Support Consultant Contracts

Support Consultant
UK

The median Support Consultant daily rate in the UK is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 April 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
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 549 674 821
Rank change year-on-year +125 +147 -180
Contract jobs requiring a Support Consultant 40 46 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.091% 0.075% 0.053%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.098% 0.079% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 25 32
10th Percentile £363 £216 £314
25th Percentile £400 £313 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +14.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £494 £590 £541
90th Percentile £563 £600 £612
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £363 £375
% change year-on-year +24.14% -3.33% +9.09%

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 40,676 58,105 85,846
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.57% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,585 40,497 60,269
10th Percentile £275 £308 £313
25th Percentile £408 £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 £745 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,604 1,648 2,131
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.06 £15.37
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.33 £75.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -17.38% +117.26% +2.63%

Support Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Consultant in the UK

Support Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Support Consultant in the UK

Support Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Consultant over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Support Consultant in the UK

Support Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Consultant in the UK

Support Consultant
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Support Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 16 April 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 +118 28 £400 -0.06% 30
Work from Home +122 21 £450 -18.18% 19
London +113 16 £443 -1.67% 11
UK excluding London +64 16 £450 +24.14% 23
Scotland +44 6 £475 - 4
North of England +37 3 - - 7
North West +35 3 - - 4
South East +23 3 £338 -10.00% 3
South West - 2 £375 -
East of England - 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, Support 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 Support Consultant in the job title.

1 17 (42.50%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.00%) SQL
2 10 (25.00%) Oracle
3 9 (22.50%) Windows
4 7 (17.50%) Siemens
4 7 (17.50%) Finance
4 7 (17.50%) Teamcenter
5 6 (15.00%) SAP
5 6 (15.00%) Unix
6 5 (12.50%) Linux
6 5 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (10.00%) Virtual Team
7 4 (10.00%) DevOps
7 4 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (10.00%) Azure
7 4 (10.00%) EMV
7 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
8 3 (7.50%) E-Commerce
8 3 (7.50%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
8 3 (7.50%) Project Management
8 3 (7.50%) SAP EWM
8 3 (7.50%) Oracle Database
8 3 (7.50%) Tandem
8 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
8 3 (7.50%) DV Cleared
8 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
8 3 (7.50%) Server Management
8 3 (7.50%) Legacy Systems

Support 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:

Business Applications
1 7 (17.50%) Teamcenter
2 3 (7.50%) SAP EWM
3 2 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (2.50%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (2.50%) Primavera
4 1 (2.50%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.00%) Azure
2 3 (7.50%) OCI
2 3 (7.50%) Oracle Service Cloud
3 2 (5.00%) AWS
3 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (5.00%) Power Automate
3 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.50%) PowerApps
4 1 (2.50%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) Oracle Database
1 3 (7.50%) Oracle Reports
1 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.00%) DB2
3 1 (2.50%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.50%) MariaDB
3 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.50%) MySQL
3 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.50%) Power BI
3 1 (2.50%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 17 (42.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Finance
3 4 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Banking
4 2 (5.00%) German Language
5 1 (2.50%) Arabic Language
5 1 (2.50%) Billing
5 1 (2.50%) French Language
5 1 (2.50%) General Ledger
5 1 (2.50%) Japanese Language
5 1 (2.50%) Korean Language
5 1 (2.50%) Marketing
5 1 (2.50%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.50%) SAP Basis
2 1 (2.50%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) EMV
1 4 (10.00%) Virtual Team
2 3 (7.50%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (7.50%) Onboarding
2 3 (7.50%) Tandem
3 2 (5.00%) Credit Derivative
3 2 (5.00%) Derivative
3 2 (5.00%) Equities
3 2 (5.00%) Fixed Income
3 2 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.50%) BYOD
4 1 (2.50%) Clustering
4 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.50%) Fat Client
4 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.50%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 9 (22.50%) Windows
2 6 (15.00%) Unix
3 5 (12.50%) Linux
4 3 (7.50%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.50%) OS/390
5 1 (2.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (10.00%) DevOps
2 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (7.50%) Customer Service
3 3 (7.50%) E-Commerce
3 3 (7.50%) Project Management
3 3 (7.50%) Server Management
3 3 (7.50%) Virtual Environments
4 2 (5.00%) Agile
4 2 (5.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (5.00%) Capacity Management
4 2 (5.00%) Change Advisory Board
4 2 (5.00%) CRM
4 2 (5.00%) Customer Experience
4 2 (5.00%) PLM
4 2 (5.00%) Protective Monitoring
4 2 (5.00%) Quality Management
4 2 (5.00%) Security Hardening
4 2 (5.00%) Security Operations
5 1 (2.50%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.50%) Perl
2 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
2 1 (2.50%) Python
2 1 (2.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (7.50%) DV Cleared
1 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.50%) Degree
3 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) RMADS
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) SCCM
1 2 (5.00%) SCOM
1 2 (5.00%) SCVMM
2 1 (2.50%) Ansible
2 1 (2.50%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 10 (25.00%) Oracle
2 7 (17.50%) Siemens
3 6 (15.00%) SAP
4 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.00%) VMware
6 1 (2.50%) Ariba
6 1 (2.50%) Citrix
6 1 (2.50%) HP
6 1 (2.50%) IBM
6 1 (2.50%) Informatica
6 1 (2.50%) JD Edwards
6 1 (2.50%) NEC
6 1 (2.50%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.50%) Sybase