Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 57 73
Rank change year-on-year +25 +16 -36
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 1,036 925 974
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.06% 3.95% 3.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.47% 4.19% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 733 605 644
10th Percentile £381 £413 £365
25th Percentile £463 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +11.34%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £721 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 37 6
10th Percentile £26.50 £21.00 £23.10
25th Percentile £51.45 £55.94 £28.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £66.00 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +69.23% -37.10%
75th Percentile £61.60 £87.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £63.29 £96.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £66.00 £65.75
% change year-on-year -6.67% +0.38% +17.94%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 18,943 22,066 29,076
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.30% 95.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,549 15,423 20,326
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,262 1,138 1,451
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.99
90th Percentile £73.98 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in the UK excluding London

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in the UK excluding London

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in the UK excluding London

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in the UK excluding London

Consultant
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Consultant in the UK excluding London

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 Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
South East +11 334 £580 -1.02% 167
North of England +24 248 £525 - 206
Midlands +16 167 £550 -3.08% 117
North West +20 150 £538 +3.76% 134
West Midlands +15 111 £550 -2.00% 86
South West +13 103 £513 -2.38% 135
East of England +48 95 £525 -2.33% 45
Yorkshire +24 90 £475 -13.64% 56
Scotland +57 78 £525 +9.43% 62
East Midlands +28 49 £550 -4.35% 31
Wales +26 20 £600 +23.08% 17
North East +11 8 £450 -13.04% 17
Northern Ireland +8 3 £488 - 14
Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 269 (25.97%) SAP
2 268 (25.87%) Security Cleared
3 250 (24.13%) Social Skills
4 184 (17.76%) SC Cleared
5 156 (15.06%) Finance
6 128 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
7 127 (12.26%) Stakeholder Management
8 112 (10.81%) Microsoft
9 109 (10.52%) Public Sector
10 102 (9.85%) Migration
11 96 (9.27%) Oracle
12 94 (9.07%) SAP S/4HANA
13 91 (8.78%) DV Cleared
14 87 (8.40%) Cybersecurity
15 81 (7.82%) Agile
16 77 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
17 74 (7.14%) Azure
18 64 (6.18%) Dynamics 365
19 58 (5.60%) Data Migration
20 55 (5.31%) User Acceptance Testing
21 53 (5.12%) Roadmaps
22 52 (5.02%) Power Platform
23 48 (4.63%) Business Intelligence
23 48 (4.63%) DevOps
24 44 (4.25%) Workshop Facilitation
24 44 (4.25%) Requirements Gathering
25 43 (4.15%) ERP
25 43 (4.15%) Information Security
26 39 (3.76%) Risk Management
26 39 (3.76%) CRM

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 16 (1.54%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.87%) NetWeaver
3 6 (0.58%) CMS
4 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.39%) Confluence
6 3 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.19%) Alfresco
7 2 (0.19%) Appian
7 2 (0.19%) Camunda
7 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.097%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.097%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.097%) SAS
8 1 (0.097%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (0.097%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.097%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.097%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (0.097%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 94 (9.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (3.09%) SAP EWM
3 28 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 28 (2.70%) SAP QM
4 25 (2.41%) SAP FI
5 18 (1.74%) Oracle EBS R12
6 15 (1.45%) SAP CO
7 14 (1.35%) NetSuite
7 14 (1.35%) Oracle EBS
7 14 (1.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 14 (1.35%) SAP FI/CO
8 13 (1.25%) SAP PSCD
9 12 (1.16%) SAP SD
10 9 (0.87%) SAP IBP
10 9 (0.87%) SAP PP
11 8 (0.77%) Oracle Payables
11 8 (0.77%) SAP BRIM
11 8 (0.77%) SAP Hybris
12 7 (0.68%) Maximo
12 7 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 74 (7.14%) Azure
2 64 (6.18%) Dynamics 365
3 52 (5.02%) Power Platform
4 28 (2.70%) AWS
5 24 (2.32%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (2.12%) OCI
7 18 (1.74%) Entra ID
8 16 (1.54%) Power Automate
9 15 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (1.45%) SuccessFactors
10 11 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (0.87%) PowerApps
12 8 (0.77%) Oracle Service Cloud
12 8 (0.77%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 6 (0.58%) GCP
13 6 (0.58%) SaaS
14 5 (0.48%) IaaS
15 4 (0.39%) OneDrive
15 4 (0.39%) PaaS
16 3 (0.29%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.12%) Network Security
2 20 (1.93%) Firewall
3 16 (1.54%) Ethernet
4 15 (1.45%) Radio Access Network
5 13 (1.25%) VPN
6 12 (1.16%) 4G
6 12 (1.16%) 5G
7 9 (0.87%) 3G
7 9 (0.87%) DNS
8 8 (0.77%) LAN
8 8 (0.77%) WAN
9 7 (0.68%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.39%) Cisco ISE
10 4 (0.39%) InfiniBand
10 4 (0.39%) NX-OS
10 4 (0.39%) VSAN
10 4 (0.39%) Wireless
11 3 (0.29%) FTP
11 3 (0.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (3.38%) Power BI
2 20 (1.93%) SAP HANA
3 19 (1.83%) SAP BW
4 18 (1.74%) Oracle Database
5 12 (1.16%) BusinessObjects
6 8 (0.77%) Oracle Reports
6 8 (0.77%) SQL Server
7 5 (0.48%) Big Data
7 5 (0.48%) Data Lake
7 5 (0.48%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.39%) Power Query
9 3 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.29%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.29%) MySQL
9 3 (0.29%) Oracle Database 11g
9 3 (0.29%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.19%) BusinessObjects XI
10 2 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle BI EE
10 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (2.03%) JIRA
2 18 (1.74%) Rational DOORS
3 10 (0.97%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (0.39%) Git
5 3 (0.29%) LoadRunner
6 2 (0.19%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.097%) CA Gen
7 1 (0.097%) JMeter
7 1 (0.097%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.097%) NWDI
7 1 (0.097%) NWDS
General
1 250 (24.13%) Social Skills
2 156 (15.06%) Finance
3 109 (10.52%) Public Sector
4 77 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (3.47%) Telecoms
6 34 (3.28%) Marketing
7 32 (3.09%) Manufacturing
8 22 (2.12%) Electronics
9 21 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
10 20 (1.93%) Billing
10 20 (1.93%) Retail
11 18 (1.74%) Banking
12 16 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
13 15 (1.45%) Law
14 14 (1.35%) Local Government
15 12 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 11 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
17 10 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
18 9 (0.87%) Police
19 6 (0.58%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.22%) SAP Basis
2 22 (2.12%) SAP Fiori
3 16 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
4 15 (1.45%) Web Services
5 9 (0.87%) HTML
6 6 (0.58%) CSS
6 6 (0.58%) REST
6 6 (0.58%) SailPoint
7 5 (0.48%) IDoc
7 5 (0.48%) Middleware
7 5 (0.48%) XML
8 4 (0.39%) .NET
8 4 (0.39%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (0.39%) JSON
8 4 (0.39%) LDAP
8 4 (0.39%) OAuth
8 4 (0.39%) OpenID
8 4 (0.39%) SAML
8 4 (0.39%) SOAP
8 4 (0.39%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 29 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
2 19 (1.83%) Operational Technology
3 18 (1.74%) Robotics
4 16 (1.54%) Analogue Electronics
4 16 (1.54%) Data Centre
4 16 (1.54%) Mainframe
5 15 (1.45%) Management Information System
5 15 (1.45%) Onboarding
6 14 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
7 13 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 11 (1.06%) Cyber Defence
8 11 (1.06%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 11 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (1.06%) Life Science
9 10 (0.97%) CMDB
10 8 (0.77%) Replication
11 7 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (0.58%) Public Cloud
12 6 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (3.47%) Linux
2 30 (2.90%) Windows
3 14 (1.35%) Unix
4 8 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.68%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.48%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.19%) zOS
8 1 (0.097%) Android
8 1 (0.097%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.097%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
2 127 (12.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 102 (9.85%) Migration
4 87 (8.40%) Cybersecurity
5 81 (7.82%) Agile
6 58 (5.60%) Data Migration
7 55 (5.31%) User Acceptance Testing
8 53 (5.12%) Roadmaps
9 48 (4.63%) Business Intelligence
9 48 (4.63%) DevOps
10 44 (4.25%) Requirements Gathering
10 44 (4.25%) Workshop Facilitation
11 43 (4.15%) ERP
11 43 (4.15%) Information Security
12 39 (3.76%) CRM
12 39 (3.76%) Risk Management
13 38 (3.67%) Service Management
14 37 (3.57%) ITIL
15 33 (3.19%) Analytics
15 33 (3.19%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 39 (3.76%) SQL
2 31 (2.99%) PowerShell
3 16 (1.54%) ABAP
4 13 (1.25%) Python
5 9 (0.87%) Bash
6 8 (0.77%) Java
6 8 (0.77%) JavaScript
7 6 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (0.48%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.39%) C#
9 4 (0.39%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.19%) Ada
10 2 (0.19%) C
10 2 (0.19%) Groovy
10 2 (0.19%) JCL
10 2 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.19%) PHP
11 1 (0.097%) REXX
11 1 (0.097%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.097%) X++
Qualifications
1 268 (25.87%) Security Cleared
2 184 (17.76%) SC Cleared
3 91 (8.78%) DV Cleared
4 34 (3.28%) Degree
5 23 (2.22%) CISSP
6 15 (1.45%) CISM
6 15 (1.45%) SAP Certification
7 13 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (0.77%) CRISC
10 7 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 7 (0.68%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.68%) CISA
11 6 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.58%) CISMP
12 5 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (0.48%) CESG Certified Professional
12 5 (0.48%) CLAS
12 5 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (0.39%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.19%) NIST
2 30 (2.90%) GDPR
2 30 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (1.35%) COBIT
4 13 (1.25%) GRC
5 12 (1.16%) QA
6 10 (0.97%) PCI DSS
6 10 (0.97%) PMO
7 9 (0.87%) RMADS
8 8 (0.77%) SLA
9 7 (0.68%) IFRS
10 6 (0.58%) Data Quality
11 5 (0.48%) JSP 440
12 4 (0.39%) NCSC
12 4 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
13 3 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 2 (0.19%) COSO
14 2 (0.19%) GxP
System Software
1 33 (3.19%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.35%) VMware NSX
3 12 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.77%) vSphere
5 6 (0.58%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.48%) Docker
6 5 (0.48%) Firmware
7 3 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.19%) GPFS
8 2 (0.19%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 2 (0.19%) Microcode
8 2 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.19%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.19%) XenApp
8 2 (0.19%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.097%) NFS
Systems Management
1 9 (0.87%) Terraform
1 9 (0.87%) VxRail
2 8 (0.77%) Ansible
3 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.48%) Kubernetes
4 5 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.48%) vRealize
5 4 (0.39%) Dell DRAC
5 4 (0.39%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.29%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (0.19%) CEMLI
7 2 (0.19%) Grafana
7 2 (0.19%) Graylog
7 2 (0.19%) Nagios
7 2 (0.19%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.19%) Puppet
7 2 (0.19%) SCCM
8 1 (0.097%) Nessus
8 1 (0.097%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.097%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 269 (25.97%) SAP
2 112 (10.81%) Microsoft
3 96 (9.27%) Oracle
4 36 (3.47%) VMware
5 32 (3.09%) ServiceNow
6 13 (1.25%) Cisco
6 13 (1.25%) Dell
6 13 (1.25%) Salesforce
7 12 (1.16%) Ariba
8 10 (0.97%) ArcSight
9 9 (0.87%) EMC
9 9 (0.87%) Informatica
9 9 (0.87%) Siemens
10 8 (0.77%) IFS
11 6 (0.58%) Concur
11 6 (0.58%) CyberArk
11 6 (0.58%) Google
11 6 (0.58%) Splunk
12 5 (0.48%) Adobe
12 5 (0.48%) Pega