Senior Consultant Contracts in England

Senior Consultant
UK > England

The median Senior Consultant daily rate in England is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 422 579 643
Rank change year-on-year +157 +64 -204
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Consultant 120 82 157
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.33% 0.16% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.17% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 47 81
10th Percentile £398 £460 £481
25th Percentile £468 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £681 £725 £725
90th Percentile £763 £823 £788
UK median daily rate £582 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.97% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £51.78 - -
25th Percentile £54.46 £55.94 £75.00
Median hourly rate £56.89 £56.89 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -28.89% -
75th Percentile £59.63 £57.83 £85.00
90th Percentile £62.87 - -
UK median hourly rate £56.89 £56.89 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +13.77% -

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 34,183 47,267 67,930
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,703 33,560 48,361
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,401 1,881
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 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 +135 65 £575 -6.12% 146
North of England +42 14 £600 +20.00% 25
South East +21 14 £435 -5.43% 32
Midlands +34 9 £485 -28.15% 20
West Midlands +28 9 £485 -28.15% 18
North West +32 8 £675 +35.00% 16
South West +25 8 £550 +4.76% 19
East of England +22 7 £571 -26.32% 10
Yorkshire +25 6 £355 -38.26% 6
Senior Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, 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 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 27 (22.50%) SAP
3 23 (19.17%) Finance
4 21 (17.50%) AWS
4 21 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (14.17%) Agile
6 16 (13.33%) Microsoft
7 15 (12.50%) Security Cleared
7 15 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
7 15 (12.50%) Azure
7 15 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (10.83%) DevOps
9 12 (10.00%) CI/CD
9 12 (10.00%) Roadmaps
9 12 (10.00%) SC Cleared
10 11 (9.17%) CRM
10 11 (9.17%) Migration
11 10 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (7.50%) Customer Experience
12 9 (7.50%) Public Sector
12 9 (7.50%) Analytics
12 9 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
13 8 (6.67%) Banking
13 8 (6.67%) Java
13 8 (6.67%) Data Protection
13 8 (6.67%) Digital Marketing
13 8 (6.67%) Marketing
14 7 (5.83%) Asset Management
14 7 (5.83%) Oracle
14 7 (5.83%) Python

