Implementation Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Implementation Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Implementation Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 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
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 380 436
Rank change year-on-year +50 +56 +55
Contract jobs requiring an Implementation Consultant 12 11 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.094% 0.054% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.059% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 6
10th Percentile £414 £441 £350
25th Percentile £491 £479 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £566
90th Percentile £541 - £594
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.68% -4.35% +4.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,683 18,741 21,586
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.78% 92.50% 94.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,462 11,456 15,029
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £598
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.33% -2.82% +2.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 812 2,282 1,102
10th Percentile £13.87 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.72 £18.04
Median hourly rate £26.42 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.96% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% -18.89% +88.21%

Implementation Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Implementation Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Implementation Consultant in the UK excluding London

Implementation Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Implementation Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Implementation Consultant in the UK excluding London

Implementation Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Implementation Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Implementation Consultant in the UK excluding London

Implementation Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Implementation Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Implementation Consultant in the UK excluding London

Implementation Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Implementation Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
North of England +20 6 £525 - 108
Yorkshire +18 4 £525 - 46
South East +52 3 £475 -5.00% 126
Midlands +17 3 £500 +16.28% 104
West Midlands +14 2 £500 - 56
North East - 2 £425 - 13
East Midlands +9 1 - - 41
Implementation Consultant
UK

Implementation Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 23 May 2025, Implementation 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 UK excluding London region featuring Implementation Consultant in the job title.

1 4 (33.33%) CMDB
1 4 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 4 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Migration
3 2 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (16.67%) SAP
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco
3 2 (16.67%) Firewall
3 2 (16.67%) Wireless
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (8.33%) Validation
4 1 (8.33%) IPsec
4 1 (8.33%) Workflow
4 1 (8.33%) Identity Management
4 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (8.33%) Service Management
4 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (8.33%) Data Migration
4 1 (8.33%) Infor
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (8.33%) Azure
4 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (8.33%) Unified Communications
4 1 (8.33%) F5
4 1 (8.33%) High Availability
4 1 (8.33%) SAP HANA
4 1 (8.33%) Protective Monitoring

Implementation Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Infor LN
1 1 (8.33%) PeopleSoft Financials
1 1 (8.33%) PeopleSoft HCM
1 1 (8.33%) SAP CO
1 1 (8.33%) SAP FI
1 1 (8.33%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (8.33%) SAP PP
1 1 (8.33%) SAP PS
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
1 2 (16.67%) Wireless
2 1 (8.33%) BGP
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (8.33%) IPsec
2 1 (8.33%) LAN
2 1 (8.33%) MPLS
2 1 (8.33%) OSPF
2 1 (8.33%) SSL
2 1 (8.33%) Unified Communications
2 1 (8.33%) VPN
2 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
1 1 (8.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) CMDB
2 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (16.67%) Migration
3 2 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (8.33%) Business Case
4 1 (8.33%) Business Continuity
4 1 (8.33%) Data Migration
4 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (8.33%) ERP
4 1 (8.33%) High Availability
4 1 (8.33%) Identity Management
4 1 (8.33%) Incident Management
4 1 (8.33%) Information Management
4 1 (8.33%) Information Security
4 1 (8.33%) Load Balancing
4 1 (8.33%) Network Design
4 1 (8.33%) Service Management
4 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (8.33%) Validation
4 1 (8.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) PeopleCode
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) CCIE
1 1 (8.33%) CCIE Wireless
1 1 (8.33%) CCNP
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (8.33%) SAP Certification
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco
2 2 (16.67%) SAP
3 1 (8.33%) F5
3 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
3 1 (8.33%) Infor
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto
3 1 (8.33%) PeopleSoft