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 23 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
23 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 27 29
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 2,596 1,790 2,030
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.58% 6.48% 6.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.05% 7.10% 6.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,525 1,127 1,173
10th Percentile £413 £415 £413
25th Percentile £463 £488 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £553 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% +0.45% -
75th Percentile £656 £660 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 23 22
10th Percentile £36.25 £27.93 £53.11
25th Percentile £44.06 £39.05 £57.86
Median hourly rate £76.00 £77.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% +25.81% -2.22%
75th Percentile £86.46 £81.25 £69.27
90th Percentile £91.88 £86.05 £74.99
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £77.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year -1.94% +25.81% -2.22%

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 42,935 25,205 29,932
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 91.31% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,501 16,241 18,594
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.98%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,554 1,371 1,420
10th Percentile £14.85 £13.75 £14.84
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.33 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.58 £25.15 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +69.28% -45.54% +2.62%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.70 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.19% -41.51% -3.37%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -4 1,248 £550 -4.35% 1,596
South East -7 384 £540 -1.82% 445
North of England -26 324 £575 -0.86% 392
Midlands -1 227 £500 -9.09% 222
North West -12 211 £579 -6.57% 236
South West +10 204 £550 -5.58% 206
West Midlands +4 163 £500 -9.09% 173
East of England -16 104 £550 - 132
Yorkshire -23 91 £575 +21.05% 79
East Midlands -11 60 £525 -4.55% 46
North East -29 21 £750 +38.89% 77
Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 September 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.

1 577 (22.23%) Security Cleared
2 484 (18.64%) SAP
3 463 (17.84%) Stakeholder Management
4 390 (15.02%) SC Cleared
5 379 (14.60%) Microsoft
6 347 (13.37%) Migration
7 305 (11.75%) Oracle
8 268 (10.32%) Azure
9 250 (9.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 236 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
11 206 (7.94%) Cybersecurity
11 206 (7.94%) Problem-Solving
12 202 (7.78%) Workshop Facilitation
13 198 (7.63%) SAP S/4HANA
13 198 (7.63%) Validation
14 189 (7.28%) SQL
15 177 (6.82%) Roadmaps
16 176 (6.78%) Analytics
17 159 (6.12%) Continuous Improvement
18 158 (6.09%) ERP
19 157 (6.05%) AWS
20 153 (5.89%) Agile
20 153 (5.89%) Data Migration
21 149 (5.74%) Requirements Gathering
22 142 (5.47%) DV Cleared
23 139 (5.35%) AI
24 136 (5.24%) Power Platform
25 119 (4.58%) Business Intelligence
26 118 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
27 116 (4.47%) Translating Business Requirements

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 62 (2.39%) SharePoint
2 36 (1.39%) Confluence
3 30 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
4 9 (0.35%) WebSphere
5 8 (0.31%) WebLogic
6 6 (0.23%) SAS
7 4 (0.15%) CMS
8 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.12%) Apache
8 3 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.12%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
9 2 (0.077%) IIS
9 2 (0.077%) Smallworld
9 2 (0.077%) WordPress
10 1 (0.039%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.039%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.039%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.039%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 43 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.039%) Adobe Captivate
7 1 (0.039%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.039%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.039%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 198 (7.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 74 (2.85%) Oracle EBS
3 45 (1.73%) SAP FI
4 42 (1.62%) Oracle Payables
5 40 (1.54%) SAP PSCD
6 39 (1.50%) Oracle ERP
7 34 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
7 34 (1.31%) Oracle Receivables
7 34 (1.31%) SAP Payroll
8 32 (1.23%) SAP CO
9 30 (1.16%) NetSuite
10 29 (1.12%) Oracle General Ledger
10 29 (1.12%) Workday HCM
11 27 (1.04%) SAP FI/CO
11 27 (1.04%) SAP SD
12 26 (1.00%) SAP HCM
12 26 (1.00%) SAP HR
12 26 (1.00%) SAP MM
13 21 (0.81%) Oracle EBS R12
13 21 (0.81%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 268 (10.32%) Azure
2 157 (6.05%) AWS
3 136 (5.24%) Power Platform
4 118 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
5 90 (3.47%) SuccessFactors
6 84 (3.24%) GCP
7 73 (2.81%) OCI
8 72 (2.77%) Microsoft 365
9 59 (2.27%) Power Automate
10 56 (2.16%) Entra ID
11 51 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
12 38 (1.46%) SaaS
13 35 (1.35%) Microsoft Copilot
14 29 (1.12%) PowerApps
15 26 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
16 24 (0.92%) GitHub
17 20 (0.77%) Snowflake
18 15 (0.58%) Amazon S3
19 14 (0.54%) SAP Commerce Cloud
19 14 (0.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 60 (2.31%) Firewall
2 57 (2.20%) Network Security
3 33 (1.27%) WAN
4 28 (1.08%) BGP
5 23 (0.89%) VPN
6 17 (0.65%) SNMP
7 15 (0.58%) DNS
7 15 (0.58%) LAN
8 13 (0.50%) TCP/IP
9 11 (0.42%) Ethernet VPN
9 11 (0.42%) SAN
10 10 (0.39%) 3GPP
10 10 (0.39%) 5G
10 10 (0.39%) IPsec
10 10 (0.39%) MPLS
10 10 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
11 9 (0.35%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.35%) VXLAN
12 8 (0.31%) NGFW
13 7 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (2.97%) Power BI
2 40 (1.54%) Oracle Reports
3 28 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (1.08%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 27 (1.04%) SAP BW
5 26 (1.00%) Metadata
6 25 (0.96%) SAP HANA
6 25 (0.96%) SQL Server
6 25 (0.96%) Tableau
7 14 (0.54%) BusinessObjects
8 12 (0.46%) Oracle ODI
9 10 (0.39%) Power Query
10 9 (0.35%) Oracle Database
10 9 (0.35%) Relational Database
11 8 (0.31%) DynamoDB
12 7 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.19%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (0.19%) Looker
13 5 (0.19%) SAP Data Services
13 5 (0.19%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 76 (2.93%) JIRA
2 22 (0.85%) Git
3 16 (0.62%) Oracle Forms
4 13 (0.50%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.35%) GitLab
6 8 (0.31%) Hudson
7 7 (0.27%) PowerBuilder
8 4 (0.15%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.12%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (0.12%) JDeveloper
9 3 (0.12%) LoadRunner
9 3 (0.12%) MLflow
9 3 (0.12%) Snyk
9 3 (0.12%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.12%) Toad
9 3 (0.12%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.077%) JMeter
10 2 (0.077%) MSI
10 2 (0.077%) Postman
General
1 570 (21.96%) Finance
2 561 (21.61%) Social Skills
3 190 (7.32%) Public Sector
4 172 (6.63%) Analytical Skills
5 96 (3.70%) Banking
6 87 (3.35%) Manufacturing
7 71 (2.73%) Legal
8 61 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
8 61 (2.35%) Telecoms
9 50 (1.93%) Billing
10 49 (1.89%) Retail
11 48 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
12 46 (1.77%) General Ledger
12 46 (1.77%) Marketing
13 37 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
14 35 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 25 (0.96%) Law
15 25 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
16 22 (0.85%) Local Government
17 16 (0.62%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (3.54%) Oracle Fusion
2 69 (2.66%) REST
3 52 (2.00%) Terraform
4 37 (1.43%) SAP Fiori
5 35 (1.35%) Middleware
6 32 (1.23%) SOAP
7 27 (1.04%) Web Services
8 25 (0.96%) SailPoint
8 25 (0.96%) XML
9 20 (0.77%) LDAP
10 19 (0.73%) OAuth
11 18 (0.69%) HTML
11 18 (0.69%) JSON
12 16 (0.62%) CSS
13 14 (0.54%) SAML
14 13 (0.50%) NETCONF
14 13 (0.50%) YANG
15 12 (0.46%) SAP Basis
16 11 (0.42%) SAP PI
17 10 (0.39%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 108 (4.16%) Onboarding
2 51 (1.96%) CMDB
3 45 (1.73%) Operational Technology
4 40 (1.54%) Data Centre
5 36 (1.39%) Product Ownership
6 31 (1.19%) Security Posture
7 29 (1.12%) Data Structures
8 26 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
8 26 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (0.73%) AI Agents
10 19 (0.73%) Cloud Native
11 18 (0.69%) Replication
12 17 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
13 15 (0.58%) Management Information System
13 15 (0.58%) PKI
14 13 (0.50%) Hybrid Cloud
14 13 (0.50%) Life Science
15 12 (0.46%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (0.46%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 77 (2.97%) Windows
2 60 (2.31%) Linux
3 21 (0.81%) Solaris
4 20 (0.77%) Unix
5 17 (0.65%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.46%) AIX
7 10 (0.39%) VMS
8 6 (0.23%) Android
8 6 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.19%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.039%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.039%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 463 (17.84%) Stakeholder Management
2 347 (13.37%) Migration
3 250 (9.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 236 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
5 206 (7.94%) Cybersecurity
5 206 (7.94%) Problem-Solving
6 202 (7.78%) Workshop Facilitation
7 198 (7.63%) Validation
8 177 (6.82%) Roadmaps
9 176 (6.78%) Analytics
10 159 (6.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 158 (6.09%) ERP
12 153 (5.89%) Agile
12 153 (5.89%) Data Migration
13 149 (5.74%) Requirements Gathering
14 139 (5.35%) AI
15 119 (4.58%) Business Intelligence
16 116 (4.47%) Translating Business Requirements
17 108 (4.16%) Knowledge Transfer
18 107 (4.12%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 189 (7.28%) SQL
2 91 (3.51%) Python
3 49 (1.89%) PowerShell
4 45 (1.73%) ABAP
5 36 (1.39%) JavaScript
5 36 (1.39%) PL/SQL
6 24 (0.92%) Java
7 13 (0.50%) Bash
7 13 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 12 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
9 11 (0.42%) Search Processing Language
10 9 (0.35%) C#
10 9 (0.35%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.27%) R
11 7 (0.27%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.19%) Korn
12 5 (0.19%) Perl
13 4 (0.15%) Groovy
14 3 (0.12%) Bicep
14 3 (0.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 577 (22.23%) Security Cleared
2 390 (15.02%) SC Cleared
3 142 (5.47%) DV Cleared
4 83 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 65 (2.50%) CISSP
6 54 (2.08%) Degree
7 53 (2.04%) CISM
8 40 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
9 30 (1.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 26 (1.00%) CCSP
11 16 (0.62%) ACCA
12 14 (0.54%) AWS Certification
12 14 (0.54%) CIMA
12 14 (0.54%) CRISC
12 14 (0.54%) PMP
13 11 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
14 10 (0.39%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 9 (0.35%) Azure Certification
16 8 (0.31%) CCIE
16 8 (0.31%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (3.62%) NIST
2 83 (3.20%) Data Quality
3 75 (2.89%) GRC
4 66 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 43 (1.66%) QA
6 39 (1.50%) NCSC
7 32 (1.23%) GDPR
8 24 (0.92%) PMO
9 23 (0.89%) SLA
10 17 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
11 15 (0.58%) Accessibility
11 15 (0.58%) PCI DSS
12 12 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.35%) NIST 800
14 8 (0.31%) GxP
15 7 (0.27%) COBIT
15 7 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.23%) Def Stans
16 6 (0.23%) IFRS
System Software
1 64 (2.47%) Active Directory
2 28 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (1.08%) VMware NSX
3 16 (0.62%) vSphere
4 15 (0.58%) Docker
5 12 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (0.35%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.35%) IAG
7 5 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.15%) Firmware
9 2 (0.077%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.077%) PowerHA
10 1 (0.039%) NFS
10 1 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.039%) oVirt
10 1 (0.039%) ProxySG
10 1 (0.039%) RHEV
10 1 (0.039%) SRDF
10 1 (0.039%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 41 (1.58%) Kubernetes
2 22 (0.85%) Ansible
3 18 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (0.65%) SCCM
5 13 (0.50%) vRealize
6 11 (0.42%) FortiGate
7 10 (0.39%) Nagios
7 10 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.39%) vCenter Server
7 10 (0.39%) ZABBIX
8 9 (0.35%) Grafana
9 8 (0.31%) Netcool
9 8 (0.31%) Tivoli
10 7 (0.27%) OpenView
10 7 (0.27%) Tivoli Monitoring
11 6 (0.23%) VxRail
12 5 (0.19%) Prometheus
13 4 (0.15%) CEMLI
14 3 (0.12%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.12%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 484 (18.64%) SAP
2 379 (14.60%) Microsoft
3 305 (11.75%) Oracle
4 112 (4.31%) ServiceNow
5 62 (2.39%) Workday
6 56 (2.16%) VMware
7 38 (1.46%) Databricks
8 36 (1.39%) Salesforce
9 31 (1.19%) Splunk
10 26 (1.00%) BMC
10 26 (1.00%) Palo Alto
11 23 (0.89%) CyberArk
12 22 (0.85%) Cisco
13 21 (0.81%) Ariba
13 21 (0.81%) Google
13 21 (0.81%) IBM
14 18 (0.69%) OpenText
15 17 (0.65%) Zscaler
16 16 (0.62%) Dell
16 16 (0.62%) Veeam
3,051 Consultant jobs in England