Support Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Support Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Support Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £263, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 336 384 438
Rank change year-on-year +48 +54 +56
Contract jobs requiring a Support Consultant 3 15 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.072% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.078% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 6
10th Percentile £221 £318 £168
25th Percentile £234 £363 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £475 £363
Median % change year-on-year -44.74% +31.03% -27.50%
75th Percentile £284 £488 £428
90th Percentile £294 £498 £556
UK median daily rate £406 £475 £515
% change year-on-year -14.47% -7.77% +3.52%

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 11,790 19,217 22,597
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.60% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,554 11,733 15,842
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £599 £598
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,245 1,162
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.50 £42.43
Median % change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%

Support Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Consultant in the UK excluding London

Support Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Support Consultant in the UK excluding London

Support Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Consultant in the UK excluding London

Support 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 Support Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South East +46 2 £225 -10.00% 2
South West +42 1 £300 -20.00% 1
Support Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Support 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 Support Consultant in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 1 (33.33%) Remedy
2 1 (33.33%) Unix
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (33.33%) Toad
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Maven
2 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Build Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) CyberArk
2 1 (33.33%) PuTTY
2 1 (33.33%) WinSCP
2 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace

Support 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (33.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) PuTTY
1 1 (33.33%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
1 1 (33.33%) Toad
General
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Build Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Client Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) CRM
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Maintenance
1 1 (33.33%) ITSM
1 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
1 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Validation
1 1 (33.33%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (33.33%) CyberArk
2 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (33.33%) Remedy
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk