Functional Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Functional Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Functional Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 305 355
Rank change year-on-year +31 +50 +81
Contract jobs requiring a Functional Consultant 61 92 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.47% 0.45% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.48% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 71 53
10th Percentile £500 £463 £433
25th Percentile £512 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% -15.97%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £681
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.80 -
UK median hourly rate £27.40 £55.80 -
% change year-on-year -50.90% - -

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 11,802 19,038 21,534
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.73% 92.39% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,509 11,591 14,985
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 844 2,364 1,082
10th Percentile £13.76 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.75 £17.81
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £62.24 £62.14 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.97 £37.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.78% -17.38% +87.50%

Functional Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Consultant in the UK excluding London

Functional Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Consultant in the UK excluding London

Functional Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Consultant in the UK excluding London

Functional Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Functional Consultant in the UK excluding London

Functional 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 Functional Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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
South East +45 36 £625 +2.04% 15
North of England +1 10 £550 +4.76% 4
North West 0 6 £550 +4.76% 2
South West +43 5 £575 -9.63% 12
East of England +15 3 £700 +27.27% 8
North East +1 3 £350 -22.22%
Northern Ireland -8 3 £520 - 3
West Midlands +9 2 - - 6
Midlands +2 2 - - 8
Yorkshire +4 1 £550 +22.22% 2
Wales +4 1 £625 +13.64%
Scotland +3 1 £100 -81.82% 1
Functional Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 UK excluding London region featuring Functional Consultant in the job title.

1 29 (47.54%) Finance
2 28 (45.90%) Oracle
3 27 (44.26%) Social Skills
4 20 (32.79%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (29.51%) Oracle EBS
6 17 (27.87%) Oracle EBS R12
7 16 (26.23%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (24.59%) Project Delivery
9 12 (19.67%) Public Sector
9 12 (19.67%) Workshop Facilitation
10 11 (18.03%) SAP
11 9 (14.75%) Oracle ASCP
11 9 (14.75%) Maximo
12 8 (13.11%) Logistics
12 8 (13.11%) Oracle Fusion
13 7 (11.48%) Revenue Management
13 7 (11.48%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 7 (11.48%) User Acceptance Testing
13 7 (11.48%) SAP PSCD
13 7 (11.48%) Billing
13 7 (11.48%) Telecoms
13 7 (11.48%) SAP BRIM
13 7 (11.48%) SAP Hybris
14 6 (9.84%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (9.84%) Microsoft
14 6 (9.84%) E-business
15 5 (8.20%) Project Management
15 5 (8.20%) Data Modelling
15 5 (8.20%) Business Transformation
15 5 (8.20%) Procure-to-Pay

Functional 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 (1.64%) IIS
1 1 (1.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 18 (29.51%) Oracle EBS
2 17 (27.87%) Oracle EBS R12
3 9 (14.75%) Maximo
3 9 (14.75%) Oracle ASCP
4 7 (11.48%) SAP BRIM
4 7 (11.48%) SAP Hybris
4 7 (11.48%) SAP PSCD
5 4 (6.56%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (6.56%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (4.92%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (4.92%) Oracle Payroll
6 3 (4.92%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (4.92%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (3.28%) Oracle AGIS
7 2 (3.28%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (3.28%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 2 (3.28%) Oracle iProcurement
7 2 (3.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (3.28%) PeopleSoft Financials
7 2 (3.28%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.48%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 6 (9.84%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (8.20%) OCI
4 3 (4.92%) Azure
4 3 (4.92%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.92%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.64%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.64%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) PuTTY
1 1 (1.64%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.92%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 3 (4.92%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.64%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Git
1 1 (1.64%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.64%) JIRA
1 1 (1.64%) Maven
1 1 (1.64%) Postman
1 1 (1.64%) Selenium
1 1 (1.64%) Toad
General
1 29 (47.54%) Finance
2 27 (44.26%) Social Skills
3 16 (26.23%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (19.67%) Public Sector
5 7 (11.48%) Billing
5 7 (11.48%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.92%) Marketing
7 2 (3.28%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.64%) Automotive
8 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.64%) Electronics
8 1 (1.64%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.64%) Local Government
8 1 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.64%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.11%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (3.28%) REST
2 2 (3.28%) SOAP
2 2 (3.28%) Web Services
3 1 (1.64%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.64%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.64%) Algorithms
2 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.64%) Life Science
2 1 (1.64%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (32.79%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (24.59%) Project Delivery
3 12 (19.67%) Workshop Facilitation
4 8 (13.11%) Logistics
5 7 (11.48%) Revenue Management
5 7 (11.48%) User Acceptance Testing
6 6 (9.84%) E-business
7 5 (8.20%) Business Transformation
7 5 (8.20%) Data Modelling
7 5 (8.20%) Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (8.20%) Project Management
8 4 (6.56%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (6.56%) Supply Chain Management
9 3 (4.92%) Agile
9 3 (4.92%) Analytics
9 3 (4.92%) Cash Management
9 3 (4.92%) ERP
9 3 (4.92%) GAP Analysis
9 3 (4.92%) Migration
9 3 (4.92%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.56%) SQL
2 2 (3.28%) PeopleCode
3 1 (1.64%) Apex Code
3 1 (1.64%) Java
3 1 (1.64%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.64%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.64%) Python
3 1 (1.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (6.56%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.28%) QA
2 1 (1.64%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 28 (45.90%) Oracle
2 11 (18.03%) SAP
3 6 (9.84%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.28%) PeopleSoft
4 2 (3.28%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.64%) Ariba
5 1 (1.64%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (1.64%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.64%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.64%) Fujitsu
5 1 (1.64%) IFS
5 1 (1.64%) Remedy
5 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.64%) Splunk
5 1 (1.64%) Workday