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 10 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
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 474 486 641
Rank change year-on-year +12 +155 +122
Contract jobs requiring a Management Consultant 49 104 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.24% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.26% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 68 29
10th Percentile £394 £296 £150
25th Percentile £500 £467 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +3.64% +1.85%
75th Percentile £665 £666 £675
90th Percentile £788 £750 £705
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £590 £525
% change year-on-year -11.02% +12.38% -4.55%
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 27,188 39,941 54,901
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 92.76% 94.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,734 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 1,055 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%

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 10 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 10 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 +23 36 £575 +4.55% 46
London +15 21 £575 +6.98% 29
Work from Home +14 21 £583 -1.98% 29
UK excluding London +36 10 £525 -11.02% 24
North of England +16 4 £583 +19.59% 6
North West +16 4 £583 +19.59% 4
South East +39 3 - - 6
Scotland +8 2 £263 -6.25% 3
South West +39 1 £525 -12.43% 2

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 17 (34.69%) SAP
2 13 (26.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (22.45%) Security Cleared
4 10 (20.41%) SC Cleared
4 10 (20.41%) Social Skills
5 9 (18.37%) Workshop Facilitation
6 8 (16.33%) SAP TM
6 8 (16.33%) Agile
7 7 (14.29%) Change Management
7 7 (14.29%) Finance
7 7 (14.29%) Data Mapping
7 7 (14.29%) User Experience
8 6 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (12.24%) Feature Driven Development
8 6 (12.24%) User Stories
9 5 (10.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (10.20%) Roadmaps
9 5 (10.20%) Migration
9 5 (10.20%) ITIL
10 4 (8.16%) WFM
10 4 (8.16%) JIRA
10 4 (8.16%) Data Management
10 4 (8.16%) Project Management
10 4 (8.16%) Quality Management
10 4 (8.16%) Service Management
10 4 (8.16%) Public Sector
10 4 (8.16%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (6.12%) Identity Access Management
11 3 (6.12%) Data Governance

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 (2.04%) Apache
1 1 (2.04%) CMS
1 1 (2.04%) Confluence
1 1 (2.04%) Drupal
1 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.04%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.04%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 13 (26.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (6.12%) SAP PP
3 2 (4.08%) SAP SD
3 2 (4.08%) SAP Travel Management
4 1 (2.04%) SAP EWM
4 1 (2.04%) SAP GTS
4 1 (2.04%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (2.04%) SAP MM
4 1 (2.04%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (2.04%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.08%) AWS
1 2 (4.08%) Entra ID
1 2 (4.08%) SaaS
2 1 (2.04%) Azure
2 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (2.04%) IaaS
2 1 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (2.04%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.04%) Apache Hive
1 1 (2.04%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.04%) Metadata
1 1 (2.04%) Metadata Repository
1 1 (2.04%) RDBMS
1 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
1 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (8.16%) JIRA
2 1 (2.04%) Snyk
General
1 10 (20.41%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.29%) Finance
3 6 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.16%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.12%) Banking
5 3 (6.12%) Law
5 3 (6.12%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.08%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.08%) Legal
6 2 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.08%) Retail
7 1 (2.04%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.04%) Billing
7 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Marketing
7 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.33%) SAP TM
2 1 (2.04%) SailPoint
2 1 (2.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.08%) Life Science
1 2 (4.08%) Management Information System
1 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
1 2 (4.08%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.04%) Blockchain
2 1 (2.04%) CMDB
2 1 (2.04%) Mainframe
2 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.04%) Linux
1 1 (2.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (18.37%) Workshop Facilitation
2 8 (16.33%) Agile
3 7 (14.29%) Change Management
3 7 (14.29%) Data Mapping
3 7 (14.29%) User Experience
4 6 (12.24%) Feature Driven Development
4 6 (12.24%) User Stories
5 5 (10.20%) ITIL
5 5 (10.20%) Migration
5 5 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (10.20%) Roadmaps
5 5 (10.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (8.16%) Data Management
6 4 (8.16%) Project Management
6 4 (8.16%) Quality Management
6 4 (8.16%) Service Management
6 4 (8.16%) WFM
7 3 (6.12%) Incident Management
7 3 (6.12%) Logistics
7 3 (6.12%) Supply Chain Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.12%) SQL
2 1 (2.04%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (22.45%) Security Cleared
2 10 (20.41%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.16%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (6.12%) Degree
5 1 (2.04%) CISM
5 1 (2.04%) CISSP
5 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.08%) QA
3 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.04%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (2.04%) SLA
3 1 (2.04%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (4.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 17 (34.69%) SAP
2 3 (6.12%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.12%) Oracle
3 2 (4.08%) Informatica
3 2 (4.08%) NEC
3 2 (4.08%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.08%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.04%) Cerner
4 1 (2.04%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.04%) Genesys
4 1 (2.04%) IBM
4 1 (2.04%) Kronos
4 1 (2.04%) Qualys
4 1 (2.04%) Sparx
4 1 (2.04%) Tenable
4 1 (2.04%) Workday