Senior Consultant Contracts in England

Senior Consultant
UK > England

The median Senior Consultant daily rate in England is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 420 566 617
Rank change year-on-year +146 +51 -172
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Consultant 123 82 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.33% 0.16% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.17% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 45 87
10th Percentile £406 £460 £495
25th Percentile £468 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £725
90th Percentile £763 £828 £800
UK median daily rate £585 £600 £619
% change year-on-year -2.51% -3.03% -4.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £51.19 - -
25th Percentile £52.97 £55.94 £75.00
Median hourly rate £56.89 £56.89 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -28.89% -
75th Percentile £57.83 £57.83 £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £56.89 £56.89 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +13.77% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 England with a recognized job title 34,513 47,748 67,861
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,922 33,906 48,257
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,408 1,904
10th Percentile £12.96 £14.34 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.65 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

Senior Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Consultant in England

Senior Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Consultant in England

Senior Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Consultant in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Consultant in England

Senior Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Consultant in England

Senior Consultant
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 29 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
London +134 68 £583 -2.92% 117
South East +18 15 £435 -5.43% 31
North of England +39 14 £600 +20.00% 24
West Midlands +33 9 £485 -28.15% 14
Midlands +33 9 £485 -28.15% 14
North West +29 8 £675 +35.00% 14
East of England +18 7 £571 -26.32% 9
South West +13 7 £550 +4.76% 25
Yorkshire +28 6 £355 -38.26% 6
Senior Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 across the England region featuring Senior Consultant in the job title.

1 35 (28.46%) Social Skills
2 27 (21.95%) SAP
3 23 (18.70%) Finance
4 22 (17.89%) AWS
5 19 (15.45%) Agile
5 19 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (14.63%) Microsoft
7 16 (13.01%) Azure
8 15 (12.20%) Security Cleared
9 13 (10.57%) Migration
9 13 (10.57%) DevOps
9 13 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (10.57%) SAP S/4HANA
10 12 (9.76%) CI/CD
10 12 (9.76%) Roadmaps
10 12 (9.76%) SC Cleared
11 11 (8.94%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (8.94%) CRM
12 10 (8.13%) Java
12 10 (8.13%) Cybersecurity
13 9 (7.32%) Analytics
13 9 (7.32%) Customer Experience
14 8 (6.50%) Public Sector
14 8 (6.50%) Conflict Resolution
14 8 (6.50%) Oracle
14 8 (6.50%) Data Protection
14 8 (6.50%) Digital Marketing
14 8 (6.50%) Git
14 8 (6.50%) Marketing
15 7 (5.69%) Banking

Senior Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 3 (2.44%) CMS
2 2 (1.63%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.81%) Apache
3 1 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.81%) Confluence
3 1 (0.81%) GemFire
Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.81%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (10.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (4.07%) SAP SD
3 4 (3.25%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (1.63%) SAP BPC
4 2 (1.63%) SAP Business One
4 2 (1.63%) SAP HCM
4 2 (1.63%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.81%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.81%) SAP Business ByDesign
5 1 (0.81%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.81%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.81%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.81%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.81%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.81%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.81%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 22 (17.89%) AWS
2 16 (13.01%) Azure
3 7 (5.69%) GCP
4 4 (3.25%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (3.25%) Amazon S3
4 4 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (3.25%) CloudFront
4 4 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (3.25%) Power Platform
4 4 (3.25%) Serverless
5 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (2.44%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (1.63%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.63%) SaaS
7 1 (0.81%) AWS IoT
7 1 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.81%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.81%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.81%) PaaS
7 1 (0.81%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.69%) Network Security
2 5 (4.07%) 3G
2 5 (4.07%) 4G
2 5 (4.07%) 5G
2 5 (4.07%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.81%) AMQP
3 1 (0.81%) Firewall
3 1 (0.81%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.81%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.81%) NAS
3 1 (0.81%) SAN
3 1 (0.81%) SSH
3 1 (0.81%) SSL
3 1 (0.81%) VLAN
3 1 (0.81%) VPN
3 1 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.88%) SAP BW
2 4 (3.25%) DynamoDB
2 4 (3.25%) Power BI
3 3 (2.44%) Data Mart
3 3 (2.44%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.63%) Oracle BI EE
4 2 (1.63%) Oracle ODI
4 2 (1.63%) SAP HANA
4 2 (1.63%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.81%) Adabas
5 1 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.81%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.81%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.81%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.81%) Redis
5 1 (0.81%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (6.50%) Git
2 4 (3.25%) Cypress.io
2 4 (3.25%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.25%) JIRA
2 4 (3.25%) Maven
2 4 (3.25%) Protractor
General
1 35 (28.46%) Social Skills
2 23 (18.70%) Finance
3 13 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.50%) Marketing
4 8 (6.50%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.69%) Banking
6 5 (4.07%) Legal
6 5 (4.07%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (4.07%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.44%) Billing
7 3 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.63%) Automotive
8 2 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.63%) Retail
8 2 (1.63%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.81%) German Language
9 1 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.81%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.81%) Swedish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.07%) AngularJS
1 5 (4.07%) Middleware
2 4 (3.25%) Jest
2 4 (3.25%) Node.js
3 3 (2.44%) Murex MxML
4 2 (1.63%) HTML
4 2 (1.63%) REST
5 1 (0.81%) Ajax
5 1 (0.81%) EntireX
5 1 (0.81%) JMS
5 1 (0.81%) JSON
5 1 (0.81%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.81%) React
5 1 (0.81%) RESTful
5 1 (0.81%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.81%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.81%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.07%) Onboarding
1 5 (4.07%) Public Cloud
2 3 (2.44%) Eurex
2 3 (2.44%) Management Information System
2 3 (2.44%) Reinsurance
2 3 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (1.63%) Data Centre
3 2 (1.63%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.63%) IoT
3 2 (1.63%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (1.63%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.63%) Replication
3 2 (1.63%) Social Media
3 2 (1.63%) Video Editing
4 1 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.81%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.07%) Linux
2 3 (2.44%) Unix
2 3 (2.44%) Windows
3 1 (0.81%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (15.45%) Agile
1 19 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (10.57%) DevOps
2 13 (10.57%) Migration
3 12 (9.76%) CI/CD
3 12 (9.76%) Roadmaps
4 11 (8.94%) CRM
4 11 (8.94%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (8.13%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (7.32%) Analytics
6 9 (7.32%) Customer Experience
7 8 (6.50%) Conflict Resolution
7 8 (6.50%) Data Protection
7 8 (6.50%) Digital Marketing
8 7 (5.69%) Asset Management
8 7 (5.69%) Cloud Security
8 7 (5.69%) Decision-Making
8 7 (5.69%) Workshop Facilitation
9 6 (4.88%) Change Management
9 6 (4.88%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.13%) Java
2 7 (5.69%) Python
3 5 (4.07%) Bash
4 3 (2.44%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.44%) Shell Script
4 3 (2.44%) SQL
5 1 (0.81%) ABAP
5 1 (0.81%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.81%) Natural
5 1 (0.81%) Perl
5 1 (0.81%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (12.20%) Security Cleared
2 12 (9.76%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.07%) AWS Certification
3 5 (4.07%) Degree
4 4 (3.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.63%) CISM
5 2 (1.63%) CISSP
5 2 (1.63%) ISACA
6 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.81%) OCP
6 1 (0.81%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.88%) NIST
2 5 (4.07%) GRC
2 5 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.44%) GDPR
3 3 (2.44%) PCI DSS
3 3 (2.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.63%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.63%) COBIT
4 2 (1.63%) GxP
5 1 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 6 (4.88%) Docker
2 2 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.81%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.81%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.81%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 6 (4.88%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.07%) Terraform
3 3 (2.44%) Ansible
4 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.63%) Puppet
5 1 (0.81%) Grafana
5 1 (0.81%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.81%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.81%) vRealize
Vendors
1 27 (21.95%) SAP
2 18 (14.63%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.50%) Oracle
4 4 (3.25%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.25%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.25%) SimCorp
4 4 (3.25%) VMware
5 3 (2.44%) Bloomberg
5 3 (2.44%) Murex
5 3 (2.44%) Virgin Media
6 2 (1.63%) Adobe
7 1 (0.81%) Ariba
7 1 (0.81%) EMC
7 1 (0.81%) Genesys
7 1 (0.81%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.81%) Hyperion
7 1 (0.81%) MobileIron
7 1 (0.81%) Reuters
7 1 (0.81%) Software AG
7 1 (0.81%) Veritas