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 4 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
4 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 28 28
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 2,601 1,680 2,073
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.70% 6.17% 6.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.17% 6.75% 6.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,501 1,055 1,221
10th Percentile £413 £418 £410
25th Percentile £463 £492 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £658 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 22 25
10th Percentile £36.25 £27.73 £44.75
25th Percentile £51.00 £37.77 £55.00
Median hourly rate £76.00 £77.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% +25.81% -2.22%
75th Percentile £86.81 £81.25 £65.03
90th Percentile £92.25 - £72.80
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £77.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year -1.94% +25.81% -5.23%

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 42,168 24,883 30,334
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 91.42% 93.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,332 16,051 19,383
10th Percentile £325 £281 £304
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
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% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,270 1,335 1,579
10th Percentile £15.05 £13.52 £14.28
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.30 £21.23
Median hourly rate £42.58 £25.15 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +69.28% -45.54% +5.29%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.13 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.50% -41.51% +1.18%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -3 1,236 £550 -4.35% 1,524
South East -3 388 £540 -1.82% 246
North of England -7 327 £575 +4.55% 280
Midlands +8 240 £500 -9.09% 156
North West -2 215 £566 -1.57% 194
South West +13 206 £550 -8.33% 222
West Midlands +12 170 £481 -12.55% 129
East of England -17 96 £565 +2.73% 123
Yorkshire -16 91 £575 +12.20% 47
East Midlands -7 63 £525 -4.55% 25
North East -29 20 £750 +37.61% 39
Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 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.

1 569 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 499 (19.18%) SAP
3 426 (16.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 384 (14.76%) SC Cleared
5 365 (14.03%) Microsoft
6 348 (13.38%) Migration
7 302 (11.61%) Oracle
8 265 (10.19%) Azure
9 251 (9.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 233 (8.96%) User Acceptance Testing
11 215 (8.27%) Problem-Solving
12 209 (8.04%) SQL
13 195 (7.50%) Validation
14 194 (7.46%) Cybersecurity
14 194 (7.46%) SAP S/4HANA
15 192 (7.38%) Workshop Facilitation
16 170 (6.54%) Roadmaps
17 167 (6.42%) Analytics
18 164 (6.31%) ERP
19 163 (6.27%) Continuous Improvement
20 156 (6.00%) AWS
21 154 (5.92%) Data Migration
22 146 (5.61%) Agile
23 144 (5.54%) AI
24 143 (5.50%) Requirements Gathering
25 140 (5.38%) DV Cleared
26 128 (4.92%) Power Platform
27 122 (4.69%) Business Intelligence
28 114 (4.38%) Translating Business Requirements
29 112 (4.31%) Dynamics 365

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 65 (2.50%) SharePoint
2 42 (1.61%) Confluence
3 29 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
5 8 (0.31%) WebLogic
5 8 (0.31%) WebSphere
6 5 (0.19%) Apache
7 4 (0.15%) SAS
8 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.12%) Apache Superset
8 3 (0.12%) CMS
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 (0.038%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.038%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.038%) Tomcat
Applications
1 56 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 9 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.077%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.038%) Adobe Captivate
7 1 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.038%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 194 (7.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 78 (3.00%) Oracle EBS
3 43 (1.65%) Oracle Payables
4 41 (1.58%) Oracle ERP
5 40 (1.54%) SAP FI
6 35 (1.35%) SAP PSCD
7 34 (1.31%) Oracle Receivables
7 34 (1.31%) SAP MM
8 33 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
9 30 (1.15%) NetSuite
9 30 (1.15%) SAP SD
10 28 (1.08%) SAP CO
11 26 (1.00%) Oracle General Ledger
12 25 (0.96%) Workday HCM
13 24 (0.92%) Oracle EBS R12
13 24 (0.92%) SAP FI/CO
14 23 (0.88%) SAP Payroll
15 21 (0.81%) SAP EWM
15 21 (0.81%) SAP HR
15 21 (0.81%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 265 (10.19%) Azure
2 156 (6.00%) AWS
3 128 (4.92%) Power Platform
4 112 (4.31%) Dynamics 365
5 95 (3.65%) SuccessFactors
6 82 (3.15%) GCP
7 72 (2.77%) Microsoft 365
8 69 (2.65%) OCI
9 60 (2.31%) Power Automate
10 54 (2.08%) Entra ID
11 46 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
12 36 (1.38%) SaaS
13 35 (1.35%) Microsoft Copilot
14 29 (1.11%) PowerApps
15 24 (0.92%) Microsoft Purview
16 23 (0.88%) GitHub
17 17 (0.65%) Copilot Studio
18 15 (0.58%) Snowflake
19 14 (0.54%) Azure Logic Apps
20 13 (0.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 57 (2.19%) Firewall
2 55 (2.11%) Network Security
3 29 (1.11%) WAN
4 27 (1.04%) BGP
5 21 (0.81%) VPN
6 19 (0.73%) SNMP
7 13 (0.50%) DNS
7 13 (0.50%) LAN
8 11 (0.42%) SAN
9 10 (0.38%) Ethernet VPN
9 10 (0.38%) TCP/IP
10 9 (0.35%) 3GPP
10 9 (0.35%) 5G
10 9 (0.35%) IPsec
10 9 (0.35%) Radio Access Network
10 9 (0.35%) VXLAN
11 8 (0.31%) MPLS
12 7 (0.27%) NGFW
12 7 (0.27%) VSAN
12 7 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (2.85%) Power BI
2 44 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
3 29 (1.11%) SAP BW
4 28 (1.08%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 28 (1.08%) SAP HANA
4 28 (1.08%) SQL Server
4 28 (1.08%) Tableau
5 25 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (0.88%) Metadata
7 16 (0.62%) Oracle ODI
8 13 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
9 10 (0.38%) Oracle Database
9 10 (0.38%) SAP Data Services
10 9 (0.35%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.27%) Power Query
12 6 (0.23%) Delta Lake
12 6 (0.23%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.19%) NonStop SQL
13 5 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 82 (3.15%) JIRA
2 19 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
3 17 (0.65%) Git
4 12 (0.46%) Jenkins
5 11 (0.42%) Hudson
6 7 (0.27%) GitLab
6 7 (0.27%) PowerBuilder
7 5 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (0.15%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.15%) Zephyr
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%) Selenium
9 3 (0.12%) Snyk
9 3 (0.12%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.12%) Toad
9 3 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.077%) Postman
General
1 561 (21.57%) Finance
2 555 (21.34%) Social Skills
3 189 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
4 166 (6.38%) Public Sector
5 93 (3.58%) Banking
6 78 (3.00%) Manufacturing
7 72 (2.77%) Legal
8 60 (2.31%) Telecoms
9 57 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
10 50 (1.92%) General Ledger
11 48 (1.85%) Marketing
12 47 (1.81%) Billing
12 47 (1.81%) Retail
13 45 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
14 40 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 36 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
16 22 (0.85%) Law
16 22 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
17 21 (0.81%) Local Government
18 16 (0.62%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (3.42%) Oracle Fusion
2 70 (2.69%) REST
3 49 (1.88%) Terraform
4 36 (1.38%) SAP Fiori
5 35 (1.35%) XML
6 33 (1.27%) SOAP
7 31 (1.19%) Middleware
8 22 (0.85%) Web Services
9 20 (0.77%) SailPoint
10 19 (0.73%) HTML
11 18 (0.69%) LDAP
12 17 (0.65%) CSS
13 16 (0.62%) JSON
13 16 (0.62%) OAuth
13 16 (0.62%) SAP Basis
14 13 (0.50%) SAML
15 12 (0.46%) NETCONF
15 12 (0.46%) YANG
16 11 (0.42%) SAP PI
17 10 (0.38%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 102 (3.92%) Onboarding
2 53 (2.04%) CMDB
3 39 (1.50%) Data Centre
4 37 (1.42%) Product Ownership
5 34 (1.31%) Operational Technology
6 33 (1.27%) Security Posture
7 30 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
8 27 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
9 26 (1.00%) Data Structures
10 24 (0.92%) Replication
11 23 (0.88%) AI Agents
12 21 (0.81%) Cloud Native
13 19 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
14 18 (0.69%) Management Information System
15 16 (0.62%) PKI
16 15 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
16 15 (0.58%) Public Cloud
17 14 (0.54%) Algorithms
17 14 (0.54%) FMCG
18 13 (0.50%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 77 (2.96%) Windows
2 67 (2.58%) Linux
3 21 (0.81%) Solaris
4 19 (0.73%) Unix
5 16 (0.62%) Windows Server
6 14 (0.54%) AIX
