Consultant Contract Job Trends in England

Consultant
UK > England

The median Consultant daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026.

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

 6 months to
17 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 29 31
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 1,996 1,639 2,068
As % of all contract jobs in England 6.25% 6.09% 5.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.82% 6.55% 6.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,191 963 1,251
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.79%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 14 32
10th Percentile £39.91 £56.95 £42.50
25th Percentile £58.13 £68.80 £54.48
Median hourly rate £71.25 £77.38 £63.15
Median % change year-on-year -7.92% +22.54% -11.06%
75th Percentile £81.25 £86.00 £81.56
90th Percentile £85.53 £87.13 £90.23
UK median hourly rate £70.50 £77.38 £63.29
% change year-on-year -8.89% +22.25% -9.59%

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 29,270 25,024 34,190
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.59% 92.98% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,698 15,494 23,173
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,784 765 1,662
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.91 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £41.91
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -16.48% +19.73%
75th Percentile £61.52 £64.73 £64.88
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £41.37
% change year-on-year -15.38% -21.43% +18.19%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 17 January 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 -5 927 £575 +4.55% 384
North of England -7 278 £595 +8.18% 190
South East -2 276 £540 -1.82% 336
Midlands -13 176 £531 +1.19% 107
North West -2 168 £623 +15.71% 98
West Midlands -7 137 £550 +4.76% 50
South West +8 111 £588 +11.90% 183
Yorkshire +6 101 £550 -12.00% 72
East of England -2 91 £550 -4.35% 100
East Midlands -26 38 £505 -2.88% 55
North East -18 9 £620 +3.33% 21
South Coast - 1 £550 -
Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 January 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.

1 507 (25.40%) SAP
2 503 (25.20%) Security Cleared
3 411 (20.59%) SC Cleared
4 284 (14.23%) Migration
5 261 (13.08%) SAP S/4HANA
6 257 (12.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 250 (12.53%) Problem-Solving
8 244 (12.22%) Stakeholder Management
9 243 (12.17%) Oracle
10 208 (10.42%) Microsoft
11 197 (9.87%) Azure
12 173 (8.67%) Workshop Facilitation
13 157 (7.87%) Agile
14 154 (7.72%) ERP
15 137 (6.86%) Roadmaps
16 136 (6.81%) User Acceptance Testing
17 130 (6.51%) Analytics
18 126 (6.31%) SQL
19 121 (6.06%) Data Migration
20 117 (5.86%) Cybersecurity
21 111 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
22 106 (5.31%) Validation
23 105 (5.26%) Knowledge Transfer
24 102 (5.11%) Risk Management
25 101 (5.06%) DevOps
26 99 (4.96%) AWS
27 97 (4.86%) Dynamics 365
28 91 (4.56%) AI
29 90 (4.51%) Python
30 89 (4.46%) Power Platform

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 48 (2.40%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.40%) Confluence
2 28 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.25%) CMS
3 5 (0.25%) Jupyter
3 5 (0.25%) NetWeaver
4 4 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.15%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.15%) MTS
5 3 (0.15%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.10%) Apache
6 2 (0.10%) IIS
6 2 (0.10%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.050%) SAS
7 1 (0.050%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.050%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.050%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.050%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.050%) WebSphere
Applications
1 34 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.25%) Oracle Smart View
6 4 (0.20%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.20%) Revit
7 3 (0.15%) ProjectWise
7 3 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.10%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.050%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.050%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.050%) InVision
9 1 (0.050%) Sketch
9 1 (0.050%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 261 (13.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (3.26%) Oracle EBS
3 53 (2.66%) Oracle Payables
4 46 (2.30%) Oracle Receivables
5 43 (2.15%) Oracle General Ledger
5 43 (2.15%) SAP FI
6 41 (2.05%) Oracle EBS R12
7 39 (1.95%) SAP EWM
8 38 (1.90%) Oracle Cash Management
9 35 (1.75%) SAP HCM
10 34 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
11 33 (1.65%) SAP MM
12 32 (1.60%) Oracle Assets
13 31 (1.55%) SAP CO
14 29 (1.45%) SAP FI/CO
14 29 (1.45%) SAP Payroll
14 29 (1.45%) SAP WM
15 24 (1.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
16 23 (1.15%) SAP HR
16 23 (1.15%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 197 (9.87%) Azure
2 99 (4.96%) AWS
3 97 (4.86%) Dynamics 365
4 89 (4.46%) Power Platform
5 67 (3.36%) OCI
6 64 (3.21%) GCP
7 56 (2.81%) Microsoft 365
8 55 (2.76%) SaaS
9 43 (2.15%) Entra ID
10 29 (1.45%) Power Automate
10 29 (1.45%) SuccessFactors
11 28 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
12 22 (1.10%) PowerApps
13 21 (1.05%) Microsoft Copilot
14 20 (1.00%) GitHub
15 18 (0.90%) OneDrive
15 18 (0.90%) SAP Commerce Cloud
16 15 (0.75%) Serverless
17 13 (0.65%) Microsoft Purview
18 12 (0.60%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 35 (1.75%) Firewall
2 14 (0.70%) DNS
3 13 (0.65%) Kerberos
3 13 (0.65%) Network Security
4 12 (0.60%) SMS
4 12 (0.60%) VPN
5 9 (0.45%) DHCP
5 9 (0.45%) SSH
5 9 (0.45%) WAN
6 8 (0.40%) HTTP
7 7 (0.35%) Cisco IPT
7 7 (0.35%) SD-WAN
7 7 (0.35%) SSL
7 7 (0.35%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.30%) VLAN
9 5 (0.25%) Intranet
9 5 (0.25%) SAN
9 5 (0.25%) VoIP
10 4 (0.20%) LAN
10 4 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (3.31%) Power BI
2 38 (1.90%) SAP HANA
3 33 (1.65%) Oracle Reports
4 25 (1.25%) SQL Server
5 22 (1.10%) Metadata
6 18 (0.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 17 (0.85%) SAP BW
8 13 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (0.50%) NoSQL
9 10 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (0.45%) DB2
10 9 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (0.45%) Tableau
11 6 (0.30%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
11 6 (0.30%) Oracle Database
11 6 (0.30%) SAP Data Services
12 5 (0.25%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.25%) Oracle ODI
12 5 (0.25%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 51 (2.56%) JIRA
2 21 (1.05%) Jenkins
3 18 (0.90%) Git
4 16 (0.80%) GitLab
5 10 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
6 8 (0.40%) Hudson
7 4 (0.20%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.20%) LSMW
7 4 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
7 4 (0.20%) Postman
8 3 (0.15%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.15%) JUnit
9 2 (0.10%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.10%) git-flow
9 2 (0.10%) Mockito
9 2 (0.10%) Selenium
9 2 (0.10%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.10%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.10%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.050%) Burp Suite
General
1 580 (29.06%) Social Skills
2 495 (24.80%) Finance
3 193 (9.67%) Public Sector
4 172 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
5 101 (5.06%) Manufacturing
6 71 (3.56%) Banking
7 64 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
8 59 (2.96%) Marketing
9 51 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
10 46 (2.30%) Legal
11 44 (2.20%) Billing
12 42 (2.10%) General Ledger
13 38 (1.90%) Telecoms
14 29 (1.45%) Retail
15 26 (1.30%) Law
16 22 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
17 21 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 19 (0.95%) Financial Institution
19 17 (0.85%) Electronics
19 17 (0.85%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (3.86%) Oracle Fusion
2 57 (2.86%) REST
3 49 (2.45%) SAP Fiori
4 40 (2.00%) Web Services
5 30 (1.50%) Node.js
6 29 (1.45%) SOAP
7 25 (1.25%) LDAP
8 24 (1.20%) XML
9 23 (1.15%) SAP TM
10 18 (0.90%) GraphQL
10 18 (0.90%) HTML
11 16 (0.80%) BAPI
11 16 (0.80%) Middleware
12 14 (0.70%) Kafka
