Management Consultant Contracts

Management Consultant
UK

The median Management Consultant daily rate in the UK is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 468 481 654
Rank change year-on-year +13 +173 +108
Contract jobs requiring a Management Consultant 52 101 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.23% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.25% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 67 30
10th Percentile £400 £295 £308
25th Percentile £469 £466 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £662 £675
90th Percentile £785 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £590 £538
% change year-on-year -11.02% +9.77% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Management Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Management Consultant in the UK

Management Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Management Consultant in the UK

Management Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Management Consultant over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Management Consultant in the UK

Management Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Management Consultant in the UK

Management Consultant
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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 +17 39 £575 +4.55% 131
Work from Home +20 24 £579 -2.65% 44
London +11 23 £575 +9.52% 46
UK excluding London +44 13 £525 -11.02% 97
South East +44 5 £538 -15.69% 20
North West +19 4 £583 +19.59% 12
North of England +17 4 £583 +19.59% 22
Scotland +9 3 £394 +40.63% 6
South West +45 1 £525 -12.43% 11

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 featuring Management Consultant in the job title.

1 15 (28.85%) SAP
2 13 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 12 (23.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (23.08%) SC Cleared
4 8 (15.38%) Finance
4 8 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (15.38%) Workshop Facilitation
5 7 (13.46%) User Experience
5 7 (13.46%) Change Management
5 7 (13.46%) Agile
5 7 (13.46%) SAP TM
6 6 (11.54%) Feature Driven Development
6 6 (11.54%) Data Mapping
6 6 (11.54%) ITIL
6 6 (11.54%) Service Management
6 6 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (11.54%) User Stories
7 5 (9.62%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (9.62%) Public Sector
7 5 (9.62%) Roadmaps
7 5 (9.62%) Project Management
7 5 (9.62%) Identity Management
7 5 (9.62%) Migration
7 5 (9.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (7.69%) WFM
8 4 (7.69%) Data Management
8 4 (7.69%) Incident Management
8 4 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (7.69%) Quality Management

Management 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 1 (1.92%) Apache
1 1 (1.92%) CMS
1 1 (1.92%) Confluence
1 1 (1.92%) Drupal
1 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.92%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.92%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 12 (23.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (5.77%) SAP PP
3 1 (1.92%) SAP EWM
3 1 (1.92%) SAP GTS
3 1 (1.92%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (1.92%) SAP SD
3 1 (1.92%) SAP Travel Management
3 1 (1.92%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (3.85%) AWS
1 2 (3.85%) Entra ID
1 2 (3.85%) SaaS
2 1 (1.92%) IaaS
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (1.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.92%) Apache Hive
1 1 (1.92%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.92%) Metadata
1 1 (1.92%) Metadata Repository
1 1 (1.92%) RDBMS
1 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
1 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (5.77%) JIRA
2 1 (1.92%) Snyk
General
1 13 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (15.38%) Finance
3 5 (9.62%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.77%) Banking
4 3 (5.77%) Law
4 3 (5.77%) Manufacturing
4 3 (5.77%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.85%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.85%) Legal
5 2 (3.85%) Retail
6 1 (1.92%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.92%) Billing
6 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Marketing
6 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.46%) SAP TM
2 1 (1.92%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.85%) CMDB
1 2 (3.85%) Life Science
1 2 (3.85%) Management Information System
1 2 (3.85%) Product Ownership
1 2 (3.85%) Virtual Team
2 1 (1.92%) Blockchain
2 1 (1.92%) Mainframe
2 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.92%) Linux
1 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (15.38%) Workshop Facilitation
2 7 (13.46%) Agile
2 7 (13.46%) Change Management
2 7 (13.46%) User Experience
3 6 (11.54%) Data Mapping
3 6 (11.54%) Feature Driven Development
3 6 (11.54%) ITIL
3 6 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (11.54%) Service Management
3 6 (11.54%) User Stories
4 5 (9.62%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (9.62%) Identity Management
4 5 (9.62%) Migration
4 5 (9.62%) Project Management
4 5 (9.62%) Roadmaps
4 5 (9.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (7.69%) Data Management
5 4 (7.69%) ITSM
5 4 (7.69%) Quality Management
5 4 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.77%) SQL
2 1 (1.92%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (5.77%) Degree
5 2 (3.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.92%) CISM
6 1 (1.92%) CISSP
6 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.85%) QA
3 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (1.92%) SLA
3 1 (1.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 15 (28.85%) SAP
2 3 (5.77%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.77%) Oracle
2 3 (5.77%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.85%) Cerner
3 2 (3.85%) Dynatrace
3 2 (3.85%) Informatica
3 2 (3.85%) Kronos
3 2 (3.85%) NEC
3 2 (3.85%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.92%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.92%) Genesys
4 1 (1.92%) IBM
4 1 (1.92%) Qualys
4 1 (1.92%) Sparx
4 1 (1.92%) Tenable
4 1 (1.92%) Workday