Functional Consultant Contracts in the Thames Valley

Functional Consultant
South East > Thames Valley

The median Functional Consultant daily rate in the Thames Valley is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 108 133
Rank change year-on-year +28 +25 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Functional Consultant 23 31 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.54% 1.19% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.66% 1.29% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 25 11
10th Percentile £563 £440 £513
25th Percentile £588 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £586
Median % change year-on-year - +6.66% -9.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £664
90th Percentile - £688 £685
South East median daily rate £619 £605 £586
% change year-on-year +2.27% +3.24% -9.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.80 -
South East median hourly rate - £55.80 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,383 2,412 2,675
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 92.63% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 861 1,381 1,843
10th Percentile £263 £213 £300
25th Percentile £400 £370 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 183 78
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.55 £17.11
25th Percentile £15.25 £19.25 £20.25
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £46.70
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -3.64% +168.08%
75th Percentile £65.62 £62.25 £66.16
90th Percentile £77.19 £85.57 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £32.05 £47.50 £48.70
% change year-on-year -32.53% -2.46% +143.49%

Functional Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Consultant in the Thames Valley

Functional Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Consultant in the Thames Valley

Functional Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Consultant in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Consultant in the Thames Valley

Functional Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Functional Consultant in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Functional Consultant in the Thames Valley

Functional Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 20 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
Berkshire +28 22 £625 - 9
Oxfordshire -2 1 £600 +29.73% 4
Functional Consultant
South East

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 Thames Valley region featuring Functional Consultant in the job title.

1 19 (82.61%) Oracle EBS
1 19 (82.61%) Oracle
2 18 (78.26%) Oracle EBS R12
3 15 (65.22%) Social Skills
4 14 (60.87%) Project Delivery
5 13 (56.52%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (47.83%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (39.13%) Oracle ASCP
7 9 (39.13%) Maximo
7 9 (39.13%) Finance
8 7 (30.43%) E-business
8 7 (30.43%) Logistics
9 4 (17.39%) Oracle Financials
9 4 (17.39%) User Acceptance Testing
9 4 (17.39%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (17.39%) Project Management
10 2 (8.70%) Accounts Payable
10 2 (8.70%) Workshop Facilitation
10 2 (8.70%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (8.70%) Order Management
10 2 (8.70%) Procure-to-Pay
10 2 (8.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 2 (8.70%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (8.70%) Oracle Cash Management
10 2 (8.70%) Oracle Assets
10 2 (8.70%) Oracle E-Business Tax
10 2 (8.70%) Oracle AGIS
10 2 (8.70%) Oracle iProcurement
10 2 (8.70%) Cash Management
10 2 (8.70%) Functional Testing

Functional Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 19 (82.61%) Oracle EBS
2 18 (78.26%) Oracle EBS R12
3 9 (39.13%) Maximo
3 9 (39.13%) Oracle ASCP
4 4 (17.39%) Oracle Financials
4 4 (17.39%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (8.70%) Oracle AGIS
5 2 (8.70%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (8.70%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (8.70%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 2 (8.70%) Oracle iProcurement
5 2 (8.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (8.70%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (4.35%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (4.35%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (4.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.70%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (4.35%) Azure
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) PuTTY
1 1 (4.35%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Git
1 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.35%) Maven
1 1 (4.35%) Postman
1 1 (4.35%) Selenium
1 1 (4.35%) Toad
General
1 15 (65.22%) Social Skills
2 11 (47.83%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (39.13%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
1 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Project Delivery
2 13 (56.52%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (30.43%) E-business
3 7 (30.43%) Logistics
4 4 (17.39%) Project Management
4 4 (17.39%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (8.70%) Accounts Payable
5 2 (8.70%) Cash Management
5 2 (8.70%) ERP
5 2 (8.70%) Functional Testing
5 2 (8.70%) Order Management
5 2 (8.70%) Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (8.70%) Validation
5 2 (8.70%) Workshop Facilitation
6 1 (4.35%) CI/CD
6 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Maintenance
6 1 (4.35%) Inventory Management
6 1 (4.35%) Optimization Problems
6 1 (4.35%) Product Backlog
6 1 (4.35%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.35%) Java
1 1 (4.35%) Python
1 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
1 1 (4.35%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) QA
Vendors
1 19 (82.61%) Oracle
2 1 (4.35%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (4.35%) CyberArk
2 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Remedy
2 1 (4.35%) Splunk