Senior Consultant Contracts in England

Senior Consultant
UK > England

The median Senior Consultant daily rate in England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 394 418 571
Rank change year-on-year +24 +153 +45
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Consultant 91 124 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.33% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.36% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 81 45
10th Percentile £419 £406 £460
25th Percentile £481 £468 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £669 £688 £725
90th Percentile £760 £763 £828
UK median daily rate £575 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -1.70% -2.51% -3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - £51.78 -
25th Percentile £51.75 £54.46 £55.94
Median hourly rate £53.50 £56.89 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% - -28.89%
75th Percentile £55.25 £59.63 £57.83
90th Percentile - £62.87 -
UK median hourly rate £53.50 £56.89 £56.89
% change year-on-year -5.95% - +13.77%

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Senior Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Consultant in England

Senior Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Consultant in England

Senior Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Consultant in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Consultant in England

Senior Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Consultant in England

Senior 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 Senior Consultant within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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 +24 55 £565 -3.00% 538
North of England +20 15 £534 -11.00% 78
North West +17 8 £475 -29.63% 49
East of England +28 5 £700 +22.59% 25
Yorkshire +7 5 £625 +76.06% 21
South West +42 3 £500 -9.09% 25
South East +34 3 £750 +72.41% 87
Midlands +16 3 £438 -9.79% 42
West Midlands +8 3 £438 -9.79% 33
North East - 2 £534 - 8
Senior Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Consultant in the job title.

1 36 (39.56%) Social Skills
2 30 (32.97%) Finance
3 25 (27.47%) SAP
4 21 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 21 (23.08%) Agile
5 19 (20.88%) SAP S/4HANA
6 18 (19.78%) Security Cleared
7 17 (18.68%) SC Cleared
8 15 (16.48%) Project Delivery
9 14 (15.38%) Azure
10 12 (13.19%) Analytics
11 11 (12.09%) IBM
11 11 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (10.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 9 (9.89%) Procure-to-Pay
13 9 (9.89%) Information Security
14 8 (8.79%) Microsoft
14 8 (8.79%) SQL
14 8 (8.79%) Software AG
14 8 (8.79%) EntireX
14 8 (8.79%) webMethods
14 8 (8.79%) Business Transformation
14 8 (8.79%) Logistics
15 7 (7.69%) Mentoring
15 7 (7.69%) Java
15 7 (7.69%) Banking
15 7 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
16 6 (6.59%) Retail
16 6 (6.59%) Manufacturing
16 6 (6.59%) Risk Management

