Consultant Contracts with Work from Home Options

Consultant
UK > Work from Home

The median Consultant daily rate in Work from Home is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 21 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
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 27 45
Rank change year-on-year +7 +18 -24
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 1,185 1,659 2,350
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 8.06% 6.77% 5.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.62% 7.10% 5.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 729 936 1,339
10th Percentile £400 £420 £400
25th Percentile £463 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.32%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £632
90th Percentile £725 £721 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 52 31
10th Percentile £42.50 £22.78 £35.00
25th Percentile £59.48 £54.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £66.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +26.92%
75th Percentile £65.95 £75.94 £68.38
90th Percentile £70.63 £87.15 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £66.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -6.67% +0.76% +25.96%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 13,749 23,373 42,537
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.31% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,288 16,533 30,788
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.98%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 539 596
10th Percentile £14.23 £17.46 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.48
Median hourly rate £44.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.77 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.35 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Consultant
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Consultant trend for jobs with a WFH option

Consultant
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Consultant.

Consultant daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Consultant over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Consultant daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Consultant.

Consultant hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Consultant
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Consultant over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Consultant hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 2024, 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 Consultant in the job title.

1 292 (24.64%) Social Skills
2 279 (23.54%) Finance
3 274 (23.12%) SAP
4 176 (14.85%) Microsoft
5 152 (12.83%) Azure
6 142 (11.98%) Migration
7 141 (11.90%) Security Cleared
8 126 (10.63%) Oracle
8 126 (10.63%) Agile
8 126 (10.63%) Problem-Solving
9 114 (9.62%) SC Cleared
10 113 (9.54%) SAP S/4HANA
11 105 (8.86%) Dynamics 365
11 105 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
12 99 (8.35%) DevOps
13 95 (8.02%) Stakeholder Management
14 94 (7.93%) SQL
15 82 (6.92%) Data Migration
16 81 (6.84%) Degree
17 80 (6.75%) Public Sector
18 79 (6.67%) Power Platform
19 74 (6.24%) Business Intelligence
20 70 (5.91%) Retail
20 70 (5.91%) Requirements Gathering
21 63 (5.32%) ERP
22 61 (5.15%) Power BI
23 57 (4.81%) ServiceNow
24 54 (4.56%) Project Management
25 53 (4.47%) AWS
26 51 (4.30%) Manufacturing

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 26 (2.19%) SharePoint
2 11 (0.93%) NetWeaver
3 9 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.68%) CMS
5 7 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.42%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 4 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.17%) Alfresco
8 2 (0.17%) Apache
8 2 (0.17%) Appian
8 2 (0.17%) Camunda
8 2 (0.17%) Captiva
8 2 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.17%) Confluence
8 2 (0.17%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.17%) IIS
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.17%) SAS
8 2 (0.17%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.42%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.25%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.17%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.17%) Revit
Business Applications
1 113 (9.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (2.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 31 (2.62%) SAP SD
4 28 (2.36%) Dynamics AX
5 22 (1.86%) SAP FI
6 20 (1.69%) SAP EWM
7 17 (1.43%) Oracle EBS
7 17 (1.43%) Workday HCM
8 16 (1.35%) NetSuite
8 16 (1.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 14 (1.18%) SAP CO
9 14 (1.18%) SAP FI/CO
9 14 (1.18%) SAP MDG
10 13 (1.10%) Oracle EBS R12
10 13 (1.10%) SAP IBP
11 10 (0.84%) Dynamics GP
11 10 (0.84%) SAP PP
12 9 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
12 9 (0.76%) SAP QM
13 8 (0.68%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 152 (12.83%) Azure
2 105 (8.86%) Dynamics 365
3 79 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 53 (4.47%) AWS
5 49 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
6 44 (3.71%) Power Automate
7 41 (3.46%) Microsoft 365
8 34 (2.87%) PowerApps
9 32 (2.70%) SuccessFactors
10 30 (2.53%) OCI
11 26 (2.19%) GCP
12 21 (1.77%) SaaS
13 18 (1.52%) Entra ID
14 16 (1.35%) IaaS
15 10 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
16 9 (0.76%) WhatsApp
17 7 (0.59%) Amazon S3
17 7 (0.59%) Oracle Service Cloud
18 6 (0.51%) Amazon EKS
18 6 (0.51%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.52%) Firewall
2 9 (0.76%) WAN
3 8 (0.68%) LAN
3 8 (0.68%) SD-WAN
3 8 (0.68%) VPN
4 7 (0.59%) SSH
4 7 (0.59%) TCP/IP
4 7 (0.59%) Wireless
5 6 (0.51%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (0.51%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (0.42%) 3G
6 5 (0.42%) 4G
6 5 (0.42%) 5G
6 5 (0.42%) Network Security
6 5 (0.42%) Radio Access Network
6 5 (0.42%) SSL
6 5 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.42%) WLAN
7 4 (0.34%) HTTP
8 3 (0.25%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (5.15%) Power BI
2 30 (2.53%) Data Lake
3 24 (2.03%) SQL Server
4 19 (1.60%) SAP HANA
5 16 (1.35%) BusinessObjects
6 13 (1.10%) Oracle Database
7 12 (1.01%) SAP BW
8 10 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
9 9 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (0.68%) Big Data
10 8 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (0.51%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (0.42%) MySQL
12 5 (0.42%) Oracle BI EE
12 5 (0.42%) Siebel EIM
12 5 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.34%) Oracle ODI
13 4 (0.34%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 22 (1.86%) JIRA
2 9 (0.76%) Oracle Forms
3 7 (0.59%) Git
3 7 (0.59%) Selenium
4 5 (0.42%) Cucumber
4 5 (0.42%) Maven
5 4 (0.34%) SoapUI
6 3 (0.25%) Appium
6 3 (0.25%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.25%) eggPlant
6 3 (0.25%) JMeter
6 3 (0.25%) JUnit
6 3 (0.25%) Postman
6 3 (0.25%) Protractor
6 3 (0.25%) REST Assured
6 3 (0.25%) SOAtest
6 3 (0.25%) TestNG
6 3 (0.25%) WebDriver
7 2 (0.17%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 292 (24.64%) Social Skills
2 279 (23.54%) Finance
3 105 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (6.75%) Public Sector
5 70 (5.91%) Retail
6 51 (4.30%) Manufacturing
7 35 (2.95%) Marketing
8 34 (2.87%) Banking
9 25 (2.11%) General Ledger
10 24 (2.03%) Telecoms
11 23 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
12 22 (1.86%) Billing
13 21 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
14 14 (1.18%) German Language
15 12 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 12 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (1.01%) Law
16 9 (0.76%) French Language
17 8 (0.68%) Local Government
17 8 (0.68%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (2.19%) Web Services
2 22 (1.86%) Oracle Fusion
3 21 (1.77%) SAP Fiori
4 19 (1.60%) SailPoint
5 16 (1.35%) EDI
6 14 (1.18%) SAP Basis
7 13 (1.10%) HTML
7 13 (1.10%) XML
8 11 (0.93%) CSS
8 11 (0.93%) LDAP
9 9 (0.76%) REST
9 9 (0.76%) SAP TM
10 8 (0.68%) .NET
11 7 (0.59%) OpenID
11 7 (0.59%) SAML
12 6 (0.51%) AngularJS
12 6 (0.51%) JSON
12 6 (0.51%) Middleware
12 6 (0.51%) RESTful
12 6 (0.51%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 25 (2.11%) Data Structures
1 25 (2.11%) Onboarding
2 20 (1.69%) Data Centre
3 17 (1.43%) Management Information System
4 13 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (1.01%) Mainframe
6 10 (0.84%) CMDB
6 10 (0.84%) Replication
7 9 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (0.68%) EMV
8 8 (0.68%) NHS
8 8 (0.68%) Virtual Team
9 7 (0.59%) Product Ownership
9 7 (0.59%) Public Cloud
10 6 (0.51%) Tandem
11 5 (0.42%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (0.42%) IoT
11 5 (0.42%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 36 (3.04%) Windows
2 35 (2.95%) Linux
3 20 (1.69%) Unix
4 9 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.59%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.34%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.25%) VMS
7 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.17%) OpenVMS
8 2 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.084%) AIX
9 1 (0.084%) Android
9 1 (0.084%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.084%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.084%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (11.98%) Migration
2 126 (10.63%) Agile
2 126 (10.63%) Problem-Solving
3 99 (8.35%) DevOps
4 95 (8.02%) Stakeholder Management
5 82 (6.92%) Data Migration
6 74 (6.24%) Business Intelligence
7 70 (5.91%) Requirements Gathering
8 63 (5.32%) ERP
9 54 (4.56%) Project Management
10 50 (4.22%) CRM
11 49 (4.14%) Roadmaps
12 47 (3.97%) Cybersecurity
13 44 (3.71%) Analytics
13 44 (3.71%) User Acceptance Testing
14 41 (3.46%) Change Management
15 40 (3.38%) Use Case
16 38 (3.21%) ITSM
16 38 (3.21%) Logistics
16 38 (3.21%) Requirements Workshops
Programming Languages
1 94 (7.93%) SQL
2 35 (2.95%) Python
3 28 (2.36%) ABAP
3 28 (2.36%) PowerShell
4 26 (2.19%) Java
5 21 (1.77%) JavaScript
6 7 (0.59%) C#
6 7 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (0.51%) Bash
7 6 (0.51%) PL/SQL
8 5 (0.42%) C
8 5 (0.42%) Perl
9 4 (0.34%) C++
9 4 (0.34%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.25%) R
11 2 (0.17%) Ada
11 2 (0.17%) AWK
11 2 (0.17%) COBOL
11 2 (0.17%) Go
11 2 (0.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 141 (11.90%) Security Cleared
2 114 (9.62%) SC Cleared
3 81 (6.84%) Degree
4 25 (2.11%) CISSP
5 23 (1.94%) DV Cleared
6 21 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.10%) SAP Certification
10 12 (1.01%) CISM
11 11 (0.93%) AWS Certification
11 11 (0.93%) CCIE
11 11 (0.93%) CCNP
12 9 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (0.76%) Master's Degree
13 7 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.51%) CRISC
15 3 (0.25%) Azure Certification
15 3 (0.25%) CISA
15 3 (0.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.19%) NIST
2 24 (2.03%) QA
3 23 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (1.52%) Data Quality
5 14 (1.18%) GRC
5 14 (1.18%) PMO
6 13 (1.10%) GDPR
7 11 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 11 (0.93%) SLA
8 9 (0.76%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.51%) COBIT
10 5 (0.42%) NCSC
11 4 (0.34%) IFRS
11 4 (0.34%) NIST 800
12 3 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.25%) RMADS
13 2 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
13 2 (0.17%) EMIR
13 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 40 (3.38%) Active Directory
2 22 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (1.43%) VMware NSX
4 13 (1.10%) Docker
5 7 (0.59%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.59%) vSphere
6 4 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.17%) XenApp
7 2 (0.17%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.084%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (1.60%) Terraform
2 14 (1.18%) Kubernetes
3 13 (1.10%) Ansible
4 11 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.59%) SCCM
5 7 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.34%) vCenter Server
6 4 (0.34%) VxRail
7 3 (0.25%) Grafana
7 3 (0.25%) PingFederate
8 2 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.17%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.084%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.084%) Dell DRAC
9 1 (0.084%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 1 (0.084%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.084%) QRadar
9 1 (0.084%) SCOM
9 1 (0.084%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.084%) vRealize
Vendors
1 274 (23.12%) SAP
2 176 (14.85%) Microsoft
3 126 (10.63%) Oracle
4 57 (4.81%) ServiceNow
5 39 (3.29%) VMware
6 34 (2.87%) Workday
7 21 (1.77%) Cisco
8 18 (1.52%) CyberArk
8 18 (1.52%) Salesforce
9 16 (1.35%) Ariba
10 15 (1.27%) Adobe
11 12 (1.01%) Sage
12 11 (0.93%) OpenText
13 9 (0.76%) Google
14 8 (0.68%) Dell
14 8 (0.68%) IBM
14 8 (0.68%) Informatica
14 8 (0.68%) Palo Alto
14 8 (0.68%) SimCorp
15 7 (0.59%) Splunk