Functional Consultant Contracts

Functional Consultant
UK

The median Functional Consultant daily rate in the UK is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 323 504
Rank change year-on-year -3 +181 +44
Contract jobs requiring a Functional Consultant 196 288 204
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.67% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.72% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 192 114
10th Percentile £430 £450 £463
25th Percentile £506 £510 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £582 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% +5.82% -
75th Percentile £643 £638 £611
90th Percentile £700 £688 £687
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -11.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £58.72 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £58.72 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 26,982 39,941 54,901
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 92.76% 94.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,601 26,001 38,348
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,049 2,673 1,536
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £28.60 £36.65 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.96% -18.56% +88.21%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.90 £76.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £40.00 £42.43
% change year-on-year -31.25% -5.73% +115.78%

Functional Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Consultant in the UK

Functional Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Functional Consultant.

Daily rate trend for Functional Consultant in the UK

Functional Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Consultant over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Consultant in the UK

Functional Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Functional Consultant.

Hourly rate trend for Functional Consultant in the UK

Functional Consultant
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 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
England -4 148 £600 +5.49% 90
UK excluding London +38 76 £600 +9.09% 63
Work from Home -20 75 £600 +2.58% 146
London +10 71 £575 +1.10% 42
South East +41 43 £601 -0.33% 32
East of England +27 11 £700 +27.27% 7
North of England +8 10 £550 +4.76% 5
North West +9 6 £550 +4.76% 3
South West +39 5 £575 +18.56% 8
Midlands +3 3 - - 7
North East -2 3 £350 -12.50%
Northern Ireland - 3 £520 - 4
West Midlands +11 2 - - 4
East Midlands +9 1 - - 3
Scotland +9 1 £100 -81.82% 2
Yorkshire +5 1 £550 +22.22% 2

Functional Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 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 featuring Functional Consultant in the job title.

1 84 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 75 (38.27%) Finance
3 67 (34.18%) Oracle
4 55 (28.06%) SAP
5 52 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (23.98%) Analytical Skills
7 45 (22.96%) Oracle EBS
8 30 (15.31%) Migration
8 30 (15.31%) Oracle EBS R12
9 27 (13.78%) Project Delivery
9 27 (13.78%) SAP S/4HANA
9 27 (13.78%) Manufacturing
10 26 (13.27%) Data Migration
11 25 (12.76%) ERP
11 25 (12.76%) Workshop Facilitation
12 24 (12.24%) Dynamics 365
13 20 (10.20%) Microsoft
14 19 (9.69%) Agile
15 16 (8.16%) Stakeholder Management
15 16 (8.16%) SQL
15 16 (8.16%) Oracle Fusion
15 16 (8.16%) Analytics
15 16 (8.16%) Public Sector
16 15 (7.65%) Maximo
17 14 (7.14%) E-business
18 13 (6.63%) Security Cleared
18 13 (6.63%) Oracle ASCP
18 13 (6.63%) Procure-to-Pay
18 13 (6.63%) SAP PP
19 12 (6.12%) Aerospace

Functional Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (4.08%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.51%) Confluence
2 1 (0.51%) Documentum
2 1 (0.51%) IIS
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) InfoPath
1 1 (0.51%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 45 (22.96%) Oracle EBS
2 30 (15.31%) Oracle EBS R12
3 27 (13.78%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (7.65%) Maximo
5 13 (6.63%) Oracle ASCP
5 13 (6.63%) SAP PP
6 10 (5.10%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 9 (4.59%) SAP R/3
8 8 (4.08%) Dynamics CRM
8 8 (4.08%) Oracle Financials
8 8 (4.08%) SAP EWM
9 7 (3.57%) Oracle Payables
9 7 (3.57%) SAP BRIM
9 7 (3.57%) SAP Hybris
9 7 (3.57%) SAP PSCD
10 6 (3.06%) Oracle Assets
11 5 (2.55%) Oracle General Ledger
11 5 (2.55%) Oracle Receivables
11 5 (2.55%) SAP MII
11 5 (2.55%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 24 (12.24%) Dynamics 365
2 12 (6.12%) OCI
3 11 (5.61%) Azure
4 9 (4.59%) Power Platform
5 7 (3.57%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 6 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.04%) PowerApps
8 3 (1.53%) SaaS
8 3 (1.53%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.02%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.51%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.51%) Boomi
10 1 (0.51%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.51%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 1 (0.51%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 1 (0.51%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.51%) PuTTY
1 1 (0.51%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.57%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (2.04%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 3 (1.53%) Power BI
4 2 (1.02%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.02%) GIS
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 3 (1.53%) JIRA
2 1 (0.51%) Git
2 1 (0.51%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.51%) Maven
2 1 (0.51%) Postman
2 1 (0.51%) Selenium
2 1 (0.51%) Toad
General
1 84 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 75 (38.27%) Finance
3 47 (23.98%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (13.78%) Manufacturing
5 16 (8.16%) Public Sector
6 12 (6.12%) Aerospace
7 10 (5.10%) General Ledger
7 10 (5.10%) Retail
8 9 (4.59%) Banking
8 9 (4.59%) Billing
9 8 (4.08%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (3.57%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.55%) Back Office
11 5 (2.55%) Marketing
12 3 (1.53%) Advertising
13 2 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (1.02%) Law
13 2 (1.02%) Legal
13 2 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.16%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (2.04%) Web Services
3 3 (1.53%) REST
3 3 (1.53%) SOAP
4 1 (0.51%) ADO
4 1 (0.51%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.51%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.51%) Middleware
4 1 (0.51%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (4.59%) Private Cloud
3 8 (4.08%) Life Science
3 8 (4.08%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.57%) FMCG
5 6 (3.06%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.55%) PACS
6 5 (2.55%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.53%) LIMS
8 1 (0.51%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.51%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.51%) EFT
8 1 (0.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.51%) Industry 4.0
8 1 (0.51%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.51%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.53%) Unix
1 3 (1.53%) Windows
2 2 (1.02%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (15.31%) Migration
3 27 (13.78%) Project Delivery
4 26 (13.27%) Data Migration
5 25 (12.76%) ERP
5 25 (12.76%) Workshop Facilitation
6 19 (9.69%) Agile
7 16 (8.16%) Analytics
7 16 (8.16%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (7.14%) E-business
9 13 (6.63%) Procure-to-Pay
10 12 (6.12%) Business Transformation
10 12 (6.12%) Logistics
10 12 (6.12%) Requirements Gathering
10 12 (6.12%) User Acceptance Testing
10 12 (6.12%) Workflow
11 11 (5.61%) Integration Testing
11 11 (5.61%) Inventory Management
11 11 (5.61%) Record to Report
12 10 (5.10%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (8.16%) SQL
2 10 (5.10%) ABAP
3 5 (2.55%) PL/SQL
4 3 (1.53%) PeopleCode
5 2 (1.02%) C
5 2 (1.02%) Java
6 1 (0.51%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.51%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.51%) Python
6 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (6.63%) Security Cleared
2 9 (4.59%) Degree
3 6 (3.06%) DBS Check
4 4 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.53%) SAP Certification
6 2 (1.02%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.51%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.04%) QA
2 3 (1.53%) IFRS
2 3 (1.53%) IFRS 9
3 2 (1.02%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.02%) GAAP
4 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.51%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.53%) CEMLI
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 67 (34.18%) Oracle
2 55 (28.06%) SAP
3 20 (10.20%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.08%) Workday
5 7 (3.57%) IFS
6 5 (2.55%) OpenLink
7 4 (2.04%) Ariba
7 4 (2.04%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.53%) OpenText
8 3 (1.53%) PeopleSoft
9 1 (0.51%) Charles River
9 1 (0.51%) Cognos
9 1 (0.51%) Dell
9 1 (0.51%) Fujitsu
9 1 (0.51%) Hyperion
9 1 (0.51%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.51%) Kronos
9 1 (0.51%) PTC
9 1 (0.51%) Remedy
9 1 (0.51%) Splunk