12 14 (0.70%) SAP Basis
13 13 (0.65%) CSS
13 13 (0.65%) Playwright
14 12 (0.60%) Vitest
15 11 (0.55%) .NET
15 11 (0.55%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (3.16%) Onboarding
2 55 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
3 43 (2.15%) Product Ownership
4 33 (1.65%) Security Posture
5 29 (1.45%) Cloud Native
6 24 (1.20%) Data Centre
6 24 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
7 23 (1.15%) Replication
8 22 (1.10%) Management Information System
9 16 (0.80%) Data Structures
10 13 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (0.65%) NHS
10 13 (0.65%) Public Cloud
11 12 (0.60%) AI Agents
11 12 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (0.55%) Operational Technology
13 10 (0.50%) FMCG
13 10 (0.50%) IoT
13 10 (0.50%) SCADA
14 9 (0.45%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 59 (2.96%) Windows
2 38 (1.90%) Linux
3 11 (0.55%) Unix
3 11 (0.55%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.45%) Mac OS
4 9 (0.45%) Windows 10
5 7 (0.35%) AIX
5 7 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.35%) Solaris
6 3 (0.15%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.15%) VMS
7 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.10%) CentOS
7 2 (0.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.10%) zOS
8 1 (0.050%) Android
8 1 (0.050%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (14.23%) Migration
2 257 (12.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 250 (12.53%) Problem-Solving
4 244 (12.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 173 (8.67%) Workshop Facilitation
6 157 (7.87%) Agile
7 154 (7.72%) ERP
8 137 (6.86%) Roadmaps
9 136 (6.81%) User Acceptance Testing
10 130 (6.51%) Analytics
11 121 (6.06%) Data Migration
12 117 (5.86%) Cybersecurity
13 111 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
14 106 (5.31%) Validation
15 105 (5.26%) Knowledge Transfer
16 102 (5.11%) Risk Management
17 101 (5.06%) DevOps
18 91 (4.56%) AI
19 88 (4.41%) Continuous Improvement
20 83 (4.16%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 126 (6.31%) SQL
2 90 (4.51%) Python
3 63 (3.16%) PowerShell
4 57 (2.86%) ABAP
5 52 (2.61%) JavaScript
6 38 (1.90%) Java
7 25 (1.25%) TypeScript
8 22 (1.10%) PL/SQL
9 17 (0.85%) Groovy
10 15 (0.75%) Bash
11 11 (0.55%) C#
12 9 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (0.35%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.30%) Apex Code
14 6 (0.30%) C++
15 5 (0.25%) Bicep
15 5 (0.25%) R
16 4 (0.20%) COBOL
16 4 (0.20%) Go
16 4 (0.20%) Korn
Qualifications
1 503 (25.20%) Security Cleared
2 411 (20.59%) SC Cleared
3 82 (4.11%) Degree
4 70 (3.51%) DV Cleared
5 57 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 52 (2.61%) CISSP
7 37 (1.85%) CISM
8 25 (1.25%) SAP Certification
9 19 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 15 (0.75%) CIMA
11 14 (0.70%) Master's Degree
12 11 (0.55%) ACCA
12 11 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (0.50%) AWS Certification
13 10 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (0.45%) CESG Certified Professional
14 9 (0.45%) CISA
14 9 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
15 6 (0.30%) CCNP
15 6 (0.30%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 63 (3.16%) GDPR
3 62 (3.11%) NIST
4 36 (1.80%) QA
5 35 (1.75%) GRC
6 33 (1.65%) Data Quality
7 19 (0.95%) NCSC
8 16 (0.80%) SLA
9 14 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
10 12 (0.60%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.55%) PERC
12 9 (0.45%) PMO
13 8 (0.40%) COBIT
13 8 (0.40%) JSP 440
13 8 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.35%) Accessibility
14 7 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.35%) IFRS
15 6 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 63 (3.16%) Active Directory
2 38 (1.90%) Docker
3 25 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.80%) VMware NSX
5 8 (0.40%) vSphere
6 6 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.10%) NDS
9 2 (0.10%) NetIQ eDirectory
9 2 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.050%) Ceph
10 1 (0.050%) Firmware
10 1 (0.050%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.050%) KVM
10 1 (0.050%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.050%) QEMU
10 1 (0.050%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 53 (2.66%) Kubernetes
2 33 (1.65%) Terraform
3 20 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (0.90%) Ansible
5 17 (0.85%) vRealize
6 13 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.55%) Grafana
8 10 (0.50%) PingFederate
9 9 (0.45%) Prometheus
10 7 (0.35%) SCCM
11 6 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.25%) Podman
13 4 (0.20%) vRealize Orchestrator
14 3 (0.15%) CASB
15 2 (0.10%) EnCase
15 2 (0.10%) Failover Clustering
15 2 (0.10%) FTK
15 2 (0.10%) Istio
15 2 (0.10%) Packer
15 2 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 507 (25.40%) SAP
2 243 (12.17%) Oracle
3 208 (10.42%) Microsoft
4 63 (3.16%) ServiceNow
5 59 (2.96%) VMware
6 53 (2.66%) Workday
7 45 (2.25%) Salesforce
8 42 (2.10%) Cisco
9 37 (1.85%) CyberArk
10 34 (1.70%) Aruba
11 31 (1.55%) Adobe
12 29 (1.45%) Google
13 23 (1.15%) Ariba
14 17 (0.85%) OpenText
15 15 (0.75%) Dynatrace
16 13 (0.65%) Murex
17 11 (0.55%) Databricks
17 11 (0.55%) IFS
17 11 (0.55%) Remedy
18 10 (0.50%) Atlassian
1,156 Consultant jobs in England