Functional Consultant Contracts in the South West

Functional Consultant
England > South West

The median Functional Consultant daily rate in the South West is £575, 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 107 155 165
Rank change year-on-year +48 +10 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Functional Consultant 4 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.24% 0.063% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.067% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £540 - £591
25th Percentile £544 - £634
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £713
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -29.82% +31.94%
75th Percentile £644 - £784
90th Percentile £663 - £824
England median daily rate £600 £563 £575
% change year-on-year +6.71% -2.17% +4.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 1,546 2,986 3,354
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 93.34% 92.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,007 1,903 2,516
10th Percentile £220 £208 £263
25th Percentile £386 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £620 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 400 267
10th Percentile £18.51 £14.00 £18.09
25th Percentile £26.62 £27.50 £50.62
Median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% -15.38% +38.30%
75th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £85.00
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Consultant in the South West

Functional Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Consultant in the South West

Functional Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West 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
Bristol - 2 £600 - 1
Wiltshire +32 1 £575 +15.00%
Gloucestershire - 1 - - 2
Functional Consultant
England

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

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 South West region featuring Functional Consultant in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) General Ledger
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (25.00%) Cash Management
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (25.00%) Issue Tracking
2 1 (25.00%) Order to Cash
2 1 (25.00%) Workday
2 1 (25.00%) Supply Chain Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (25.00%) Accounts Receivable
2 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Change
2 1 (25.00%) OCI
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle SCM

Functional Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (25.00%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) General Ledger
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Accounts Receivable
1 1 (25.00%) Agile
1 1 (25.00%) Analytics
1 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Cash Management
1 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (25.00%) Issue Tracking
1 1 (25.00%) ITSM
1 1 (25.00%) Order to Cash
1 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Change
1 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (25.00%) Supply Chain Planning
1 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Workday