Bid Consultant Contracts

Bid Consultant
UK

The median Bid Consultant daily rate in the UK is £600, 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 519 - 710
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Bid Consultant 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% - 0.003%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% - 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £162
25th Percentile - - £164
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £195
75th Percentile - - £224
90th Percentile - - £225
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 - £195

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,138 40,367 56,304
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,714 26,265 39,350
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,034 2,668 1,565
10th Percentile £14.06 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.40
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.50 £42.43
% change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%

Bid Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Bid Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Bid Consultant in the UK

Bid Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bid Consultant.

Daily rate trend for Bid Consultant in the UK

Bid Consultant
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bid Consultant within the UK 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 - 1 £600 -
England - 1 £600 -
UK excluding London - 1 £600 -

Bid Consultant Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Bid 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 featuring Bid Consultant in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Protective Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Boundary Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 1 (100.00%) NIST 800
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable

Bid Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Boundary Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (100.00%) Protective Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable