IT Consultant Contracts in Scotland

IT Consultant
UK > Scotland

The median IT Consultant daily rate in Scotland is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 160 173
Rank change year-on-year +35 +13 -
Contract jobs requiring an IT Consultant 5 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.22% 0.10% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.11% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £298 £570 -
25th Percentile £463 £580 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £605 £495
Median % change year-on-year -21.42% +22.12% -
75th Percentile £488 £622 £518
90th Percentile £573 £629 -
UK median daily rate £533 £518 £475
% change year-on-year +2.90% +8.95% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.00 -
UK median hourly rate £12.25 £62.00 -
% change year-on-year -80.24% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 2,112 2,720 3,382
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.67% 95.17% 96.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,289 1,953 2,401
10th Percentile £204 £233 £211
25th Percentile £369 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £458
Median % change year-on-year - +3.83% +7.65%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 46 54
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.94 £12.24
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.34 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £23.18 £25.55
Median % change year-on-year +50.99% -9.26% -36.14%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.17 £47.99
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.50 £54.14
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%

IT Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Consultant in Scotland

IT Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for IT Consultant in Scotland

IT Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Consultant in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Consultant in Scotland

IT Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Consultant in Scotland

IT Consultant
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 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
Perthshire +12 3 £475 -
Glasgow +6 1 £225 -64.51% 3
Aberdeen - 1 £630 - 1
IT Consultant
UK

IT Consultant Skill Set
Top 19 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 across the Scotland region featuring IT Consultant in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Tandem
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle Database
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle Service Cloud
2 3 (60.00%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (60.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (60.00%) OCI
3 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment

IT Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) OCI
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Database
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Reports
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Onboarding
1 3 (60.00%) Tandem
2 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (20.00%) Digital Strategy
1 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle