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 2 May 2026.

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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 29 29
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 +43
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 81 57 95
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.66% 6.08% 4.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.99% 6.88% 5.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 38 69
10th Percentile £459 £409 £325
25th Percentile £463 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £628 £673 £579
90th Percentile £775 £700 £650
England median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile - - £31.13
25th Percentile - - £38.44
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% +104.55%
75th Percentile - - £57.63
90th Percentile - - £75.85
England median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year -17.86% +13.64% -6.67%

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 2,029 828 1,711
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.64% 88.37% 89.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 939 433 775
10th Percentile £196 £200 £206
25th Percentile £350 £379 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £569
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 167 592
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.28 £16.30
Median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +16.28% +22.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £47.00 £30.79 £36.02
% change year-on-year +52.63% -14.52% -19.53%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 -15 29 £565 +25.56% 29
Bedfordshire -3 23 £475 -32.14% 5
Cambridgeshire +6 17 £590 +18.00% 10
Essex -6 5 £443 - 5
Suffolk - 5 £535 - 5
Norfolk -23 1 £550 - 4
Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 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 30 (37.04%) SAP
2 18 (22.22%) Azure
2 18 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 17 (20.99%) Microsoft
4 15 (18.52%) Analytics
4 15 (18.52%) Migration
5 14 (17.28%) Security Cleared
6 12 (14.81%) ERP
6 12 (14.81%) Oracle
7 10 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (11.11%) Data Migration
8 9 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
9 8 (9.88%) DevOps
9 8 (9.88%) Root Cause Analysis
9 8 (9.88%) SAP HCM
9 8 (9.88%) SC Cleared
9 8 (9.88%) SuccessFactors
10 7 (8.64%) AWS
10 7 (8.64%) CI/CD
10 7 (8.64%) ITSM
10 7 (8.64%) Process Improvement
10 7 (8.64%) Requirements Gathering
10 7 (8.64%) SAP S/4HANA
10 7 (8.64%) SOAP
10 7 (8.64%) Validation
10 7 (8.64%) Web Services
11 6 (7.41%) ABAP
11 6 (7.41%) Business Intelligence
11 6 (7.41%) Configuration Management
11 6 (7.41%) Data Cleansing

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:

Applications
1 4 (4.94%) PTC Creo
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.23%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 8 (9.88%) SAP HCM
2 7 (8.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (7.41%) Teamcenter
4 5 (6.17%) SAP Payroll
5 3 (3.70%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 2 (2.47%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 1 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (1.23%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (1.23%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (1.23%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (1.23%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (1.23%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (1.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (1.23%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (1.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (1.23%) SAP FI
7 1 (1.23%) SAP MM
7 1 (1.23%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 18 (22.22%) Azure
2 8 (9.88%) SuccessFactors
3 7 (8.64%) AWS
4 6 (7.41%) SaaS
5 4 (4.94%) OCI
5 4 (4.94%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.70%) Azure AI
6 3 (3.70%) Copilot Studio
6 3 (3.70%) GCP
6 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.47%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.47%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (2.47%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.23%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.23%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.23%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.70%) Firewall
1 3 (3.70%) SNMP
2 2 (2.47%) Network Security
3 1 (1.23%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.23%) VPN
3 1 (1.23%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.17%) SAP Data Services
2 4 (4.94%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (3.70%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.70%) Power BI
4 2 (2.47%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Hudson
2 2 (2.47%) Git
General
1 32 (39.51%) Social Skills
2 21 (25.93%) Finance
3 9 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.94%) Retail
5 3 (3.70%) Aviation
5 3 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (3.70%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.47%) Billing
6 2 (2.47%) General Ledger
6 2 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.47%) Local Government
6 2 (2.47%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.23%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.23%) Electronics
7 1 (1.23%) Legal
7 1 (1.23%) Marketing
7 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.64%) SOAP
1 7 (8.64%) Web Services
2 6 (7.41%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (7.41%) REST
3 5 (6.17%) XML
4 3 (3.70%) eBPF
4 3 (3.70%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (3.70%) PyTorch
4 3 (3.70%) scikit-learn
4 3 (3.70%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.23%) .NET
5 1 (1.23%) FHIR
5 1 (1.23%) IDoc
5 1 (1.23%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.88%) Replication
2 5 (6.17%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.47%) NHS
5 1 (1.23%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.23%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.23%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.23%) FMCG
5 1 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.23%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.23%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.23%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 15 (18.52%) Analytics
2 15 (18.52%) Migration
3 12 (14.81%) ERP
4 10 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (11.11%) Data Migration
5 9 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
6 8 (9.88%) DevOps
6 8 (9.88%) Root Cause Analysis
7 7 (8.64%) CI/CD
7 7 (8.64%) ITSM
7 7 (8.64%) Process Improvement
7 7 (8.64%) Requirements Gathering
7 7 (8.64%) Validation
8 6 (7.41%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (7.41%) Configuration Management
8 6 (7.41%) Data Cleansing
8 6 (7.41%) PLM
8 6 (7.41%) Requirements Workshops
8 6 (7.41%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.41%) ABAP
1 6 (7.41%) Python
2 5 (6.17%) SQL
3 3 (3.70%) Bash
4 1 (1.23%) Java
4 1 (1.23%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (17.28%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.88%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.94%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.94%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.23%) CCSP
5 1 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.23%) CISM
5 1 (1.23%) CISSP
5 1 (1.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.47%) NIST
3 1 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.23%) GDPR
3 1 (1.23%) HL7
3 1 (1.23%) ISA99
3 1 (1.23%) PMO
3 1 (1.23%) SLA
3 1 (1.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (7.41%) VMware NSX
2 5 (6.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.70%) Docker
4 2 (2.47%) vSphere
5 1 (1.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.70%) Ansible
1 3 (3.70%) Grafana
1 3 (3.70%) Kubernetes
1 3 (3.70%) Prometheus
1 3 (3.70%) Terraform
2 2 (2.47%) vRealize
3 1 (1.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (37.04%) SAP
2 17 (20.99%) Microsoft
3 12 (14.81%) Oracle
4 6 (7.41%) Siemens
4 6 (7.41%) VMware
5 5 (6.17%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.70%) Computacenter
6 3 (3.70%) Cribl.io
6 3 (3.70%) Dynatrace
6 3 (3.70%) Foundry
6 3 (3.70%) Google
6 3 (3.70%) IBM
6 3 (3.70%) IFS
6 3 (3.70%) OpenAI
6 3 (3.70%) Splunk
7 2 (2.47%) OpenText
8 1 (1.23%) F5
8 1 (1.23%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.23%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.23%) Workday