Support Consultant Contract Job Trends in England

Support Consultant
UK > England

The median Support Consultant daily rate in England is £300, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 524 499 557
Rank change year-on-year -25 +58 +186
Contract jobs requiring a Support Consultant 11 14 22
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.037% 0.045% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% 0.048% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 15
10th Percentile £234 £315 £378
25th Percentile £255 £318 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -11.11% +38.46%
75th Percentile £600 £563 £500
90th Percentile £615 £698 £560
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - +16.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - -

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 27,117 29,070 37,227
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.17% 92.99% 93.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,434 17,754 25,839
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £404 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,602 1,095 1,412
10th Percentile £14.09 £15.10 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% -10.81% +50.70%
75th Percentile £51.50 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -32.03% -17.32% +54.84%

Support Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Support Consultant' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Support Consultant job vacancy trend in England

Support Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Support Consultant job vacancies in England

Support Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Consultant in England over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Support Consultant in England

Support Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Support Consultant job vacancies 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 7 November 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 -5 3 £450 -17.81% 6
Midlands -22 3 £238 -26.92% 7
East Midlands - 2 £220 - 3
North of England - 2 £625 - 5
South East +3 1 - - 13
West Midlands -33 1 £255 -21.54% 3
North West - 1 £625 -
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
Support Consultant
UK

Support Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 7 November 2025, Support Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Support Consultant in the job title.

1 4 (36.36%) SAP
2 2 (18.18%) Change Management
2 2 (18.18%) ERP
2 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
2 2 (18.18%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (18.18%) SAP HCM
2 2 (18.18%) SAP Payroll
2 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (9.09%) Accounts Payable
3 1 (9.09%) Accounts Receivable
3 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 1 (9.09%) Agile
3 1 (9.09%) AOP
3 1 (9.09%) Ariba
3 1 (9.09%) Business Case
3 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (9.09%) Cash Management
3 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (9.09%) Commercial Awareness
3 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (9.09%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (9.09%) Data Governance
3 1 (9.09%) Data Management
3 1 (9.09%) Data Mapping
3 1 (9.09%) Data Modelling
3 1 (9.09%) Data Quality

Support Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) SAP HCM
1 2 (18.18%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (9.09%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (9.09%) SAP MM
2 1 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (9.09%) OCI
1 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle BI Publisher
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing
4 1 (9.09%) Aerospace
4 1 (9.09%) Automotive
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
4 1 (9.09%) General Ledger
4 1 (9.09%) Legal
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (9.09%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) EDI
1 1 (9.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Fibre Optics
1 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (9.09%) Hedge funds
1 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) Change Management
1 2 (18.18%) ERP
1 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
1 2 (18.18%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (9.09%) Agile
2 1 (9.09%) AOP
2 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (9.09%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (9.09%) Data Management
2 1 (9.09%) Data Mapping
2 1 (9.09%) Data Modelling
2 1 (9.09%) DataOps
2 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (9.09%) ETL
2 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
2 1 (9.09%) Migration
2 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
2 1 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.09%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) SAP
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) Ariba
3 1 (9.09%) JD Edwards
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Salesforce