Technical Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technical Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technical Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 345 407 437
Rank change year-on-year +62 +30 -55
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Consultant 49 44 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.19% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.20% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 34 48
10th Percentile £452 £474 £351
25th Percentile £500 £509 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £613 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £694 £600
90th Percentile £650 - £653
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £60.64 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year +2.67% -9.09% +5.60%

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 18,943 22,066 29,076
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.30% 95.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,549 15,423 20,326
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 £598 £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 2,262 1,138 1,451
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.99
90th Percentile £73.98 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

Technical Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Consultant in the UK excluding London

Technical Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Consultant in the UK excluding London

Technical Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Consultant in the UK excluding London

Technical Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Consultant in the UK excluding London

Technical 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 Technical Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
South East +30 18 £483 -13.26% 15
East of England +21 10 £600 +9.09% 2
South West +17 7 £520 -11.86% 13
North of England +33 6 £550 +10.00% 13
Yorkshire +22 5 £550 +8.64% 2
Midlands +15 5 £513 -25.45% 13
West Midlands +11 4 £513 -25.45% 8
Scotland +39 2 £525 -4.55% 2
Wales - 2 £581 - 5
North West +20 1 £525 +5.00% 11
East Midlands - 1 - - 5
Technical Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Technical Consultant in the job title.

1 22 (44.90%) Social Skills
2 17 (34.69%) Security Cleared
3 11 (22.45%) SAP
3 11 (22.45%) SAP Basis
4 10 (20.41%) Oracle
4 10 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (18.37%) SAP S/4HANA
5 9 (18.37%) SAP HANA
5 9 (18.37%) Performance Tuning
5 9 (18.37%) Oracle Database
6 8 (16.33%) SC Cleared
6 8 (16.33%) Service Management
7 7 (14.29%) Change Management
7 7 (14.29%) Finance
7 7 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (14.29%) DV Cleared
7 7 (14.29%) Azure
7 7 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
7 7 (14.29%) Presales
8 6 (12.24%) SAP Fiori
8 6 (12.24%) High Availability
8 6 (12.24%) Asset Management
8 6 (12.24%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (12.24%) ERP
8 6 (12.24%) Customer Requirements
8 6 (12.24%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (12.24%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (12.24%) Customer Service
9 5 (10.20%) Web Services
9 5 (10.20%) Service Delivery

Technical 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.08%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (18.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.04%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.04%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.04%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.29%) Azure
2 6 (12.24%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (8.16%) Entra ID
3 4 (8.16%) Power Platform
4 3 (6.12%) AWS
4 3 (6.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (6.12%) Azure Pipelines
4 3 (6.12%) GCP
4 3 (6.12%) IaaS
4 3 (6.12%) PaaS
5 2 (4.08%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.04%) Intacct
6 1 (2.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.12%) DNS
1 3 (6.12%) VPN
2 2 (4.08%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.37%) Oracle Database
1 9 (18.37%) SAP HANA
2 3 (6.12%) Power BI
3 1 (2.04%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.04%) Power Query
3 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) HP UFT
1 2 (4.08%) LoadRunner
General
1 22 (44.90%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.29%) Finance
3 6 (12.24%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (8.16%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.12%) Marketing
6 2 (4.08%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.04%) Military
7 1 (2.04%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (22.45%) SAP Basis
2 6 (12.24%) SAP Fiori
3 5 (10.20%) Web Services
4 2 (4.08%) RESTful
5 1 (2.04%) SailPoint
5 1 (2.04%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.08%) CMDB
1 2 (4.08%) IVR
2 1 (2.04%) BYOD
2 1 (2.04%) EPoS
2 1 (2.04%) Life Science
2 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.04%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (18.37%) Performance Tuning
3 8 (16.33%) Service Management
4 7 (14.29%) Change Management
4 7 (14.29%) Presales
4 7 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
5 6 (12.24%) Asset Management
5 6 (12.24%) Customer Requirements
5 6 (12.24%) Customer Service
5 6 (12.24%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (12.24%) ERP
5 6 (12.24%) High Availability
6 5 (10.20%) Agile
6 5 (10.20%) Service Delivery
7 4 (8.16%) API Development
7 4 (8.16%) Configuration Management
7 4 (8.16%) IT Asset Management
7 4 (8.16%) ITSM
7 4 (8.16%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (34.69%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.33%) SC Cleared
3 7 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.08%) CISM
4 2 (4.08%) CISSP
4 2 (4.08%) Degree
5 1 (2.04%) CISA
5 1 (2.04%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.04%) CRISC
5 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.04%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) NIST
2 1 (2.04%) COBIT
2 1 (2.04%) COSO
2 1 (2.04%) GDPR
2 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.04%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (6.12%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (4.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.04%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (22.45%) SAP
2 10 (20.41%) Oracle
3 4 (8.16%) IFS
3 4 (8.16%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.16%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.08%) Genesys
4 2 (4.08%) OpenText
4 2 (4.08%) Sage
5 1 (2.04%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.04%) Kenna
5 1 (2.04%) Splunk
5 1 (2.04%) VMware
5 1 (2.04%) Workday