Technical Consultant Contracts

Technical Consultant
UK

The median Technical Consultant daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 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
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 456 437 525
Rank change year-on-year -19 +88 +76
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Consultant 87 159 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.37% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.40% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 63 87
10th Percentile £402 £430 £448
25th Percentile £425 £500 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £575 £641 £669
90th Percentile £673 £820 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 5
10th Percentile - £59.62 -
25th Percentile £41.60 - £54.00
Median hourly rate £42.82 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.50% +2.67% -9.09%
75th Percentile £44.03 - -
90th Percentile - - £63.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +2.67% -9.09%

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 29,319 40,234 53,898
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.96% 93.01% 94.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,683 25,888 37,411
10th Percentile £287 £285 £313
25th Percentile £400 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,330 2,797 1,580
10th Percentile £13.75 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.36 £16.65 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £37.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.64% -12.79% +72.00%
75th Percentile £55.25 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £74.00 £76.99
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £39.55
% change year-on-year -37.13% +1.14% +97.75%

Technical Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Consultant in the UK

Technical Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Consultant in the UK

Technical Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Consultant over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Consultant in the UK

Technical Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Consultant in the UK

Technical Consultant
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 -4 68 £500 -9.09% 167
London +22 39 £500 -16.67% 48
Work from Home -9 38 £501 -14.81% 60
UK excluding London -5 28 £475 -9.52% 130
North of England -4 8 £450 -18.18% 28
Midlands +5 7 £550 +0.05% 23
Yorkshire +1 5 £400 -27.27% 10
West Midlands -3 5 £501 -9.00% 14
South West +38 4 £525 -2.78% 19
South East +16 4 £475 -0.52% 31
Wales +6 3 £400 -23.81% 4
North West +1 3 £450 -14.29% 16
East Midlands +2 2 £600 - 9
East of England +17 1 £525 +31.25% 18
Scotland +1 1 £450 - 7

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

For the 6 months to 7 July 2025, 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 Technical Consultant in the job title.

1 28 (32.18%) Social Skills
2 23 (26.44%) Azure
3 21 (24.14%) Migration
4 20 (22.99%) Finance
5 18 (20.69%) SQL
6 17 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (16.09%) Microsoft
7 14 (16.09%) Agile
8 13 (14.94%) Security Cleared
9 12 (13.79%) Oracle
9 12 (13.79%) SAP
10 11 (12.64%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (12.64%) ServiceNow
11 10 (11.49%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (10.34%) SC Cleared
12 9 (10.34%) Banking
12 9 (10.34%) SAP S/4HANA
13 8 (9.20%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (9.20%) ITSM
13 8 (9.20%) CRM
13 8 (9.20%) Data Modelling
13 8 (9.20%) DevOps
14 7 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
14 7 (8.05%) AWS
14 7 (8.05%) Data Migration
14 7 (8.05%) Dynamics CRM
14 7 (8.05%) ETL
14 7 (8.05%) ITIL
14 7 (8.05%) Business Intelligence
14 7 (8.05%) Microsoft Certification

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.30%) Oracle Self-Service HR
1 2 (2.30%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (2.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (10.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (8.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (6.90%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (4.60%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (3.45%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (3.45%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (2.30%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (2.30%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (2.30%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (2.30%) Oracle Internet Expenses
6 2 (2.30%) Oracle iProcurement
6 2 (2.30%) Oracle Payroll
6 2 (2.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (1.15%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (1.15%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (1.15%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (1.15%) PeopleSoft Financials
7 1 (1.15%) SAP MM
7 1 (1.15%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (1.15%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 23 (26.44%) Azure
2 10 (11.49%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (9.20%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (8.05%) AWS
4 7 (8.05%) Power Platform
5 4 (4.60%) GCP
6 3 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (3.45%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.45%) OCI
6 3 (3.45%) Power Automate
6 3 (3.45%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.30%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.30%) SaaS
7 2 (2.30%) Serverless
7 2 (2.30%) Yammer
8 1 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.15%) GitHub
8 1 (1.15%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.15%) Oracle Service Cloud
8 1 (1.15%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.60%) Firewall
2 3 (3.45%) Network Security
3 2 (2.30%) DHCP
3 2 (2.30%) DNS
3 2 (2.30%) SD-WAN
3 2 (2.30%) WAN
3 2 (2.30%) Wireless
4 1 (1.15%) BGP
4 1 (1.15%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.15%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (1.15%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.15%) Internet
4 1 (1.15%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.15%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.60%) Power BI
1 4 (4.60%) SAP BW
1 4 (4.60%) SAP HANA
1 4 (4.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (3.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 3 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (2.30%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.15%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Artifactory
1 2 (2.30%) Cucumber
1 2 (2.30%) Git
1 2 (2.30%) GitLab
1 2 (2.30%) Oracle Forms
1 2 (2.30%) Postman
1 2 (2.30%) SoapUI
2 1 (1.15%) JIRA
2 1 (1.15%) Subversion
General
1 28 (32.18%) Social Skills
2 20 (22.99%) Finance
3 9 (10.34%) Banking
4 7 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.05%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (5.75%) General Ledger
5 5 (5.75%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.60%) Legal
7 3 (3.45%) Back Office
7 3 (3.45%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.45%) Marketing
8 2 (2.30%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.15%) Billing
9 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.15%) Retail
9 1 (1.15%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.75%) Middleware
2 4 (4.60%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (4.60%) SAP Fiori
3 3 (3.45%) CSS
3 3 (3.45%) HTML
4 2 (2.30%) Playwright
4 2 (2.30%) REST
4 2 (2.30%) SailPoint
4 2 (2.30%) SOAP
5 1 (1.15%) .NET
5 1 (1.15%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.15%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.15%) LangChain
5 1 (1.15%) LangGraph
5 1 (1.15%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (1.15%) Node.js
5 1 (1.15%) React
5 1 (1.15%) SAP PI
5 1 (1.15%) Visualforce
5 1 (1.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.90%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (3.45%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.45%) Replication
3 2 (2.30%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.30%) Low-Code
3 2 (2.30%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.15%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.15%) FMCG
4 1 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.15%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.15%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.60%) Windows
2 2 (2.30%) Linux
2 2 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (2.30%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (24.14%) Migration
2 17 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (16.09%) Agile
4 11 (12.64%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (9.20%) CRM
5 8 (9.20%) Data Modelling
5 8 (9.20%) DevOps
5 8 (9.20%) ITSM
6 7 (8.05%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (8.05%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (8.05%) Data Migration
6 7 (8.05%) ETL
6 7 (8.05%) ITIL
6 7 (8.05%) Project Delivery
6 7 (8.05%) Roadmaps
7 6 (6.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (6.90%) User Acceptance Testing
8 5 (5.75%) Analytics
8 5 (5.75%) Customer Engagement
8 5 (5.75%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 18 (20.69%) SQL
2 6 (6.90%) PowerShell
3 5 (5.75%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.60%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.30%) ABAP
5 2 (2.30%) C#
5 2 (2.30%) Java
5 2 (2.30%) Python
5 2 (2.30%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.15%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.15%) Bash
6 1 (1.15%) PeopleCode
Qualifications
1 13 (14.94%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (5.75%) Degree
5 4 (4.60%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.60%) CCIE
5 4 (4.60%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (3.45%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (2.30%) CCIE Routing and Switching
7 2 (2.30%) CCNP
7 2 (2.30%) CISSP
8 1 (1.15%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.15%) CCIE Security
8 1 (1.15%) CCSE
8 1 (1.15%) CCSM
8 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.15%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.90%) IFRS
1 6 (6.90%) IFRS 9
2 4 (4.60%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.60%) Basel III
3 3 (3.45%) IFRS 17
3 3 (3.45%) NIST
4 1 (1.15%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (3.45%) Active Directory
1 3 (3.45%) Docker
2 1 (1.15%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.15%) IAG
2 1 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (3.45%) Terraform
2 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.30%) OpenView
3 1 (1.15%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.15%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.15%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 14 (16.09%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.79%) Oracle
2 12 (13.79%) SAP
3 11 (12.64%) ServiceNow
4 5 (5.75%) Cisco
5 3 (3.45%) F5
5 3 (3.45%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.30%) CyberArk
6 2 (2.30%) Google
6 2 (2.30%) Splunk
7 1 (1.15%) Ariba
7 1 (1.15%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.15%) Citrix
7 1 (1.15%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.15%) JDA
7 1 (1.15%) NetIQ
7 1 (1.15%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.15%) RedPrairie
7 1 (1.15%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.15%) SimCorp