IT Consultant Contracts

IT Consultant
UK

The median IT Consultant daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 516 626 772
Rank change year-on-year +110 +146 -118
Contract jobs requiring an IT Consultant 55 61 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.11% 0.082%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.11% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 47 55
10th Percentile £372 £336 £305
25th Percentile £463 £454 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £520 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +9.47% +5.56%
75th Percentile £625 £563 £663
90th Percentile £728 £638 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £600 £450
% change year-on-year - +33.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.13 £61.00 -
Median hourly rate £12.25 £62.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -80.24% - -
75th Percentile £12.38 £63.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £12.25 £62.00 -
% change year-on-year -80.24% - -

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 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
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 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +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%

IT Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Consultant in the UK

IT Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IT Consultant in the UK

IT Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Consultant over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Consultant in the UK

IT Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Consultant in the UK

IT Consultant
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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 +98 44 £575 +13.30% 40
London +83 24 £525 +5.00% 14
UK excluding London +65 24 £600 - 32
Work from Home +103 17 £500 -7.41% 16
Midlands +32 11 £600 -7.69% 2
West Midlands - 9 £600 - 1
Scotland +43 5 £475 -21.42% 4
South West - 5 £250 - 6
South East +27 2 £500 -18.37% 7
East Midlands +14 2 - - 1
East of England +3 2 £600 +26.32%

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, IT 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 IT Consultant in the job title.

1 14 (25.45%) Social Skills
2 13 (23.64%) Finance
3 10 (18.18%) Law
4 8 (14.55%) SC Cleared
4 8 (14.55%) Security Cleared
4 8 (14.55%) Linux
4 8 (14.55%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (14.55%) Data Centre
5 7 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (12.73%) Oracle
5 7 (12.73%) Windows
5 7 (12.73%) Azure
5 7 (12.73%) Degree
6 6 (10.91%) Risk Management
6 6 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (10.91%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (10.91%) Project Management
7 5 (9.09%) SQL
7 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
7 5 (9.09%) VMware
7 5 (9.09%) ITSM
7 5 (9.09%) Banking
7 5 (9.09%) Asset Management
7 5 (9.09%) Penetration Testing
7 5 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (9.09%) Process Improvement
7 5 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (9.09%) Cost Reduction
7 5 (9.09%) Business Case

IT 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 2 (3.64%) IBM Domino
2 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (10.91%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (12.73%) Azure
2 3 (5.45%) AWS
2 3 (5.45%) OCI
2 3 (5.45%) Oracle Service Cloud
3 2 (3.64%) Entra ID
3 2 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (3.64%) Nutanix
4 1 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.82%) IaaS
4 1 (1.82%) PaaS
4 1 (1.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.45%) Firewall
1 3 (5.45%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (3.64%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (3.64%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (3.64%) Network Security
2 2 (3.64%) VPN
2 2 (3.64%) VSAN
3 1 (1.82%) Internet
3 1 (1.82%) LAN
3 1 (1.82%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.45%) Oracle Database
1 3 (5.45%) Oracle Reports
General
1 14 (25.45%) Social Skills
2 13 (23.64%) Finance
3 10 (18.18%) Law
4 7 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (9.09%) Banking
5 5 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (5.45%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Legal
7 1 (1.82%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.64%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.55%) Data Centre
2 4 (7.27%) CMDB
2 4 (7.27%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.45%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (5.45%) Tandem
4 2 (3.64%) Credit Derivative
4 2 (3.64%) Derivative
4 2 (3.64%) Equities
4 2 (3.64%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (3.64%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.82%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.82%) FMCG
5 1 (1.82%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.82%) IoT
5 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.82%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.82%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.55%) Linux
2 7 (12.73%) Windows
3 4 (7.27%) Unix
4 3 (5.45%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.82%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (14.55%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (10.91%) Project Management
2 6 (10.91%) Risk Management
2 6 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (9.09%) Asset Management
3 5 (9.09%) Business Case
3 5 (9.09%) Cost Reduction
3 5 (9.09%) ITSM
3 5 (9.09%) Penetration Testing
3 5 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (9.09%) Process Improvement
4 4 (7.27%) Financial Modelling
4 4 (7.27%) IT Asset Management
4 4 (7.27%) Service Management
5 3 (5.45%) Agile
5 3 (5.45%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (5.45%) Information Security
5 3 (5.45%) Service Delivery
5 3 (5.45%) SIEM
5 3 (5.45%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.09%) SQL
2 2 (3.64%) Bash
2 2 (3.64%) Python
3 1 (1.82%) C#
3 1 (1.82%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (14.55%) SC Cleared
1 8 (14.55%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.73%) Degree
3 4 (7.27%) ACCA
4 2 (3.64%) CCNP
4 2 (3.64%) CISA
4 2 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.64%) CRISC
5 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.82%) CISM
5 1 (1.82%) CISSP
5 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.82%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.82%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.82%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) NIST
2 3 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.64%) COBIT
3 2 (3.64%) GRC
3 2 (3.64%) ITGC
4 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.82%) Def Stans
4 1 (1.82%) GDPR
4 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (1.82%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (7.27%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.64%) KVM
3 2 (3.64%) VMware NSX
3 2 (3.64%) vSphere
4 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (3.64%) SCCM
1 2 (3.64%) SCOM
1 2 (3.64%) SCVMM
1 2 (3.64%) Terraform
2 1 (1.82%) Ansible
2 1 (1.82%) Proxmox
2 1 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (12.73%) Oracle
2 5 (9.09%) VMware
3 4 (7.27%) Cisco
4 3 (5.45%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.45%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.82%) BMC
5 1 (1.82%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.82%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.82%) SAP