Applications Consultant Contracts with Work from Home Options

Application Consultant
UK > Work from Home

The median Application Consultant daily rate in Work from Home is £540 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 443 582
Rank change year-on-year +104 +139 -107
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Consultant 6 11 30
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.041% 0.045% 0.068%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.047% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 19
10th Percentile £516 £475 £395
25th Percentile - £513 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +6.80% +8.42%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £613
90th Percentile - - £665
UK median daily rate £520 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -9.57% +9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
UK median hourly rate - - £50.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,806 23,471 42,177
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.27% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,297 16,589 30,510
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 538 592
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.44 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.33
Median hourly rate £44.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.14 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.43 £68.70
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Applications Consultant
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Applications Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Applications Consultant trend for jobs with a WFH option

Applications Consultant
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Applications Consultant.

Applications Consultant daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Applications Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Applications Consultant.

Applications Consultant hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Applications Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 18 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Applications Consultant in the job title.

1 3 (50.00%) SQL
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Application Security
2 2 (33.33%) Kanban
2 2 (33.33%) Product Backlog
2 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (33.33%) Release Management
2 2 (33.33%) Product Management
2 2 (33.33%) SaaS
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) User Experience
2 2 (33.33%) ERP
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (33.33%) Service Management
2 2 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 2 (33.33%) Finance

Applications Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Legal
2 2 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile
1 2 (33.33%) Analytics
1 2 (33.33%) Business Analysis
1 2 (33.33%) ERP
1 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kanban
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (33.33%) Product Backlog
1 2 (33.33%) Product Management
1 2 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
1 2 (33.33%) Project Management
1 2 (33.33%) Release Management
1 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
1 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 2 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 2 (33.33%) Scrum
1 2 (33.33%) Service Management
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Analysis
1 2 (33.33%) User Experience
1 2 (33.33%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) VBScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) NEC
2 1 (16.67%) Northgate
2 1 (16.67%) Remedy
2 1 (16.67%) SAP