Senior Consultant Contract Job Trends

Senior Consultant
UK

The median Senior Consultant daily rate in the UK is £595, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 450 411 414
Rank change year-on-year -39 +3 +117
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Consultant 235 146 148
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.45% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.49% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 93 61
10th Percentile £424 £400 £435
25th Percentile £494 £492 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.29% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £671 £700 £663
90th Percentile £753 £824 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £616 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +12.05% -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £40.98 -
25th Percentile - £48.44 £61.68
Median hourly rate - £61.75 £63.36
Median % change year-on-year - -2.53% +13.88%
75th Percentile - £74.94 £65.03
90th Percentile - £82.33 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £86.50 -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 50,255 29,550 35,480
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 91.04% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,827 18,649 21,961
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,770 1,552 1,702
10th Percentile £14.59 £13.69 £14.73
25th Percentile £20.25 £17.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.15 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.59% -41.51% -1.96%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.83 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +6.95%

Senior Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Consultant' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Senior Consultant job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Consultant job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Consultant job vacancies in the UK

Senior Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Consultant over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Consultant in the UK

Senior Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Consultant job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Consultant job vacancies in the UK

Senior Consultant
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 September 2026. 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 -50 195 £590 +0.60% 964
London -61 96 £550 -6.14% 616
UK excluding London -63 94 £616 +12.05% 454
Work from Home -37 72 £613 +7.83% 610
North of England -44 41 £625 +27.03% 129
North West -27 30 £625 +4.87% 100
Midlands -33 16 £425 -32.00% 44
South West -38 14 £650 -3.70% 67
South East -62 14 £626 +6.78% 72
West Midlands -44 12 £425 -32.00% 35
Yorkshire -24 11 £475 -3.46% 14
East of England -28 5 £500 -13.04% 16
Scotland -16 3 £450 +12.50% 60
East Midlands - 3 £465 - 9
Channel Islands - 2 £600 - 3
North East - 1 £280 - 15

Senior Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 15 September 2026, Senior Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Senior Consultant in the job title.

1 73 (31.06%) SAP
2 57 (24.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 54 (22.98%) Security Cleared
4 38 (16.17%) Migration
5 36 (15.32%) SC Cleared
6 35 (14.89%) SuccessFactors
7 34 (14.47%) Azure
8 29 (12.34%) Microsoft
9 28 (11.91%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (11.06%) Roadmaps
11 25 (10.64%) Analytics
12 24 (10.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 24 (10.21%) Workshop Facilitation
13 21 (8.94%) Mentoring
14 20 (8.51%) SAP S/4HANA
15 18 (7.66%) CI/CD
15 18 (7.66%) Presales
16 17 (7.23%) BPSS Clearance
16 17 (7.23%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (7.23%) Decision-Making
16 17 (7.23%) Project Delivery
17 16 (6.81%) Agile
17 16 (6.81%) DevOps
17 16 (6.81%) Requirements Gathering
18 15 (6.38%) AI
18 15 (6.38%) DV Cleared
19 14 (5.96%) Actionable Insight
19 14 (5.96%) ITIL
19 14 (5.96%) Risk Management
19 14 (5.96%) ServiceNow

