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 June 2026.

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

 6 months to
23 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 29 28
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 2,367 1,508 2,284
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.46% 6.04% 6.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.92% 6.55% 6.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,350 953 1,449
10th Percentile £404 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £648 £650 £645
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £543 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.36% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 22 28
10th Percentile £36.25 £27.73 £27.13
25th Percentile £56.25 £37.77 £52.18
Median hourly rate £57.50 £67.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +9.58% -4.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £86.00 £62.46
90th Percentile £85.78 - £75.00
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year -17.86% +13.64% -6.67%

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 40,014 23,037 34,822
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.23% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,629 15,128 22,693
10th Percentile £325 £293 £290
25th Percentile £416 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £633 £638
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.50% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,831 1,043 2,688
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.93 £18.13 £16.58
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.00 £39.53
Median % change year-on-year +55.17% -26.63% -10.17%
75th Percentile £67.60 £58.72 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.39
UK median hourly rate £43.25 £27.38 £37.50
% change year-on-year +57.99% -27.00% -14.77%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 0 1,091 £550 -4.35% 414
South East -2 344 £525 -3.97% 214
North of England -15 272 £550 +3.00% 231
Midlands -10 238 £525 -4.55% 77
South West +30 209 £553 +0.55% 105
West Midlands 0 162 £525 -4.55% 59
North West -14 144 £550 - 152
Yorkshire -6 106 £550 +15.79% 55
East of England -4 90 £550 +6.08% 55
East Midlands -10 67 £500 -9.09% 16
North East -36 22 £650 +20.37% 25
Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 June 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.

1 439 (18.55%) SAP
2 427 (18.04%) Security Cleared
3 322 (13.60%) Migration
4 310 (13.10%) SC Cleared
5 286 (12.08%) Microsoft
6 280 (11.83%) Azure
7 241 (10.18%) Oracle
8 233 (9.84%) Stakeholder Management
9 224 (9.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 207 (8.75%) Problem-Solving
11 202 (8.53%) SQL
12 199 (8.41%) ERP
13 189 (7.98%) SAP S/4HANA
14 178 (7.52%) User Acceptance Testing
15 165 (6.97%) Validation
16 158 (6.68%) Workshop Facilitation
17 152 (6.42%) Data Migration
18 146 (6.17%) Cybersecurity
19 141 (5.96%) Continuous Improvement
20 139 (5.87%) Analytics
21 134 (5.66%) AI
22 132 (5.58%) Agile
23 127 (5.37%) Roadmaps
24 126 (5.32%) AWS
25 118 (4.99%) Power Platform
26 116 (4.90%) Business Intelligence
27 114 (4.82%) Change Management
28 110 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
29 97 (4.10%) Python
30 95 (4.01%) Requirements Gathering

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 (2.75%) SharePoint
2 42 (1.77%) Confluence
3 12 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
4 11 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.34%) WebSphere
6 7 (0.30%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.21%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.17%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.17%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.17%) SAS
9 3 (0.13%) Apache
9 3 (0.13%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.084%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.084%) IIS
10 2 (0.084%) WordPress
11 1 (0.042%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.042%) CMS
11 1 (0.042%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 1 (0.042%) Tomcat
Applications
1 71 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.25%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.21%) PTC Creo
7 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.084%) Lectora
8 2 (0.084%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.042%) CATIA
9 1 (0.042%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.042%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 189 (7.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 67 (2.83%) Oracle EBS
3 37 (1.56%) Oracle Payables
4 35 (1.48%) SAP PSCD
5 31 (1.31%) SAP MM
6 28 (1.18%) Oracle Receivables
7 26 (1.10%) Oracle ERP
8 25 (1.06%) SAP EWM
8 25 (1.06%) SAP FI
8 25 (1.06%) Teamcenter
9 23 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
9 23 (0.97%) NetSuite
9 23 (0.97%) Oracle EBS R12
10 20 (0.84%) SAP SD
11 19 (0.80%) SAP BRIM
11 19 (0.80%) SAP Travel Management
12 17 (0.72%) SAP CO
13 16 (0.68%) SAP FI/CO
14 15 (0.63%) Oracle General Ledger
14 15 (0.63%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 280 (11.83%) Azure
2 126 (5.32%) AWS
3 118 (4.99%) Power Platform
4 110 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
5 75 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
6 69 (2.92%) GCP
7 62 (2.62%) SuccessFactors
8 58 (2.45%) Power Automate
9 47 (1.99%) Entra ID
9 47 (1.99%) OCI
10 39 (1.65%) Microsoft Copilot
10 39 (1.65%) SaaS
11 34 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
12 28 (1.18%) PowerApps
13 27 (1.14%) GitHub
14 21 (0.89%) Copilot Studio
14 21 (0.89%) Microsoft Purview
15 17 (0.72%) Serverless
16 15 (0.63%) Azure AI
17 14 (0.59%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 35 (1.48%) Network Security
2 34 (1.44%) Firewall
3 17 (0.72%) SNMP
4 14 (0.59%) WAN
5 12 (0.51%) BGP
5 12 (0.51%) SMS
6 11 (0.46%) VPN
6 11 (0.46%) VSAN
7 9 (0.38%) FTP
7 9 (0.38%) SAN
8 8 (0.34%) LAN
9 6 (0.25%) Ethernet VPN
9 6 (0.25%) VXLAN
10 5 (0.21%) HTTP
10 5 (0.21%) IPsec
10 5 (0.21%) NAS
11 4 (0.17%) DNS
11 4 (0.17%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.17%) MPLS
11 4 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (2.92%) Power BI
2 43 (1.82%) Oracle Reports
3 28 (1.18%) SAP HANA
3 28 (1.18%) Tableau
4 24 (1.01%) SQL Server
5 21 (0.89%) Metadata
5 21 (0.89%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 17 (0.72%) Oracle ODI
7 13 (0.55%) SAP BW
8 12 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
9 9 (0.38%) SAP Data Services
10 8 (0.34%) Oracle Database
11 6 (0.25%) Crystal Reports
11 6 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
11 6 (0.25%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.21%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.21%) NonStop SQL
12 5 (0.21%) Power Query
12 5 (0.21%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 71 (3.00%) JIRA
2 17 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
3 14 (0.59%) Hudson
4 9 (0.38%) Git
5 8 (0.34%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.21%) GitLab
8 4 (0.17%) Toad
9 3 (0.13%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (0.13%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.13%) JDeveloper
9 3 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.13%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.084%) git-flow
10 2 (0.084%) MLflow
10 2 (0.084%) Postman
10 2 (0.084%) Selenium
10 2 (0.084%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.042%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.042%) Yeoman
General
1 531 (22.43%) Finance
2 498 (21.04%) Social Skills
3 194 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
4 157 (6.63%) Public Sector
5 81 (3.42%) Banking
6 64 (2.70%) Legal
7 58 (2.45%) Manufacturing
8 50 (2.11%) Telecoms
9 46 (1.94%) Billing
10 45 (1.90%) General Ledger
11 44 (1.86%) Marketing
12 40 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
13 35 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
13 35 (1.48%) Retail
14 33 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 23 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
16 21 (0.89%) Law
16 21 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
17 20 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
18 19 (0.80%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (2.75%) Oracle Fusion
2 62 (2.62%) REST
3 49 (2.07%) XML
4 29 (1.23%) Middleware
5 23 (0.97%) Web Services
6 21 (0.89%) SAP Fiori
6 21 (0.89%) SOAP
7 19 (0.80%) SAP TM
8 18 (0.76%) HTML
9 16 (0.68%) CSS
10 15 (0.63%) JSON
11 13 (0.55%) SAP Basis
12 12 (0.51%) .NET
13 10 (0.42%) LDAP
13 10 (0.42%) OAuth
14 9 (0.38%) Microsoft Graph
14 9 (0.38%) SailPoint
15 8 (0.34%) IDoc
15 8 (0.34%) Kafka
15 8 (0.34%) React
Miscellaneous
1 64 (2.70%) Onboarding
2 41 (1.73%) Security Posture
3 37 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
4 36 (1.52%) Product Ownership
5 34 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
6 30 (1.27%) CMDB
7 28 (1.18%) AI Agents
8 24 (1.01%) Operational Technology
9 19 (0.80%) Data Centre
10 18 (0.76%) Cloud Native
11 17 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
11 17 (0.72%) Management Information System
12 16 (0.68%) Data Structures
12 16 (0.68%) NHS
12 16 (0.68%) Public Cloud
13 15 (0.63%) Replication
14 14 (0.59%) Life Science
15 13 (0.55%) Algorithms
15 13 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (0.51%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 69 (2.92%) Windows
2 50 (2.11%) Linux
3 21 (0.89%) Solaris
4 14 (0.59%) AIX
5 11 (0.46%) Unix
6 9 (0.38%) VMS
7 5 (0.21%) zOS
8 4 (0.17%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.13%) Android
9 3 (0.13%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.13%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.084%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.084%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.042%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.042%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (13.60%) Migration
2 233 (9.84%) Stakeholder Management
3 224 (9.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 207 (8.75%) Problem-Solving
5 199 (8.41%) ERP
6 178 (7.52%) User Acceptance Testing
7 165 (6.97%) Validation
8 158 (6.68%) Workshop Facilitation
9 152 (6.42%) Data Migration
10 146 (6.17%) Cybersecurity
11 141 (5.96%) Continuous Improvement
12 139 (5.87%) Analytics
13 134 (5.66%) AI
14 132 (5.58%) Agile
15 127 (5.37%) Roadmaps
16 116 (4.90%) Business Intelligence
17 114 (4.82%) Change Management
18 95 (4.01%) Requirements Gathering
19 94 (3.97%) Translating Business Requirements
20 91 (3.84%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 202 (8.53%) SQL
2 97 (4.10%) Python
3 42 (1.77%) PL/SQL
3 42 (1.77%) PowerShell
4 41 (1.73%) JavaScript
5 34 (1.44%) T-SQL
6 28 (1.18%) ABAP
7 24 (1.01%) Java
8 14 (0.59%) C#
9 13 (0.55%) Search Processing Language
10 12 (0.51%) Bash
11 11 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 11 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (0.30%) R
13 5 (0.21%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.21%) TypeScript
14 4 (0.17%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.17%) COBOL
14 4 (0.17%) Korn
14 4 (0.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 427 (18.04%) Security Cleared
2 310 (13.10%) SC Cleared
3 91 (3.84%) DV Cleared
4 68 (2.87%) CISSP
5 64 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 60 (2.53%) Degree
7 50 (2.11%) CISM
8 27 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
9 25 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 24 (1.01%) CCSP
10 24 (1.01%) CIMA
11 17 (0.72%) PMP
12 14 (0.59%) ACCA
12 14 (0.59%) CEH
13 12 (0.51%) Azure Certification
14 11 (0.46%) OSCP
15 10 (0.42%) PMI Certification
16 9 (0.38%) CompTIA Security+
17 8 (0.34%) Computer Science Degree
17 8 (0.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (3.51%) NIST
2 73 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 55 (2.32%) Data Quality
4 50 (2.11%) GRC
5 38 (1.61%) GDPR
6 37 (1.56%) QA
7 31 (1.31%) NCSC
8 25 (1.06%) PCI DSS
9 21 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
10 18 (0.76%) Accessibility
11 16 (0.68%) SLA
12 15 (0.63%) PMO
13 14 (0.59%) COBIT
13 14 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.38%) JSP 440
15 7 (0.30%) GAAP
16 6 (0.25%) GxP
16 6 (0.25%) HL7
16 6 (0.25%) RMADS
16 6 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (1.86%) Active Directory
2 31 (1.31%) VMware NSX
3 25 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.80%) vSphere
5 13 (0.55%) Docker
6 9 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 5 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.17%) IAG
10 3 (0.13%) NFS
11 2 (0.084%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.042%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.042%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 1 (0.042%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.042%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.042%) SRDF
12 1 (0.042%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 43 (1.82%) Kubernetes
2 35 (1.48%) Terraform
3 16 (0.68%) vRealize
4 15 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (0.59%) Ansible
6 13 (0.55%) Nagios
6 13 (0.55%) ZABBIX
7 12 (0.51%) Netcool
7 12 (0.51%) Tivoli
8 11 (0.46%) OpenView
8 11 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (0.46%) Tivoli Monitoring
9 8 (0.34%) SCCM
9 8 (0.34%) vCenter Server
10 7 (0.30%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.25%) Grafana
11 6 (0.25%) NetBackup
12 5 (0.21%) Podman
12 5 (0.21%) Prometheus
13 3 (0.13%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 439 (18.55%) SAP
2 286 (12.08%) Microsoft
3 241 (10.18%) Oracle
4 82 (3.46%) ServiceNow
5 58 (2.45%) VMware
6 53 (2.24%) Siemens
7 48 (2.03%) Workday
8 46 (1.94%) Salesforce
9 34 (1.44%) Databricks
10 29 (1.23%) Splunk
11 26 (1.10%) Google
12 22 (0.93%) IBM
13 21 (0.89%) Ariba
13 21 (0.89%) BMC
14 18 (0.76%) Adobe
15 17 (0.72%) OpenAI
16 16 (0.68%) Palo Alto
16 16 (0.68%) Sage
17 14 (0.59%) JD Edwards
17 14 (0.59%) SolarWinds
987 Consultant jobs in England