Technical Consultant Contracts with Work from Home Options

Technical Consultant
UK > Work from Home

The median Technical Consultant daily rate in Work from Home is £550 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 285 354 484
Rank change year-on-year +69 +130 -132
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Consultant 60 100 128
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.41% 0.41% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.43% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 50 74
10th Percentile £448 £442 £400
25th Percentile £513 £495 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £622 £600
90th Percentile £825 £664 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - £67.80 £58.50
25th Percentile - £70.50 £63.00
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year - +16.28% +4.88%
75th Percentile - £79.50 £66.00
90th Percentile - £82.20 -
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year +2.67% -9.09% +7.32%

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 13,806 23,471 42,177
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.27% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,297 16,589 30,510
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 538 592
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.44 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.33
Median hourly rate £44.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.14 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.43 £68.70
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Technical Consultant
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Technical Consultant trend for jobs with a WFH option

Technical 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 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 a work from home option citing Technical Consultant over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Technical Consultant in the job title.

1 16 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 13 (21.67%) SAP
3 12 (20.00%) Azure
4 10 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 10 (16.67%) Security Cleared
5 9 (15.00%) Web Services
5 9 (15.00%) ABAP
5 9 (15.00%) Microsoft
5 9 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (13.33%) Finance
6 8 (13.33%) ITSM
6 8 (13.33%) ServiceNow
7 7 (11.67%) NIST
8 6 (10.00%) Workflow
8 6 (10.00%) E-Commerce
8 6 (10.00%) Oracle
8 6 (10.00%) Public Sector
8 6 (10.00%) DevSecOps
8 6 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (10.00%) DevOps
8 6 (10.00%) Migration
9 5 (8.33%) PCI DSS
9 5 (8.33%) AWS
9 5 (8.33%) IT Asset Management
9 5 (8.33%) GCP
9 5 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
9 5 (8.33%) EMV
9 5 (8.33%) Project Management
9 5 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (6.67%) VMware

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 (3.33%) CMS
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (6.67%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (6.67%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 4 (6.67%) SAP SD
3 3 (5.00%) SAP EWM
3 3 (5.00%) SAP MDG
4 2 (3.33%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (3.33%) Oracle Internet Expenses
4 2 (3.33%) Oracle iProcurement
4 2 (3.33%) Oracle iSupplier
4 2 (3.33%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (3.33%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (3.33%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (3.33%) Workday HCM
5 1 (1.67%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (1.67%) Infor M3
5 1 (1.67%) Sage X3
5 1 (1.67%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 12 (20.00%) Azure
2 6 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (8.33%) AWS
3 5 (8.33%) GCP
4 3 (5.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (3.33%) Azure Pipelines
5 2 (3.33%) IaaS
5 2 (3.33%) PaaS
5 2 (3.33%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.67%) Salsify
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) Firewall
1 3 (5.00%) VPN
2 2 (3.33%) DNS
3 1 (1.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (1.67%) HTTP
3 1 (1.67%) NGFW
3 1 (1.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.67%) SSH
3 1 (1.67%) SSL
3 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.00%) SAP HANA
2 2 (3.33%) Oracle Database
2 2 (3.33%) Power BI
3 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Eclipse
General
1 16 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.33%) Finance
3 6 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Marketing
7 1 (1.67%) Banking
7 1 (1.67%) Legal
7 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Retail
7 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.67%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.00%) Web Services
2 4 (6.67%) HTML
3 3 (5.00%) CSS
4 2 (3.33%) DOM
4 2 (3.33%) Express.js
4 2 (3.33%) Node.js
4 2 (3.33%) React
4 2 (3.33%) RESTful
4 2 (3.33%) SailPoint
4 2 (3.33%) SOAP
5 1 (1.67%) Ajax
5 1 (1.67%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.67%) BAPI
5 1 (1.67%) REST
5 1 (1.67%) SAP ALE
5 1 (1.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.33%) EMV
2 2 (3.33%) Digital Media
2 2 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (3.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.67%) CMDB
3 1 (1.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.67%) FMCG
3 1 (1.67%) IVR
3 1 (1.67%) Life Science
3 1 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.00%) Windows
2 1 (1.67%) Linux
2 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (13.33%) ITSM
3 6 (10.00%) DevOps
3 6 (10.00%) DevSecOps
3 6 (10.00%) E-Commerce
3 6 (10.00%) Migration
3 6 (10.00%) Workflow
4 5 (8.33%) IT Asset Management
4 5 (8.33%) Project Management
5 4 (6.67%) API Development
5 4 (6.67%) Asset Management
5 4 (6.67%) Customer Service
5 4 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (6.67%) Data Migration
5 4 (6.67%) Operations Management
5 4 (6.67%) Presales
5 4 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (6.67%) Security Architecture
5 4 (6.67%) Service Delivery
5 4 (6.67%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.00%) ABAP
2 4 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (5.00%) C
3 3 (5.00%) SQL
4 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 10 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.67%) CCIE
2 1 (1.67%) CCIE Routing and Switching
2 1 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (1.67%) CISM
2 1 (1.67%) CISSP
2 1 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (1.67%) Degree
2 1 (1.67%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.67%) NIST
2 5 (8.33%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.33%) QA
4 1 (1.67%) COBIT
4 1 (1.67%) COSO
4 1 (1.67%) GDPR
4 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.67%) Terminal Services
3 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (1.67%) FortiGate
1 1 (1.67%) SCCM
1 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (21.67%) SAP
2 9 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (13.33%) ServiceNow
4 6 (10.00%) Oracle
5 4 (6.67%) Adobe
5 4 (6.67%) VMware
6 3 (5.00%) Workday
7 2 (3.33%) Commvault
8 1 (1.67%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.67%) F5
8 1 (1.67%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.67%) HP
8 1 (1.67%) Infor
8 1 (1.67%) Ivanti
8 1 (1.67%) Meraki
8 1 (1.67%) Novell
8 1 (1.67%) Okta
8 1 (1.67%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.67%) Sage
8 1 (1.67%) Splunk