Senior Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (3.40%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.55%) Confluence
3 2 (0.85%) SAS
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 20 (8.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (3.40%) SAP CO
2 8 (3.40%) SAP HR
2 8 (3.40%) SAP MM
2 8 (3.40%) SAP SD
3 7 (2.98%) SAP FI
4 6 (2.55%) SAP FI/CO
5 5 (2.13%) SAP IBP
6 4 (1.70%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (1.70%) SAP APO
7 3 (1.28%) SAP ERP
7 3 (1.28%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.43%) HFM
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle SCM
9 1 (0.43%) SAP GTS
9 1 (0.43%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 1 (0.43%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 35 (14.89%) SuccessFactors
2 34 (14.47%) Azure
3 12 (5.11%) AWS
3 12 (5.11%) Power Platform
4 11 (4.68%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (3.40%) Entra ID
6 7 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (2.98%) Power Automate
7 6 (2.55%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (2.55%) GitHub
8 5 (2.13%) GCP
9 4 (1.70%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.28%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (1.28%) Snowflake
11 2 (0.85%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (0.85%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.85%) dbt
11 2 (0.85%) Miro
11 2 (0.85%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.53%) Firewall
2 11 (4.68%) BGP
3 6 (2.55%) Ethernet VPN
3 6 (2.55%) VXLAN
4 4 (1.70%) Network Security
5 3 (1.28%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (1.28%) WAN
6 2 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (0.85%) SSL
7 1 (0.43%) ExtremeXOS
7 1 (0.43%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.43%) HSRP
7 1 (0.43%) IPsec
7 1 (0.43%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.43%) NGFW
7 1 (0.43%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.43%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.43%) VLAN
7 1 (0.43%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.98%) Power BI
2 5 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.70%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 4 (1.70%) Tableau
4 3 (1.28%) Metadata
4 3 (1.28%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.85%) Looker
5 2 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.85%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.43%) Base SAS
6 1 (0.43%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.43%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.43%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.43%) OLAP
6 1 (0.43%) OLTP
6 1 (0.43%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.43%) SAS Data Integration Studio
6 1 (0.43%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 10 (4.26%) JIRA
2 3 (1.28%) Git
2 3 (1.28%) MLflow
3 2 (0.85%) tSQLt
4 1 (0.43%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.43%) GitLab
4 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.43%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.43%) Snyk
4 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.43%) Toad
General
1 54 (22.98%) Social Skills
2 48 (20.43%) Finance
3 21 (8.94%) Public Sector
4 13 (5.53%) Banking
4 13 (5.53%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (4.68%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.40%) Billing
7 7 (2.98%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.98%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (2.13%) Retail
9 4 (1.70%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.85%) Automotive
10 2 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.85%) Law
11 1 (0.43%) Advertising
11 1 (0.43%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.43%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.40%) Oracle Fusion
1 8 (3.40%) Terraform
2 7 (2.98%) REST
3 6 (2.55%) SAP Fiori
3 6 (2.55%) SOAP
4 3 (1.28%) .NET
4 3 (1.28%) Middleware
5 2 (0.85%) ADO
5 2 (0.85%) CSS
5 2 (0.85%) EDI
5 2 (0.85%) HTML
5 2 (0.85%) Semantic HTML
5 2 (0.85%) Web Services
6 1 (0.43%) Hugging Face
6 1 (0.43%) IDoc
6 1 (0.43%) Model Context Protocol
6 1 (0.43%) PySpark
6 1 (0.43%) SAML
6 1 (0.43%) SAP Core Interface
6 1 (0.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.81%) Replication
2 11 (4.68%) Onboarding
3 10 (4.26%) Data Centre
4 7 (2.98%) CMDB
5 5 (2.13%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.13%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.70%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.70%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.70%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.28%) FMCG
8 2 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.85%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.43%) Clustering
9 1 (0.43%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.43%) Life Science
9 1 (0.43%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.40%) Windows
2 7 (2.98%) Linux
3 1 (0.43%) AIX
3 1 (0.43%) VMS
3 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (24.26%) Stakeholder Management
2 38 (16.17%) Migration
3 28 (11.91%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (11.06%) Roadmaps
5 25 (10.64%) Analytics
6 24 (10.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 24 (10.21%) Workshop Facilitation
7 21 (8.94%) Mentoring
8 18 (7.66%) CI/CD
8 18 (7.66%) Presales
9 17 (7.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (7.23%) Decision-Making
9 17 (7.23%) Project Delivery
10 16 (6.81%) Agile
10 16 (6.81%) DevOps
10 16 (6.81%) Requirements Gathering
11 15 (6.38%) AI
12 14 (5.96%) ITIL
12 14 (5.96%) Risk Management
12 14 (5.96%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (5.96%) SQL
2 9 (3.83%) Python
3 4 (1.70%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.85%) Bicep
4 2 (0.85%) C#
4 2 (0.85%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.85%) PL/SQL
4 2 (0.85%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.43%) ABAP
5 1 (0.43%) Korn
5 1 (0.43%) Perl
5 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.43%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 54 (22.98%) Security Cleared
2 36 (15.32%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 15 (6.38%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.55%) Degree
6 5 (2.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (1.70%) CISA
7 4 (1.70%) CISM
8 3 (1.28%) CCA
8 3 (1.28%) CCIE
8 3 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.28%) CISSP
8 3 (1.28%) CRISC
9 2 (0.85%) ACCA
9 2 (0.85%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.85%) CIMA
9 2 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.85%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.43%) CCIE Routing and Switching
10 1 (0.43%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.26%) GRC
2 9 (3.83%) QA
3 8 (3.40%) Actionable Recommendations
4 7 (2.98%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.98%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.55%) GDPR
5 6 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.55%) NIST
6 4 (1.70%) WCAG
7 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.85%) GAAP
7 2 (0.85%) IFRS
7 2 (0.85%) NCSC
7 2 (0.85%) SLA
8 1 (0.43%) COBIT
8 1 (0.43%) GxP
8 1 (0.43%) ITGC
8 1 (0.43%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.43%) PMO
8 1 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 4 (1.70%) Active Directory
1 4 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.43%) Docker
3 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.43%) SRDF
3 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (2.55%) FortiGate
2 4 (1.70%) Ansible
3 2 (0.85%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.43%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.43%) VxRail
Vendors
1 73 (31.06%) SAP
2 29 (12.34%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.96%) ServiceNow
4 10 (4.26%) Oracle
5 9 (3.83%) VMware
6 8 (3.40%) Qualtrics
7 6 (2.55%) Arista
7 6 (2.55%) Cisco
8 4 (1.70%) Databricks
8 4 (1.70%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.70%) Veeam
9 3 (1.28%) Broadcom
9 3 (1.28%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.28%) Zscaler
10 2 (0.85%) Amplitude
10 2 (0.85%) Anaplan
10 2 (0.85%) Ariba
10 2 (0.85%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.85%) Google
10 2 (0.85%) Workday