Consultant Contract Job Trends in England

Consultant
UK > England

The median Consultant daily rate in England is £540, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2026.

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

 6 months to
13 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 30 28
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 +19
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 2,183 1,480 2,173
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.41% 6.14% 5.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.86% 6.63% 6.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,232 933 1,410
10th Percentile £383 £413 £400
25th Percentile £455 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -
75th Percentile £638 £644 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £757
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 14 28
10th Percentile £51.00 £38.03 £27.13
25th Percentile £56.25 £54.13 £52.18
Median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +13.64% -6.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £86.00 £63.29
90th Percentile £83.65 - £71.50
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £75.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year -23.33% +21.75% -6.67%

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 37,225 22,311 33,904
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.50% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,137 14,840 22,465
10th Percentile £315 £300 £281
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,565 900 2,436
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.00 £12.87
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £46.80 £30.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.00% -20.00% -14.88%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.85 £28.18 £37.50
% change year-on-year +55.59% -24.85% -16.67%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in 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 England.

Consultant job vacancy trend in England

Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in England

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in England

Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in England

Consultant
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Consultant in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Consultant in England

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 13 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
London 0 1,022 £550 -4.35% 576
South East -4 336 £525 -6.67% 251
Midlands -15 228 £525 -2.33% 112
North of England -22 221 £525 -1.69% 306
South West +26 183 £550 +4.76% 193
West Midlands -6 153 £550 - 83
North West -27 102 £525 -3.67% 195
Yorkshire -6 100 £531 +4.94% 79
East of England -14 72 £550 +10.00% 60
East Midlands -16 67 £500 -3.85% 30
North East -24 19 £538 +0.66% 33
Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 England region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 424 (19.42%) SAP
2 408 (18.69%) Security Cleared
3 308 (14.11%) SC Cleared
4 296 (13.56%) Migration
5 252 (11.54%) Azure
6 241 (11.04%) Microsoft
7 223 (10.22%) Oracle
8 197 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
9 194 (8.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 193 (8.84%) Stakeholder Management
11 188 (8.61%) ERP
12 181 (8.29%) SQL
13 175 (8.02%) SAP S/4HANA
14 165 (7.56%) User Acceptance Testing
15 157 (7.19%) Workshop Facilitation
16 140 (6.41%) Data Migration
17 134 (6.14%) Agile
18 132 (6.05%) Cybersecurity
19 127 (5.82%) Validation
20 120 (5.50%) Analytics
21 118 (5.41%) Continuous Improvement
22 117 (5.36%) Business Intelligence
23 115 (5.27%) Dynamics 365
24 112 (5.13%) Roadmaps
25 111 (5.08%) Power Platform
26 110 (5.04%) AI
27 109 (4.99%) AWS
28 98 (4.49%) Change Management
29 86 (3.94%) Python
30 85 (3.89%) Risk Management

Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 66 (3.02%) SharePoint
2 38 (1.74%) Confluence
3 11 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
4 10 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.27%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.18%) Apache
6 4 (0.18%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.14%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.14%) Apache Superset
7 3 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.092%) IIS
8 2 (0.092%) SAS
8 2 (0.092%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.092%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.046%) CMS
9 1 (0.046%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.046%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 1 (0.046%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.046%) WordPress
Applications
1 61 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.32%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.23%) PTC Creo
6 4 (0.18%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.092%) Lectora
8 2 (0.092%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.046%) CATIA
9 1 (0.046%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 175 (8.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 61 (2.79%) Oracle EBS
3 42 (1.92%) Oracle Payables
4 34 (1.56%) Oracle Receivables
5 32 (1.47%) SAP MM
6 31 (1.42%) SAP PSCD
7 30 (1.37%) SAP FI
8 27 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
8 27 (1.24%) Oracle EBS R12
8 27 (1.24%) Teamcenter
9 24 (1.10%) SAP Travel Management
10 23 (1.05%) SAP EWM
11 21 (0.96%) Oracle Assets
11 21 (0.96%) Oracle ERP
11 21 (0.96%) SAP CO
12 20 (0.92%) Oracle General Ledger
13 19 (0.87%) Oracle Cash Management
13 19 (0.87%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 19 (0.87%) SAP FI/CO
13 19 (0.87%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 252 (11.54%) Azure
2 115 (5.27%) Dynamics 365
3 111 (5.08%) Power Platform
4 109 (4.99%) AWS
5 61 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
6 59 (2.70%) GCP
7 55 (2.52%) SuccessFactors
8 53 (2.43%) Power Automate
9 50 (2.29%) OCI
10 49 (2.24%) SaaS
11 39 (1.79%) Entra ID
12 33 (1.51%) Microsoft Copilot
13 29 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
13 29 (1.33%) PowerApps
14 23 (1.05%) GitHub
15 17 (0.78%) Copilot Studio
16 16 (0.73%) Microsoft Purview
16 16 (0.73%) Serverless
17 13 (0.60%) SAP Commerce Cloud
18 12 (0.55%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.10%) Network Security
2 22 (1.01%) Firewall
3 16 (0.73%) SMS
3 16 (0.73%) SNMP
4 11 (0.50%) VSAN
5 10 (0.46%) FTP
6 9 (0.41%) VPN
7 8 (0.37%) Kerberos
7 8 (0.37%) SAN
8 5 (0.23%) HTTP
8 5 (0.23%) NAS
8 5 (0.23%) VLAN
8 5 (0.23%) WAN
9 4 (0.18%) Intranet
9 4 (0.18%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.18%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.14%) Wireless
11 2 (0.092%) BGP
11 2 (0.092%) DNS
11 2 (0.092%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (3.11%) Power BI
2 46 (2.11%) Oracle Reports
3 28 (1.28%) SAP HANA
4 24 (1.10%) SQL Server
5 22 (1.01%) Tableau
6 19 (0.87%) Metadata
6 19 (0.87%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 17 (0.78%) Oracle ODI
8 10 (0.46%) SAP BW
9 8 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
11 6 (0.27%) GIS
11 6 (0.27%) NoSQL
11 6 (0.27%) SAP Data Services
11 6 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.23%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (0.23%) Crystal Reports
12 5 (0.23%) Essbase
12 5 (0.23%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.23%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 62 (2.84%) JIRA
2 17 (0.78%) Hudson
3 16 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
4 10 (0.46%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.32%) Git
6 6 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.23%) GitLab
8 4 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.14%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.14%) Toad
10 2 (0.092%) git-flow
10 2 (0.092%) Postman
11 1 (0.046%) Burp Suite
11 1 (0.046%) Charles Proxy
11 1 (0.046%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.046%) JDeveloper
11 1 (0.046%) JUnit
11 1 (0.046%) LSMW
11 1 (0.046%) MLflow
11 1 (0.046%) PeopleTools
General
1 506 (23.18%) Finance
2 462 (21.16%) Social Skills
3 179 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
4 143 (6.55%) Public Sector
5 81 (3.71%) Banking
6 56 (2.57%) Manufacturing
7 55 (2.52%) Legal
8 48 (2.20%) Marketing
9 41 (1.88%) Billing
9 41 (1.88%) General Ledger
10 37 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
11 32 (1.47%) Retail
12 29 (1.33%) Telecoms
13 24 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
13 24 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
14 22 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 21 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
16 18 (0.82%) Law
17 15 (0.69%) Advertising
17 15 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (2.93%) REST
2 62 (2.84%) Oracle Fusion
3 54 (2.47%) XML
4 24 (1.10%) SAP TM
5 22 (1.01%) Middleware
6 21 (0.96%) SOAP
7 20 (0.92%) Web Services
8 17 (0.78%) JSON
9 16 (0.73%) SAP Fiori
10 14 (0.64%) LDAP
10 14 (0.64%) SAP Basis
11 13 (0.60%) HTML
