Technical Consultant Contracts

Technical Consultant
UK

The median Technical Consultant daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 450 524 582
Rank change year-on-year +74 +58 -158
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Consultant 129 160 277
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.28% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.30% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 89 149
10th Percentile £425 £425 £400
25th Percentile £505 £494 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £613
90th Percentile £808 £695 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 7
10th Percentile £60.80 - £59.40
25th Percentile - £54.00 £63.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% -9.09% +5.60%
75th Percentile - £66.00 -
90th Percentile - £76.80 £69.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 -
% change year-on-year +2.67% - -

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 39,484 53,902 83,447
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.62% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,682 37,660 58,636
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
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 2,662 1,503 2,044
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.76
Median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.44 £76.20 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Technical Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Consultant in the UK

Technical Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Consultant in the UK

Technical Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Consultant over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Consultant in the UK

Technical Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Consultant in the UK

Technical Consultant
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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 +115 109 £550 - 101
Work from Home +81 60 £550 - 61
London +101 54 £600 +14.29% 32
UK excluding London +61 49 £525 -12.50% 68
South East +22 18 £455 -18.20% 20
East of England +16 10 £600 +9.09% 2
South West +9 7 £520 -11.86% 13
North of England +25 6 £550 +10.00% 15
Midlands +18 6 £513 -25.45% 12
West Midlands +21 5 £513 -25.45% 7
Yorkshire +17 5 £550 +8.64% 3
Wales - 2 £581 - 2
Scotland +34 1 - - 2
North West +16 1 £525 +5.00% 12
East Midlands - 1 - - 5

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, Technical 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 Technical Consultant in the job title.

1 43 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 31 (24.03%) SAP
3 27 (20.93%) Security Cleared
4 21 (16.28%) Azure
4 21 (16.28%) Oracle
5 20 (15.50%) SAP S/4HANA
6 19 (14.73%) SAP HANA
7 18 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (13.95%) Finance
7 18 (13.95%) SC Cleared
8 17 (13.18%) Web Services
9 16 (12.40%) Microsoft
9 16 (12.40%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (10.85%) High Availability
11 13 (10.08%) SAP Basis
11 13 (10.08%) ABAP
11 13 (10.08%) Oracle Database
12 12 (9.30%) Dynamics 365
12 12 (9.30%) Migration
13 11 (8.53%) Public Sector
13 11 (8.53%) Performance Tuning
14 10 (7.75%) Service Management
14 10 (7.75%) Disaster Recovery
15 9 (6.98%) AWS
15 9 (6.98%) Technical Architecture
15 9 (6.98%) ServiceNow
15 9 (6.98%) DevSecOps
15 9 (6.98%) Requirements Gathering
15 9 (6.98%) Presales
15 9 (6.98%) NIST

Technical 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 4 (3.10%) CMS
2 2 (1.55%) GroupWise
2 2 (1.55%) IIS
3 1 (0.78%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.78%) IBM Domino
3 1 (0.78%) IBM Notes
3 1 (0.78%) JBoss
3 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.78%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (2.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.78%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 20 (15.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (4.65%) SAP EWM
3 4 (3.10%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (3.10%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 4 (3.10%) SAP SD
4 3 (2.33%) SAP MDG
5 2 (1.55%) NetSuite
5 2 (1.55%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (1.55%) Oracle Internet Expenses
5 2 (1.55%) Oracle iProcurement
5 2 (1.55%) Oracle iSupplier
5 2 (1.55%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (1.55%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (1.55%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (1.55%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.78%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.78%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.78%) PeopleSoft Financials
6 1 (0.78%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 21 (16.28%) Azure
2 12 (9.30%) Dynamics 365
3 9 (6.98%) AWS
4 8 (6.20%) GCP
5 6 (4.65%) Power Platform
6 5 (3.88%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (2.33%) Azure Pipelines
7 3 (2.33%) IaaS
7 3 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.33%) PaaS
8 2 (1.55%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.78%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.78%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.78%) OCI
9 1 (0.78%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.78%) Salsify
9 1 (0.78%) Serverless
9 1 (0.78%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.65%) Firewall
2 5 (3.88%) VPN
3 3 (2.33%) DNS
4 2 (1.55%) HTTP
4 2 (1.55%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.78%) AMQP
5 1 (0.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (0.78%) NGFW
5 1 (0.78%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.78%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.78%) SSH
5 1 (0.78%) SSL
5 1 (0.78%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.78%) Wireless
5 1 (0.78%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (14.73%) SAP HANA
2 13 (10.08%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.55%) Power BI
3 2 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.78%) Big Data
4 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.78%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.55%) HP UFT
1 2 (1.55%) LoadRunner
2 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.78%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.78%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.78%) Git
2 1 (0.78%) Subversion
General
1 43 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.95%) Finance
3 11 (8.53%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.20%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (4.65%) Marketing
5 6 (4.65%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.55%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.55%) Banking
7 2 (1.55%) Military
7 2 (1.55%) Retail
7 2 (1.55%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.78%) Advertising
8 1 (0.78%) French Language
8 1 (0.78%) German Language
8 1 (0.78%) Legal
8 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.78%) Police
8 1 (0.78%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (13.18%) Web Services
2 13 (10.08%) SAP Basis
3 8 (6.20%) SAP Fiori
4 5 (3.88%) HTML
5 4 (3.10%) CSS
5 4 (3.10%) RESTful
6 2 (1.55%) DOM
6 2 (1.55%) Express.js
6 2 (1.55%) Node.js
6 2 (1.55%) React
6 2 (1.55%) REST
6 2 (1.55%) SailPoint
6 2 (1.55%) SOAP
7 1 (0.78%) .NET
7 1 (0.78%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.78%) EDI
7 1 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.78%) JMS
7 1 (0.78%) Middleware
7 1 (0.78%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.65%) CMDB
2 5 (3.88%) EMV
3 2 (1.55%) Digital Media
3 2 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.55%) IVR
4 1 (0.78%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (0.78%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.78%) EPoS
4 1 (0.78%) FMCG
4 1 (0.78%) iPad
4 1 (0.78%) Life Science
4 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.78%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.78%) Replication
4 1 (0.78%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.78%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.65%) Windows
2 3 (2.33%) Linux
3 2 (1.55%) NetWare
3 2 (1.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (12.40%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (10.85%) High Availability
4 12 (9.30%) Migration
5 11 (8.53%) Performance Tuning
6 10 (7.75%) Disaster Recovery
6 10 (7.75%) Service Management
7 9 (6.98%) Customer Service
7 9 (6.98%) DevSecOps
7 9 (6.98%) Presales
7 9 (6.98%) Requirements Gathering
7 9 (6.98%) Roadmaps
7 9 (6.98%) Technical Architecture
8 8 (6.20%) Change Management
8 8 (6.20%) Customer Requirements
8 8 (6.20%) Data Modelling
8 8 (6.20%) ERP
8 8 (6.20%) ITSM
9 7 (5.43%) Asset Management
9 7 (5.43%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 13 (10.08%) ABAP
2 7 (5.43%) JavaScript
3 6 (4.65%) SQL
4 4 (3.10%) C
5 2 (1.55%) Java
5 2 (1.55%) Python
6 1 (0.78%) Bash
6 1 (0.78%) C#
6 1 (0.78%) Perl
6 1 (0.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 27 (20.93%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.20%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.88%) Degree
5 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.55%) CISM
6 2 (1.55%) CISSP
7 1 (0.78%) CCIE
7 1 (0.78%) CCIE Routing and Switching
7 1 (0.78%) CISA
7 1 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.78%) CRISC
7 1 (0.78%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.98%) NIST
2 5 (3.88%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.55%) QA
4 1 (0.78%) COBIT
4 1 (0.78%) COSO
4 1 (0.78%) GDPR
4 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (3.10%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.55%) Docker
4 1 (0.78%) Terminal Services
4 1 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.78%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (1.55%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.78%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.78%) SCCM
2 1 (0.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (24.03%) SAP
2 21 (16.28%) Oracle
3 16 (12.40%) Microsoft
4 9 (6.98%) ServiceNow
5 8 (6.20%) Adobe
6 4 (3.10%) IFS
6 4 (3.10%) VMware
7 3 (2.33%) Novell
7 3 (2.33%) Workday
8 2 (1.55%) Cisco
8 2 (1.55%) Commvault
8 2 (1.55%) Genesys
8 2 (1.55%) IBM
8 2 (1.55%) Meraki
8 2 (1.55%) OpenText
8 2 (1.55%) Sage
9 1 (0.78%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.78%) Kenna
9 1 (0.78%) Okta
9 1 (0.78%) Palo Alto