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 17 September 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
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 35 57
Rank change year-on-year +15 +22 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 91 67 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 6.99% 4.40% 2.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.31% 4.99% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 35 39
10th Percentile £448 £363 £355
25th Percentile £475 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -14.68%
75th Percentile £582 £550 £588
90th Percentile £607 £635 £705
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £27.93 - -
25th Percentile £28.52 - £62.50
Median hourly rate £31.49 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.75% -15.38% +3.17%
75th Percentile £36.49 - £67.50
90th Percentile £38.29 - -
England median hourly rate £77.50 £61.60 £63.00
% change year-on-year +25.81% -2.22% -13.10%

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 1,095 1,343 1,666
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.10% 88.30% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 544 990
10th Percentile £186 £200 £200
25th Percentile £361 £300 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £588 £563 £600
90th Percentile £688 £600 £713
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 357 258
10th Percentile £14.53 £14.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.37 £17.72
Median hourly rate £40.00 £47.50 £36.98
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +28.47% +86.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.88 £69.25 £84.36
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £44.75
% change year-on-year -45.54% +3.20% +71.00%

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
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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 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 +18 36 £550 - 17
Hertfordshire +16 32 £550 +22.22% 44
Bedfordshire -17 14 £575 +9.52% 14
Essex 0 4 £500 +1.27% 28
Norfolk -6 3 £500 -4.76% 15
Suffolk +5 2 £381 -27.38% 10
Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 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 24 (26.37%) SAP
2 23 (25.27%) Social Skills
3 21 (23.08%) Dynatrace
4 19 (20.88%) WebSphere
4 19 (20.88%) Requirements Gathering
5 18 (19.78%) Security Cleared
6 17 (18.68%) DevOps
7 16 (17.58%) SC Cleared
8 15 (16.48%) Finance
8 15 (16.48%) WebLogic
8 15 (16.48%) Java
8 15 (16.48%) Microsoft
8 15 (16.48%) Middleware
9 14 (15.38%) C
9 14 (15.38%) C++
9 14 (15.38%) HTML
9 14 (15.38%) PHP
9 14 (15.38%) .NET
9 14 (15.38%) Migration
9 14 (15.38%) Node.js
9 14 (15.38%) CI/CD
10 12 (13.19%) Maximo
10 12 (13.19%) ITSM
11 11 (12.09%) QA
12 10 (10.99%) ServiceNow
12 10 (10.99%) SAP S/4HANA
12 10 (10.99%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (10.99%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (9.89%) Customer Requirements
13 9 (9.89%) Service Design

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 19 (20.88%) WebSphere
2 15 (16.48%) WebLogic
3 5 (5.49%) Apache
3 5 (5.49%) IIS
4 3 (3.30%) NetWeaver
5 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (13.19%) Maximo
2 10 (10.99%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (4.40%) SAP SCM
4 3 (3.30%) SAP CO
4 3 (3.30%) SAP FI
4 3 (3.30%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (3.30%) SAP IBP
5 1 (1.10%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 1 (1.10%) SAP MDG
5 1 (1.10%) SAP PP
5 1 (1.10%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 6 (6.59%) Power Platform
2 3 (3.30%) AWS
2 3 (3.30%) Azure
2 3 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (3.30%) Slack
3 2 (2.20%) Lucidchart
3 2 (2.20%) PowerApps
3 2 (2.20%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.10%) Copilot Studio
4 1 (1.10%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (1.10%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.10%) SAP Fieldglass
4 1 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
4 1 (1.10%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) Firewall
1 1 (1.10%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.59%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.49%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (5.49%) DB2
2 5 (5.49%) SAP BW
3 4 (4.40%) SAP HANA
4 3 (3.30%) Data Lake
4 3 (3.30%) Power BI
4 3 (3.30%) SAP Data Services
5 2 (2.20%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (1.10%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.10%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (1.10%) Metadata
6 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.10%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.10%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (7.69%) GitLab
1 7 (7.69%) Hudson
2 2 (2.20%) Git
3 1 (1.10%) Robot Framework
3 1 (1.10%) SonarQube
General
1 23 (25.27%) Social Skills
2 15 (16.48%) Finance
3 6 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.40%) Manufacturing
4 4 (4.40%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (4.40%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.30%) General Ledger
5 3 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.20%) Retail
7 1 (1.10%) Billing
7 1 (1.10%) French Language
7 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.48%) Middleware
2 14 (15.38%) .NET
2 14 (15.38%) HTML
2 14 (15.38%) Node.js
3 7 (7.69%) SOAP
3 7 (7.69%) XML
4 6 (6.59%) Web Services
5 3 (3.30%) REST
5 3 (3.30%) SAP Basis
5 3 (3.30%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (1.10%) EDI
6 1 (1.10%) IDoc
6 1 (1.10%) JSON
6 1 (1.10%) JWT
6 1 (1.10%) NETCONF
6 1 (1.10%) RESTCONF
6 1 (1.10%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.49%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.30%) Security Posture
3 2 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.20%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.20%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (2.20%) Social Media
4 1 (1.10%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.10%) Clustering
4 1 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.10%) IVR
4 1 (1.10%) Life Science
4 1 (1.10%) LIMS
4 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.10%) Mashup
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.49%) Windows
1 5 (5.49%) Windows Server
2 4 (4.40%) Linux
3 3 (3.30%) Unix
4 1 (1.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (20.88%) Requirements Gathering
2 17 (18.68%) DevOps
3 14 (15.38%) CI/CD
3 14 (15.38%) Migration
4 12 (13.19%) ITSM
5 10 (10.99%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (10.99%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (9.89%) Customer Requirements
6 9 (9.89%) Service Design
6 9 (9.89%) System Testing
7 8 (8.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (8.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 8 (8.79%) User Acceptance Testing
7 8 (8.79%) Workshop Facilitation
8 7 (7.69%) Analytics
8 7 (7.69%) Knowledge Transfer
8 7 (7.69%) Observability
8 7 (7.69%) RBAC
9 6 (6.59%) Actionable Insight
9 6 (6.59%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (16.48%) Java
2 14 (15.38%) C
2 14 (15.38%) C++
2 14 (15.38%) PHP
3 8 (8.79%) SQL
4 7 (7.69%) Python
5 6 (6.59%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.20%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (19.78%) Security Cleared
2 16 (17.58%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.30%) Degree
4 2 (2.20%) ACCA
4 2 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.20%) CIMA
4 2 (2.20%) CISM
4 2 (2.20%) CISSP
4 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.20%) OSCP
5 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.10%) CCIE
5 1 (1.10%) CCNP
5 1 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.10%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.10%) SANS
5 1 (1.10%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.09%) QA
2 3 (3.30%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.20%) COBIT
3 2 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.20%) GDPR
3 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.20%) NIST
3 2 (2.20%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.10%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 1 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.10%) GxP
4 1 (1.10%) HL7
4 1 (1.10%) IFRS
System Software
1 1 (1.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (8.79%) Kubernetes
1 8 (8.79%) Terraform
2 6 (6.59%) Grafana
2 6 (6.59%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.20%) Ansible
4 1 (1.10%) Istio
Vendors
1 24 (26.37%) SAP
2 21 (23.08%) Dynatrace
3 15 (16.48%) Microsoft
4 10 (10.99%) ServiceNow
5 8 (8.79%) IFS
6 5 (5.49%) IBM
7 2 (2.20%) Oracle
8 1 (1.10%) Clearswift
8 1 (1.10%) Facebook
8 1 (1.10%) Instagram
8 1 (1.10%) JD Edwards
8 1 (1.10%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.10%) Sybase
8 1 (1.10%) Twitter