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 4 April 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 29 31
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 +46
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 95 57 111
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 4.67% 6.02% 5.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.03% 6.71% 6.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 39 84
10th Percentile £433 £381 £350
25th Percentile £463 £425 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £694 £557
90th Percentile £775 £700 £641
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 5
10th Percentile - - £32.75
25th Percentile - - £42.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% +104.55%
75th Percentile - - £47.50
90th Percentile - - £71.80
England median hourly rate £57.50 £82.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -30.30% +37.50% -11.76%

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 1,887 849 1,686
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 89.65% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 852 458 827
10th Percentile £193 £213 £207
25th Percentile £335 £373 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% +11.06% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £551
90th Percentile £675 £689 £656
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 542 162 512
10th Percentile £13.72 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.46 £16.30
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £40.28
Median % change year-on-year -56.26% +42.77% +15.07%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £42.50 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +28.79% - -24.36%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 -8 39 £600 +33.33% 31
Bedfordshire -2 25 £475 -32.14% 1
Cambridgeshire +6 22 £544 +8.75% 8
Essex - 4 £443 - 18
Suffolk - 3 - -
Norfolk -27 1 £550 - 9
Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 April 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 40 (42.11%) SAP
2 26 (27.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 21 (22.11%) Analytics
3 21 (22.11%) Microsoft
4 18 (18.95%) Migration
5 16 (16.84%) Azure
5 16 (16.84%) Oracle
5 16 (16.84%) ServiceNow
5 16 (16.84%) Workshop Facilitation
6 15 (15.79%) ABAP
6 15 (15.79%) ITSM
6 15 (15.79%) SAP S/4HANA
7 14 (14.74%) Security Cleared
8 13 (13.68%) Validation
9 12 (12.63%) Oracle Fusion
10 11 (11.58%) ERP
10 11 (11.58%) Knowledge Transfer
10 11 (11.58%) Windows
11 10 (10.53%) Accounts Payable
11 10 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (10.53%) OCI
11 10 (10.53%) Process Improvement
11 10 (10.53%) SAP HCM
11 10 (10.53%) SOAP
11 10 (10.53%) SuccessFactors
11 10 (10.53%) Workflow
12 9 (9.47%) ITIL
12 9 (9.47%) OpenText
12 9 (9.47%) OpenText VIM for SAP
12 9 (9.47%) Problem-Solving

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 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (4.21%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.21%) PTC Creo
2 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.05%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 15 (15.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (10.53%) SAP HCM
3 9 (9.47%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 8 (8.42%) SAP FI
4 8 (8.42%) SAP MM
5 7 (7.37%) SAP Payroll
6 6 (6.32%) Teamcenter
7 4 (4.21%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (3.16%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 2 (2.11%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
10 1 (1.05%) Oracle Assets
10 1 (1.05%) Oracle Cash Management
10 1 (1.05%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (1.05%) Oracle General Ledger
10 1 (1.05%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (1.05%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (1.05%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 1 (1.05%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 16 (16.84%) Azure
2 10 (10.53%) OCI
2 10 (10.53%) SuccessFactors
3 6 (6.32%) AWS
3 6 (6.32%) SaaS
4 5 (5.26%) GCP
4 5 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 4 (4.21%) OneDrive
6 3 (3.16%) Azure AI
6 3 (3.16%) Copilot Studio
6 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.11%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.05%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.05%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.05%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.11%) Firewall
2 1 (1.05%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.05%) Network Security
2 1 (1.05%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.32%) Metadata
2 5 (5.26%) SAP Data Services
3 4 (4.21%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (4.21%) Power BI
4 3 (3.16%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.11%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (1.05%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (1.05%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.05%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Hudson
2 1 (1.05%) JIRA
General
1 40 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 27 (28.42%) Finance
3 10 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.16%) Aviation
4 3 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (3.16%) Retail
5 2 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.11%) Law
5 2 (2.11%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.11%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.05%) Billing
6 1 (1.05%) Electronics
6 1 (1.05%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.05%) Legal
6 1 (1.05%) Local Government
6 1 (1.05%) Marketing
6 1 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.63%) Oracle Fusion
2 10 (10.53%) SOAP
3 9 (9.47%) Web Services
4 7 (7.37%) XML
5 6 (6.32%) REST
5 6 (6.32%) SAP Basis
5 6 (6.32%) SAP Business Workflow
5 6 (6.32%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (3.16%) PyTorch
6 3 (3.16%) scikit-learn
6 3 (3.16%) TensorFlow
7 1 (1.05%) .NET
7 1 (1.05%) FHIR
7 1 (1.05%) IDoc
7 1 (1.05%) Middleware
7 1 (1.05%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.53%) Replication
2 4 (4.21%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.11%) NHS
3 2 (2.11%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.05%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.05%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (1.05%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.05%) FMCG
4 1 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.05%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.05%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.05%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.58%) Windows
2 4 (4.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (27.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 21 (22.11%) Analytics
3 18 (18.95%) Migration
4 16 (16.84%) Workshop Facilitation
5 15 (15.79%) ITSM
6 13 (13.68%) Validation
7 11 (11.58%) ERP
7 11 (11.58%) Knowledge Transfer
8 10 (10.53%) Accounts Payable
8 10 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (10.53%) Process Improvement
8 10 (10.53%) Workflow
9 9 (9.47%) ITIL
9 9 (9.47%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (9.47%) Requirements Gathering
10 8 (8.42%) Data Migration
10 8 (8.42%) Invoice Processing
10 8 (8.42%) OCR
10 8 (8.42%) Requirements Workshops
11 7 (7.37%) Performance Improvement
Programming Languages
1 15 (15.79%) ABAP
2 6 (6.32%) SQL
3 3 (3.16%) Python
4 1 (1.05%) Java
4 1 (1.05%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (14.74%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.42%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.37%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.21%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.21%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (3.16%) Degree
6 2 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.05%) CISM
7 1 (1.05%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.32%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.11%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.05%) GDPR
3 1 (1.05%) HL7
3 1 (1.05%) ISA99
3 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.05%) NIST
3 1 (1.05%) PMO
3 1 (1.05%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (5.26%) VMware NSX
2 4 (4.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.16%) Docker
4 2 (2.11%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.05%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (3.16%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.05%) vRealize
Vendors
1 40 (42.11%) SAP
2 21 (22.11%) Microsoft
3 16 (16.84%) Oracle
3 16 (16.84%) ServiceNow
4 9 (9.47%) OpenText
5 6 (6.32%) Siemens
6 5 (5.26%) Computacenter
6 5 (5.26%) VMware
7 4 (4.21%) Remedy
8 3 (3.16%) Foundry
8 3 (3.16%) Google
8 3 (3.16%) IBM
8 3 (3.16%) IFS
8 3 (3.16%) OpenAI
9 1 (1.05%) Ariba
9 1 (1.05%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.05%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.05%) Workday