Senior Consultant Contracts

Senior Consultant
UK

The median Senior Consultant daily rate in the UK is £582 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 450 584 636
Rank change year-on-year +134 +52 -167
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Consultant 143 119 225
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.20% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.21% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 51 119
10th Percentile £402 £460 £475
25th Percentile £468 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.97% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £725
90th Percentile £751 £813 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £560 £570 £565
% change year-on-year -1.75% +0.88% +11.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 6
10th Percentile £51.78 - £40.00
25th Percentile £54.46 £55.94 £42.50
Median hourly rate £56.89 £56.89 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.77% -
75th Percentile £59.63 £57.83 -
90th Percentile £62.87 - £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.89 £56.89 -

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 40,241 56,070 84,738
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,194 39,189 59,507
10th Percentile £277 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £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 2,676 1,567 2,091
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.16 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.75 £48.76
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.55 £42.37 £19.52
% change year-on-year -6.64% +117.03% +2.74%

Senior Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Consultant in the UK

Senior Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Consultant in the UK

Senior Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Consultant over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Consultant in the UK

Senior Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Consultant in the UK

Senior Consultant
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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 +164 120 £575 -4.17% 220
London +118 65 £575 -4.17% 117
Work from Home +131 61 £585 -2.51% 141
UK excluding London +74 52 £560 -1.75% 112
North of England +39 14 £600 +20.00% 20
South East +15 14 £435 -5.43% 32
Midlands +34 9 £485 -28.15% 14
West Midlands +30 9 £485 -28.15% 14
North West +22 8 £675 +35.00% 13
South West +21 8 £550 +4.76% 19
East of England +21 7 £571 -26.32% 9
Yorkshire +26 6 £355 -38.26% 4
Scotland +37 1 £590 +3.51% 17

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Consultant in the job title.

1 41 (28.67%) Social Skills
2 33 (23.08%) SAP
3 26 (18.18%) Finance
4 21 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (14.69%) AWS
5 19 (13.29%) Microsoft
6 18 (12.59%) SAP S/4HANA
7 17 (11.89%) Azure
7 17 (11.89%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (11.89%) Agile
7 17 (11.89%) Security Cleared
8 15 (10.49%) DevOps
9 13 (9.09%) SC Cleared
9 13 (9.09%) Roadmaps
10 12 (8.39%) CI/CD
10 12 (8.39%) Migration
10 12 (8.39%) Analytics
11 11 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
11 11 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (7.69%) VMware
11 11 (7.69%) CRM
12 10 (6.99%) Business Intelligence
12 10 (6.99%) Oracle
12 10 (6.99%) Digital Marketing
12 10 (6.99%) Marketing
13 9 (6.29%) Python
13 9 (6.29%) Public Sector
13 9 (6.29%) Customer Experience
14 8 (5.59%) Data Modelling
14 8 (5.59%) Java

Senior 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 (3.50%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.10%) CMS
3 1 (0.70%) Apache
3 1 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.70%) Confluence
3 1 (0.70%) GemFire
3 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (12.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (5.59%) SAP SD
3 4 (2.80%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (1.40%) Endur
4 2 (1.40%) SAP BPC
4 2 (1.40%) SAP Business One
4 2 (1.40%) SAP HCM
4 2 (1.40%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.70%) SAP Business ByDesign
5 1 (0.70%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.70%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.70%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.70%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.70%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 21 (14.69%) AWS
2 17 (11.89%) Azure
3 7 (4.90%) Power Platform
4 6 (4.20%) GCP
5 5 (3.50%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (2.80%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (2.80%) Amazon S3
6 4 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (2.80%) CloudFront
6 4 (2.80%) SaaS
6 4 (2.80%) Serverless
7 3 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (2.10%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.40%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.40%) GitHub
8 2 (1.40%) PaaS
9 1 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.59%) Firewall
2 7 (4.90%) Cisco ASA
2 7 (4.90%) Cisco Nexus
3 6 (4.20%) Network Security
4 5 (3.50%) 3G
4 5 (3.50%) 4G
4 5 (3.50%) 5G
4 5 (3.50%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (1.40%) HTTP
6 1 (0.70%) AMQP
6 1 (0.70%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.70%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.70%) NAS
6 1 (0.70%) SAN
6 1 (0.70%) SSH
6 1 (0.70%) SSL
6 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.70%) VLAN
6 1 (0.70%) VPN
6 1 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.90%) Power BI
2 6 (4.20%) SAP BW
3 4 (2.80%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.10%) Oracle BI EE
4 3 (2.10%) Oracle ODI
4 3 (2.10%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.10%) SAP HANA
5 2 (1.40%) Power Query
5 2 (1.40%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.70%) Adabas
6 1 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.70%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.70%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.70%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.70%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (4.20%) Git
2 5 (3.50%) Cypress.io
3 4 (2.80%) Maven
3 4 (2.80%) Protractor
4 3 (2.10%) JIRA
5 2 (1.40%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.70%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.70%) Postman
6 1 (0.70%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.70%) Selenium
General
1 41 (28.67%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.18%) Finance
3 17 (11.89%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (6.99%) Marketing
5 9 (6.29%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.59%) Banking
7 5 (3.50%) Legal
7 5 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.50%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.80%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.10%) Billing
9 3 (2.10%) German Language
10 2 (1.40%) Automotive
10 2 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.40%) Retail
10 2 (1.40%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.70%) Electronics
11 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.70%) Swedish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.20%) Middleware
2 5 (3.50%) AngularJS
3 4 (2.80%) Jest
3 4 (2.80%) Node.js
4 3 (2.10%) EDI
4 3 (2.10%) REST
5 2 (1.40%) HTML
5 2 (1.40%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.70%) Ajax
6 1 (0.70%) EntireX
6 1 (0.70%) IDoc
6 1 (0.70%) JMS
6 1 (0.70%) JSON
6 1 (0.70%) LDAP
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.70%) React
6 1 (0.70%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.70%) SAP TM
6 1 (0.70%) Web Services
6 1 (0.70%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.50%) Onboarding
1 5 (3.50%) Public Cloud
2 4 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (2.10%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.10%) Reinsurance
4 2 (1.40%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.40%) Hedge funds
4 2 (1.40%) IoT
4 2 (1.40%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (1.40%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.40%) Replication
4 2 (1.40%) Social Media
4 2 (1.40%) Video Editing
5 1 (0.70%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.70%) Eurex
5 1 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.20%) Linux
2 4 (2.80%) Windows
3 2 (1.40%) Unix
4 1 (0.70%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (11.89%) Agile
3 15 (10.49%) DevOps
4 13 (9.09%) Roadmaps
5 12 (8.39%) Analytics
5 12 (8.39%) CI/CD
5 12 (8.39%) Migration
6 11 (7.69%) CRM
6 11 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
6 11 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (6.99%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (6.99%) Digital Marketing
8 9 (6.29%) Customer Experience
9 8 (5.59%) Data Modelling
9 8 (5.59%) Data Protection
10 7 (4.90%) Asset Management
10 7 (4.90%) Decision-Making
10 7 (4.90%) ERP
10 7 (4.90%) Network Design
10 7 (4.90%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 9 (6.29%) Python
2 8 (5.59%) Java
3 6 (4.20%) SQL
4 5 (3.50%) Bash
5 3 (2.10%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.70%) ABAP
7 1 (0.70%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.70%) Natural
7 1 (0.70%) Perl
7 1 (0.70%) PHP
7 1 (0.70%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (11.89%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.59%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (4.90%) CCIE
5 6 (4.20%) CCNP
5 6 (4.20%) Degree
6 5 (3.50%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.70%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.70%) CISM
8 1 (0.70%) CISSP
8 1 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.70%) ISACA
8 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.70%) OCP
8 1 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.80%) GRC
2 4 (2.80%) NIST
3 3 (2.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.40%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.40%) GDPR
4 2 (1.40%) GxP
4 2 (1.40%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.70%) COBIT
5 1 (0.70%) QA
System Software
1 8 (5.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (4.90%) VMware NSX
3 6 (4.20%) Docker
4 3 (2.10%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.70%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.70%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 6 (4.20%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.50%) Terraform
3 3 (2.10%) Ansible
4 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.40%) Puppet
5 1 (0.70%) Grafana
5 1 (0.70%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.70%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.70%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.70%) vRealize
Vendors
1 33 (23.08%) SAP
2 19 (13.29%) Microsoft
3 11 (7.69%) VMware
4 10 (6.99%) Oracle
5 7 (4.90%) Cisco
5 7 (4.90%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.80%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.80%) SimCorp
7 3 (2.10%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.10%) Virgin Media
8 2 (1.40%) Adobe
9 1 (0.70%) Ariba
9 1 (0.70%) EMC
9 1 (0.70%) Genesys
9 1 (0.70%) HP
9 1 (0.70%) Hyperion
9 1 (0.70%) Murex
9 1 (0.70%) Reuters
9 1 (0.70%) Software AG
9 1 (0.70%) Veritas