Solutions Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Solution Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Solution Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 July 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
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 388 442
Rank change year-on-year +38 +54 +71
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Consultant 19 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.014% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.016% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 1 4
10th Percentile £531 - -
25th Percentile £550 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -16.00%
75th Percentile £606 - £647
90th Percentile £806 - £754
UK median daily rate £563 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -6.25% +9.09% -2.87%

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 13,550 19,206 22,112
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.94% 92.35% 94.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,375 11,558 15,190
10th Percentile £216 £213 £232
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +2.81%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,115 2,340 1,191
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.82 £13.50
25th Percentile £16.84 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% +1.14% +91.57%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.44 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £39.55 £43.00
% change year-on-year -33.00% -8.02% +67.45%

Solutions Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Consultant in the UK excluding London

Solutions Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Consultant in the UK excluding London

Solutions Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Consultant in the UK excluding London

Solutions Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Consultant in the UK excluding London

Solutions 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 Solutions Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 July 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
South East +56 15 £563 - 24
Scotland - 3 £500 - 5
South West +34 1 £600 - 9
Solutions Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 July 2025, Solutions 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 Solutions Consultant in the job title.

1 13 (68.42%) SC Cleared
1 13 (68.42%) Security Cleared
2 6 (31.58%) SCADA
2 6 (31.58%) GIS
2 6 (31.58%) Perl
2 6 (31.58%) PL/SQL
2 6 (31.58%) SQL
2 6 (31.58%) SOAP
2 6 (31.58%) Operational Technology
3 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
3 5 (26.32%) Windows
3 5 (26.32%) Linux
4 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
5 3 (15.79%) Analytical Thinking
5 3 (15.79%) Cartography
5 3 (15.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (15.79%) System Testing
5 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
5 3 (15.79%) Migration
5 3 (15.79%) Replication
6 2 (10.53%) VMware
6 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
6 2 (10.53%) Electronics
6 2 (10.53%) SAP
6 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
6 2 (10.53%) SAP APO
6 2 (10.53%) Time Management
6 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (10.53%) Business Analysis

Solutions 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 2 (10.53%) SAP APO
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) Azure
1 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.26%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Firewall
1 1 (5.26%) NAS
1 1 (5.26%) Network Security
1 1 (5.26%) SAN
1 1 (5.26%) VLAN
1 1 (5.26%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) GIS
2 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 3 (15.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Electronics
2 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Operational Technology
1 6 (31.58%) SCADA
2 3 (15.79%) Replication
3 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Linux
1 5 (26.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (15.79%) Analytical Thinking
1 3 (15.79%) Cartography
1 3 (15.79%) Migration
1 3 (15.79%) System Testing
2 2 (10.53%) Business Analysis
2 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (10.53%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (10.53%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (10.53%) Target Operating Model
2 2 (10.53%) Time Management
2 2 (10.53%) Wealth Management
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science
3 1 (5.26%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (5.26%) High Availability
3 1 (5.26%) Network Architecture
3 1 (5.26%) Performance Management
3 1 (5.26%) Presales
3 1 (5.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (5.26%) Task Automation
3 1 (5.26%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Perl
1 6 (31.58%) PL/SQL
1 6 (31.58%) SQL
2 1 (5.26%) Java
2 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (68.42%) SC Cleared
1 13 (68.42%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.26%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
1 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.26%) VMware NSX
2 1 (5.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (5.26%) Ansible
1 1 (5.26%) Automic
1 1 (5.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) SAP
2 2 (10.53%) VMware
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco
3 1 (5.26%) Dell
3 1 (5.26%) F5
3 1 (5.26%) Isilon
3 1 (5.26%) NetApp
3 1 (5.26%) Veeam