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 26 August 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
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 95 104
Rank change year-on-year +7 +9 +24
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Functional Consultant 6 16 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.51% 0.95% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 1.03% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 4
10th Percentile £534 £610 £475
25th Percentile £584 £613 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £588
Median % change year-on-year - +6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £694
90th Percentile £673 £693 £707
South East median daily rate £625 £558 £518
% change year-on-year +12.11% +7.63% -20.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £64.52 £67.75
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
South East median hourly rate - £64.52 £67.75
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -

All DemandTrendContract 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,072 1,549 1,680
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.39% 91.49% 95.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 672 847 1,067
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £430 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £699 £700 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 82 58
10th Percentile £14.75 £21.43 £17.38
25th Percentile £18.48 £55.80 £36.42
Median hourly rate £34.80 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -43.51% +6.54% +122.38%
75th Percentile £69.06 £76.59 £72.25
90th Percentile £87.43 £96.75 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +122.22%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Functional Consultant job vacancies in Berkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Functional Consultant job vacancies in Berkshire

Functional Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Consultant in Berkshire over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Consultant in Berkshire

Functional Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Functional Consultant job vacancies in Berkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Functional Consultant job vacancies in Berkshire

Functional Consultant
DemandTrendContract 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 26 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +16 5 £625 -
Wokingham - 1 £500 -
Functional Consultant
South East

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

For the 6 months to 26 August 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 4 (66.67%) Oracle
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Logistics
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle iProcurement
3 2 (33.33%) Cash Management
3 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle AGIS
3 2 (33.33%) Accounts Payable
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Order Management
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Maintenance
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Verification and Validation
4 1 (16.67%) Optimization Problems
4 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (16.67%) PuTTY
4 1 (16.67%) WinSCP
4 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
4 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace

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 4 (66.67%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle AGIS
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle iProcurement
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (16.67%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (16.67%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) PuTTY
1 1 (16.67%) WinSCP
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) Maven
1 1 (16.67%) Selenium
1 1 (16.67%) Toad
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Accounts Payable
2 2 (33.33%) Cash Management
2 2 (33.33%) Logistics
2 2 (33.33%) Order Management
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (16.67%) Build Automation
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (16.67%) E-business
3 1 (16.67%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Functional Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Maintenance
3 1 (16.67%) Optimization Problems
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Statistical Computing
3 1 (16.67%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (16.67%) CyberArk
2 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (16.67%) Remedy
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk