Senior Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £579 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 410 482
Rank change year-on-year +71 +72 -71
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Consultant 61 28 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.13% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 19 25
10th Percentile £350 £460 £418
25th Percentile £468 £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £579 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.61% +4.55% +5.57%
75th Percentile £650 £706 £663
90th Percentile £733 £803 £775
UK median daily rate £589 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -1.88% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £51.19 - -
25th Percentile £52.97 £55.94 -
Median hourly rate £56.89 £56.89 -
75th Percentile £57.83 £57.83 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £56.89 £56.89 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +13.77% -

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 19,247 21,469 29,158
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 94.25% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,616 14,937 20,515
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £390 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,085 1,398
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Senior Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Consultant in the UK excluding London

Senior Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Consultant in the UK excluding London

Senior Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Consultant in the UK excluding London

Senior Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Consultant in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
North of England +40 20 £600 +14.29% 43
North West +33 14 £629 +22.63% 31
South East +14 14 £505 -12.17% 26
Midlands +29 11 £485 -25.38% 18
West Midlands +20 11 £485 -25.38% 14
East of England +12 8 £582 -24.90% 4
South West +8 8 £550 +4.76% 28
Yorkshire +23 6 £355 -38.26% 12
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4
Senior Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Consultant in the job title.

1 26 (42.62%) SAP
2 17 (27.87%) Social Skills
2 17 (27.87%) Roadmaps
3 13 (21.31%) Security Cleared
4 12 (19.67%) SuccessFactors
4 12 (19.67%) SAP S/4HANA
4 12 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (16.39%) SC Cleared
6 9 (14.75%) Microsoft
7 8 (13.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (13.11%) Agile
7 8 (13.11%) Product Roadmap
7 8 (13.11%) Conflict Resolution
8 7 (11.48%) DevOps
8 7 (11.48%) Performance Management
8 7 (11.48%) CRM
9 6 (9.84%) Python
9 6 (9.84%) SAP BW
9 6 (9.84%) Finance
9 6 (9.84%) Root Cause Analysis
9 6 (9.84%) SAP Security
9 6 (9.84%) CI/CD
9 6 (9.84%) Customer Experience
10 5 (8.20%) Technical Leadership
10 5 (8.20%) Decision-Making
10 5 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (8.20%) 5G
10 5 (8.20%) Azure
10 5 (8.20%) AWS
10 5 (8.20%) Capacity Planning

Senior 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 1 (1.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (19.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (8.20%) SAP SD
3 2 (3.28%) SAP BPC
3 2 (3.28%) SAP ERP
3 2 (3.28%) SAP GRC
3 2 (3.28%) SAP HCM
3 2 (3.28%) SAP HR
4 1 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.64%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.64%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.64%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (1.64%) SAP EWM
4 1 (1.64%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 12 (19.67%) SuccessFactors
2 5 (8.20%) AWS
2 5 (8.20%) Azure
3 4 (6.56%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (3.28%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.64%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.20%) 3G
1 5 (8.20%) 4G
1 5 (8.20%) 5G
1 5 (8.20%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (6.56%) Network Security
3 1 (1.64%) VLAN
3 1 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.84%) SAP BW
2 2 (3.28%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (3.28%) Oracle ODI
2 2 (3.28%) Power BI
2 2 (3.28%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Git
2 2 (3.28%) Cucumber
2 2 (3.28%) JMeter
2 2 (3.28%) Maven
2 2 (3.28%) Selenium
General
1 17 (27.87%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.84%) Finance
3 5 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.92%) Banking
4 3 (4.92%) Billing
5 2 (3.28%) Automotive
5 2 (3.28%) Legal
5 2 (3.28%) Marketing
5 2 (3.28%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (3.28%) Spanish Language
6 1 (1.64%) Electronics
6 1 (1.64%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.64%) Local Government
6 1 (1.64%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.64%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.64%) Retail
6 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.56%) Middleware
2 2 (3.28%) Gherkin
2 2 (3.28%) HTML
2 2 (3.28%) SailPoint
2 2 (3.28%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.64%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.64%) React
3 1 (1.64%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
1 2 (3.28%) Social Media
1 2 (3.28%) Video Editing
2 1 (1.64%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.64%) IoT
2 1 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.64%) Life Science
2 1 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.64%) Replication
2 1 (1.64%) Smart Energy
2 1 (1.64%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.28%) Linux
2 1 (1.64%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (1.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (27.87%) Roadmaps
2 12 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (13.11%) Agile
3 8 (13.11%) Conflict Resolution
3 8 (13.11%) Product Roadmap
3 8 (13.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (11.48%) CRM
4 7 (11.48%) DevOps
4 7 (11.48%) Performance Management
5 6 (9.84%) CI/CD
5 6 (9.84%) Customer Experience
5 6 (9.84%) Root Cause Analysis
5 6 (9.84%) SAP Security
6 5 (8.20%) Analytics
6 5 (8.20%) Capacity Planning
6 5 (8.20%) Change Management
6 5 (8.20%) Decision-Making
6 5 (8.20%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (6.56%) Test Management
7 4 (6.56%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.84%) Python
2 4 (6.56%) Bash
3 3 (4.92%) Java
3 3 (4.92%) JavaScript
3 3 (4.92%) SQL
4 1 (1.64%) Perl
4 1 (1.64%) PHP
4 1 (1.64%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (21.31%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.39%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.92%) AWS Certification
3 3 (4.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (4.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.64%) Degree
4 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.64%) ISACA
4 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.20%) GRC
2 3 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.28%) GDPR
3 2 (3.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.64%) COBIT
4 1 (1.64%) NIST
4 1 (1.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (6.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.56%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.92%) Terraform
3 2 (3.28%) Ansible
4 1 (1.64%) NetBackup
4 1 (1.64%) Puppet
4 1 (1.64%) vRealize
Vendors
1 26 (42.62%) SAP
2 9 (14.75%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.56%) Oracle
4 2 (3.28%) Adobe
4 2 (3.28%) Concur
4 2 (3.28%) VMware
5 1 (1.64%) Ariba
5 1 (1.64%) EMC
5 1 (1.64%) Hyperion
5 1 (1.64%) JD Edwards
5 1 (1.64%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.64%) Symantec
5 1 (1.64%) Veritas