Consultant Contracts in the East Midlands

Consultant
England > East Midlands

The median Consultant daily rate in the East Midlands is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 49 51
Rank change year-on-year +26 +2 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 48 35 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 6.27% 3.35% 3.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.68% 3.56% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 19 38
10th Percentile £463 £350 £371
25th Percentile £500 £481 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £553
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.07% +20.77%
75th Percentile £625 £634 £638
90th Percentile £663 £654 £704
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.13 - -
Median hourly rate £12.25 - -
75th Percentile £12.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £60.80 £66.00 £70.50
% change year-on-year -7.88% -6.38% +22.61%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 719 982 1,346
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.86% 94.06% 94.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 754 986
10th Percentile £166 £213 £179
25th Percentile £260 £325 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £550 £565 £504
90th Percentile £625 £700 £600
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 62 94
10th Percentile £11.81 £11.80 £9.59
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.35 £13.56
Median hourly rate £17.50 £20.36 £17.29
Median % change year-on-year -14.05% +17.74% +17.64%
75th Percentile £26.15 £31.50 £24.38
90th Percentile £51.91 £64.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in the East Midlands

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in the East Midlands

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in the East Midlands

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in the East Midlands

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Leicestershire +22 15 £600 -7.69% 4
Nottinghamshire +16 13 £575 +9.52% 9
Derbyshire +5 12 £500 -13.64% 3
Lincolnshire +16 5 £625 +38.89% 7
Northamptonshire +7 4 £490 -6.67% 3
Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 East Midlands region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 9 (18.75%) SAP
2 8 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 8 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (14.58%) Finance
4 6 (12.50%) Oracle
4 6 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 6 (12.50%) Azure
4 6 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 4 (8.33%) Migration
5 4 (8.33%) Agile
5 4 (8.33%) Use Case
5 4 (8.33%) Active Directory
5 4 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (8.33%) SAML
5 4 (8.33%) Python
5 4 (8.33%) LDAP
5 4 (8.33%) Order to Cash
5 4 (8.33%) Record to Report
5 4 (8.33%) Analytics
5 4 (8.33%) OpenID
5 4 (8.33%) OAuth
5 4 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (8.33%) OCI
6 3 (6.25%) Customer Service
6 3 (6.25%) Okta
6 3 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (6.25%) RBAC
6 3 (6.25%) Thought Leadership

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 8 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (6.25%) SAP MM
3 1 (2.08%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (2.08%) NetSuite
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (2.08%) SAP BPC
3 1 (2.08%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 6 (12.50%) Azure
2 4 (8.33%) OCI
3 3 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (6.25%) Entra ID
3 3 (6.25%) Google Analytics
4 2 (4.17%) Serverless
5 1 (2.08%) AWS
5 1 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.08%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) Firewall
1 1 (2.08%) NetScaler
1 1 (2.08%) SAN
1 1 (2.08%) VPN
General
1 7 (14.58%) Finance
2 6 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.08%) Law
4 1 (2.08%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.33%) LDAP
1 4 (8.33%) OAuth
1 4 (8.33%) OpenID
1 4 (8.33%) SAML
2 3 (6.25%) SailPoint
2 3 (6.25%) Web Services
3 1 (2.08%) AWS CDK
3 1 (2.08%) JSON
3 1 (2.08%) Node.js
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.08%) REST
3 1 (2.08%) SOAP
3 1 (2.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.08%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.17%) Windows
2 1 (2.08%) Linux
2 1 (2.08%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (8.33%) Agile
1 4 (8.33%) Analytics
1 4 (8.33%) Migration
1 4 (8.33%) Order to Cash
1 4 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (8.33%) Record to Report
1 4 (8.33%) Use Case
2 3 (6.25%) Change Management
2 3 (6.25%) Conceptual Models
2 3 (6.25%) Customer Service
2 3 (6.25%) Data Engineering
2 3 (6.25%) Data Modelling
2 3 (6.25%) Data Transformation
2 3 (6.25%) Logical Data Model
2 3 (6.25%) RBAC
2 3 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (6.25%) Thought Leadership
2 3 (6.25%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (4.17%) DevOps
3 2 (4.17%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.33%) Python
2 3 (6.25%) Bash
2 3 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.17%) ABAP
4 1 (2.08%) C#
4 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.08%) SQL
4 1 (2.08%) X++
Qualifications
1 8 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 8 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.08%) Citrix Certification
System Software
1 4 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.08%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.08%) XenApp
2 1 (2.08%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (18.75%) SAP
2 6 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.50%) Oracle
3 3 (6.25%) Google
3 3 (6.25%) iManage
3 3 (6.25%) Okta
4 2 (4.17%) Citrix
4 2 (4.17%) Databricks
5 1 (2.08%) Blue Prism
5 1 (2.08%) ForgeRock
5 1 (2.08%) Hyperion
5 1 (2.08%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (2.08%) UiPath
5 1 (2.08%) VMware