Consultant Contracts in the Midlands

Consultant
England > Midlands

The median Consultant daily rate in the Midlands is £538, 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 21 21 37
Rank change year-on-year 0 +16 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 129 165 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.74% 5.98% 5.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.48% 6.52% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 137 118
10th Percentile £435 £458 £400
25th Percentile £500 £500 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £571
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -3.72% +3.86%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £638 £730 £694
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 7
10th Percentile - - £48.50
25th Percentile - £12.13 £60.50
Median hourly rate - £12.25 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -81.44% -
75th Percentile - £12.38 £97.50
90th Percentile - - £98.50
England median hourly rate £76.25 £61.60 £66.00
% change year-on-year +23.78% -6.67% -6.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 1,725 2,532 3,256
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 91.84% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,707 2,290
10th Percentile £200 £213 £223
25th Percentile £356 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.26%
75th Percentile £552 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 213 128
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.84 £12.35
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £15.21
Median hourly rate £18.82 £19.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -2.05% +16.33%
75th Percentile £28.18 £35.00 £28.88
90th Percentile £35.58 £54.60 £61.50
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in the Midlands

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in the Midlands

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in the Midlands

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in the Midlands

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the Midlands 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
West Midlands -9 70 £550 - 115
East Midlands +13 50 £523 -5.00% 75
Consultant
England

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

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 Midlands region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 39 (30.23%) SAP
2 36 (27.91%) Social Skills
3 24 (18.60%) Finance
4 23 (17.83%) Migration
4 23 (17.83%) Microsoft
5 22 (17.05%) SAP S/4HANA
6 21 (16.28%) Azure
7 14 (10.85%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (10.08%) Security Cleared
9 12 (9.30%) Retail
9 12 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (8.53%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
10 11 (8.53%) SC Cleared
11 10 (7.75%) Degree
12 9 (6.98%) Manufacturing
12 9 (6.98%) Project Delivery
13 8 (6.20%) Power Platform
13 8 (6.20%) SuccessFactors
13 8 (6.20%) DevOps
13 8 (6.20%) Onboarding
13 8 (6.20%) ERP
13 8 (6.20%) Data Migration
13 8 (6.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 7 (5.43%) Cybersecurity
14 7 (5.43%) Data Protection
14 7 (5.43%) System Testing
14 7 (5.43%) Local Government
14 7 (5.43%) Active Directory
14 7 (5.43%) SAP MM

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (2.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.78%) IBM Notes
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 22 (17.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (5.43%) SAP MM
3 5 (3.88%) SAP CO
3 5 (3.88%) SAP FI
4 4 (3.10%) Primavera
4 4 (3.10%) SAP HR
4 4 (3.10%) SAP Payroll
4 4 (3.10%) SAP PP
5 3 (2.33%) SAP BPC
5 3 (2.33%) SAP ERP
5 3 (2.33%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (2.33%) SAP SD
6 2 (1.55%) SAP CCM
6 2 (1.55%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.78%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.78%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.78%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 21 (16.28%) Azure
2 11 (8.53%) Dynamics 365
3 8 (6.20%) Power Platform
3 8 (6.20%) SuccessFactors
4 6 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (4.65%) Entra ID
5 4 (3.10%) PowerApps
6 3 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.33%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.55%) AWS
7 2 (1.55%) Copilot Studio
7 2 (1.55%) GCP
8 1 (0.78%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.78%) IaaS
8 1 (0.78%) OCI
8 1 (0.78%) PaaS
8 1 (0.78%) SaaS
8 1 (0.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.10%) Firewall
2 3 (2.33%) Network Security
3 2 (1.55%) BGP
3 2 (1.55%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (1.55%) LAN
3 2 (1.55%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.55%) Unified Communications
3 2 (1.55%) VoIP
3 2 (1.55%) WAN
3 2 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.78%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.78%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.78%) DKIM
4 1 (0.78%) DSL
4 1 (0.78%) FTP
4 1 (0.78%) OSPF
4 1 (0.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.88%) Power BI
1 5 (3.88%) SAP HANA
2 2 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.55%) SAP BW
3 1 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.78%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.78%) MS Access
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.78%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.78%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.78%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.78%) UniData
Development Applications
1 3 (2.33%) JIRA
General
1 36 (27.91%) Social Skills
2 24 (18.60%) Finance
3 12 (9.30%) Retail
4 11 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.98%) Manufacturing
6 7 (5.43%) Local Government
6 7 (5.43%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.65%) Legal
8 5 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.33%) Law
10 2 (1.55%) Automotive
10 2 (1.55%) Banking
10 2 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.55%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.78%) Back Office
11 1 (0.78%) Games
11 1 (0.78%) Marketing
11 1 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.33%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (1.55%) EDI
2 2 (1.55%) IDoc
2 2 (1.55%) LDAP
2 2 (1.55%) REST
2 2 (1.55%) SailPoint
2 2 (1.55%) SAP PI
3 1 (0.78%) ADO
3 1 (0.78%) BAPI
3 1 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.78%) EntireX
3 1 (0.78%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (0.78%) OAuth
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.78%) SAML
3 1 (0.78%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.20%) Onboarding
2 6 (4.65%) Data Centre
2 6 (4.65%) Security Posture
3 5 (3.88%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.55%) Credit Risk
4 2 (1.55%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (1.55%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (0.78%) FMCG
5 1 (0.78%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.78%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.78%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.78%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.55%) Linux
2 1 (0.78%) Windows
2 1 (0.78%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (17.83%) Migration
2 14 (10.85%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (6.98%) Project Delivery
5 8 (6.20%) Data Migration
5 8 (6.20%) DevOps
5 8 (6.20%) ERP
5 8 (6.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (5.43%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (5.43%) Data Protection
6 7 (5.43%) System Testing
7 6 (4.65%) Analytics
7 6 (4.65%) Decision-Making
7 6 (4.65%) Incident Response
7 6 (4.65%) Inventory Management
7 6 (4.65%) Logistics
7 6 (4.65%) Roadmaps
7 6 (4.65%) Translating Business Requirements
7 6 (4.65%) User Acceptance Testing
7 6 (4.65%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.65%) SQL
2 3 (2.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.78%) Apex Code
3 1 (0.78%) Bash
3 1 (0.78%) C++
3 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
3 1 (0.78%) Python
3 1 (0.78%) R
3 1 (0.78%) UniBasic
Qualifications
1 13 (10.08%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.53%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.75%) Degree
4 4 (3.10%) CISM
4 4 (3.10%) CISSP
5 3 (2.33%) Chartered Engineer
5 3 (2.33%) MRICS
6 2 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.55%) CCIE
6 2 (1.55%) CISA
6 2 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.55%) CRISC
7 1 (0.78%) CCIE Wireless
7 1 (0.78%) CCNP
7 1 (0.78%) CEH
7 1 (0.78%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 1 (0.78%) MBA
7 1 (0.78%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.78%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.65%) GRC
2 4 (3.10%) NIST
3 3 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.78%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.78%) GAAP
5 1 (0.78%) GDPR
5 1 (0.78%) IFRS
5 1 (0.78%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (5.43%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (3.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.33%) AirWatch
2 3 (2.33%) FortiGate
2 3 (2.33%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (2.33%) SCCM
3 2 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.55%) Terraform
4 1 (0.78%) Ansible
4 1 (0.78%) Kibana
4 1 (0.78%) logstash
4 1 (0.78%) QRadar
Vendors
1 39 (30.23%) SAP
2 23 (17.83%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.88%) VMware
4 4 (3.10%) Cisco
4 4 (3.10%) Oracle
5 2 (1.55%) Aruba
5 2 (1.55%) Concur
5 2 (1.55%) CyberArk
5 2 (1.55%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.55%) Fujitsu
5 2 (1.55%) IBM
5 2 (1.55%) Mitel
5 2 (1.55%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.55%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.78%) IFS
6 1 (0.78%) Marketo
6 1 (0.78%) RedPrairie
6 1 (0.78%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.78%) Splunk
6 1 (0.78%) Veeam