Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London 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 33 57 75
Rank change year-on-year +24 +18 -36
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 1,022 917 968
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.04% 3.99% 3.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.45% 4.23% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 727 594 644
10th Percentile £378 £413 £375
25th Percentile £463 £471 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £549
Median % change year-on-year - +0.23% +11.88%
75th Percentile £650 £643 £630
90th Percentile £725 £721 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 38 6
10th Percentile £26.25 £21.00 £23.10
25th Percentile £50.00 £56.96 £28.00
Median hourly rate £56.89 £65.50 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.15% +67.95% -37.10%
75th Percentile £61.60 £87.19 £73.75
90th Percentile - £95.75 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £66.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -6.67% +0.76% +17.49%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 18,765 21,693 29,110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 94.29% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,441 15,152 20,402
10th Percentile £213 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,259 1,107 1,452
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in the UK excluding London

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Consultant in the UK excluding London

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in the UK excluding London

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in the UK excluding London

Consultant
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Consultant in the UK excluding London

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the UK excluding London 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
South East +8 318 £595 +2.06% 177
North of England +24 257 £525 - 233
Midlands +16 167 £550 -3.08% 114
North West +19 159 £550 +6.18% 157
West Midlands +20 113 £550 -0.45% 82
South West +11 106 £500 - 149
East of England +49 93 £525 - 39
Yorkshire +20 90 £475 -13.64% 64
Scotland +45 72 £513 +5.78% 61
East Midlands +20 48 £550 -4.35% 32
Wales +26 18 £638 +27.50% 16
North East +6 8 £450 -13.04% 14
Northern Ireland +5 3 £488 - 14
Consultant
UK

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 268 (26.22%) SAP
2 257 (25.15%) Security Cleared
3 241 (23.58%) Social Skills
4 172 (16.83%) SC Cleared
5 150 (14.68%) Finance
6 128 (12.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 128 (12.52%) Problem-Solving
7 115 (11.25%) Microsoft
8 104 (10.18%) Public Sector
9 97 (9.49%) Oracle
10 96 (9.39%) Migration
11 94 (9.20%) SAP S/4HANA
12 88 (8.61%) DV Cleared
12 88 (8.61%) Cybersecurity
13 82 (8.02%) Agile
14 78 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
15 73 (7.14%) Azure
16 61 (5.97%) Roadmaps
16 61 (5.97%) Dynamics 365
17 54 (5.28%) Data Migration
17 54 (5.28%) Power Platform
18 53 (5.19%) User Acceptance Testing
19 48 (4.70%) Business Intelligence
19 48 (4.70%) DevOps
20 43 (4.21%) Information Security
21 42 (4.11%) Requirements Gathering
22 40 (3.91%) Workshop Facilitation
23 39 (3.82%) Risk Management
23 39 (3.82%) ERP
24 38 (3.72%) ITIL

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 16 (1.57%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.88%) NetWeaver
3 6 (0.59%) CMS
4 4 (0.39%) Confluence
4 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.20%) Alfresco
6 2 (0.20%) Appian
6 2 (0.20%) Camunda
6 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.098%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.098%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.098%) SAS
7 1 (0.098%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.098%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.098%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.098%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (0.098%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 94 (9.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (3.13%) SAP EWM
3 27 (2.64%) SAP QM
4 26 (2.54%) Dynamics CRM
5 24 (2.35%) SAP FI
6 18 (1.76%) Oracle EBS R12
7 16 (1.57%) SAP CO
8 15 (1.47%) NetSuite
8 15 (1.47%) SAP FI/CO
9 14 (1.37%) Oracle EBS
9 14 (1.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 12 (1.17%) SAP SD
11 10 (0.98%) SAP IBP
12 9 (0.88%) SAP PP
13 8 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
14 7 (0.68%) Maximo
14 7 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
15 5 (0.49%) Oracle Cash Management
15 5 (0.49%) Oracle Payroll
15 5 (0.49%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 73 (7.14%) Azure
2 61 (5.97%) Dynamics 365
3 54 (5.28%) Power Platform
4 26 (2.54%) AWS
4 26 (2.54%) SuccessFactors
5 23 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (2.15%) OCI
7 18 (1.76%) Entra ID
8 16 (1.57%) Power Automate
9 15 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (1.17%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (0.98%) PowerApps
12 8 (0.78%) Oracle Service Cloud
13 6 (0.59%) GCP
13 6 (0.59%) SaaS
14 5 (0.49%) IaaS
14 5 (0.49%) SAP Commerce Cloud
15 4 (0.39%) OneDrive
15 4 (0.39%) PaaS
16 3 (0.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.15%) Network Security
2 19 (1.86%) Firewall
3 16 (1.57%) Ethernet
4 15 (1.47%) Radio Access Network
5 12 (1.17%) 4G
5 12 (1.17%) 5G
5 12 (1.17%) VPN
6 9 (0.88%) 3G
6 9 (0.88%) DNS
7 8 (0.78%) LAN
7 8 (0.78%) WAN
8 7 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (0.59%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.39%) Cisco ISE
10 4 (0.39%) NX-OS
10 4 (0.39%) VSAN
10 4 (0.39%) Wireless
11 3 (0.29%) FTP
11 3 (0.29%) Internet
11 3 (0.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (3.42%) Power BI
2 21 (2.05%) SAP HANA
3 19 (1.86%) Oracle Database
3 19 (1.86%) SAP BW
4 12 (1.17%) BusinessObjects
5 8 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
5 8 (0.78%) SQL Server
6 5 (0.49%) Big Data
6 5 (0.49%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.29%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.29%) Oracle Database 11g
7 3 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.29%) Power Query
7 3 (0.29%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.20%) BusinessObjects XI
8 2 (0.20%) EDRMS
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle BI EE
8 2 (0.20%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (2.05%) JIRA
2 18 (1.76%) Rational DOORS
3 10 (0.98%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (0.39%) Git
5 3 (0.29%) LoadRunner
6 2 (0.20%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.098%) CA Gen
7 1 (0.098%) JMeter
7 1 (0.098%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.098%) NWDI
7 1 (0.098%) NWDS
General
1 241 (23.58%) Social Skills
2 150 (14.68%) Finance
3 104 (10.18%) Public Sector
4 78 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (3.23%) Telecoms
6 32 (3.13%) Marketing
7 31 (3.03%) Manufacturing
8 22 (2.15%) Electronics
9 21 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
9 21 (2.05%) Retail
10 18 (1.76%) Banking
11 16 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
12 15 (1.47%) Billing
12 15 (1.47%) Law
13 14 (1.37%) Local Government
14 11 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
15 10 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (0.88%) Police
17 6 (0.59%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.35%) SAP Basis
2 23 (2.25%) SAP Fiori
3 16 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
3 16 (1.57%) Web Services
4 9 (0.88%) HTML
5 6 (0.59%) CSS
5 6 (0.59%) REST
5 6 (0.59%) SailPoint
6 5 (0.49%) IDoc
6 5 (0.49%) Middleware
6 5 (0.49%) XML
7 4 (0.39%) JSON
7 4 (0.39%) LDAP
7 4 (0.39%) Lightning Web Components
7 4 (0.39%) OAuth
7 4 (0.39%) OpenID
7 4 (0.39%) RESTful
7 4 (0.39%) SAML
7 4 (0.39%) SOAP
7 4 (0.39%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 27 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
2 19 (1.86%) Operational Technology
3 18 (1.76%) Robotics
4 16 (1.57%) Analogue Electronics
