Technical Consultant Contracts

Technical Consultant
UK

The median Technical Consultant daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 454 548 582
Rank change year-on-year +94 +34 -151
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Consultant 144 172 273
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.29% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.30% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 96 156
10th Percentile £448 £425 £400
25th Percentile £500 £498 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £556 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% +1.14% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £666 £613
90th Percentile £825 £697 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 7
10th Percentile £60.48 £54.00 £59.40
25th Percentile £61.20 £55.50 £63.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £63.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -4.55% +6.45%
75th Percentile - £66.00 -
90th Percentile - £75.00 £69.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 -
% change year-on-year +2.67% - -

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 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £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 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

Technical Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Consultant in the UK

Technical Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Consultant in the UK

Technical Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Consultant over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Consultant in the UK

Technical Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Consultant in the UK

Technical Consultant
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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 +128 116 £550 -2.22% 73
Work from Home +96 71 £550 - 45
London +100 60 £600 +9.09% 33
UK excluding London +68 49 £525 -12.50% 45
South East +30 15 £510 -5.12% 7
East of England +27 15 £500 -9.09% 2
North of England +32 6 £550 +10.00% 8
South West +21 6 £540 -12.90% 14
Midlands +13 6 £550 -20.00% 6
West Midlands +24 5 £550 -20.00% 5
Yorkshire +23 5 £550 +8.64% 2
Scotland +33 2 £525 -4.55% 2
North West +13 1 £525 +5.00% 6
East Midlands - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 featuring Technical Consultant in the job title.

1 43 (29.86%) Social Skills
2 27 (18.75%) SAP
3 26 (18.06%) Security Cleared
4 23 (15.97%) Oracle
4 23 (15.97%) Azure
5 22 (15.28%) Finance
6 20 (13.89%) Microsoft
7 18 (12.50%) Roadmaps
7 18 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (11.81%) SAP S/4HANA
8 17 (11.81%) Web Services
8 17 (11.81%) SC Cleared
9 16 (11.11%) AWS
9 16 (11.11%) SAP HANA
9 16 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
10 15 (10.42%) GCP
11 13 (9.03%) Presales
11 13 (9.03%) Migration
11 13 (9.03%) ABAP
12 12 (8.33%) High Availability
12 12 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
12 12 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
13 11 (7.64%) DevSecOps
13 11 (7.64%) Degree
13 11 (7.64%) Service Management
14 10 (6.94%) Computer Science
14 10 (6.94%) Public Sector
14 10 (6.94%) Oracle Database
15 9 (6.25%) ServiceNow
15 9 (6.25%) Customer Requirements

Technical 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 4 (2.78%) CMS
2 2 (1.39%) GroupWise
2 2 (1.39%) IIS
2 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.69%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.69%) JBoss
3 1 (0.69%) WildFly
Applications
1 8 (5.56%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 17 (11.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (4.17%) SAP EWM
3 5 (3.47%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (2.78%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (2.78%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 4 (2.78%) SAP SD
5 3 (2.08%) SAP MDG
6 2 (1.39%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (1.39%) Oracle Internet Expenses
6 2 (1.39%) Oracle iProcurement
6 2 (1.39%) Oracle iSupplier
6 2 (1.39%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (1.39%) Oracle Retail
6 2 (1.39%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (1.39%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.69%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.69%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.69%) PeopleSoft Financials
7 1 (0.69%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 23 (15.97%) Azure
2 16 (11.11%) AWS
3 15 (10.42%) GCP
4 12 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (4.86%) Power Platform
6 6 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.78%) SaaS
8 3 (2.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (2.08%) Azure Pipelines
8 3 (2.08%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.08%) IaaS
8 3 (2.08%) OCI
8 3 (2.08%) PaaS
9 2 (1.39%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.39%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.69%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.69%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.69%) Salsify
10 1 (0.69%) Serverless
10 1 (0.69%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.86%) Firewall
2 6 (4.17%) VPN
3 4 (2.78%) HTTP
4 3 (2.08%) DNS
5 2 (1.39%) Kerberos
5 2 (1.39%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.39%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.69%) AMQP
6 1 (0.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.69%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.69%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.69%) NGFW
6 1 (0.69%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.69%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.69%) SSH
6 1 (0.69%) SSL
6 1 (0.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.11%) SAP HANA
2 10 (6.94%) Oracle Database
3 3 (2.08%) Power BI
4 2 (1.39%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.69%) Big Data
5 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.69%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.69%) Power Query
5 1 (0.69%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (1.39%) HP UFT
1 2 (1.39%) LoadRunner
2 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.69%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.69%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.69%) Fiddler
2 1 (0.69%) Git
2 1 (0.69%) GitLab
2 1 (0.69%) Subversion
General
1 43 (29.86%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.28%) Finance
3 10 (6.94%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (5.56%) Telecoms
6 7 (4.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.17%) Marketing
7 6 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.78%) German Language
8 4 (2.78%) Retail
9 3 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.39%) Banking
11 1 (0.69%) Advertising
11 1 (0.69%) French Language
11 1 (0.69%) Legal
11 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.69%) Military
11 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Police
11 1 (0.69%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.81%) Web Services
2 9 (6.25%) SAP Basis
3 8 (5.56%) RESTful
4 7 (4.86%) HTML
5 6 (4.17%) CSS
5 6 (4.17%) SAP Fiori
6 4 (2.78%) Node.js
6 4 (2.78%) REST
7 2 (1.39%) DOM
7 2 (1.39%) Express.js
7 2 (1.39%) OAuth
7 2 (1.39%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.39%) OpenID
7 2 (1.39%) React
7 2 (1.39%) SAML
7 2 (1.39%) SOAP
8 1 (0.69%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.69%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.69%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.86%) CMDB
2 5 (3.47%) EMV
2 5 (3.47%) IVR
3 2 (1.39%) Digital Media
3 2 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.69%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (0.69%) BYOD
4 1 (0.69%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.69%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.69%) EPoS
4 1 (0.69%) FMCG
4 1 (0.69%) Life Science
4 1 (0.69%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.69%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.69%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.69%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.69%) Replication
4 1 (0.69%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.86%) Windows
2 4 (2.78%) Linux
3 3 (2.08%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.39%) NetWare
5 1 (0.69%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
1 18 (12.50%) Roadmaps
2 16 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (9.03%) Migration
3 13 (9.03%) Presales
4 12 (8.33%) High Availability
4 12 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
5 11 (7.64%) DevSecOps
5 11 (7.64%) Service Management
6 10 (6.94%) Computer Science
7 9 (6.25%) Customer Requirements
7 9 (6.25%) Customer Service
8 8 (5.56%) CI/CD
8 8 (5.56%) Configuration Management
8 8 (5.56%) Conversational UI
8 8 (5.56%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (5.56%) Disaster Recovery
8 8 (5.56%) ERP
8 8 (5.56%) ITSM
8 8 (5.56%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 13 (9.03%) ABAP
2 8 (5.56%) SQL
3 7 (4.86%) JavaScript
4 4 (2.78%) Python
5 3 (2.08%) C
5 3 (2.08%) C#
5 3 (2.08%) Java
6 2 (1.39%) PHP
6 2 (1.39%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.39%) Ruby
7 1 (0.69%) Bash
7 1 (0.69%) Perl
Qualifications
1 26 (18.06%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.81%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.64%) Degree
4 8 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.08%) CISSP
7 2 (1.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.39%) CISM
8 1 (0.69%) CCIE
8 1 (0.69%) CCIE Routing and Switching
8 1 (0.69%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.25%) NIST
2 6 (4.17%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.39%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.47%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.39%) Docker
4 2 (1.39%) XenApp
5 1 (0.69%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.69%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.69%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.69%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.39%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.39%) SCCM
2 2 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.39%) Terraform
3 1 (0.69%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.69%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 27 (18.75%) SAP
2 23 (15.97%) Oracle
3 20 (13.89%) Microsoft
4 9 (6.25%) ServiceNow
5 8 (5.56%) Adobe
5 8 (5.56%) Genesys
6 7 (4.86%) VMware
7 4 (2.78%) IFS
8 3 (2.08%) Avaya
8 3 (2.08%) Citrix
8 3 (2.08%) Novell
8 3 (2.08%) OpenText
8 3 (2.08%) Workday
9 2 (1.39%) Cisco
9 2 (1.39%) Commvault
9 2 (1.39%) IBM
9 2 (1.39%) Meraki
9 2 (1.39%) Sage
10 1 (0.69%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.69%) Zscaler