Principal Consultant Contracts

Principal Consultant
UK

The median Principal Consultant daily rate in the UK is £630, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 576 690 850
Rank change year-on-year +114 +160 -135
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Consultant 18 7 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.013% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.013% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 9
10th Percentile £580 £540 -
25th Percentile £600 £600 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £613 £619
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -0.97% +12.45%
75th Percentile £700 £619 £638
90th Percentile £854 £698 £1,125
UK excluding London median daily rate £705 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +41.00% -20.00% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,533 52,506 83,140
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 94.52% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,086 36,648 58,637
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £407 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,938 1,481 1,935
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.18 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.71 £65.75 £49.92
90th Percentile £74.00 £76.50 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.76% +110.00% +7.82%

Principal Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Consultant in the UK

Principal Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Principal Consultant in the UK

Principal Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Principal Consultant over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Principal Consultant in the UK

Principal Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Principal Consultant in the UK

Principal Consultant
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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
England +114 17 £630 +2.86% 92
London +92 11 £600 -2.04% 58
UK excluding London +49 6 £705 +41.00% 25
Work from Home +104 5 £900 +48.45% 38
South West - 2 £780 - 9
North of England - 2 £628 - 5
North West - 2 £628 - 3
South East +16 1 - - 10
Midlands - 1 £1,100 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £1,100 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 11 June 2024, Principal 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 Principal Consultant in the job title.

1 13 (72.22%) Social Skills
2 8 (44.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (44.44%) SAP
3 7 (38.89%) NIST
4 6 (33.33%) Risk Management
5 5 (27.78%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (27.78%) AWS
5 5 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (22.22%) SAP HANA
6 4 (22.22%) SAP EWM
6 4 (22.22%) Big Data
6 4 (22.22%) QA
6 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
6 4 (22.22%) Adobe
6 4 (22.22%) Project Management
6 4 (22.22%) Quality Management
6 4 (22.22%) Web Services
6 4 (22.22%) ERP
6 4 (22.22%) ABAP
6 4 (22.22%) Information Security
6 4 (22.22%) SAP QM
6 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (16.67%) DevSecOps
7 3 (16.67%) Decision-Making
7 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
7 3 (16.67%) TCP/IP
7 3 (16.67%) DNS
7 3 (16.67%) DV Cleared
7 3 (16.67%) Azure

Principal 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 (11.11%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 8 (44.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (22.22%) SAP EWM
2 4 (22.22%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) Azure
3 2 (11.11%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) DNS
1 3 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.56%) LAN
2 1 (5.56%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
2 1 (5.56%) WAN
2 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Big Data
1 4 (22.22%) SAP HANA
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (11.11%) Hadoop
2 2 (11.11%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) CircleCI
1 2 (11.11%) RStudio
General
1 13 (72.22%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 2 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 5 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (22.22%) ERP
3 4 (22.22%) Information Security
3 4 (22.22%) Project Management
3 4 (22.22%) Quality Management
4 3 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 3 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 2 (11.11%) Cost Reduction
5 2 (11.11%) Critical Thinking
5 2 (11.11%) Information Management
5 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
5 2 (11.11%) OWASP
5 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
5 2 (11.11%) SDLC
5 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
5 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (11.11%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) ABAP
2 2 (11.11%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) Degree
3 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (38.89%) NIST
2 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (22.22%) QA
3 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (11.11%) NCSC
3 2 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) SAP
2 4 (22.22%) Adobe
3 2 (11.11%) Databricks
3 2 (11.11%) Teradata
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco
4 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
4 1 (5.56%) Meraki