Senior Consultant Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Senior Consultant
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Senior Consultant daily rate in Birmingham is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 September 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
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 66 72
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Consultant 3 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.49% 0.70% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.73% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £459
25th Percentile - - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.64%
75th Percentile - - £488
90th Percentile - - £491
West Midlands median daily rate £613 £650 £613
% change year-on-year -5.77% +6.12% +11.36%

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 547 685 794
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.67% 95.94% 95.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 443 529
10th Percentile £185 £200 £260
25th Percentile £360 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £622 £600
90th Percentile £656 £736 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 14 26
10th Percentile - £15.45 £13.10
25th Percentile £12.62 £20.69 £15.22
Median hourly rate £14.00 £34.56 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.49% +81.91% +5.56%
75th Percentile £25.04 £51.88 £67.50
90th Percentile £29.53 £56.65 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £22.05 £22.10
% change year-on-year +14.08% -0.25% +22.78%

Senior Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Consultant in Birmingham

Senior Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Consultant job vacancies in Birmingham.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Consultant job vacancies in Birmingham

Senior Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Consultant job vacancies in Birmingham.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Consultant job vacancies in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 28 September 2025, 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 Birmingham region featuring Senior Consultant in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
1 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Pega
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Engagement
1 2 (66.67%) Predictive Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Personalization
1 2 (66.67%) Data Science
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (66.67%) SOAP
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Marketing
1 2 (66.67%) Taxonomies
1 2 (66.67%) QA
1 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared

Senior 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Marketing
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) EntireX
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
1 2 (66.67%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Engagement
1 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Data Science
1 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) Personalization
1 2 (66.67%) Predictive Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Pega
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Software AG
2 1 (33.33%) webMethods