Payroll Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Payroll Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Payroll Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 313 381 423
Rank change year-on-year +68 +42 +79
Contract jobs requiring a Payroll Consultant 27 10 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.049% 0.095%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.053% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 13
10th Percentile £501 - £508
25th Percentile £510 £256 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £488 £580
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -15.95% +13.73%
75th Percentile £537 £530 £625
90th Percentile £537 £624 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £625 £580
% change year-on-year -16.80% +7.76% +0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Median hourly rate £86.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £86.00 - -

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 11,891 18,751 21,824
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.90% 92.48% 94.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,557 11,466 15,208
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 856 2,268 1,112
10th Percentile £13.84 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.21 £15.74 £18.07
Median hourly rate £26.75 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.13% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.83 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.29% -18.89% +87.50%

Payroll Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Payroll Consultant in the UK excluding London

Payroll Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Payroll Consultant in the UK excluding London

Payroll Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Payroll Consultant in the UK excluding London

Payroll 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 Payroll Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
North of England +26 12 £600 -
North West - 12 £600 -
Midlands +21 7 £520 +9.47%
South East +44 5 £537 +7.40%
East Midlands - 4 £520 -
West Midlands +6 3 £519 +9.21%
Northern Ireland - 3 £520 - 2
Payroll Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2025, Payroll 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 Payroll Consultant in the job title.

1 22 (81.48%) SAP
2 20 (74.07%) SAP Payroll
3 19 (70.37%) SAP HR
4 14 (51.85%) Social Skills
5 9 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (29.63%) Time Management
7 7 (25.93%) Public Sector
8 5 (18.52%) OCI
8 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
8 5 (18.52%) Test Scripting
8 5 (18.52%) Local Government
8 5 (18.52%) Requirements Analysis
8 5 (18.52%) Oracle
9 4 (14.81%) System Testing
9 4 (14.81%) SuccessFactors
10 3 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
10 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
10 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (11.11%) Oracle Payroll
10 3 (11.11%) Finance
10 3 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (7.41%) Business Intelligence
11 2 (7.41%) SAP FI
11 2 (7.41%) SOAP
11 2 (7.41%) Web Services
11 2 (7.41%) SQL
11 2 (7.41%) User Acceptance Testing
11 2 (7.41%) Degree
11 2 (7.41%) Agile
11 2 (7.41%) Team-Oriented Environment

Payroll 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 (3.70%) IIS
Business Applications
1 20 (74.07%) SAP Payroll
2 19 (70.37%) SAP HR
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle Payroll
4 2 (7.41%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 5 (18.52%) OCI
2 4 (14.81%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (3.70%) Taleo
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
General
1 14 (51.85%) Social Skills
2 9 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (25.93%) Public Sector
4 5 (18.52%) Local Government
5 3 (11.11%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (7.41%) REST
2 2 (7.41%) SOAP
2 2 (7.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) Time Management
2 5 (18.52%) Requirements Analysis
2 5 (18.52%) Test Scripting
3 4 (14.81%) System Testing
4 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (7.41%) Agile
5 2 (7.41%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (7.41%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (7.41%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (7.41%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (7.41%) Waterfall
6 1 (3.70%) Benchmarking
6 1 (3.70%) Data Conversion
6 1 (3.70%) Scenario Testing
6 1 (3.70%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) Degree
Vendors
1 22 (81.48%) SAP
2 5 (18.52%) Oracle