Functional Consultant Contracts in England

Functional Consultant
UK > England

The median Functional Consultant daily rate in England is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 309 496 573
Rank change year-on-year +187 +77 -107
Contract jobs requiring a Functional Consultant 250 174 207
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.67% 0.34% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.36% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 103 115
10th Percentile £450 £463 £413
25th Percentile £510 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £635 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £688 £678
UK median daily rate £561 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -2.39% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £53.69 - -
25th Percentile £54.88 - -
Median hourly rate £58.72 - -
75th Percentile £61.53 - -
90th Percentile £62.09 - -
UK median hourly rate £58.72 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,517 47,965 67,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.58% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,960 34,010 48,090
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,411 1,443 1,914
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.67 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.45 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024. 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 +158 130 £575 - 12
South East +19 42 £600 +2.39% 5
North of England +44 39 £525 +5.00% 5
East of England +42 34 £525 +23.53% 4
North West +31 30 £525 +5.00% 3
Midlands +16 11 £563 +7.14% 8
West Midlands +20 7 £575 +9.52% 8
Yorkshire +23 6 £450 -10.00% 1
North East +20 4 £400 -25.23% 1
South West +22 2 £500 -29.82%
East Midlands +14 1 £525 -
Functional Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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.

1 114 (45.60%) Social Skills
2 105 (42.00%) SAP
3 101 (40.40%) Finance
4 57 (22.80%) SAP S/4HANA
5 55 (22.00%) Dynamics 365
5 55 (22.00%) Oracle
6 54 (21.60%) Microsoft
7 45 (18.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 45 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
8 36 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (11.60%) Pharmaceutical
9 29 (11.60%) Azure
10 27 (10.80%) Agile
11 26 (10.40%) Logistics
11 26 (10.40%) Life Science
11 26 (10.40%) Public Sector
11 26 (10.40%) DevOps
12 25 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
12 25 (10.00%) Business Transformation
12 25 (10.00%) Ariba
13 23 (9.20%) Requirements Gathering
13 23 (9.20%) CRM
13 23 (9.20%) Migration
14 22 (8.80%) Oracle EBS
14 22 (8.80%) Oracle EBS R12
14 22 (8.80%) Power Platform
15 20 (8.00%) Procure-to-Pay
15 20 (8.00%) Data Migration
16 19 (7.60%) Customer Service
17 18 (7.20%) Security Cleared

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 2 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (0.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 57 (22.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (8.80%) Oracle EBS
2 22 (8.80%) Oracle EBS R12
3 16 (6.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (6.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 13 (5.20%) SAP MDG
5 12 (4.80%) Maximo
6 11 (4.40%) Oracle Payables
6 11 (4.40%) SAP SD
7 10 (4.00%) Oracle Receivables
8 9 (3.60%) SAP BRIM
8 9 (3.60%) SAP Hybris
8 9 (3.60%) SAP PSCD
9 8 (3.20%) Oracle Cash Management
10 7 (2.80%) Dynamics AX
11 6 (2.40%) Sage 200
11 6 (2.40%) Sage 50
12 5 (2.00%) SAP PLM
13 4 (1.60%) Oracle General Ledger
13 4 (1.60%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 55 (22.00%) Dynamics 365
2 29 (11.60%) Azure
3 25 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (8.80%) Power Platform
5 15 (6.00%) Power Automate
6 12 (4.80%) OCI
7 9 (3.60%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 6 (2.40%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.20%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (0.80%) SaaS
11 1 (0.40%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.40%) Oracle CX
11 1 (0.40%) Oracle Service Cloud
11 1 (0.40%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 1 (0.40%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 1 (0.40%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.40%) Power BI
2 13 (5.20%) Data Lake
3 5 (2.00%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (1.20%) SAP HANA
5 2 (0.80%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.40%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.40%) Siebel EIM
6 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (3.60%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (0.80%) JIRA
General
1 114 (45.60%) Social Skills
2 101 (40.40%) Finance
3 45 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (11.60%) Pharmaceutical
5 26 (10.40%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.60%) Retail
7 13 (5.20%) Billing
8 11 (4.40%) Marketing
9 10 (4.00%) Telecoms
10 9 (3.60%) Law
10 9 (3.60%) Manufacturing
11 8 (3.20%) General Ledger
12 7 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (2.80%) Legal
12 7 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.80%) Banking
13 2 (0.80%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.40%) French Language
14 1 (0.40%) Front Office
14 1 (0.40%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.60%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (2.40%) Lightning Web Components
3 5 (2.00%) Middleware
3 5 (2.00%) SAP Fiori
4 4 (1.60%) SAP ALE
4 4 (1.60%) Web Services
5 3 (1.20%) IDoc
5 3 (1.20%) Visualforce
5 3 (1.20%) Web Dynpro
6 2 (0.80%) EDI
7 1 (0.40%) ADO
7 1 (0.40%) BAPI
7 1 (0.40%) WebCenter
7 1 (0.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.40%) Life Science
2 8 (3.20%) Product Ownership
3 7 (2.80%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.40%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (2.00%) Replication
6 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.80%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.80%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.80%) Solar Panel
8 1 (0.40%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.40%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.40%) FMCG
8 1 (0.40%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.40%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.40%) Tandem
8 1 (0.40%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (18.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 36 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (10.80%) Agile
4 26 (10.40%) DevOps
4 26 (10.40%) Logistics
5 25 (10.00%) Business Transformation
6 23 (9.20%) CRM
6 23 (9.20%) Migration
6 23 (9.20%) Requirements Gathering
7 20 (8.00%) Data Migration
7 20 (8.00%) Procure-to-Pay
8 19 (7.60%) Customer Service
9 17 (6.80%) Accounts Payable
9 17 (6.80%) E-business
9 17 (6.80%) User Acceptance Testing
10 16 (6.40%) Data Modelling
10 16 (6.40%) Project Delivery
10 16 (6.40%) User Stories
10 16 (6.40%) Workshop Facilitation
11 15 (6.00%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 18 (7.20%) ABAP
2 4 (1.60%) SQL
3 3 (1.20%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (7.20%) Degree
1 18 (7.20%) Security Cleared
2 17 (6.80%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.40%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.60%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (0.80%) PMP
7 1 (0.40%) CBAP
7 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.40%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.40%) Siebel Certification
7 1 (0.40%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.40%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.40%) QA
2 2 (0.80%) GDPR
3 1 (0.40%) ITGC
3 1 (0.40%) PMO
3 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 2 (0.80%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 105 (42.00%) SAP
2 55 (22.00%) Oracle
3 54 (21.60%) Microsoft
4 25 (10.00%) Ariba
5 8 (3.20%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.40%) Sage
7 2 (0.80%) Conga
7 2 (0.80%) DocuSign
7 2 (0.80%) Kronos
8 1 (0.40%) CA
8 1 (0.40%) Cadence
8 1 (0.40%) Cognos
8 1 (0.40%) Concur
8 1 (0.40%) IBM
8 1 (0.40%) IFS
8 1 (0.40%) JDA
8 1 (0.40%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.40%) Siebel