Consultant Contracts in England

Consultant
UK > England

The median Consultant daily rate in England is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 49 59
Rank change year-on-year +21 +10 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 2,172 2,340 2,889
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.88% 4.63% 4.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.34% 4.89% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,414 1,401 1,791
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £649
90th Percentile £763 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 51 17
10th Percentile £26.88 £21.00 £36.50
25th Percentile £50.73 £55.47 £50.00
Median hourly rate £60.80 £66.00 £70.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.88% -6.38% +22.61%
75th Percentile £63.08 £84.38 £85.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £93.75 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £66.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +4.76% +16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,271 47,824 67,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.61% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,751 33,955 48,268
10th Percentile £275 £312 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,422 1,902
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.71 £48.70
90th Percentile £72.54 £77.00 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in England

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Consultant in England.

Daily rate trend for Consultant in England

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in England

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Consultant in England.

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in England

Consultant
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Consultant in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 +25 1,092 £550 -4.35% 513
South East +8 327 £578 -1.45% 141
North of England +27 249 £525 - 176
Midlands +12 164 £550 -3.08% 105
North West +24 155 £538 +3.07% 118
West Midlands +14 109 £550 -0.45% 78
East of England +53 97 £525 -2.33% 48
South West +9 95 £525 - 126
Yorkshire +24 87 £475 -7.32% 42
East Midlands +26 48 £550 -4.35% 27
North East +15 7 £425 -20.56% 18
Consultant
UK

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 603 (27.76%) Social Skills
2 540 (24.86%) SAP
3 487 (22.42%) Finance
4 382 (17.59%) Security Cleared
5 301 (13.86%) Microsoft
6 267 (12.29%) SC Cleared
7 253 (11.65%) Problem-Solving
8 251 (11.56%) Migration
9 236 (10.87%) Azure
10 224 (10.31%) Stakeholder Management
11 212 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
12 206 (9.48%) Public Sector
13 197 (9.07%) Oracle
14 192 (8.84%) SAP S/4HANA
15 170 (7.83%) Agile
16 163 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
17 150 (6.91%) Degree
18 146 (6.72%) Dynamics 365
19 130 (5.99%) DevOps
19 130 (5.99%) Data Migration
20 121 (5.57%) SQL
20 121 (5.57%) DV Cleared
21 119 (5.48%) Business Intelligence
22 115 (5.29%) Power Platform
23 111 (5.11%) Project Management
24 109 (5.02%) Requirements Gathering
25 97 (4.47%) Roadmaps
26 95 (4.37%) ERP
27 93 (4.28%) User Acceptance Testing
27 93 (4.28%) Power BI

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 34 (1.57%) SharePoint
2 16 (0.74%) CMS
3 15 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.60%) NetWeaver
5 11 (0.51%) Confluence
6 4 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.14%) Alfresco
7 3 (0.14%) Drupal
7 3 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.14%) IIS
8 2 (0.092%) Apache
8 2 (0.092%) Appian
8 2 (0.092%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.092%) GroupWise
8 2 (0.092%) IBM Domino
8 2 (0.092%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.092%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.092%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 2 (0.092%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.092%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.55%) Chatbot
2 12 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.14%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.092%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.092%) Revit
6 1 (0.046%) FileZilla
6 1 (0.046%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 192 (8.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 49 (2.26%) SAP EWM
3 45 (2.07%) SAP FI
4 44 (2.03%) Dynamics CRM
5 34 (1.57%) Dynamics AX
6 33 (1.52%) SAP QM
7 30 (1.38%) Oracle EBS
7 30 (1.38%) SAP SD
8 29 (1.34%) SAP CO
9 27 (1.24%) SAP FI/CO
10 25 (1.15%) Oracle EBS R12
10 25 (1.15%) SAP MDG
11 20 (0.92%) Workday HCM
12 19 (0.87%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 16 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
13 16 (0.74%) SAP PSCD
14 14 (0.64%) SAP IBP
15 13 (0.60%) NetSuite
15 13 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
16 12 (0.55%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 236 (10.87%) Azure
2 146 (6.72%) Dynamics 365
3 115 (5.29%) Power Platform
4 92 (4.24%) AWS
5 69 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
6 63 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
7 53 (2.44%) OCI
8 52 (2.39%) Power Automate
9 50 (2.30%) GCP
10 45 (2.07%) Entra ID
11 40 (1.84%) PowerApps
12 35 (1.61%) SuccessFactors
13 21 (0.97%) SaaS
14 19 (0.87%) WhatsApp
15 17 (0.78%) IaaS
16 13 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
16 13 (0.60%) Serverless
17 12 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
18 11 (0.51%) Microsoft Purview
19 10 (0.46%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 40 (1.84%) Firewall
2 29 (1.34%) Network Security
3 22 (1.01%) WAN
4 19 (0.87%) VPN
5 18 (0.83%) Ethernet
6 17 (0.78%) DNS
7 15 (0.69%) Radio Access Network
8 14 (0.64%) Wireless
9 12 (0.55%) 4G
9 12 (0.55%) 5G
9 12 (0.55%) SD-WAN
10 10 (0.46%) LAN
10 10 (0.46%) TCP/IP
11 9 (0.41%) 3G
12 8 (0.37%) DHCP
12 8 (0.37%) InfiniBand
13 7 (0.32%) Cisco ISE
13 7 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (0.28%) HTTP
14 6 (0.28%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (4.28%) Power BI
2 48 (2.21%) SAP HANA
3 43 (1.98%) Data Lake
4 38 (1.75%) SQL Server
5 25 (1.15%) SAP BW
6 21 (0.97%) Oracle Database
7 20 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (0.64%) Big Data
9 13 (0.60%) Metadata
10 12 (0.55%) BusinessObjects
10 12 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
11 8 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (0.37%) Siebel EIM
11 8 (0.37%) Tableau
12 7 (0.32%) EDRMS
12 7 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
12 7 (0.32%) MySQL
12 7 (0.32%) Relational Database
13 5 (0.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 31 (1.43%) JIRA
2 23 (1.06%) Git
3 21 (0.97%) Rational DOORS
4 12 (0.55%) Jenkins
5 11 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
6 7 (0.32%) Postman
7 6 (0.28%) SoapUI
8 5 (0.23%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.23%) GitLab
8 5 (0.23%) Selenium
9 4 (0.18%) Appium
9 4 (0.18%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.18%) eggPlant
9 4 (0.18%) JUnit
9 4 (0.18%) Maven
9 4 (0.18%) Protractor
9 4 (0.18%) REST Assured
9 4 (0.18%) SOAtest
9 4 (0.18%) TestNG
9 4 (0.18%) WebDriver
General
1 603 (27.76%) Social Skills
2 487 (22.42%) Finance
3 212 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
4 206 (9.48%) Public Sector
5 79 (3.64%) Retail
6 77 (3.55%) Manufacturing
7 76 (3.50%) Banking
8 73 (3.36%) Marketing
9 67 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
10 62 (2.85%) Telecoms
11 35 (1.61%) Law
11 35 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
12 34 (1.57%) General Ledger
13 31 (1.43%) Billing
13 31 (1.43%) Electronics
14 28 (1.29%) German Language
15 25 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 23 (1.06%) Legal
17 18 (0.83%) French Language
18 16 (0.74%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (1.98%) Web Services
2 36 (1.66%) Oracle Fusion
3 33 (1.52%) SAP Fiori
4 29 (1.34%) SAP Basis
5 22 (1.01%) SailPoint
5 22 (1.01%) XML
6 18 (0.83%) HTML
6 18 (0.83%) RESTful
7 17 (0.78%) EDI
8 16 (0.74%) LDAP
9 15 (0.69%) CSS
10 14 (0.64%) REST
10 14 (0.64%) SAML
11 13 (0.60%) JSON
12 12 (0.55%) .NET
12 12 (0.55%) OpenID
13 11 (0.51%) Node.js
13 11 (0.51%) OAuth
14 9 (0.41%) SOAP
15 8 (0.37%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 39 (1.80%) Data Structures
1 39 (1.80%) Management Information System
2 35 (1.61%) Onboarding
3 32 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
4 31 (1.43%) Data Centre
5 28 (1.29%) CMDB
6 25 (1.15%) Operational Technology
7 21 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
8 20 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 19 (0.87%) Robotics
10 18 (0.83%) Analogue Electronics
10 18 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
10 18 (0.83%) Mainframe
10 18 (0.83%) Public Cloud
11 17 (0.78%) Product Ownership
12 16 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (0.74%) Security Posture
13 15 (0.69%) Life Science
13 15 (0.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 61 (2.81%) Windows
2 60 (2.76%) Linux
3 30 (1.38%) Unix
4 9 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.32%) Windows 10
5 7 (0.32%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.14%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.14%) Mac OS X
6 3 (0.14%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.092%) Android
7 2 (0.092%) NetWare
7 2 (0.092%) OpenVMS
7 2 (0.092%) Solaris
7 2 (0.092%) VMS
7 2 (0.092%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.092%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.092%) zOS
8 1 (0.046%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (11.65%) Problem-Solving
2 251 (11.56%) Migration
3 224 (10.31%) Stakeholder Management
4 170 (7.83%) Agile
5 163 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
6 130 (5.99%) Data Migration
6 130 (5.99%) DevOps
7 119 (5.48%) Business Intelligence
8 111 (5.11%) Project Management
9 109 (5.02%) Requirements Gathering
10 97 (4.47%) Roadmaps
11 95 (4.37%) ERP
12 93 (4.28%) User Acceptance Testing
13 88 (4.05%) Information Security
14 83 (3.82%) Workshop Facilitation
15 80 (3.68%) Analytics
16 78 (3.59%) Risk Management
17 74 (3.41%) CRM
18 70 (3.22%) Data Modelling
19 65 (2.99%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 121 (5.57%) SQL
2 69 (3.18%) Python
3 68 (3.13%) ABAP
4 55 (2.53%) Java
5 53 (2.44%) PowerShell
6 33 (1.52%) JavaScript
7 23 (1.06%) C#
8 13 (0.60%) Bash
9 12 (0.55%) PL/SQL
9 12 (0.55%) TypeScript
10 10 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (0.37%) MATLAB
11 8 (0.37%) Perl
12 7 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (0.32%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.23%) C++
13 5 (0.23%) Groovy
13 5 (0.23%) R
14 4 (0.18%) C
14 4 (0.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 382 (17.59%) Security Cleared
2 267 (12.29%) SC Cleared
3 150 (6.91%) Degree
4 121 (5.57%) DV Cleared
5 39 (1.80%) CISSP
6 33 (1.52%) CISM
7 27 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
7 27 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 23 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (1.01%) SAP Certification
10 17 (0.78%) CRISC
11 15 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 15 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
11 15 (0.69%) CISA
11 15 (0.69%) Master's Degree
12 8 (0.37%) AWS Certification
12 8 (0.37%) CCNP
13 7 (0.32%) ACCA
13 7 (0.32%) CISMP
14 6 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (3.13%) NIST
2 59 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 41 (1.89%) Data Quality
4 39 (1.80%) QA
5 38 (1.75%) GDPR
6 29 (1.34%) GRC
7 21 (0.97%) PCI DSS
8 19 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 17 (0.78%) NCSC
10 16 (0.74%) COBIT
10 16 (0.74%) SLA
11 14 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 13 (0.60%) PMO
13 9 (0.41%) IFRS
13 9 (0.41%) NIST 800
14 7 (0.32%) ISO 31000
14 7 (0.32%) RMADS
15 6 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (0.23%) JSP 440
17 4 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 61 (2.81%) Active Directory
2 24 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (0.92%) VMware NSX
4 14 (0.64%) Docker
5 11 (0.51%) Firmware
6 10 (0.46%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.41%) vSphere
8 3 (0.14%) UAG
8 3 (0.14%) XenApp
9 2 (0.092%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 2 (0.092%) GPFS
9 2 (0.092%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 2 (0.092%) KVM
9 2 (0.092%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.092%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.092%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (0.092%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.092%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.092%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 28 (1.29%) Terraform
2 16 (0.74%) Kubernetes
3 14 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (0.60%) Ansible
5 12 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (0.46%) SCCM
7 9 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 9 (0.41%) Dell DRAC
8 7 (0.32%) Grafana
8 7 (0.32%) VxRail
9 6 (0.28%) vRealize
10 5 (0.23%) EnCase
10 5 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.18%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.18%) PingFederate
11 4 (0.18%) Puppet
12 3 (0.14%) HP Quality Center
12 3 (0.14%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.092%) Graylog
13 2 (0.092%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 540 (24.86%) SAP
2 301 (13.86%) Microsoft
3 197 (9.07%) Oracle
4 54 (2.49%) ServiceNow
5 50 (2.30%) VMware
6 32 (1.47%) Workday
7 29 (1.34%) Salesforce
8 27 (1.24%) Adobe
9 24 (1.10%) Ariba
10 22 (1.01%) Cisco
11 19 (0.87%) Dell
11 19 (0.87%) Google
11 19 (0.87%) Informatica
12 18 (0.83%) Genesys
13 17 (0.78%) IBM
14 14 (0.64%) EMC
15 13 (0.60%) CyberArk
15 13 (0.60%) Palantir
15 13 (0.60%) Sage
16 12 (0.55%) Splunk