Consultant Contracts in Scotland

Consultant
UK > Scotland

The median Consultant daily rate in Scotland is £525 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 52 103 108
Rank change year-on-year +51 +5 -37
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 77 60 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.59% 2.24% 1.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.80% 2.35% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 39 40
10th Percentile £280 £259 £332
25th Percentile £438 £414 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% +6.67%
75th Percentile £636 £580 £575
90th Percentile £663 £626 £655
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £61.00 £29.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +87.88% -
75th Percentile - £63.00 £36.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £66.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -6.67% +0.76% +28.43%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 2,025 2,550 3,253
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.49% 95.26% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,242 1,774 2,303
10th Percentile £200 £223 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £557 £550 £550
90th Percentile £637 £634 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 45 51
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.48 £17.25
25th Percentile £16.00 £14.25 £18.95
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -50.57% +66.36%
75th Percentile £58.13 £58.75 £48.38
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.88 £55.84
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in Scotland

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in Scotland

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in Scotland

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in Scotland

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Edinburgh +45 40 £475 -0.99% 35
Glasgow +8 21 £525 +12.84% 28
Perthshire +10 3 £475 -9.52%
Renfrewshire -3 2 £770 +71.11%
Lanarkshire - 2 - - 18
Aberdeen - 2 £628 - 3
Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 job ads across the Scotland region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 24 (31.17%) Public Sector
2 22 (28.57%) Agile
3 18 (23.38%) Social Skills
4 16 (20.78%) Power Platform
4 16 (20.78%) Microsoft
5 15 (19.48%) Oracle
6 14 (18.18%) Finance
7 13 (16.88%) ServiceNow
8 11 (14.29%) Migration
8 11 (14.29%) ITIL
8 11 (14.29%) VMware
8 11 (14.29%) Security Cleared
9 10 (12.99%) ITSM
9 10 (12.99%) Service Management
9 10 (12.99%) Power Automate
9 10 (12.99%) OCI
10 9 (11.69%) Collaborative Working
10 9 (11.69%) Azure
10 9 (11.69%) Process Management
10 9 (11.69%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (11.69%) SC Cleared
10 9 (11.69%) Degree
11 8 (10.39%) VMware Infrastructure
11 8 (10.39%) SLA
11 8 (10.39%) Cisco
11 8 (10.39%) Power BI
11 8 (10.39%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
12 7 (9.09%) Coaching

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (3.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (3.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.30%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 5 (6.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.30%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.30%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (1.30%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.30%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.30%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (20.78%) Power Platform
2 10 (12.99%) OCI
2 10 (12.99%) Power Automate
3 9 (11.69%) Azure
4 8 (10.39%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (6.49%) PowerApps
6 3 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.90%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 1 (1.30%) SaaS
7 1 (1.30%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.49%) Firewall
2 3 (3.90%) LAN
3 2 (2.60%) FabricPath
3 2 (2.60%) NX-OS
3 2 (2.60%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.60%) VPN
3 2 (2.60%) VSAN
4 1 (1.30%) SSL
4 1 (1.30%) WAN
4 1 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.30%) Wireless
4 1 (1.30%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.39%) Power BI
2 5 (6.49%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (3.90%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.60%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.30%) Big Data
5 1 (1.30%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 5 (6.49%) JIRA
General
1 24 (31.17%) Public Sector
2 18 (23.38%) Social Skills
3 14 (18.18%) Finance
4 6 (7.79%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.19%) Banking
5 4 (5.19%) Billing
5 4 (5.19%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.90%) .NET
1 3 (3.90%) CSS
1 3 (3.90%) HTML
1 3 (3.90%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.60%) REST
2 2 (2.60%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.49%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (5.19%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.90%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.90%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.90%) Operational Technology
3 3 (3.90%) Tandem
4 2 (2.60%) CMDB
4 2 (2.60%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.60%) VxBlock/Vblock
5 1 (1.30%) BYOD
5 1 (1.30%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.30%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.30%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.79%) Linux
2 3 (3.90%) Windows
2 3 (3.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (28.57%) Agile
2 11 (14.29%) ITIL
2 11 (14.29%) Migration
3 10 (12.99%) ITSM
3 10 (12.99%) Service Management
4 9 (11.69%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (11.69%) Collaborative Working
4 9 (11.69%) Process Management
5 7 (9.09%) Coaching
5 7 (9.09%) Data Protection
5 7 (9.09%) ERP
5 7 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
6 6 (7.79%) Data Migration
6 6 (7.79%) Service Delivery
6 6 (7.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (6.49%) CRM
7 5 (6.49%) Risk Assessment
7 5 (6.49%) Time Management
7 5 (6.49%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.79%) SQL
2 4 (5.19%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.90%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.30%) Bash
4 1 (1.30%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.69%) Degree
2 9 (11.69%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.90%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.60%) MCSE
4 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.30%) CCSP
5 1 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.30%) CISSP
5 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.30%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.39%) SLA
2 6 (7.79%) QA
3 5 (6.49%) PMO
4 3 (3.90%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (10.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (7.79%) VMware NSX
2 6 (7.79%) vSphere
3 4 (5.19%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.60%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (2.60%) vCenter Server
1 2 (2.60%) VxRail
Vendors
1 16 (20.78%) Microsoft
2 15 (19.48%) Oracle
3 13 (16.88%) ServiceNow
4 11 (14.29%) VMware
5 8 (10.39%) Cisco
6 6 (7.79%) Dell
7 3 (3.90%) Adobe
7 3 (3.90%) MuleSoft
7 3 (3.90%) Pega
7 3 (3.90%) SAP
8 1 (1.30%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (1.30%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.30%) Teradata
8 1 (1.30%) Workday