Management Consultant Contracts

Management Consultant
UK

The median Management Consultant daily rate in the UK is £590 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 479 639 755
Rank change year-on-year +160 +116 -162
Contract jobs requiring a Management Consultant 103 64 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.11% 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.12% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 29 41
10th Percentile £295 £150 £400
25th Percentile £466 £406 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £667 £675 £613
90th Percentile £750 £705 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £590 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +12.38% -4.55% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £66.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,888 54,783 83,316
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,953 38,247 58,493
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,534 2,048
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Management Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Management Consultant in the UK

Management Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Management Consultant in the UK

Management Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Management Consultant over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Management Consultant in the UK

Management Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Management Consultant in the UK

Management Consultant
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Management Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England +131 81 £570 -0.87% 27
London +114 52 £550 -8.33% 14
Work from Home +125 45 £600 +14.19% 13
UK excluding London +79 32 £590 +12.38% 12
Scotland +45 7 £280 -44.00% 1
South East +27 7 £638 +21.43% 5
North of England +38 6 £488 -22.00% 3
Midlands +31 6 £650 -7.14%
West Midlands +23 6 £650 -7.14%
East of England - 4 £375 -
North West +23 2 £488 -22.00% 2
South West +15 2 £600 +81.67% 2
North East - 2 £590 -
Yorkshire - 2 £350 - 1

Management Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Management 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 featuring Management Consultant in the job title.

1 33 (32.04%) Social Skills
2 23 (22.33%) Finance
3 22 (21.36%) Service Management
3 22 (21.36%) SAP
3 22 (21.36%) SC Cleared
3 22 (21.36%) Security Cleared
4 20 (19.42%) Stakeholder Management
5 19 (18.45%) Microsoft
5 19 (18.45%) SAP S/4HANA
6 18 (17.48%) ServiceNow
7 17 (16.50%) ITIL
8 16 (15.53%) Agile
9 15 (14.56%) ITSM
9 15 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (14.56%) Public Sector
9 15 (14.56%) Requirements Gathering
10 12 (11.65%) Project Management
11 11 (10.68%) Analytical Skills
12 10 (9.71%) Privileged Access Management
13 9 (8.74%) Identity Access Management
13 9 (8.74%) Management Information System
13 9 (8.74%) Service Delivery
13 9 (8.74%) SLA
13 9 (8.74%) Asset Management
13 9 (8.74%) Information Security
13 9 (8.74%) CMDB
14 8 (7.77%) Data Management
14 8 (7.77%) Process Management
14 8 (7.77%) Coaching
15 7 (6.80%) Data Quality

Management Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (4.85%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.91%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 19 (18.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (5.83%) SAP Travel Management
3 1 (0.97%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.97%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.97%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.97%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.97%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.97%) Primavera
3 1 (0.97%) SAP CCM
3 1 (0.97%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.97%) SAP PSCD
3 1 (0.97%) SAP QM
3 1 (0.97%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 6 (5.83%) Azure
2 4 (3.88%) Entra ID
3 3 (2.91%) AWS
3 3 (2.91%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (2.91%) IaaS
3 3 (2.91%) Power Platform
3 3 (2.91%) SaaS
4 1 (0.97%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.91%) Network Security
1 3 (2.91%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.80%) SAP HANA
2 5 (4.85%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.91%) MySQL
3 3 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.91%) Power BI
4 1 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (4.85%) JIRA
General
1 33 (32.04%) Social Skills
2 23 (22.33%) Finance
3 15 (14.56%) Public Sector
4 11 (10.68%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.80%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (5.83%) Billing
7 4 (3.88%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.91%) German Language
9 2 (1.94%) Agriculture
9 2 (1.94%) Automotive
9 2 (1.94%) Banking
9 2 (1.94%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.94%) Front Office
9 2 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.94%) Legal
9 2 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.94%) Retail
9 2 (1.94%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.97%) Electronics
10 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.83%) SAP TM
2 5 (4.85%) SailPoint
3 2 (1.94%) OpenID
3 2 (1.94%) SAML
4 1 (0.97%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.74%) CMDB
1 9 (8.74%) Management Information System
2 6 (5.83%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.83%) Replication
3 3 (2.91%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (2.91%) Solar Panel
4 2 (1.94%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.94%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (1.94%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.97%) FMCG
5 1 (0.97%) Life Science
5 1 (0.97%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.91%) Linux
1 3 (2.91%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (21.36%) Service Management
2 20 (19.42%) Stakeholder Management
3 17 (16.50%) ITIL
4 16 (15.53%) Agile
5 15 (14.56%) ITSM
5 15 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (14.56%) Requirements Gathering
6 12 (11.65%) Project Management
7 10 (9.71%) Privileged Access Management
8 9 (8.74%) Asset Management
8 9 (8.74%) Identity Access Management
8 9 (8.74%) Information Security
8 9 (8.74%) Service Delivery
9 8 (7.77%) Coaching
9 8 (7.77%) Data Management
9 8 (7.77%) Process Management
10 7 (6.80%) Risk Management
10 7 (6.80%) Roadmaps
11 6 (5.83%) Change Management
11 6 (5.83%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.88%) SQL
2 2 (1.94%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.94%) Python
3 1 (0.97%) ABAP
3 1 (0.97%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (21.36%) SC Cleared
1 22 (21.36%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (3.88%) Degree
3 3 (2.91%) DV Cleared
3 3 (2.91%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (1.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (1.94%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.94%) PMP
5 1 (0.97%) ACCA
5 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.97%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.74%) SLA
2 7 (6.80%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.80%) QA
3 3 (2.91%) PMO
4 2 (1.94%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (5.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (21.36%) SAP
2 19 (18.45%) Microsoft
3 18 (17.48%) ServiceNow
4 6 (5.83%) Oracle
5 3 (2.91%) Ariba
5 3 (2.91%) BeyondTrust
5 3 (2.91%) CheckPoint
5 3 (2.91%) CyberArk
5 3 (2.91%) Okta
6 1 (0.97%) Adobe
6 1 (0.97%) BMC
6 1 (0.97%) Salesforce