Hybrid/Remote Senior Technical Consultant Contract Job Trends

Senior Technical Consultant
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Technical Consultant daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 315 392
Rank change year-on-year +15 +77 +188
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Technical Consultant 9 8 7
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.090% 0.066% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.096% 0.071% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile £521 - £613
25th Percentile £534 - £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - £800
Median % change year-on-year - - +60.00%
75th Percentile £584 - £884
90th Percentile £594 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £625 £884
% change year-on-year -16.00% -29.30% +30.96%

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 remote/hybrid work 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 9,410 11,305 17,430
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.71% 93.20% 94.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,159 7,102 12,209
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £645
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 196 379
10th Percentile £14.89 £19.45 £17.11
25th Percentile £20.50 £25.42 £25.98
Median hourly rate £41.68 £42.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -16.00% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.15 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.13 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.03% -17.78% +55.71%

Senior Technical Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Technical Consultant' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Senior Technical Consultant job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Senior Technical Consultant
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Senior Technical Consultant job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Senior Technical Consultant job vacancies

Senior Technical Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 6 November 2025, Senior Technical Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Senior Technical Consultant in the job title.

1 7 (77.78%) Agile
1 7 (77.78%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (66.67%) API Design
2 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 6 (66.67%) Coaching
2 6 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 6 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 6 (66.67%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) Docker
2 6 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 6 (66.67%) GraphQL
2 6 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 6 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 6 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 6 (66.67%) Node.js
2 6 (66.67%) Observability
2 6 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 6 (66.67%) Playwright
2 6 (66.67%) Process Improvement
2 6 (66.67%) SaaS
2 6 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 6 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 6 (66.67%) Vitest
3 1 (11.11%) Apex Code
3 1 (11.11%) API Integration
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (11.11%) ITSM
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (11.11%) PLM

Senior Technical Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) GraphQL
1 6 (66.67%) Node.js
1 6 (66.67%) Playwright
1 6 (66.67%) Vitest
2 1 (11.11%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Agile
1 7 (77.78%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (66.67%) API Design
2 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 6 (66.67%) Coaching
2 6 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 6 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 6 (66.67%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 6 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 6 (66.67%) Observability
2 6 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 6 (66.67%) Process Improvement
2 6 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (11.11%) API Integration
3 1 (11.11%) ITSM
3 1 (11.11%) PLM
3 1 (11.11%) Presales
3 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (11.11%) Apex Code
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
1 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow