Technology Consultant Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Technology Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technology Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £350, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 386 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Technology Consultant 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.036% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £132 - -
25th Percentile £175 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
75th Percentile £375 - -
90th Percentile £390 - -
UK median daily rate £350 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -20.79%

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 15,003 15,325 19,499
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.70% 92.10% 93.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,288 8,775 12,937
10th Percentile £208 £218 £213
25th Percentile £363 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £671 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,446 1,063 1,261
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.73 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £19.28 £18.38
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.17 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.46% -18.73% +85.42%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.71 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.39 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.74% -16.91% +57.89%

Technology Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Technology Consultant' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Technology Consultant job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Technology Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technology Consultant job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technology Consultant job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Technology Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technology Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technology Consultant in the UK excluding London

Technology Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technology Consultant job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technology Consultant job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Technology 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 Technology Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
Northern Ireland - 3 £350 -
South East - 2 £140 - 6
South West - 1 - -
Technology Consultant
UK

Technology Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 November 2025, Technology Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Technology Consultant in the job title.

1 3 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (50.00%) Brocade
1 3 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (50.00%) Change Management
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco
1 3 (50.00%) Dell
1 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (50.00%) EMC
1 3 (50.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 3 (50.00%) EMC VPLEX
1 3 (50.00%) Isilon
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 3 (50.00%) Problem Management
1 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (50.00%) SAN
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Document Management
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Information Management

Technology Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (50.00%) Change Management
1 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 3 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) Document Management
2 1 (16.67%) Information Management
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) ITSM
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (16.67%) Service Management
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 3 (50.00%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Brocade
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco
1 3 (50.00%) Dell
1 3 (50.00%) EMC
1 3 (50.00%) Isilon
1 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft