IT Consultant Contracts in England

IT Consultant
UK > England

The median IT Consultant daily rate in England is £563 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 503 601 718
Rank change year-on-year +98 +117 -167
Contract jobs requiring an IT Consultant 40 57 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.11% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.12% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 46 48
10th Percentile £250 £378 £319
25th Percentile £447 £460 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £505 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.39% +6.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £628 £563 £700
90th Percentile £728 £638 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £515 £475
% change year-on-year +4.37% +8.42% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.13 - -
Median hourly rate £12.25 - -
75th Percentile £12.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £12.25 £62.00 -
% change year-on-year -80.24% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,494 48,433 68,665
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.54% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,968 34,321 48,831
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,386 1,460 1,923
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.63 £48.20
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.00 £62.07
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -

IT Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Consultant in England

IT Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for IT Consultant in England

IT Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Consultant in England over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Consultant in England

IT Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Consultant in England

IT Consultant
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Consultant within the England region over the 6 months to 19 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
London +86 20 £510 - 10
Midlands - 11 £600 - 2
West Midlands - 9 £600 - 1
South West - 5 £250 - 3
East of England +13 2 £600 +26.32% 2
South East +9 2 £500 -16.67% 10
East Midlands - 2 - - 1
IT Consultant
UK

IT Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, IT 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 across the England region featuring IT Consultant in the job title.

1 12 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.00%) Finance
3 9 (22.50%) Law
4 8 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 8 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 8 (20.00%) Data Centre
5 6 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (15.00%) Degree
5 6 (15.00%) Azure
6 5 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (12.50%) VMware
6 5 (12.50%) Asset Management
6 5 (12.50%) Project Management
6 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (12.50%) Business Case
6 5 (12.50%) Cost Reduction
7 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (10.00%) IT Asset Management
7 4 (10.00%) ServiceNow
7 4 (10.00%) Financial Modelling
7 4 (10.00%) Hyper-V
7 4 (10.00%) CMDB
7 4 (10.00%) Process Improvement
7 4 (10.00%) Unix
7 4 (10.00%) Windows
7 4 (10.00%) Linux
7 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel

IT Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (5.00%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.00%) Azure
2 3 (7.50%) AWS
3 2 (5.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.00%) Nutanix
4 1 (2.50%) IaaS
4 1 (2.50%) PaaS
4 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (5.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (5.00%) VPN
2 2 (5.00%) VSAN
3 1 (2.50%) Internet
3 1 (2.50%) LAN
3 1 (2.50%) WAN
General
1 12 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.00%) Finance
3 9 (22.50%) Law
4 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (10.00%) Banking
6 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Legal
7 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (10.00%) CMDB
3 2 (5.00%) Credit Derivative
3 2 (5.00%) Derivative
3 2 (5.00%) Equities
3 2 (5.00%) Fixed Income
3 2 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.50%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.50%) IoT
4 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.50%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Linux
1 4 (10.00%) Unix
1 4 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (2.50%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (12.50%) Asset Management
2 5 (12.50%) Business Case
2 5 (12.50%) Cost Reduction
2 5 (12.50%) Project Management
2 5 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (10.00%) Financial Modelling
3 4 (10.00%) IT Asset Management
3 4 (10.00%) ITSM
3 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (10.00%) Process Improvement
4 3 (7.50%) Agile
4 3 (7.50%) Service Management
4 3 (7.50%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (5.00%) Capacity Management
5 2 (5.00%) Migration
5 2 (5.00%) Product Management
5 2 (5.00%) Risk Management
5 2 (5.00%) Security Hardening
5 2 (5.00%) Target Operating Model
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.00%) Bash
1 2 (5.00%) Python
1 2 (5.00%) SQL
2 1 (2.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.00%) Degree
3 4 (10.00%) ACCA
4 2 (5.00%) CCNP
4 2 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) COBIT
1 1 (2.50%) Def Stans
1 1 (2.50%) GDPR
1 1 (2.50%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (10.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.00%) KVM
3 2 (5.00%) VMware NSX
3 2 (5.00%) vSphere
4 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) SCCM
1 2 (5.00%) SCOM
1 2 (5.00%) SCVMM
2 1 (2.50%) Proxmox
2 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (12.50%) VMware
2 4 (10.00%) Oracle
2 4 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.00%) Cisco
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.50%) BMC
4 1 (2.50%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.50%) Qualys
4 1 (2.50%) SAP