Technical Consultant Contracts in England

Technical Consultant
UK > England

The median Technical Consultant daily rate in England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 June 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
28 Jun 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 433 419 530
Rank change year-on-year -14 +111 +50
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Consultant 66 126 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.34% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.36% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 52 64
10th Percentile £413 £451 £446
25th Percentile £430 £500 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £591 £646 £694
90th Percentile £672 £818 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +1.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 2
10th Percentile - £59.62 -
25th Percentile £41.60 - -
Median hourly rate £42.82 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.50% +2.67% -9.09%
75th Percentile £44.03 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £42.82 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -30.50% +2.67% -9.09%

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 23,430 34,648 44,562
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.87% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,353 22,650 31,596
10th Percentile £293 £295 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,078 2,591 1,341
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.65 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.55 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% -10.11% +76.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.54 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £37.50 £43.81
% change year-on-year -28.00% -14.39% +71.78%

Technical Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Consultant in England

Technical Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Consultant in England

Technical Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Consultant in England over the 6 months to 28 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Consultant in England

Technical Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Consultant in England

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 Technical Consultant within the England region over the 6 months to 28 June 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 +37 39 £500 -16.67% 60
North of England +6 8 £450 -18.18% 31
Midlands +5 7 £550 +0.05% 17
Yorkshire +1 5 £400 -27.27% 9
West Midlands -1 5 £501 -9.00% 10
South West +35 4 £525 -2.78% 14
South East +21 4 £475 -0.52% 27
North West +13 3 £450 -14.29% 19
East Midlands +6 2 £600 - 7
East of England +25 1 £525 +5.00% 5
Technical Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 June 2025, 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 Technical Consultant in the job title.

1 24 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 16 (24.24%) SQL
3 15 (22.73%) Azure
4 14 (21.21%) Finance
5 12 (18.18%) Migration
5 12 (18.18%) Oracle
5 12 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (16.67%) SAP
6 11 (16.67%) Agile
7 10 (15.15%) Security Cleared
7 10 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (13.64%) ServiceNow
9 8 (12.12%) Banking
9 8 (12.12%) CRM
9 8 (12.12%) Data Modelling
9 8 (12.12%) Microsoft
9 8 (12.12%) SAP S/4HANA
10 7 (10.61%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (10.61%) ETL
10 7 (10.61%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (10.61%) Dynamics CRM
10 7 (10.61%) ITSM
10 7 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (10.61%) SC Cleared
11 6 (9.09%) AWS
11 6 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (9.09%) Oracle EBS
11 6 (9.09%) ITIL
11 6 (9.09%) Project Delivery
11 6 (9.09%) IFRS

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.03%) Oracle Self-Service HR
1 2 (3.03%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (12.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (10.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (9.09%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (6.06%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (4.55%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (4.55%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (3.03%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (3.03%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (3.03%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (3.03%) Oracle Internet Expenses
6 2 (3.03%) Oracle iProcurement
6 2 (3.03%) Oracle Payroll
6 2 (3.03%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (1.52%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (1.52%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (1.52%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (1.52%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (1.52%) SAP MDG
7 1 (1.52%) SAP MM
7 1 (1.52%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 15 (22.73%) Azure
2 7 (10.61%) Dynamics 365
3 6 (9.09%) AWS
3 6 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.06%) GCP
5 3 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (4.55%) OCI
6 2 (3.03%) Azure Functions
6 2 (3.03%) Power Automate
6 2 (3.03%) PowerApps
6 2 (3.03%) SaaS
6 2 (3.03%) Serverless
7 1 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.52%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.52%) GitHub
7 1 (1.52%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.52%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 1 (1.52%) Salsify
7 1 (1.52%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.06%) Firewall
2 3 (4.55%) Network Security
3 2 (3.03%) DHCP
3 2 (3.03%) DNS
3 2 (3.03%) SD-WAN
3 2 (3.03%) WAN
3 2 (3.03%) Wireless
4 1 (1.52%) BGP
4 1 (1.52%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.52%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (1.52%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.52%) Internet
4 1 (1.52%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.06%) Power BI
1 4 (6.06%) SAP BW
1 4 (6.06%) SAP HANA
1 4 (6.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (4.55%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 3 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (3.03%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Artifactory
1 2 (3.03%) Cucumber
1 2 (3.03%) Git
1 2 (3.03%) GitLab
1 2 (3.03%) Oracle Forms
1 2 (3.03%) Postman
1 2 (3.03%) SoapUI
2 1 (1.52%) JIRA
2 1 (1.52%) Subversion
General
1 24 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 14 (21.21%) Finance
3 8 (12.12%) Banking
4 7 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.58%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (6.06%) General Ledger
6 4 (6.06%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.55%) Legal
7 3 (4.55%) Marketing
8 2 (3.03%) Back Office
8 2 (3.03%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.52%) Billing
9 1 (1.52%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.52%) Retail
9 1 (1.52%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.58%) Middleware
2 4 (6.06%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (6.06%) SAP Fiori
3 3 (4.55%) CSS
3 3 (4.55%) HTML
4 2 (3.03%) Playwright
4 2 (3.03%) REST
4 2 (3.03%) SOAP
5 1 (1.52%) .NET
5 1 (1.52%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.52%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.52%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (1.52%) Node.js
5 1 (1.52%) React
5 1 (1.52%) SAP PI
5 1 (1.52%) Visualforce
5 1 (1.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (4.55%) Replication
2 2 (3.03%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.03%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.03%) Low-Code
2 2 (3.03%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.52%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.52%) FMCG
3 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.52%) Hedge funds
3 1 (1.52%) Reinsurance
3 1 (1.52%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.06%) Windows
2 2 (3.03%) Linux
2 2 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (3.03%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.52%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (18.18%) Migration
1 12 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (16.67%) Agile
3 10 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (12.12%) CRM
4 8 (12.12%) Data Modelling
5 7 (10.61%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (10.61%) ETL
5 7 (10.61%) ITSM
6 6 (9.09%) ITIL
6 6 (9.09%) Project Delivery
6 6 (9.09%) Roadmaps
7 5 (7.58%) Analytics
7 5 (7.58%) Artificial Intelligence
7 5 (7.58%) DevOps
7 5 (7.58%) Security Operations
7 5 (7.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (7.58%) Technical Architecture
7 5 (7.58%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (7.58%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (24.24%) SQL
2 4 (6.06%) JavaScript
2 4 (6.06%) PL/SQL
2 4 (6.06%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.03%) ABAP
3 2 (3.03%) Java
3 2 (3.03%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.52%) Apex Code
4 1 (1.52%) Bash
4 1 (1.52%) C#
4 1 (1.52%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.61%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.06%) CCIE
3 4 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (4.55%) Degree
5 2 (3.03%) CCIE Routing and Switching
5 2 (3.03%) CCNP
6 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.52%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.52%) CCIE Security
6 1 (1.52%) CCSE
6 1 (1.52%) CCSM
6 1 (1.52%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.09%) IFRS
1 6 (9.09%) IFRS 9
2 4 (6.06%) Basel III
3 3 (4.55%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.55%) IFRS 17
4 1 (1.52%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (4.55%) Docker
2 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.52%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.52%) IAG
2 1 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (4.55%) Terraform
2 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.03%) OpenView
3 1 (1.52%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.52%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.52%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 12 (18.18%) Oracle
2 11 (16.67%) SAP
3 9 (13.64%) ServiceNow
4 8 (12.12%) Microsoft
5 4 (6.06%) Cisco
6 3 (4.55%) F5
6 3 (4.55%) Fortinet
7 2 (3.03%) Splunk
8 1 (1.52%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.52%) Google
8 1 (1.52%) Guidewire
8 1 (1.52%) JDA
8 1 (1.52%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.52%) RedPrairie
8 1 (1.52%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.52%) VMware
8 1 (1.52%) Zscaler
180 Technical Consultant jobs Nationwide