Senior Technical Consultant Contract Job Trends

Senior Technical Consultant
UK

The median Senior Technical Consultant daily rate in the UK is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 September 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
8 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 545 553 643
Rank change year-on-year +8 +90 +204
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Technical Consultant 7 8 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.022% 0.021% 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.023% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 10
10th Percentile £479 £518 £562
25th Percentile £484 £529 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £573 £713
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% -19.65% +5.56%
75th Percentile £534 £629 £884
90th Percentile £536 £649 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £500

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 29,580 35,457 47,907
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.13% 93.04% 94.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,642 22,229 32,943
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,533 1,753 1,481
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.73 £14.54
25th Percentile £17.08 £20.74 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.90 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.71% +3.29% +63.46%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £40.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +15.45% +81.82%

Senior Technical Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Technical Consultant in the UK

Senior Technical Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Technical Consultant job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Technical Consultant job vacancies in the UK

Senior Technical Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Technical Consultant job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Technical Consultant job vacancies in the UK

Senior Technical Consultant
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Technical Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 8 September 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 +5 6 £500 -12.66% 14
Work from Home +30 4 £525 +0.96% 10
London +20 3 - - 11
UK excluding London +1 2 - - 6
Midlands - 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 - -

Senior Technical Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 8 September 2025, Senior Technical 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 Senior Technical Consultant in the job title.

1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
2 3 (42.86%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
3 2 (28.57%) WAN
3 2 (28.57%) DHCP
3 2 (28.57%) DNS
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco
3 2 (28.57%) CCIE
3 2 (28.57%) CCNP
3 2 (28.57%) OpenView
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (28.57%) Service Management
3 2 (28.57%) Firewall
3 2 (28.57%) Wireless
3 2 (28.57%) Fortinet
3 2 (28.57%) Network Security
3 2 (28.57%) SaaS
3 2 (28.57%) Node.js
3 2 (28.57%) F5
3 2 (28.57%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) Process Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 2 (28.57%) Docker
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 2 (28.57%) Coaching
3 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes

Senior Technical 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DHCP
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) Network Security
1 2 (28.57%) SD-WAN
1 2 (28.57%) WAN
1 2 (28.57%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) GraphQL
1 2 (28.57%) Node.js
1 2 (28.57%) Playwright
1 2 (28.57%) Vitest
2 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) API Design
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Coaching
3 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
3 2 (28.57%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 2 (28.57%) Observability
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (28.57%) Process Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Service Management
4 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (14.29%) Security Operations
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
2 1 (14.29%) Apex Code
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CCIE
1 2 (28.57%) CCIE Routing and Switching
1 2 (28.57%) CCNP
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) OpenView
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
1 2 (28.57%) F5
1 2 (28.57%) Fortinet
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow