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 20 January 2026.

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

 6 months to
20 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 29 31
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 1,979 1,621 2,060
As % of all contract jobs in England 6.20% 6.12% 5.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.76% 6.58% 6.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,180 949 1,246
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.35%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 13 31
10th Percentile £40.77 £56.30 £42.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £71.19 £53.95
Median hourly rate £65.00 £80.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +26.98% -10.95%
75th Percentile £81.25 £86.00 £79.00
90th Percentile £84.10 £87.25 £90.25
UK median hourly rate £67.75 £80.00 £63.29
% change year-on-year -15.31% +26.40% -9.59%

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 29,266 24,617 34,257
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.61% 92.97% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,692 15,192 23,207
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,798 752 1,716
10th Percentile £14.50 £16.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.88
Median hourly rate £28.65 £35.00 £40.28
Median % change year-on-year -18.16% -13.10% +15.07%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.73 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £40.28
% change year-on-year -15.38% -19.30% +15.07%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -4 916 £575 +4.55% 395
South East -2 275 £540 -6.09% 325
North of England -9 274 £595 +8.18% 175
Midlands -14 179 £525 - 92
North West -3 166 £621 +15.47% 93
West Midlands -8 138 £550 +3.53% 48
South West +11 113 £588 +11.90% 171
Yorkshire +5 99 £550 -12.00% 64
East of England +3 93 £550 -4.35% 84
East Midlands -24 40 £505 -3.35% 44
North East -19 9 £620 +3.33% 18
South Coast - 1 £550 -
Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 500 (25.27%) SAP
1 500 (25.27%) Security Cleared
2 408 (20.62%) SC Cleared
3 274 (13.85%) Migration
4 260 (13.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 254 (12.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 249 (12.58%) Problem-Solving
7 243 (12.28%) Oracle
8 238 (12.03%) Stakeholder Management
9 207 (10.46%) Microsoft
10 198 (10.01%) Azure
11 174 (8.79%) Workshop Facilitation
12 157 (7.93%) ERP
13 154 (7.78%) Agile
14 136 (6.87%) User Acceptance Testing
15 131 (6.62%) Roadmaps
16 130 (6.57%) Analytics
17 124 (6.27%) SQL
18 116 (5.86%) Cybersecurity
19 113 (5.71%) Data Migration
20 110 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
21 106 (5.36%) Knowledge Transfer
22 103 (5.20%) Validation
23 101 (5.10%) Risk Management
24 100 (5.05%) DevOps
25 96 (4.85%) AWS
26 95 (4.80%) Dynamics 365
27 91 (4.60%) AI
28 89 (4.50%) Continuous Improvement
28 89 (4.50%) Python

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 (2.37%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.41%) Confluence
3 27 (1.36%) 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 (0.051%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.051%) SAS
8 1 (0.051%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.051%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.051%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.051%) WebSphere
Applications
1 33 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.40%) 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 (0.051%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.051%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.051%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 260 (13.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (3.28%) Oracle EBS
3 53 (2.68%) Oracle Payables
4 46 (2.32%) Oracle Receivables
5 45 (2.27%) SAP FI
6 43 (2.17%) Oracle General Ledger
7 41 (2.07%) Oracle EBS R12
8 39 (1.97%) SAP EWM
9 38 (1.92%) Oracle Cash Management
10 33 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
10 33 (1.67%) SAP MM
11 32 (1.62%) Oracle Assets
12 31 (1.57%) SAP CO
12 31 (1.57%) SAP HCM
13 29 (1.47%) SAP FI/CO
13 29 (1.47%) SAP Payroll
13 29 (1.47%) SAP WM
14 24 (1.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
15 23 (1.16%) SAP PP
15 23 (1.16%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 198 (10.01%) Azure
2 96 (4.85%) AWS
3 95 (4.80%) Dynamics 365
4 87 (4.40%) Power Platform
5 67 (3.39%) OCI
6 62 (3.13%) GCP
7 55 (2.78%) SaaS
8 54 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
9 44 (2.22%) Entra ID
10 29 (1.47%) SuccessFactors
11 28 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
12 27 (1.36%) Power Automate
13 21 (1.06%) GitHub
13 21 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
13 21 (1.06%) PowerApps
14 18 (0.91%) SAP Commerce Cloud
15 17 (0.86%) OneDrive
16 15 (0.76%) Serverless
17 12 (0.61%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (0.61%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.82%) Firewall
2 14 (0.71%) DNS
3 13 (0.66%) Kerberos
4 12 (0.61%) Network Security
4 12 (0.61%) SMS
4 12 (0.61%) 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 (3.28%) Power BI
2 36 (1.82%) SAP HANA
3 33 (1.67%) Oracle Reports
4 24 (1.21%) SQL Server
5 22 (1.11%) Metadata
6 18 (0.91%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 17 (0.86%) SAP BW
8 13 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (0.51%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (0.45%) Tableau
11 8 (0.40%) 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 51 (2.58%) JIRA
2 21 (1.06%) Jenkins
3 17 (0.86%) Git
4 16 (0.81%) GitLab
5 11 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
6 8 (0.40%) Hudson
7 4 (0.20%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.20%) LSMW
7 4 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
7 4 (0.20%) Postman
8 3 (0.15%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.15%) JUnit
9 2 (0.10%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.10%) git-flow
9 2 (0.10%) Mockito
9 2 (0.10%) Selenium
9 2 (0.10%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.10%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.10%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.051%) Burp Suite
General
1 572 (28.90%) Social Skills
2 491 (24.81%) Finance
3 195 (9.85%) Public Sector
4 170 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
5 97 (4.90%) Manufacturing
6 70 (3.54%) Banking
7 63 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
8 59 (2.98%) Marketing
9 50 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
10 46 (2.32%) Billing
10 46 (2.32%) Legal
11 42 (2.12%) General Ledger
12 39 (1.97%) Telecoms
13 29 (1.47%) Retail
14 25 (1.26%) Law
15 22 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
16 19 (0.96%) Financial Institution
16 19 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 17 (0.86%) Front Office
18 16 (0.81%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (3.89%) Oracle Fusion
2 57 (2.88%) REST
3 49 (2.48%) SAP Fiori
4 39 (1.97%) Web Services
5 29 (1.47%) Node.js
5 29 (1.47%) SOAP
6 25 (1.26%) LDAP
7 23 (1.16%) SAP TM
7 23 (1.16%) XML
8 18 (0.91%) BAPI
8 18 (0.91%) GraphQL
9 17 (0.86%) HTML
10 16 (0.81%) Middleware
11 14 (0.71%) Kafka
12 13 (0.66%) CSS
12 13 (0.66%) Playwright
12 13 (0.66%) SAP Basis
13 12 (0.61%) OAuth
13 12 (0.61%) SAML
13 12 (0.61%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 63 (3.18%) Onboarding
2 53 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
3 43 (2.17%) Product Ownership
4 33 (1.67%) Security Posture
5 29 (1.47%) Cloud Native
6 24 (1.21%) Data Centre
6 24 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
7 23 (1.16%) Replication
8 22 (1.11%) Management Information System
9 16 (0.81%) Data Structures
10 14 (0.71%) Public Cloud
11 13 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
12 12 (0.61%) NHS
13 11 (0.56%) AI Agents
13 11 (0.56%) Operational Technology
14 10 (0.51%) FMCG
14 10 (0.51%) IoT
14 10 (0.51%) SCADA
15 9 (0.45%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 60 (3.03%) Windows
2 38 (1.92%) Linux
3 11 (0.56%) Unix
3 11 (0.56%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.45%) Windows 10
5 8 (0.40%) Mac OS
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
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
8 2 (0.10%) zOS
9 1 (0.051%) Android
9 1 (0.051%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (13.85%) Migration
2 254 (12.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 249 (12.58%) Problem-Solving
4 238 (12.03%) Stakeholder Management
5 174 (8.79%) Workshop Facilitation
6 157 (7.93%) ERP
7 154 (7.78%) Agile
8 136 (6.87%) User Acceptance Testing
9 131 (6.62%) Roadmaps
10 130 (6.57%) Analytics
11 116 (5.86%) Cybersecurity
12 113 (5.71%) Data Migration
13 110 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
14 106 (5.36%) Knowledge Transfer
15 103 (5.20%) Validation
16 101 (5.10%) Risk Management
17 100 (5.05%) DevOps
18 91 (4.60%) AI
19 89 (4.50%) Continuous Improvement
20 82 (4.14%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 124 (6.27%) SQL
2 89 (4.50%) Python
3 63 (3.18%) PowerShell
4 53 (2.68%) ABAP
5 49 (2.48%) JavaScript
6 35 (1.77%) Java
7 25 (1.26%) TypeScript
8 22 (1.11%) PL/SQL
9 17 (0.86%) Groovy
10 15 (0.76%) Bash
11 11 (0.56%) C#
12 9 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (0.35%) Apex Code
13 7 (0.35%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.25%) Bicep
14 5 (0.25%) C++
14 5 (0.25%) COBOL
14 5 (0.25%) R
15 4 (0.20%) Go
15 4 (0.20%) Korn
Qualifications
1 500 (25.27%) Security Cleared
2 408 (20.62%) SC Cleared
3 79 (3.99%) Degree
4 70 (3.54%) DV Cleared
5 55 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 51 (2.58%) CISSP
7 36 (1.82%) CISM
8 25 (1.26%) SAP Certification
9 19 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 15 (0.76%) CIMA
11 13 (0.66%) Master's Degree
12 11 (0.56%) ACCA
12 11 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (0.45%) AWS Certification
14 9 (0.45%) CESG Certified Professional
15 8 (0.40%) CISA
16 7 (0.35%) Computer Science Degree
17 6 (0.30%) CCNP
17 6 (0.30%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 63 (3.18%) GDPR
3 61 (3.08%) NIST
4 36 (1.82%) QA
5 34 (1.72%) GRC
6 33 (1.67%) Data Quality
7 18 (0.91%) NCSC
8 16 (0.81%) SLA
9 14 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
10 12 (0.61%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.56%) PERC
12 9 (0.45%) PMO
13 8 (0.40%) COBIT
13 8 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.35%) IFRS
14 7 (0.35%) JSP 440
15 6 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 6 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 61 (3.08%) Active Directory
2 37 (1.87%) Docker
3 23 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.86%) 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 (0.051%) Ceph
10 1 (0.051%) Firmware
10 1 (0.051%) KVM
10 1 (0.051%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.051%) QEMU
10 1 (0.051%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.051%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 51 (2.58%) Kubernetes
2 32 (1.62%) Terraform
3 19 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (0.91%) Ansible
5 17 (0.86%) vRealize
6 13 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.56%) Grafana
8 10 (0.51%) PingFederate
9 9 (0.45%) Prometheus
10 8 (0.40%) SCCM
11 7 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.25%) Podman
13 4 (0.20%) vRealize Orchestrator
14 3 (0.15%) CASB
15 2 (0.10%) EnCase
15 2 (0.10%) Failover Clustering
15 2 (0.10%) FTK
15 2 (0.10%) Istio
15 2 (0.10%) Pacemaker
15 2 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 500 (25.27%) SAP
2 243 (12.28%) Oracle
3 207 (10.46%) Microsoft
4 62 (3.13%) ServiceNow
5 58 (2.93%) VMware
6 50 (2.53%) Workday
7 46 (2.32%) Salesforce
8 41 (2.07%) Cisco
9 37 (1.87%) CyberArk
10 34 (1.72%) Aruba
11 30 (1.52%) Adobe
12 28 (1.41%) Google
13 23 (1.16%) Ariba
14 17 (0.86%) OpenText
15 15 (0.76%) Dynatrace
16 13 (0.66%) Murex
17 11 (0.56%) Atlassian
17 11 (0.56%) Databricks
17 11 (0.56%) IFS
17 11 (0.56%) Remedy
1,091 Consultant jobs in England