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 20 October 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 33 59
Rank change year-on-year +15 +26 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 106 64 56
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 7.63% 4.58% 2.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.94% 5.14% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 33 42
10th Percentile £425 £421 £357
25th Percentile £475 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +7.69% -16.81%
75th Percentile £580 £638 £594
90th Percentile £611 £743 £688
England median daily rate £563 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +2.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £27.93 - -
25th Percentile £28.52 - -
Median hourly rate £31.49 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.75% - -
75th Percentile £36.49 - -
90th Percentile £38.29 - -
England median hourly rate £77.50 £63.18 £64.15
% change year-on-year +22.67% -1.51% -11.52%

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 1,186 1,246 1,683
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.39% 89.13% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 531 989
10th Percentile £188 £213 £190
25th Percentile £350 £311 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% -1.52%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £638 £700
England median daily rate £511 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.73% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 236 276
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.10 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.00 £21.34 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.00 £47.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.84% +43.94% +66.58%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £82.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -41.51% -6.28% +58.75%

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 20 October 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 20 October 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
Hertfordshire +13 41 £550 +22.22% 36
Cambridgeshire +13 38 £550 -4.35% 13
Bedfordshire -8 18 £563 +2.27% 3
Essex +3 4 £500 +5.26% 9
Norfolk -12 3 £500 -4.76% 5
Suffolk +3 2 £381 -27.38% 5
Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 October 2025, 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 24 (22.64%) SAP
2 23 (21.70%) Security Cleared
3 21 (19.81%) Dynatrace
4 20 (18.87%) SC Cleared
5 19 (17.92%) Microsoft
5 19 (17.92%) Requirements Gathering
5 19 (17.92%) WebSphere
6 18 (16.98%) Migration
7 17 (16.04%) DevOps
8 16 (15.09%) Middleware
9 15 (14.15%) ITSM
9 15 (14.15%) Java
9 15 (14.15%) WebLogic
10 14 (13.21%) .NET
10 14 (13.21%) C
10 14 (13.21%) C++
10 14 (13.21%) CI/CD
10 14 (13.21%) HTML
10 14 (13.21%) Node.js
10 14 (13.21%) PHP
11 13 (12.26%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (12.26%) ServiceNow
12 12 (11.32%) Maximo
12 12 (11.32%) QA
13 11 (10.38%) Oracle
13 11 (10.38%) Service Design
13 11 (10.38%) User Acceptance Testing
13 11 (10.38%) Workshop Facilitation
14 10 (9.43%) SAP S/4HANA
14 10 (9.43%) SQL

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 19 (17.92%) WebSphere
2 15 (14.15%) WebLogic
3 5 (4.72%) Apache
3 5 (4.72%) IIS
4 3 (2.83%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.94%) Confluence
6 1 (0.94%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.89%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (11.32%) Maximo
2 10 (9.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (3.77%) SAP SCM
4 3 (2.83%) SAP CO
4 3 (2.83%) SAP FI
4 3 (2.83%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (1.89%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.94%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.94%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.94%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.94%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.94%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.94%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.94%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.94%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.94%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 7 (6.60%) OCI
1 7 (6.60%) Power Platform
2 6 (5.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (3.77%) Azure
4 3 (2.83%) AWS
4 3 (2.83%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (2.83%) Slack
5 2 (1.89%) Lucidchart
5 2 (1.89%) OneDrive
5 2 (1.89%) PowerApps
5 2 (1.89%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.94%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (0.94%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (0.94%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.94%) SAP Fieldglass
6 1 (0.94%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (0.94%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.94%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.94%) Firewall
1 1 (0.94%) Modbus
1 1 (0.94%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.66%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (4.72%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (4.72%) DB2
3 4 (3.77%) Power BI
4 3 (2.83%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.83%) SAP BW
4 3 (2.83%) SAP Data Services
5 2 (1.89%) SAP HANA
5 2 (1.89%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (0.94%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.94%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.94%) Metadata
6 1 (0.94%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.94%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.94%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (6.60%) GitLab
1 7 (6.60%) Hudson
2 3 (2.83%) Git
2 3 (2.83%) JIRA
3 1 (0.94%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.94%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.94%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 30 (28.30%) Social Skills
2 16 (15.09%) Finance
3 7 (6.60%) Manufacturing
4 6 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.72%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (4.72%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.83%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.89%) Retail
9 1 (0.94%) Billing
9 1 (0.94%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.09%) Middleware
2 14 (13.21%) .NET
2 14 (13.21%) HTML
2 14 (13.21%) Node.js
3 8 (7.55%) Oracle Fusion
3 8 (7.55%) SOAP
4 7 (6.60%) XML
5 6 (5.66%) Web Services
6 4 (3.77%) REST
7 1 (0.94%) EDI
7 1 (0.94%) IDoc
7 1 (0.94%) JSON
7 1 (0.94%) JWT
7 1 (0.94%) NETCONF
7 1 (0.94%) RESTCONF
7 1 (0.94%) SAP Basis
7 1 (0.94%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.94%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.60%) Onboarding
2 4 (3.77%) Security Posture
3 2 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (1.89%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.89%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (1.89%) Social Media
4 1 (0.94%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.94%) Clustering
4 1 (0.94%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.94%) IVR
4 1 (0.94%) Life Science
4 1 (0.94%) LIMS
4 1 (0.94%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.94%) Mashup
4 1 (0.94%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.94%) SCADA
4 1 (0.94%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.55%) Windows
2 5 (4.72%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.89%) Linux
3 2 (1.89%) Unix
3 2 (1.89%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.94%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (17.92%) Requirements Gathering
2 18 (16.98%) Migration
3 17 (16.04%) DevOps
4 15 (14.15%) ITSM
5 14 (13.21%) CI/CD
6 13 (12.26%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (10.38%) Service Design
7 11 (10.38%) User Acceptance Testing
7 11 (10.38%) Workshop Facilitation
8 10 (9.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 10 (9.43%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (8.49%) Customer Requirements
9 9 (8.49%) System Testing
10 8 (7.55%) Actionable Insight
10 8 (7.55%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (7.55%) Knowledge Transfer
10 8 (7.55%) Validation
11 7 (6.60%) Agile
11 7 (6.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (6.60%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 15 (14.15%) Java
2 14 (13.21%) C
2 14 (13.21%) C++
2 14 (13.21%) PHP
3 10 (9.43%) SQL
4 7 (6.60%) Python
5 6 (5.66%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.83%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (21.70%) Security Cleared
2 20 (18.87%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.83%) Degree
4 2 (1.89%) ACCA
4 2 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.89%) CIMA
4 2 (1.89%) CISM
4 2 (1.89%) CISSP
4 2 (1.89%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.89%) OSCP
5 1 (0.94%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.94%) CCIE
5 1 (0.94%) CCNP
5 1 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.94%) SANS
5 1 (0.94%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.32%) QA
2 4 (3.77%) NIST
3 3 (2.83%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (2.83%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.83%) GDPR
3 3 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.89%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.89%) COBIT
4 2 (1.89%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.94%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 1 (0.94%) GRC
5 1 (0.94%) GxP
5 1 (0.94%) HL7
5 1 (0.94%) IFRS
5 1 (0.94%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (0.94%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (7.55%) Kubernetes
1 8 (7.55%) Terraform
2 6 (5.66%) Grafana
2 6 (5.66%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.89%) Ansible
4 1 (0.94%) Istio
Vendors
1 24 (22.64%) SAP
2 21 (19.81%) Dynatrace
3 19 (17.92%) Microsoft
4 13 (12.26%) ServiceNow
5 11 (10.38%) Oracle
6 8 (7.55%) IFS
7 5 (4.72%) IBM
8 2 (1.89%) Remedy
9 1 (0.94%) Clearswift
9 1 (0.94%) Facebook
9 1 (0.94%) Instagram
9 1 (0.94%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.94%) Sybase
9 1 (0.94%) Twitter