Subject Matter Expert Contracts in England

Subject Matter Expert
UK > England

The median Subject Matter Expert daily rate in England is £540, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 533 636
Rank change year-on-year +68 +103 +126
Contract jobs requiring a Subject Matter Expert 20 9 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.082% 0.024% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.026% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 8
10th Percentile £408 - £456
25th Percentile £500 £400 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +27.06% -22.73% +2.33%
75th Percentile £618 £519 £690
90th Percentile £662 £631 £739
UK median daily rate £540 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +27.06% -22.73% +7.32%

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Subject Matter Expert
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Subject Matter Expert in England

Subject Matter Expert
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Subject Matter Expert in England.

Daily rate trend for Subject Matter Expert in England

Subject Matter Expert
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Subject Matter Expert in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Subject Matter Expert in England

Subject Matter Expert
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Subject Matter Expert in England.

Hourly rate trend for Subject Matter Expert in England

Subject Matter Expert
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 Subject Matter Expert within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +42 7 £520 -5.45% 7
South East - 7 £571 - 3
North of England +20 2 £505 - 2
North West +18 2 £505 -
South West +46 1 - -
Subject Matter Expert
UK

Subject Matter Expert Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Subject Matter Expert 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 Subject Matter Expert in the job title.

1 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (25.00%) Python
2 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (20.00%) Terraform
3 4 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 4 (20.00%) Ansible
3 4 (20.00%) DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (20.00%) Legal
3 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (20.00%) Agile
4 3 (15.00%) Fault Management
4 3 (15.00%) Process Improvement
4 3 (15.00%) Radio Access Network
4 3 (15.00%) 4G
4 3 (15.00%) High Availability
4 3 (15.00%) LTE
4 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
4 3 (15.00%) Service Management
4 3 (15.00%) Firewall
4 3 (15.00%) Windows
4 3 (15.00%) Linux
4 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (15.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 3 (15.00%) 5G
4 3 (15.00%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (15.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (15.00%) 5G NR

Subject Matter Expert 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 1 (5.00%) ArcGIS
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (5.00%) Route 53
2 1 (5.00%) Serverless
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) 4G
1 3 (15.00%) 5G
1 3 (15.00%) 5G NR
1 3 (15.00%) Firewall
1 3 (15.00%) LTE
1 3 (15.00%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (10.00%) NetScaler
3 1 (5.00%) DNS
3 1 (5.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (5.00%) SAN
3 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.00%) GIS
1 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 4 (20.00%) Legal
2 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.00%) CMDB
4 1 (5.00%) CSOC
4 1 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (20.00%) Agile
2 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (20.00%) DevOps
3 3 (15.00%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (15.00%) Fault Management
3 3 (15.00%) High Availability
3 3 (15.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (15.00%) Process Improvement
3 3 (15.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 3 (15.00%) Service Management
4 2 (10.00%) Migration
4 2 (10.00%) Password Management
4 2 (10.00%) SIEM
4 2 (10.00%) Time Management
5 1 (5.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (5.00%) ITSM
5 1 (5.00%) Network Design
5 1 (5.00%) QMS
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.00%) Bash
3 1 (5.00%) Bicep
3 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Ansible
1 4 (20.00%) Terraform
2 2 (10.00%) SCCM
3 1 (5.00%) NSN NetAct
3 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.00%) Puppet
3 1 (5.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Cisco
2 2 (10.00%) Citrix
2 2 (10.00%) CyberArk
2 2 (10.00%) Ericsson
3 1 (5.00%) BMC
3 1 (5.00%) Dell
3 1 (5.00%) EMC
3 1 (5.00%) ESRI
3 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.00%) Murex
3 1 (5.00%) Nokia
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.00%) Remedy
3 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.00%) Splunk
3 1 (5.00%) Veritas
3 1 (5.00%) VMware