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 22 August 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 24 40
Rank change year-on-year -15 +16 +27
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 83 82 63
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.77% 6.48% 3.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.19% 7.55% 4.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 52 39
10th Percentile £463 £425 £325
25th Percentile £500 £472 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £544
90th Percentile £626 £600 £610
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
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% +150.00%
England median hourly rate £62.25 £77.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year -19.68% +25.81% -3.50%

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 1,981 1,086 1,382
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.96% 85.78% 87.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 874 487 589
10th Percentile £200 £189 £204
25th Percentile £374 £350 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £580 £563
90th Percentile £688 £677 £625
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 530 253 428
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.84 £14.48
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.79 £21.37
Median hourly rate £47.50 £41.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.46% -12.63% +69.64%
75th Percentile £68.69 £66.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £77.63 £82.27 £70.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +5.88%

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 22 August 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 22 August 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 -23 26 £552 +0.36% 22
Cambridgeshire -4 17 £590 +7.27% 12
Norfolk +1 16 £550 +10.00% 7
Bedfordshire +3 12 £500 -13.04% 5
Essex -12 8 £463 -7.50% 10
Suffolk -13 3 £570 +49.51% 4
Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 August 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 25 (30.12%) Security Cleared
2 24 (28.92%) SC Cleared
3 16 (19.28%) ERP
4 15 (18.07%) Microsoft
4 15 (18.07%) Migration
4 15 (18.07%) Oracle
4 15 (18.07%) SQL
5 14 (16.87%) JD Edwards
5 14 (16.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 12 (14.46%) SAP
7 11 (13.25%) Azure
7 11 (13.25%) Project Management
7 11 (13.25%) Validation
8 10 (12.05%) Microsoft Office
8 10 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (12.05%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (10.84%) Root Cause Analysis
9 9 (10.84%) VMware
10 8 (9.64%) Business Analysis
10 8 (9.64%) Data Migration
10 8 (9.64%) ITSM
11 7 (8.43%) Middleware
11 7 (8.43%) Roadmaps
11 7 (8.43%) WebLogic
11 7 (8.43%) WebSphere
12 6 (7.23%) Active Directory
12 6 (7.23%) AWS
12 6 (7.23%) Change Management
12 6 (7.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (7.23%) 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (8.43%) WebLogic
1 7 (8.43%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.20%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (12.05%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (4.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.61%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (2.41%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (2.41%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (2.41%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (2.41%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (1.20%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.20%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (1.20%) SAP FI
4 1 (1.20%) SAP GRC
4 1 (1.20%) SAP HR
4 1 (1.20%) SAP SD
4 1 (1.20%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 11 (13.25%) Azure
2 6 (7.23%) AWS
2 6 (7.23%) SaaS
3 5 (6.02%) OCI
4 3 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (3.61%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (3.61%) Power Automate
5 2 (2.41%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (2.41%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.20%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (1.20%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.20%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.20%) Google Gemini
6 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.20%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.20%) Serverless
6 1 (1.20%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.02%) Firewall
1 5 (6.02%) SNMP
2 4 (4.82%) VSAN
3 3 (3.61%) Network Security
3 3 (3.61%) WAN
3 3 (3.61%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (2.41%) LAN
5 1 (1.20%) BGP
5 1 (1.20%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.20%) MPLS
5 1 (1.20%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.20%) TACACS
5 1 (1.20%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.02%) SAP Data Services
2 2 (2.41%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (2.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Git
2 1 (1.20%) Hudson
General
1 32 (38.55%) Social Skills
2 17 (20.48%) Presentation Skills
3 15 (18.07%) Finance
4 12 (14.46%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (13.25%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (6.02%) General Ledger
7 4 (4.82%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.82%) Telecoms
8 3 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.41%) Billing
9 2 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.41%) Legal
9 2 (2.41%) Local Government
9 2 (2.41%) Retail
10 1 (1.20%) Digital Health
10 1 (1.20%) Electronics
10 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.43%) Middleware
2 5 (6.02%) OpenTelemetry
2 5 (6.02%) Terraform
3 4 (4.82%) eBPF
3 4 (4.82%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (3.61%) LDAP
5 2 (2.41%) EDI
5 2 (2.41%) REST
5 2 (2.41%) SailPoint
6 1 (1.20%) FHIR
6 1 (1.20%) IDoc
6 1 (1.20%) NETCONF
6 1 (1.20%) OpenConfig
6 1 (1.20%) RESTCONF
6 1 (1.20%) SAP ALE
6 1 (1.20%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (1.20%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.82%) Cloud Native
1 4 (4.82%) PKI
2 3 (3.61%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.41%) CMDB
3 2 (2.41%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.41%) NHS
3 2 (2.41%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.20%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.20%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.20%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.20%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.20%) SCADA
4 1 (1.20%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.20%) Social Media
4 1 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.82%) Linux
2 3 (3.61%) Windows
2 3 (3.61%) Windows Server
2 3 (3.61%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.20%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (19.28%) ERP
2 15 (18.07%) Migration
3 14 (16.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 11 (13.25%) Project Management
4 11 (13.25%) Validation
5 10 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (12.05%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (10.84%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (9.64%) Business Analysis
7 8 (9.64%) Data Migration
7 8 (9.64%) ITSM
8 7 (8.43%) Roadmaps
9 6 (7.23%) Change Management
9 6 (7.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (7.23%) Data Cleansing
9 6 (7.23%) DevOps
9 6 (7.23%) User Experience
9 6 (7.23%) Workshop Facilitation
10 5 (6.02%) Dashboard Development
10 5 (6.02%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 15 (18.07%) SQL
2 6 (7.23%) Python
3 4 (4.82%) Bash
4 1 (1.20%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.20%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (30.12%) Security Cleared
2 24 (28.92%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.61%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.41%) CCSP
4 2 (2.41%) CISSP
5 1 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.20%) ACCA
5 1 (1.20%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.20%) CCIE
5 1 (1.20%) CIMA
5 1 (1.20%) CISM
5 1 (1.20%) Degree
5 1 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.20%) JNCIE
5 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.20%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.20%) PMP
5 1 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.23%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.41%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.41%) GDPR
3 2 (2.41%) GRC
3 2 (2.41%) NIST
4 1 (1.20%) HL7
4 1 (1.20%) ISA99
4 1 (1.20%) PMO
4 1 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (7.23%) Active Directory
1 6 (7.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (6.02%) VMware NSX
3 4 (4.82%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (7.23%) vRealize
2 5 (6.02%) Ansible
2 5 (6.02%) Grafana
2 5 (6.02%) vCenter Server
3 4 (4.82%) Prometheus
3 4 (4.82%) VxRail
Vendors
1 15 (18.07%) Microsoft
1 15 (18.07%) Oracle
2 14 (16.87%) JD Edwards
3 12 (14.46%) SAP
4 9 (10.84%) VMware
5 5 (6.02%) Cribl.io
5 5 (6.02%) Dynatrace
5 5 (6.02%) Splunk
6 4 (4.82%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.41%) BMC
7 2 (2.41%) F5
7 2 (2.41%) Remedy
8 1 (1.20%) Apple
8 1 (1.20%) Ariba
8 1 (1.20%) Cisco
8 1 (1.20%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.20%) Google
8 1 (1.20%) Juniper
8 1 (1.20%) OpenText
8 1 (1.20%) Salesforce