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 £552, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 20 36
Rank change year-on-year -14 +16 +22
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 106 97 65
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 4.38% 7.30% 4.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.84% 8.64% 4.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 64 34
10th Percentile £475 £450 £410
25th Percentile £500 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.36% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £584 £588 £588
90th Percentile £625 £624 £650
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
Median hourly rate £90.00 £31.49 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +185.81% -42.75% -
England median hourly rate £75.50 £77.50 £62.30
% change year-on-year -2.58% +24.40% -1.11%

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 2,189 1,123 1,330
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.49% 84.56% 89.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 875 505 540
10th Percentile £190 £190 £205
25th Percentile £359 £363 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £713 £688 £626
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 642 271 309
10th Percentile £14.60 £14.38 £14.84
25th Percentile £20.51 £16.30 £21.37
Median hourly rate £50.00 £31.20 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year +60.26% -28.93% +28.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £75.00 £68.15
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.90
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.71% -4.44%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -24 31 £576 +4.73% 79
Cambridgeshire -4 30 £575 +4.45% 56
Bedfordshire -2 17 £500 -13.04% 14
Norfolk +4 16 - - 19
Essex -12 9 £500 - 25
Suffolk -18 3 £570 +49.51% 7
Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 October 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 32 (30.19%) Security Cleared
2 29 (27.36%) SC Cleared
3 25 (23.58%) Oracle
3 25 (23.58%) SAP
4 21 (19.81%) Migration
5 18 (16.98%) ERP
5 18 (16.98%) Microsoft
6 17 (16.04%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (15.09%) SAP S/4HANA
7 16 (15.09%) SQL
8 14 (13.21%) JD Edwards
8 14 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (10.38%) Azure
9 11 (10.38%) OCI
9 11 (10.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 11 (10.38%) Time Management
10 10 (9.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (8.49%) Microsoft Office
11 9 (8.49%) Project Management
11 9 (8.49%) Root Cause Analysis
11 9 (8.49%) VMware
12 8 (7.55%) Business Analysis
12 8 (7.55%) Data Migration
12 8 (7.55%) SaaS
12 8 (7.55%) Validation
13 7 (6.60%) Active Directory
13 7 (6.60%) AWS
13 7 (6.60%) ITSM
13 7 (6.60%) Middleware
13 7 (6.60%) Oracle ERP

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 7 (6.60%) WebLogic
1 7 (6.60%) WebSphere
2 1 (0.94%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (8.49%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (15.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (6.60%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (6.60%) SAP HCM
3 6 (5.66%) SAP Travel Management
4 4 (3.77%) SAP HR
4 4 (3.77%) SAP Payroll
5 3 (2.83%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (1.89%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (1.89%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (1.89%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (1.89%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.94%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.94%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.94%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.94%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.94%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 11 (10.38%) Azure
1 11 (10.38%) OCI
2 8 (7.55%) SaaS
3 7 (6.60%) AWS
4 6 (5.66%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (2.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (2.83%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (2.83%) Power Automate
6 2 (1.89%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.94%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (0.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (0.94%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.94%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (0.94%) Google Gemini
7 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (0.94%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.94%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (0.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (0.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.72%) SNMP
2 4 (3.77%) VSAN
2 4 (3.77%) WAN
2 4 (3.77%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (2.83%) Firewall
4 2 (1.89%) LAN
4 2 (1.89%) Network Security
4 2 (1.89%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.94%) BGP
5 1 (0.94%) MPLS
5 1 (0.94%) TACACS
5 1 (0.94%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (3.77%) Git
General
1 30 (28.30%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.92%) Finance
3 17 (16.04%) Presentation Skills
4 13 (12.26%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.72%) General Ledger
6 5 (4.72%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.77%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.89%) Billing
8 2 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.89%) Retail
9 1 (0.94%) Legal
9 1 (0.94%) Local Government
9 1 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.60%) Middleware
2 5 (4.72%) LDAP
2 5 (4.72%) OpenTelemetry
2 5 (4.72%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (4.72%) Terraform
3 4 (3.77%) eBPF
4 3 (2.83%) SailPoint
5 2 (1.89%) EDI
5 2 (1.89%) REST
6 1 (0.94%) JSON
6 1 (0.94%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.94%) NETCONF
6 1 (0.94%) OAuth
6 1 (0.94%) OpenConfig
6 1 (0.94%) RESTCONF
6 1 (0.94%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.94%) Web Services
6 1 (0.94%) XML
6 1 (0.94%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.72%) Onboarding
1 5 (4.72%) PKI
2 4 (3.77%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.89%) CMDB
3 2 (1.89%) Data Centre
3 2 (1.89%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.89%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.89%) Social Media
4 1 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.94%) e-Learning
4 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.94%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.94%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.94%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.94%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.72%) Linux
2 4 (3.77%) Windows
2 4 (3.77%) Windows Server
2 4 (3.77%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.94%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (19.81%) Migration
2 18 (16.98%) ERP
3 17 (16.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 14 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (10.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 11 (10.38%) Time Management
6 9 (8.49%) Project Management
6 9 (8.49%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (7.55%) Business Analysis
7 8 (7.55%) Data Migration
7 8 (7.55%) Validation
8 7 (6.60%) ITSM
8 7 (6.60%) Roadmaps
9 6 (5.66%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (5.66%) DevOps
9 6 (5.66%) Impact Assessments
9 6 (5.66%) User Acceptance Testing
9 6 (5.66%) User Experience
9 6 (5.66%) Workshop Facilitation
10 5 (4.72%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 16 (15.09%) SQL
2 6 (5.66%) Python
3 4 (3.77%) Bash
4 2 (1.89%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.94%) BeanShell
5 1 (0.94%) Java
5 1 (0.94%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.94%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (30.19%) Security Cleared
2 29 (27.36%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.43%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.89%) CCSP
6 1 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.94%) ACCA
6 1 (0.94%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.94%) CCIE
6 1 (0.94%) CIMA
6 1 (0.94%) CISSP
6 1 (0.94%) Degree
6 1 (0.94%) JNCIE
6 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.94%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.94%) PMP
6 1 (0.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.89%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (1.89%) GDPR
1 2 (1.89%) GRC
1 2 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.89%) PMO
2 1 (0.94%) NIST
2 1 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (0.94%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (6.60%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.72%) VMware NSX
4 4 (3.77%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (5.66%) vRealize
2 5 (4.72%) Ansible
2 5 (4.72%) Grafana
2 5 (4.72%) vCenter Server
3 4 (3.77%) Prometheus
3 4 (3.77%) VxRail
Vendors
1 25 (23.58%) Oracle
1 25 (23.58%) SAP
2 18 (16.98%) Microsoft
3 14 (13.21%) JD Edwards
4 9 (8.49%) VMware
5 5 (4.72%) Cribl.io
5 5 (4.72%) Dynatrace
5 5 (4.72%) Splunk
6 4 (3.77%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.83%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.89%) BMC
8 2 (1.89%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.89%) F5
8 2 (1.89%) Remedy
9 1 (0.94%) Apple
9 1 (0.94%) Ariba
9 1 (0.94%) Cisco
9 1 (0.94%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.94%) Google
9 1 (0.94%) Juniper