Functional Consultant Contracts in Berkshire

Functional Consultant
South East > Berkshire

The median Functional Consultant daily rate in Berkshire is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 98 93
Rank change year-on-year +32 -5 +33
Contract jobs requiring a Functional Consultant 27 26 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.30% 1.31% 1.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.49% 1.39% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 23 20
10th Percentile £538 £530 £568
25th Percentile £588 £581 £586
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £596
Median % change year-on-year - +4.95% -10.62%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £685
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £601 £600 £586
% change year-on-year +0.08% +2.39% -9.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £58.72 -
South East median hourly rate - £58.72 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,085 1,866 1,720
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.05% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 992 1,104
10th Percentile £311 £213 £325
25th Percentile £413 £381 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 116 56
10th Percentile £27.46 £18.75 £17.61
25th Percentile £50.06 £41.44 £22.66
Median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%
75th Percentile £76.77 £70.42 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £86.32 £79.72
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Functional Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Consultant in Berkshire

Functional Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Functional Consultant in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Functional Consultant in Berkshire

Functional Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Consultant in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Consultant in Berkshire

Functional Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Functional Consultant in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Functional Consultant in Berkshire

Functional Consultant
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Consultant within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +32 24 £625 - 1
Wokingham -12 1 £500 -5.66% 1
Functional Consultant
South East

Functional Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Functional 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 Berkshire region featuring Functional Consultant in the job title.

1 23 (85.19%) Oracle
1 23 (85.19%) Oracle EBS
2 22 (81.48%) Oracle EBS R12
3 21 (77.78%) Project Delivery
4 20 (74.07%) Social Skills
5 17 (62.96%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (62.96%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (48.15%) Oracle ASCP
6 13 (48.15%) Maximo
6 13 (48.15%) E-business
7 11 (40.74%) Finance
8 9 (33.33%) Logistics
9 4 (14.81%) Project Management
9 4 (14.81%) Oracle Financials
10 2 (7.41%) Functional Testing
10 2 (7.41%) Validation
11 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
11 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
11 1 (3.70%) Mathematics
11 1 (3.70%) QA
11 1 (3.70%) Agile
11 1 (3.70%) Maven
11 1 (3.70%) Selenium
11 1 (3.70%) Problem Management
11 1 (3.70%) Remedy ITSM
11 1 (3.70%) Use Case
11 1 (3.70%) User Acceptance Testing
11 1 (3.70%) Integration Testing
11 1 (3.70%) Python
11 1 (3.70%) ERP

Functional Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Business Applications
1 23 (85.19%) Oracle EBS
2 22 (81.48%) Oracle EBS R12
3 13 (48.15%) Maximo
3 13 (48.15%) Oracle ASCP
4 4 (14.81%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (3.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.70%) Azure
1 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
1 1 (3.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) PuTTY
1 1 (3.70%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Git
1 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.70%) Maven
1 1 (3.70%) Postman
1 1 (3.70%) Selenium
1 1 (3.70%) Toad
General
1 20 (74.07%) Social Skills
2 17 (62.96%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (40.74%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
1 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
1 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (77.78%) Project Delivery
2 17 (62.96%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (48.15%) E-business
4 9 (33.33%) Logistics
5 4 (14.81%) Project Management
6 2 (7.41%) Functional Testing
6 2 (7.41%) Validation
7 1 (3.70%) Agile
7 1 (3.70%) Build Automation
7 1 (3.70%) Client Onboarding
7 1 (3.70%) Epics
7 1 (3.70%) Exploratory Testing
7 1 (3.70%) Integration Testing
7 1 (3.70%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (3.70%) Statistical Computing
7 1 (3.70%) Test Automation
7 1 (3.70%) Use Case
7 1 (3.70%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (3.70%) User Stories
7 1 (3.70%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.70%) Java
1 1 (3.70%) Python
1 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
1 1 (3.70%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) QA
Vendors
1 23 (85.19%) Oracle
2 1 (3.70%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (3.70%) CyberArk
2 1 (3.70%) Dynatrace
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.70%) Remedy
2 1 (3.70%) Splunk