Functional Consultant Contracts in the Midlands

Functional Consultant
England > Midlands

The median Functional Consultant daily rate in the Midlands is £563 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 145 197
Rank change year-on-year +26 +52 -56
Contract jobs requiring a Functional Consultant 11 21 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.40% 0.61% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.64% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 8
10th Percentile £463 £433 £434
25th Percentile £478 £463 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £569
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -7.69% +19.74%
75th Percentile £628 £625 £631
90th Percentile £655 £635 £658
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,509 3,279 4,924
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.01% 94.47% 95.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,697 2,308 3,602
10th Percentile £208 £223 £205
25th Percentile £325 £363 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £475 £459
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% +3.49% +14.75%
75th Percentile £588 £582 £550
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 133 179
10th Percentile £11.95 £12.00 £10.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.25 £13.74
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.11
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +16.92% +12.16%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.50 £22.00
90th Percentile £54.60 £59.50 £32.10
England median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -22.22% +100.00% +0.36%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Consultant in the Midlands over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 23 April 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
West Midlands +29 7 £575 +9.52% 4
East Midlands +15 1 £525 -
Functional Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, 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 5 (45.45%) Finance
1 5 (45.45%) SAP
1 5 (45.45%) Data Modelling
1 5 (45.45%) Replication
2 4 (36.36%) Oracle
3 3 (27.27%) ABAP
3 3 (27.27%) OO
3 3 (27.27%) SOA
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 3 (27.27%) Salesforce
3 3 (27.27%) SAP ALE
3 3 (27.27%) Web Dynpro
3 3 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (27.27%) SAP Fiori
3 3 (27.27%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (27.27%) IDoc
3 3 (27.27%) SAP MDG
4 2 (18.18%) CEMLI
4 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
4 2 (18.18%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (18.18%) GDPR
4 2 (18.18%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (18.18%) Record to Report
4 2 (18.18%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (18.18%) Cash Management
4 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 2 (18.18%) Data Migration
4 2 (18.18%) Problem Management

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 2 (18.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (27.27%) SAP MDG
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (18.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (9.09%) SAP MDG-BP
3 1 (9.09%) SAP MDG-F
3 1 (9.09%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) PowerApps
2 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Law
2 2 (18.18%) Legal
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) IDoc
1 3 (27.27%) SAP ALE
1 3 (27.27%) SAP Fiori
1 3 (27.27%) Web Dynpro
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (9.09%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Replication
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Data Modelling
2 3 (27.27%) OO
2 3 (27.27%) SOA
2 3 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) Cash Management
3 2 (18.18%) Change Control
3 2 (18.18%) Change Management
3 2 (18.18%) Data Governance
3 2 (18.18%) Data Migration
3 2 (18.18%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
3 2 (18.18%) Migration
3 2 (18.18%) Problem Management
3 2 (18.18%) Record to Report
3 2 (18.18%) Release Management
3 2 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
3 2 (18.18%) User Stories
4 1 (9.09%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) ABAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) SAP
2 4 (36.36%) Oracle
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 3 (27.27%) Salesforce