Consultant Contracts in the East of England

Consultant
England > East of England

The median Consultant daily rate in the East of England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 29 72
Rank change year-on-year 0 +43 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 57 95 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 6.08% 4.96% 2.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.88% 5.55% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 69 30
10th Percentile £409 £325 £400
25th Percentile £425 £400 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £673 £579 £675
90th Percentile £700 £650 £830
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 6
10th Percentile - £31.13 -
25th Percentile - £38.44 £21.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £45.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% +104.55% -51.11%
75th Percentile - £57.63 £23.00
90th Percentile - £75.85 £45.25
England median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £66.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% -6.67% -6.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 828 1,711 1,874
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.37% 89.35% 91.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 775 1,144
10th Percentile £200 £206 £185
25th Percentile £379 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £569 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 592 293
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.28 £16.30 £15.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £43.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% +22.86% +125.81%
75th Percentile £72.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £30.78 £36.02 £44.77
% change year-on-year -14.55% -19.53% +98.96%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in the East of England

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Consultant 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 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in the East of England

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend 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 2 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
Cambridgeshire +9 19 £500 -13.87% 20
Hertfordshire +5 18 £450 -5.26% 33
Bedfordshire -2 17 £700 +33.33% 11
Norfolk - 2 £550 - 15
Essex +4 1 - - 18
Consultant
England

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 2 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 East of England region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 25 (43.86%) SAP
2 22 (38.60%) Finance
3 16 (28.07%) Social Skills
4 12 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (19.30%) Migration
5 11 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (17.54%) SAP S/4HANA
6 10 (17.54%) Analytics
6 10 (17.54%) Procure-to-Pay
6 10 (17.54%) Record to Report
7 9 (15.79%) Life Science
7 9 (15.79%) Business Transformation
8 7 (12.28%) Microsoft
9 6 (10.53%) Oracle
9 6 (10.53%) SAP Security
9 6 (10.53%) Data Migration
9 6 (10.53%) IFS
10 5 (8.77%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (8.77%) User Experience
10 5 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (8.77%) Visualisation
10 5 (8.77%) SC Cleared
10 5 (8.77%) Security Cleared
10 5 (8.77%) Linux
10 5 (8.77%) SAP Basis
10 5 (8.77%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (7.02%) SAP BW
11 4 (7.02%) NetWeaver
11 4 (7.02%) ERP
11 4 (7.02%) Unix

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (7.02%) NetWeaver
2 1 (1.75%) CMS
2 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.75%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.75%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (17.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (7.02%) SAP IBP
2 4 (7.02%) SAP SCM
3 3 (5.26%) Workday HCM
4 2 (3.51%) SAP CO
4 2 (3.51%) SAP FI
4 2 (3.51%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (3.51%) SAP GRC
5 1 (1.75%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 1 (1.75%) SAP BPC
5 1 (1.75%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 2 (3.51%) Power Platform
2 1 (1.75%) Azure
2 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (1.75%) OCI
2 1 (1.75%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (1.75%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.02%) SAP BW
1 4 (7.02%) SAP HANA
2 3 (5.26%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.51%) Power BI
3 2 (3.51%) Tableau
4 1 (1.75%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (1.75%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Hudson
2 1 (1.75%) JIRA
General
1 22 (38.60%) Finance
2 16 (28.07%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (8.77%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (5.26%) Aviation
4 3 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (5.26%) Retail
5 1 (1.75%) Games
5 1 (1.75%) General Ledger
5 1 (1.75%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.77%) SAP Basis
2 4 (7.02%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (3.51%) SAP PI
4 1 (1.75%) JTAPI
4 1 (1.75%) ODBC
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.75%) Visualforce
4 1 (1.75%) Web Services
4 1 (1.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.79%) Life Science
2 2 (3.51%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.51%) SCADA
3 1 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.75%) FMCG
3 1 (1.75%) IVR
3 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.75%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.77%) Linux
2 4 (7.02%) Unix
3 2 (3.51%) Windows
4 1 (1.75%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
2 11 (19.30%) Migration
2 11 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (17.54%) Analytics
3 10 (17.54%) Procure-to-Pay
3 10 (17.54%) Record to Report
4 9 (15.79%) Business Transformation
5 6 (10.53%) Data Migration
5 6 (10.53%) SAP Security
6 5 (8.77%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (8.77%) User Experience
6 5 (8.77%) Visualisation
7 4 (7.02%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (7.02%) ERP
7 4 (7.02%) Incident Response
7 4 (7.02%) Inventory Management
7 4 (7.02%) Problem Management
7 4 (7.02%) Roadmaps
7 4 (7.02%) WFM
7 4 (7.02%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.26%) PL/SQL
1 3 (5.26%) SQL
2 2 (3.51%) Perl
2 2 (3.51%) Shell Script
2 2 (3.51%) Tcl
3 1 (1.75%) Apex Code
3 1 (1.75%) Java
3 1 (1.75%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (8.77%) SC Cleared
1 5 (8.77%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.75%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.51%) Data Quality
1 2 (3.51%) GRC
2 1 (1.75%) IFRS
System Software
1 1 (1.75%) vSphere
Vendors
1 25 (43.86%) SAP
2 7 (12.28%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.53%) IFS
3 6 (10.53%) Oracle
4 3 (5.26%) Ariba
4 3 (5.26%) Workday
5 2 (3.51%) DataCore
5 2 (3.51%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.51%) Synopsys
6 1 (1.75%) Anaplan
6 1 (1.75%) Avaya
6 1 (1.75%) Brocade
6 1 (1.75%) Dell
6 1 (1.75%) Hyperion
6 1 (1.75%) ICL
6 1 (1.75%) JD Edwards
6 1 (1.75%) MKS
6 1 (1.75%) Sybase
6 1 (1.75%) Veeam
6 1 (1.75%) Verint