Senior 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 (2.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.20%) Sketch
3 1 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (20.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (5.49%) SAP LE
3 4 (4.40%) SAP EWM
4 2 (2.20%) Endur
4 2 (2.20%) SAP CO
4 2 (2.20%) SAP FI
4 2 (2.20%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (2.20%) SAP Travel Management
5 1 (1.10%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (1.10%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (1.10%) SAP BPC
5 1 (1.10%) SAP CRM
5 1 (1.10%) SAP CS
5 1 (1.10%) SAP ERP
5 1 (1.10%) SAP GRC
5 1 (1.10%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 14 (15.38%) Azure
2 5 (5.49%) AWS
2 5 (5.49%) Power Platform
2 5 (5.49%) SaaS
3 4 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.30%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (3.30%) Figma
4 3 (3.30%) IaaS
4 3 (3.30%) PaaS
5 2 (2.20%) GCP
5 2 (2.20%) GitHub
5 2 (2.20%) OpenShift
5 2 (2.20%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.10%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.10%) Boomi
6 1 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.10%) OCI
6 1 (1.10%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.10%) SAP Fieldglass
6 1 (1.10%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.49%) Firewall
2 3 (3.30%) BGP
2 3 (3.30%) LAN
2 3 (3.30%) Multicast
2 3 (3.30%) VXLAN
2 3 (3.30%) WAN
3 2 (2.20%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (2.20%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (2.20%) Network Security
3 2 (2.20%) OSPF
3 2 (2.20%) SD-WAN
3 2 (2.20%) Unified Communications
3 2 (2.20%) VoIP
3 2 (2.20%) WebEx
3 2 (2.20%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.10%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.10%) IGMP
4 1 (1.10%) Internet
4 1 (1.10%) MPLS
4 1 (1.10%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.40%) Power BI
2 3 (3.30%) Tableau
3 2 (2.20%) Data Mining
3 2 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.10%) DB2
4 1 (1.10%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.10%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.10%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (4.40%) JMeter
1 4 (4.40%) LoadRunner
1 4 (4.40%) Serenity BDD
2 3 (3.30%) Axure RP
2 3 (3.30%) GitLab
2 3 (3.30%) Subversion
3 2 (2.20%) Git
4 1 (1.10%) ChangeMan
4 1 (1.10%) JIRA
4 1 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.10%) Toad
General
1 36 (39.56%) Social Skills
2 30 (32.97%) Finance
3 7 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.69%) Banking
4 6 (6.59%) Manufacturing
4 6 (6.59%) Retail
5 5 (5.49%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.30%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.20%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.20%) Back Office
7 2 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.20%) General Ledger
7 2 (2.20%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.20%) Marketing
7 2 (2.20%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.10%) Agriculture
8 1 (1.10%) Electronics
8 1 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.10%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.79%) EntireX
2 3 (3.30%) SailPoint
3 2 (2.20%) SAP TM
4 1 (1.10%) JSON
4 1 (1.10%) REST
4 1 (1.10%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.10%) SOAP
4 1 (1.10%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.10%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.49%) Life Science
2 4 (4.40%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.40%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (4.40%) Security Posture
3 3 (3.30%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.20%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.20%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.10%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.10%) FMCG
5 1 (1.10%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (1.10%) IoT
5 1 (1.10%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.10%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.10%) PKI
5 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.10%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.20%) Linux
1 2 (2.20%) Windows
2 1 (1.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (23.08%) Agile
1 21 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
2 15 (16.48%) Project Delivery
3 12 (13.19%) Analytics
4 11 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (10.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 9 (9.89%) Information Security
6 9 (9.89%) Procure-to-Pay
7 8 (8.79%) Business Transformation
7 8 (8.79%) Logistics
8 7 (7.69%) Mentoring
9 6 (6.59%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (6.59%) DevOps
9 6 (6.59%) Risk Management
9 6 (6.59%) Use Case
10 5 (5.49%) Computer Science
10 5 (5.49%) Record to Report
10 5 (5.49%) Supply Chain Planning
10 5 (5.49%) Waterfall
11 4 (4.40%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.79%) SQL
2 7 (7.69%) Java
3 6 (6.59%) Python
4 4 (4.40%) C#
4 4 (4.40%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.10%) Assembly Language
5 1 (1.10%) C
5 1 (1.10%) JCL
5 1 (1.10%) Natural
5 1 (1.10%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.10%) REXX
Qualifications
1 18 (19.78%) Security Cleared
2 17 (18.68%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.59%) Degree
4 5 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.40%) CISM
5 4 (4.40%) CRISC
6 3 (3.30%) CISSP
7 2 (2.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.20%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.10%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 2 (2.20%) Basel II
2 2 (2.20%) NCSC
3 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.10%) GRC
3 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (1.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.40%) Perfmon
2 2 (2.20%) FortiGate
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.20%) RSA Archer
3 1 (1.10%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (27.47%) SAP
2 11 (12.09%) IBM
3 8 (8.79%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.79%) Software AG
3 8 (8.79%) webMethods
4 6 (6.59%) Cisco
5 4 (4.40%) Ariba
5 4 (4.40%) Dynatrace
5 4 (4.40%) New Relic
5 4 (4.40%) Oracle
6 2 (2.20%) Arista
6 2 (2.20%) Aruba
6 2 (2.20%) CheckPoint
6 2 (2.20%) Guidewire
6 2 (2.20%) Mitel
6 2 (2.20%) OpenLink
6 2 (2.20%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.20%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.20%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.10%) Talend