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 24 August 2026.

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

 6 months to
24 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 28 27
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 2,601 1,686 2,127
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.69% 6.08% 6.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.16% 6.64% 6.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,488 1,056 1,283
10th Percentile £413 £415 £408
25th Percentile £463 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £656 £650 £648
90th Percentile £750 £750 £757
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 22 27
10th Percentile £36.25 £27.73 £46.50
25th Percentile £51.00 £37.77 £55.47
Median hourly rate £75.00 £77.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +25.81% -2.22%
75th Percentile £86.06 £81.25 £67.00
90th Percentile £89.50 - £74.92
UK median hourly rate £68.63 £77.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year -11.45% +25.81% -5.41%

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 42,224 25,400 30,899
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 91.55% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,453 16,393 19,996
10th Percentile £325 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,225 1,375 1,702
10th Percentile £15.24 £13.69 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.48 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.65 £25.32 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.44% -43.73% +2.60%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.15 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.13 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.50% -41.51% -1.71%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -2 1,211 £550 -4.35% 380
South East 0 412 £540 -1.82% 179
North of England -4 325 £554 +0.68% 135
Midlands +6 257 £500 -9.09% 79
North West -4 210 £572 -0.61% 90
South West +11 203 £550 -5.58% 133
West Midlands +14 184 £486 -15.54% 57
Yorkshire -8 94 £538 +7.02% 33
East of England -17 83 £523 -5.00% 52
East Midlands 0 66 £525 -4.55% 22
North East -32 20 £750 +38.89% 13
Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 August 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.

1 564 (21.68%) Security Cleared
2 491 (18.88%) SAP
3 393 (15.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 383 (14.73%) SC Cleared
5 355 (13.65%) Microsoft
6 341 (13.11%) Migration
7 299 (11.50%) Oracle
8 260 (10.00%) Azure
9 254 (9.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 228 (8.77%) User Acceptance Testing
11 227 (8.73%) SQL
12 214 (8.23%) Problem-Solving
13 195 (7.50%) Workshop Facilitation
14 194 (7.46%) Validation
15 188 (7.23%) Cybersecurity
16 182 (7.00%) SAP S/4HANA
17 169 (6.50%) ERP
18 164 (6.31%) Roadmaps
19 162 (6.23%) Continuous Improvement
20 161 (6.19%) Analytics
21 157 (6.04%) Data Migration
22 153 (5.88%) Agile
23 146 (5.61%) AI
24 143 (5.50%) AWS
25 137 (5.27%) DV Cleared
25 137 (5.27%) Requirements Gathering
26 124 (4.77%) Power Platform
27 120 (4.61%) Business Intelligence
28 114 (4.38%) Change Management
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 71 (2.73%) SharePoint
2 44 (1.69%) Confluence
3 21 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
5 9 (0.35%) WebSphere
6 8 (0.31%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.15%) SAS
8 3 (0.12%) Apache
8 3 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.12%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.12%) Apache Superset
8 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.12%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
9 2 (0.077%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.077%) CMS
9 2 (0.077%) IIS
9 2 (0.077%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.077%) Smallworld
9 2 (0.077%) WordPress
10 1 (0.038%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 72 (2.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (0.31%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.038%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.038%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.038%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 182 (7.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 79 (3.04%) Oracle EBS
3 43 (1.65%) Oracle Payables
4 41 (1.58%) Oracle ERP
5 38 (1.46%) SAP FI
6 35 (1.35%) SAP MM
6 35 (1.35%) SAP PSCD
7 33 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
8 32 (1.23%) Oracle Receivables
9 30 (1.15%) NetSuite
10 27 (1.04%) SAP CO
10 27 (1.04%) SAP SD
11 26 (1.00%) Oracle EBS R12
12 25 (0.96%) Oracle General Ledger
13 24 (0.92%) SAP FI/CO
13 24 (0.92%) Workday HCM
14 22 (0.85%) SAP EWM
15 21 (0.81%) SAP Payroll
15 21 (0.81%) SAP QM
16 20 (0.77%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 260 (10.00%) Azure
2 143 (5.50%) AWS
3 124 (4.77%) Power Platform
4 112 (4.31%) Dynamics 365
5 96 (3.69%) SuccessFactors
6 78 (3.00%) GCP
7 72 (2.77%) Microsoft 365
8 64 (2.46%) OCI
9 62 (2.38%) Power Automate
10 49 (1.88%) Entra ID
11 48 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
12 39 (1.50%) SaaS
13 36 (1.38%) Microsoft Copilot
14 29 (1.11%) PowerApps
15 24 (0.92%) GitHub
16 22 (0.85%) Microsoft Purview
17 17 (0.65%) Copilot Studio
18 14 (0.54%) Azure Logic Apps
19 13 (0.50%) Snowflake
20 12 (0.46%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 50 (1.92%) Firewall
2 48 (1.85%) Network Security
3 28 (1.08%) WAN
4 21 (0.81%) SNMP
5 20 (0.77%) BGP
6 18 (0.69%) VPN
7 14 (0.54%) LAN
8 13 (0.50%) SAN
9 12 (0.46%) DNS
10 10 (0.38%) TCP/IP
10 10 (0.38%) VSAN
11 9 (0.35%) Ethernet VPN
12 8 (0.31%) VXLAN
13 7 (0.27%) 3GPP
13 7 (0.27%) 5G
13 7 (0.27%) MPLS
13 7 (0.27%) NGFW
13 7 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
14 6 (0.23%) DHCP
14 6 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (2.77%) Power BI
2 46 (1.77%) Oracle Reports
3 33 (1.27%) SQL Server
4 28 (1.08%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 28 (1.08%) SAP BW
5 27 (1.04%) SAP HANA
5 27 (1.04%) Tableau
6 23 (0.88%) Metadata
7 22 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
8 18 (0.69%) Oracle ODI
9 13 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
10 10 (0.38%) Oracle Database
10 10 (0.38%) SAP Data Services
11 8 (0.31%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.23%) Delta Lake
12 6 (0.23%) Power Query
13 5 (0.19%) Looker
13 5 (0.19%) NonStop SQL
13 5 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (0.12%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 83 (3.19%) JIRA
2 18 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
3 17 (0.65%) Git
4 12 (0.46%) Jenkins
5 11 (0.42%) Hudson
6 6 (0.23%) GitLab
6 6 (0.23%) PowerBuilder
6 6 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.15%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.15%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.12%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (0.12%) JDeveloper
8 3 (0.12%) LoadRunner
8 3 (0.12%) MLflow
8 3 (0.12%) Selenium
8 3 (0.12%) Snyk
8 3 (0.12%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.12%) Toad
8 3 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.077%) Postman
General
1 565 (21.72%) Finance
2 549 (21.11%) Social Skills
3 195 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 164 (6.31%) Public Sector
5 89 (3.42%) Banking
6 82 (3.15%) Manufacturing
7 73 (2.81%) Legal
8 58 (2.23%) Telecoms
9 50 (1.92%) General Ledger
10 48 (1.85%) Billing
10 48 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
11 47 (1.81%) Marketing
11 47 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
12 46 (1.77%) Retail
13 40 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 31 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
15 24 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
16 20 (0.77%) Law
16 20 (0.77%) Local Government
17 15 (0.58%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (3.31%) Oracle Fusion
2 77 (2.96%) REST
3 51 (1.96%) XML
4 46 (1.77%) Terraform
5 37 (1.42%) SOAP
6 30 (1.15%) SAP Fiori
7 29 (1.11%) Middleware
8 23 (0.88%) Web Services
9 21 (0.81%) JSON
10 18 (0.69%) HTML
11 17 (0.65%) LDAP
11 17 (0.65%) SailPoint
12 16 (0.62%) CSS
13 15 (0.58%) SAP Basis
14 13 (0.50%) OAuth
15 11 (0.42%) SAP PI
16 10 (0.38%) .NET
16 10 (0.38%) ADO
16 10 (0.38%) EDI
16 10 (0.38%) IDoc
Miscellaneous
1 100 (3.84%) Onboarding
2 48 (1.85%) CMDB
3 36 (1.38%) Product Ownership
4 34 (1.31%) Data Centre
5 33 (1.27%) Security Posture
6 32 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
7 28 (1.08%) Operational Technology
8 26 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
9 25 (0.96%) Data Structures
10 23 (0.88%) AI Agents
11 21 (0.81%) Replication
12 20 (0.77%) Cloud Native
13 17 (0.65%) Management Information System
14 16 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
14 16 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
14 16 (0.62%) Public Cloud
15 14 (0.54%) Algorithms
15 14 (0.54%) FMCG
15 14 (0.54%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 80 (3.08%) Windows
2 65 (2.50%) Linux
3 21 (0.81%) Solaris
4 19 (0.73%) Unix
5 16 (0.62%) AIX
6 15 (0.58%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.46%) VMS
8 6 (0.23%) Android
8 6 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.19%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.15%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.077%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.038%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.038%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.038%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (15.11%) Stakeholder Management
2 341 (13.11%) Migration
3 254 (9.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 228 (8.77%) User Acceptance Testing
5 214 (8.23%) Problem-Solving
6 195 (7.50%) Workshop Facilitation
7 194 (7.46%) Validation
8 188 (7.23%) Cybersecurity
9 169 (6.50%) ERP
10 164 (6.31%) Roadmaps
11 162 (6.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 161 (6.19%) Analytics
13 157 (6.04%) Data Migration
14 153 (5.88%) Agile
15 146 (5.61%) AI
16 137 (5.27%) Requirements Gathering
17 120 (4.61%) Business Intelligence
18 114 (4.38%) Change Management
19 112 (4.31%) Translating Business Requirements
19 112 (4.31%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 227 (8.73%) SQL
2 103 (3.96%) Python
3 52 (2.00%) PowerShell
4 44 (1.69%) PL/SQL
5 39 (1.50%) JavaScript
6 38 (1.46%) T-SQL
7 36 (1.38%) ABAP
8 26 (1.00%) Java
9 13 (0.50%) Bash
9 13 (0.50%) Search Processing Language
10 12 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 12 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
11 11 (0.42%) C#
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%) C++
15 3 (0.12%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 564 (21.68%) Security Cleared
2 383 (14.73%) SC Cleared
3 137 (5.27%) DV Cleared
4 72 (2.77%) CISSP
5 67 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
6 56 (2.15%) CISM
6 56 (2.15%) Degree
7 38 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
8 29 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 25 (0.96%) CCSP
10 18 (0.69%) ACCA
10 18 (0.69%) CIMA
11 15 (0.58%) PMP
12 14 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
13 13 (0.50%) CEH
13 13 (0.50%) CRISC
14 11 (0.42%) OSCP
15 10 (0.38%) Azure Certification
15 10 (0.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 9 (0.35%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (3.27%) NIST
2 74 (2.85%) Data Quality
3 72 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 68 (2.61%) GRC
5 43 (1.65%) QA
6 33 (1.27%) NCSC
7 32 (1.23%) GDPR
8 25 (0.96%) PMO
9 24 (0.92%) SLA
10 20 (0.77%) PCI DSS
11 19 (0.73%) Accessibility
11 19 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
12 12 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.38%) COBIT
14 7 (0.27%) GAAP
14 7 (0.27%) GxP
14 7 (0.27%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.27%) NIST 800
15 6 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 58 (2.23%) Active Directory
2 34 (1.31%) VMware NSX
3 29 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.81%) vSphere
5 13 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (0.42%) Docker
7 9 (0.35%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.31%) IAG
8 8 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.077%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.077%) Firmware
10 2 (0.077%) NFS
10 2 (0.077%) PowerHA
11 1 (0.038%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.038%) oVirt
11 1 (0.038%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.038%) RHEV
11 1 (0.038%) SRDF
11 1 (0.038%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 39 (1.50%) Kubernetes
2 21 (0.81%) Ansible
3 15 (0.58%) SCCM
3 15 (0.58%) vRealize
4 14 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (0.50%) Nagios
5 13 (0.50%) ZABBIX
6 12 (0.46%) Netcool
6 12 (0.46%) Tivoli
7 11 (0.42%) OpenView
7 11 (0.42%) Tivoli Monitoring
8 10 (0.38%) FortiGate
8 10 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.38%) vCenter Server
9 9 (0.35%) Grafana
10 6 (0.23%) Prometheus
10 6 (0.23%) VxRail
11 4 (0.15%) CEMLI
11 4 (0.15%) NetBackup
12 3 (0.12%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 491 (18.88%) SAP
2 355 (13.65%) Microsoft
3 299 (11.50%) Oracle
4 108 (4.15%) ServiceNow
5 62 (2.38%) VMware
6 52 (2.00%) Workday
7 45 (1.73%) Salesforce
8 42 (1.61%) Databricks
9 35 (1.35%) Splunk
10 30 (1.15%) BMC
11 23 (0.88%) Ariba
11 23 (0.88%) IBM
12 22 (0.85%) Google
13 20 (0.77%) OpenText
13 20 (0.77%) Palo Alto
14 16 (0.62%) Adobe
14 16 (0.62%) Cisco
14 16 (0.62%) JD Edwards
15 15 (0.58%) Dell
16 14 (0.54%) Sage
878 Consultant jobs in England