Consultant Contracts in the East of England

Consultant
England > East of England

The median Consultant daily rate in the East of England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 82 77
Rank change year-on-year +49 -5 -32
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 93 41 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 4.93% 2.09% 2.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.56% 2.27% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 27 51
10th Percentile £325 £400 £263
25th Percentile £444 £444 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +13.11%
75th Percentile £582 £706 £650
90th Percentile £650 £843 £669
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile £29.50 - -
25th Percentile £34.38 £21.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £22.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +104.55% -51.11% -
75th Percentile £67.75 £23.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £79.90 £45.25 -
England median hourly rate £60.80 £65.50 £70.25
% change year-on-year -7.18% -6.76% +22.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East of England. 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 East of England with a recognized job title 1,672 1,804 2,365
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.56% 91.90% 92.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 743 1,089 1,391
10th Percentile £205 £188 £165
25th Percentile £314 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +3.26% +8.24%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £660
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 592 277 354
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £41.80 £15.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.87% +165.48% -4.58%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £46.93
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
% change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in the East of England

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Consultant in the East of England

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in the East of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in the East of England

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in the East of England

Consultant
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Consultant in the East of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Consultant in the East of England

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the East of England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
Hertfordshire +12 39 £463 -10.19% 16
Bedfordshire +13 25 £525 +16.67% 1
Cambridgeshire +18 21 £582 -12.15% 8
Essex +5 6 £538 -28.33% 3
Norfolk +5 1 £525 +40.00% 9
Consultant
England

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, 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 across the East of England region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 34 (36.56%) SAP
2 29 (31.18%) Social Skills
3 24 (25.81%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (18.28%) Finance
5 15 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (11.83%) Business Transformation
7 10 (10.75%) ERP
7 10 (10.75%) Pharmaceutical
8 9 (9.68%) Life Science
8 9 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (8.60%) IFS
9 8 (8.60%) Banking
9 8 (8.60%) Service Management
9 8 (8.60%) Ariba
10 7 (7.53%) CRM
10 7 (7.53%) Project Management
10 7 (7.53%) SAP SD
11 6 (6.45%) Presales
11 6 (6.45%) IT Asset Management
11 6 (6.45%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (6.45%) Agile
11 6 (6.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (6.45%) Incident Response
12 5 (5.38%) Customer Service
12 5 (5.38%) Roadmaps
12 5 (5.38%) SAP BW
12 5 (5.38%) Middleware
12 5 (5.38%) Degree
12 5 (5.38%) Telecoms
12 5 (5.38%) SAP Basis

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (4.30%) NetWeaver
2 3 (3.23%) Confluence
3 2 (2.15%) Alfresco
3 2 (2.15%) Appian
3 2 (2.15%) Camunda
3 2 (2.15%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (25.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (7.53%) SAP SD
3 4 (4.30%) SAP IBP
4 3 (3.23%) SAP CO
4 3 (3.23%) SAP FI
4 3 (3.23%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (1.08%) NEC Housing
5 1 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (1.08%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 4 (4.30%) AWS
1 4 (4.30%) Azure
2 3 (3.23%) GCP
3 2 (2.15%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.08%) Google Drive
4 1 (1.08%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.08%) OneDrive
4 1 (1.08%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.23%) 4G
1 3 (3.23%) 5G
1 3 (3.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.38%) SAP BW
1 5 (5.38%) SAP HANA
2 1 (1.08%) Data Mining
2 1 (1.08%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (4.30%) JIRA
General
1 29 (31.18%) Social Skills
2 17 (18.28%) Finance
3 10 (10.75%) Pharmaceutical
4 8 (8.60%) Banking
5 5 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.38%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.30%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.30%) Marketing
7 3 (3.23%) Billing
7 3 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.15%) Local Government
8 2 (2.15%) Retail
9 1 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.08%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.08%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.38%) Middleware
1 5 (5.38%) SAP Basis
1 5 (5.38%) SAP Fiori
2 3 (3.23%) RESTful
3 2 (2.15%) Drools
3 2 (2.15%) HTML
3 2 (2.15%) jBPM
3 2 (2.15%) JSON
4 1 (1.08%) IDoc
4 1 (1.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.68%) Life Science
2 6 (6.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (3.23%) EPoS
3 3 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.15%) IVR
4 2 (2.15%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.15%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.15%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.15%) Social Media
4 2 (2.15%) Video Editing
5 1 (1.08%) CMDB
5 1 (1.08%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.08%) Replication
5 1 (1.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.30%) Linux
1 4 (4.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
2 11 (11.83%) Business Transformation
3 10 (10.75%) ERP
4 9 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (8.60%) Service Management
6 7 (7.53%) CRM
6 7 (7.53%) Project Management
7 6 (6.45%) Agile
7 6 (6.45%) Incident Response
7 6 (6.45%) IT Asset Management
7 6 (6.45%) Presales
7 6 (6.45%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (5.38%) Customer Service
8 5 (5.38%) Roadmaps
9 4 (4.30%) Customer Engagement
9 4 (4.30%) Migration
9 4 (4.30%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (4.30%) SAP Security
9 4 (4.30%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (4.30%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.23%) Java
2 1 (1.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (5.38%) Degree
2 4 (4.30%) SAP Certification
3 2 (2.15%) PMP
4 1 (1.08%) CCNP
4 1 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.08%) CISSP
4 1 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.08%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.08%) PhD
4 1 (1.08%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.08%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.23%) GDPR
2 2 (2.15%) IFRS
3 1 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.08%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.08%) GxP
3 1 (1.08%) PMO
3 1 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (2.15%) GPFS
1 2 (2.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (1.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.08%) NFS
Vendors
1 34 (36.56%) SAP
2 8 (8.60%) Ariba
2 8 (8.60%) IFS
3 3 (3.23%) Genesys
4 2 (2.15%) Adobe
4 2 (2.15%) BMC
4 2 (2.15%) Citrix
4 2 (2.15%) Dell
4 2 (2.15%) Google
4 2 (2.15%) Oracle
4 2 (2.15%) Pega
4 2 (2.15%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.15%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.08%) Avaya
5 1 (1.08%) Cisco
5 1 (1.08%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.08%) Hyperion
5 1 (1.08%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.08%) NEC
5 1 (1.08%) Remedy