Senior Consultant Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Senior Consultant
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Consultant daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £570, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 281 422
Rank change year-on-year +12 +141 +93
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Consultant 35 64 55
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.35% 0.42% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.45% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 37 18
10th Percentile £410 £384 £497
25th Percentile £481 £489 £557
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.98% -2.08% +2.13%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £703 £690 £800
UK median daily rate £575 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -1.70% -2.51% -3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £63.36 -
UK median hourly rate £53.50 £56.89 £56.89
% change year-on-year -5.95% - +13.77%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Senior Consultant
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Senior Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Consultant trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Senior Consultant
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Senior Consultant.

Senior Consultant daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Senior Consultant over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Senior Consultant daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Senior Consultant.

Senior Consultant hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Consultant in the job title.

1 20 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 15 (42.86%) Agile
3 12 (34.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (31.43%) SAP
5 10 (28.57%) Azure
6 9 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (22.86%) SC Cleared
7 8 (22.86%) Security Cleared
8 7 (20.00%) Python
8 7 (20.00%) Finance
9 6 (17.14%) DevOps
10 5 (14.29%) Project Delivery
10 5 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
10 5 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (14.29%) SQL
10 5 (14.29%) Waterfall
11 4 (11.43%) AWS
11 4 (11.43%) Project Planning
11 4 (11.43%) Performance Testing
11 4 (11.43%) Software Testing
11 4 (11.43%) Degree
11 4 (11.43%) C#
11 4 (11.43%) Java
11 4 (11.43%) JavaScript
11 4 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
11 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
11 4 (11.43%) Manufacturing
11 4 (11.43%) JMeter
11 4 (11.43%) Change Management
11 4 (11.43%) LoadRunner

Senior 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:

Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (8.57%) SAP LE
3 1 (2.86%) SAP CS
3 1 (2.86%) SAP EWM
3 1 (2.86%) SAP GRC
3 1 (2.86%) SAP MM
3 1 (2.86%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 10 (28.57%) Azure
2 4 (11.43%) AWS
2 4 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (11.43%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.71%) SaaS
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.86%) GCP
4 1 (2.86%) IaaS
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.86%) PaaS
4 1 (2.86%) PowerApps
4 1 (2.86%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) BGP
1 2 (5.71%) Ethernet
1 2 (5.71%) Firewall
1 2 (5.71%) Internet
1 2 (5.71%) MQTT
2 1 (2.86%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (2.86%) DHCP
2 1 (2.86%) DNS
2 1 (2.86%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (2.86%) FTP
2 1 (2.86%) MPLS
2 1 (2.86%) OSPF
2 1 (2.86%) RSVP
2 1 (2.86%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) Power BI
2 2 (5.71%) Data Mining
3 1 (2.86%) Power Query
3 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) JMeter
1 4 (11.43%) LoadRunner
1 4 (11.43%) Serenity BDD
2 2 (5.71%) Git
3 1 (2.86%) JIRA
3 1 (2.86%) Subversion
General
1 20 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.00%) Finance
3 5 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (11.43%) Manufacturing
5 3 (8.57%) Aerospace
5 3 (8.57%) Banking
6 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.71%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.86%) Electronics
7 1 (2.86%) Law
7 1 (2.86%) Marketing
7 1 (2.86%) Portuguese Language
7 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.86%) Retail
7 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) EntireX
1 1 (2.86%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.71%) Cyberattack
2 2 (5.71%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 2 (5.71%) IoT
2 2 (5.71%) Life Science
2 2 (5.71%) Market Risk
2 2 (5.71%) Operational Technology
2 2 (5.71%) SCADA
3 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.86%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.86%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (42.86%) Agile
2 12 (34.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (17.14%) DevOps
5 5 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 5 (14.29%) Waterfall
6 4 (11.43%) Behavioural Change
6 4 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (11.43%) Change Management
6 4 (11.43%) Containerisation
6 4 (11.43%) Defect Management
6 4 (11.43%) DevSecOps
6 4 (11.43%) Impact Assessments
6 4 (11.43%) Microservices
6 4 (11.43%) Performance Engineering
6 4 (11.43%) Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (11.43%) Programme Delivery
6 4 (11.43%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (11.43%) Software Testing
6 4 (11.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.00%) Python
2 5 (14.29%) SQL
3 4 (11.43%) C#
3 4 (11.43%) Java
3 4 (11.43%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.86%) ABAP
4 1 (2.86%) Assembly Language
4 1 (2.86%) C
4 1 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.86%) JCL
4 1 (2.86%) Natural
4 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) SC Cleared
1 8 (22.86%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.43%) Degree
3 3 (8.57%) CISSP
3 3 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.71%) CISM
4 2 (5.71%) CRISC
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.86%) CCNP
5 1 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 2 (5.71%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (5.71%) Basel II
2 2 (5.71%) NCSC
3 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.86%) GRC
3 1 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Perfmon
2 1 (2.86%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (31.43%) SAP
2 4 (11.43%) Dynatrace
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.43%) New Relic
3 2 (5.71%) Ariba
3 2 (5.71%) IBM
3 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.86%) Cisco
4 1 (2.86%) Concur
4 1 (2.86%) Fujitsu
4 1 (2.86%) Murex
4 1 (2.86%) Nokia
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle
4 1 (2.86%) Software AG
4 1 (2.86%) webMethods