Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 55 73
Rank change year-on-year +22 +18 -33
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 1,036 925 972
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.06% 3.94% 3.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.47% 4.18% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 735 606 643
10th Percentile £382 £413 £365
25th Percentile £463 £475 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +11.34%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £721 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 37 6
10th Percentile £26.50 £21.00 £23.10
25th Percentile £51.45 £55.94 £28.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £66.00 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +69.23% -37.10%
75th Percentile £61.60 £87.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £63.29 £96.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £66.00 £65.75
% change year-on-year -6.67% +0.38% +17.94%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 18,944 22,126 29,093
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,489 20,369
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,258 1,140 1,432
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.72 £17.86 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.07
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in the UK excluding London

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Consultant in the UK excluding London

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in the UK excluding London

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in the UK excluding London

Consultant
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Consultant in the UK excluding London

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East +10 332 £580 -1.02% 164
North of England +25 252 £525 - 203
Midlands +17 168 £550 -4.35% 121
North West +21 152 £525 +1.35% 132
West Midlands +15 112 £550 -3.08% 91
South West +9 101 £525 - 138
East of England +44 94 £525 -2.33% 47
Yorkshire +26 92 £488 -11.36% 56
Scotland +60 78 £525 +9.43% 61
East Midlands +33 49 £550 -4.35% 30
Wales +28 20 £600 +23.08% 16
North East +8 8 £450 -13.04% 16
Northern Ireland +7 3 £488 - 14
Consultant
UK

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 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 UK excluding London region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 271 (26.16%) Security Cleared
2 267 (25.77%) SAP
3 250 (24.13%) Social Skills
4 184 (17.76%) SC Cleared
5 154 (14.86%) Finance
6 128 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
7 126 (12.16%) Stakeholder Management
8 114 (11.00%) Public Sector
9 112 (10.81%) Microsoft
10 102 (9.85%) Migration
11 96 (9.27%) Oracle
12 93 (8.98%) SAP S/4HANA
12 93 (8.98%) Cybersecurity
13 91 (8.78%) DV Cleared
14 80 (7.72%) Agile
15 77 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
16 73 (7.05%) Azure
17 64 (6.18%) Dynamics 365
18 58 (5.60%) Data Migration
19 54 (5.21%) User Acceptance Testing
20 53 (5.12%) Roadmaps
21 51 (4.92%) Power Platform
22 49 (4.73%) Information Security
23 48 (4.63%) DevOps
24 47 (4.54%) Business Intelligence
25 44 (4.25%) Workshop Facilitation
26 43 (4.15%) Requirements Gathering
27 42 (4.05%) ERP
28 39 (3.76%) CRM
28 39 (3.76%) SQL

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 16 (1.54%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.87%) NetWeaver
3 6 (0.58%) CMS
4 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.39%) Confluence
6 3 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.19%) Alfresco
7 2 (0.19%) Appian
7 2 (0.19%) Camunda
7 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.097%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.097%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.097%) SAS
8 1 (0.097%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (0.097%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.097%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.097%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (0.097%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 93 (8.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (3.09%) SAP EWM
3 28 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 28 (2.70%) SAP QM
4 24 (2.32%) SAP FI
5 18 (1.74%) Oracle EBS R12
6 14 (1.35%) NetSuite
6 14 (1.35%) Oracle EBS
6 14 (1.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 14 (1.35%) SAP CO
7 13 (1.25%) SAP FI/CO
7 13 (1.25%) SAP PSCD
8 12 (1.16%) SAP SD
9 9 (0.87%) SAP IBP
9 9 (0.87%) SAP PP
10 8 (0.77%) SAP BRIM
10 8 (0.77%) SAP Hybris
11 7 (0.68%) Maximo
11 7 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
11 7 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 73 (7.05%) Azure
2 64 (6.18%) Dynamics 365
3 51 (4.92%) Power Platform
4 28 (2.70%) AWS
5 24 (2.32%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (2.12%) OCI
7 17 (1.64%) Entra ID
8 16 (1.54%) Power Automate
9 15 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (1.45%) SuccessFactors
10 11 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (0.87%) PowerApps
12 8 (0.77%) Oracle Service Cloud
12 8 (0.77%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 6 (0.58%) GCP
13 6 (0.58%) SaaS
14 5 (0.48%) IaaS
15 4 (0.39%) OneDrive
15 4 (0.39%) PaaS
16 3 (0.29%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.12%) Network Security
2 20 (1.93%) Firewall
3 16 (1.54%) Ethernet
4 15 (1.45%) Radio Access Network
5 13 (1.25%) VPN
6 12 (1.16%) 4G
6 12 (1.16%) 5G
7 9 (0.87%) 3G
7 9 (0.87%) DNS
8 8 (0.77%) LAN
8 8 (0.77%) WAN
9 7 (0.68%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.39%) Cisco ISE
10 4 (0.39%) InfiniBand
10 4 (0.39%) NX-OS
10 4 (0.39%) VSAN
10 4 (0.39%) Wireless
11 3 (0.29%) FTP
11 3 (0.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (3.28%) Power BI
2 20 (1.93%) SAP HANA
3 18 (1.74%) Oracle Database
3 18 (1.74%) SAP BW
4 12 (1.16%) BusinessObjects
5 8 (0.77%) Oracle Reports
5 8 (0.77%) SQL Server
6 5 (0.48%) Big Data
6 5 (0.48%) Data Lake
6 5 (0.48%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.39%) Power Query
8 3 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.29%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.29%) MySQL
8 3 (0.29%) Oracle Database 11g
8 3 (0.29%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.19%) BusinessObjects XI
9 2 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.19%) Oracle BI EE
9 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (2.03%) JIRA
2 18 (1.74%) Rational DOORS
3 10 (0.97%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (0.39%) Git
5 3 (0.29%) LoadRunner
6 2 (0.19%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.097%) CA Gen
7 1 (0.097%) JMeter
7 1 (0.097%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.097%) NWDI
7 1 (0.097%) NWDS
General
1 250 (24.13%) Social Skills
2 154 (14.86%) Finance
3 114 (11.00%) Public Sector
4 77 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (3.47%) Telecoms
6 34 (3.28%) Marketing
7 32 (3.09%) Manufacturing
8 22 (2.12%) Electronics
9 21 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
10 20 (1.93%) Billing
10 20 (1.93%) Retail
11 17 (1.64%) Banking
12 16 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
13 15 (1.45%) Law
14 14 (1.35%) Local Government
15 12 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 12 (1.16%) Police
16 11 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
18 6 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.22%) SAP Basis
2 22 (2.12%) SAP Fiori
3 15 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
3 15 (1.45%) Web Services
4 9 (0.87%) HTML
5 6 (0.58%) CSS
5 6 (0.58%) REST
6 5 (0.48%) Middleware
6 5 (0.48%) SailPoint
7 4 (0.39%) .NET
7 4 (0.39%) IDoc
7 4 (0.39%) JSON
7 4 (0.39%) LDAP
7 4 (0.39%) OAuth
7 4 (0.39%) OpenID
7 4 (0.39%) RESTful
7 4 (0.39%) SAML
7 4 (0.39%) SOAP
7 4 (0.39%) Visualforce
7 4 (0.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
2 19 (1.83%) Operational Technology
3 18 (1.74%) Robotics
4 16 (1.54%) Analogue Electronics
4 16 (1.54%) Data Centre
4 16 (1.54%) Mainframe
5 15 (1.45%) Onboarding
6 14 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
7 13 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 13 (1.25%) Management Information System
8 12 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (1.06%) Cyber Defence
9 11 (1.06%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 11 (1.06%) Life Science
10 10 (0.97%) CMDB
11 8 (0.77%) Replication
12 7 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (0.58%) Public Cloud
13 6 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (3.47%) Linux
2 30 (2.90%) Windows
3 14 (1.35%) Unix
4 8 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.68%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.48%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.19%) zOS
8 1 (0.097%) Android
8 1 (0.097%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.097%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
2 126 (12.16%) Stakeholder Management
3 102 (9.85%) Migration
4 93 (8.98%) Cybersecurity
5 80 (7.72%) Agile
6 58 (5.60%) Data Migration
7 54 (5.21%) User Acceptance Testing
8 53 (5.12%) Roadmaps
9 49 (4.73%) Information Security
10 48 (4.63%) DevOps
11 47 (4.54%) Business Intelligence
12 44 (4.25%) Workshop Facilitation
13 43 (4.15%) Requirements Gathering
14 42 (4.05%) ERP
15 39 (3.76%) CRM
15 39 (3.76%) Data Protection
15 39 (3.76%) Risk Management
16 38 (3.67%) Service Management
17 37 (3.57%) ITIL
18 33 (3.19%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 39 (3.76%) SQL
2 31 (2.99%) PowerShell
3 16 (1.54%) ABAP
4 13 (1.25%) Python
5 9 (0.87%) Bash
6 8 (0.77%) Java
6 8 (0.77%) JavaScript
7 6 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (0.48%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.39%) C#
9 4 (0.39%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.19%) Ada
10 2 (0.19%) C
10 2 (0.19%) Groovy
10 2 (0.19%) JCL
10 2 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.19%) PHP
11 1 (0.097%) REXX
11 1 (0.097%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.097%) X++
Qualifications
1 271 (26.16%) Security Cleared
2 184 (17.76%) SC Cleared
3 91 (8.78%) DV Cleared
4 34 (3.28%) Degree
5 25 (2.41%) CISSP
6 17 (1.64%) CISM
7 15 (1.45%) SAP Certification
8 13 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (0.77%) CRISC
11 7 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 7 (0.68%) AWS Certification
11 7 (0.68%) CISA
12 6 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.58%) CISMP
13 5 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 5 (0.48%) CESG Certified Professional
13 5 (0.48%) CLAS
13 5 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
14 4 (0.39%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (3.09%) GDPR
2 32 (3.09%) NIST
3 13 (1.25%) COBIT
3 13 (1.25%) GRC
4 12 (1.16%) QA
5 10 (0.97%) PMO
6 9 (0.87%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.77%) SLA
8 7 (0.68%) IFRS
8 7 (0.68%) NCSC
8 7 (0.68%) RMADS
9 6 (0.58%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.58%) Government Security Classifications
10 5 (0.48%) JSP 440
11 4 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.19%) GxP
14 1 (0.097%) COSO
System Software
1 33 (3.19%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.35%) VMware NSX
3 12 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.77%) vSphere
5 6 (0.58%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.48%) Docker
6 5 (0.48%) Firmware
7 3 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.19%) GPFS
8 2 (0.19%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 2 (0.19%) Microcode
8 2 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.19%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.19%) XenApp
8 2 (0.19%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.097%) NFS
Systems Management
1 9 (0.87%) Terraform
1 9 (0.87%) VxRail
2 7 (0.68%) Ansible
3 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.48%) Kubernetes
4 5 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.48%) vRealize
5 4 (0.39%) Dell DRAC
5 4 (0.39%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.29%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (0.19%) CEMLI
7 2 (0.19%) Grafana
7 2 (0.19%) Graylog
7 2 (0.19%) Nagios
7 2 (0.19%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.19%) Puppet
7 2 (0.19%) SCCM
8 1 (0.097%) Nessus
8 1 (0.097%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.097%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 267 (25.77%) SAP
2 112 (10.81%) Microsoft
3 96 (9.27%) Oracle
4 36 (3.47%) VMware
5 32 (3.09%) ServiceNow
6 13 (1.25%) Cisco
6 13 (1.25%) Dell
6 13 (1.25%) Salesforce
7 12 (1.16%) Ariba
8 10 (0.97%) ArcSight
9 9 (0.87%) EMC
9 9 (0.87%) Informatica
9 9 (0.87%) Siemens
10 8 (0.77%) IFS
11 6 (0.58%) Concur
11 6 (0.58%) Google
12 5 (0.48%) Adobe
12 5 (0.48%) Citrix
12 5 (0.48%) HP
12 5 (0.48%) Pega