Technical Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technical Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technical Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500, 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 314 351 401
Rank change year-on-year +37 +50 +37
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Consultant 25 48 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.23% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.25% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 30 35
10th Percentile £400 £452 £442
25th Percentile £425 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £597 £550 £694
90th Percentile £688 £650 -
UK median daily rate £518 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -5.91% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Median hourly rate - £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +2.67% -
UK median hourly rate £42.82 £61.60 £63.00
% change year-on-year -30.50% -2.22% -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 11,790 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%

Technical Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Consultant in the UK excluding London

Technical Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Consultant in the UK excluding London

Technical Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Consultant in the UK excluding London

Technical Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Consultant in the UK excluding London

Technical 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 Technical 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 +37 6 £550 +7.84% 20
South West +41 4 £525 -2.78% 7
Midlands +18 4 £588 +10.59% 15
Wales - 4 £400 -
North of England +20 3 £450 -18.18% 19
North West +16 3 £450 -14.29% 10
East of England +16 2 £525 +5.00% 7
East Midlands +15 2 £600 - 8
Scotland +13 2 £450 -14.29% 2
West Midlands +13 2 £544 +2.35% 7
Technical Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Technical Consultant in the job title.

1 12 (48.00%) Azure
2 11 (44.00%) Migration
3 8 (32.00%) SQL
4 6 (24.00%) Oracle
4 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
5 5 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 5 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (20.00%) Finance
5 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (16.00%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (16.00%) Data Centre
6 4 (16.00%) Agile
6 4 (16.00%) TOGAF
6 4 (16.00%) SAP
6 4 (16.00%) Azure Certification
7 3 (12.00%) IFRS 17
7 3 (12.00%) SAP BW
7 3 (12.00%) PL/SQL
7 3 (12.00%) ERP
7 3 (12.00%) Banking
7 3 (12.00%) Validation
7 3 (12.00%) Degree
7 3 (12.00%) Data Migration
7 3 (12.00%) SAP HANA
7 3 (12.00%) AWS
7 3 (12.00%) Basel III
7 3 (12.00%) SAP Fiori
7 3 (12.00%) GCP
7 3 (12.00%) Analytics

Technical 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 3 (12.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (4.00%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 12 (48.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.00%) AWS
2 3 (12.00%) GCP
3 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) BGP
1 1 (4.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (4.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (4.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) SAP BW
1 3 (12.00%) SAP HANA
2 2 (8.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (8.00%) Git
1 2 (8.00%) Postman
1 2 (8.00%) SoapUI
2 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Finance
3 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Billing
5 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) General Ledger
5 1 (4.00%) Legal
5 1 (4.00%) Local Government
5 1 (4.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (8.00%) Playwright
3 1 (4.00%) LDAP
3 1 (4.00%) OAuth
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (4.00%) SAML
3 1 (4.00%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.00%) Low-Code
2 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (8.00%) Replication
3 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
1 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Migration
2 5 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (16.00%) Agile
3 4 (16.00%) TOGAF
4 3 (12.00%) Analytics
4 3 (12.00%) Data Migration
4 3 (12.00%) ERP
4 3 (12.00%) Validation
5 2 (8.00%) API Testing
5 2 (8.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 2 (8.00%) BDD
5 2 (8.00%) Data Analytics
5 2 (8.00%) Data Transformation
5 2 (8.00%) Data Validation
5 2 (8.00%) DevOps
5 2 (8.00%) Functional Testing
5 2 (8.00%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (8.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) SQL
2 3 (12.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Azure Certification
1 4 (16.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 3 (12.00%) Degree
3 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) CCIE
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) Basel III
1 3 (12.00%) IFRS
1 3 (12.00%) IFRS 17
1 3 (12.00%) IFRS 9
2 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Oracle
2 4 (16.00%) SAP
3 2 (8.00%) IFS
3 2 (8.00%) Splunk
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco
4 1 (4.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (4.00%) JDA
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.00%) RedPrairie