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 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 28 47
Rank change year-on-year +10 +19 -25
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 1,228 1,641 2,307
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 8.37% 6.87% 5.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.95% 7.22% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 740 915 1,352
10th Percentile £400 £425 £405
25th Percentile £463 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £638
90th Percentile £720 £721 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 54 29
10th Percentile £36.88 £26.33 £39.00
25th Percentile £52.82 £54.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £63.18 £66.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.28% - +29.41%
75th Percentile £67.52 £72.80 -
90th Percentile £72.01 £86.45 £83.00
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £66.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +29.41%

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 13,716 22,731 42,165
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.23% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,231 16,123 30,649
10th Percentile £325 £358 £359
25th Percentile £425 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £634
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 528 566
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.75
25th Percentile £22.54 £25.00 £19.58
Median hourly rate £43.00 £51.57 £38.83
Median % change year-on-year -16.61% +32.81% +67.29%
75th Percentile £63.38 £66.33 £58.66
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.80 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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.

1 290 (23.62%) Social Skills
2 281 (22.88%) Finance
3 276 (22.48%) SAP
4 187 (15.23%) Microsoft
5 163 (13.27%) Azure
6 162 (13.19%) Security Cleared
7 142 (11.56%) Migration
8 132 (10.75%) Oracle
9 131 (10.67%) SC Cleared
10 122 (9.93%) Agile
11 120 (9.77%) Problem-Solving
12 114 (9.28%) SAP S/4HANA
13 104 (8.47%) Dynamics 365
13 104 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
14 97 (7.90%) DevOps
15 95 (7.74%) SQL
16 91 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
17 85 (6.92%) Degree
18 82 (6.68%) Public Sector
19 80 (6.51%) Power Platform
20 75 (6.11%) Business Intelligence
21 72 (5.86%) Data Migration
22 70 (5.70%) Retail
23 69 (5.62%) ERP
24 65 (5.29%) Requirements Gathering
25 64 (5.21%) AWS
26 62 (5.05%) Power BI
27 61 (4.97%) Project Management
28 59 (4.80%) ServiceNow
29 55 (4.48%) Analytics

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 (2.12%) SharePoint
2 12 (0.98%) NetWeaver
3 10 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.73%) CMS
5 7 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.41%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 5 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (0.33%) Confluence
8 3 (0.24%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.16%) Alfresco
9 2 (0.16%) Appian
9 2 (0.16%) Camunda
9 2 (0.16%) Captiva
9 2 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.16%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.16%) SAS
10 1 (0.081%) Apache
10 1 (0.081%) IIS
10 1 (0.081%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.41%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.16%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.16%) Revit
6 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 114 (9.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (2.44%) SAP SD
3 29 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 28 (2.28%) Dynamics AX
5 23 (1.87%) SAP FI
6 20 (1.63%) Oracle EBS
6 20 (1.63%) SAP EWM
7 19 (1.55%) Workday HCM
8 16 (1.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 16 (1.30%) SAP CO
9 15 (1.22%) NetSuite
9 15 (1.22%) SAP FI/CO
10 14 (1.14%) Oracle EBS R12
10 14 (1.14%) SAP IBP
10 14 (1.14%) SAP MDG
11 12 (0.98%) SAP PP
12 11 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
13 10 (0.81%) Dynamics GP
14 9 (0.73%) SimCorp Dimension
15 8 (0.65%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 163 (13.27%) Azure
2 104 (8.47%) Dynamics 365
3 80 (6.51%) Power Platform
4 64 (5.21%) AWS
5 49 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
6 45 (3.66%) Power Automate
7 38 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
8 35 (2.85%) OCI
8 35 (2.85%) PowerApps
8 35 (2.85%) SuccessFactors
9 33 (2.69%) GCP
10 26 (2.12%) SaaS
11 17 (1.38%) Entra ID
12 16 (1.30%) IaaS
13 12 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (0.65%) Oracle Service Cloud
14 8 (0.65%) WhatsApp
15 7 (0.57%) Amazon EKS
16 5 (0.41%) Amazon EC2
16 5 (0.41%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.63%) Firewall
2 13 (1.06%) Network Security
3 10 (0.81%) WAN
4 9 (0.73%) SD-WAN
4 9 (0.73%) VPN
5 8 (0.65%) LAN
5 8 (0.65%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.57%) SSH
7 6 (0.49%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (0.49%) Cisco Nexus
7 6 (0.49%) Wireless
7 6 (0.49%) WLAN
8 5 (0.41%) 3G
8 5 (0.41%) 4G
8 5 (0.41%) 5G
8 5 (0.41%) Radio Access Network
8 5 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.33%) HTTP
9 4 (0.33%) MPLS
10 3 (0.24%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (5.05%) Power BI
2 30 (2.44%) Data Lake
3 26 (2.12%) SQL Server
4 24 (1.95%) Adabas
5 21 (1.71%) SAP HANA
6 17 (1.38%) BusinessObjects
7 14 (1.14%) SAP BW
8 10 (0.81%) Oracle Database
8 10 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
8 10 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (0.81%) Relational Database
9 8 (0.65%) Big Data
10 7 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (0.49%) MySQL
11 6 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.41%) Oracle BI EE
12 5 (0.41%) Oracle ODI
13 4 (0.33%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 22 (1.79%) JIRA
2 9 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
3 7 (0.57%) Git
4 6 (0.49%) Selenium
5 5 (0.41%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.33%) SoapUI
7 3 (0.24%) Appium
7 3 (0.24%) eggPlant
7 3 (0.24%) JMeter
7 3 (0.24%) JUnit
7 3 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.24%) Postman
7 3 (0.24%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.24%) SOAtest
7 3 (0.24%) TestNG
7 3 (0.24%) WebDriver
8 2 (0.16%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.16%) Maven
8 2 (0.16%) RStudio
8 2 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 290 (23.62%) Social Skills
2 281 (22.88%) Finance
3 104 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (6.68%) Public Sector
5 70 (5.70%) Retail
6 50 (4.07%) Manufacturing
7 36 (2.93%) Banking
8 30 (2.44%) Marketing
9 27 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
9 27 (2.20%) Telecoms
10 26 (2.12%) General Ledger
11 21 (1.71%) Billing
12 20 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
13 16 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 13 (1.06%) German Language
14 13 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (0.98%) Legal
16 10 (0.81%) Law
17 8 (0.65%) Automotive
17 8 (0.65%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.20%) Oracle Fusion
2 24 (1.95%) Web Services
3 23 (1.87%) SAP Fiori
4 17 (1.38%) SailPoint
5 15 (1.22%) EDI
5 15 (1.22%) HTML
5 15 (1.22%) SAP Basis
6 12 (0.98%) CSS
6 12 (0.98%) XML
7 9 (0.73%) SAP TM
8 8 (0.65%) LDAP
8 8 (0.65%) Middleware
8 8 (0.65%) OpenID
8 8 (0.65%) REST
9 7 (0.57%) .NET
9 7 (0.57%) SAML
10 6 (0.49%) JSON
10 6 (0.49%) SOAP
11 5 (0.41%) RESTful
11 5 (0.41%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 28 (2.28%) Onboarding
2 25 (2.04%) Data Structures
3 20 (1.63%) Data Centre
4 16 (1.30%) Management Information System
5 15 (1.22%) Mainframe
6 13 (1.06%) Public Cloud
7 12 (0.98%) Security Posture
8 11 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (0.81%) Replication
9 10 (0.81%) Virtual Team
10 9 (0.73%) Cyber Threat
10 9 (0.73%) Product Ownership
11 8 (0.65%) EMV
11 8 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (0.57%) NHS
13 6 (0.49%) CMDB
13 6 (0.49%) IoT
13 6 (0.49%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 37 (3.01%) Linux
2 36 (2.93%) Windows
3 24 (1.95%) zOS
4 21 (1.71%) Unix
5 9 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.49%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.33%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.24%) VMS
8 3 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.081%) AIX
10 1 (0.081%) Android
10 1 (0.081%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.081%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.081%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.081%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (11.56%) Migration
2 122 (9.93%) Agile
3 120 (9.77%) Problem-Solving
4 97 (7.90%) DevOps
5 91 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
6 75 (6.11%) Business Intelligence
7 72 (5.86%) Data Migration
8 69 (5.62%) ERP
9 65 (5.29%) Requirements Gathering
10 61 (4.97%) Project Management
11 55 (4.48%) Analytics
12 53 (4.32%) Cybersecurity
13 50 (4.07%) Roadmaps
14 44 (3.58%) Change Management
14 44 (3.58%) CRM
15 40 (3.26%) User Acceptance Testing
16 39 (3.18%) Logistics
16 39 (3.18%) Requirements Workshops
16 39 (3.18%) Use Case
17 38 (3.09%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 95 (7.74%) SQL
2 37 (3.01%) Python
3 28 (2.28%) ABAP
4 26 (2.12%) PowerShell
5 24 (1.95%) Natural
6 22 (1.79%) Java
6 22 (1.79%) JavaScript
7 9 (0.73%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.57%) C#
9 6 (0.49%) Bash
9 6 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.41%) Perl
11 4 (0.33%) C++
11 4 (0.33%) R
12 3 (0.24%) C
12 3 (0.24%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.16%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.16%) AWK
13 2 (0.16%) Go
13 2 (0.16%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 162 (13.19%) Security Cleared
2 131 (10.67%) SC Cleared
3 85 (6.92%) Degree
4 24 (1.95%) CISSP
5 23 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (1.87%) DV Cleared
6 22 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (1.14%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (1.06%) CISM
8 13 (1.06%) SAP Certification
9 12 (0.98%) CCNP
10 11 (0.90%) CCIE
10 11 (0.90%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (0.57%) CRISC
14 6 (0.49%) Azure Certification
15 3 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 3 (0.24%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (2.44%) NIST
2 23 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (1.55%) Data Quality
4 15 (1.22%) GDPR
4 15 (1.22%) QA
5 12 (0.98%) GRC
6 11 (0.90%) PMO
6 11 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (0.81%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.73%) SLA
9 7 (0.57%) COBIT
10 5 (0.41%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.33%) IFRS
11 4 (0.33%) NCSC
12 3 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.16%) COSO
13 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.16%) ITGC
System Software
1 37 (3.01%) Active Directory
2 22 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (1.38%) VMware NSX
4 14 (1.14%) Docker
5 7 (0.57%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.57%) vSphere
6 4 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.16%) KVM
8 2 (0.16%) QEMU
8 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.16%) XenApp
8 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.081%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 20 (1.63%) Terraform
2 17 (1.38%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.90%) Ansible
4 10 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.57%) SCCM
6 6 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.33%) VxRail
8 3 (0.24%) Grafana
8 3 (0.24%) PingFederate
8 3 (0.24%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.16%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.081%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.081%) Cisco UCCX
10 1 (0.081%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.081%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.081%) SCOM
10 1 (0.081%) SCVMM
10 1 (0.081%) Stealthwatch
10 1 (0.081%) vRealize
Vendors
1 276 (22.48%) SAP
2 187 (15.23%) Microsoft
3 132 (10.75%) Oracle
4 59 (4.80%) ServiceNow
5 36 (2.93%) VMware
5 36 (2.93%) Workday
6 24 (1.95%) Software AG
7 22 (1.79%) Cisco
7 22 (1.79%) Salesforce
8 17 (1.38%) CyberArk
9 16 (1.30%) Ariba
10 15 (1.22%) Adobe
11 11 (0.90%) OpenText
11 11 (0.90%) Sage
12 9 (0.73%) Dell
12 9 (0.73%) SimCorp
13 8 (0.65%) Google
13 8 (0.65%) Informatica
13 8 (0.65%) Palo Alto
14 7 (0.57%) IBM