Functional Consultant Contracts in the Midlands

Functional Consultant
England > Midlands

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 122 149
Rank change year-on-year +14 +27 +47
Contract jobs requiring a Functional Consultant 3 11 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.16% 0.40% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.43% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 10 11
10th Percentile - £463 £425
25th Percentile - £478 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -12.50%
75th Percentile - £628 £625
90th Percentile - £655 £638
England median daily rate £600 £563 £575
% change year-on-year +6.71% -2.17% +4.55%

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%

Functional Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Consultant in the Midlands

Functional Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Consultant in the Midlands

Functional 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 Functional 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 2 - - 5
East Midlands +10 1 - - 2
Functional Consultant
England

Functional Consultant Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

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

1 2 (66.67%) Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (33.33%) Apex Code
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security
2 1 (33.33%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Batch Processing
2 1 (33.33%) OCI
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce

Functional 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 1 (33.33%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) OCI
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security
2 1 (33.33%) Batch Processing
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Apex Code
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce