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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 53 76
Rank change year-on-year +20 +23 -36
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 1,021 924 980
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.04% 3.99% 3.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.45% 4.24% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 722 595 647
10th Percentile £376 £413 £384
25th Percentile £463 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +11.56%
75th Percentile £650 £640 £631
90th Percentile £725 £721 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 39 6
10th Percentile £26.25 £21.00 £23.10
25th Percentile £50.00 £55.94 £28.00
Median hourly rate £56.89 £65.00 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.48% +66.67% -37.10%
75th Percentile £61.60 £86.88 £73.75
90th Percentile - £95.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £66.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -6.67% +0.76% +25.96%

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 18,742 21,812 29,390
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.30% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,456 15,203 20,621
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,269 1,109 1,458
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.36
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +7 318 £595 +3.48% 248
North of England +26 252 £525 - 240
Midlands +13 167 £550 -0.90% 125
North West +16 155 £550 +4.96% 157
West Midlands +16 113 £550 - 90
South West +12 110 £513 +1.23% 173
East of England +45 91 £525 +4.48% 43
Yorkshire +24 89 £475 -13.64% 75
Scotland +49 73 £513 +5.78% 70
East Midlands +23 48 £550 -4.35% 35
Wales +27 18 £638 +21.43% 16
North East +8 8 £450 -13.04% 9
Northern Ireland +3 3 £488 - 16
South Coast - 1 - -
Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 273 (26.74%) SAP
2 253 (24.78%) Security Cleared
3 241 (23.60%) Social Skills
4 170 (16.65%) SC Cleared
5 149 (14.59%) Finance
6 130 (12.73%) Stakeholder Management
7 125 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
8 115 (11.26%) Microsoft
9 101 (9.89%) Public Sector
10 97 (9.50%) SAP S/4HANA
10 97 (9.50%) Oracle
11 92 (9.01%) Migration
12 87 (8.52%) DV Cleared
13 85 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
14 81 (7.93%) Agile
15 77 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
16 73 (7.15%) Azure
17 59 (5.78%) Roadmaps
17 59 (5.78%) Dynamics 365
18 54 (5.29%) Power Platform
19 51 (5.00%) User Acceptance Testing
19 51 (5.00%) Data Migration
20 48 (4.70%) Business Intelligence
20 48 (4.70%) DevOps
21 41 (4.02%) Workshop Facilitation
21 41 (4.02%) ERP
22 40 (3.92%) Risk Management
22 40 (3.92%) Information Security
22 40 (3.92%) Requirements Gathering
23 38 (3.72%) ITIL

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 (1.57%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.88%) NetWeaver
3 6 (0.59%) CMS
4 4 (0.39%) Confluence
4 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.20%) Alfresco
6 2 (0.20%) Appian
6 2 (0.20%) Camunda
6 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.098%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.098%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.098%) SAS
7 1 (0.098%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.098%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.098%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.098%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.098%) Oracle Smart View
2 1 (0.098%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 97 (9.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (3.13%) SAP EWM
3 28 (2.74%) SAP QM
4 24 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
5 23 (2.25%) SAP FI
6 18 (1.76%) Oracle EBS R12
7 16 (1.57%) NetSuite
8 15 (1.47%) SAP CO
9 14 (1.37%) Oracle EBS
9 14 (1.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 14 (1.37%) SAP FI/CO
10 12 (1.18%) SAP SD
11 11 (1.08%) SAP PP
12 10 (0.98%) SAP IBP
13 8 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
14 7 (0.69%) Maximo
14 7 (0.69%) Oracle Receivables
15 5 (0.49%) Oracle Payroll
15 5 (0.49%) SAP MM
15 5 (0.49%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 73 (7.15%) Azure
2 59 (5.78%) Dynamics 365
3 54 (5.29%) Power Platform
4 29 (2.84%) SuccessFactors
5 24 (2.35%) AWS
6 23 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
7 22 (2.15%) OCI
8 18 (1.76%) Entra ID
9 16 (1.57%) Power Automate
10 15 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (0.98%) PowerApps
13 8 (0.78%) Oracle Service Cloud
14 6 (0.59%) SaaS
15 5 (0.49%) GCP
15 5 (0.49%) IaaS
15 5 (0.49%) SAP Commerce Cloud
16 4 (0.39%) OneDrive
16 4 (0.39%) PaaS
17 3 (0.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.15%) Network Security
2 19 (1.86%) Firewall
3 16 (1.57%) Ethernet
4 15 (1.47%) Radio Access Network
5 12 (1.18%) 4G
5 12 (1.18%) 5G
5 12 (1.18%) VPN
6 9 (0.88%) 3G
6 9 (0.88%) DNS
7 8 (0.78%) LAN
7 8 (0.78%) WAN
8 7 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (0.59%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.39%) Cisco ISE
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%) Internet
11 3 (0.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (3.43%) Power BI
2 21 (2.06%) SAP HANA
3 19 (1.86%) Oracle Database
3 19 (1.86%) SAP BW
4 12 (1.18%) BusinessObjects
5 8 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
5 8 (0.78%) SQL Server
6 5 (0.49%) Big Data
6 5 (0.49%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.29%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.29%) Oracle Database 11g
8 3 (0.29%) Power Query
8 3 (0.29%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.20%) Metadata
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 21 (2.06%) JIRA
2 18 (1.76%) Rational DOORS
3 10 (0.98%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (0.39%) Git
5 3 (0.29%) LoadRunner
6 2 (0.20%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.098%) CA Gen
7 1 (0.098%) JMeter
7 1 (0.098%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.098%) NWDI
