS R12
5 9 (18.37%) Maximo
5 9 (18.37%) E-business
5 9 (18.37%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (18.37%) Public Sector
6 8 (16.33%) Project Delivery
6 8 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (16.33%) SC Cleared
6 8 (16.33%) Security Cleared
7 6 (12.24%) Migration
8 5 (10.20%) SAP Payroll
8 5 (10.20%) Data Migration
8 5 (10.20%) Order to Cash
8 5 (10.20%) Record to Report
8 5 (10.20%) OCI
9 4 (8.16%) Target Operating Model
9 4 (8.16%) Local Government
9 4 (8.16%) Performance Management
9 4 (8.16%) Change Management
10 3 (6.12%) Project Management
10 3 (6.12%) OpenText
10 3 (6.12%) Finance
10 3 (6.12%) EDI

HR Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 9 (18.37%) Maximo
1 9 (18.37%) Oracle EBS
1 9 (18.37%) Oracle EBS R12
2 5 (10.20%) SAP Payroll
3 3 (6.12%) SAP ERP
4 2 (4.08%) SAP HR
5 1 (2.04%) iTrent
5 1 (2.04%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 15 (30.61%) SuccessFactors
2 5 (10.20%) OCI
3 3 (6.12%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.04%) Azure
5 1 (2.04%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.12%) Big Data
2 1 (2.04%) SAP HANA
General
1 14 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.37%) Public Sector
3 8 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.16%) Local Government
5 3 (6.12%) Finance
6 1 (2.04%) Legal
6 1 (2.04%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.12%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.12%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (32.65%) Stakeholder Management
2 11 (22.45%) Agile
3 9 (18.37%) E-business
4 8 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (16.33%) Project Delivery
5 6 (12.24%) Migration
6 5 (10.20%) Data Migration
6 5 (10.20%) Order to Cash
6 5 (10.20%) Record to Report
7 4 (8.16%) Change Management
7 4 (8.16%) Performance Management
7 4 (8.16%) Target Operating Model
8 3 (6.12%) Data Cleansing
8 3 (6.12%) Data Governance
8 3 (6.12%) Deep Learning
8 3 (6.12%) End-to-End Testing
8 3 (6.12%) Natural Language Processing
8 3 (6.12%) Scenario Testing
8 3 (6.12%) User Acceptance Testing
8 3 (6.12%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 8 (16.33%) SC Cleared
1 8 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.12%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.04%) GRC
Vendors
1 16 (32.65%) SAP
2 14 (28.57%) Oracle
3 3 (6.12%) OpenText
3 3 (6.12%) Phenom
4 1 (2.04%) Ariba
4 1 (2.04%) Kronos
4 1 (2.04%) Microsoft