Applications Consultant Contracts with Work from Home Options

Application Consultant
UK > Work from Home

The median Application Consultant daily rate in Work from Home is £540 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 464 594
Rank change year-on-year +120 +130 -131
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Consultant 4 12 28
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.026% 0.047% 0.063%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.049% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 18
10th Percentile £508 £435 £393
25th Percentile £520 £450 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £508
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +8.37% +6.84%
75th Percentile - £600 £619
90th Percentile - - £667
UK median daily rate £513 £600 £510
% change year-on-year -14.58% +17.65% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
UK median hourly rate - - £50.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,165 24,342 42,704
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.49% 95.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,495 17,179 30,870
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £718
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 559 605
10th Percentile £14.33 £17.68 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.71 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

Applications Consultant
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Applications Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Applications Consultant trend for jobs with a WFH option

Applications Consultant
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Applications Consultant.

Applications Consultant daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Applications Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Applications Consultant.

Applications Consultant hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Applications Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Applications 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Applications Consultant in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) ERP
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) NEC
2 1 (25.00%) Security Auditing
2 1 (25.00%) Data Encryption
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Key Management
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Database Security
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) NEC Housing
2 1 (25.00%) Application Discovery
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security

Applications Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (25.00%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Application Security
1 2 (50.00%) ERP
1 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Application Discovery
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Encryption
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Database Security
2 1 (25.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security
2 1 (25.00%) Key Management
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (25.00%) Security Auditing
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) VBScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) NEC
1 1 (25.00%) Northgate
1 1 (25.00%) Remedy
1 1 (25.00%) SAP