12 12 (0.55%) .NET
12 12 (0.55%) Node.js
13 11 (0.50%) CSS
14 10 (0.46%) GraphQL
14 10 (0.46%) Kafka
15 9 (0.41%) React
16 8 (0.37%) IDoc
17 7 (0.32%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 50 (2.29%) Onboarding
2 39 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
3 38 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
4 35 (1.60%) Security Posture
5 28 (1.28%) Product Ownership
6 26 (1.19%) AI Agents
7 24 (1.10%) Operational Technology
8 19 (0.87%) Cloud Native
9 18 (0.82%) Data Centre
10 17 (0.78%) NHS
11 16 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
11 16 (0.73%) Management Information System
12 15 (0.69%) Data Structures
12 15 (0.69%) Replication
13 14 (0.64%) Public Cloud
14 13 (0.60%) Life Science
14 13 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (0.55%) CMDB
16 11 (0.50%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 54 (2.47%) Windows
2 34 (1.56%) Linux
3 16 (0.73%) Solaris
4 13 (0.60%) AIX
5 9 (0.41%) VMS
6 7 (0.32%) Unix
7 5 (0.23%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.18%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.18%) zOS
9 3 (0.14%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.092%) Android
10 2 (0.092%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.092%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.046%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.046%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (13.56%) Migration
2 197 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
3 194 (8.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 193 (8.84%) Stakeholder Management
5 188 (8.61%) ERP
6 165 (7.56%) User Acceptance Testing
7 157 (7.19%) Workshop Facilitation
8 140 (6.41%) Data Migration
9 134 (6.14%) Agile
10 132 (6.05%) Cybersecurity
11 127 (5.82%) Validation
12 120 (5.50%) Analytics
13 118 (5.41%) Continuous Improvement
14 117 (5.36%) Business Intelligence
15 112 (5.13%) Roadmaps
16 110 (5.04%) AI
17 98 (4.49%) Change Management
18 85 (3.89%) Risk Management
19 83 (3.80%) Translating Business Requirements
20 81 (3.71%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 181 (8.29%) SQL
2 86 (3.94%) Python
3 41 (1.88%) PL/SQL
4 39 (1.79%) JavaScript
5 35 (1.60%) PowerShell
5 35 (1.60%) T-SQL
6 23 (1.05%) ABAP
7 20 (0.92%) Java
8 16 (0.73%) TypeScript
9 13 (0.60%) Search Processing Language
10 12 (0.55%) C#
11 9 (0.41%) Bash
11 9 (0.41%) R
12 7 (0.32%) Groovy
13 6 (0.27%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.18%) Korn
15 4 (0.18%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.14%) C++
Qualifications
1 408 (18.69%) Security Cleared
2 308 (14.11%) SC Cleared
3 81 (3.71%) DV Cleared
4 59 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 58 (2.66%) CISSP
6 57 (2.61%) Degree
7 45 (2.06%) CISM
8 20 (0.92%) CIMA
8 20 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 17 (0.78%) CCSP
10 12 (0.55%) PMP
11 10 (0.46%) ACCA
11 10 (0.46%) CEH
12 8 (0.37%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
12 8 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 8 (0.37%) Master's Degree
12 8 (0.37%) PMI Certification
12 8 (0.37%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (3.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 74 (3.39%) NIST
3 49 (2.24%) Data Quality
3 49 (2.24%) GRC
4 44 (2.02%) GDPR
5 26 (1.19%) QA
6 24 (1.10%) NCSC
7 21 (0.96%) PCI DSS
8 16 (0.73%) PMO
9 15 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
9 15 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 15 (0.69%) SLA
10 14 (0.64%) COBIT
11 12 (0.55%) Accessibility
12 10 (0.46%) JSP 440
13 7 (0.32%) HL7
13 7 (0.32%) RMADS
14 6 (0.27%) DICOM
15 5 (0.23%) GAAP
16 4 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (1.74%) Active Directory
2 30 (1.37%) VMware NSX
3 20 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.78%) vSphere
5 16 (0.73%) Docker
6 8 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 6 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.092%) IAG
8 2 (0.092%) NFS
9 1 (0.046%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.046%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.046%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 38 (1.74%) Kubernetes
2 21 (0.96%) Terraform
3 16 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.64%) vRealize
5 13 (0.60%) Nagios
5 13 (0.60%) ZABBIX
6 12 (0.55%) Netcool
6 12 (0.55%) Tivoli
7 11 (0.50%) OpenView
7 11 (0.50%) Tivoli Monitoring
8 10 (0.46%) Ansible
9 9 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.32%) SCCM
11 6 (0.27%) NetBackup
11 6 (0.27%) Podman
12 5 (0.23%) Grafana
12 5 (0.23%) Prometheus
13 4 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.18%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.14%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 424 (19.42%) SAP
2 241 (11.04%) Microsoft
3 223 (10.22%) Oracle
4 59 (2.70%) ServiceNow
5 53 (2.43%) Siemens
6 52 (2.38%) VMware
7 48 (2.20%) Salesforce
8 46 (2.11%) Workday
9 30 (1.37%) Splunk
10 26 (1.19%) Google
11 22 (1.01%) BMC
11 22 (1.01%) Databricks
12 21 (0.96%) Ariba
13 20 (0.92%) Adobe
13 20 (0.92%) IBM
14 15 (0.69%) IFS
14 15 (0.69%) Sage
15 13 (0.60%) SolarWinds
16 11 (0.50%) HP
16 11 (0.50%) Murex
1,440 Consultant jobs in England