Applications Consultant Contracts

Application Consultant
UK

The median Application Consultant daily rate in the UK is £516 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 560 683 815
Rank change year-on-year +123 +132 -162
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Consultant 18 33 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.056% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.059% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 21 33
10th Percentile £363 £450 £400
25th Percentile £432 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £600 £510
Median % change year-on-year -13.96% +17.65% +2.00%
75th Percentile £540 £688 £634
90th Percentile £554 £763 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £575 £505
% change year-on-year -13.04% +13.86% +12.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 40,246 55,892 84,695
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,216 39,044 59,517
10th Percentile £279 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +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 2,676 1,569 2,074
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%

Applications Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Consultant in the UK

Applications Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Consultant in the UK

Applications Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Applications Consultant in the UK

Applications Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Consultant in the UK

Applications Consultant
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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 +95 17 £513 -14.58% 4
London +112 13 £516 -13.96% 1
Work from Home +123 5 £540 -1.82% 2
UK excluding London +47 4 £500 -13.04% 2
North of England +23 3 £465 -15.45% 1
Yorkshire +21 2 £465 -22.50%
Midlands +25 1 £550 -16.98%
North West +22 1 - - 1
West Midlands +20 1 £550 -

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

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

1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
1 7 (38.89%) Application Security
2 6 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 6 (33.33%) Finance
3 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
3 5 (27.78%) Oracle
3 5 (27.78%) ERP
3 5 (27.78%) Agile
4 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 4 (22.22%) Azure
4 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
4 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (22.22%) Power Platform
4 4 (22.22%) Power Automate
4 4 (22.22%) Power BI
4 4 (22.22%) Cloud Security
5 3 (16.67%) Key Management
5 3 (16.67%) Data Encryption
5 3 (16.67%) Serverless
5 3 (16.67%) Azure Functions
5 3 (16.67%) Design Thinking
5 3 (16.67%) PowerApps
5 3 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (16.67%) SD-WAN
5 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (16.67%) GitLab
5 3 (16.67%) SharePoint

Applications 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 3 (16.67%) Confluence
1 3 (16.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.56%) NEC Housing
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (5.56%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (22.22%) Power Automate
1 4 (22.22%) Power Platform
2 3 (16.67%) Azure Functions
2 3 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 3 (16.67%) GitHub
2 3 (16.67%) PowerApps
2 3 (16.67%) Serverless
3 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.56%) OCI
3 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Firewall
1 3 (16.67%) SD-WAN
1 3 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Power BI
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 3 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 3 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) GitLab
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Finance
3 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Legal
4 1 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) PKI
2 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
1 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Application Security
2 6 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (27.78%) Agile
3 5 (27.78%) ERP
4 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (22.22%) Cloud Security
5 3 (16.67%) Data Encryption
5 3 (16.67%) Design Thinking
5 3 (16.67%) Key Management
5 3 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
6 2 (11.11%) Database Security
6 2 (11.11%) DevOps
6 2 (11.11%) Ethical Hacking
6 2 (11.11%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.11%) Security Auditing
6 2 (11.11%) SIEM
7 1 (5.56%) Application Discovery
7 1 (5.56%) Continuous Delivery
7 1 (5.56%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (5.56%) ABAP
3 1 (5.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
1 5 (27.78%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) SAP
3 1 (5.56%) EMC
3 1 (5.56%) NEC
3 1 (5.56%) Northgate
3 1 (5.56%) Remedy
3 1 (5.56%) Siemens