Implementation Consultant Contracts

Implementation Consultant
UK

The median Implementation Consultant daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 538 692 834
Rank change year-on-year +154 +142 -193
Contract jobs requiring an Implementation Consultant 40 24 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.092% 0.041% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.099% 0.043% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 13 16
10th Percentile £414 £405 £431
25th Percentile £463 £425 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +21.05%
75th Percentile £659 £600 £750
90th Percentile £819 £661 £781
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -15.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £70.50 - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - -
Median hourly rate £72.50 - -
75th Percentile £73.75 - -
90th Percentile £74.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,246 55,892 84,695
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,216 39,044 59,517
10th Percentile £279 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,569 2,074
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%

Implementation Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Implementation Consultant in the UK

Implementation Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Implementation Consultant in the UK

Implementation Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Implementation Consultant over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Implementation Consultant in the UK

Implementation Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Implementation Consultant.

Hourly rate trend for Implementation Consultant in the UK

Implementation Consultant
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Implementation Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 6 May 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
England +115 24 £550 -4.35% 38
Work from Home +137 21 £525 -8.70% 11
London +116 13 £675 +12.50% 10
UK excluding London +63 11 £525 +16.67% 29
Midlands +31 4 £430 -4.44% 6
East Midlands - 3 £430 - 3
South East - 2 £500 - 9
South West - 2 £550 - 4
Scotland - 2 - - 1
North of England +25 1 - - 3
Yorkshire +21 1 - - 2
West Midlands +17 1 - - 3

Implementation Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Implementation 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 Implementation Consultant in the job title.

1 12 (30.00%) Finance
2 9 (22.50%) Banking
2 9 (22.50%) Oracle
3 8 (20.00%) Change Management
3 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (15.00%) Agile
4 6 (15.00%) Migration
5 5 (12.50%) Service Management
5 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
5 5 (12.50%) Project Management
5 5 (12.50%) Analytics
5 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (10.00%) ServiceNow
6 4 (10.00%) Data Integration
6 4 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 4 (10.00%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (10.00%) ERP
6 4 (10.00%) Data Modelling
6 4 (10.00%) Data Management
6 4 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (10.00%) Order Management
6 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (7.50%) Data Collection
7 3 (7.50%) Translating Business Requirements
7 3 (7.50%) iManage
7 3 (7.50%) Tag Management
7 3 (7.50%) Retail
7 3 (7.50%) Asset Management
7 3 (7.50%) SQL
7 3 (7.50%) SAP

Implementation 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (5.00%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (5.00%) NetSuite
2 2 (5.00%) SimCorp Dimension
3 1 (2.50%) NEC Housing
3 1 (2.50%) ResourceLink
3 1 (2.50%) SAP IBP
3 1 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.50%) Adobe Analytics
1 3 (7.50%) Google Analytics
2 2 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (5.00%) GCP
2 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (5.00%) Taleo
3 1 (2.50%) AWS
3 1 (2.50%) Azure
3 1 (2.50%) Google Tag Manager
3 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (5.00%) Looker
1 2 (5.00%) Power BI
1 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (5.00%) Tableau
2 1 (2.50%) Couchbase
2 1 (2.50%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Postman
General
1 12 (30.00%) Finance
2 9 (22.50%) Banking
3 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.50%) Retail
6 2 (5.00%) Law
6 2 (5.00%) Marketing
7 1 (2.50%) Advertising
7 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Legal
7 1 (2.50%) Local Government
7 1 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) HTML
2 2 (5.00%) CSS
2 2 (5.00%) jQuery
3 1 (2.50%) DOM
3 1 (2.50%) HTML5
3 1 (2.50%) JSON
3 1 (2.50%) Middleware
3 1 (2.50%) Node.js
3 1 (2.50%) Swagger
3 1 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.50%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Linux
1 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.50%) Unix
1 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (20.00%) Change Management
2 6 (15.00%) Agile
2 6 (15.00%) Migration
3 5 (12.50%) Analytics
3 5 (12.50%) Project Management
3 5 (12.50%) Service Management
4 4 (10.00%) Data Integration
4 4 (10.00%) Data Management
4 4 (10.00%) Data Modelling
4 4 (10.00%) ERP
4 4 (10.00%) Order Management
4 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (7.50%) Asset Management
5 3 (7.50%) Business Transformation
5 3 (7.50%) Data Collection
5 3 (7.50%) Tag Management
5 3 (7.50%) Translating Business Requirements
6 2 (5.00%) Coaching
6 2 (5.00%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (7.50%) SQL
3 2 (5.00%) ABAP
4 1 (2.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.50%) Degree
2 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) QA
1 2 (5.00%) SLA
2 1 (2.50%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) GxP
2 1 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 9 (22.50%) Oracle
2 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 3 (7.50%) Adobe
4 3 (7.50%) Google
4 3 (7.50%) iManage
4 3 (7.50%) SAP
5 2 (5.00%) CyberArk
5 2 (5.00%) Monetate
5 2 (5.00%) Optimizely
5 2 (5.00%) Sage
5 2 (5.00%) SimCorp
5 2 (5.00%) Tealium
6 1 (2.50%) Autodesk
6 1 (2.50%) Ensighten
6 1 (2.50%) JD Edwards
6 1 (2.50%) NEC
6 1 (2.50%) Northgate
6 1 (2.50%) Omniture
6 1 (2.50%) Salesforce