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 3 (2.50%) CMS
2 2 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.83%) Apache
3 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.83%) Confluence
3 1 (0.83%) GemFire
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (5.00%) SAP SD
3 4 (3.33%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (1.67%) SAP BPC
4 2 (1.67%) SAP Business One
4 2 (1.67%) SAP HCM
4 2 (1.67%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.83%) SAP Business ByDesign
5 1 (0.83%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.83%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.83%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.83%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.83%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 21 (17.50%) AWS
2 15 (12.50%) Azure
3 6 (5.00%) GCP
4 4 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (3.33%) Amazon S3
4 4 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (3.33%) CloudFront
4 4 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (3.33%) Power Platform
4 4 (3.33%) Serverless
5 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (2.50%) SaaS
5 3 (2.50%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (1.67%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.83%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.83%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.83%) OCI
7 1 (0.83%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.83%) PaaS
7 1 (0.83%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.00%) Network Security
2 5 (4.17%) 3G
2 5 (4.17%) 4G
2 5 (4.17%) 5G
2 5 (4.17%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.83%) AMQP
3 1 (0.83%) Firewall
3 1 (0.83%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.83%) NAS
3 1 (0.83%) SAN
3 1 (0.83%) SSH
3 1 (0.83%) SSL
3 1 (0.83%) VLAN
3 1 (0.83%) VPN
3 1 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.00%) SAP BW
2 4 (3.33%) DynamoDB
2 4 (3.33%) Power BI
3 3 (2.50%) SAP HANA
4 2 (1.67%) Oracle BI EE
4 2 (1.67%) Oracle ODI
4 2 (1.67%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.83%) Adabas
5 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.83%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.83%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.83%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.83%) Redis
5 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (5.00%) Git
2 4 (3.33%) Cypress.io
2 4 (3.33%) Maven
2 4 (3.33%) Protractor
3 2 (1.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.67%) JIRA
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle Forms
General
1 36 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 23 (19.17%) Finance
3 15 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.67%) Banking
5 8 (6.67%) Marketing
6 5 (4.17%) Legal
6 5 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (4.17%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.50%) Billing
7 3 (2.50%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.67%) Automotive
8 2 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.67%) Retail
8 2 (1.67%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.83%) Electronics
9 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.83%) Swedish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.00%) Middleware
2 5 (4.17%) AngularJS
3 4 (3.33%) Jest
3 4 (3.33%) Node.js
4 2 (1.67%) HTML
4 2 (1.67%) REST
5 1 (0.83%) Ajax
5 1 (0.83%) EDI
5 1 (0.83%) EntireX
5 1 (0.83%) JMS
5 1 (0.83%) JSON
5 1 (0.83%) Murex MxML
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.83%) React
5 1 (0.83%) RESTful
5 1 (0.83%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.83%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.83%) SAP TM
5 1 (0.83%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.17%) Onboarding
1 5 (4.17%) Public Cloud
2 4 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.50%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.50%) Reinsurance
4 2 (1.67%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.67%) IoT
4 2 (1.67%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (1.67%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.67%) Replication
4 2 (1.67%) Social Media
4 2 (1.67%) Video Editing
5 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.83%) Eurex
5 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.17%) Linux
2 3 (2.50%) Windows
3 1 (0.83%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (14.17%) Agile
3 13 (10.83%) DevOps
4 12 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 12 (10.00%) Roadmaps
5 11 (9.17%) CRM
5 11 (9.17%) Migration
6 10 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (7.50%) Analytics
7 9 (7.50%) Customer Experience
7 9 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (6.67%) Data Protection
8 8 (6.67%) Digital Marketing
9 7 (5.83%) Asset Management
9 7 (5.83%) Conflict Resolution
9 7 (5.83%) Decision-Making
9 7 (5.83%) Workshop Facilitation
10 6 (5.00%) Cloud Security
10 6 (5.00%) Data Modelling
10 6 (5.00%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 8 (6.67%) Java
2 7 (5.83%) Python
3 5 (4.17%) Bash
4 4 (3.33%) SQL
5 3 (2.50%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.83%) ABAP
6 1 (0.83%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.83%) Natural
6 1 (0.83%) Perl
6 1 (0.83%) PHP
6 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.17%) AWS Certification
3 5 (4.17%) Degree
4 4 (3.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.83%) CISM
5 1 (0.83%) CISSP
5 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.83%) ISACA
5 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.83%) OCP
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.33%) GRC
2 4 (3.33%) NIST
3 3 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.67%) GDPR
4 2 (1.67%) GxP
4 2 (1.67%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.83%) COBIT
5 1 (0.83%) QA
System Software
1 6 (5.00%) Docker
2 2 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.83%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.83%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 6 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.17%) Terraform
3 3 (2.50%) Ansible
4 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.67%) Puppet
5 1 (0.83%) Grafana
5 1 (0.83%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.83%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.83%) vRealize
Vendors
1 27 (22.50%) SAP
2 16 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.83%) Oracle
4 4 (3.33%) SimCorp
4 4 (3.33%) VMware
5 3 (2.50%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.50%) Virgin Media
6 2 (1.67%) Adobe
6 2 (1.67%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.83%) Ariba
7 1 (0.83%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.83%) EMC
7 1 (0.83%) Genesys
7 1 (0.83%) Hyperion
7 1 (0.83%) IBM
7 1 (0.83%) Murex
7 1 (0.83%) Reuters
7 1 (0.83%) Software AG
7 1 (0.83%) Symantec
7 1 (0.83%) Veritas