Support Consultant Contracts in England

Support Consultant
UK > England

The median Support Consultant daily rate in England is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 521 640 743
Rank change year-on-year +119 +103 -159
Contract jobs requiring a Support Consultant 27 28 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.073% 0.055% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.078% 0.058% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 24
10th Percentile £318 £194 £308
25th Percentile £363 £284 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £485
Median % change year-on-year -0.13% -17.53% +38.57%
75th Percentile £443 £553 £559
90th Percentile £529 £588 £622
UK median daily rate £475 £515 £475
% change year-on-year -7.77% +8.42% +52.00%

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 34,517 47,965 67,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.58% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,960 34,010 48,090
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,411 1,443 1,914
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.67 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.45 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

Support Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Consultant in England

Support Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Support Consultant in England

Support Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Consultant in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Support Consultant in England

Support Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Consultant in England

Support 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 Support Consultant within the England region over the 6 months to 25 April 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 +108 16 £443 +10.63% 9
North of England +34 3 - - 5
North West +18 3 - - 4
South East +11 2 £250 -33.33% 5
South West - 2 £375 - 1
East of England - 2 - - 1
Support Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Support 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 Support Consultant in the job title.

1 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Unix
2 6 (22.22%) Windows
3 5 (18.52%) SQL
3 5 (18.52%) Oracle
3 5 (18.52%) Finance
4 4 (14.81%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (14.81%) DevOps
4 4 (14.81%) Azure
4 4 (14.81%) Teamcenter
4 4 (14.81%) Siemens
4 4 (14.81%) EMV
5 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
5 3 (11.11%) Project Management
5 3 (11.11%) SAP
5 3 (11.11%) E-Commerce
5 3 (11.11%) SAP EWM
5 3 (11.11%) Virtual Environments
5 3 (11.11%) Server Management
5 3 (11.11%) Virtual Team
5 3 (11.11%) Customer Service
6 2 (7.41%) Power Automate
6 2 (7.41%) Customer Experience
6 2 (7.41%) Change Advisory Board
6 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (7.41%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
6 2 (7.41%) Security Operations
6 2 (7.41%) Security Hardening

Support 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Teamcenter
2 3 (11.11%) SAP EWM
3 2 (7.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (3.70%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.81%) Azure
2 2 (7.41%) AWS
2 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (7.41%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (7.41%) Power Automate
2 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.70%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) DB2
1 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.70%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.70%) MariaDB
2 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.70%) MySQL
2 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Finance
3 4 (14.81%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Arabic Language
5 1 (3.70%) Billing
5 1 (3.70%) French Language
5 1 (3.70%) General Ledger
5 1 (3.70%) German Language
5 1 (3.70%) Japanese Language
5 1 (3.70%) Korean Language
5 1 (3.70%) Marketing
5 1 (3.70%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) EMV
2 3 (11.11%) Virtual Team
3 2 (7.41%) Credit Derivative
3 2 (7.41%) Derivative
3 2 (7.41%) Equities
3 2 (7.41%) Fixed Income
3 2 (7.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.70%) Clustering
4 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.70%) Fat Client
4 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.70%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) Unix
1 6 (22.22%) Windows
2 2 (7.41%) Linux
3 1 (3.70%) OS/390
3 1 (3.70%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (14.81%) DevOps
1 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (11.11%) Customer Service
2 3 (11.11%) E-Commerce
2 3 (11.11%) Project Management
2 3 (11.11%) Server Management
2 3 (11.11%) Virtual Environments
3 2 (7.41%) Agile
3 2 (7.41%) Capacity Management
3 2 (7.41%) Change Advisory Board
3 2 (7.41%) CRM
3 2 (7.41%) Customer Experience
3 2 (7.41%) Protective Monitoring
3 2 (7.41%) Security Hardening
3 2 (7.41%) Security Operations
3 2 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (3.70%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (3.70%) Patch Management
4 1 (3.70%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (3.70%) PLM
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) SQL
2 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.70%) Perl
2 1 (3.70%) PL/SQL
2 1 (3.70%) Python
2 1 (3.70%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared
1 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) RMADS
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Hyper-V
1 2 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) SCCM
1 2 (7.41%) SCOM
1 2 (7.41%) SCVMM
2 1 (3.70%) Ansible
2 1 (3.70%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Oracle
2 4 (14.81%) Siemens
3 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 3 (11.11%) SAP
4 2 (7.41%) VMware
5 1 (3.70%) Citrix
5 1 (3.70%) HP
5 1 (3.70%) IBM
5 1 (3.70%) Informatica
5 1 (3.70%) Sybase