Professional Services Consultant Contracts

Professional Services Consultant
UK

The median Professional Services Consultant daily rate in the UK is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 588 - 861
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Professional Services Consultant 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% - 0.003%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% - 0.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £550 - -
90th Percentile £640 - -
UK excluding London median daily 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 40,563 57,633 85,848
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.56% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,521 40,186 60,274
10th Percentile £275 £310 £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 £745 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,603 1,618 2,130
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.37 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.25 £15.37
Median hourly rate £35.00 £44.06 £22.94
Median % change year-on-year -20.55% +92.04% -0.26%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.43 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.65 £42.08 £19.50
% change year-on-year -15.28% +115.78% +2.63%

Professional Services Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Professional Services Consultant in the UK

Professional Services Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Professional Services Consultant in the UK

Professional Services Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Professional Services Consultant over the 6 months to 17 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Professional Services Consultant in the UK

Professional Services Consultant
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Professional Services Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 17 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
England - 3 £400 - 3
London - 1 £700 - 3

Professional Services Consultant Skill Set
Top 9 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 17 April 2024, Professional Services 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 Professional Services Consultant in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (66.67%) IaaS
1 2 (66.67%) FortiGate
1 2 (66.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering

Professional Services 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) IaaS
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) FortiGate
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft