Technical Consultant Contracts in London

Technical Consultant
England > London

The median Technical Consultant daily rate in London is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 439 482
Rank change year-on-year +99 +43 -111
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Consultant 55 55 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.31% 0.21% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.22% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 30 68
10th Percentile £480 £425 £425
25th Percentile £550 £475 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £531 £575
Median % change year-on-year +12.94% -7.61% +15.00%
75th Percentile £750 £598 £613
90th Percentile £825 £800 £706
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

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 16,327 24,623 36,768
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.43% 95.18% 95.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,806 17,900 26,936
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 280 437
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.07 £22.50 £22.88
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +10.62%
75th Percentile £46.05 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.32 £80.23 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +6.38%

Technical Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Technical Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Consultant in London

Technical Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Consultant in London.

Daily rate trend for Technical Consultant in London

Technical Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Consultant in London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Consultant in London

Technical Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Consultant in London.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Consultant in London

Technical Consultant
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Consultant within the London region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +51 3 £600 +6.67% 4
West London - 1 - -
Technical Consultant
England

Technical Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, 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 job ads across the London region featuring Technical Consultant in the job title.

1 20 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 16 (29.09%) SAP
3 13 (23.64%) ABAP
4 11 (20.00%) Azure
5 9 (16.36%) SAP HANA
5 9 (16.36%) SAP S/4HANA
5 9 (16.36%) Web Services
6 8 (14.55%) Adobe
7 7 (12.73%) Finance
7 7 (12.73%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (12.73%) DevSecOps
7 7 (12.73%) NIST
7 7 (12.73%) Security Cleared
8 6 (10.91%) AWS
8 6 (10.91%) SAP EWM
8 6 (10.91%) SC Cleared
8 6 (10.91%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (10.91%) Public Sector
8 6 (10.91%) Migration
8 6 (10.91%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (10.91%) E-Commerce
9 5 (9.09%) Project Management
9 5 (9.09%) EMV
9 5 (9.09%) Roadmaps
9 5 (9.09%) DevOps
9 5 (9.09%) GCP
9 5 (9.09%) High Availability
10 4 (7.27%) Security Architecture
10 4 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity

Technical Consultant 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.64%) CMS
1 2 (3.64%) IIS
2 1 (1.82%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.82%) GroupWise
2 1 (1.82%) IBM Domino
2 1 (1.82%) IBM Notes
2 1 (1.82%) JBoss
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.82%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.82%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (16.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (10.91%) SAP EWM
3 4 (7.27%) SAP SD
4 2 (3.64%) SAP MDG
5 1 (1.82%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (1.82%) PeopleSoft Financials
5 1 (1.82%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 11 (20.00%) Azure
2 6 (10.91%) AWS
3 5 (9.09%) GCP
4 3 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.82%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.82%) OCI
6 1 (1.82%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.82%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.82%) SaaS
6 1 (1.82%) Salsify
6 1 (1.82%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.64%) Firewall
1 2 (3.64%) VPN
2 1 (1.82%) AMQP
2 1 (1.82%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.82%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (1.82%) SSH
2 1 (1.82%) SSL
2 1 (1.82%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.36%) SAP HANA
2 1 (1.82%) Big Data
2 1 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.82%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Bitbucket
1 1 (1.82%) Cypress.io
1 1 (1.82%) Git
1 1 (1.82%) Subversion
General
1 20 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.73%) Finance
3 6 (10.91%) Pharmaceutical
3 6 (10.91%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Banking
7 1 (1.82%) French Language
7 1 (1.82%) German Language
7 1 (1.82%) Legal
7 1 (1.82%) Marketing
7 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Police
7 1 (1.82%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.36%) Web Services
2 2 (3.64%) CSS
2 2 (3.64%) DOM
2 2 (3.64%) Express.js
2 2 (3.64%) HTML
2 2 (3.64%) Node.js
2 2 (3.64%) React
3 1 (1.82%) .NET
3 1 (1.82%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.82%) EDI
3 1 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.82%) JMS
3 1 (1.82%) Kafka
3 1 (1.82%) Middleware
3 1 (1.82%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.82%) REST
3 1 (1.82%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.82%) SAP Basis
3 1 (1.82%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.82%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.09%) EMV
2 3 (5.45%) CMDB
3 2 (3.64%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.82%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.82%) FMCG
4 1 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.82%) iPad
4 1 (1.82%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.82%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.82%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.27%) Windows
2 3 (5.45%) Linux
3 1 (1.82%) NetWare
3 1 (1.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (12.73%) DevSecOps
1 7 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (12.73%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (10.91%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (10.91%) E-Commerce
2 6 (10.91%) Migration
3 5 (9.09%) DevOps
3 5 (9.09%) High Availability
3 5 (9.09%) Project Management
3 5 (9.09%) Roadmaps
4 4 (7.27%) Security Architecture
4 4 (7.27%) Workflow
5 3 (5.45%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (5.45%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (3.64%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (3.64%) DOM Manipulation/Scripting
6 2 (3.64%) Innovative Thinking
6 2 (3.64%) Mentoring
6 2 (3.64%) Presales
6 2 (3.64%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 13 (23.64%) ABAP
2 4 (7.27%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.64%) Java
3 2 (3.64%) Python
3 2 (3.64%) SQL
4 1 (1.82%) Bash
4 1 (1.82%) C
4 1 (1.82%) C#
4 1 (1.82%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (12.73%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.91%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.45%) Degree
4 1 (1.82%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.82%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.73%) NIST
2 4 (7.27%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (3.64%) Docker
2 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.82%) Terminal Services
2 1 (1.82%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (3.64%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (29.09%) SAP
2 8 (14.55%) Adobe
3 4 (7.27%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.27%) Oracle
4 2 (3.64%) IBM
4 2 (3.64%) Novell
4 2 (3.64%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.82%) Apple
5 1 (1.82%) Axway
5 1 (1.82%) CA
5 1 (1.82%) Cisco
5 1 (1.82%) Lotus
5 1 (1.82%) Meraki
5 1 (1.82%) Okta
5 1 (1.82%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (1.82%) Workday