Consultant Contracts in the South East

Consultant
England > South East

The median Consultant daily rate in the South East is £578 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 35 50
Rank change year-on-year +8 +15 -23
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 327 347 345
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 5.92% 5.95% 4.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.39% 6.30% 4.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 226 218
10th Percentile £425 £450 £372
25th Percentile £500 £511 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £586 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.45% +6.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £678 £690 £636
90th Percentile £761 £750 £700
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 4
10th Percentile £52.90 £55.94 £42.50
25th Percentile £54.42 £60.00 £65.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £64.68 £82.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.75% -21.61% +33.06%
75th Percentile - £72.80 £87.50
90th Percentile £62.96 £83.98 -
England median hourly rate £60.80 £66.00 £70.50
% change year-on-year -7.88% -6.38% +22.61%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,114 5,511 7,446
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.54% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,065 3,843 5,039
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £615 £606 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 478 238 337
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.18 £15.63
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.45 £43.50
90th Percentile £76.90 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in the South East

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in the South East

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in the South East

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in the South East

Consultant
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Consultant in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Consultant in the South East

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 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
Thames Valley +2 209 £605 +0.83% 57
Berkshire -5 178 £625 +4.17% 28
Hampshire +8 73 £582 -1.59% 23
Buckinghamshire +27 23 £475 -18.45% 13
West Sussex +5 14 £515 +3.00% 2
Surrey -5 10 £530 -3.64% 22
Oxfordshire +7 8 £475 -9.52% 16
East Sussex +7 4 £475 -20.83% 9
Kent +4 4 £540 +27.06% 7
M4 Corridor - 2 £510 -
Home Counties +4 1 - -
Middlesex +3 1 - -
Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 South East region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 124 (37.92%) Security Cleared
2 119 (36.39%) SAP
3 79 (24.16%) SC Cleared
4 70 (21.41%) Social Skills
5 62 (18.96%) DV Cleared
6 49 (14.98%) Finance
7 45 (13.76%) Cybersecurity
8 37 (11.31%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (11.01%) Oracle
10 33 (10.09%) Public Sector
11 29 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
12 27 (8.26%) Workshop Facilitation
13 26 (7.95%) SAP QM
14 25 (7.65%) Microsoft
14 25 (7.65%) Telecoms
14 25 (7.65%) Roadmaps
15 24 (7.34%) PLM
15 24 (7.34%) Agile
16 23 (7.03%) Azure
17 22 (6.73%) User Acceptance Testing
18 21 (6.42%) Information Security
18 21 (6.42%) Migration
19 18 (5.50%) GAP Analysis
19 18 (5.50%) Rational DOORS
20 17 (5.20%) Oracle EBS R12
20 17 (5.20%) SAP S/4HANA
20 17 (5.20%) Robotics
20 17 (5.20%) Business Strategy
21 16 (4.89%) NIST
21 16 (4.89%) Analogue Electronics