7 1 (0.098%) NWDS
General
1 241 (23.60%) Social Skills
2 149 (14.59%) Finance
3 101 (9.89%) Public Sector
4 77 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (3.13%) Manufacturing
5 32 (3.13%) Telecoms
6 30 (2.94%) Marketing
7 22 (2.15%) Electronics
7 22 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
8 21 (2.06%) Retail
9 18 (1.76%) Banking
10 16 (1.57%) Local Government
10 16 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
11 15 (1.47%) Billing
11 15 (1.47%) Law
12 11 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (0.59%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.35%) SAP Basis
2 23 (2.25%) SAP Fiori
3 16 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
3 16 (1.57%) Web Services
4 9 (0.88%) HTML
5 6 (0.59%) CSS
5 6 (0.59%) REST
5 6 (0.59%) SailPoint
6 5 (0.49%) IDoc
6 5 (0.49%) Middleware
6 5 (0.49%) XML
7 4 (0.39%) .NET
7 4 (0.39%) JSON
7 4 (0.39%) LDAP
7 4 (0.39%) OAuth
7 4 (0.39%) OpenID
7 4 (0.39%) SAML
7 4 (0.39%) SOAP
7 4 (0.39%) Visualforce
8 3 (0.29%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 25 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
2 19 (1.86%) Operational Technology
3 18 (1.76%) Robotics
4 16 (1.57%) Analogue Electronics
4 16 (1.57%) Data Centre
4 16 (1.57%) Mainframe
5 15 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
5 15 (1.47%) Management Information System
6 13 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 12 (1.18%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.08%) Cyber Defence
8 11 (1.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 11 (1.08%) Life Science
9 9 (0.88%) CMDB
9 9 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (0.78%) Replication
11 7 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (0.59%) Security Posture
12 6 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (3.33%) Linux
2 29 (2.84%) Windows
3 14 (1.37%) Unix
4 8 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.69%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.49%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.20%) zOS
8 1 (0.098%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.098%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.098%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (12.73%) Stakeholder Management
2 125 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
3 92 (9.01%) Migration
4 85 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
5 81 (7.93%) Agile
6 59 (5.78%) Roadmaps
7 51 (5.00%) Data Migration
7 51 (5.00%) User Acceptance Testing
8 48 (4.70%) Business Intelligence
8 48 (4.70%) DevOps
9 41 (4.02%) ERP
9 41 (4.02%) Workshop Facilitation
10 40 (3.92%) Information Security
10 40 (3.92%) Requirements Gathering
10 40 (3.92%) Risk Management
11 38 (3.72%) ITIL
12 37 (3.62%) Service Management
13 35 (3.43%) CRM
14 34 (3.33%) Change Management
15 33 (3.23%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (3.53%) SQL
2 29 (2.84%) PowerShell
3 17 (1.67%) ABAP
4 13 (1.27%) Python
5 9 (0.88%) Bash
6 8 (0.78%) Java
6 8 (0.78%) JavaScript
7 6 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (0.49%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.39%) C#
10 2 (0.20%) Ada
10 2 (0.20%) C
10 2 (0.20%) Groovy
10 2 (0.20%) JCL
10 2 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.20%) PHP
11 1 (0.098%) REXX
11 1 (0.098%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.098%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.098%) X++
Qualifications
1 253 (24.78%) Security Cleared
2 170 (16.65%) SC Cleared
3 87 (8.52%) DV Cleared
4 33 (3.23%) Degree
5 23 (2.25%) CISSP
6 15 (1.47%) CISM
6 15 (1.47%) SAP Certification
7 14 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (0.78%) CRISC
10 7 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 7 (0.69%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.69%) CISA
11 6 (0.59%) CISMP
12 5 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (0.49%) CESG Certified Professional
12 5 (0.49%) CLAS
12 5 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (0.39%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.23%) NIST
2 30 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (2.64%) GDPR
4 14 (1.37%) COBIT
5 13 (1.27%) GRC
6 10 (0.98%) PCI DSS
6 10 (0.98%) PMO
7 9 (0.88%) QA
7 9 (0.88%) RMADS
8 8 (0.78%) SLA
9 7 (0.69%) IFRS
10 6 (0.59%) Data Quality
11 5 (0.49%) 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 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.20%) GxP
System Software
1 28 (2.74%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.37%) VMware NSX
3 13 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.78%) vSphere
5 7 (0.69%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.49%) Docker
7 3 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.20%) Firmware
8 2 (0.20%) GPFS
8 2 (0.20%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 2 (0.20%) Microcode
8 2 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.20%) XenApp
8 2 (0.20%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.098%) NFS
Systems Management
1 9 (0.88%) Ansible
1 9 (0.88%) VxRail
2 8 (0.78%) Terraform
3 5 (0.49%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.49%) vRealize
4 4 (0.39%) vCenter Server
5 3 (0.29%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (0.20%) CEMLI
6 2 (0.20%) Puppet
6 2 (0.20%) SCCM
7 1 (0.098%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (0.098%) Grafana
7 1 (0.098%) Graylog
7 1 (0.098%) Nagios
7 1 (0.098%) Nessus
7 1 (0.098%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.098%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.098%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 273 (26.74%) SAP
2 115 (11.26%) Microsoft
3 97 (9.50%) Oracle
4 36 (3.53%) VMware
5 33 (3.23%) ServiceNow
6 13 (1.27%) Cisco
7 12 (1.18%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.08%) Ariba
8 11 (1.08%) Dell
9 10 (0.98%) ArcSight
10 9 (0.88%) EMC
10 9 (0.88%) Informatica
11 8 (0.78%) IFS
12 7 (0.69%) OpenText
13 6 (0.59%) Concur
13 6 (0.59%) CyberArk
13 6 (0.59%) Google
13 6 (0.59%) Splunk
14 5 (0.49%) AVEVA
14 5 (0.49%) Pega