4 16 (1.57%) Data Centre
4 16 (1.57%) Mainframe
5 15 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
5 15 (1.47%) Management Information System
6 13 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 12 (1.17%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.08%) Cyber Defence
8 11 (1.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 11 (1.08%) Life Science
9 9 (0.88%) CMDB
9 9 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (0.78%) Replication
11 7 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (0.68%) Product Ownership
12 6 (0.59%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 34 (3.33%) Linux
2 29 (2.84%) Windows
3 14 (1.37%) Unix
4 8 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.68%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.49%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.20%) zOS
8 1 (0.098%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.098%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.098%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (12.52%) Problem-Solving
1 128 (12.52%) Stakeholder Management
2 96 (9.39%) Migration
3 88 (8.61%) Cybersecurity
4 82 (8.02%) Agile
5 61 (5.97%) Roadmaps
6 54 (5.28%) Data Migration
7 53 (5.19%) User Acceptance Testing
8 48 (4.70%) Business Intelligence
8 48 (4.70%) DevOps
9 43 (4.21%) Information Security
10 42 (4.11%) Requirements Gathering
11 40 (3.91%) Workshop Facilitation
12 39 (3.82%) ERP
12 39 (3.82%) Risk Management
13 38 (3.72%) ITIL
14 37 (3.62%) CRM
14 37 (3.62%) Service Management
15 33 (3.23%) Analytics
15 33 (3.23%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (3.52%) SQL
2 29 (2.84%) PowerShell
3 16 (1.57%) ABAP
4 13 (1.27%) Python
5 9 (0.88%) Bash
6 8 (0.78%) Java
6 8 (0.78%) JavaScript
7 6 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (0.49%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.39%) C#
10 2 (0.20%) Ada
10 2 (0.20%) C
10 2 (0.20%) Groovy
10 2 (0.20%) JCL
10 2 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.20%) PHP
11 1 (0.098%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.098%) REXX
11 1 (0.098%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.098%) X++
Qualifications
1 257 (25.15%) Security Cleared
2 172 (16.83%) SC Cleared
3 88 (8.61%) DV Cleared
4 34 (3.33%) Degree
5 23 (2.25%) CISSP
6 15 (1.47%) CISM
6 15 (1.47%) SAP Certification
7 14 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (0.78%) CRISC
11 7 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 7 (0.68%) AWS Certification
11 7 (0.68%) CISA
12 6 (0.59%) CISMP
13 5 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 5 (0.49%) CESG Certified Professional
13 5 (0.49%) CLAS
13 5 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
14 4 (0.39%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.23%) NIST
2 30 (2.94%) GDPR
2 30 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (1.37%) COBIT
4 13 (1.27%) GRC
5 10 (0.98%) PCI DSS
5 10 (0.98%) PMO
5 10 (0.98%) QA
6 9 (0.88%) RMADS
7 8 (0.78%) SLA
8 7 (0.68%) IFRS
9 6 (0.59%) Data Quality
10 5 (0.49%) JSP 440
11 4 (0.39%) NCSC
11 4 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.20%) COSO
13 2 (0.20%) GxP
System Software
1 28 (2.74%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.37%) VMware NSX
3 13 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.78%) vSphere
5 7 (0.68%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.49%) Docker
7 3 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.20%) Firmware
8 2 (0.20%) GPFS
8 2 (0.20%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 2 (0.20%) Microcode
8 2 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.20%) XenApp
8 2 (0.20%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.098%) NFS
Systems Management
1 9 (0.88%) VxRail
2 8 (0.78%) Ansible
2 8 (0.78%) Terraform
3 5 (0.49%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.49%) vRealize
4 4 (0.39%) vCenter Server
5 3 (0.29%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (0.20%) CEMLI
6 2 (0.20%) Puppet
6 2 (0.20%) SCCM
7 1 (0.098%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (0.098%) Grafana
7 1 (0.098%) Graylog
7 1 (0.098%) Nagios
7 1 (0.098%) Nessus
7 1 (0.098%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.098%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.098%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 268 (26.22%) SAP
2 115 (11.25%) Microsoft
3 97 (9.49%) Oracle
4 36 (3.52%) VMware
5 33 (3.23%) ServiceNow
6 13 (1.27%) Cisco
6 13 (1.27%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.08%) Ariba
7 11 (1.08%) Dell
8 10 (0.98%) ArcSight
9 9 (0.88%) EMC
9 9 (0.88%) Informatica
10 8 (0.78%) IFS
11 6 (0.59%) Concur
11 6 (0.59%) CyberArk
11 6 (0.59%) Google
11 6 (0.59%) OpenText
12 5 (0.49%) AVEVA
12 5 (0.49%) Pega
12 5 (0.49%) Splunk