Software Consultant Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Software Consultant
UK > Work from Home

The median Software Consultant daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 333 468
Rank change year-on-year +37 +135 +141
Contract jobs requiring a Software Consultant 5 11 3
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.051% 0.072% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.054% 0.077% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 3
10th Percentile £390 £468 £690
25th Percentile £403 £494 £731
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £800
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -31.25% +33.33%
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile £525 - -
UK median daily rate £660 £550 £675
% change year-on-year +20.00% -18.52% +12.50%

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 9,280 14,264 24,476
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.76% 93.50% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,354 9,548 17,287
10th Percentile £338 £325 £356
25th Percentile £413 £425 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £774 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 576 563
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.34 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.13 £23.32 £25.98
Median hourly rate £35.13 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% -19.07% +94.45%

Software Consultant
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Software 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 Software Consultant.

Software Consultant daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Software Consultant over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Software Consultant daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Software 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 Software Consultant in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) IBM
2 2 (40.00%) SAP
2 2 (40.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (20.00%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) Software Asset Management
3 1 (20.00%) Electronics
3 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (20.00%) C
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (20.00%) Marketing
3 1 (20.00%) Fujitsu
3 1 (20.00%) Django
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared

Software 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Electronics
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) Django
1 1 (20.00%) EntireX
1 1 (20.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (20.00%) Kanban
2 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) Software Asset Management
2 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Assembly Language
1 1 (20.00%) C
1 1 (20.00%) JCL
1 1 (20.00%) Natural
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) IBM
2 2 (40.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) Fujitsu
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) Software AG
3 1 (20.00%) webMethods