Consultant Contracts in the West Midlands

Consultant
England > West Midlands

The median Consultant daily rate in the West Midlands is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 39 52
Rank change year-on-year +14 +13 -23
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 109 125 144
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.66% 5.25% 4.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.20% 5.53% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 86 84
10th Percentile £433 £400 £368
25th Percentile £468 £480 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £553 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% +2.31% +13.68%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £600
90th Percentile £750 £694 £638
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £66.00 -
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
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,758 2,260 3,434
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 94.96% 96.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,183 1,555 2,513
10th Percentile £259 £250 £213
25th Percentile £363 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 66 83
10th Percentile £12.01 £12.50 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.02 £14.16
Median hourly rate £22.25 £19.50 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year +14.10% +12.85% +9.71%
75th Percentile £42.31 £26.82 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.88 £55.63 £23.45
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in the West Midlands

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Consultant in the West Midlands

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in the West Midlands

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in the West Midlands

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 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
Birmingham +3 39 £550 +4.76% 53
Warwickshire +9 26 £600 +23.71% 6
Coventry +5 9 £525 -23.64% 4
Worcestershire +10 7 £644 +7.29%
Shropshire +31 5 £485 -1.62% 2
Staffordshire +6 5 £475 -4.04% 3
Solihull -13 2 £450 -21.74% 1
Consultant
England

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 27 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 West Midlands region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 27 (24.77%) Social Skills
2 25 (22.94%) SAP
3 20 (18.35%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (16.51%) Finance
5 17 (15.60%) Security Cleared
6 15 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (12.84%) SC Cleared
8 12 (11.01%) Migration
9 11 (10.09%) Law
10 10 (9.17%) Agile
10 10 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
11 9 (8.26%) Power BI
11 9 (8.26%) SAP S/4HANA
11 9 (8.26%) Workshop Facilitation
11 9 (8.26%) Power Platform
11 9 (8.26%) Roadmaps
12 8 (7.34%) Digital Strategy
12 8 (7.34%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (7.34%) SAP BW
12 8 (7.34%) Cybersecurity
12 8 (7.34%) Marketing
12 8 (7.34%) Data Protection
12 8 (7.34%) Azure
13 7 (6.42%) Change Management
13 7 (6.42%) Business Intelligence
13 7 (6.42%) Microsoft
13 7 (6.42%) Public Sector
13 7 (6.42%) Requirements Gathering
14 6 (5.50%) GDPR
14 6 (5.50%) Information Security

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (1.83%) CMS
1 2 (1.83%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (8.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.67%) SAP CO
2 4 (3.67%) SAP FI
2 4 (3.67%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (2.75%) SAP HCM
3 3 (2.75%) SAP SD
4 2 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.83%) Odoo
4 2 (1.83%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (1.83%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (1.83%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.83%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.83%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (1.83%) SAP ERP
4 2 (1.83%) SAP GRC
4 2 (1.83%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.92%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.92%) SAP MDG-BP
5 1 (0.92%) SAP MDG-F
5 1 (0.92%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 9 (8.26%) Power Platform
2 8 (7.34%) Azure
2 8 (7.34%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (2.75%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.83%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (1.83%) PowerApps
5 2 (1.83%) ShareGate
6 1 (0.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.92%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.92%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (0.92%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.92%) SaaS
6 1 (0.92%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (0.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.67%) Firewall
2 3 (2.75%) VPN
3 1 (0.92%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.92%) LAN
3 1 (0.92%) Network Security
3 1 (0.92%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.92%) WAN
3 1 (0.92%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.26%) Power BI
2 8 (7.34%) SAP BW
3 2 (1.83%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.83%) EDRMS
4 1 (0.92%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.92%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.92%) Metadata
4 1 (0.92%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.92%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.92%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (3.67%) JIRA
2 1 (0.92%) CA Gen
2 1 (0.92%) Fiddler
General
1 27 (24.77%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.51%) Finance
3 11 (10.09%) Law
4 10 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.34%) Marketing
6 7 (6.42%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.67%) Police
8 3 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.75%) Legal
8 3 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.83%) Automotive
9 2 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.83%) Local Government
9 2 (1.83%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.92%) Billing
10 1 (0.92%) German Language
10 1 (0.92%) Retail
10 1 (0.92%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.75%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (1.83%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.92%) BAPI
3 1 (0.92%) EDI
3 1 (0.92%) IDoc
3 1 (0.92%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (0.92%) RESTful
3 1 (0.92%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.92%) SAP ALE
3 1 (0.92%) Web Dynpro
3 1 (0.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.59%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.67%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.75%) CMDB
3 3 (2.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.75%) Replication
4 2 (1.83%) Mainframe
4 2 (1.83%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.83%) Social Media
5 1 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.92%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.92%) NHS
5 1 (0.92%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.92%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.92%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.92%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.75%) Linux
1 3 (2.75%) Windows
2 1 (0.92%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (18.35%) Stakeholder Management
2 15 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (11.01%) Migration
4 10 (9.17%) Agile
5 9 (8.26%) Roadmaps
5 9 (8.26%) Workshop Facilitation
6 8 (7.34%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (7.34%) Data Protection
6 8 (7.34%) Digital Strategy
7 7 (6.42%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (6.42%) Change Management
7 7 (6.42%) Requirements Gathering
8 6 (5.50%) Data Governance
8 6 (5.50%) Information Security
8 6 (5.50%) Root Cause Analysis
8 6 (5.50%) SAP Security
9 5 (4.59%) Cost Reduction
9 5 (4.59%) Decision-Making
9 5 (4.59%) ERP
9 5 (4.59%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.75%) ABAP
1 3 (2.75%) SQL
2 2 (1.83%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.83%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (15.60%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.84%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.75%) Degree
4 2 (1.83%) CISM
4 2 (1.83%) CISSP
4 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.92%) SAFe Agilist
5 1 (0.92%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.50%) GDPR
2 5 (4.59%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.83%) Government Security Classifications
3 2 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.83%) NCSC
4 1 (0.92%) GRC
4 1 (0.92%) QA
4 1 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.83%) CEMLI
1 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (1.83%) SCCM
2 1 (0.92%) Proxmox
2 1 (0.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (22.94%) SAP
2 7 (6.42%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.50%) Informatica
3 6 (5.50%) Oracle
4 5 (4.59%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.83%) Anaplan
5 2 (1.83%) Autodesk
5 2 (1.83%) Facebook
5 2 (1.83%) Instagram
6 1 (0.92%) Ariba
6 1 (0.92%) CA
6 1 (0.92%) Concur
6 1 (0.92%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.92%) OpenText
6 1 (0.92%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.92%) VMware
6 1 (0.92%) Zscaler