Functional Consultant Contracts in England

Functional Consultant
UK > England

The median Functional Consultant daily rate in England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 326 478
Rank change year-on-year -9 +152 +76
Contract jobs requiring a Functional Consultant 132 222 163
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.55% 0.61% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.66% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 151 95
10th Percentile £431 £450 £463
25th Percentile £503 £508 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -3.30%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £619
90th Percentile £700 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £575 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -2.13% +6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.80 -
UK median hourly rate - £55.80 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 22,160 33,731 45,413
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,728 22,389 32,257
10th Percentile £293 £282 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £641 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.31% +3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 899 2,440 1,336
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.65 £44.77
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -18.13% +94.40%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.25
UK median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% -18.89% +87.50%

Functional Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Functional Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Functional Consultant in England

Functional Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Functional Consultant in England.

Daily rate trend for Functional Consultant in England

Functional Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Consultant in England over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Consultant in England

Functional Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Functional Consultant in England.

Hourly rate trend for Functional Consultant in England

Functional 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 Functional Consultant within the England region over the 6 months to 22 May 2025. 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 -15 67 £613 +6.52% 39
South East +49 39 £619 +2.27% 24
North of England +10 10 £550 +4.76% 7
North West +8 6 £550 +4.76% 3
South West +37 5 £575 +22.34% 14
East of England +11 4 £700 +27.27% 16
Midlands +6 3 - - 7
North East +4 3 £350 -17.65%
West Midlands +8 2 - - 5
East Midlands +5 1 - - 2
Yorkshire +3 1 £550 +22.22% 4
Functional Consultant
UK

Functional Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 22 May 2025, Functional Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Functional Consultant in the job title.

1 59 (44.70%) Finance
2 50 (37.88%) Social Skills
3 48 (36.36%) Oracle
4 32 (24.24%) Oracle EBS
5 25 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (18.18%) Workshop Facilitation
6 24 (18.18%) SAP
7 23 (17.42%) Oracle EBS R12
8 21 (15.91%) ERP
9 20 (15.15%) Migration
9 20 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
9 20 (15.15%) Project Delivery
10 19 (14.39%) Dynamics 365
11 18 (13.64%) Data Migration
12 15 (11.36%) Microsoft
13 13 (9.85%) Oracle Fusion
14 12 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
14 12 (9.09%) SQL
14 12 (9.09%) Manufacturing
14 12 (9.09%) Public Sector
15 10 (7.58%) Requirements Gathering
15 10 (7.58%) Maximo
15 10 (7.58%) Agile
15 10 (7.58%) Logistics
15 10 (7.58%) Workflow
16 9 (6.82%) Oracle Financials
16 9 (6.82%) Billing
16 9 (6.82%) Oracle ASCP
16 9 (6.82%) Analytics
16 9 (6.82%) Oracle E-Business Tax

Functional Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (4.55%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.76%) Confluence
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Business Applications
1 32 (24.24%) Oracle EBS
2 23 (17.42%) Oracle EBS R12
3 10 (7.58%) Maximo
4 9 (6.82%) Oracle ASCP
4 9 (6.82%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 9 (6.82%) Oracle Financials
5 8 (6.06%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (6.06%) SAP S/4HANA
6 7 (5.30%) SAP BRIM
6 7 (5.30%) SAP Hybris
6 7 (5.30%) SAP PSCD
7 6 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
7 6 (4.55%) Oracle Assets
8 5 (3.79%) Endur
8 5 (3.79%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (3.03%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (3.03%) Workday HCM
10 3 (2.27%) Oracle Cash Management
10 3 (2.27%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (2.27%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 19 (14.39%) Dynamics 365
2 8 (6.06%) OCI
3 7 (5.30%) Azure
3 7 (5.30%) Power Platform
3 7 (5.30%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 3 (2.27%) PowerApps
5 2 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.76%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (0.76%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (0.76%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.76%) SaaS
6 1 (0.76%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (0.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (0.76%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (0.76%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.76%) PuTTY
1 1 (0.76%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.27%) Power BI
2 2 (1.52%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.76%) GIS
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 3 (2.27%) JIRA
2 1 (0.76%) Git
2 1 (0.76%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.76%) Maven
2 1 (0.76%) Postman
2 1 (0.76%) Selenium
2 1 (0.76%) Toad
General
1 59 (44.70%) Finance
2 50 (37.88%) Social Skills
3 20 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (9.09%) Manufacturing
4 12 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.82%) Billing
6 8 (6.06%) Banking
6 8 (6.06%) General Ledger
7 7 (5.30%) Retail
7 7 (5.30%) Telecoms
8 5 (3.79%) Back Office
9 4 (3.03%) Marketing
10 3 (2.27%) Advertising
10 3 (2.27%) Aerospace
10 3 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.52%) Legal
12 1 (0.76%) Automotive
12 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.76%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.85%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.76%) Gherkin
2 1 (0.76%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (0.76%) Middleware
2 1 (0.76%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (5.30%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.27%) FMCG
4 2 (1.52%) Life Science
4 2 (1.52%) Private Cloud
4 2 (1.52%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.76%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.76%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.76%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (0.76%) LIMS
5 1 (0.76%) PACS
5 1 (0.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (18.18%) Workshop Facilitation
3 21 (15.91%) ERP
4 20 (15.15%) Migration
4 20 (15.15%) Project Delivery
5 18 (13.64%) Data Migration
6 12 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
7 10 (7.58%) Agile
7 10 (7.58%) Logistics
7 10 (7.58%) Requirements Gathering
7 10 (7.58%) Workflow
8 9 (6.82%) Accounts Payable
8 9 (6.82%) Analytics
9 8 (6.06%) E-business
9 8 (6.06%) Procure-to-Pay
9 8 (6.06%) User Stories
10 7 (5.30%) ITSM
10 7 (5.30%) Revenue Management
10 7 (5.30%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (4.55%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 12 (9.09%) SQL
2 3 (2.27%) PeopleCode
3 2 (1.52%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.76%) Apex Code
4 1 (0.76%) Java
4 1 (0.76%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.76%) Python
4 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (3.79%) Degree
2 3 (2.27%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.76%) CCA
4 1 (0.76%) SAP Certification
4 1 (0.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.03%) QA
2 3 (2.27%) IFRS
2 3 (2.27%) IFRS 9
3 2 (1.52%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.52%) GAAP
Systems Management
1 3 (2.27%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 48 (36.36%) Oracle
2 24 (18.18%) SAP
3 15 (11.36%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.55%) IFS
4 6 (4.55%) Workday
5 5 (3.79%) OpenLink
6 3 (2.27%) Ariba
6 3 (2.27%) PeopleSoft
6 3 (2.27%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.76%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.76%) Charles River
7 1 (0.76%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.76%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.76%) Fujitsu
7 1 (0.76%) Hyperion
7 1 (0.76%) JD Edwards
7 1 (0.76%) Kronos
7 1 (0.76%) Remedy
7 1 (0.76%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.76%) Splunk