Support Consultant Contracts in England

Support Consultant
UK > England

The median Support Consultant daily rate in England is £406, 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 472 516 624
Rank change year-on-year +44 +108 +120
Contract jobs requiring a Support Consultant 13 26 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.053% 0.070% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.075% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 16
10th Percentile £231 £318 £194
25th Percentile £285 £363 £284
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -0.13% -20.00%
75th Percentile £505 £443 £553
90th Percentile £560 £529 £588
UK median daily rate £406 £475 £515
% change year-on-year -14.47% -7.77% +4.04%

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%

Support Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Consultant in England

Support Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Support Consultant in England

Support Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Consultant in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Support Consultant in England

Support Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Consultant in England

Support 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 Support Consultant 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 +29 7 £488 +10.17% 10
South East +46 2 £225 -10.00% 2
South West +45 1 £300 -20.00% 1
Support Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Support 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 Support Consultant in the job title.

1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle
2 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Validation
3 3 (23.08%) Migration
3 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (23.08%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (23.08%) Performance Management
3 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) Windows
4 2 (15.38%) SAP
4 2 (15.38%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (15.38%) Middleware
4 2 (15.38%) Data Migration
4 2 (15.38%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (15.38%) Degree
4 2 (15.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (15.38%) Splunk
4 2 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (15.38%) Azure
4 2 (15.38%) Analytics
4 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
4 2 (15.38%) Finance
4 2 (15.38%) OCI
5 1 (7.69%) Budgeting
5 1 (7.69%) Server Management
5 1 (7.69%) Power Platform

Support 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 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (7.69%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 1 (7.69%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (7.69%) SAP CO
1 1 (7.69%) SAP FI
1 1 (7.69%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (7.69%) SAP PM
1 1 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (15.38%) OCI
2 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (7.69%) GCP
2 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) BGP
1 1 (7.69%) EIGRP
1 1 (7.69%) Ethernet
1 1 (7.69%) MPLS
1 1 (7.69%) OSPF
1 1 (7.69%) PuTTY
1 1 (7.69%) SDH
1 1 (7.69%) VoIP
1 1 (7.69%) VPN
1 1 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (7.69%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.69%) Maven
1 1 (7.69%) Toad
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Local Government
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Middleware
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Clustering
2 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.69%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Apple iOS
2 1 (7.69%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Unix
2 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (23.08%) Migration
2 3 (23.08%) Performance Management
2 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (23.08%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (23.08%) Validation
3 2 (15.38%) Analytics
3 2 (15.38%) Data Migration
3 2 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (7.69%) Build Automation
4 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
4 1 (7.69%) Client Onboarding
4 1 (7.69%) Data Enrichment
4 1 (7.69%) Fault Management
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Maintenance
4 1 (7.69%) Integration Testing
4 1 (7.69%) Server Management
4 1 (7.69%) Unit Testing
4 1 (7.69%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) Perl
2 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) DBS Check
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.69%) SAP Certification
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) SAP
2 2 (15.38%) Splunk
3 1 (7.69%) Ariba
3 1 (7.69%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (7.69%) Cognos
3 1 (7.69%) CyberArk
3 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
3 1 (7.69%) EMC
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Remedy