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 26 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
26 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 27 29
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 2,572 1,818 2,055
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.52% 6.51% 6.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.99% 7.13% 6.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,511 1,146 1,180
10th Percentile £413 £413 £407
25th Percentile £463 £488 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.23% +0.23% -
75th Percentile £656 £656 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 22 21
10th Percentile £36.25 £27.73 £55.00
25th Percentile £44.06 £37.77 £61.50
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 £69.69
90th Percentile £91.88 £86.65 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £77.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year -1.94% +25.81% -2.22%

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 42,924 25,502 30,456
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.20% 91.27% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,454 16,440 18,762
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £734 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,577 1,399 1,408
10th Percentile £14.82 £13.75 £14.85
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.46 £21.34
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.03 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.27%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -3 1,244 £550 -4.35% 1,903
South East -9 378 £540 -1.82% 453
North of England -19 325 £575 -0.86% 425
Midlands -2 228 £500 -9.09% 229
North West -15 211 £581 -6.29% 251
South West +13 196 £550 -4.35% 201
West Midlands +1 164 £500 -9.09% 176
East of England -20 104 £550 - 133
Yorkshire -17 93 £575 +21.05% 95
East Midlands -10 59 £525 -4.55% 51
North East -31 20 £750 +38.89% 79
Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 September 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.

1 573 (22.28%) Security Cleared
2 474 (18.43%) SAP
3 471 (18.31%) Stakeholder Management
4 386 (15.01%) SC Cleared
5 381 (14.81%) Microsoft
6 349 (13.57%) Migration
7 298 (11.59%) Oracle
8 266 (10.34%) Azure
9 249 (9.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 241 (9.37%) User Acceptance Testing
11 210 (8.16%) Cybersecurity
12 207 (8.05%) Problem-Solving
13 204 (7.93%) Workshop Facilitation
14 197 (7.66%) SAP S/4HANA
14 197 (7.66%) Validation
15 182 (7.08%) SQL
16 177 (6.88%) Roadmaps
17 174 (6.77%) Analytics
18 159 (6.18%) Continuous Improvement
19 156 (6.07%) AWS
20 155 (6.03%) ERP
21 154 (5.99%) Data Migration
22 150 (5.83%) Agile
22 150 (5.83%) Requirements Gathering
23 140 (5.44%) AI
24 138 (5.37%) DV Cleared
25 135 (5.25%) Power Platform
26 121 (4.70%) Business Intelligence
27 119 (4.63%) Dynamics 365
28 116 (4.51%) ServiceNow

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 62 (2.41%) SharePoint
2 38 (1.48%) Confluence
3 30 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
4 9 (0.35%) WebSphere
5 8 (0.31%) WebLogic
6 6 (0.23%) SAS
7 4 (0.16%) CMS
8 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.12%) Apache
8 3 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.12%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
9 2 (0.078%) IIS
9 2 (0.078%) Smallworld
9 2 (0.078%) WordPress
10 1 (0.039%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.039%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.039%) SAP Portal
10 1 (0.039%) Tomcat
Applications
1 41 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.039%) Adobe Captivate
7 1 (0.039%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.039%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.039%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 197 (7.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 71 (2.76%) Oracle EBS
3 45 (1.75%) SAP FI
4 41 (1.59%) Oracle Payables
5 40 (1.56%) SAP PSCD
6 37 (1.44%) Oracle ERP
6 37 (1.44%) SAP Payroll
7 34 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
8 33 (1.28%) Oracle Receivables
9 32 (1.24%) SAP CO
10 29 (1.13%) NetSuite
10 29 (1.13%) Oracle General Ledger
10 29 (1.13%) Workday HCM
11 28 (1.09%) SAP SD
12 27 (1.05%) SAP FI/CO
12 27 (1.05%) SAP HCM
13 26 (1.01%) SAP HR
14 24 (0.93%) SAP MM
15 21 (0.82%) Oracle EBS R12
16 20 (0.78%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 266 (10.34%) Azure
2 156 (6.07%) AWS
3 135 (5.25%) Power Platform
4 119 (4.63%) Dynamics 365
5 89 (3.46%) SuccessFactors
6 83 (3.23%) GCP
7 73 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
8 72 (2.80%) OCI
9 58 (2.26%) Power Automate
10 56 (2.18%) Entra ID
11 51 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
12 39 (1.52%) SaaS
13 36 (1.40%) Microsoft Copilot
14 28 (1.09%) PowerApps
15 25 (0.97%) Microsoft Purview
16 23 (0.89%) GitHub
17 20 (0.78%) Snowflake
18 15 (0.58%) Amazon S3
18 15 (0.58%) Copilot Studio
19 14 (0.54%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 61 (2.37%) Firewall
2 58 (2.26%) Network Security
3 32 (1.24%) WAN
4 28 (1.09%) BGP
5 24 (0.93%) VPN
6 17 (0.66%) DNS
7 16 (0.62%) SNMP
8 15 (0.58%) LAN
9 13 (0.51%) TCP/IP
10 11 (0.43%) Ethernet VPN
10 11 (0.43%) SAN
11 10 (0.39%) 3GPP
11 10 (0.39%) 5G
11 10 (0.39%) IPsec
11 10 (0.39%) MPLS
11 10 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
12 9 (0.35%) VXLAN
13 8 (0.31%) NGFW
13 8 (0.31%) SD-WAN
13 8 (0.31%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (2.95%) Power BI
2 38 (1.48%) Oracle Reports
3 31 (1.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 28 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (1.05%) SAP BW
6 26 (1.01%) Metadata
7 24 (0.93%) SAP HANA
7 24 (0.93%) SQL Server
7 24 (0.93%) Tableau
8 15 (0.58%) BusinessObjects
9 10 (0.39%) Power Query
10 9 (0.35%) Oracle Database
11 8 (0.31%) DynamoDB
11 8 (0.31%) Oracle ODI
11 8 (0.31%) Relational Database
12 7 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.19%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (0.19%) Looker
13 5 (0.19%) SAP Data Services
13 5 (0.19%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 77 (2.99%) JIRA
2 22 (0.86%) Git
3 14 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
4 13 (0.51%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.35%) GitLab
6 7 (0.27%) Hudson
6 7 (0.27%) PowerBuilder
7 4 (0.16%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.12%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (0.12%) JDeveloper
8 3 (0.12%) LoadRunner
8 3 (0.12%) MLflow
8 3 (0.12%) Snyk
8 3 (0.12%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.12%) Toad
8 3 (0.12%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.078%) MSI
9 2 (0.078%) Postman
9 2 (0.078%) TestRail
General
1 568 (22.08%) Finance
2 565 (21.97%) Social Skills
3 193 (7.50%) Public Sector
4 172 (6.69%) Analytical Skills
5 95 (3.69%) Banking
6 89 (3.46%) Manufacturing
7 74 (2.88%) Legal
8 61 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
9 60 (2.33%) Telecoms
10 50 (1.94%) Billing
10 50 (1.94%) Retail
11 47 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
12 46 (1.79%) General Ledger
13 44 (1.71%) Marketing
14 36 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
15 33 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 24 (0.93%) Law
17 23 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
18 21 (0.82%) Local Government
19 16 (0.62%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (3.58%) Oracle Fusion
2 68 (2.64%) REST
3 50 (1.94%) Terraform
4 37 (1.44%) SAP Fiori
5 35 (1.36%) Middleware
6 33 (1.28%) SOAP
7 28 (1.09%) Web Services
8 26 (1.01%) XML
9 24 (0.93%) SailPoint
10 20 (0.78%) LDAP
10 20 (0.78%) OAuth
11 17 (0.66%) JSON
12 16 (0.62%) HTML
13 14 (0.54%) CSS
13 14 (0.54%) SAML
14 13 (0.51%) NETCONF
14 13 (0.51%) YANG
15 12 (0.47%) ADO
16 11 (0.43%) SAP Basis
16 11 (0.43%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 107 (4.16%) Onboarding
2 52 (2.02%) CMDB
3 45 (1.75%) Operational Technology
4 39 (1.52%) Data Centre
5 34 (1.32%) Product Ownership
6 31 (1.21%) Data Structures
7 30 (1.17%) Security Posture
8 26 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
9 25 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
10 22 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (0.78%) AI Agents
12 19 (0.74%) Cloud Native
13 18 (0.70%) Replication
14 17 (0.66%) Management Information System
15 16 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
16 15 (0.58%) PKI
17 13 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
18 12 (0.47%) Analytical Mindset
18 12 (0.47%) Life Science
18 12 (0.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 79 (3.07%) Windows
2 61 (2.37%) Linux
3 22 (0.86%) Unix
4 21 (0.82%) Solaris
5 19 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 11 (0.43%) AIX
7 9 (0.35%) VMS
8 6 (0.23%) Android
8 6 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.19%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.039%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.039%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 471 (18.31%) Stakeholder Management
2 349 (13.57%) Migration
3 249 (9.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 241 (9.37%) User Acceptance Testing
5 210 (8.16%) Cybersecurity
6 207 (8.05%) Problem-Solving
7 204 (7.93%) Workshop Facilitation
8 197 (7.66%) Validation
9 177 (6.88%) Roadmaps
10 174 (6.77%) Analytics
11 159 (6.18%) Continuous Improvement
12 155 (6.03%) ERP
13 154 (5.99%) Data Migration
14 150 (5.83%) Agile
14 150 (5.83%) Requirements Gathering
15 140 (5.44%) AI
16 121 (4.70%) Business Intelligence
17 113 (4.39%) Translating Business Requirements
18 111 (4.32%) Knowledge Transfer
19 109 (4.24%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 182 (7.08%) SQL
2 86 (3.34%) Python
3 47 (1.83%) ABAP
3 47 (1.83%) PowerShell
4 35 (1.36%) JavaScript
5 32 (1.24%) PL/SQL
6 24 (0.93%) Java
7 15 (0.58%) Bash
8 13 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 12 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
10 10 (0.39%) Search Processing Language
11 9 (0.35%) C#
11 9 (0.35%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.27%) R
12 7 (0.27%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.19%) Korn
13 5 (0.19%) Perl
14 4 (0.16%) Groovy
15 3 (0.12%) Bicep
15 3 (0.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 573 (22.28%) Security Cleared
2 386 (15.01%) SC Cleared
3 138 (5.37%) DV Cleared
4 85 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 66 (2.57%) CISSP
6 56 (2.18%) Degree
7 54 (2.10%) CISM
8 40 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
9 30 (1.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 26 (1.01%) CCSP
11 16 (0.62%) ACCA
12 15 (0.58%) CRISC
13 14 (0.54%) AWS Certification
13 14 (0.54%) CIMA
13 14 (0.54%) PMP
14 11 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
15 10 (0.39%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 9 (0.35%) CISA
17 8 (0.31%) CCIE
17 8 (0.31%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (3.62%) NIST
2 83 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 76 (2.95%) GRC
4 68 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 40 (1.56%) NCSC
5 40 (1.56%) QA
6 30 (1.17%) GDPR
7 24 (0.93%) PMO
8 23 (0.89%) SLA
9 17 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (0.58%) Accessibility
10 15 (0.58%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.35%) NIST 800
13 8 (0.31%) GxP
14 7 (0.27%) COBIT
14 7 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.23%) Def Stans
15 6 (0.23%) IFRS
System Software
1 65 (2.53%) Active Directory
2 29 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (1.09%) VMware NSX
4 16 (0.62%) vSphere
5 15 (0.58%) Docker
6 12 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.39%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.35%) IAG
9 5 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.16%) Firmware
10 4 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.078%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.078%) PowerHA
12 1 (0.039%) NFS
12 1 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.039%) oVirt
12 1 (0.039%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.039%) RHEV
12 1 (0.039%) SRDF
12 1 (0.039%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 41 (1.59%) Kubernetes
2 22 (0.86%) Ansible
3 19 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (0.70%) SCCM
5 13 (0.51%) vRealize
6 11 (0.43%) FortiGate
7 10 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.39%) vCenter Server
8 9 (0.35%) Grafana
8 9 (0.35%) Nagios
8 9 (0.35%) ZABBIX
9 7 (0.27%) Netcool
9 7 (0.27%) Tivoli
10 6 (0.23%) OpenView
10 6 (0.23%) Tivoli Monitoring
10 6 (0.23%) VxRail
11 5 (0.19%) Prometheus
12 4 (0.16%) CEMLI
13 3 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
13 3 (0.12%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 474 (18.43%) SAP
2 381 (14.81%) Microsoft
3 298 (11.59%) Oracle
4 116 (4.51%) ServiceNow
5 62 (2.41%) Workday
6 56 (2.18%) VMware
7 38 (1.48%) Databricks
7 38 (1.48%) Salesforce
8 30 (1.17%) Splunk
9 26 (1.01%) Palo Alto
10 25 (0.97%) BMC
11 24 (0.93%) CyberArk
12 22 (0.86%) Cisco
13 20 (0.78%) Google
13 20 (0.78%) IBM
14 18 (0.70%) Ariba
14 18 (0.70%) OpenText
15 17 (0.66%) Zscaler
16 16 (0.62%) Dell
16 16 (0.62%) Veeam
3,389 Consultant jobs in England