Principal Consultant Contracts with Work from Home Options

Principal Consultant
UK > Work from Home

The median Principal Consultant daily rate in Work from Home is £900 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 348 468 628
Rank change year-on-year +120 +160 -157
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Consultant 4 2 6
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.026% 0.008% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.008% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £735 - -
25th Percentile £788 £606 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 £613 £625
Median % change year-on-year +46.94% -2.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £1,038 £619 £638
90th Percentile £1,105 - -
UK median daily rate £630 £613 £625
% change year-on-year +2.86% -2.00% +13.64%

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 14,380 24,650 42,718
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.33% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,617 17,416 30,864
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +2.81% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 564 610
10th Percentile £14.30 £18.50 £13.10
25th Percentile £23.25 £26.19 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

Principal Consultant
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Principal Consultant trend for jobs with a WFH option

Principal 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 Principal Consultant.

Principal Consultant daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Principal Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Principal Consultant over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Principal Consultant daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Principal 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 Principal Consultant in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (50.00%) SAP
2 2 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (25.00%) SAP QM
3 1 (25.00%) Information Management
3 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (25.00%) QA
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) OWASP
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) R
3 1 (25.00%) SAP HANA
3 1 (25.00%) SAP EWM
3 1 (25.00%) Big Data
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Docker
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) RStudio
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Jupyter
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) Service Design
3 1 (25.00%) CircleCI
3 1 (25.00%) ABAP
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services

Principal 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (25.00%) SAP EWM
2 1 (25.00%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (25.00%) RStudio
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Change Management
1 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (25.00%) ERP
1 1 (25.00%) Information Management
1 1 (25.00%) Information Security
1 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (25.00%) OWASP
1 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (25.00%) Project Management
1 1 (25.00%) Quality Management
1 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (25.00%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) ABAP
1 1 (25.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Adobe