Consultant Contracts in the Midlands

Consultant
England > Midlands

The median Consultant daily rate in the Midlands is £550 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 21 37 54
Rank change year-on-year +16 +17 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 167 175 192
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.20% 5.33% 3.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.73% 5.64% 4.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 113 112
10th Percentile £450 £375 £401
25th Percentile £491 £475 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +3.18% +15.79%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £631
90th Percentile £733 £694 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile - £48.50 -
25th Percentile £12.13 £60.50 -
Median hourly rate £12.25 £66.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -81.44% - -
75th Percentile £12.38 £97.50 -
90th Percentile - £98.50 -
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
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 2,482 3,103 4,788
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.16% 94.52% 96.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,681 2,182 3,494
10th Percentile £213 £220 £213
25th Percentile £328 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +2.70% +15.63%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £560
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 118 165
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.35 £10.93
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.06 £14.61
Median hourly rate £19.13 £20.16 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% +15.20% +16.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.00 £22.75
90th Percentile £52.45 £65.00 £35.00
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 Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in the Midlands

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Consultant in the Midlands

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in the Midlands

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in the Midlands

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +20 113 £550 -0.45% 83
East Midlands +20 48 £550 -4.35% 34
Consultant
England

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

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 Midlands region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 40 (23.95%) SAP
1 40 (23.95%) Social Skills
2 28 (16.77%) Finance
2 28 (16.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 25 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (13.77%) Security Cleared
5 21 (12.57%) SC Cleared
6 20 (11.98%) SAP S/4HANA
7 18 (10.78%) Migration
8 17 (10.18%) Microsoft
8 17 (10.18%) Analytical Skills
9 14 (8.38%) Oracle
10 13 (7.78%) Agile
11 12 (7.19%) Law
11 12 (7.19%) Requirements Gathering
12 11 (6.59%) Dynamics 365
12 11 (6.59%) Power Platform
12 11 (6.59%) Azure
13 10 (5.99%) Change Management
13 10 (5.99%) Workshop Facilitation
14 9 (5.39%) Power BI
14 9 (5.39%) Roadmaps
14 9 (5.39%) SAP BW
14 9 (5.39%) Marketing
15 8 (4.79%) Business Intelligence
15 8 (4.79%) Data Modelling
15 8 (4.79%) Digital Strategy
15 8 (4.79%) Record to Report
16 7 (4.19%) ABAP
16 7 (4.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (1.20%) CMS
1 2 (1.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (1.20%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.60%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (11.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.99%) NetSuite
3 4 (2.40%) SAP CO
3 4 (2.40%) SAP FI
3 4 (2.40%) SAP FI/CO
3 4 (2.40%) SAP MDG
4 3 (1.80%) Exstream
4 3 (1.80%) SAP HCM
4 3 (1.80%) SAP MII
4 3 (1.80%) SAP MM
4 3 (1.80%) SAP SD
5 2 (1.20%) Odoo
5 2 (1.20%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (1.20%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (1.20%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (1.20%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (1.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (1.20%) SAP BPC
5 2 (1.20%) SAP ERP
5 2 (1.20%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 11 (6.59%) Azure
1 11 (6.59%) Dynamics 365
1 11 (6.59%) Power Platform
2 4 (2.40%) Entra ID
2 4 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (2.40%) OCI
3 3 (1.80%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (1.80%) Google Analytics
3 3 (1.80%) SuccessFactors
4 2 (1.20%) PowerApps
4 2 (1.20%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 2 (1.20%) Serverless
4 2 (1.20%) ShareGate
5 1 (0.60%) AWS
5 1 (0.60%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (0.60%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (0.60%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (0.60%) Azure Functions
5 1 (0.60%) Power Automate
5 1 (0.60%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.80%) Firewall
1 3 (1.80%) VPN
2 2 (1.20%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.60%) LAN
3 1 (0.60%) Network Security
3 1 (0.60%) SAN
3 1 (0.60%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.39%) Power BI
1 9 (5.39%) SAP BW
2 2 (1.20%) Data Mining
2 2 (1.20%) EDRMS
3 1 (0.60%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.60%) Data Vault
3 1 (0.60%) Metadata
3 1 (0.60%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (2.40%) JIRA
2 1 (0.60%) CA Gen
General
1 40 (23.95%) Social Skills
2 28 (16.77%) Finance
3 17 (10.18%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.19%) Law
5 9 (5.39%) Marketing
6 5 (2.99%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.40%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.80%) Legal
8 3 (1.80%) Police
8 3 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.20%) Automotive
9 2 (1.20%) Billing
9 2 (1.20%) Local Government
9 2 (1.20%) Retail
10 1 (0.60%) German Language
10 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.99%) SAP Fiori
2 4 (2.40%) LDAP
2 4 (2.40%) OAuth
2 4 (2.40%) OpenID
2 4 (2.40%) SailPoint
2 4 (2.40%) SAML
2 4 (2.40%) Web Services
3 3 (1.80%) IDoc
3 3 (1.80%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (1.80%) SAP ALE
3 3 (1.80%) Web Dynpro
4 2 (1.20%) XML
5 1 (0.60%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.60%) EDI
5 1 (0.60%) HTML
5 1 (0.60%) JSON
5 1 (0.60%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.60%) Node.js
5 1 (0.60%) REST
5 1 (0.60%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (3.59%) Data Centre
3 5 (2.99%) Replication
4 4 (2.40%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.80%) CMDB
5 3 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.20%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.20%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.20%) Social Media
7 1 (0.60%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.60%) NHS
7 1 (0.60%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.60%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.60%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.59%) Windows
2 2 (1.20%) Linux
2 2 (1.20%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.60%) Mac OS X
3 1 (0.60%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (16.77%) Stakeholder Management
2 25 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (10.78%) Migration
4 13 (7.78%) Agile
5 12 (7.19%) Requirements Gathering
6 10 (5.99%) Change Management
6 10 (5.99%) Workshop Facilitation
7 9 (5.39%) Roadmaps
8 8 (4.79%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (4.79%) Data Modelling
8 8 (4.79%) Digital Strategy
8 8 (4.79%) Record to Report
9 7 (4.19%) Analytics
9 7 (4.19%) Data Governance
9 7 (4.19%) Use Case
10 6 (3.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (3.59%) Data Migration
10 6 (3.59%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (3.59%) SAP Security
10 6 (3.59%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (4.19%) ABAP
2 6 (3.59%) Python
3 5 (2.99%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.80%) Bash
4 3 (1.80%) SQL
5 2 (1.20%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.60%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.60%) C#
6 1 (0.60%) SOQL
6 1 (0.60%) X++
Qualifications
1 23 (13.77%) Security Cleared
2 21 (12.57%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (2.40%) SAP Certification
4 3 (1.80%) Degree
5 2 (1.20%) Citrix Certification
5 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.60%) CISM
6 1 (0.60%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.99%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.40%) GDPR
3 1 (0.60%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (0.60%) GRC
3 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.60%) NCSC
3 1 (0.60%) QA
3 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (3.59%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.20%) XenApp
2 2 (1.20%) XenDesktop
3 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.20%) CEMLI
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.60%) Proxmox
3 1 (0.60%) SCCM
3 1 (0.60%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (23.95%) SAP
2 17 (10.18%) Microsoft
3 14 (8.38%) Oracle
4 6 (3.59%) Informatica
5 5 (2.99%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.40%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.80%) Anaplan
7 3 (1.80%) Citrix
7 3 (1.80%) Google
7 3 (1.80%) iManage
7 3 (1.80%) Okta
7 3 (1.80%) OpenText
8 2 (1.20%) Autodesk
8 2 (1.20%) Databricks
8 2 (1.20%) Facebook
8 2 (1.20%) Instagram
8 2 (1.20%) VMware
9 1 (0.60%) CA
9 1 (0.60%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.60%) Fortinet