Functional Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Functional Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Functional Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £579 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 287 351 425
Rank change year-on-year +64 +74 -53
Contract jobs requiring a Functional Consultant 105 84 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.37% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.39% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 55 59
10th Percentile £461 £425 £503
25th Percentile £513 £467 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £579 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.80% -16.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £650
90th Percentile £688 £688 £677
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.90 - -
Median hourly rate £55.80 - -
75th Percentile £58.70 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.80 - -

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 19,497 21,400 29,228
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 94.21% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,649 14,865 20,542
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.68%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £575
90th Percentile £684 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,477 1,094 1,390
10th Percentile £12.53 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £46.42
90th Percentile £74.15 £75.50 £61.71
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Functional Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Consultant in the UK excluding London

Functional Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Consultant in the UK excluding London

Functional Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Consultant in the UK excluding London

Functional Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Functional Consultant in the UK excluding London

Functional 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 Functional Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East +27 33 £613 +22.50% 3
East of England +19 21 £525 -12.50% 3
North of England +14 20 £525 +5.00% 4
Midlands +18 17 £550 +4.76% 15
West Midlands +10 13 £550 +4.76% 15
North West +9 13 £525 +5.00% 4
South West +20 11 £650 -8.77% 1
Scotland +44 8 £550 -6.38% 2
Yorkshire +10 7 £450 -10.00%
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
East Midlands +9 1 £525 -
North East +9 1 £450 -13.04%
Wales - 1 £550 -
South Coast - 1 - -
Functional Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, Functional 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 Functional Consultant in the job title.

1 47 (44.76%) Social Skills
2 37 (35.24%) SAP
3 33 (31.43%) Oracle
4 30 (28.57%) SAP S/4HANA
5 27 (25.71%) Finance
6 22 (20.95%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (20.95%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (18.10%) Microsoft
8 17 (16.19%) Stakeholder Management
9 16 (15.24%) Oracle EBS R12
10 15 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
11 14 (13.33%) Azure
11 14 (13.33%) Business Transformation
11 14 (13.33%) Agile
12 12 (11.43%) E-business
12 12 (11.43%) Oracle EBS
12 12 (11.43%) ERP
12 12 (11.43%) Procure-to-Pay
12 12 (11.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 11 (10.48%) Migration
14 10 (9.52%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (9.52%) Customer Service
15 9 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (8.57%) DevOps
15 9 (8.57%) Oracle Forms
15 9 (8.57%) User Acceptance Testing
16 8 (7.62%) Data Migration
16 8 (7.62%) Logistics
16 8 (7.62%) CRM
16 8 (7.62%) Data Modelling

Functional 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (1.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 30 (28.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (15.24%) Oracle EBS R12
3 12 (11.43%) Oracle EBS
3 12 (11.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (6.67%) Maximo
4 7 (6.67%) NetSuite
5 6 (5.71%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (5.71%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (4.76%) SAP SD
7 4 (3.81%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (2.86%) SAP MDG
8 3 (2.86%) SAP PS
9 2 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (1.90%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (1.90%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (1.90%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (1.90%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 2 (1.90%) PeopleSoft HCM
10 1 (0.95%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.95%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 15 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
2 14 (13.33%) Azure
3 9 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (5.71%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.81%) OCI
6 3 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.86%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.90%) AWS
8 1 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.95%) SaaS
8 1 (0.95%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 1 (0.95%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.90%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.95%) Power BI
2 1 (0.95%) SAP HANA
2 1 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (8.57%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (0.95%) JIRA
General
1 47 (44.76%) Social Skills
2 27 (25.71%) Finance
3 22 (20.95%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.52%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (3.81%) Billing
6 4 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.81%) Law
6 4 (3.81%) Legal
6 4 (3.81%) Marketing
6 4 (3.81%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.86%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.90%) Banking
8 2 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.90%) Retail
9 1 (0.95%) Automotive
9 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.95%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.76%) Middleware
1 5 (4.76%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (2.86%) IDoc
2 3 (2.86%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (2.86%) SAP ALE
2 3 (2.86%) SAP Fiori
2 3 (2.86%) Visualforce
2 3 (2.86%) Web Dynpro
3 1 (0.95%) CSS
3 1 (0.95%) HTML
3 1 (0.95%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.67%) Life Science
2 5 (4.76%) Replication
3 3 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.90%) e-Learning
4 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.95%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.95%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.95%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (20.95%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (16.19%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (13.33%) Agile
3 14 (13.33%) Business Transformation
4 12 (11.43%) E-business
4 12 (11.43%) ERP
4 12 (11.43%) Procure-to-Pay
5 11 (10.48%) Migration
6 10 (9.52%) Customer Service
7 9 (8.57%) DevOps
7 9 (8.57%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (7.62%) CRM
8 8 (7.62%) Data Migration
8 8 (7.62%) Data Modelling
8 8 (7.62%) Logistics
9 6 (5.71%) Collaborative Working
9 6 (5.71%) Customer Engagement
9 6 (5.71%) Project Delivery
9 6 (5.71%) Record to Report
9 6 (5.71%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (6.67%) ABAP
2 5 (4.76%) SQL
3 3 (2.86%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.95%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (7.62%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (2.86%) Degree
3 3 (2.86%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.90%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.95%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.90%) GDPR
2 1 (0.95%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 2 (1.90%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 37 (35.24%) SAP
2 33 (31.43%) Oracle
3 19 (18.10%) Microsoft
4 8 (7.62%) Ariba
5 6 (5.71%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.86%) Adobe
6 3 (2.86%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.86%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.90%) Hyperion
7 2 (1.90%) JD Edwards
7 2 (1.90%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (0.95%) IBM
8 1 (0.95%) JDA
8 1 (0.95%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.95%) Syclo