Technical Consultant Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Technical Consultant
UK > Work from Home

The median Technical Consultant daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £501, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 July 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
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 270 357
Rank change year-on-year -9 +87 +148
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Consultant 38 80 95
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.37% 0.55% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.59% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 34 51
10th Percentile £413 £448 £463
25th Percentile £444 £513 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £588 £563
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +4.44% +2.27%
75th Percentile £578 £644 £649
90th Percentile £641 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.22% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £66.00
UK median hourly rate £42.82 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -30.50% +2.67% -9.09%

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 9,563 13,653 23,104
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 93.70% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,417 9,185 16,301
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £635 £650
90th Percentile £760 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 542 552
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.14 £16.98
25th Percentile £17.51 £22.50 £24.94
Median hourly rate £34.57 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.62% -14.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.31 £66.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £26.39 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.64% -12.79% +72.00%

Technical Consultant
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Technical 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 Technical Consultant.

Technical Consultant daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Technical Consultant over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Technical Consultant daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Technical 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 Technical Consultant.

Technical Consultant hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 7 July 2025, Technical 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 Technical Consultant in the job title.

1 11 (28.95%) Azure
2 9 (23.68%) Security Cleared
2 9 (23.68%) Microsoft
3 8 (21.05%) Finance
3 8 (21.05%) Migration
3 8 (21.05%) Agile
4 7 (18.42%) SQL
4 7 (18.42%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (18.42%) Social Skills
5 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (15.79%) SAP
5 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (13.16%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (13.16%) Oracle
6 5 (13.16%) SC Cleared
7 4 (10.53%) Presales
7 4 (10.53%) IT Strategy
7 4 (10.53%) Accessibility
7 4 (10.53%) Public Sector
7 4 (10.53%) Project Delivery
7 4 (10.53%) CI/CD
7 4 (10.53%) Roadmaps
7 4 (10.53%) Middleware
7 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (10.53%) AWS
8 3 (7.89%) PowerShell
8 3 (7.89%) Waterfall
8 3 (7.89%) Performance Management
8 3 (7.89%) OWASP
8 3 (7.89%) Oracle Fusion

Technical 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 2 (5.26%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (7.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (5.26%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (5.26%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (2.63%) PeopleSoft Financials
3 1 (2.63%) SAP MDG
3 1 (2.63%) SAP MM
3 1 (2.63%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (2.63%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.95%) Azure
2 7 (18.42%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (10.53%) AWS
4 3 (7.89%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (7.89%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.26%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.26%) GCP
5 2 (5.26%) Power Automate
5 2 (5.26%) PowerApps
5 2 (5.26%) Yammer
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.63%) Google Gemini
6 1 (2.63%) Salsify
6 1 (2.63%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) BGP
1 1 (2.63%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (2.63%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (2.63%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 2 (5.26%) SAP BW
1 2 (5.26%) SAP HANA
2 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.63%) Power BI
2 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Artifactory
1 1 (2.63%) GitLab
General
1 8 (21.05%) Finance
2 7 (18.42%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.89%) Banking
5 2 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Back Office
6 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.63%) General Ledger
6 1 (2.63%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.63%) Legal
6 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.63%) Marketing
6 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) Middleware
2 3 (7.89%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (5.26%) CSS
3 2 (5.26%) HTML
3 2 (5.26%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (2.63%) LangChain
4 1 (2.63%) LangGraph
4 1 (2.63%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (2.63%) SAP Basis
4 1 (2.63%) SAP PI
4 1 (2.63%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.63%) FMCG
2 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.63%) Reinsurance
2 1 (2.63%) Replication
2 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Linux
1 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.63%) Windows
1 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (21.05%) Agile
1 8 (21.05%) Migration
2 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (13.16%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (10.53%) CI/CD
4 4 (10.53%) IT Strategy
4 4 (10.53%) Presales
4 4 (10.53%) Project Delivery
4 4 (10.53%) Roadmaps
4 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (7.89%) Application Security
5 3 (7.89%) Cloud Security
5 3 (7.89%) DevOps
5 3 (7.89%) DevSecOps
5 3 (7.89%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 3 (7.89%) Static Application Security Testing
5 3 (7.89%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
5 3 (7.89%) Threat Modelling
5 3 (7.89%) Vulnerability Management
5 3 (7.89%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.42%) SQL
2 3 (7.89%) JavaScript
2 3 (7.89%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.26%) Java
3 2 (5.26%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.63%) Apex Code
4 1 (2.63%) C#
4 1 (2.63%) PeopleCode
4 1 (2.63%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (23.68%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (13.16%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) CCIE
4 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) Accessibility
2 3 (7.89%) NIST
3 2 (5.26%) Basel III
3 2 (5.26%) IFRS
3 2 (5.26%) IFRS 17
3 2 (5.26%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) FortiGate
1 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (23.68%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.79%) SAP
3 5 (13.16%) Oracle
4 3 (7.89%) ServiceNow
5 2 (5.26%) Cisco
6 1 (2.63%) Ariba
6 1 (2.63%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.63%) Google
6 1 (2.63%) JDA
6 1 (2.63%) Meraki
6 1 (2.63%) NetIQ
6 1 (2.63%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.63%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (2.63%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.63%) RedPrairie
6 1 (2.63%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.63%) SimCorp