Functional Consultant Contracts in the East of England

Functional Consultant
England > East of England

The median Functional Consultant daily rate in the East of England is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 112 140
Rank change year-on-year +21 +28 -31
Contract jobs requiring a Functional Consultant 19 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.00% 0.10% 0.079%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 0.11% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 2 2
10th Percentile - £403 -
25th Percentile £513 £406 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -29.17% +41.18%
75th Percentile £582 £456 £650
90th Percentile £623 £468 -
England median daily rate £569 £550 £563
% change year-on-year +3.41% -2.22% +7.14%

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 1,675 1,808 2,357
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.58% 91.82% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 744 1,092 1,394
10th Percentile £205 £189 £168
25th Percentile £314 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £662
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 593 272 351
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £41.81 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +161.28% -3.03%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +6.38%

Functional Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Consultant in the East of England

Functional Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Consultant in the East of England

Functional Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Consultant in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Consultant in the East of England

Functional 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 Functional Consultant within the East of England region over the 6 months to 18 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
Bedfordshire - 10 £525 - 1
Cambridgeshire +6 6 £582 +29.33%
Hertfordshire - 2 - - 1
Norfolk - 1 £525 - 4
Functional Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, 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 across the East of England region featuring Functional Consultant in the job title.

1 15 (78.95%) SAP
2 14 (73.68%) Social Skills
3 13 (68.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (52.63%) Business Transformation
4 10 (52.63%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (36.84%) Life Science
5 7 (36.84%) Ariba
5 7 (36.84%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (26.32%) SAP SD
6 5 (26.32%) Middleware
6 5 (26.32%) CRM
7 4 (21.05%) Customer Service
7 4 (21.05%) Customer Engagement
8 3 (15.79%) Billing
8 3 (15.79%) Finance
9 2 (10.53%) Service Management
9 2 (10.53%) ITSM
9 2 (10.53%) Oracle
9 2 (10.53%) ITIL
9 2 (10.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (10.53%) Banking
9 2 (10.53%) Data Analysis
9 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
9 2 (10.53%) People Management
9 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
10 1 (5.26%) Expense Management
10 1 (5.26%) Record to Report
10 1 (5.26%) Planning and Forecasting
10 1 (5.26%) Accounts Payable
10 1 (5.26%) Performance Management

Functional 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:

Business Applications
1 13 (68.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (26.32%) SAP SD
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle EBS
General
1 14 (73.68%) Social Skills
2 7 (36.84%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (15.79%) Billing
3 3 (15.79%) Finance
4 2 (10.53%) Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Life Science
2 2 (10.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Business Transformation
1 10 (52.63%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (26.32%) CRM
3 4 (21.05%) Customer Engagement
3 4 (21.05%) Customer Service
4 2 (10.53%) Data Analysis
4 2 (10.53%) ITIL
4 2 (10.53%) ITSM
4 2 (10.53%) People Management
4 2 (10.53%) Service Management
5 1 (5.26%) Accounts Payable
5 1 (5.26%) EAM
5 1 (5.26%) Expense Management
5 1 (5.26%) Performance Management
5 1 (5.26%) Planning and Forecasting
5 1 (5.26%) PLM
5 1 (5.26%) Record to Report
Vendors
1 15 (78.95%) SAP
2 7 (36.84%) Ariba
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle
3 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow