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 £475, 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 350 278 391
Rank change year-on-year -72 +113 +50
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Consultant 23 93 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.50% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.55% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 31 25
10th Percentile £378 £413 £400
25th Percentile £425 £455 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £600
90th Percentile £624 £815 £698
UK median daily rate £501 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.00% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 2
Median hourly rate - £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +2.67% -6.98%
UK median hourly rate £42.82 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -30.50% +2.67% -4.76%

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%

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 August 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 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
North of England -21 6 £425 -22.73% 12
Yorkshire -9 5 £400 -27.27% 3
South East -10 5 £475 -5.00% 22
Midlands -14 5 £638 +15.95% 4
South West +21 4 £525 +10.53% 9
West Midlands -13 4 £638 +15.95% 2
Wales +2 1 £450 -14.29% 1
East of England +1 1 £525 +31.25% 12
Scotland -7 1 £450 - 4
North West -13 1 £660 +25.71% 8
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 2 August 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 9 (39.13%) Azure
2 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
3 6 (26.09%) SQL
4 5 (21.74%) Finance
4 5 (21.74%) Migration
4 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (21.74%) Agile
5 4 (17.39%) Validation
5 4 (17.39%) Firewall
5 4 (17.39%) SAP
5 4 (17.39%) Data Modelling
5 4 (17.39%) CCIE
5 4 (17.39%) Cisco
5 4 (17.39%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (17.39%) AWS
5 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (13.04%) IFRS
6 3 (13.04%) IFRS 9
6 3 (13.04%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (13.04%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (13.04%) IFRS 17
6 3 (13.04%) Collaborative Culture
6 3 (13.04%) GCP
6 3 (13.04%) Data Centre
6 3 (13.04%) ServiceNow
6 3 (13.04%) SAP HANA
6 3 (13.04%) Basel III
6 3 (13.04%) F5
6 3 (13.04%) Microsoft 365

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 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (13.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (4.35%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) Azure
2 4 (17.39%) AWS
3 3 (13.04%) GCP
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.35%) OCI
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) Firewall
2 3 (13.04%) Network Security
3 2 (8.70%) DHCP
3 2 (8.70%) DNS
3 2 (8.70%) SD-WAN
3 2 (8.70%) WAN
3 2 (8.70%) Wireless
4 1 (4.35%) BGP
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (4.35%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) SAP BW
1 3 (13.04%) SAP HANA
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Cucumber
1 2 (8.70%) Git
1 2 (8.70%) Postman
1 2 (8.70%) SoapUI
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Finance
3 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Banking
5 2 (8.70%) General Ledger
6 1 (4.35%) Billing
6 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.35%) Legal
6 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (8.70%) Playwright
3 1 (4.35%) Middleware
3 1 (4.35%) Node.js
3 1 (4.35%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.35%) Hedge funds
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (21.74%) Agile
1 5 (21.74%) Migration
1 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (17.39%) Data Modelling
2 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (17.39%) Validation
3 3 (13.04%) Collaborative Culture
3 3 (13.04%) ETL
4 2 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (8.70%) BDD
4 2 (8.70%) CAD
4 2 (8.70%) Data Transformation
4 2 (8.70%) Functional Testing
4 2 (8.70%) High Availability
4 2 (8.70%) Identity Management
4 2 (8.70%) ITIL
4 2 (8.70%) ITSM
4 2 (8.70%) OO
4 2 (8.70%) OOP
4 2 (8.70%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) SQL
2 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
3 1 (4.35%) Bash
3 1 (4.35%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) CCIE
1 4 (17.39%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (8.70%) CCIE Routing and Switching
2 2 (8.70%) CCNP
2 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.35%) CCIE Security
3 1 (4.35%) CCSE
3 1 (4.35%) CCSM
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Basel III
1 3 (13.04%) IFRS
1 3 (13.04%) IFRS 17
1 3 (13.04%) IFRS 9
2 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) OpenView
2 1 (4.35%) FortiGate
2 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.35%) Network Intrusion Detection System
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Cisco
1 4 (17.39%) SAP
2 3 (13.04%) F5
2 3 (13.04%) Fortinet
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle
2 3 (13.04%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.35%) CheckPoint
3 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.35%) Zscaler