Payroll Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Payroll Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Payroll Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 410 510
Rank change year-on-year +25 +100 -66
Contract jobs requiring a Payroll Consultant 12 22 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.058% 0.096% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.10% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 5
10th Percentile - £511 £346
25th Percentile £256 £556 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £590 £520
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% +13.46% -6.52%
75th Percentile £594 £625 £550
90th Percentile £623 £668 £595
UK median daily rate £625 £600 £575
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% +7.73%

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 19,038 21,534 29,349
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 94.27% 95.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,591 14,985 20,591
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,364 1,082 1,440
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.81 £14.64
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.14 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.96
UK median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -17.38% +87.50% +6.90%

Payroll Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Payroll Consultant in the UK excluding London

Payroll Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Payroll Consultant in the UK excluding London

Payroll Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Payroll Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Payroll Consultant in the UK excluding London

Payroll Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Payroll Consultant in the UK excluding London

Payroll 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 Payroll Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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 +9 4 £500 -16.67% 1
South West +8 4 £263 -
Midlands +20 2 £475 -17.96% 5
West Midlands +10 2 £475 - 3
North of England +23 1 - - 3
Yorkshire +15 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £593 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1
Payroll Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Payroll 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 Payroll Consultant in the job title.

1 8 (66.67%) Oracle
2 7 (58.33%) OCI
3 5 (41.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (41.67%) Oracle Payroll
4 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 3 (25.00%) ERP
5 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (16.67%) Finance
6 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
6 2 (16.67%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (16.67%) SAP
6 2 (16.67%) Project Management
6 2 (16.67%) SQL
6 2 (16.67%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (16.67%) BusinessObjects XI
6 2 (16.67%) iTrent
6 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (16.67%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
6 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
6 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
7 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (8.33%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (8.33%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (8.33%) Agile
7 1 (8.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (8.33%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (8.33%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (8.33%) Oracle EBS R12

Payroll 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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Oracle Payroll
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (16.67%) iTrent
3 2 (16.67%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (8.33%) Maximo
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (8.33%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (8.33%) SAP ERP
4 1 (8.33%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) OCI
2 2 (16.67%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) BusinessObjects
1 2 (16.67%) BusinessObjects XI
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Local Government
3 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) ERP
2 2 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
2 2 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (8.33%) Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) Change Management
3 1 (8.33%) Coaching
3 1 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (8.33%) Defect Management
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) E-business
3 1 (8.33%) Matrix Management
3 1 (8.33%) Presales
3 1 (8.33%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (8.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (8.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) CIPD
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) SAP
3 1 (8.33%) Hyperion
3 1 (8.33%) JD Edwards
3 1 (8.33%) PeopleSoft