Implementation Consultant Contracts

Implementation Consultant
UK

The median Implementation Consultant daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 July 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
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 497 650
Rank change year-on-year -5 +153 +182
Contract jobs requiring an Implementation Consultant 48 77 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.18% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.19% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 30 18
10th Percentile £425 £409 £409
25th Percentile £481 £468 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +2.22%
75th Percentile £623 £660 £675
90th Percentile £755 £875 £794
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 29,261 40,308 53,403
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.00% 92.99% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,659 25,937 37,084
10th Percentile £287 £285 £313
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,318 2,814 1,558
10th Percentile £13.75 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.65 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £38.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.47% -10.47% +70.13%
75th Percentile £55.25 £63.31 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.90 £74.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £39.55
% change year-on-year -37.13% +1.14% +96.47%

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 5 July 2025.

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 16 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 5 July 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
England +30 37 £546 -0.82% 183
UK excluding London +47 27 £525 -4.55% 112
Work from Home +18 21 £488 -3.47% 118
North of England +7 12 £525 - 45
London +19 11 £615 +11.82% 75
Midlands +12 8 £500 +16.28% 24
Yorkshire +8 5 £525 - 12
East Midlands +6 5 £550 +27.91% 12
North West 0 5 £800 - 30
West Midlands - 3 £500 - 12
South East +34 2 £475 -5.00% 22
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
North East - 2 £425 - 4
South West +32 1 - - 4
Scotland +3 1 - - 9
Wales - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 5 July 2025, 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 14 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.83%) SAP
2 10 (20.83%) SC Cleared
2 10 (20.83%) DV Cleared
2 10 (20.83%) Security Cleared
3 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (16.67%) Finance
4 6 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (12.50%) Project Delivery
4 6 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (12.50%) ServiceNow
5 5 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (10.42%) SaaS
5 5 (10.42%) Requirements Gathering
5 5 (10.42%) Migration
5 5 (10.42%) JavaScript
5 5 (10.42%) SQL
6 4 (8.33%) CRM
6 4 (8.33%) Configuration Management
6 4 (8.33%) Project Management
6 4 (8.33%) Management Information System
6 4 (8.33%) Workflow
6 4 (8.33%) CMDB
6 4 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (8.33%) Analytics
6 4 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (8.33%) Sprinklr
6 4 (8.33%) System Testing
7 3 (6.25%) Process Improvement
7 3 (6.25%) Resource Allocation

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 (2.08%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (2.08%) InDesign
1 1 (2.08%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (8.33%) Sprinklr
3 2 (4.17%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (2.08%) Aladdin
4 1 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (2.08%) PeopleSoft Financials
4 1 (2.08%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (2.08%) SAP EWM
4 1 (2.08%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.42%) SaaS
2 2 (4.17%) Azure
3 1 (2.08%) AWS
3 1 (2.08%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) Firewall
1 2 (4.17%) Wireless
2 1 (2.08%) BGP
2 1 (2.08%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (2.08%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (2.08%) IPsec
2 1 (2.08%) LAN
2 1 (2.08%) MPLS
2 1 (2.08%) OSPF
2 1 (2.08%) SSL
2 1 (2.08%) Unified Communications
2 1 (2.08%) VPN
2 1 (2.08%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.08%) Data Mart
1 1 (2.08%) Oracle Database
1 1 (2.08%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (4.17%) JIRA
2 1 (2.08%) Ant
2 1 (2.08%) Dreamweaver
General
1 14 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.67%) Finance
3 5 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (4.17%) Billing
6 2 (4.17%) Marketing
6 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.17%) Retail
7 1 (2.08%) Front Office
7 1 (2.08%) Law
7 1 (2.08%) Local Government
7 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.25%) HTML
1 3 (6.25%) SAP Basis
2 2 (4.17%) CSS
3 1 (2.08%) Flash
3 1 (2.08%) Middleware
3 1 (2.08%) Node.js
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.08%) SAP PI
3 1 (2.08%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.33%) CMDB
1 4 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 3 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.17%) Social Media
4 1 (2.08%) Blog
4 1 (2.08%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.08%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.08%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.08%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.08%) Linux
1 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (12.50%) Project Delivery
2 6 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (10.42%) Migration
3 5 (10.42%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (8.33%) Analytics
4 4 (8.33%) Configuration Management
4 4 (8.33%) CRM
4 4 (8.33%) Project Management
4 4 (8.33%) System Testing
4 4 (8.33%) Workflow
5 3 (6.25%) Agile
5 3 (6.25%) Customer Service
5 3 (6.25%) Process Improvement
5 3 (6.25%) Resource Allocation
5 3 (6.25%) SAP Implementation
6 2 (4.17%) Agile Project Management
6 2 (4.17%) Data Analytics
6 2 (4.17%) Data Ingestion
6 2 (4.17%) Social Media Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.42%) JavaScript
1 5 (10.42%) SQL
2 2 (4.17%) Groovy
3 1 (2.08%) ABAP
3 1 (2.08%) Bash
3 1 (2.08%) Java
3 1 (2.08%) PeopleCode
3 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.08%) Python
3 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (20.83%) DV Cleared
1 10 (20.83%) SC Cleared
1 10 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.25%) ACCA
2 3 (6.25%) CIMA
2 3 (6.25%) Degree
3 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.08%) CCIE
4 1 (2.08%) CCIE Wireless
4 1 (2.08%) CCNP
4 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.08%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.08%) Basel II
1 1 (2.08%) Basel III
1 1 (2.08%) EMIR
1 1 (2.08%) IFRS
1 1 (2.08%) MiFID
1 1 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (2.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.08%) Control-M
1 1 (2.08%) Grafana
1 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (20.83%) SAP
2 6 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.25%) Oracle
4 2 (4.17%) Avaya
4 2 (4.17%) Cisco
4 2 (4.17%) Facebook
4 2 (4.17%) Genesys
4 2 (4.17%) Instagram
4 2 (4.17%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.17%) Twitter
4 2 (4.17%) YouTube
5 1 (2.08%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.08%) Ariba
5 1 (2.08%) Charles River
5 1 (2.08%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.08%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.08%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.08%) Sage
5 1 (2.08%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.08%) Workday