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 £430, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 August 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 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 366 362 414
Rank change year-on-year -4 +52 +97
Contract jobs requiring a Support Consultant 7 9 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.046% 0.049% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.053% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 9
10th Percentile £290 £284 £275
25th Percentile £343 £334 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% - -17.07%
75th Percentile £528 £488 £438
90th Percentile £586 - £500
UK median daily rate £478 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +0.53% +11.76% -17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - -

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 13,822 17,041 21,101
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.38% 92.08% 94.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,467 10,446 14,301
10th Percentile £215 £219 £230
25th Percentile £363 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,205 1,801 1,170
10th Percentile £13.41 £13.86 £13.95
25th Percentile £16.50 £18.27 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £39.03
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +10.19% +85.83%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +65.50%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 August 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 +23 2 - - 4
North of England -7 2 £625 - 6
Midlands -9 2 £255 -
North West -3 1 £625 - 3
Scotland -5 1 £430 -9.47% 1
West Midlands -8 1 £255 -
Yorkshire - 1 - - 3
East Midlands - 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 August 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 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) SAP
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) Cash Management
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) Accounts Receivable
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) OCI
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Maintenance
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (14.29%) Verification and Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (14.29%) Build Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (14.29%) CyberArk
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Assets

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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (14.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (14.29%) SAP HCM
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) PuTTY
1 1 (14.29%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) Maven
1 1 (14.29%) Toad
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
3 1 (14.29%) Automotive
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
3 1 (14.29%) General Ledger
3 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Fibre Optics
1 1 (14.29%) Hedge funds
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Accounts Receivable
1 2 (28.57%) Cash Management
1 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (14.29%) AOP
2 1 (14.29%) Build Automation
2 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
2 1 (14.29%) Data Mapping
2 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Maintenance
2 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Validation
2 1 (14.29%) Verification and Validation
2 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) ProC
1 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
1 2 (28.57%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (14.29%) CyberArk
2 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Remedy
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk