Subject Matter Expert Contracts in London

Subject Matter Expert
England > London

The median Subject Matter Expert daily rate in London is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 386 476 612
Rank change year-on-year +90 +136 -143
Contract jobs requiring a Subject Matter Expert 7 11 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.040% 0.043% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.045% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 3
10th Percentile £508 £428 £323
25th Percentile £519 £458 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £513 £375
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% +36.67% -37.08%
75th Percentile £716 £563 £472
90th Percentile £744 £630 £523
England median daily rate £566 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +2.91% +10.00% -7.75%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,385 24,202 36,842
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.15% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,830 17,663 27,089
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 278 414
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.18 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £82.33 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%

Subject Matter Expert
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Subject Matter Expert in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Subject Matter Expert in London

Subject Matter Expert
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Subject Matter Expert in London.

Daily rate trend for Subject Matter Expert in London

Subject Matter Expert
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Subject Matter Expert in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Subject Matter Expert in London

Subject Matter Expert
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Subject Matter Expert in London.

Hourly rate trend for Subject Matter Expert in London

Subject Matter Expert Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Subject Matter Expert 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 job ads across the London region featuring Subject Matter Expert in the job title.

1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) IntelliMatch
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Docker
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) OpenID
3 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (14.29%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Replication
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) Workflow
3 1 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (14.29%) JDA
3 1 (14.29%) SAML
3 1 (14.29%) Retail
3 1 (14.29%) PKI
3 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
3 1 (14.29%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) YAML

Subject Matter Expert Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) IntelliMatch
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Reverse Proxy
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) OpenID
1 1 (14.29%) SAML
1 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) PKI
1 1 (14.29%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
2 1 (14.29%) Customer Experience
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
2 1 (14.29%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
2 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) Python
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) FIS
1 1 (14.29%) JDA
1 1 (14.29%) SAP