Principal Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Principal Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Principal Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £705 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 390 445 508
Rank change year-on-year +55 +63 -70
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Consultant 6 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.029% 0.009% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.009% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £618 - -
25th Percentile £626 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £705 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year +41.00% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £873 - £881
90th Percentile £1,039 - £1,028
UK median daily rate £630 £613 £625
% change year-on-year +2.86% -2.00% +13.64%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 18,944 22,126 29,093
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,489 20,369
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,258 1,140 1,432
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.72 £17.86 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.07
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Principal Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Consultant in the UK excluding London

Principal Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Principal Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Principal Consultant in the UK excluding London

Principal Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Principal Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Principal Consultant in the UK excluding London

Principal Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Principal Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Principal Consultant in the UK excluding London

Principal Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North West - 2 £628 - 5
South West - 2 £780 - 6
North of England - 2 £628 - 8
South East +24 1 - - 5
West Midlands - 1 £1,100 -
Midlands - 1 £1,100 - 1
Principal Consultant
UK

Principal Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 May 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Principal Consultant in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Risk Management
1 5 (83.33%) NIST
2 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (50.00%) DNS
2 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) Hadoop
3 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (33.33%) Degree
3 2 (33.33%) PCI DSS
3 2 (33.33%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Information Security
3 2 (33.33%) Teradata
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (33.33%) Big Data
3 2 (33.33%) SDLC
3 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
3 2 (33.33%) Virtual Team Management
3 2 (33.33%) Virtual Team
3 2 (33.33%) Databricks
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Cost Reduction
3 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving

Principal Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
1 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (33.33%) Big Data
1 2 (33.33%) Hadoop
1 2 (33.33%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Risk Management
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) Cost Reduction
3 2 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
3 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (33.33%) Information Security
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) SDLC
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Virtual Team Management
4 1 (16.67%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Programme Management
4 1 (16.67%) Service Design
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) NIST
2 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Databricks
1 2 (33.33%) Teradata