Consultant Contracts in Birmingham

Consultant
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Consultant daily rate in Birmingham is £525, 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 22 29 32
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 28 39 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 5.36% 5.05% 5.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.98% 5.45% 5.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 38 29
10th Percentile £494 £463 £211
25th Percentile £506 £513 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £594 £647 £600
90th Percentile £613 £761 £641
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £550 £555
% change year-on-year - -0.90% +0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £45.25
25th Percentile - - £55.00
Median hourly rate - - £95.00
75th Percentile - - £97.50
90th Percentile - - £99.00
West Midlands median hourly rate - - £66.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 468 715 870
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.66% 92.50% 96.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 502 583
10th Percentile £160 £250 £263
25th Percentile £363 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.33% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -0.77% -2.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 40 35
10th Percentile £12.62 £13.10 £11.40
25th Percentile £13.31 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £14.00 £28.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.88% +42.50% +14.35%
75th Percentile £22.91 £48.75 £24.94
90th Percentile £30.68 £57.91 £60.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.07 £22.25 £19.50
% change year-on-year -18.81% +14.10% +12.85%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in Birmingham

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in Birmingham

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

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

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in Birmingham

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in Birmingham

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

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

1 8 (28.57%) SAP
1 8 (28.57%) Azure
2 7 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
2 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
4 5 (17.86%) Agile
4 5 (17.86%) Power Platform
5 4 (14.29%) Finance
5 4 (14.29%) Migration
5 4 (14.29%) DevOps
5 4 (14.29%) User Experience
5 4 (14.29%) Data Protection
6 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
6 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
6 3 (10.71%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (10.71%) Power BI
6 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (10.71%) Retail
6 3 (10.71%) PowerApps
7 2 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (7.14%) Roadmaps
7 2 (7.14%) End-to-End Testing
7 2 (7.14%) GRC
7 2 (7.14%) Strategic Roadmap
7 2 (7.14%) Power Automate
7 2 (7.14%) NIST
7 2 (7.14%) Project Delivery
7 2 (7.14%) Requirements Gathering

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (3.57%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) SAP CCM
1 2 (7.14%) SAP FI
1 2 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.57%) SAP MM
2 1 (3.57%) SAP PM
2 1 (3.57%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) Azure
2 7 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (17.86%) Power Platform
4 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (10.71%) PowerApps
5 2 (7.14%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.57%) AWS
6 1 (3.57%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.57%) GCP
6 1 (3.57%) IaaS
6 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.57%) PaaS
6 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) DSL
1 1 (3.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) Power BI
2 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.57%) MS Access
2 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Retail
4 2 (7.14%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.57%) Back Office
5 1 (3.57%) Legal
5 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (3.57%) EntireX
1 1 (3.57%) LDAP
1 1 (3.57%) OAuth
1 1 (3.57%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (3.57%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.57%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Windows
1 1 (3.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.86%) Agile
2 4 (14.29%) Data Protection
2 4 (14.29%) DevOps
2 4 (14.29%) Migration
2 4 (14.29%) User Experience
3 3 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (7.14%) Data Management
4 2 (7.14%) Data Migration
4 2 (7.14%) Data Modelling
4 2 (7.14%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (7.14%) Information Security
4 2 (7.14%) Master Data Management
4 2 (7.14%) Project Delivery
4 2 (7.14%) Resource Management
4 2 (7.14%) Statistics
4 2 (7.14%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (7.14%) Test Management
4 2 (7.14%) Visualisation
4 2 (7.14%) Waterfall
4 2 (7.14%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.57%) Bash
1 1 (3.57%) C++
1 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
1 1 (3.57%) Python
1 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
1 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.57%) CEH
2 1 (3.57%) CISA
2 1 (3.57%) CISM
2 1 (3.57%) CISSP
2 1 (3.57%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) GRC
1 2 (7.14%) NIST
2 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.57%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Ansible
1 1 (3.57%) Kibana
1 1 (3.57%) logstash
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (3.57%) QRadar
1 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) SAP
2 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) Fujitsu
3 2 (7.14%) IBM
4 1 (3.57%) Apple
4 1 (3.57%) Ariba
4 1 (3.57%) BMC
4 1 (3.57%) Genesys
4 1 (3.57%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.57%) Software AG
4 1 (3.57%) Splunk
4 1 (3.57%) webMethods