Consultant Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Consultant
England > East of England

The median Consultant daily rate in the East of England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 30 29
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +34
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 91 62 101
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.68% 5.61% 5.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.30% 6.26% 6.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 33 78
10th Percentile £418 £408 £371
25th Percentile £475 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £625 £700 £538
90th Percentile £800 £710 £625
England median daily rate £554 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +0.73% - -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - - £31.13
25th Percentile - - £38.44
Median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +22.22% -26.83%
75th Percentile - - £47.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.75 £77.38 £63.15
% change year-on-year -12.44% +22.54% -11.06%

All Contract IT Job Roles
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 the East of England with a recognized job title 1,445 990 1,567
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.14% 89.59% 90.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 649 452 847
10th Percentile £188 £226 £200
25th Percentile £318 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.26% -2.21% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 151 341
10th Percentile £13.56 £16.25 £13.50
25th Percentile £16.22 £21.46 £15.39
Median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year -49.70% +26.42% +92.93%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £41.23
% change year-on-year -20.00% -15.11% +17.80%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Consultant' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Consultant job vacancy trend in the East of England

Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in the East of England

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in the East of England

Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in the East of England

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the East of England region over the 6 months to 18 January 2026. 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
Hertfordshire +2 36 £565 +22.16% 24
Cambridgeshire +4 29 £550 +15.30% 18
Bedfordshire -4 23 £525 -25.00% 18
Norfolk -21 1 £550 - 17
Suffolk - 1 - - 13
Essex - 1 £500 - 18
Consultant
England

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 18 January 2026, Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East of England region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 34 (37.36%) SAP
2 20 (21.98%) Analytics
2 20 (21.98%) Security Cleared
2 20 (21.98%) Workshop Facilitation
3 19 (20.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 17 (18.68%) Migration
5 16 (17.58%) ServiceNow
6 15 (16.48%) ABAP
6 15 (16.48%) ITSM
6 15 (16.48%) Oracle
6 15 (16.48%) SAP S/4HANA
7 14 (15.38%) DevOps
7 14 (15.38%) Microsoft
8 13 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
8 13 (14.29%) SC Cleared
9 11 (12.09%) Accounts Payable
9 11 (12.09%) Data Modelling
9 11 (12.09%) Kubernetes
9 11 (12.09%) Oracle Fusion
9 11 (12.09%) Process Improvement
10 10 (10.99%) Azure
10 10 (10.99%) OCI
10 10 (10.99%) SAP HCM
10 10 (10.99%) SuccessFactors
11 9 (9.89%) CI/CD
11 9 (9.89%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (9.89%) SAP FI
11 9 (9.89%) SOAP
11 9 (9.89%) Validation
11 9 (9.89%) Workflow

Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (4.40%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.10%) Confluence
2 1 (1.10%) NetWeaver
2 1 (1.10%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.10%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 15 (16.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (10.99%) SAP HCM
3 9 (9.89%) SAP FI
4 8 (8.79%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 8 (8.79%) SAP MM
5 7 (7.69%) SAP Payroll
6 4 (4.40%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (3.30%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 2 (2.20%) SAP CO
8 2 (2.20%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
9 1 (1.10%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (1.10%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (1.10%) Oracle EBS R12
9 1 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (1.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (1.10%) SAP EWM
9 1 (1.10%) SAP IBP
9 1 (1.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 10 (10.99%) Azure
1 10 (10.99%) OCI
1 10 (10.99%) SuccessFactors
2 8 (8.79%) AWS
3 7 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 6 (6.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (5.49%) GCP
6 4 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (4.40%) OneDrive
6 4 (4.40%) SaaS
7 3 (3.30%) Azure AI
7 3 (3.30%) Copilot Studio
7 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (3.30%) Slack
8 2 (2.20%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.10%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.10%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) Ethernet
1 1 (1.10%) Firewall
1 1 (1.10%) Modbus
1 1 (1.10%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (1.10%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.69%) Metadata
2 6 (6.59%) Power BI
3 3 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.30%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.30%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (3.30%) SAP BW
3 3 (3.30%) SAP HANA
4 2 (2.20%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.20%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (1.10%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (7.69%) GitLab
2 6 (6.59%) Hudson
3 3 (3.30%) JIRA
4 2 (2.20%) Git
5 1 (1.10%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.10%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 38 (41.76%) Social Skills
2 24 (26.37%) Finance
3 8 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.59%) Manufacturing
5 4 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.40%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.30%) Aviation
6 3 (3.30%) General Ledger
7 2 (2.20%) Law
7 2 (2.20%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.20%) Retail
8 1 (1.10%) Billing
8 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Marketing
8 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.09%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (9.89%) SOAP
3 8 (8.79%) Web Services
4 7 (7.69%) SAP Basis
4 7 (7.69%) SAP Fiori
4 7 (7.69%) XML
5 6 (6.59%) SAP Business Workflow
6 5 (5.49%) REST
7 3 (3.30%) Middleware
7 3 (3.30%) PyTorch
7 3 (3.30%) scikit-learn
7 3 (3.30%) TensorFlow
8 2 (2.20%) .NET
9 1 (1.10%) HTML
9 1 (1.10%) JWT
9 1 (1.10%) NETCONF
9 1 (1.10%) Node.js
9 1 (1.10%) RESTCONF
9 1 (1.10%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.99%) Replication
2 6 (6.59%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.40%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.20%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.20%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.10%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.10%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.10%) FMCG
5 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.10%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.10%) SCADA
5 1 (1.10%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.59%) Windows
2 4 (4.40%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.20%) Unix
4 1 (1.10%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (21.98%) Analytics
1 20 (21.98%) Workshop Facilitation
2 19 (20.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 17 (18.68%) Migration
4 15 (16.48%) ITSM
5 14 (15.38%) DevOps
6 13 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
7 11 (12.09%) Accounts Payable
7 11 (12.09%) Data Modelling
7 11 (12.09%) Process Improvement
8 9 (9.89%) CI/CD
8 9 (9.89%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (9.89%) Validation
8 9 (9.89%) Workflow
9 8 (8.79%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (8.79%) Requirements Gathering
9 8 (8.79%) Time Management
10 7 (7.69%) Performance Improvement
10 7 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
10 7 (7.69%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (16.48%) ABAP
2 5 (5.49%) SQL
3 4 (4.40%) Python
4 2 (2.20%) Java
5 1 (1.10%) C
5 1 (1.10%) C++
5 1 (1.10%) PHP
5 1 (1.10%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (21.98%) Security Cleared
2 13 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.59%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.20%) ACCA
5 2 (2.20%) CIMA
5 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.20%) Degree
6 1 (1.10%) CCIE
6 1 (1.10%) CCNP
6 1 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.10%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.20%) GDPR
1 2 (2.20%) NIST
1 2 (2.20%) QA
2 1 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (1.10%) GRC
2 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.10%) NIST 800
System Software
1 5 (5.49%) VMware NSX
2 4 (4.40%) Docker
2 4 (4.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (12.09%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.79%) Terraform
3 6 (6.59%) Grafana
3 6 (6.59%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.20%) Ansible
5 1 (1.10%) Istio
5 1 (1.10%) vRealize
Vendors
1 34 (37.36%) SAP
2 16 (17.58%) ServiceNow
3 15 (16.48%) Oracle
4 14 (15.38%) Microsoft
5 8 (8.79%) Dynatrace
5 8 (8.79%) OpenText
6 6 (6.59%) IFS
7 5 (5.49%) Computacenter
7 5 (5.49%) VMware
8 4 (4.40%) Remedy
9 3 (3.30%) Foundry
9 3 (3.30%) Google
9 3 (3.30%) IBM
9 3 (3.30%) OpenAI
10 2 (2.20%) Salesforce
11 1 (1.10%) Ariba
11 1 (1.10%) Clearswift
11 1 (1.10%) Siemens
11 1 (1.10%) Workday