Consultant Contracts in the East of England

Consultant
England > East of England

The median Consultant daily rate in the East of England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 78 75
Rank change year-on-year +46 -3 -35
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 97 45 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 5.11% 2.18% 2.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.70% 2.38% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 30 53
10th Percentile £325 £400 £264
25th Percentile £406 £453 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £578 £675 £638
90th Percentile £650 £830 £669
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 1
10th Percentile £31.13 - -
25th Percentile £38.44 £21.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £22.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +104.55% -51.11% -
75th Percentile £57.63 £23.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £75.85 £45.25 -
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 of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 1,701 1,892 2,397
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.53% 91.53% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 774 1,157 1,384
10th Percentile £206 £185 £163
25th Percentile £313 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £542
90th Percentile £650 £700 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 585 294 370
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £35.40 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.47% +128.39% -7.32%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £39.54
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.38% +100.00% +0.29%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in the East of England

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in the East of England

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in the East of England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in the East of England

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in the East of England

Consultant
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Consultant in the East of England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Consultant in the East of England

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 28 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
Hertfordshire +21 47 £475 -13.64% 23
Bedfordshire +13 22 £525 +16.67% 2
Cambridgeshire +17 20 £581 -7.12% 11
Essex +4 8 £538 -20.37% 3
Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 of England region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 31 (31.96%) Social Skills
2 30 (30.93%) SAP
3 20 (20.62%) SAP S/4HANA
4 18 (18.56%) Finance
5 13 (13.40%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (11.34%) Degree
7 10 (10.31%) ERP
8 9 (9.28%) Pharmaceutical
8 9 (9.28%) Telecoms
8 9 (9.28%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (9.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (8.25%) Presales
9 8 (8.25%) Business Transformation
9 8 (8.25%) Project Management
9 8 (8.25%) Genesys
10 7 (7.22%) Ariba
10 7 (7.22%) CRM
10 7 (7.22%) SAP SD
10 7 (7.22%) Service Management
10 7 (7.22%) Migration
10 7 (7.22%) Computer Science
10 7 (7.22%) Life Science
10 7 (7.22%) IFS
10 7 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (7.22%) Roadmaps
11 6 (6.19%) Incident Response
11 6 (6.19%) Conversational UI
11 6 (6.19%) IT Asset Management
11 6 (6.19%) Chatbot
11 6 (6.19%) Azure

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (4.12%) NetWeaver
2 3 (3.09%) Confluence
3 2 (2.06%) Alfresco
3 2 (2.06%) Appian
3 2 (2.06%) Camunda
3 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.06%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (6.19%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 20 (20.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (7.22%) SAP SD
3 4 (4.12%) SAP IBP
4 2 (2.06%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (2.06%) Oracle Retail
4 2 (2.06%) Teamcenter
5 1 (1.03%) NetSuite
5 1 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (1.03%) SAP BPC
5 1 (1.03%) SAP CO
5 1 (1.03%) SAP FI
5 1 (1.03%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.19%) AWS
1 6 (6.19%) Azure
2 5 (5.15%) GCP
3 2 (2.06%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.03%) Google Drive
4 1 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.03%) OneDrive
4 1 (1.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.09%) 4G
1 3 (3.09%) 5G
1 3 (3.09%) Wireless
2 1 (1.03%) Intranet
2 1 (1.03%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.15%) SAP BW
1 5 (5.15%) SAP HANA
2 1 (1.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (3.09%) JIRA
General
1 31 (31.96%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.56%) Finance
3 9 (9.28%) Pharmaceutical
3 9 (9.28%) Telecoms
4 7 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.12%) Marketing
5 4 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (4.12%) Retail
6 3 (3.09%) Banking
6 3 (3.09%) Billing
6 3 (3.09%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.03%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.03%) Law
7 1 (1.03%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.15%) Middleware
1 5 (5.15%) RESTful
1 5 (5.15%) SAP Basis
1 5 (5.15%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (2.06%) Drools
2 2 (2.06%) HTML
2 2 (2.06%) jBPM
2 2 (2.06%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.22%) Life Science
2 4 (4.12%) IVR
3 3 (3.09%) EPoS
3 3 (3.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.06%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.06%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.06%) Social Media
4 2 (2.06%) Video Editing
5 1 (1.03%) CMDB
5 1 (1.03%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.03%) Replication
5 1 (1.03%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.12%) Linux
1 4 (4.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (13.40%) Stakeholder Management
2 10 (10.31%) ERP
3 9 (9.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (9.28%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (8.25%) Business Transformation
4 8 (8.25%) Presales
4 8 (8.25%) Project Management
5 7 (7.22%) Computer Science
5 7 (7.22%) CRM
5 7 (7.22%) Migration
5 7 (7.22%) Roadmaps
5 7 (7.22%) Service Management
6 6 (6.19%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (6.19%) Conversational UI
6 6 (6.19%) Incident Response
6 6 (6.19%) IT Asset Management
7 5 (5.15%) Agile
7 5 (5.15%) Configuration Management
7 5 (5.15%) Quality Management
7 5 (5.15%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.09%) Java
2 2 (2.06%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (11.34%) Degree
2 4 (4.12%) SAP Certification
3 2 (2.06%) PMP
3 2 (2.06%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.06%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.03%) CCNP
4 1 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.03%) CISSP
4 1 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.03%) PhD
4 1 (1.03%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.06%) GDPR
1 2 (2.06%) IFRS
2 1 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.03%) GxP
2 1 (1.03%) PMO
2 1 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (3.09%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.06%) GPFS
2 2 (2.06%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (1.03%) NFS
Vendors
1 30 (30.93%) SAP
2 8 (8.25%) Genesys
3 7 (7.22%) Ariba
3 7 (7.22%) IFS
4 3 (3.09%) Avaya
4 3 (3.09%) Oracle
5 2 (2.06%) Adobe
5 2 (2.06%) BMC
5 2 (2.06%) Citrix
5 2 (2.06%) Clearswift
5 2 (2.06%) Dell
5 2 (2.06%) Google
5 2 (2.06%) Pega
5 2 (2.06%) Proofpoint
5 2 (2.06%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.06%) Siemens
6 1 (1.03%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.03%) NVIDIA
6 1 (1.03%) Remedy
6 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow