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 January 2026.

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

 6 months to
23 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 29 30
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 2,000 1,646 2,058
As % of all contract jobs in England 6.16% 6.14% 5.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.72% 6.61% 5.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,193 964 1,244
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £488 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.96%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 14 32
10th Percentile £41.35 £56.95 £42.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £71.30 £52.90
Median hourly rate £60.00 £81.25 £62.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% +29.48% -10.99%
75th Percentile £76.00 £86.00 £78.50
90th Percentile £83.15 £87.13 £89.98
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £81.25 £63.29
% change year-on-year -20.00% +28.38% -6.93%

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 29,745 24,917 34,400
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.63% 92.97% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,004 15,417 23,252
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £748
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,842 755 1,817
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.92 £13.50
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.60 £35.00 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year -15.43% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £63.32 £64.61 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year -15.38% -17.83% +13.00%

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 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 23 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 23 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 -4 933 £575 +4.36% 428
South East -2 274 £540 -6.09% 388
North of England -2 273 £595 +8.18% 200
Midlands -17 179 £525 - 111
North West -3 164 £623 +15.71% 101
West Midlands -14 138 £538 +2.38% 47
South West +14 115 £588 +11.90% 206
Yorkshire +8 99 £550 -7.37% 82
East of England +1 97 £550 -2.22% 111
East Midlands -26 40 £505 -2.88% 61
North East -19 10 £525 -12.50% 17
South Coast - 1 £550 -
Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 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.

1 505 (25.25%) SAP
2 498 (24.90%) Security Cleared
3 407 (20.35%) SC Cleared
4 281 (14.05%) Migration
5 270 (13.50%) SAP S/4HANA
6 250 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 249 (12.45%) Problem-Solving
8 242 (12.10%) Oracle
9 239 (11.95%) Stakeholder Management
10 208 (10.40%) Microsoft
11 204 (10.20%) Azure
12 177 (8.85%) Workshop Facilitation
13 164 (8.20%) ERP
14 153 (7.65%) Agile
15 135 (6.75%) User Acceptance Testing
16 133 (6.65%) Analytics
17 128 (6.40%) Roadmaps
18 123 (6.15%) SQL
19 117 (5.85%) Data Migration
20 114 (5.70%) Cybersecurity
21 111 (5.55%) Business Intelligence
22 107 (5.35%) Knowledge Transfer
23 104 (5.20%) Validation
24 102 (5.10%) DevOps
25 99 (4.95%) Risk Management
26 97 (4.85%) Dynamics 365
27 94 (4.70%) AWS
28 93 (4.65%) AI
29 88 (4.40%) Continuous Improvement
29 88 (4.40%) 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 47 (2.35%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.40%) Confluence
3 27 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.25%) Jupyter
4 5 (0.25%) NetWeaver
5 4 (0.20%) CMS
5 4 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.15%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.15%) MTS
6 3 (0.15%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.10%) Apache
7 2 (0.10%) IIS
7 2 (0.10%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.050%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.050%) SAS
8 1 (0.050%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.050%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.050%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.050%) WebSphere
Applications
1 33 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.35%) 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%) PTC Creo
7 3 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.050%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.050%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.050%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 270 (13.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 61 (3.05%) Oracle EBS
3 52 (2.60%) Oracle Payables
4 47 (2.35%) Oracle Receivables
5 45 (2.25%) SAP FI
6 43 (2.15%) Oracle General Ledger
7 41 (2.05%) SAP EWM
8 37 (1.85%) Oracle EBS R12
9 36 (1.80%) Oracle Cash Management
10 34 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
10 34 (1.70%) SAP MM
11 31 (1.55%) SAP CO
11 31 (1.55%) SAP HCM
12 30 (1.50%) Oracle Assets
13 29 (1.45%) SAP FI/CO
13 29 (1.45%) SAP Payroll
13 29 (1.45%) SAP WM
14 25 (1.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
15 24 (1.20%) SAP PP
16 23 (1.15%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 204 (10.20%) Azure
2 97 (4.85%) Dynamics 365
3 94 (4.70%) AWS
4 88 (4.40%) Power Platform
5 69 (3.45%) OCI
6 61 (3.05%) GCP
7 56 (2.80%) SaaS
8 55 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
9 44 (2.20%) Entra ID
10 29 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
10 29 (1.45%) Power Automate
10 29 (1.45%) SuccessFactors
11 22 (1.10%) PowerApps
12 21 (1.05%) Microsoft Copilot
13 20 (1.00%) GitHub
14 18 (0.90%) SAP Commerce Cloud
15 17 (0.85%) OneDrive
16 15 (0.75%) Serverless
17 12 (0.60%) Azure Logic Apps
17 12 (0.60%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.80%) Firewall
2 14 (0.70%) DNS
3 13 (0.65%) Kerberos
4 12 (0.60%) Network Security
4 12 (0.60%) SMS
4 12 (0.60%) VPN
5 9 (0.45%) DHCP
5 9 (0.45%) SSH
6 8 (0.40%) HTTP
6 8 (0.40%) WAN
7 7 (0.35%) Cisco IPT
7 7 (0.35%) SSL
7 7 (0.35%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.30%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.30%) VLAN
9 4 (0.20%) Intranet
9 4 (0.20%) LAN
9 4 (0.20%) SAN
9 4 (0.20%) VSAN
9 4 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (3.25%) Power BI
2 36 (1.80%) SAP HANA
3 33 (1.65%) Oracle Reports
4 23 (1.15%) SQL Server
5 21 (1.05%) Metadata
6 19 (0.95%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 17 (0.85%) SAP BW
8 13 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (0.50%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (0.45%) Tableau
11 7 (0.35%) DB2
12 6 (0.30%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
12 6 (0.30%) Oracle Database
12 6 (0.30%) SAP Data Services
13 5 (0.25%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.25%) Oracle ODI
13 5 (0.25%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 50 (2.50%) JIRA
2 21 (1.05%) Jenkins
3 16 (0.80%) Git
3 16 (0.80%) GitLab
4 11 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
5 9 (0.45%) Hudson
6 4 (0.20%) Eclipse
6 4 (0.20%) LSMW
6 4 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
6 4 (0.20%) Postman
7 3 (0.15%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.15%) JUnit
8 2 (0.10%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.10%) git-flow
8 2 (0.10%) Mockito
8 2 (0.10%) Selenium
8 2 (0.10%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.10%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.10%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.050%) Burp Suite
General
1 577 (28.85%) Social Skills
2 490 (24.50%) Finance
3 196 (9.80%) Public Sector
4 169 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
5 93 (4.65%) Manufacturing
6 72 (3.60%) Banking
7 62 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
8 58 (2.90%) Marketing
9 50 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
10 46 (2.30%) Billing
10 46 (2.30%) Legal
11 43 (2.15%) General Ledger
12 38 (1.90%) Telecoms
13 29 (1.45%) Retail
14 25 (1.25%) Law
15 24 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
16 19 (0.95%) Financial Institution
16 19 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 16 (0.80%) Front Office
17 16 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (3.90%) Oracle Fusion
2 59 (2.95%) REST
3 49 (2.45%) SAP Fiori
4 39 (1.95%) Web Services
5 30 (1.50%) SAP TM
5 30 (1.50%) SOAP
6 29 (1.45%) Node.js
7 25 (1.25%) LDAP
8 23 (1.15%) XML
9 18 (0.90%) BAPI
9 18 (0.90%) GraphQL
10 17 (0.85%) Middleware
11 16 (0.80%) HTML
12 14 (0.70%) Kafka
13 13 (0.65%) CSS
13 13 (0.65%) Playwright
13 13 (0.65%) SAML
13 13 (0.65%) SAP Basis
14 12 (0.60%) OAuth
14 12 (0.60%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 63 (3.15%) Onboarding
2 53 (2.65%) 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 21 (1.05%) Management Information System
9 16 (0.80%) Data Structures
10 14 (0.70%) NHS
10 14 (0.70%) Public Cloud
11 13 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (0.55%) AI Agents
13 11 (0.55%) Operational Technology
14 10 (0.50%) FMCG
14 10 (0.50%) IoT
14 10 (0.50%) SCADA
15 9 (0.45%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 60 (3.00%) Windows
2 39 (1.95%) Linux
3 12 (0.60%) Unix
4 11 (0.55%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.40%) Mac OS
5 8 (0.40%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.35%) AIX
6 7 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.35%) Solaris
7 3 (0.15%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.15%) VMS
7 3 (0.15%) zOS
8 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.10%) CentOS
8 2 (0.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.050%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (14.05%) Migration
2 250 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 249 (12.45%) Problem-Solving
4 239 (11.95%) Stakeholder Management
5 177 (8.85%) Workshop Facilitation
6 164 (8.20%) ERP
7 153 (7.65%) Agile
8 135 (6.75%) User Acceptance Testing
9 133 (6.65%) Analytics
10 128 (6.40%) Roadmaps
11 117 (5.85%) Data Migration
12 114 (5.70%) Cybersecurity
13 111 (5.55%) Business Intelligence
14 107 (5.35%) Knowledge Transfer
15 104 (5.20%) Validation
16 102 (5.10%) DevOps
17 99 (4.95%) Risk Management
18 93 (4.65%) AI
19 88 (4.40%) Continuous Improvement
20 83 (4.15%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 123 (6.15%) SQL
2 88 (4.40%) Python
3 63 (3.15%) PowerShell
4 53 (2.65%) ABAP
5 49 (2.45%) JavaScript
6 34 (1.70%) Java
7 25 (1.25%) TypeScript
8 21 (1.05%) PL/SQL
9 17 (0.85%) Groovy
10 15 (0.75%) Bash
11 12 (0.60%) C#
12 9 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (0.35%) Apex Code
13 7 (0.35%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.30%) COBOL
15 5 (0.25%) Bicep
15 5 (0.25%) C++
15 5 (0.25%) R
16 4 (0.20%) Go
16 4 (0.20%) Korn
Qualifications
1 498 (24.90%) Security Cleared
2 407 (20.35%) SC Cleared
3 79 (3.95%) Degree
4 69 (3.45%) DV Cleared
5 57 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 49 (2.45%) CISSP
7 34 (1.70%) CISM
8 24 (1.20%) SAP Certification
9 19 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 16 (0.80%) CIMA
11 13 (0.65%) Master's Degree
12 11 (0.55%) ACCA
12 11 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (0.45%) AWS Certification
14 8 (0.40%) CESG Certified Professional
14 8 (0.40%) CISA
15 7 (0.35%) Computer Science Degree
15 7 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
16 6 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 63 (3.15%) GDPR
3 61 (3.05%) NIST
4 37 (1.85%) QA
5 35 (1.75%) GRC
6 33 (1.65%) Data Quality
7 17 (0.85%) NCSC
8 16 (0.80%) SLA
9 15 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
10 12 (0.60%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.55%) PERC
12 10 (0.50%) PMO
13 9 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 8 (0.40%) COBIT
15 7 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 7 (0.35%) IFRS
15 7 (0.35%) JSP 440
16 6 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 6 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 61 (3.05%) Active Directory
2 37 (1.85%) Docker
3 23 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.85%) 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
10 1 (0.050%) Ceph
10 1 (0.050%) Firmware
10 1 (0.050%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 1 (0.050%) KVM
10 1 (0.050%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.050%) QEMU
10 1 (0.050%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 51 (2.55%) Kubernetes
2 32 (1.60%) Terraform
3 19 (0.95%) 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%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (0.35%) SCCM
11 5 (0.25%) Podman
12 4 (0.20%) vRealize Orchestrator
13 3 (0.15%) CASB
14 2 (0.10%) EnCase
14 2 (0.10%) Failover Clustering
14 2 (0.10%) FTK
14 2 (0.10%) Istio
14 2 (0.10%) Pacemaker
14 2 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 505 (25.25%) SAP
2 242 (12.10%) Oracle
3 208 (10.40%) Microsoft
4 66 (3.30%) ServiceNow
5 57 (2.85%) VMware
6 51 (2.55%) Workday
7 47 (2.35%) Salesforce
8 41 (2.05%) Cisco
9 38 (1.90%) CyberArk
10 35 (1.75%) Aruba
11 30 (1.50%) Adobe
12 28 (1.40%) 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%) Atlassian
17 11 (0.55%) Databricks
17 11 (0.55%) IFS
17 11 (0.55%) Siemens
1,266 Consultant jobs in England