Management Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Management Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Management Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 371 446
Rank change year-on-year +49 +75 +53
Contract jobs requiring a Management Consultant 12 32 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.094% 0.15% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.17% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 25 9
10th Percentile £331 £281 £150
25th Percentile £422 £325 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £590 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.02% +12.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £560 £659 £675
90th Percentile £584 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 11,776 19,130 22,540
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.12% 92.57% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,547 11,679 15,813
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 842 2,253 1,158
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.66 £15.75 £18.01
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.37
Median % change year-on-year -29.22% -6.64% +117.03%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.89% -18.89% +91.49%

Management Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Management Consultant in the UK excluding London

Management Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Management Consultant in the UK excluding London

Management Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Management Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Management Consultant in the UK excluding London

Management Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Management Consultant in the UK excluding London

Management 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 Management Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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 +37 4 £475 -25.49% 19
North West +17 4 £583 +19.59% 12
North of England +15 4 £583 +19.59% 22
Scotland +9 3 £394 +40.63% 7
South West +39 1 £525 -12.43% 11
Management Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, Management 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 Management Consultant in the job title.

1 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Quality Management
3 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
4 2 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
4 2 (16.67%) QA
4 2 (16.67%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Data Management
4 2 (16.67%) SAP
4 2 (16.67%) ITSM
4 2 (16.67%) Identity Management
4 2 (16.67%) Data Security
4 2 (16.67%) ITIL
4 2 (16.67%) SAP PP
4 2 (16.67%) Virtual Team Management
4 2 (16.67%) Virtual Team
4 2 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 2 (16.67%) Application Security
5 1 (8.33%) SIAM
5 1 (8.33%) Data Collection

Management 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%) CMS
1 1 (8.33%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) SAP PP
1 2 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Broadband
General
1 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Finance
4 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
5 1 (8.33%) Aerospace
5 1 (8.33%) Banking
5 1 (8.33%) Legal
5 1 (8.33%) Marketing
5 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Virtual Team
2 1 (8.33%) CMDB
2 1 (8.33%) Life Science
2 1 (8.33%) Mainframe
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (25.00%) Quality Management
2 2 (16.67%) Application Security
2 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (16.67%) Data Management
2 2 (16.67%) Data Security
2 2 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (16.67%) Identity Management
2 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (16.67%) ITIL
2 2 (16.67%) ITSM
2 2 (16.67%) Migration
2 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (16.67%) Virtual Team Management
3 1 (8.33%) Data Architecture
3 1 (8.33%) Data Privacy
3 1 (8.33%) Master Data Management
3 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (8.33%) Performance Management
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (8.33%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) IBM
2 1 (8.33%) Informatica