Functional Consultant Contracts in Reading

Functional Consultant
Berkshire > Reading

The median Functional Consultant daily rate in Reading is £625, 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 36 68 66
Rank change year-on-year +32 -2 +26
Contract jobs requiring a Functional Consultant 24 23 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 4.02% 1.93% 2.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.26% 2.07% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 20 19
10th Percentile £568 £548 £568
25th Percentile £591 £595 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £586
Median % change year-on-year - +6.66% -14.14%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £685
90th Percentile £650 - £688
Berkshire median daily rate £625 £625 £596
% change year-on-year - +4.95% -10.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £58.72 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £58.72 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 563 1,112 996
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 93.29% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 632 664
10th Percentile £325 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% -3.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £651
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 51 24
10th Percentile - £35.00 £26.45
25th Percentile - £52.90 £51.48
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -5.23% +150.00%
75th Percentile £71.80 £74.66 £74.20
90th Percentile £75.03 £87.46 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
% change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%

Functional Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Consultant in Reading

Functional Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Consultant in Reading

Functional Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Functional Consultant in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Functional Consultant in Reading

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

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 Reading region featuring Functional Consultant in the job title.

1 23 (95.83%) Oracle EBS
1 23 (95.83%) Oracle
2 22 (91.67%) Oracle EBS R12
3 21 (87.50%) Project Delivery
4 20 (83.33%) Social Skills
5 17 (70.83%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (70.83%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (54.17%) Oracle ASCP
6 13 (54.17%) Maximo
6 13 (54.17%) E-business
7 10 (41.67%) Finance
8 9 (37.50%) Logistics
9 4 (16.67%) Project Management
9 4 (16.67%) Oracle Financials
10 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
10 1 (4.17%) CyberArk
10 1 (4.17%) PuTTY
10 1 (4.17%) WinSCP
10 1 (4.17%) Dynatrace
10 1 (4.17%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (4.17%) Maven
10 1 (4.17%) Problem Management
10 1 (4.17%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (4.17%) User Acceptance Testing
10 1 (4.17%) Git
10 1 (4.17%) Splunk
10 1 (4.17%) Root Cause Analysis
10 1 (4.17%) Build Automation
10 1 (4.17%) Validation
10 1 (4.17%) ITSM

Functional Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Business Applications
1 23 (95.83%) Oracle EBS
2 22 (91.67%) Oracle EBS R12
3 13 (54.17%) Maximo
3 13 (54.17%) Oracle ASCP
4 4 (16.67%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (4.17%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) PuTTY
1 1 (4.17%) WinSCP
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Git
1 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.17%) Maven
1 1 (4.17%) Toad
General
1 20 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 17 (70.83%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (41.67%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (87.50%) Project Delivery
2 17 (70.83%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (54.17%) E-business
4 9 (37.50%) Logistics
5 4 (16.67%) Project Management
6 1 (4.17%) Build Automation
6 1 (4.17%) CI/CD
6 1 (4.17%) Client Onboarding
6 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Maintenance
6 1 (4.17%) ITSM
6 1 (4.17%) Problem Management
6 1 (4.17%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (4.17%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (4.17%) Validation
6 1 (4.17%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
1 1 (4.17%) SQL
Vendors
1 23 (95.83%) Oracle
2 1 (4.17%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (4.17%) CyberArk
2 1 (4.17%) Dynatrace
2 1 (4.17%) Remedy
2 1 (4.17%) Splunk