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 £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 342 414 439
Rank change year-on-year +72 +25 -72
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Consultant 49 47 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.19% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.21% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 36 52
10th Percentile £455 £452 £351
25th Percentile £500 £516 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £595 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +13.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £550 £694 £585
90th Percentile £650 - £638
UK median daily rate £550 £556 £550
% change year-on-year -1.12% +1.14% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £60.48 - -
25th Percentile £61.20 - -
Median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £63.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year -2.22% -4.55% +5.60%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 19,262 22,750 29,627
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 94.10% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,825 15,940 20,711
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £391 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £594 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,216 1,193 1,496
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £15.67 £18.09 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024. 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
East of England +20 15 £500 -9.09% 2
South East +16 15 £510 -5.12% 8
North of England +32 6 £550 +10.00% 9
South West +21 6 £540 -12.90% 15
Midlands +16 6 £550 -20.00% 8
Yorkshire +30 5 £550 +8.64% 2
West Midlands +22 5 £550 -20.00% 6
Scotland +25 2 £525 -4.55% 2
North West +13 1 £525 +5.00% 6
East Midlands - 1 - - 2
Technical Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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 20 (40.82%) Social Skills
2 15 (30.61%) Security Cleared
3 9 (18.37%) Presales
3 9 (18.37%) Oracle
3 9 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (16.33%) SAP
4 8 (16.33%) Service Management
4 8 (16.33%) SAP Basis
4 8 (16.33%) Azure
5 7 (14.29%) SAP HANA
5 7 (14.29%) Degree
5 7 (14.29%) SC Cleared
5 7 (14.29%) DV Cleared
5 7 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (14.29%) Oracle Database
5 7 (14.29%) Finance
5 7 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
6 6 (12.24%) Customer Requirements
6 6 (12.24%) Chatbot
6 6 (12.24%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (12.24%) Conversational UI
6 6 (12.24%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (12.24%) Requirements Gathering
6 6 (12.24%) Customer Service
6 6 (12.24%) Roadmaps
6 6 (12.24%) Telecoms
6 6 (12.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (12.24%) Asset Management
6 6 (12.24%) Technical Architecture
6 6 (12.24%) Change Management

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.08%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (12.24%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.04%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (2.04%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 8 (16.33%) Azure
2 6 (12.24%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (10.20%) AWS
3 5 (10.20%) GCP
4 4 (8.16%) Power Platform
5 3 (6.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (6.12%) Azure Pipelines
5 3 (6.12%) Entra ID
5 3 (6.12%) IaaS
5 3 (6.12%) PaaS
6 2 (4.08%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.04%) Intacct
7 1 (2.04%) SaaS
7 1 (2.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) Firewall
1 4 (8.16%) VPN
2 3 (6.12%) DNS
3 1 (2.04%) HTTPS
3 1 (2.04%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.04%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.29%) Oracle Database
1 7 (14.29%) SAP HANA
2 3 (6.12%) Power BI
3 1 (2.04%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.04%) Power Query
3 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) HP UFT
1 2 (4.08%) LoadRunner
2 1 (2.04%) Fiddler
General
1 20 (40.82%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.29%) Finance
3 6 (12.24%) Presentation Skills
3 6 (12.24%) Telecoms
4 3 (6.12%) Marketing
4 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.08%) Retail
6 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.04%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.33%) SAP Basis
2 5 (10.20%) SAP Fiori
2 5 (10.20%) Web Services
3 4 (8.16%) RESTful
4 1 (2.04%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.16%) IVR
2 2 (4.08%) CMDB
3 1 (2.04%) BYOD
3 1 (2.04%) EPoS
3 1 (2.04%) Life Science
3 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.04%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.04%) Linux
1 1 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (18.37%) Presales
1 9 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (16.33%) Service Management
3 7 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (12.24%) Asset Management
4 6 (12.24%) Change Management
4 6 (12.24%) Computer Science
4 6 (12.24%) Configuration Management
4 6 (12.24%) Conversational UI
4 6 (12.24%) Customer Requirements
4 6 (12.24%) Customer Service
4 6 (12.24%) ERP
4 6 (12.24%) Requirements Gathering
4 6 (12.24%) Roadmaps
4 6 (12.24%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (12.24%) Technical Architecture
5 5 (10.20%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (10.20%) High Availability
5 5 (10.20%) Service Delivery
6 4 (8.16%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (30.61%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.29%) Degree
2 7 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 7 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (6.12%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (4.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.08%) SCCM
2 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (18.37%) Oracle
2 8 (16.33%) SAP
3 6 (12.24%) Genesys
4 5 (10.20%) Microsoft
5 4 (8.16%) IFS
5 4 (8.16%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.08%) Avaya
6 2 (4.08%) OpenText
6 2 (4.08%) Sage
7 1 (2.04%) Kenna
7 1 (2.04%) VMware
7 1 (2.04%) Workday
7 1 (2.04%) Zscaler