Senior Technical Consultant Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Technical Consultant
UK > England

The median Senior Technical Consultant daily rate in England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 526 602
Rank change year-on-year +10 +76 +184
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Technical Consultant 6 7 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.022% 0.021% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.023% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £518 £625
25th Percentile £475 £529 £784
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £573 £884
Median % change year-on-year -12.66% -35.24% +4.00%
75th Percentile £525 £629 -
90th Percentile - £649 -
UK median daily rate £513 £573 £800
% change year-on-year -10.48% -28.44% +18.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 25,202 30,334 40,605
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 93.05% 94.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,241 19,130 28,481
10th Percentile £281 £305 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,343 1,529 1,333
10th Percentile £13.57 £14.55 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £21.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.05% +5.56% +73.08%
75th Percentile £55.00 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +63.46%

Senior Technical Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Technical Consultant in England

Senior Technical Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Technical Consultant job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Technical Consultant job vacancies in England

Senior Technical Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Technical Consultant job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Technical Consultant job vacancies in England

Senior Technical 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 Senior Technical Consultant within the England region over the 6 months to 9 September 2025. 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 +20 3 - - 11
Midlands - 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 - -
Senior Technical Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 September 2025, Senior 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 across the England region featuring Senior Technical Consultant in the job title.

1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) SaaS
2 2 (33.33%) Node.js
2 2 (33.33%) F5
2 2 (33.33%) High Availability
2 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 2 (33.33%) Network Security
2 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 2 (33.33%) WAN
2 2 (33.33%) DHCP
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) CCIE
2 2 (33.33%) CCNP
2 2 (33.33%) OpenView
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) Service Management
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) Wireless
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (33.33%) CCIE Routing and Switching
2 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (33.33%) API Design
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (33.33%) GraphQL

Senior Technical 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DHCP
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) Network Security
1 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 2 (33.33%) WAN
1 2 (33.33%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) GraphQL
1 2 (33.33%) Node.js
1 2 (33.33%) Playwright
1 2 (33.33%) Vitest
2 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (16.67%) React
2 1 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) API Design
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Coaching
2 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 2 (33.33%) High Availability
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) Observability
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Service Management
3 1 (16.67%) ITSM
3 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CCIE
1 2 (33.33%) CCIE Routing and Switching
1 2 (33.33%) CCNP
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) OpenView
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) F5
1 2 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow