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 13 June 2026.

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

 6 months to
13 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 34 39
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 +29
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 83 57 85
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.73% 5.57% 4.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.10% 6.38% 4.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 38 61
10th Percentile £436 £370 £325
25th Percentile £463 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -3.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £604 £600 £582
90th Percentile £693 £678 £650
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 3
10th Percentile - £28.12 £29.50
25th Percentile - £29.02 £34.38
Median hourly rate £60.00 £34.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.69% -22.79% +104.55%
75th Percentile - £45.88 £67.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £57.35 £79.90
England median hourly rate £57.50 £67.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year -14.81% +9.58% -4.99%

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 2,026 893 1,745
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.14% 87.29% 89.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 949 444 747
10th Percentile £193 £200 £206
25th Percentile £360 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £489 £440
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% +11.33% -7.47%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £520 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 548 180 613
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.73 £17.24 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.24 £42.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.09% -1.16% +2.87%
75th Percentile £66.00 £72.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £74.75
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.04 £39.50
% change year-on-year +54.99% -26.49% -12.22%

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 13 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Consultant in the East of England over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Consultant 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 13 June 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
Bedfordshire +8 27 £475 -32.14% 3
Hertfordshire -14 24 £550 +15.79% 12
Cambridgeshire 0 11 £583 +5.91% 15
Norfolk -14 8 £550 +10.00% 11
Essex -9 7 £443 - 6
Suffolk -2 5 £570 +168.24%
Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 June 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 21 (25.30%) Azure
1 21 (25.30%) SAP
2 20 (24.10%) Microsoft
3 19 (22.89%) Migration
4 16 (19.28%) Analytics
4 16 (19.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 15 (18.07%) Oracle
5 15 (18.07%) Security Cleared
6 14 (16.87%) ERP
6 14 (16.87%) SC Cleared
7 12 (14.46%) SQL
8 10 (12.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (10.84%) AWS
9 9 (10.84%) Data Migration
9 9 (10.84%) ITSM
9 9 (10.84%) Project Management
9 9 (10.84%) SaaS
10 8 (9.64%) Business Analysis
10 8 (9.64%) DevOps
10 8 (9.64%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (9.64%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (9.64%) Validation
11 7 (8.43%) AI
11 7 (8.43%) JD Edwards
11 7 (8.43%) Python
11 7 (8.43%) SAP S/4HANA
11 7 (8.43%) ServiceNow
12 6 (7.23%) Business Intelligence
12 6 (7.23%) CI/CD
12 6 (7.23%) Configuration Management

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 (4.82%) WebLogic
1 4 (4.82%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (6.02%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.82%) PTC Creo
3 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.20%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 7 (8.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (7.23%) Teamcenter
3 3 (3.61%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (2.41%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (1.20%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 1 (1.20%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (1.20%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (1.20%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (1.20%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (1.20%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (1.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (1.20%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (1.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (1.20%) SAP FI
5 1 (1.20%) SAP GRC
5 1 (1.20%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 21 (25.30%) Azure
2 9 (10.84%) AWS
2 9 (10.84%) SaaS
3 4 (4.82%) Copilot Studio
3 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Copilot
3 4 (4.82%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.61%) Azure AI
4 3 (3.61%) GCP
4 3 (3.61%) OCI
4 3 (3.61%) Power Automate
5 2 (2.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (2.41%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (2.41%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (2.41%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.20%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.20%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.20%) Serverless
6 1 (1.20%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.02%) Firewall
2 3 (3.61%) Network Security
2 3 (3.61%) SNMP
3 1 (1.20%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.20%) LAN
3 1 (1.20%) VPN
3 1 (1.20%) VSAN
3 1 (1.20%) WAN
3 1 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.02%) SAP Data Services
2 4 (4.82%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (3.61%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.61%) Power BI
4 2 (2.41%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (1.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Git
2 1 (1.20%) Hudson
General
1 31 (37.35%) Social Skills
2 20 (24.10%) Finance
3 9 (10.84%) Presentation Skills
4 8 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.23%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.61%) Aviation
6 3 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.61%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.61%) Retail
6 3 (3.61%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.41%) Billing
7 2 (2.41%) General Ledger
7 2 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.41%) Legal
7 2 (2.41%) Local Government
8 1 (1.20%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.20%) Electronics
8 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.20%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.23%) REST
2 5 (6.02%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (4.82%) Middleware
4 3 (3.61%) eBPF
4 3 (3.61%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (3.61%) PyTorch
4 3 (3.61%) scikit-learn
4 3 (3.61%) TensorFlow
5 2 (2.41%) SailPoint
6 1 (1.20%) FHIR
6 1 (1.20%) IDoc
6 1 (1.20%) SAP ALE
6 1 (1.20%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (1.20%) SOAP
6 1 (1.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.61%) Cloud Native
1 3 (3.61%) Onboarding
2 2 (2.41%) CMDB
2 2 (2.41%) NHS
3 1 (1.20%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.20%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (1.20%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.20%) e-Learning
3 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.20%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.20%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.20%) SCADA
3 1 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.23%) Windows
2 1 (1.20%) Android
2 1 (1.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (22.89%) Migration
2 16 (19.28%) Analytics
2 16 (19.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 14 (16.87%) ERP
4 10 (12.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (10.84%) Data Migration
5 9 (10.84%) ITSM
5 9 (10.84%) Project Management
6 8 (9.64%) Business Analysis
6 8 (9.64%) DevOps
6 8 (9.64%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (9.64%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (9.64%) Validation
7 7 (8.43%) AI
8 6 (7.23%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (7.23%) Configuration Management
8 6 (7.23%) Data Cleansing
8 6 (7.23%) ITIL
8 6 (7.23%) PLM
8 6 (7.23%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 12 (14.46%) SQL
2 7 (8.43%) Python
3 3 (3.61%) Bash
4 1 (1.20%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.20%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (18.07%) Security Cleared
2 14 (16.87%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.82%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (4.82%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.41%) CCSP
4 2 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.41%) CISSP
5 1 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.20%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.20%) CISM
5 1 (1.20%) Degree
5 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.20%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.20%) PMP
5 1 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.23%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.41%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.41%) GDPR
3 2 (2.41%) NIST
4 1 (1.20%) GRC
4 1 (1.20%) HL7
4 1 (1.20%) ISA99
4 1 (1.20%) PMO
4 1 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.20%) SLA
4 1 (1.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (3.61%) Docker
1 3 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.41%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (4.82%) Terraform
2 3 (3.61%) Ansible
2 3 (3.61%) Grafana
2 3 (3.61%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.61%) Prometheus
2 3 (3.61%) vRealize
3 2 (2.41%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.20%) VxRail
Vendors
1 21 (25.30%) SAP
2 20 (24.10%) Microsoft
3 15 (18.07%) Oracle
4 7 (8.43%) JD Edwards
4 7 (8.43%) ServiceNow
5 6 (7.23%) Siemens
6 4 (4.82%) Google
6 4 (4.82%) OpenAI
6 4 (4.82%) VMware
7 3 (3.61%) Cribl.io
7 3 (3.61%) Dynatrace
7 3 (3.61%) Foundry
7 3 (3.61%) IBM
7 3 (3.61%) Splunk
8 2 (2.41%) BMC
8 2 (2.41%) Remedy
9 1 (1.20%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.20%) IFS
9 1 (1.20%) OpenText
9 1 (1.20%) Palo Alto
47 Consultant jobs in the East of England