Consultant Contracts in the Home Counties

Consultant
South East > Home Counties

As of 1 May 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Consultant daily rate in the Home Counties.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 4 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Home Counties 42.86% 12.50% 4.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 50.00% 14.29% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate £556 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -3.26% -2.21% +6.91%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Home Counties

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Home Counties. 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 the Home Counties with a recognized job title 6 7 24
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.71% 87.50% 96.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 18
10th Percentile - £468 £405
25th Percentile - £476 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £503 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.49% -8.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile - £531 £763
90th Percentile - £539 £1,100
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the Home Counties

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in the Home Counties

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Home Counties

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the Home Counties.

Daily rate trend for Consultant in the Home Counties

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Home Counties

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the Home Counties.

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in the Home Counties

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Home Counties

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Home Counties region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Workshops
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Control
2 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Collection
2 1 (33.33%) Budgeting
2 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
2 1 (33.33%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Workday
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Master Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) SuccessFactors
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Demand Forecasting
2 1 (33.33%) WFM
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Home Counties 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) SuccessFactors
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Law
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Data Security
2 1 (33.33%) Demand Forecasting
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) Master Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Workshops
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) WFM
2 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Informatica
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) SAP
1 1 (33.33%) Workday