Consultant Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Consultant
South East > Buckinghamshire

The median Consultant daily rate in Buckinghamshire is £463, 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 20 31 57
Rank change year-on-year +11 +26 -22
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 18 23 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 7.63% 4.83% 2.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.04% 5.15% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 15
10th Percentile £406 - £448
25th Percentile £422 £425 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -20.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £534 £525 £602
90th Percentile £588 £685 £650
South East median daily rate £556 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -3.26% -2.21% +6.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £76.25 £61.60 £64.68
% change year-on-year +23.78% -4.75% -21.61%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Buckinghamshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Buckinghamshire. 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 Buckinghamshire with a recognized job title 224 447 820
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 93.91% 93.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 315 662
10th Percentile £266 £225 £252
25th Percentile £394 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £665 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 43 3
10th Percentile - £15.85 £10.23
25th Percentile £14.20 £17.64 £11.33
Median hourly rate £14.42 £23.75 £13.16
Median % change year-on-year -39.28% +80.47% +11.20%
75th Percentile £53.75 £29.38 £28.46
90th Percentile £65.50 £48.75 £37.63
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in Buckinghamshire

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in Buckinghamshire

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in Buckinghamshire

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in Buckinghamshire

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the Buckinghamshire 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
Milton Keynes +15 16 £450 - 19
Bletchley - 1 - -
Consultant
South East

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

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 Buckinghamshire region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 7 (38.89%) ITSM
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 6 (33.33%) Service Management
2 6 (33.33%) ITIL
3 5 (27.78%) Finance
4 4 (22.22%) SAP
4 4 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 4 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
4 4 (22.22%) Machine Learning
4 4 (22.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (16.67%) APMG
5 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (16.67%) Confluence
5 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (16.67%) JIRA
5 3 (16.67%) CMDB
5 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
5 3 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 3 (16.67%) Change Management
6 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (11.11%) BMC
6 2 (11.11%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (11.11%) Analytics
6 2 (11.11%) Test Management
6 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
6 2 (11.11%) BC Cleared

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 3 (16.67%) Confluence
2 2 (11.11%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (5.56%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) SAP CO
1 1 (5.56%) SAP FI
1 1 (5.56%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (5.56%) SAP PM
1 1 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Power BI
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) .NET
1 1 (5.56%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) CMDB
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
1 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) ITSM
2 6 (33.33%) ITIL
2 6 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 6 (33.33%) Service Management
3 4 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (22.22%) Data Modelling
3 4 (22.22%) Machine Learning
4 3 (16.67%) Change Management
4 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 2 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (11.11%) Analytics
5 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (11.11%) IT Asset Management
5 2 (11.11%) SIAM
5 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (11.11%) Test Strategy
5 2 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.56%) Python
1 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) APMG
3 2 (11.11%) BC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) SAP
2 2 (11.11%) BMC
3 1 (5.56%) Alteryx
3 1 (5.56%) Databricks
3 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.56%) IBM
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow