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 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 448 540 573
Rank change year-on-year +92 +33 -137
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Consultant 134 163 275
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.28% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.30% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 91 152
10th Percentile £428 £425 £400
25th Percentile £509 £494 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £613
90th Percentile £825 £694 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £613 £525
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 7
10th Percentile £60.64 - £59.40
25th Percentile - £54.00 £63.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% -9.09% +5.60%
75th Percentile - £66.00 -
90th Percentile - £76.80 £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 39,888 54,783 83,316
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,953 38,247 58,493
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 2,674 1,534 2,048
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 10 May 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 15 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 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
England +97 111 £550 - 104
Work from Home +82 63 £550 - 60
London +94 57 £613 +15.29% 36
UK excluding London +62 49 £525 -14.29% 67
South East +30 18 £483 -13.26% 17
East of England +21 10 £600 +9.09% 2
South West +17 7 £520 -11.86% 12
North of England +33 6 £550 +10.00% 14
Yorkshire +22 5 £550 +8.64% 3
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 Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

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 featuring Technical Consultant in the job title.

1 43 (32.09%) Social Skills
2 30 (22.39%) SAP
3 28 (20.90%) Security Cleared
4 22 (16.42%) Azure
5 21 (15.67%) Oracle
6 19 (14.18%) Finance
6 19 (14.18%) SAP S/4HANA
7 18 (13.43%) SAP HANA
7 18 (13.43%) SC Cleared
8 17 (12.69%) Web Services
8 17 (12.69%) Microsoft
8 17 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (11.94%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (10.45%) Migration
11 13 (9.70%) ABAP
11 13 (9.70%) High Availability
11 13 (9.70%) Dynamics 365
12 12 (8.96%) Oracle Database
12 12 (8.96%) Roadmaps
12 12 (8.96%) SAP Basis
13 11 (8.21%) AWS
13 11 (8.21%) Service Management
13 11 (8.21%) Public Sector
14 10 (7.46%) NIST
14 10 (7.46%) DevSecOps
14 10 (7.46%) Performance Tuning
14 10 (7.46%) GCP
15 9 (6.72%) Disaster Recovery
15 9 (6.72%) Presales
15 9 (6.72%) 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 (2.99%) CMS
2 2 (1.49%) GroupWise
2 2 (1.49%) IIS
3 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.75%) IBM Domino
3 1 (0.75%) IBM Notes
3 1 (0.75%) JBoss
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.75%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (2.24%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.75%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 19 (14.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (4.48%) SAP EWM
3 5 (3.73%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (2.99%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 4 (2.99%) SAP SD
5 3 (2.24%) SAP MDG
6 2 (1.49%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (1.49%) Oracle Internet Expenses
6 2 (1.49%) Oracle iProcurement
6 2 (1.49%) Oracle iSupplier
6 2 (1.49%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (1.49%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (1.49%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (1.49%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.75%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.75%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.75%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.75%) PeopleSoft Financials
7 1 (0.75%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 22 (16.42%) Azure
2 13 (9.70%) Dynamics 365
3 11 (8.21%) AWS
4 10 (7.46%) GCP
5 7 (5.22%) Power Platform
6 5 (3.73%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.24%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (2.24%) Azure Pipelines
8 3 (2.24%) IaaS
8 3 (2.24%) PaaS
9 2 (1.49%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.49%) OCI
10 1 (0.75%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.75%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.75%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.75%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.75%) Salsify
10 1 (0.75%) Serverless
10 1 (0.75%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.48%) Firewall
2 5 (3.73%) VPN
3 3 (2.24%) DNS
4 2 (1.49%) HTTP
4 2 (1.49%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.75%) AMQP
5 1 (0.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (0.75%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.75%) NGFW
5 1 (0.75%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.75%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.75%) SSH
5 1 (0.75%) SSL
5 1 (0.75%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.75%) Wireless
5 1 (0.75%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.43%) SAP HANA
2 12 (8.96%) Oracle Database
3 3 (2.24%) Power BI
4 2 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.75%) Big Data
5 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.75%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.75%) Power Query
5 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (1.49%) HP UFT
1 2 (1.49%) LoadRunner
2 1 (0.75%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.75%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.75%) Git
2 1 (0.75%) Subversion
General
1 43 (32.09%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.18%) Finance
3 11 (8.21%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.97%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (4.48%) Marketing
5 6 (4.48%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.49%) Banking
6 2 (1.49%) Retail
6 2 (1.49%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.75%) Advertising
7 1 (0.75%) French Language
7 1 (0.75%) German Language
7 1 (0.75%) Legal
7 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.75%) Military
7 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.75%) Police
7 1 (0.75%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.69%) Web Services
2 12 (8.96%) SAP Basis
3 7 (5.22%) SAP Fiori
4 5 (3.73%) HTML
5 4 (2.99%) CSS
5 4 (2.99%) RESTful
6 2 (1.49%) DOM
6 2 (1.49%) Express.js
6 2 (1.49%) Node.js
6 2 (1.49%) React
6 2 (1.49%) REST
6 2 (1.49%) SailPoint
6 2 (1.49%) SOAP
7 1 (0.75%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.75%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.75%) EDI
7 1 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.75%) Kafka
7 1 (0.75%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.75%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.22%) CMDB
2 5 (3.73%) EMV
3 2 (1.49%) Digital Media
3 2 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.49%) IVR
4 1 (0.75%) BYOD
4 1 (0.75%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.75%) EPoS
4 1 (0.75%) iPad
4 1 (0.75%) Life Science
4 1 (0.75%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.75%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.75%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.75%) Replication
4 1 (0.75%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.75%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.22%) Windows
2 3 (2.24%) Linux
3 2 (1.49%) NetWare
3 2 (1.49%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.75%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (11.94%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (10.45%) Migration
4 13 (9.70%) High Availability
5 12 (8.96%) Roadmaps
6 11 (8.21%) Service Management
7 10 (7.46%) DevSecOps
7 10 (7.46%) Performance Tuning
8 9 (6.72%) Customer Requirements
8 9 (6.72%) Customer Service
8 9 (6.72%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (6.72%) Presales
8 9 (6.72%) Requirements Gathering
9 8 (5.97%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (5.97%) Data Modelling
9 8 (5.97%) ERP
9 8 (5.97%) ITSM
9 8 (5.97%) Technical Architecture
10 7 (5.22%) Agile
10 7 (5.22%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 13 (9.70%) ABAP
2 7 (5.22%) JavaScript
2 7 (5.22%) SQL
3 4 (2.99%) C
4 2 (1.49%) Java
4 2 (1.49%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.49%) Python
5 1 (0.75%) Bash
5 1 (0.75%) C#
5 1 (0.75%) Perl
Qualifications
1 28 (20.90%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.43%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.97%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.73%) Degree
5 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.24%) CISM
6 3 (2.24%) CISSP
7 2 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.75%) CCIE
8 1 (0.75%) CCIE Routing and Switching
8 1 (0.75%) CISA
8 1 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.75%) CRISC
8 1 (0.75%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.75%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.46%) NIST
2 6 (4.48%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.49%) QA
4 1 (0.75%) COBIT
4 1 (0.75%) COSO
4 1 (0.75%) GDPR
4 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (3.73%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.24%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.49%) Docker
3 2 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.75%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.75%) Terminal Services
4 1 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.75%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.75%) XenApp
4 1 (0.75%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.49%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.75%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.75%) SCCM
3 1 (0.75%) SysTrack
3 1 (0.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (22.39%) SAP
2 21 (15.67%) Oracle
3 17 (12.69%) Microsoft
4 9 (6.72%) ServiceNow
5 8 (5.97%) Adobe
6 5 (3.73%) VMware
7 4 (2.99%) IFS
8 3 (2.24%) Novell
8 3 (2.24%) OpenText
8 3 (2.24%) Workday
9 2 (1.49%) Cisco
9 2 (1.49%) Commvault
9 2 (1.49%) Genesys
9 2 (1.49%) IBM
9 2 (1.49%) Meraki
9 2 (1.49%) Sage
10 1 (0.75%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.75%) F5
10 1 (0.75%) Splunk
10 1 (0.75%) TSYS