Senior Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £517, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 330 413
Rank change year-on-year +29 +83 +51
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Consultant 39 62 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.30% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.32% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 38 21
10th Percentile £416 £350 £460
25th Percentile £425 £468 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £579 £570
Median % change year-on-year -10.63% +1.49% +2.47%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £688
90th Percentile £700 £733 £800
UK median daily rate £558 £589 £600
% change year-on-year -5.31% -1.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £51.19 -
25th Percentile - £52.97 £55.94
Median hourly rate - £56.89 £56.89
75th Percentile - £57.83 £57.83
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £45.25 £56.89 £56.89
% change year-on-year -20.45% - +13.77%

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 11,849 19,126 21,496
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.69% 92.40% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,534 11,597 14,946
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 £504 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.05% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,384 1,087
10th Percentile £13.76 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.75 £18.02
Median hourly rate £25.30 £40.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.75% -6.98% +115.00%
75th Percentile £62.24 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.33% -16.67% +87.50%

Senior Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Consultant in the UK excluding London

Senior Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Consultant in the UK excluding London

Senior Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Consultant in the UK excluding London

Senior Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Consultant in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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 +6 14 £500 -16.67% 612
North West +5 9 £475 -24.42% 284
South East +50 7 £525 +3.96% 731
Midlands +11 5 £438 -9.79% 517
West Midlands +10 5 £438 -9.79% 278
Scotland - 5 £484 - 118
South West +39 3 £500 -9.09% 316
East of England +28 3 £700 +20.27% 421
Yorkshire +16 3 £450 +26.76% 253
North East - 2 £534 - 75
Wales - 2 £438 - 72
Northern Ireland -11 1 - - 38
Senior Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Consultant in the job title.

1 14 (35.90%) Security Cleared
2 13 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 10 (25.64%) EntireX
3 10 (25.64%) webMethods
3 10 (25.64%) Software AG
3 10 (25.64%) IBM
3 10 (25.64%) Project Delivery
4 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
5 8 (20.51%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (20.51%) Finance
5 8 (20.51%) SAP
6 7 (17.95%) Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (12.82%) Mentoring
7 5 (12.82%) Supply Chain Planning
7 5 (12.82%) Azure
7 5 (12.82%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (12.82%) Firewall
7 5 (12.82%) Manufacturing
7 5 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (12.82%) ITIL
8 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
8 4 (10.26%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (10.26%) Cisco
8 4 (10.26%) Quality Management
8 4 (10.26%) Information Security
8 4 (10.26%) Logistics
8 4 (10.26%) SAP LE
8 4 (10.26%) Use Case
8 4 (10.26%) Inventory Management
8 4 (10.26%) Threat Modelling

Senior 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 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (20.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (10.26%) SAP LE
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (2.56%) Sage X3
3 1 (2.56%) SAP MDG
3 1 (2.56%) SAP MDG-S
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.82%) Azure
2 3 (7.69%) IaaS
2 3 (7.69%) PaaS
2 3 (7.69%) SaaS
3 2 (5.13%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (2.56%) AWS
4 1 (2.56%) GCP
4 1 (2.56%) OCI
4 1 (2.56%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.56%) PowerApps
4 1 (2.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.82%) Firewall
2 3 (7.69%) Network Security
2 3 (7.69%) SD-WAN
2 3 (7.69%) WAN
3 2 (5.13%) LAN
3 2 (5.13%) Unified Communications
3 2 (5.13%) VoIP
3 2 (5.13%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (2.56%) BGP
4 1 (2.56%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (2.56%) DHCP
4 1 (2.56%) DNS
4 1 (2.56%) Ethernet
4 1 (2.56%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (2.56%) Internet
4 1 (2.56%) MQTT
4 1 (2.56%) NGFW
4 1 (2.56%) VXLAN
4 1 (2.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (2.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Git
General
1 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.51%) Finance
3 5 (12.82%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.13%) Aerospace
4 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Retail
5 1 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.64%) EntireX
2 1 (2.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.69%) Life Science
2 2 (5.13%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.13%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.56%) Cyberattack
3 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.56%) FMCG
3 1 (2.56%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (2.56%) IoT
3 1 (2.56%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.56%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.56%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (25.64%) Project Delivery
2 7 (17.95%) Procure-to-Pay
3 5 (12.82%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (12.82%) ITIL
3 5 (12.82%) Mentoring
3 5 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (12.82%) Supply Chain Planning
4 4 (10.26%) Information Security
4 4 (10.26%) Inventory Management
4 4 (10.26%) Logistics
4 4 (10.26%) Quality Management
4 4 (10.26%) Threat Modelling
4 4 (10.26%) Use Case
5 3 (7.69%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (7.69%) Analytics
5 3 (7.69%) Business Transformation
5 3 (7.69%) Process Improvement
5 3 (7.69%) Record to Report
5 3 (7.69%) Remediation Plan
5 3 (7.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.56%) Python
1 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (35.90%) Security Cleared
2 13 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.26%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (7.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (7.69%) CISM
4 3 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (7.69%) CRISC
5 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.56%) CCIE
5 1 (2.56%) CCIE Routing and Switching
5 1 (2.56%) CCNP
5 1 (2.56%) CISSP
5 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) QA
2 2 (5.13%) NCSC
3 1 (2.56%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.56%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.69%) HP ALM
1 3 (7.69%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (5.13%) FortiGate
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.56%) OpenView
Vendors
1 10 (25.64%) IBM
1 10 (25.64%) Software AG
1 10 (25.64%) webMethods
2 8 (20.51%) SAP
3 4 (10.26%) Cisco
3 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
4 3 (7.69%) HP
5 2 (5.13%) Aruba
5 2 (5.13%) Mitel
6 1 (2.56%) Ariba
6 1 (2.56%) F5
6 1 (2.56%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.56%) Google
6 1 (2.56%) Oracle
6 1 (2.56%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.56%) Sage
6 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow