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 in the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 66 75
Rank change year-on-year +27 +9 -23
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 85 50 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 4.34% 2.56% 2.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.87% 2.81% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 34 53
10th Percentile £325 £400 £309
25th Percentile £400 £453 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +7.32%
75th Percentile £582 £725 £650
90th Percentile £650 £821 £675
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +4.76%
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 £61.60 £64.84 £70.25
% change year-on-year -4.99% -7.70% +22.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 1,746 1,779 2,348
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.22% 91.23% 92.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 754 1,108 1,412
10th Percentile £206 £190 £185
25th Percentile £306 £318 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.95% - +15.15%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 613 250 341
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £13.41
Median hourly rate £43.00 £36.03 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.36% +105.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.61 £60.00
England median hourly rate £38.50 £44.53 £24.00
% change year-on-year -13.54% +85.54% +14.01%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 11 June 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 +15 34 £400 -36.00% 19
Cambridgeshire +12 21 £582 +5.82% 13
Bedfordshire +12 20 £525 +16.67% 4
Essex +11 6 £538 -17.31% 17
Suffolk +15 2 £525 +31.25% 5
Norfolk +1 1 £525 +40.00% 4
Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 June 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 32 (37.65%) SAP
2 26 (30.59%) Social Skills
3 19 (22.35%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (16.47%) Finance
5 10 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (9.41%) Banking
6 8 (9.41%) SAP Basis
6 8 (9.41%) Service Management
6 8 (9.41%) ERP
6 8 (9.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (8.24%) Incident Response
7 7 (8.24%) IFS
7 7 (8.24%) Business Transformation
7 7 (8.24%) CRM
7 7 (8.24%) SAP SD
7 7 (8.24%) Project Management
8 6 (7.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (7.06%) Telecoms
8 6 (7.06%) Agile
8 6 (7.06%) IT Asset Management
8 6 (7.06%) SAP Fiori
9 5 (5.88%) SAP IBP
9 5 (5.88%) Customer Service
9 5 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (5.88%) SAP HANA
9 5 (5.88%) SAP Security
9 5 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (5.88%) Middleware
9 5 (5.88%) SAP BW

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 5 (5.88%) NetWeaver
2 4 (4.71%) OpenStack
3 3 (3.53%) Confluence
4 2 (2.35%) Alfresco
4 2 (2.35%) Appian
4 2 (2.35%) Camunda
5 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 19 (22.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (8.24%) SAP SD
3 5 (5.88%) SAP IBP
4 3 (3.53%) SAP CO
4 3 (3.53%) SAP FI
4 3 (3.53%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (1.18%) NEC Housing
5 1 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (1.18%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.35%) Azure
1 2 (2.35%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (2.35%) GCP
2 1 (1.18%) AWS
2 1 (1.18%) Google Drive
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (1.18%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.53%) 4G
1 3 (3.53%) 5G
1 3 (3.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.88%) SAP BW
1 5 (5.88%) SAP HANA
2 1 (1.18%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 4 (4.71%) JIRA
General
1 26 (30.59%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.47%) Finance
3 8 (9.41%) Banking
4 6 (7.06%) Telecoms
5 5 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (4.71%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.71%) Marketing
7 3 (3.53%) Billing
7 3 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.35%) Local Government
8 2 (2.35%) Retail
9 1 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.18%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.18%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.18%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.41%) SAP Basis
2 6 (7.06%) SAP Fiori
3 5 (5.88%) Middleware
4 2 (2.35%) Drools
4 2 (2.35%) HTML
4 2 (2.35%) jBPM
4 2 (2.35%) JSON
5 1 (1.18%) IDoc
5 1 (1.18%) RESTful
5 1 (1.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (4.71%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.53%) EPoS
3 3 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.35%) Life Science
4 2 (2.35%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.35%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.35%) Social Media
4 2 (2.35%) Video Editing
5 1 (1.18%) CMDB
5 1 (1.18%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.18%) IVR
5 1 (1.18%) Replication
5 1 (1.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.88%) Linux
1 5 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (9.41%) ERP
2 8 (9.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (9.41%) Service Management
3 7 (8.24%) Business Transformation
3 7 (8.24%) CRM
3 7 (8.24%) Incident Response
3 7 (8.24%) Project Management
4 6 (7.06%) Agile
4 6 (7.06%) IT Asset Management
5 5 (5.88%) Customer Service
5 5 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (5.88%) SAP Security
6 4 (4.71%) Customer Engagement
6 4 (4.71%) Data Analysis
6 4 (4.71%) ITIL
6 4 (4.71%) Presales
6 4 (4.71%) Problem Management
6 4 (4.71%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (4.71%) Record to Report
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.53%) Java
2 1 (1.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (4.71%) Degree
1 4 (4.71%) SAP Certification
2 2 (2.35%) PMP
3 1 (1.18%) CISSP
3 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.18%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.18%) PhD
3 1 (1.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.35%) GDPR
1 2 (2.35%) IFRS
2 1 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.18%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (2.35%) GPFS
1 2 (2.35%) KVM
1 2 (2.35%) QEMU
1 2 (2.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
1 2 (2.35%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 32 (37.65%) SAP
2 7 (8.24%) IFS
3 3 (3.53%) Ariba
4 2 (2.35%) Adobe
4 2 (2.35%) Dell
4 2 (2.35%) Google
4 2 (2.35%) Oracle
4 2 (2.35%) Pega
4 2 (2.35%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.35%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.35%) VMware
5 1 (1.18%) BMC
5 1 (1.18%) FIS
5 1 (1.18%) Genesys
5 1 (1.18%) Liquidlogic
5 1 (1.18%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.18%) NEC