Consultant Contracts in the Thames Valley

Consultant
South East > Thames Valley

The median Consultant daily rate in the Thames Valley is £605 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 29 35
Rank change year-on-year +8 +6 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 208 207 189
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.80% 7.14% 5.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.38% 7.56% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 137 124
10th Percentile £425 £470 £422
25th Percentile £500 £538 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £604 £556
Median % change year-on-year +0.25% +8.50% +5.95%
75th Percentile £688 £702 £650
90th Percentile £765 £735 £680
South East median daily rate £575 £590 £550
% change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 2
10th Percentile £52.90 £55.94 £33.00
25th Percentile £53.66 £59.54 £41.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £64.68 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.75% +12.48% -7.26%
75th Percentile - £70.61 £73.75
90th Percentile £63.04 £75.75 £82.00
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £64.68 £80.00
% change year-on-year -4.75% -19.16% +29.03%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,481 2,738 3,375
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.99% 94.48% 95.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,435 1,897 2,307
10th Percentile £208 £313 £190
25th Percentile £370 £409 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £491
% change year-on-year - +1.83% +9.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 77 100
10th Percentile £15.67 £17.11 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £21.00 £12.81
Median hourly rate £45.00 £48.40 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +176.57% -16.86%
75th Percentile £63.09 £66.21 £23.75
90th Percentile £85.45 £79.19 £58.26
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £47.79 £20.00
% change year-on-year -0.61% +138.95% -20.00%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in the Thames Valley

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Consultant in the Thames Valley

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in the Thames Valley

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in the Thames Valley

Consultant
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Consultant in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Consultant in the Thames Valley

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Berkshire +1 180 £625 -3.85% 28
Buckinghamshire +24 21 £475 -20.83% 16
Oxfordshire +9 7 £463 -11.90% 20
Consultant
South East

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 6 May 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 Thames Valley region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 80 (38.46%) SAP
2 71 (34.13%) Security Cleared
3 49 (23.56%) SC Cleared
4 45 (21.63%) Social Skills
5 35 (16.83%) DV Cleared
6 34 (16.35%) Oracle
6 34 (16.35%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (12.98%) SAP QM
8 24 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
9 21 (10.10%) PLM
10 20 (9.62%) Agile
10 20 (9.62%) User Acceptance Testing
11 19 (9.13%) Finance
12 18 (8.65%) GAP Analysis
13 17 (8.17%) Telecoms
13 17 (8.17%) Oracle EBS R12
13 17 (8.17%) Rational DOORS
13 17 (8.17%) SAP EWM
13 17 (8.17%) Workshop Facilitation
13 17 (8.17%) Business Strategy
13 17 (8.17%) Roadmaps
14 16 (7.69%) Analogue Electronics
14 16 (7.69%) Systems Engineering
14 16 (7.69%) Prototyping
14 16 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
14 16 (7.69%) Azure
14 16 (7.69%) Integration Testing
14 16 (7.69%) Requirements Management
14 16 (7.69%) Robotics
14 16 (7.69%) Electronics

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (1.92%) NetWeaver
2 3 (1.44%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 27 (12.98%) SAP QM
2 17 (8.17%) Oracle EBS R12
2 17 (8.17%) SAP EWM
3 12 (5.77%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 11 (5.29%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (4.81%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (3.37%) Maximo
7 4 (1.92%) SAP IBP
8 3 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
8 3 (1.44%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (1.44%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (1.44%) SAP FI
8 3 (1.44%) SAP PLM
9 2 (0.96%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.96%) iTrent
9 2 (0.96%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (0.96%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.96%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.96%) SAP FI/CO
10 1 (0.48%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 16 (7.69%) Azure
2 11 (5.29%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (2.88%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.40%) AWS
6 3 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (1.44%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.44%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.44%) Power Automate
7 2 (0.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (0.96%) PowerApps
7 2 (0.96%) SaaS
8 1 (0.48%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (0.48%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.48%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.48%) GCP
8 1 (0.48%) IaaS
8 1 (0.48%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.69%) Ethernet
2 13 (6.25%) Radio Access Network
3 7 (3.37%) 3G
3 7 (3.37%) 4G
3 7 (3.37%) 5G
3 7 (3.37%) Firewall
3 7 (3.37%) Network Security
4 3 (1.44%) FTP
4 3 (1.44%) VPN
5 2 (0.96%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.48%) Broadband
6 1 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.48%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.48%) Internet
6 1 (0.48%) IPsec
6 1 (0.48%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.25%) Oracle Database
2 12 (5.77%) SAP HANA
3 5 (2.40%) Power BI
3 5 (2.40%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.92%) SAP BW
5 3 (1.44%) Oracle Database 11g
5 3 (1.44%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.96%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (0.96%) BusinessObjects XI
6 2 (0.96%) MySQL
6 2 (0.96%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (8.17%) Rational DOORS
2 10 (4.81%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (1.44%) JIRA
4 1 (0.48%) NWDI
4 1 (0.48%) NWDS
General
1 45 (21.63%) Social Skills
2 24 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (9.13%) Finance
4 17 (8.17%) Telecoms
5 16 (7.69%) Electronics
6 15 (7.21%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.88%) Retail
8 5 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.92%) French Language
9 4 (1.92%) German Language
9 4 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.44%) Marketing
11 2 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.48%) Advertising
12 1 (0.48%) Automotive
12 1 (0.48%) Banking
12 1 (0.48%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.48%) Law
12 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.48%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.25%) SAP Basis
2 9 (4.33%) SAP Fiori
3 3 (1.44%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (1.44%) Visualforce
4 2 (0.96%) CSS
4 2 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.96%) HTML
4 2 (0.96%) Web Services
5 1 (0.48%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.48%) IDoc
5 1 (0.48%) Kafka
5 1 (0.48%) React
5 1 (0.48%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.48%) REST
5 1 (0.48%) SOAP
5 1 (0.48%) XML
5 1 (0.48%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.69%) Analogue Electronics
1 16 (7.69%) Robotics
2 8 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (3.37%) Operational Technology
4 6 (2.88%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.92%) IoT
6 3 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.44%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.96%) iPad
7 2 (0.96%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.96%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (0.96%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.48%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.48%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.48%) Smart Energy
8 1 (0.48%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.85%) Linux
1 8 (3.85%) Unix
2 5 (2.40%) Windows
3 1 (0.48%) Android
3 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (16.35%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (10.10%) PLM
3 20 (9.62%) Agile
3 20 (9.62%) User Acceptance Testing
4 18 (8.65%) GAP Analysis
5 17 (8.17%) Business Strategy
5 17 (8.17%) Roadmaps
5 17 (8.17%) Workshop Facilitation
6 16 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
6 16 (7.69%) Integration Testing
6 16 (7.69%) Prototyping
6 16 (7.69%) Requirements Management
6 16 (7.69%) Systems Engineering
7 15 (7.21%) Design for Manufacturing
7 15 (7.21%) Regulatory Compliance
8 14 (6.73%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (6.25%) DevOps
10 12 (5.77%) Migration
10 12 (5.77%) Performance Tuning
10 12 (5.77%) Procure-to-Pay
Programming Languages
1 10 (4.81%) SQL
2 2 (0.96%) Groovy
2 2 (0.96%) Java
2 2 (0.96%) JavaScript
2 2 (0.96%) PL/SQL
3 1 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (0.48%) PHP
3 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 71 (34.13%) Security Cleared
2 49 (23.56%) SC Cleared
3 35 (16.83%) DV Cleared
4 9 (4.33%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (2.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 6 (2.88%) CISA
5 6 (2.88%) CISM
5 6 (2.88%) CISMP
5 6 (2.88%) CISSP
5 6 (2.88%) CRISC
6 5 (2.40%) Degree
7 4 (1.92%) ISACA
7 4 (1.92%) SAP Certification
8 2 (0.96%) CCNP
8 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.48%) ACCA
9 1 (0.48%) CCIE
9 1 (0.48%) CCNA
9 1 (0.48%) CCSP
9 1 (0.48%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.25%) NIST
2 12 (5.77%) COBIT
3 7 (3.37%) GDPR
3 7 (3.37%) GRC
3 7 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.44%) QA
5 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (0.96%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.48%) Firmware
2 1 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (0.96%) Ansible
1 2 (0.96%) Grafana
1 2 (0.96%) Graylog
1 2 (0.96%) Nagios
1 2 (0.96%) Prometheus
1 2 (0.96%) Terraform
2 1 (0.48%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.48%) Nessus
Vendors
1 80 (38.46%) SAP
2 34 (16.35%) Oracle
3 11 (5.29%) Microsoft
4 4 (1.92%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.44%) Informatica
5 3 (1.44%) Splunk
6 2 (0.96%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.96%) VMware
7 1 (0.48%) Apple
7 1 (0.48%) BMC
7 1 (0.48%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.48%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.48%) Juniper
7 1 (0.48%) Kenna
7 1 (0.48%) Okta
7 1 (0.48%) OpenText
7 1 (0.48%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.48%) Remedy
7 1 (0.48%) ScienceLogic
7 1 (0.48%) Workday