Consultant Contracts in the East of England

Consultant
England > East of England

The median Consultant daily rate in the East of England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 66 78
Rank change year-on-year +28 +12 -30
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 88 51 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 4.55% 2.62% 2.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.13% 2.86% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 35 54
10th Percentile £325 £400 £311
25th Percentile £438 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £582 £706 £650
90th Percentile £650 £820 £673
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile £29.50 - -
25th Percentile £34.38 £21.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £22.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +104.55% -51.11% -
75th Percentile £67.75 £23.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £79.90 £45.25 -
England median hourly rate £61.60 £64.84 £70.50
% change year-on-year -4.99% -8.03% +22.61%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East of England. 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 East of England with a recognized job title 1,714 1,782 2,357
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.58% 91.38% 92.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 755 1,097 1,409
10th Percentile £206 £190 £181
25th Percentile £306 £315 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +15.15%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £569
90th Percentile £650 £700 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 605 254 349
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £44.08 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.45% +175.50% -
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.18 £60.00
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in the East of England

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Consultant in the East of England

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in the East of England

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in the East of England

Consultant
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Consultant in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Consultant in the East of England

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Hertfordshire +6 33 £400 -27.27% 20
Bedfordshire +10 24 £525 +5.00% 5
Cambridgeshire +16 21 £582 +10.86% 11
Essex +8 6 £538 -17.31% 9
Suffolk +13 2 £525 +31.25% 11
Norfolk +4 1 £525 +40.00% 11
Consultant
England

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 East of England region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 33 (37.50%) SAP
2 31 (35.23%) Social Skills
3 23 (26.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (17.05%) Finance
4 15 (17.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (12.50%) Business Transformation
6 9 (10.23%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (9.09%) Service Management
7 8 (9.09%) ERP
7 8 (9.09%) Ariba
7 8 (9.09%) Banking
7 8 (9.09%) Life Science
7 8 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (7.95%) SAP SD
8 7 (7.95%) CRM
8 7 (7.95%) Project Management
9 6 (6.82%) Telecoms
9 6 (6.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (6.82%) Agile
9 6 (6.82%) Incident Response
9 6 (6.82%) IFS
9 6 (6.82%) IT Asset Management
10 5 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (5.68%) SAP Fiori
10 5 (5.68%) Customer Service
10 5 (5.68%) SAP Basis
10 5 (5.68%) Middleware
11 4 (4.55%) Change Management
11 4 (4.55%) Manufacturing
11 4 (4.55%) SAP BW

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (4.55%) NetWeaver
1 4 (4.55%) OpenStack
2 3 (3.41%) Confluence
3 2 (2.27%) Alfresco
3 2 (2.27%) Appian
3 2 (2.27%) Camunda
4 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 23 (26.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (7.95%) SAP SD
3 4 (4.55%) SAP IBP
4 3 (3.41%) SAP CO
4 3 (3.41%) SAP FI
4 3 (3.41%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (1.14%) NEC Housing
5 1 (1.14%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.27%) Azure
1 2 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (2.27%) GCP
2 1 (1.14%) AWS
2 1 (1.14%) Google Drive
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (1.14%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.41%) 4G
1 3 (3.41%) 5G
1 3 (3.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.55%) SAP BW
1 4 (4.55%) SAP HANA
2 1 (1.14%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 4 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 31 (35.23%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.05%) Finance
3 9 (10.23%) Pharmaceutical
4 8 (9.09%) Banking
5 6 (6.82%) Telecoms
6 5 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.55%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.55%) Marketing
8 3 (3.41%) Billing
8 3 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.27%) Local Government
9 2 (2.27%) Retail
10 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.14%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.14%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.68%) Middleware
1 5 (5.68%) SAP Basis
1 5 (5.68%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (2.27%) Drools
2 2 (2.27%) HTML
2 2 (2.27%) jBPM
2 2 (2.27%) JSON
3 1 (1.14%) IDoc
3 1 (1.14%) RESTful
3 1 (1.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.09%) Life Science
2 6 (6.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.41%) EPoS
4 3 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.27%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.27%) Social Media
5 2 (2.27%) Video Editing
6 1 (1.14%) CMDB
6 1 (1.14%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.14%) IVR
6 1 (1.14%) Replication
6 1 (1.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.55%) Linux
1 4 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (17.05%) Stakeholder Management
2 11 (12.50%) Business Transformation
3 8 (9.09%) ERP
3 8 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (9.09%) Service Management
4 7 (7.95%) CRM
4 7 (7.95%) Project Management
5 6 (6.82%) Agile
5 6 (6.82%) Incident Response
5 6 (6.82%) IT Asset Management
6 5 (5.68%) Customer Service
7 4 (4.55%) Change Management
7 4 (4.55%) Customer Engagement
7 4 (4.55%) Data Analysis
7 4 (4.55%) ITIL
7 4 (4.55%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (4.55%) Presales
7 4 (4.55%) Problem Management
7 4 (4.55%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (4.55%) SAP Security
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.41%) Java
2 1 (1.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (4.55%) Degree
1 4 (4.55%) SAP Certification
2 2 (2.27%) PMP
3 1 (1.14%) CISSP
3 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.14%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.14%) PhD
3 1 (1.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.27%) GDPR
1 2 (2.27%) IFRS
2 1 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.14%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (2.27%) GPFS
1 2 (2.27%) KVM
1 2 (2.27%) QEMU
1 2 (2.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
1 2 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.14%) NFS
Vendors
1 33 (37.50%) SAP
2 8 (9.09%) Ariba
3 6 (6.82%) IFS
4 2 (2.27%) Adobe
4 2 (2.27%) BMC
4 2 (2.27%) Dell
4 2 (2.27%) Google
4 2 (2.27%) Oracle
4 2 (2.27%) Pega
4 2 (2.27%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.27%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.27%) VMware
5 1 (1.14%) FIS
5 1 (1.14%) Genesys
5 1 (1.14%) Liquidlogic
5 1 (1.14%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.14%) NEC
5 1 (1.14%) NVIDIA