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 27 August 2026.

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

 6 months to
27 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 2,610 1,679 2,116
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.71% 6.08% 6.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.18% 6.65% 6.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,492 1,052 1,267
10th Percentile £413 £415 £407
25th Percentile £463 £488 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £656 £650 £645
90th Percentile £750 £750 £754
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 22 27
10th Percentile £36.25 £27.73 £46.50
25th Percentile £51.00 £37.77 £55.47
Median hourly rate £76.00 £77.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% +25.81% -2.22%
75th Percentile £86.46 £81.25 £67.00
90th Percentile £91.88 - £74.92
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £77.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year -1.94% +25.81% -5.32%

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 42,263 25,262 30,879
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 91.54% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,421 16,297 19,929
10th Percentile £325 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -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 3,239 1,381 1,691
10th Percentile £15.13 £13.65 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.20 £17.38 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +2.63%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -1.44%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 1,222 £550 -4.35% 1,400
South East -2 405 £540 -1.82% 258
North of England -3 328 £561 +2.05% 272
Midlands +8 257 £500 -9.09% 148
North West -7 212 £572 -0.61% 180
South West +11 206 £550 -5.58% 214
West Midlands +14 184 £486 -15.54% 119
Yorkshire -16 95 £550 +7.32% 55
East of England -19 84 £523 -5.00% 109
East Midlands -4 66 £525 -4.55% 28
North East -34 20 £750 +38.89% 37
Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 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.

1 568 (21.76%) Security Cleared
2 488 (18.70%) SAP
3 407 (15.59%) Stakeholder Management
4 384 (14.71%) SC Cleared
5 363 (13.91%) Microsoft
6 348 (13.33%) Migration
7 297 (11.38%) Oracle
8 268 (10.27%) Azure
9 257 (9.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 232 (8.89%) User Acceptance Testing
11 225 (8.62%) SQL
12 212 (8.12%) Problem-Solving
13 197 (7.55%) Validation
14 195 (7.47%) Workshop Facilitation
15 194 (7.43%) Cybersecurity
16 180 (6.90%) SAP S/4HANA
17 169 (6.48%) Analytics
17 169 (6.48%) Roadmaps
18 165 (6.32%) Continuous Improvement
18 165 (6.32%) ERP
19 157 (6.02%) Data Migration
20 150 (5.75%) Agile
20 150 (5.75%) AWS
21 148 (5.67%) AI
22 141 (5.40%) Requirements Gathering
23 140 (5.36%) DV Cleared
24 130 (4.98%) Power Platform
25 121 (4.64%) Business Intelligence
26 115 (4.41%) Translating Business Requirements
27 112 (4.29%) Change Management

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 69 (2.64%) SharePoint
2 44 (1.69%) Confluence
3 24 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
5 9 (0.34%) WebSphere
6 8 (0.31%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.15%) SAS
8 3 (0.11%) Apache
8 3 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.11%) Apache Superset
8 3 (0.11%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.11%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
9 2 (0.077%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.077%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.077%) CMS
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
Applications
1 64 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (0.31%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.038%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.038%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 180 (6.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 79 (3.03%) Oracle EBS
3 43 (1.65%) Oracle Payables
4 42 (1.61%) Oracle ERP
5 39 (1.49%) SAP FI
6 35 (1.34%) SAP MM
6 35 (1.34%) SAP PSCD
7 32 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
7 32 (1.23%) Oracle Receivables
8 30 (1.15%) NetSuite
9 28 (1.07%) SAP CO
9 28 (1.07%) SAP SD
10 26 (1.00%) Oracle EBS R12
11 25 (0.96%) Oracle General Ledger
12 24 (0.92%) SAP FI/CO
12 24 (0.92%) Workday HCM
13 21 (0.80%) SAP EWM
13 21 (0.80%) SAP Payroll
13 21 (0.80%) SAP QM
14 20 (0.77%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 268 (10.27%) Azure
2 150 (5.75%) AWS
3 130 (4.98%) Power Platform
4 111 (4.25%) Dynamics 365
5 95 (3.64%) SuccessFactors
6 82 (3.14%) GCP
7 73 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
8 65 (2.49%) OCI
9 64 (2.45%) Power Automate
10 51 (1.95%) Entra ID
11 47 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
12 37 (1.42%) SaaS
13 35 (1.34%) Microsoft Copilot
14 31 (1.19%) PowerApps
15 23 (0.88%) GitHub
15 23 (0.88%) Microsoft Purview
16 17 (0.65%) Copilot Studio
17 15 (0.57%) Snowflake
18 14 (0.54%) Azure Logic Apps
19 13 (0.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 57 (2.18%) Firewall
2 54 (2.07%) Network Security
3 29 (1.11%) WAN
4 26 (1.00%) BGP
5 21 (0.80%) SNMP
6 20 (0.77%) VPN
7 14 (0.54%) LAN
8 13 (0.50%) DNS
9 12 (0.46%) SAN
10 10 (0.38%) Ethernet VPN
10 10 (0.38%) TCP/IP
11 9 (0.34%) IPsec
11 9 (0.34%) VSAN
11 9 (0.34%) VXLAN
12 8 (0.31%) 3GPP
12 8 (0.31%) 5G
12 8 (0.31%) MPLS
12 8 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
13 7 (0.27%) NGFW
13 7 (0.27%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (2.87%) Power BI
2 44 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
3 32 (1.23%) SQL Server
4 28 (1.07%) SAP BW
4 28 (1.07%) Tableau
5 26 (1.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 26 (1.00%) SAP HANA
6 25 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (0.84%) Metadata
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 9 (0.34%) Relational Database
12 7 (0.27%) Power Query
13 6 (0.23%) Delta Lake
14 5 (0.19%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.19%) Looker
14 5 (0.19%) NonStop SQL
14 5 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 83 (3.18%) JIRA
2 18 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
3 17 (0.65%) Git
4 12 (0.46%) Jenkins
5 11 (0.42%) Hudson
6 7 (0.27%) GitLab
7 6 (0.23%) PowerBuilder
7 6 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (0.15%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.15%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.11%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (0.11%) JDeveloper
9 3 (0.11%) LoadRunner
9 3 (0.11%) MLflow
9 3 (0.11%) Selenium
9 3 (0.11%) Snyk
9 3 (0.11%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.11%) Toad
9 3 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.077%) MSI
General
1 558 (21.38%) Finance
2 551 (21.11%) Social Skills
3 189 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
4 169 (6.48%) Public Sector
5 90 (3.45%) Banking
6 80 (3.07%) Manufacturing
7 73 (2.80%) Legal
8 59 (2.26%) Telecoms
9 54 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
10 50 (1.92%) General Ledger
11 47 (1.80%) Billing
11 47 (1.80%) Marketing
11 47 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
12 46 (1.76%) Retail
13 40 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 33 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
15 21 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
16 20 (0.77%) Law
16 20 (0.77%) Local Government
17 14 (0.54%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (3.30%) Oracle Fusion
2 73 (2.80%) REST
3 47 (1.80%) Terraform
4 41 (1.57%) XML
5 33 (1.26%) SAP Fiori
5 33 (1.26%) SOAP
6 29 (1.11%) Middleware
7 21 (0.80%) Web Services
8 18 (0.69%) HTML
8 18 (0.69%) JSON
9 17 (0.65%) LDAP
9 17 (0.65%) SailPoint
10 16 (0.61%) CSS
11 15 (0.57%) OAuth
12 14 (0.54%) SAP Basis
13 12 (0.46%) SAML
14 11 (0.42%) NETCONF
14 11 (0.42%) SAP PI
14 11 (0.42%) YANG
15 10 (0.38%) IDoc
Miscellaneous
1 103 (3.95%) Onboarding
2 50 (1.92%) CMDB
3 36 (1.38%) Data Centre
4 35 (1.34%) Product Ownership
5 34 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
5 34 (1.30%) Security Posture
6 32 (1.23%) Operational Technology
7 29 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
8 25 (0.96%) Data Structures
9 23 (0.88%) AI Agents
10 22 (0.84%) Replication
11 20 (0.77%) Cloud Native
12 18 (0.69%) Management Information System
13 17 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
14 16 (0.61%) Public Cloud
15 14 (0.54%) Algorithms
15 14 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
15 14 (0.54%) FMCG
15 14 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
15 14 (0.54%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 80 (3.07%) Windows
2 68 (2.61%) Linux
3 21 (0.80%) Solaris
4 19 (0.73%) Unix
5 16 (0.61%) AIX
6 15 (0.57%) 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 (0.11%) 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
1 407 (15.59%) Stakeholder Management
2 348 (13.33%) Migration
3 257 (9.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 232 (8.89%) User Acceptance Testing
5 212 (8.12%) Problem-Solving
6 197 (7.55%) Validation
7 195 (7.47%) Workshop Facilitation
8 194 (7.43%) Cybersecurity
9 169 (6.48%) Analytics
9 169 (6.48%) Roadmaps
10 165 (6.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 165 (6.32%) ERP
11 157 (6.02%) Data Migration
12 150 (5.75%) Agile
13 148 (5.67%) AI
14 141 (5.40%) Requirements Gathering
15 121 (4.64%) Business Intelligence
16 115 (4.41%) Translating Business Requirements
17 112 (4.29%) Change Management
17 112 (4.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 225 (8.62%) SQL
2 105 (4.02%) Python
3 52 (1.99%) PowerShell
4 44 (1.69%) PL/SQL
5 38 (1.46%) ABAP
6 37 (1.42%) JavaScript
7 31 (1.19%) T-SQL
8 26 (1.00%) Java
9 15 (0.57%) Search Processing Language
10 14 (0.54%) Bash
11 13 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 12 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
13 11 (0.42%) C#
14 9 (0.34%) R
15 6 (0.23%) Korn
15 6 (0.23%) Perl
15 6 (0.23%) TypeScript
16 4 (0.15%) Groovy
17 3 (0.11%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.11%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 568 (21.76%) Security Cleared
2 384 (14.71%) SC Cleared
3 140 (5.36%) DV Cleared
4 73 (2.80%) CISSP
5 66 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 58 (2.22%) CISM
7 57 (2.18%) Degree
8 40 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
9 30 (1.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 26 (1.00%) CCSP
11 18 (0.69%) ACCA
12 17 (0.65%) CIMA
13 15 (0.57%) PMP
14 13 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
15 12 (0.46%) CEH
15 12 (0.46%) CRISC
16 11 (0.42%) OSCP
17 10 (0.38%) Azure Certification
18 9 (0.34%) AWS Certification
18 9 (0.34%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (3.37%) NIST
2 76 (2.91%) Data Quality
3 71 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 69 (2.64%) GRC
5 44 (1.69%) QA
6 35 (1.34%) GDPR
7 33 (1.26%) NCSC
8 25 (0.96%) PMO
8 25 (0.96%) SLA
9 21 (0.80%) PCI DSS
10 19 (0.73%) Accessibility
11 18 (0.69%) 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%) IFRS
System Software
1 58 (2.22%) Active Directory
2 34 (1.30%) VMware NSX
3 29 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.80%) vSphere
5 13 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.46%) Docker
7 9 (0.34%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.31%) IAG
9 7 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.15%) Firmware
10 4 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.077%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.077%) NFS
11 2 (0.077%) PowerHA
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 40 (1.53%) Kubernetes
2 22 (0.84%) Ansible
3 16 (0.61%) SCCM
4 15 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (0.57%) vRealize
5 14 (0.54%) Nagios
5 14 (0.54%) 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 (0.34%) Grafana
10 6 (0.23%) Prometheus
10 6 (0.23%) VxRail
11 4 (0.15%) CEMLI
11 4 (0.15%) NetBackup
12 3 (0.11%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 488 (18.70%) SAP
2 363 (13.91%) Microsoft
3 297 (11.38%) Oracle
4 108 (4.14%) ServiceNow
5 64 (2.45%) VMware
6 53 (2.03%) Workday
7 46 (1.76%) Salesforce
8 42 (1.61%) Databricks
9 37 (1.42%) Splunk
10 30 (1.15%) BMC
11 23 (0.88%) Ariba
11 23 (0.88%) IBM
11 23 (0.88%) Palo Alto
12 21 (0.80%) Cisco
12 21 (0.80%) Google
13 20 (0.77%) OpenText
14 17 (0.65%) CyberArk
15 16 (0.61%) Adobe
15 16 (0.61%) JD Edwards
16 15 (0.57%) Dell
2,351 Consultant jobs in England