Functional Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Functional Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Functional Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 369 425
Rank change year-on-year +75 +56 -56
Contract jobs requiring a Functional Consultant 91 77 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.34% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.36% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 52 55
10th Percentile £450 £463 £435
25th Percentile £513 - £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £590
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -15.25% +12.38%
75th Percentile £638 £597 £650
90th Percentile £650 £685 -
UK median daily rate £582 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +5.82% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.90 - -
Median hourly rate £55.80 - -
75th Percentile £58.70 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.80 - -

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 18,796 21,663 29,128
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.29% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,463 15,116 20,427
10th Percentile £213 £225 £203
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 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,267 1,107 1,446
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.02 £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 £44.92
90th Percentile £73.85 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Functional Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Consultant in the UK excluding London

Functional Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Consultant in the UK excluding London

Functional Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Consultant in the UK excluding London

Functional Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Functional Consultant in the UK excluding London

Functional 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 Functional Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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 +28 38 £605 +3.24% 3
East of England +27 19 £550 +29.41% 7
North of England +15 19 £525 +5.00% 4
North West +10 10 £525 +5.00% 3
Midlands +24 9 £550 +4.76% 12
Scotland +52 8 £550 +13.52% 2
Yorkshire +10 7 £450 -10.00% 1
West Midlands +20 5 £550 -4.35% 11
North East +14 3 £400 -25.23%
South West +3 3 £485 -31.93% 2
East Midlands +10 1 £525 - 1
Wales - 1 £550 -
Functional Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 UK excluding London region featuring Functional Consultant in the job title.

1 47 (51.65%) Social Skills
2 31 (34.07%) Oracle
2 31 (34.07%) SAP
3 29 (31.87%) Finance
4 23 (25.27%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (18.68%) SAP S/4HANA
7 16 (17.58%) Oracle EBS R12
8 15 (16.48%) Stakeholder Management
8 15 (16.48%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (15.38%) Azure
9 14 (15.38%) Agile
10 13 (14.29%) Microsoft
11 12 (13.19%) E-business
11 12 (13.19%) Procure-to-Pay
11 12 (13.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 11 (12.09%) Business Transformation
13 10 (10.99%) Customer Service
13 10 (10.99%) Oracle EBS
14 9 (9.89%) Oracle Forms
14 9 (9.89%) DevOps
14 9 (9.89%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (8.79%) Public Sector
15 8 (8.79%) Project Delivery
15 8 (8.79%) Data Modelling
15 8 (8.79%) Billing
15 8 (8.79%) Logistics
16 7 (7.69%) Life Science
16 7 (7.69%) User Acceptance Testing
16 7 (7.69%) CRM

Functional 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 3 (3.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 17 (18.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (17.58%) Oracle EBS R12
3 12 (13.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (10.99%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (7.69%) Maximo
6 6 (6.59%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (6.59%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (5.49%) SAP BRIM
7 5 (5.49%) SAP Hybris
7 5 (5.49%) SAP PSCD
7 5 (5.49%) SAP SD
8 4 (4.40%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (3.30%) SAP MDG
10 2 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
10 2 (2.20%) Oracle Assets
10 2 (2.20%) Oracle General Ledger
10 2 (2.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 1 (1.10%) Dynamics AX
11 1 (1.10%) SAP CO
11 1 (1.10%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 15 (16.48%) Dynamics 365
2 14 (15.38%) Azure
3 9 (9.89%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (6.59%) Power Platform
5 5 (5.49%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 3 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.30%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.20%) OCI
8 1 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.10%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.20%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.10%) Power BI
2 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (9.89%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (1.10%) JIRA
General
1 47 (51.65%) Social Skills
2 29 (31.87%) Finance
3 23 (25.27%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.79%) Billing
4 8 (8.79%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (5.49%) Telecoms
7 4 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (4.40%) Law
7 4 (4.40%) Marketing
8 3 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.30%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.20%) Banking
9 2 (2.20%) Legal
9 2 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.20%) Retail
10 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.49%) Middleware
2 3 (3.30%) IDoc
2 3 (3.30%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (3.30%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (3.30%) SAP ALE
2 3 (3.30%) SAP Fiori
2 3 (3.30%) Visualforce
2 3 (3.30%) Web Dynpro
3 1 (1.10%) CSS
3 1 (1.10%) HTML
3 1 (1.10%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.69%) Life Science
2 5 (5.49%) Replication
3 3 (3.30%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.20%) e-Learning
4 2 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.10%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (16.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (15.38%) Agile
4 12 (13.19%) E-business
4 12 (13.19%) Procure-to-Pay
5 11 (12.09%) Business Transformation
6 10 (10.99%) Customer Service
7 9 (9.89%) DevOps
8 8 (8.79%) Data Modelling
8 8 (8.79%) Logistics
8 8 (8.79%) Project Delivery
9 7 (7.69%) CRM
9 7 (7.69%) ERP
9 7 (7.69%) User Acceptance Testing
10 6 (6.59%) Customer Engagement
11 5 (5.49%) Accounts Payable
11 5 (5.49%) Collaborative Working
11 5 (5.49%) Revenue Management
11 5 (5.49%) Service Management
11 5 (5.49%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.30%) ABAP
1 3 (3.30%) PL/SQL
1 3 (3.30%) SQL
2 1 (1.10%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (6.59%) SC Cleared
1 6 (6.59%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.30%) DV Cleared
3 2 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.20%) Degree
3 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.10%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.20%) GDPR
2 1 (1.10%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 2 (2.20%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 31 (34.07%) Oracle
1 31 (34.07%) SAP
2 13 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.69%) Ariba
4 6 (6.59%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.30%) Adobe
5 3 (3.30%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.30%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.10%) IBM
6 1 (1.10%) JDA
6 1 (1.10%) Syclo