Technical Consultant Contracts in the South West

Technical Consultant
England > South West

The median Technical Consultant daily rate in the South West is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 148 149 162
Rank change year-on-year +1 +13 -23
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Consultant 9 10 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.27% 0.30% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.32% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 2
10th Percentile £448 £431 £296
25th Percentile £481 £463 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £558 £431
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% +29.28% +13.11%
75th Percentile £540 £635 £516
90th Percentile - £731 £566
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
England median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 £68.00
% change year-on-year +2.67% -11.76% +10.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 3,056 3,142 3,474
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 92.74% 95.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,896 2,308 2,517
10th Percentile £216 £284 £225
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £620 £644 £600
90th Percentile £700 £721 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 252 212
10th Percentile £13.85 £17.70 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £48.68 £18.49
Median hourly rate £55.00 £63.23 £47.64
Median % change year-on-year -13.02% +32.74% +10.78%
75th Percentile £71.25 £75.13 £63.60
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.40 £68.29
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Technical Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Consultant in the South West

Technical Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Consultant in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Technical Consultant in the South West

Technical Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Consultant in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Consultant in the South West

Technical Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 16 June 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
Gloucestershire +3 3 £540 -12.90% 4
Devon - 3 - - 4
Bristol - 2 - - 3
Wiltshire -9 1 £500 -35.48% 8
Technical Consultant
England

Technical Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 16 June 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 South West region featuring Technical Consultant in the job title.

1 4 (44.44%) Azure
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Entra ID
2 3 (33.33%) IaaS
2 3 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 3 (33.33%) Azure Pipelines
2 3 (33.33%) PaaS
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) VPN
2 3 (33.33%) DNS
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
3 2 (22.22%) Software AG
3 2 (22.22%) HP UFT
3 2 (22.22%) LoadRunner
3 2 (22.22%) zOS
3 2 (22.22%) Natural
3 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
3 2 (22.22%) Service Management
3 2 (22.22%) CMS
3 2 (22.22%) Asset Management
3 2 (22.22%) Adabas
3 2 (22.22%) OpenText
3 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
3 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (22.22%) Social Skills

Technical Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (22.22%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
1 4 (44.44%) Entra ID
2 3 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 3 (33.33%) Azure Pipelines
2 3 (33.33%) IaaS
2 3 (33.33%) PaaS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (11.11%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) DNS
1 3 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) HP UFT
1 2 (22.22%) LoadRunner
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) SailPoint
1 1 (11.11%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (22.22%) Asset Management
2 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
2 2 (22.22%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (22.22%) Service Management
2 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
2 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
3 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps
3 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
3 1 (11.11%) Security Hardening
3 1 (11.11%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Natural
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) CISM
3 1 (11.11%) CISSP
3 1 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (11.11%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) COBIT
1 1 (11.11%) COSO
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
1 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) OpenText
1 2 (22.22%) Software AG
2 1 (11.11%) CyberArk
2 1 (11.11%) Sage
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk