Business Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Business Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Business Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 July 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
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 359 401
Rank change year-on-year +12 +42 +86
Contract jobs requiring a Business Consultant 12 33 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.081% 0.16% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.17% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 26
10th Percentile £388 £496 £406
25th Percentile £463 £525 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £527 £575 £600
90th Percentile £618 £669 £625
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - - £51.19
25th Percentile - £55.94 £52.97
Median hourly rate - £56.89 £56.89
75th Percentile - £57.83 £63.91
90th Percentile - - £67.57
UK median hourly rate - £56.89 £56.89

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 13,434 19,075 22,058
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 92.25% 94.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,264 11,515 15,151
10th Percentile £220 £213 £232
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,129 2,318 1,195
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.86 £13.53
25th Percentile £16.84 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% +6.67% +78.57%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.44 £75.94
UK median hourly rate £26.13 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -34.69% -5.88% +65.50%

Business Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Business Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Business Consultant in the UK excluding London

Business Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Business Consultant in the UK excluding London

Business Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Consultant in the UK excluding London

Business Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Business Consultant in the UK excluding London

Business Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
South East +33 5 £550 +57.14% 16
North of England +8 3 £500 -9.09% 19
East of England +16 2 £475 -13.64% 3
Yorkshire +4 2 £494 - 6
South West +32 1 - - 7
North West +10 1 £500 -9.09% 11
Scotland +3 1 - - 4
Business Consultant
UK

Business Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 16 July 2025, Business 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 UK excluding London region featuring Business Consultant in the job title.

1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Change Management
3 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (33.33%) SAP
3 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 3 (25.00%) ERP
4 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
5 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (16.67%) Business Continuity
5 2 (16.67%) Retail
5 2 (16.67%) BPMN
5 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 2 (16.67%) BC Cleared
5 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
5 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Matrix Organization
5 2 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (16.67%) Business Continuity Management
5 2 (16.67%) Lucidchart
5 2 (16.67%) APMG
6 1 (8.33%) Veeva
6 1 (8.33%) ISO 22301
6 1 (8.33%) Power BI

Business Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (8.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (16.67%) Lucidchart
2 1 (8.33%) Adobe Analytics
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) Veeva
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Retail
4 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Marketing
4 1 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Life Science
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Change Management
2 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (25.00%) ERP
2 3 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 2 (16.67%) BPMN
3 2 (16.67%) Business Continuity
3 2 (16.67%) Business Continuity Management
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (16.67%) Matrix Organization
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (8.33%) Content Management
4 1 (8.33%) CRM
4 1 (8.33%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (8.33%) Data Modelling
4 1 (8.33%) Project Management
4 1 (8.33%) Risk Management
4 1 (8.33%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) APMG
1 2 (16.67%) BC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GxP
1 1 (8.33%) HIPAA
1 1 (8.33%) ISO 22301
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.33%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 4 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) Adobe
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce