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 11 July 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 25 46
Rank change year-on-year -18 +21 +19
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 88 81 74
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.87% 6.67% 3.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.25% 7.67% 4.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 52 50
10th Percentile £463 £425 £325
25th Percentile £464 £455 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £524
Median % change year-on-year - +5.01% -4.77%
75th Percentile £603 £575 £569
90th Percentile £704 £605 £650
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 2
10th Percentile - £28.12 £32.23
25th Percentile - £29.02 £41.19
Median hourly rate £60.00 £34.75 £57.25
Median % change year-on-year +72.69% -39.31% +160.23%
75th Percentile - £45.88 £73.19
90th Percentile £75.00 £57.35 £82.08
England median hourly rate £57.50 £67.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year -14.81% +9.58% -4.75%

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 2,073 1,056 1,655
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.08% 86.99% 88.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 950 508 708
10th Percentile £190 £190 £206
25th Percentile £363 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £429
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% +16.56% -9.74%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £569
90th Percentile £688 £650 £638
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 555 214 571
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.50 £18.04 £18.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £41.98 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% -4.38% +0.62%
75th Percentile £66.00 £67.00 £64.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £40.00
% change year-on-year +59.69% -29.55% -9.09%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 11 July 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 27 £551 +0.18% 24
Bedfordshire +3 20 £488 -23.53% 2
Norfolk -5 15 £550 +10.00% 7
Cambridgeshire -10 12 £583 +10.95% 9
Essex -9 8 £415 -17.00% 14
Suffolk -4 5 £570 +49.51%
Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 July 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 20 (22.73%) Azure
2 19 (21.59%) SAP
2 19 (21.59%) Security Cleared
3 18 (20.45%) ERP
3 18 (20.45%) Microsoft
3 18 (20.45%) SC Cleared
4 17 (19.32%) SQL
5 16 (18.18%) Migration
6 15 (17.05%) Oracle
7 14 (15.91%) JD Edwards
8 13 (14.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 12 (13.64%) Business Analysis
9 12 (13.64%) Project Management
10 10 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (11.36%) ITSM
10 10 (11.36%) Microsoft Office
11 9 (10.23%) Analytics
11 9 (10.23%) Data Migration
11 9 (10.23%) Validation
12 8 (9.09%) AWS
12 8 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
13 7 (7.95%) DevOps
13 7 (7.95%) Middleware
13 7 (7.95%) Python
13 7 (7.95%) SAP S/4HANA
13 7 (7.95%) ServiceNow
13 7 (7.95%) VMware
13 7 (7.95%) WebLogic
13 7 (7.95%) WebSphere

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 (7.95%) WebLogic
1 7 (7.95%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (11.36%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.55%) PTC Creo
3 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.14%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 7 (7.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (6.82%) Teamcenter
3 2 (2.27%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (1.14%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (1.14%) SAP FI
4 1 (1.14%) SAP GRC
4 1 (1.14%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 20 (22.73%) Azure
2 8 (9.09%) AWS
3 6 (6.82%) SaaS
4 3 (3.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (3.41%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (3.41%) OCI
4 3 (3.41%) Power Automate
5 2 (2.27%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (2.27%) Copilot Studio
5 2 (2.27%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.14%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (1.14%) Azure AI
6 1 (1.14%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.14%) GCP
6 1 (1.14%) Google Gemini
6 1 (1.14%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.14%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.14%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.68%) Firewall
1 5 (5.68%) SNMP
2 3 (3.41%) Network Security
3 2 (2.27%) LAN
3 2 (2.27%) VSAN
3 2 (2.27%) WAN
3 2 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.14%) BGP
4 1 (1.14%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.14%) MPLS
4 1 (1.14%) TACACS
4 1 (1.14%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.68%) SAP Data Services
2 2 (2.27%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (1.14%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.14%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Git
2 1 (1.14%) Hudson
General
1 30 (34.09%) Social Skills
2 16 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
3 15 (17.05%) Finance
4 13 (14.77%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (10.23%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.55%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.41%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.41%) Retail
8 2 (2.27%) Billing
8 2 (2.27%) General Ledger
8 2 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.27%) Legal
8 2 (2.27%) Local Government
9 1 (1.14%) Digital Health
9 1 (1.14%) Electronics
9 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.14%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.95%) Middleware
2 5 (5.68%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (4.55%) eBPF
3 4 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (4.55%) REST
4 2 (2.27%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.14%) FHIR
5 1 (1.14%) IDoc
5 1 (1.14%) NETCONF
5 1 (1.14%) OpenConfig
5 1 (1.14%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.14%) RESTCONF
5 1 (1.14%) SAP ALE
5 1 (1.14%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (1.14%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.14%) SOAP
5 1 (1.14%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.14%) Web Services
5 1 (1.14%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.41%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.27%) CMDB
3 2 (2.27%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.27%) NHS
4 1 (1.14%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.14%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (1.14%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.14%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.14%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.14%) SCADA
4 1 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.82%) Windows
2 1 (1.14%) Android
2 1 (1.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (20.45%) ERP
2 16 (18.18%) Migration
3 13 (14.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 12 (13.64%) Business Analysis
4 12 (13.64%) Project Management
5 10 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (11.36%) ITSM
6 9 (10.23%) Analytics
6 9 (10.23%) Data Migration
6 9 (10.23%) Validation
7 8 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (7.95%) DevOps
9 6 (6.82%) Configuration Management
9 6 (6.82%) Data Cleansing
9 6 (6.82%) ITIL
9 6 (6.82%) PLM
9 6 (6.82%) Root Cause Analysis
9 6 (6.82%) Test Planning
10 5 (5.68%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (19.32%) SQL
2 7 (7.95%) Python
3 4 (4.55%) Bash
4 1 (1.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.14%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (21.59%) Security Cleared
2 18 (20.45%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (3.41%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.27%) CCSP
5 2 (2.27%) CISSP
6 1 (1.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.14%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.14%) CCIE
6 1 (1.14%) CISM
6 1 (1.14%) Degree
6 1 (1.14%) JNCIE
6 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.14%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.14%) PMP
6 1 (1.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.82%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.41%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.27%) GDPR
3 2 (2.27%) NIST
4 1 (1.14%) GRC
4 1 (1.14%) HL7
4 1 (1.14%) ISA99
4 1 (1.14%) PMO
4 1 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.14%) SLA
4 1 (1.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.41%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.14%) Docker
4 1 (1.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (5.68%) Ansible
1 5 (5.68%) Terraform
2 4 (4.55%) Grafana
2 4 (4.55%) Prometheus
2 4 (4.55%) vRealize
3 3 (3.41%) vCenter Server
4 2 (2.27%) VxRail
5 1 (1.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (21.59%) SAP
2 18 (20.45%) Microsoft
3 15 (17.05%) Oracle
4 14 (15.91%) JD Edwards
5 7 (7.95%) ServiceNow
5 7 (7.95%) VMware
6 6 (6.82%) Siemens
7 4 (4.55%) Cribl.io
7 4 (4.55%) Dynatrace
7 4 (4.55%) Splunk
8 2 (2.27%) BMC
8 2 (2.27%) F5
8 2 (2.27%) Google
8 2 (2.27%) OpenAI
8 2 (2.27%) Remedy
9 1 (1.14%) Apple
9 1 (1.14%) Cisco
9 1 (1.14%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.14%) Juniper
9 1 (1.14%) OpenText