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (1.22%) NetWeaver
2 3 (0.92%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 26 (7.95%) SAP QM
2 17 (5.20%) Oracle EBS R12
2 17 (5.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (4.59%) SAP EWM
4 14 (4.28%) SAP PSCD
5 13 (3.98%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 10 (3.06%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (2.75%) SAP BRIM
7 9 (2.75%) SAP Hybris
8 7 (2.14%) Maximo
9 6 (1.83%) SAP FI
10 4 (1.22%) SAP IBP
11 3 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
11 3 (0.92%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.92%) Oracle Receivables
11 3 (0.92%) SAP CO
11 3 (0.92%) SAP FI/CO
11 3 (0.92%) SAP FI-CA
11 3 (0.92%) SAP PLM
12 2 (0.61%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 23 (7.03%) Azure
2 11 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (2.75%) Power Platform
3 9 (2.75%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 8 (2.45%) AWS
4 8 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (2.14%) SuccessFactors
6 5 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.22%) SaaS
8 3 (0.92%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (0.92%) Amazon S3
8 3 (0.92%) Entra ID
8 3 (0.92%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (0.61%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (0.61%) IaaS
9 2 (0.61%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.31%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.89%) Ethernet
1 16 (4.89%) Network Security
2 15 (4.59%) Radio Access Network
3 11 (3.36%) Firewall
4 9 (2.75%) 3G
4 9 (2.75%) 4G
4 9 (2.75%) 5G
5 5 (1.53%) VPN
6 4 (1.22%) DNS
6 4 (1.22%) WAN
7 3 (0.92%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (0.92%) FTP
7 3 (0.92%) Internet
7 3 (0.92%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.61%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.61%) LAN
8 2 (0.61%) NX-OS
8 2 (0.61%) VSAN
9 1 (0.31%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.67%) Oracle Database
2 11 (3.36%) SAP HANA
3 8 (2.45%) Power BI
4 5 (1.53%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.22%) SAP BW
6 3 (0.92%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (0.92%) Oracle Database 11g
6 3 (0.92%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.61%) BusinessObjects XI
7 2 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.61%) MySQL
7 2 (0.61%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.31%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.31%) Power Query
8 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.31%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (5.50%) Rational DOORS
2 10 (3.06%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (1.22%) JIRA
4 1 (0.31%) NWDI
4 1 (0.31%) NWDS
General
1 70 (21.41%) Social Skills
2 49 (14.98%) Finance
3 33 (10.09%) Public Sector
4 29 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (7.65%) Telecoms
6 16 (4.89%) Electronics
7 11 (3.36%) Billing
8 8 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.14%) Retail
10 6 (1.83%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.22%) French Language
12 4 (1.22%) German Language
13 3 (0.92%) Banking
13 3 (0.92%) Marketing
13 3 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.61%) Military
14 2 (0.61%) Polish Language
15 1 (0.31%) Advertising
15 1 (0.31%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.67%) SAP Basis
2 10 (3.06%) SAP Fiori
3 3 (0.92%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (0.92%) Visualforce
4 2 (0.61%) CSS
4 2 (0.61%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.61%) HTML
4 2 (0.61%) Web Services
4 2 (0.61%) XML
5 1 (0.31%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.31%) IDoc
5 1 (0.31%) Kafka
5 1 (0.31%) React
5 1 (0.31%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.31%) REST
5 1 (0.31%) SOAP
5 1 (0.31%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.20%) Robotics
2 16 (4.89%) Analogue Electronics
3 12 (3.67%) Operational Technology
4 10 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.45%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.22%) IoT
6 4 (1.22%) Public Cloud
7 3 (0.92%) CMDB
7 3 (0.92%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (0.92%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 3 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (0.92%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.61%) iPad
8 2 (0.61%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.61%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (0.61%) SCADA
8 2 (0.61%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.31%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.89%) Linux
2 15 (4.59%) Windows
3 8 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (2.45%) Unix
4 1 (0.31%) Android
4 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (13.76%) Cybersecurity
2 37 (11.31%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (8.26%) Workshop Facilitation
4 25 (7.65%) Roadmaps
5 24 (7.34%) Agile
5 24 (7.34%) PLM
6 22 (6.73%) User Acceptance Testing
7 21 (6.42%) Information Security
7 21 (6.42%) Migration
8 18 (5.50%) GAP Analysis
9 17 (5.20%) Business Strategy
10 16 (4.89%) Integration Testing
10 16 (4.89%) Procure-to-Pay
10 16 (4.89%) Prototyping
10 16 (4.89%) Requirements Management
10 16 (4.89%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (4.89%) Systems Engineering
11 15 (4.59%) Design for Manufacturing
11 15 (4.59%) Regulatory Compliance
11 15 (4.59%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 12 (3.67%) SQL
2 10 (3.06%) PowerShell
3 5 (1.53%) ABAP
4 3 (0.92%) PL/SQL
5 2 (0.61%) Ada
5 2 (0.61%) C
5 2 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.61%) Groovy
5 2 (0.61%) Java
5 2 (0.61%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.31%) PHP
6 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 124 (37.92%) Security Cleared
2 79 (24.16%) SC Cleared
3 62 (18.96%) DV Cleared
4 10 (3.06%) CISSP
5 8 (2.45%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (2.45%) CISM
6 7 (2.14%) CRISC
7 6 (1.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 6 (1.83%) CISA
7 6 (1.83%) CISMP
7 6 (1.83%) Degree
7 6 (1.83%) SAP Certification
8 5 (1.53%) ISACA
9 4 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.31%) ACCA
11 1 (0.31%) CCIE
11 1 (0.31%) CCNP
11 1 (0.31%) CCSP
11 1 (0.31%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.89%) NIST
2 14 (4.28%) GDPR
3 13 (3.98%) COBIT
4 10 (3.06%) GRC
4 10 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.53%) IFRS
6 3 (0.92%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.92%) QA
7 2 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.31%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.31%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.31%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.31%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (1.53%) VMware NSX
2 3 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.61%) vSphere
4 1 (0.31%) Firmware
4 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.22%) VxRail
2 3 (0.92%) Terraform
3 2 (0.61%) Ansible
3 2 (0.61%) Grafana
3 2 (0.61%) Graylog
3 2 (0.61%) Nagios
3 2 (0.61%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.61%) vCenter Server
3 2 (0.61%) vRealize
4 1 (0.31%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.31%) Nessus
Vendors
1 119 (36.39%) SAP
2 36 (11.01%) Oracle
3 25 (7.65%) Microsoft
4 11 (3.36%) ArcSight
5 10 (3.06%) VMware
6 5 (1.53%) CyberArk
6 5 (1.53%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.22%) Concur
7 4 (1.22%) Informatica
8 3 (0.92%) Cisco
8 3 (0.92%) EMC
8 3 (0.92%) Juniper
8 3 (0.92%) Palo Alto
8 3 (0.92%) Sage
8 3 (0.92%) Splunk
9 2 (0.61%) IBM
9 2 (0.61%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.31%) BMC
10 1 (0.31%) Dell
10 1 (0.31%) Siemens