Technical Consultant Contracts in England

Technical Consultant
UK > England

The median Technical Consultant daily rate in England is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 431 543 580
Rank change year-on-year +112 +37 -121
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Consultant 111 108 209
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.22% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.23% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 69 119
10th Percentile £450 £425 £412
25th Percentile £506 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £613
90th Percentile £825 £710 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £60.64 - -
25th Percentile - - £65.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% -14.29% +13.82%
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year +2.67% -9.09% +5.60%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,086 46,552 67,167
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,604 33,063 47,842
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,372 1,853
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.06 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.88% +91.54% +3.00%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.76
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.55
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%

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 12 May 2024.

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 12 May 2024. 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 +94 57 £613 +16.67% 33
South East +28 18 £483 -13.26% 19
East of England +14 10 £600 +9.09% 2
South West +12 7 £520 -11.86% 12
North of England +23 6 £550 +10.00% 14
Yorkshire +24 5 £550 +8.64% 3
Midlands +20 5 £513 -25.45% 14
West Midlands +11 4 £513 -25.45% 8
North West +19 1 £525 +5.00% 11
East Midlands - 1 - - 6
Technical Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, 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 41 (36.94%) Social Skills
2 29 (26.13%) SAP
3 25 (22.52%) Security Cleared
4 18 (16.22%) Azure
4 18 (16.22%) SAP HANA
4 18 (16.22%) SAP S/4HANA
5 17 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (13.51%) SC Cleared
6 15 (13.51%) Finance
6 15 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
6 15 (13.51%) Oracle
7 14 (12.61%) Web Services
8 13 (11.71%) ABAP
9 12 (10.81%) SAP Basis
10 11 (9.91%) Migration
10 11 (9.91%) Service Management
10 11 (9.91%) Microsoft
10 11 (9.91%) AWS
10 11 (9.91%) High Availability
10 11 (9.91%) Public Sector
11 10 (9.01%) Roadmaps
11 10 (9.01%) Oracle Database
11 10 (9.01%) Performance Tuning
11 10 (9.01%) GCP
12 9 (8.11%) Disaster Recovery
12 9 (8.11%) DevSecOps
12 9 (8.11%) Customer Requirements
12 9 (8.11%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (8.11%) Presales
13 8 (7.21%) NIST

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 4 (3.60%) CMS
2 2 (1.80%) GroupWise
2 2 (1.80%) IIS
3 1 (0.90%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.90%) IBM Domino
3 1 (0.90%) IBM Notes
3 1 (0.90%) JBoss
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.90%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.90%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 18 (16.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (5.41%) SAP EWM
3 4 (3.60%) SAP SD
4 2 (1.80%) SAP MDG
4 2 (1.80%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (1.80%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.90%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.90%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.90%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.90%) PeopleSoft Financials
5 1 (0.90%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.90%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 18 (16.22%) Azure
2 11 (9.91%) AWS
3 10 (9.01%) GCP
4 9 (8.11%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (4.50%) Entra ID
6 4 (3.60%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (2.70%) Azure Pipelines
7 3 (2.70%) IaaS
7 3 (2.70%) PaaS
8 2 (1.80%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.80%) OCI
9 1 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.90%) Intacct
9 1 (0.90%) Salsify
9 1 (0.90%) Serverless
9 1 (0.90%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.50%) Firewall
1 5 (4.50%) VPN
2 3 (2.70%) DNS
3 2 (1.80%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.90%) AMQP
4 1 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (0.90%) HTTP
4 1 (0.90%) NGFW
4 1 (0.90%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.90%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.90%) SSH
4 1 (0.90%) SSL
4 1 (0.90%) Wireless
4 1 (0.90%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.22%) SAP HANA
2 10 (9.01%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.80%) Power BI
4 1 (0.90%) Big Data
4 1 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.90%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.90%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (1.80%) HP UFT
1 2 (1.80%) LoadRunner
2 1 (0.90%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.90%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.90%) Git
2 1 (0.90%) Subversion
General
1 41 (36.94%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.51%) Finance
3 11 (9.91%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.21%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (5.41%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (3.60%) Marketing
7 2 (1.80%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.80%) Retail
7 2 (1.80%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.90%) Advertising
8 1 (0.90%) Banking
8 1 (0.90%) French Language
8 1 (0.90%) German Language
8 1 (0.90%) Legal
8 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.90%) Military
8 1 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.90%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.61%) Web Services
2 12 (10.81%) SAP Basis
3 7 (6.31%) SAP Fiori
4 4 (3.60%) RESTful
5 3 (2.70%) CSS
5 3 (2.70%) HTML
6 2 (1.80%) DOM
6 2 (1.80%) Express.js
6 2 (1.80%) Node.js
6 2 (1.80%) React
6 2 (1.80%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.90%) .NET
7 1 (0.90%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.90%) Kafka
7 1 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.90%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.90%) REST
7 1 (0.90%) SOAP
7 1 (0.90%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.41%) CMDB
2 5 (4.50%) EMV
3 2 (1.80%) Digital Media
3 2 (1.80%) IVR
4 1 (0.90%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (0.90%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.90%) EPoS
4 1 (0.90%) FMCG
4 1 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.90%) iPad
4 1 (0.90%) Life Science
4 1 (0.90%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.90%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.90%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.90%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.50%) Windows
2 3 (2.70%) Linux
3 2 (1.80%) NetWare
4 1 (0.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (9.91%) High Availability
3 11 (9.91%) Migration
3 11 (9.91%) Service Management
4 10 (9.01%) Performance Tuning
4 10 (9.01%) Roadmaps
5 9 (8.11%) Customer Requirements
5 9 (8.11%) DevSecOps
5 9 (8.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (8.11%) Presales
6 7 (6.31%) Asset Management
6 7 (6.31%) Change Management
6 7 (6.31%) Customer Service
6 7 (6.31%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (6.31%) ERP
6 7 (6.31%) Mentoring
6 7 (6.31%) Requirements Gathering
6 7 (6.31%) Technical Architecture
7 6 (5.41%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 13 (11.71%) ABAP
2 5 (4.50%) JavaScript
3 4 (3.60%) SQL
4 3 (2.70%) C
5 2 (1.80%) Java
5 2 (1.80%) Python
6 1 (0.90%) Bash
6 1 (0.90%) C#
6 1 (0.90%) Perl
Qualifications
1 25 (22.52%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.51%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.21%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.50%) Degree
5 2 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.80%) CISM
5 2 (1.80%) CISSP
5 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.90%) CCIE
6 1 (0.90%) CCIE Routing and Switching
6 1 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.90%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (0.90%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.21%) NIST
2 6 (5.41%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.80%) QA
4 1 (0.90%) COBIT
4 1 (0.90%) COSO
4 1 (0.90%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (2.70%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (1.80%) Docker
3 1 (0.90%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.90%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (1.80%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.90%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.90%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (26.13%) SAP
2 15 (13.51%) Oracle
3 11 (9.91%) Microsoft
4 8 (7.21%) Adobe
5 6 (5.41%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.60%) IFS
7 3 (2.70%) Novell
7 3 (2.70%) Workday
8 2 (1.80%) Cisco
8 2 (1.80%) Genesys
8 2 (1.80%) IBM
8 2 (1.80%) Meraki
8 2 (1.80%) OpenText
8 2 (1.80%) Sage
8 2 (1.80%) VMware
9 1 (0.90%) Axway
9 1 (0.90%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.90%) F5
9 1 (0.90%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.90%) Splunk