Senior Functional Consultant Contracts

Senior Functional Consultant
UK

The median Senior Functional Consultant daily rate in the UK is £663, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 June 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
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 518 574 686
Rank change year-on-year +56 +112 +175
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Functional Consultant 12 18 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.040% 0.041% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.044% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 1
10th Percentile £519 - -
25th Percentile £547 £582 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £582 £700
Median % change year-on-year +13.76% -16.81% +75.00%
75th Percentile £700 £650 £725
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 £582 -
% change year-on-year +20.20% - -

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 27,810 40,484 52,424
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.93% 94.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,834 26,012 36,485
10th Percentile £288 £281 £313
25th Percentile £402 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,203 2,914 1,505
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.39 £16.38 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.13 £37.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.67% -12.79% +68.63%
75th Percentile £56.25 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.00 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% - +100.00%

Senior Functional Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Functional Consultant in the UK

Senior Functional Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Functional Consultant in the UK

Senior Functional Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Functional Consultant over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Functional Consultant in the UK

Senior Functional Consultant
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Functional Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 25 June 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 +70 11 £663 +13.76% 24
London +48 7 £550 - 15
UK excluding London +41 4 £700 +20.20% 7
East of England +20 3 £700 +20.20%
Work from Home +40 1 - - 19
South West - 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 25 June 2025, Senior 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 Senior Functional Consultant in the job title.

1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) SAP
3 4 (33.33%) Business Transformation
3 4 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 3 (25.00%) Record to Report
4 3 (25.00%) Analytics
4 3 (25.00%) Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (16.67%) OpenLink
5 2 (16.67%) Endur
5 2 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (16.67%) SQL
5 2 (16.67%) Oracle
5 2 (16.67%) CRM
5 2 (16.67%) ERP
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 2 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (16.67%) Use Case
5 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (16.67%) Back Office
5 2 (16.67%) OCI
6 1 (8.33%) Supply Chain Planning
6 1 (8.33%) Product Roadmap
6 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
6 1 (8.33%) Requirements Workshops
6 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
6 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
6 1 (8.33%) Order to Cash

Senior 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (16.67%) Endur
3 1 (8.33%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (8.33%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (16.67%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Back Office
4 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (8.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Business Transformation
2 3 (25.00%) Analytics
2 3 (25.00%) Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (25.00%) Record to Report
2 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (16.67%) CRM
3 2 (16.67%) ERP
3 2 (16.67%) Use Case
4 1 (8.33%) Data Integration
4 1 (8.33%) Data Mapping
4 1 (8.33%) Data Migration
4 1 (8.33%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (8.33%) ETRM
4 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
4 1 (8.33%) Order to Cash
4 1 (8.33%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (8.33%) Supply Chain Planning
4 1 (8.33%) Test Scripting
4 1 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (8.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) SAP
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) OpenLink
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) Ariba
3 1 (8.33%) Kronos