7 12 (0.46%) VMS
8 6 (0.23%) Android
9 5 (0.19%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.15%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.038%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.038%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (16.38%) Stakeholder Management
2 348 (13.38%) Migration
3 251 (9.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 233 (8.96%) User Acceptance Testing
5 215 (8.27%) Problem-Solving
6 195 (7.50%) Validation
7 194 (7.46%) Cybersecurity
8 192 (7.38%) Workshop Facilitation
9 170 (6.54%) Roadmaps
10 167 (6.42%) Analytics
11 164 (6.31%) ERP
12 163 (6.27%) Continuous Improvement
13 154 (5.92%) Data Migration
14 146 (5.61%) Agile
15 144 (5.54%) AI
16 143 (5.50%) Requirements Gathering
17 122 (4.69%) Business Intelligence
18 114 (4.38%) Translating Business Requirements
19 111 (4.27%) Workflow
20 107 (4.11%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 209 (8.04%) SQL
2 103 (3.96%) Python
3 51 (1.96%) PowerShell
4 43 (1.65%) PL/SQL
5 38 (1.46%) ABAP
6 37 (1.42%) JavaScript
7 24 (0.92%) Java
8 22 (0.85%) T-SQL
9 14 (0.54%) Bash
10 13 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
10 13 (0.50%) Search Processing Language
11 12 (0.46%) C#
11 12 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 9 (0.35%) R
13 6 (0.23%) Korn
13 6 (0.23%) Perl
13 6 (0.23%) TypeScript
14 4 (0.15%) Groovy
15 3 (0.12%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.12%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 569 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 384 (14.76%) SC Cleared
3 140 (5.38%) DV Cleared
4 73 (2.81%) CISSP
5 70 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 58 (2.23%) CISM
7 55 (2.11%) Degree
8 41 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
9 31 (1.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 27 (1.04%) CCSP
11 18 (0.69%) ACCA
12 16 (0.62%) CIMA
13 15 (0.58%) PMP
14 13 (0.50%) AWS Certification
14 13 (0.50%) CRISC
15 12 (0.46%) CompTIA Security+
16 10 (0.38%) Azure Certification
16 10 (0.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 10 (0.38%) SAP Certification
17 9 (0.35%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (3.27%) NIST
2 78 (3.00%) Data Quality
3 68 (2.61%) GRC
4 65 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 43 (1.65%) QA
6 33 (1.27%) GDPR
6 33 (1.27%) NCSC
7 25 (0.96%) SLA
8 22 (0.85%) PMO
9 19 (0.73%) Accessibility
10 18 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
10 18 (0.69%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.35%) COBIT
13 8 (0.31%) NIST 800
14 7 (0.27%) GAAP
14 7 (0.27%) GxP
15 6 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.23%) JSP 440
15 6 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (2.35%) Active Directory
2 32 (1.23%) VMware NSX
3 27 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.69%) vSphere
5 13 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.46%) Docker
7 10 (0.38%) IAG
8 9 (0.35%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.15%) Firmware
10 4 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.077%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.077%) PowerHA
12 1 (0.038%) NFS
12 1 (0.038%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.038%) oVirt
12 1 (0.038%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.038%) RHEV
12 1 (0.038%) SRDF
12 1 (0.038%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 41 (1.58%) Kubernetes
2 21 (0.81%) Ansible
3 16 (0.62%) SCCM
4 15 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (0.58%) vRealize
5 12 (0.46%) Nagios
5 12 (0.46%) ZABBIX
6 11 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.38%) FortiGate
7 10 (0.38%) Netcool
7 10 (0.38%) Tivoli
7 10 (0.38%) vCenter Server
8 9 (0.35%) Grafana
8 9 (0.35%) OpenView
8 9 (0.35%) Tivoli Monitoring
9 6 (0.23%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.23%) VxRail
10 4 (0.15%) CEMLI
10 4 (0.15%) NetBackup
11 3 (0.12%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 499 (19.18%) SAP
2 365 (14.03%) Microsoft
3 302 (11.61%) Oracle
4 109 (4.19%) ServiceNow
5 61 (2.35%) VMware
6 52 (2.00%) Workday
7 46 (1.77%) Salesforce
8 40 (1.54%) Databricks
9 33 (1.27%) Splunk
10 28 (1.08%) BMC
11 23 (0.88%) Ariba
11 23 (0.88%) Palo Alto
12 21 (0.81%) Cisco
13 19 (0.73%) IBM
14 18 (0.69%) CyberArk
14 18 (0.69%) Google
14 18 (0.69%) OpenText
15 17 (0.65%) Adobe
16 16 (0.62%) Dell
16 16 (0.62%) JD Edwards
2,463 Consultant jobs in England