Senior Consultant Contracts

Senior Consultant
UK

The median Senior Consultant daily rate in the UK is £589 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 429 567 621
Rank change year-on-year +138 +54 -156
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Consultant 146 115 221
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.21% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.22% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 56 108
10th Percentile £378 £466 £451
25th Percentile £468 £522 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £589 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.88% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £718
90th Percentile £750 £806 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £579 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +0.61% +4.55% +5.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 6
10th Percentile £51.78 - £40.00
25th Percentile £54.46 £55.94 £42.50
Median hourly rate £56.89 £56.89 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.77% -
75th Percentile £59.63 £57.83 -
90th Percentile £62.87 - £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.89 £56.89 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
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% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Senior Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Consultant in the UK

Senior Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Consultant in the UK

Senior Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Consultant in the UK

Senior Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Consultant in the UK

Senior Consultant
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Consultant within the UK 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
England +133 123 £582 -3.00% 277
UK excluding London +71 61 £579 +0.61% 143
Work from Home +115 60 £600 -2.04% 149
London +109 59 £595 -6.67% 152
North of England +40 20 £600 +14.29% 42
North West +33 14 £629 +22.63% 30
South East +14 14 £505 -12.17% 27
Midlands +29 11 £485 -25.38% 18
West Midlands +20 11 £485 -25.38% 14
East of England +12 8 £582 -24.90% 4
South West +8 8 £550 +4.76% 26
Yorkshire +23 6 £355 -38.26% 12
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Senior 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 Senior Consultant in the job title.

1 42 (28.77%) SAP
2 39 (26.71%) Social Skills
3 26 (17.81%) Finance
4 23 (15.75%) SAP S/4HANA
5 22 (15.07%) Roadmaps
6 20 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (13.01%) Microsoft
7 19 (13.01%) Security Cleared
8 18 (12.33%) Azure
9 17 (11.64%) AWS
10 15 (10.27%) Agile
10 15 (10.27%) Migration
11 14 (9.59%) SC Cleared
11 14 (9.59%) DevOps
11 14 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
12 13 (8.90%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (8.22%) SuccessFactors
13 12 (8.22%) Analytics
14 11 (7.53%) Banking
14 11 (7.53%) CRM
15 10 (6.85%) Python
15 10 (6.85%) Oracle
16 9 (6.16%) Business Intelligence
16 9 (6.16%) SAP SD
16 9 (6.16%) VMware
16 9 (6.16%) Marketing
16 9 (6.16%) Data Protection
16 9 (6.16%) Digital Marketing
16 9 (6.16%) Test Automation
16 9 (6.16%) Cybersecurity

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (3.42%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.37%) CMS
3 1 (0.68%) Apache
3 1 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.68%) Confluence
3 1 (0.68%) GemFire
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.68%) MTS
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 23 (15.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (6.16%) SAP SD
3 5 (3.42%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (1.37%) Endur
4 2 (1.37%) SAP BPC
4 2 (1.37%) SAP CO
4 2 (1.37%) SAP ERP
4 2 (1.37%) SAP EWM
4 2 (1.37%) SAP FI
4 2 (1.37%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (1.37%) SAP GRC
4 2 (1.37%) SAP HCM
4 2 (1.37%) SAP HR
4 2 (1.37%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.68%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 18 (12.33%) Azure
2 17 (11.64%) AWS
3 12 (8.22%) SuccessFactors
4 7 (4.79%) GCP
5 6 (4.11%) Power Platform
6 5 (3.42%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.37%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.37%) GitHub
8 2 (1.37%) OCI
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.68%) AWS IoT
9 1 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.68%) CloudFront
9 1 (0.68%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.68%) SaaS
9 1 (0.68%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.79%) Firewall
2 6 (4.11%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (4.11%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (3.42%) 3G
3 5 (3.42%) 4G
3 5 (3.42%) 5G
3 5 (3.42%) Network Security
3 5 (3.42%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (1.37%) HTTP
5 1 (0.68%) AMQP
5 1 (0.68%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.68%) SSH
5 1 (0.68%) SSL
5 1 (0.68%) VLAN
5 1 (0.68%) VPN
5 1 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.11%) Power BI
1 6 (4.11%) SAP BW
2 3 (2.05%) Oracle BI EE
2 3 (2.05%) Oracle ODI
2 3 (2.05%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.05%) SAP HANA
3 2 (1.37%) Power Query
3 2 (1.37%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.68%) Adabas
4 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.68%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.68%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.68%) Redis
4 1 (0.68%) Talend Open Studio
Development Applications
1 4 (2.74%) Git
2 3 (2.05%) Cucumber
2 3 (2.05%) Maven
2 3 (2.05%) Selenium
3 2 (1.37%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.37%) JIRA
3 2 (1.37%) JMeter
4 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.68%) Postman
4 1 (0.68%) Protractor
4 1 (0.68%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.68%) Visual LANSA
General
1 39 (26.71%) Social Skills
2 26 (17.81%) Finance
3 14 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.53%) Banking
5 9 (6.16%) Marketing
6 6 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (4.11%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.42%) Legal
7 5 (3.42%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.74%) Billing
8 4 (2.74%) German Language
9 3 (2.05%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.37%) Automotive
10 2 (1.37%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.37%) Retail
10 2 (1.37%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.68%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.68%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.68%) Swedish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.11%) Middleware
2 3 (2.05%) EDI
2 3 (2.05%) REST
3 2 (1.37%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.37%) Gherkin
3 2 (1.37%) HTML
3 2 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.37%) SailPoint
3 2 (1.37%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.68%) Ajax
4 1 (0.68%) EntireX
4 1 (0.68%) IDoc
4 1 (0.68%) JMS
4 1 (0.68%) JSON
4 1 (0.68%) Node.js
4 1 (0.68%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.68%) React
4 1 (0.68%) RESTful
4 1 (0.68%) SAP TM
4 1 (0.68%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (2.74%) Onboarding
2 4 (2.74%) Public Cloud
2 4 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.05%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.05%) Reinsurance
4 2 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.37%) Hedge funds
4 2 (1.37%) IoT
4 2 (1.37%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (1.37%) Replication
4 2 (1.37%) Social Media
4 2 (1.37%) Video Editing
5 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.68%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.74%) Linux
2 2 (1.37%) Windows
3 1 (0.68%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (15.07%) Roadmaps
2 20 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (10.27%) Agile
3 15 (10.27%) Migration
4 14 (9.59%) DevOps
5 13 (8.90%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (8.22%) Analytics
7 11 (7.53%) CRM
8 9 (6.16%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (6.16%) Customer Experience
8 9 (6.16%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (6.16%) Data Protection
8 9 (6.16%) Digital Marketing
8 9 (6.16%) Test Automation
9 8 (5.48%) Asset Management
9 8 (5.48%) CI/CD
9 8 (5.48%) Conflict Resolution
9 8 (5.48%) Data Modelling
9 8 (5.48%) Product Roadmap
10 7 (4.79%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (6.85%) Python
2 8 (5.48%) SQL
3 6 (4.11%) Java
4 4 (2.74%) Bash
5 3 (2.05%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.05%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.68%) ABAP
7 1 (0.68%) Natural
7 1 (0.68%) Perl
7 1 (0.68%) PHP
7 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (13.01%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.59%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.48%) Degree
4 6 (4.11%) AWS Certification
4 6 (4.11%) CCIE
4 6 (4.11%) CCNP
4 6 (4.11%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (2.05%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.68%) ISACA
7 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.68%) OCP
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.42%) GRC
1 5 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.05%) NIST
3 2 (1.37%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.37%) GDPR
3 2 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.68%) COBIT
4 1 (0.68%) CRD IV
4 1 (0.68%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (4.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (4.11%) VMware NSX
3 5 (3.42%) Docker
4 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.68%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 5 (3.42%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.74%) Terraform
3 3 (2.05%) Ansible
4 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.37%) Puppet
5 1 (0.68%) Grafana
5 1 (0.68%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.68%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.68%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.68%) vRealize
Vendors
1 42 (28.77%) SAP
2 19 (13.01%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.85%) Oracle
4 9 (6.16%) VMware
5 6 (4.11%) Cisco
5 6 (4.11%) Palo Alto
6 5 (3.42%) SimCorp
7 4 (2.74%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.05%) Ariba
9 2 (1.37%) Adobe
9 2 (1.37%) Concur
9 2 (1.37%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.37%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.68%) EMC
10 1 (0.68%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.68%) HP
10 1 (0.68%) IBM
10 1 (0.68%) Reuters
10 1 (0.68%) Talend
10 1 (0.68%) UiPath