Functional Consultant Contract Job Trends in London

Functional Consultant
England > London

The median Functional Consultant daily rate in London is £534, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 295 310
Rank change year-on-year -29 +15 +77
Contract jobs requiring a Functional Consultant 132 76 78
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.66% 0.57% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.61% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 45 45
10th Percentile £413 £415 £450
25th Percentile £463 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% - -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £718 £745 £733
England median daily rate £515 £553 £575
% change year-on-year -6.79% -3.91% +10.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.40 -
England median hourly rate £80.50 £27.40 £64.52
% change year-on-year +193.80% -57.53% -4.76%

All Contract IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 18,789 12,374 15,247
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 92.70% 94.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,111 8,285 10,262
10th Percentile £363 £325 £343
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 382 207 182
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.00 £17.54
25th Percentile £21.95 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £39.50 £30.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.51% -12.86% -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.25 £57.13
90th Percentile £81.25 £66.34 £74.69
England median hourly rate £43.08 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +71.27% -47.05% +5.56%

Functional Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Functional Consultant' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Functional Consultant job vacancy trend in London

Functional Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Functional Consultant job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Functional Consultant job vacancies in London

Functional Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Consultant in London over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Consultant in London

Functional Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Functional Consultant job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Functional Consultant job vacancies in London

Functional Consultant
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 14 September 2026. 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
Central London -8 18 £581 +36.76% 10
West London - 9 £475 -
South London - 1 - -
East London - 1 - -
Functional Consultant
England

Functional Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 14 September 2026, Functional Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Functional Consultant in the job title.

1 66 (50.00%) Oracle
2 36 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
3 28 (21.21%) Dynamics 365
3 28 (21.21%) Stakeholder Management
4 24 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 24 (18.18%) Migration
5 22 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
6 21 (15.91%) Oracle Fusion
6 21 (15.91%) Security Cleared
7 20 (15.15%) ERP
8 19 (14.39%) Data Migration
8 19 (14.39%) Workshop Facilitation
9 16 (12.12%) SAP
9 16 (12.12%) System Integration Testing
10 15 (11.36%) CRM
10 15 (11.36%) Dynamics CRM
11 14 (10.61%) Oracle EBS
11 14 (10.61%) Validation
12 13 (9.85%) Azure
12 13 (9.85%) Oracle Payables
12 13 (9.85%) Procure-to-Pay
12 13 (9.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 12 (9.09%) Power Platform
14 11 (8.33%) SC Cleared
15 10 (7.58%) Business Intelligence
15 10 (7.58%) Oracle EBS R12
15 10 (7.58%) Oracle ERP
15 10 (7.58%) Oracle General Ledger
15 10 (7.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
15 10 (7.58%) WFM

Functional Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.03%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 15 (11.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (10.61%) Oracle EBS
3 13 (9.85%) Oracle Payables
4 10 (7.58%) Oracle EBS R12
4 10 (7.58%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (7.58%) Oracle General Ledger
4 10 (7.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 8 (6.06%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (4.55%) Oracle Cash Management
6 6 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
7 5 (3.79%) Oracle Assets
7 5 (3.79%) Workday HCM
8 4 (3.03%) Dynamics AX
8 4 (3.03%) Oracle iProcurement
8 4 (3.03%) Oracle Payroll
8 4 (3.03%) Oracle SCM
9 3 (2.27%) Dynamics NAV
9 3 (2.27%) SAP SD
10 2 (1.52%) Oracle Applications
10 2 (1.52%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 28 (21.21%) Dynamics 365
2 13 (9.85%) Azure
3 12 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 9 (6.82%) Power Automate
5 8 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (6.06%) OCI
6 6 (4.55%) SuccessFactors
7 4 (3.03%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.52%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.52%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.52%) Boomi
8 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.52%) Serverless
9 1 (0.76%) iPaaS
9 1 (0.76%) SaaS
9 1 (0.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.82%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (3.79%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 4 (3.03%) Power BI
3 4 (3.03%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.76%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 6 (4.55%) Oracle Forms
General
1 48 (36.36%) Finance
2 18 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 12 (9.09%) General Ledger
4 8 (6.06%) Banking
5 7 (5.30%) Billing
6 6 (4.55%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.79%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.79%) Legal
7 5 (3.79%) Local Government
7 5 (3.79%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.27%) Law
8 3 (2.27%) Retail
9 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (15.91%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (5.30%) Middleware
3 4 (3.03%) SAP Fiori
4 3 (2.27%) XML
5 2 (1.52%) JSON
5 2 (1.52%) REST
5 2 (1.52%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.06%) Onboarding
2 4 (3.03%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.27%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.76%) IoT
5 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.76%) NHS
5 1 (0.76%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
2 28 (21.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 24 (18.18%) Migration
4 22 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
5 20 (15.15%) ERP
6 19 (14.39%) Data Migration
6 19 (14.39%) Workshop Facilitation
7 16 (12.12%) System Integration Testing
8 15 (11.36%) CRM
9 14 (10.61%) Validation
10 13 (9.85%) Procure-to-Pay
10 13 (9.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 10 (7.58%) Business Intelligence
11 10 (7.58%) WFM
12 9 (6.82%) DevOps
12 9 (6.82%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (6.82%) Process Improvement
12 9 (6.82%) Project Delivery
12 9 (6.82%) Translating Business Requirements
13 8 (6.06%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 9 (6.82%) SQL
2 6 (4.55%) PL/SQL
3 1 (0.76%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 21 (15.91%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.03%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.27%) Degree
5 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.52%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.52%) Data Quality
1 2 (1.52%) GRC
1 2 (1.52%) NIST
1 2 (1.52%) QA
1 2 (1.52%) SLA
2 1 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 66 (50.00%) Oracle
2 24 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 16 (12.12%) SAP
4 5 (3.79%) Workday
5 4 (3.03%) Kronos
5 4 (3.03%) Talend
6 2 (1.52%) Dell
6 2 (1.52%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.76%) Ariba
7 1 (0.76%) Concur
7 1 (0.76%) Infor
7 1 (0.76%) JD Edwards
7 1 (0.76%) Maconomy
7 1 (0.76%) PeopleSoft
7 1 (0.76%) Salesforce