IT Consultant Contracts

IT Consultant
UK

The median IT Consultant daily rate in the UK is £538, 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 523 526 616
Rank change year-on-year +3 +90 +183
Contract jobs requiring an IT Consultant 27 48 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.085% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.092% 0.12% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 31 49
10th Percentile £406 £463 £358
25th Percentile £488 £500 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £650 £628 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £655
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +19.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £12.13 £61.00
Median hourly rate - £12.25 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year - -80.24% -
75th Percentile - £12.38 £63.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £12.25 £62.00
% change year-on-year - -80.24% -

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%

IT Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Consultant in the UK

IT Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IT Consultant in the UK

IT Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Consultant over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Consultant in the UK

IT Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Consultant in the UK

IT Consultant
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT 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 +43 27 £538 -8.51% 172
London +38 15 £529 -2.08% 70
UK excluding London +34 10 £575 -4.17% 111
Work from Home +19 8 £513 -5.09% 52
North of England +11 7 £650 +30.00% 32
North West +7 4 £675 +35.00% 19
Yorkshire - 3 £450 - 12
South East +35 1 £500 -33.33% 21
East of England +24 1 £550 - 11
West Midlands +2 1 £600 - 9
Midlands +2 1 £600 - 13

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

For the 6 months to 5 July 2025, IT 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 IT Consultant in the job title.

1 8 (29.63%) Finance
1 8 (29.63%) ITIL
2 7 (25.93%) Incident Management
3 6 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 5 (18.52%) GRC
4 5 (18.52%) Service Design
4 5 (18.52%) Azure
4 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
5 4 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (14.81%) Risk Management
5 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (14.81%) Vulnerability Management
5 4 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (14.81%) People Management
5 4 (14.81%) NIST
5 4 (14.81%) Incident Response
5 4 (14.81%) Roadmaps
6 3 (11.11%) Risk Register
6 3 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (11.11%) Degree
6 3 (11.11%) Problem Management
6 3 (11.11%) Change Management
6 3 (11.11%) Business Continuity
6 3 (11.11%) Banking
6 3 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (11.11%) BCP
7 2 (7.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (7.41%) CISSP
7 2 (7.41%) Python

IT 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 (3.70%) Apache
1 1 (3.70%) IIS
1 1 (3.70%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) AutoCAD
1 1 (3.70%) Photoshop
1 1 (3.70%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.70%) Maximo
1 1 (3.70%) SAP GRC
1 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (18.52%) Azure
2 1 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.70%) IaaS
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (3.70%) PaaS
2 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.70%) DB2
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 8 (29.63%) Finance
2 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Banking
4 2 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (7.41%) Investment Banking
4 2 (7.41%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
5 1 (3.70%) Local Government
5 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.70%) Retail
5 1 (3.70%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) .NET
1 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET
1 1 (3.70%) SOAP
1 1 (3.70%) Web Services
1 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.70%) CMDB
2 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.70%) Operational Technology
2 1 (3.70%) PKI
2 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.70%) Replication
2 1 (3.70%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
1 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) ITIL
2 7 (25.93%) Incident Management
3 5 (18.52%) Service Design
4 4 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (14.81%) Incident Response
4 4 (14.81%) People Management
4 4 (14.81%) Risk Management
4 4 (14.81%) Roadmaps
4 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (14.81%) Vulnerability Management
5 3 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (11.11%) BCP
5 3 (11.11%) Business Continuity
5 3 (11.11%) Change Management
5 3 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (11.11%) Problem Management
5 3 (11.11%) Risk Register
6 2 (7.41%) DevOps
6 2 (7.41%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.41%) Python
1 2 (7.41%) SQL
2 1 (3.70%) Java
2 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) Degree
2 2 (7.41%) CISM
2 2 (7.41%) CISSP
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (3.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
3 1 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (18.52%) GRC
3 4 (14.81%) NIST
4 2 (7.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (7.41%) SOC 2
5 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
5 1 (3.70%) GDPR
5 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (3.70%) ITGC
5 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
5 1 (3.70%) QA
5 1 (3.70%) SOC 1
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Nessus
1 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) Qualys
3 1 (3.70%) Autodesk
3 1 (3.70%) IBM
3 1 (3.70%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle
3 1 (3.70%) SAP
3 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.70%) Snow