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 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 56 72
Rank change year-on-year +22 +16 -29
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 1,021 957 1,019
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.91% 3.96% 3.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.30% 4.21% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 730 616 671
10th Percentile £369 £413 £363
25th Percentile £463 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.23% +12.08%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £718 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 37 9
10th Percentile £26.63 £21.00 £25.34
25th Percentile £42.50 £55.94 £27.00
Median hourly rate £56.89 £66.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.81% +100.00% -46.77%
75th Percentile £61.60 £87.50 £82.50
90th Percentile £63.29 £96.00 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £66.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +4.76% +16.67%

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 19,251 22,726 29,670
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.66% 94.14% 95.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,778 15,918 20,742
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £390 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,230 1,187 1,502
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.02
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.20
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 26 April 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 +9 328 £580 -1.02% 148
North of England +28 249 £525 - 178
Midlands +15 167 £550 -3.08% 106
North West +24 155 £538 +3.07% 119
West Midlands +15 109 £550 -0.45% 79
East of England +50 98 £525 -2.33% 49
South West +15 95 £525 - 130
Yorkshire +24 87 £475 -6.17% 43
Scotland +42 78 £525 +10.53% 65
East Midlands +32 49 £550 -4.35% 27
Wales +22 17 £650 +36.84% 24
North East +16 7 £425 -20.56% 18
Northern Ireland +9 2 £469 - 20
Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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.

1 278 (27.23%) Security Cleared
2 262 (25.66%) SAP
3 244 (23.90%) Social Skills
4 194 (19.00%) SC Cleared
5 159 (15.57%) Finance
6 125 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
7 118 (11.56%) Stakeholder Management
8 113 (11.07%) Public Sector
9 110 (10.77%) Microsoft
10 105 (10.28%) Migration
11 90 (8.81%) DV Cleared
12 88 (8.62%) SAP S/4HANA
12 88 (8.62%) Cybersecurity
13 84 (8.23%) Oracle
14 77 (7.54%) Azure
15 75 (7.35%) Agile
16 73 (7.15%) Analytical Skills
17 66 (6.46%) Dynamics 365
18 59 (5.78%) Data Migration
19 56 (5.48%) User Acceptance Testing
20 53 (5.19%) Power Platform
20 53 (5.19%) Roadmaps
21 51 (5.00%) Information Security
22 48 (4.70%) Business Intelligence
23 46 (4.51%) Workshop Facilitation
24 43 (4.21%) Requirements Gathering
25 41 (4.02%) ERP
25 41 (4.02%) Linux
25 41 (4.02%) Telecoms
26 40 (3.92%) CRM

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
3 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.39%) Confluence
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 6 (0.59%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.098%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.098%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 88 (8.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (2.84%) Dynamics CRM
3 28 (2.74%) SAP EWM
4 27 (2.64%) SAP QM
5 24 (2.35%) SAP FI
6 18 (1.76%) Oracle EBS R12
7 14 (1.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 14 (1.37%) SAP CO
7 14 (1.37%) SAP PSCD
7 14 (1.37%) SAP SD
8 13 (1.27%) Oracle EBS
8 13 (1.27%) SAP FI/CO
9 9 (0.88%) Oracle Payables
9 9 (0.88%) SAP BRIM
9 9 (0.88%) SAP Hybris
9 9 (0.88%) SAP IBP
10 8 (0.78%) SAP PP
11 7 (0.69%) Maximo
11 7 (0.69%) Oracle Receivables
12 6 (0.59%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 77 (7.54%) Azure
2 66 (6.46%) Dynamics 365
3 53 (5.19%) Power Platform
4 31 (3.04%) AWS
5 24 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (1.86%) OCI
7 18 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (1.67%) Entra ID
9 16 (1.57%) Power Automate
10 14 (1.37%) SuccessFactors
11 12 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (0.98%) GCP
12 10 (0.98%) PowerApps
13 9 (0.88%) SAP Commerce Cloud
14 6 (0.59%) Oracle Service Cloud
14 6 (0.59%) SaaS
15 5 (0.49%) IaaS
16 4 (0.39%) OneDrive
16 4 (0.39%) PaaS
17 3 (0.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.25%) Firewall
1 23 (2.25%) Network Security
2 16 (1.57%) Ethernet
3 15 (1.47%) Radio Access Network
4 14 (1.37%) VPN
5 12 (1.18%) 4G
5 12 (1.18%) 5G
6 10 (0.98%) LAN
7 9 (0.88%) 3G
8 8 (0.78%) DNS
8 8 (0.78%) InfiniBand
8 8 (0.78%) WAN
8 8 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (0.69%) 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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (3.62%) Power BI
2 18 (1.76%) SAP BW
2 18 (1.76%) SAP HANA
3 16 (1.57%) Oracle Database
4 12 (1.18%) BusinessObjects
5 8 (0.78%) SQL Server
6 7 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (0.59%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.49%) Big Data
8 5 (0.49%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.39%) Power Query
9 4 (0.39%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.29%) MySQL
10 3 (0.29%) Oracle Database 11g
11 2 (0.20%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.20%) Metadata
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 20 (1.96%) 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%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.098%) JMeter
7 1 (0.098%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.098%) NWDI
7 1 (0.098%) NWDS
General
1 244 (23.90%) Social Skills
2 159 (15.57%) Finance
3 113 (11.07%) Public Sector
4 73 (7.15%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (4.02%) Telecoms
6 35 (3.43%) Marketing
7 32 (3.13%) Manufacturing
8 23 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
8 23 (2.25%) Retail
9 22 (2.15%) Electronics
10 20 (1.96%) Billing
11 16 (1.57%) Banking
11 16 (1.57%) Law
12 15 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
13 13 (1.27%) Police
14 11 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 11 (1.08%) Local Government
14 11 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (0.69%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.15%) SAP Basis
2 21 (2.06%) SAP Fiori
3 15 (1.47%) Web Services
4 14 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
5 8 (0.78%) HTML
6 6 (0.59%) CSS
6 6 (0.59%) REST
6 6 (0.59%) RESTful
7 5 (0.49%) Middleware
7 5 (0.49%) SailPoint
8 4 (0.39%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (0.39%) IDoc
8 4 (0.39%) JSON
8 4 (0.39%) LDAP
8 4 (0.39%) Lightning Web Components
8 4 (0.39%) OAuth
8 4 (0.39%) OpenID
8 4 (0.39%) SAML
8 4 (0.39%) SOAP
9 3 (0.29%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 28 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
2 19 (1.86%) Operational Technology
3 17 (1.67%) Data Centre
3 17 (1.67%) Onboarding
3 17 (1.67%) Robotics
4 16 (1.57%) Analogue Electronics
4 16 (1.57%) Mainframe
5 14 (1.37%) Management Information System
6 13 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (0.98%) CMDB
8 10 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
8 10 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (0.88%) Cyber Defence
9 9 (0.88%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 9 (0.88%) Life Science
10 8 (0.78%) Replication
11 7 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (0.59%) Product Ownership
12 6 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (4.02%) Linux
2 31 (3.04%) Windows
3 14 (1.37%) Unix
4 10 (0.98%) 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%) Android
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
1 125 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
2 118 (11.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 105 (10.28%) Migration
4 88 (8.62%) Cybersecurity
5 75 (7.35%) Agile
6 59 (5.78%) Data Migration
7 56 (5.48%) User Acceptance Testing
8 53 (5.19%) Roadmaps
9 51 (5.00%) Information Security
10 48 (4.70%) Business Intelligence
11 46 (4.51%) Workshop Facilitation
12 43 (4.21%) Requirements Gathering
13 41 (4.02%) ERP
14 40 (3.92%) CRM
14 40 (3.92%) DevOps
15 39 (3.82%) Risk Management
16 37 (3.62%) Service Management
17 36 (3.53%) Data Protection
18 35 (3.43%) Analytics
18 35 (3.43%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 40 (3.92%) SQL
2 35 (3.43%) PowerShell
3 16 (1.57%) ABAP
4 15 (1.47%) Python
5 11 (1.08%) Bash
6 8 (0.78%) Java
6 8 (0.78%) MATLAB
7 7 (0.69%) JavaScript
8 6 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (0.59%) 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
10 2 (0.20%) X++
11 1 (0.098%) CLIST
11 1 (0.098%) REXX
Qualifications
1 278 (27.23%) Security Cleared
2 194 (19.00%) SC Cleared
3 90 (8.81%) DV Cleared
4 37 (3.62%) Degree
5 23 (2.25%) CISSP
6 15 (1.47%) CISM
6 15 (1.47%) SAP Certification
7 11 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (0.78%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 7 (0.69%) CRISC
11 6 (0.59%) 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
12 5 (0.49%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (3.04%) GDPR
3 30 (2.94%) NIST
4 13 (1.27%) COBIT
4 13 (1.27%) GRC
5 12 (1.18%) QA
6 10 (0.98%) PMO
7 8 (0.78%) SLA
8 7 (0.69%) IFRS
8 7 (0.69%) NCSC
8 7 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.69%) RMADS
9 6 (0.59%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.59%) Government Security Classifications
10 5 (0.49%) JSP 440
11 4 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.20%) GxP
14 1 (0.098%) Def Stans
System Software
1 38 (3.72%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.47%) VMware NSX
3 14 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.98%) Firmware
5 9 (0.88%) vSphere
6 7 (0.69%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.49%) Docker
7 5 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
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
9 1 (0.098%) NFS
9 1 (0.098%) XenApp
9 1 (0.098%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 11 (1.08%) Terraform
2 9 (0.88%) VxRail
3 8 (0.78%) Dell DRAC
4 7 (0.69%) Ansible
4 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.49%) Kubernetes
5 5 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.49%) vRealize
6 4 (0.39%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.29%) HP Quality Center
7 3 (0.29%) SCCM
8 2 (0.20%) CEMLI
8 2 (0.20%) Grafana
8 2 (0.20%) Graylog
8 2 (0.20%) Nagios
8 2 (0.20%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.20%) Puppet
9 1 (0.098%) Nessus
9 1 (0.098%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.098%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 262 (25.66%) SAP
2 110 (10.77%) Microsoft
3 84 (8.23%) Oracle
4 39 (3.82%) VMware
5 29 (2.84%) ServiceNow
6 18 (1.76%) Dell
7 14 (1.37%) Ariba
7 14 (1.37%) Cisco
8 13 (1.27%) Red Hat
9 11 (1.08%) ArcSight
9 11 (1.08%) Salesforce
10 10 (0.98%) Informatica
11 9 (0.88%) EMC
12 8 (0.78%) Genesys
12 8 (0.78%) Google
12 8 (0.78%) Isilon
12 8 (0.78%) Siemens
13 7 (0.69%) IFS
14 6 (0.59%) Concur
15 5 (0.49%) AVEVA