Payroll Consultant Contracts in England

Payroll Consultant
UK > England

The median Payroll Consultant daily rate in England is £614 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 502 591 754
Rank change year-on-year +89 +163 -140
Contract jobs requiring a Payroll Consultant 40 48 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.10% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.11% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 24 18
10th Percentile £379 £474 £499
25th Percentile £500 £547 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £614 £600 £569
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +5.49% +7.31%
75th Percentile £625 £673 £644
90th Percentile £640 £688 £703
UK median daily rate £625 £600 £569
% change year-on-year +4.17% +5.49% +5.81%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 England with a recognized job title 34,255 45,148 67,437
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,555 32,138 48,275
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,585 1,311 1,778
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.54
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%

Payroll Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Payroll Consultant in England

Payroll Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Payroll Consultant in England

Payroll Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Payroll Consultant in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Payroll Consultant in England

Payroll Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Payroll Consultant in England

Payroll Consultant
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 2 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
London +105 27 £625 -3.85% 7
South West +13 4 £263 -
South East +4 4 £500 -16.67% 1
Midlands +22 2 £475 -17.96% 3
West Midlands +16 2 £475 - 2
Payroll Consultant
UK

Payroll Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 England region featuring Payroll Consultant in the job title.

1 17 (42.50%) ERP
1 17 (42.50%) Finance
2 14 (35.00%) Human Resource Management
2 14 (35.00%) Workday
3 13 (32.50%) Commercial Awareness
3 13 (32.50%) Workshop Facilitation
3 13 (32.50%) Workday HCM
3 13 (32.50%) Line Management
4 12 (30.00%) People Management
4 12 (30.00%) Oracle
5 10 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
5 10 (25.00%) SAP
6 8 (20.00%) SuccessFactors
6 8 (20.00%) OCI
7 6 (15.00%) Social Skills
7 6 (15.00%) Oracle Payroll
8 5 (12.50%) Agile
9 4 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
10 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
10 3 (7.50%) Business Intelligence
10 3 (7.50%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (7.50%) SAP Payroll
10 3 (7.50%) Migration
10 3 (7.50%) Local Government
10 3 (7.50%) SAP HCM
10 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
11 2 (5.00%) Data Migration
11 2 (5.00%) BusinessObjects XI
11 2 (5.00%) Data Analysis

Payroll Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (32.50%) Workday HCM
2 6 (15.00%) Oracle Payroll
3 3 (7.50%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (7.50%) SAP HCM
3 3 (7.50%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (5.00%) iTrent
5 1 (2.50%) Maximo
5 1 (2.50%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (2.50%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (2.50%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (2.50%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (2.50%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (2.50%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (2.50%) ResourceLink
5 1 (2.50%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.00%) OCI
1 8 (20.00%) SuccessFactors
2 1 (2.50%) AWS
2 1 (2.50%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) BusinessObjects
1 2 (5.00%) BusinessObjects XI
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
General
1 17 (42.50%) Finance
2 6 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Local Government
3 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.50%) Italian Language
4 1 (2.50%) Legal
4 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
1 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (42.50%) ERP
2 14 (35.00%) Human Resource Management
3 13 (32.50%) Commercial Awareness
3 13 (32.50%) Line Management
3 13 (32.50%) Workshop Facilitation
4 12 (30.00%) People Management
5 5 (12.50%) Agile
6 4 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (7.50%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (7.50%) Migration
8 2 (5.00%) Data Analysis
8 2 (5.00%) Data Migration
8 2 (5.00%) Project Delivery
9 1 (2.50%) Analytics
9 1 (2.50%) Coaching
9 1 (2.50%) Defect Management
9 1 (2.50%) DevOps
9 1 (2.50%) Presales
9 1 (2.50%) Problem-Solving
9 1 (2.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) CIPD
Vendors
1 14 (35.00%) Workday
2 12 (30.00%) Oracle
3 10 (25.00%) SAP
4 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.50%) Hyperion
5 1 (2.50%) IBM
5 1 (2.50%) JD Edwards
5 1 (2.50%) PeopleSoft