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 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 18 28 44
Rank change year-on-year +10 +16 -22
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 1,213 1,634 2,336
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 8.29% 6.78% 5.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.86% 7.12% 5.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 746 913 1,351
10th Percentile £400 £417 £405
25th Percentile £463 £476 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.38%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £638
90th Percentile £720 £721 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 54 30
10th Percentile £39.25 £26.33 £34.50
25th Percentile £58.75 £54.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £66.00 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +26.47%
75th Percentile £66.25 £72.80 £66.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £86.45 £85.00
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
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 13,691 22,958 42,210
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.26% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,251 16,282 30,640
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £444 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +2.67% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 531 565
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.84 £25.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £44.87 £52.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +43.84% +57.26%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.72 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £77.50 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

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 1 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 1 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 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 298 (24.57%) Social Skills
2 279 (23.00%) Finance
3 278 (22.92%) SAP
4 184 (15.17%) Microsoft
5 159 (13.11%) Azure
6 147 (12.12%) Migration
7 142 (11.71%) Security Cleared
8 131 (10.80%) Oracle
9 127 (10.47%) Agile
10 126 (10.39%) Problem-Solving
11 119 (9.81%) SAP S/4HANA
12 111 (9.15%) SC Cleared
13 105 (8.66%) Dynamics 365
14 101 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
15 97 (8.00%) DevOps
16 95 (7.83%) SQL
17 91 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
18 86 (7.09%) Public Sector
19 83 (6.84%) Degree
20 79 (6.51%) Power Platform
21 76 (6.27%) Data Migration
22 75 (6.18%) Business Intelligence
23 70 (5.77%) Retail
24 67 (5.52%) ERP
24 67 (5.52%) Requirements Gathering
25 61 (5.03%) Project Management
25 61 (5.03%) Power BI
26 59 (4.86%) AWS
27 57 (4.70%) ServiceNow
28 52 (4.29%) 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 (2.14%) SharePoint
2 11 (0.91%) NetWeaver
3 10 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.74%) CMS
5 7 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.41%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 5 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.25%) Confluence
7 3 (0.25%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.16%) Alfresco
8 2 (0.16%) Appian
8 2 (0.16%) Camunda
8 2 (0.16%) Captiva
8 2 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.16%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.16%) SAS
9 1 (0.082%) Apache
9 1 (0.082%) MTS
9 1 (0.082%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.41%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.16%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.16%) Revit
7 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 119 (9.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (2.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 30 (2.47%) SAP SD
4 28 (2.31%) Dynamics AX
5 24 (1.98%) SAP FI
6 20 (1.65%) SAP EWM
7 19 (1.57%) Oracle EBS
8 18 (1.48%) Workday HCM
9 17 (1.40%) SAP CO
10 16 (1.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 16 (1.32%) SAP FI/CO
11 15 (1.24%) NetSuite
12 14 (1.15%) Oracle EBS R12
12 14 (1.15%) SAP MDG
13 13 (1.07%) SAP IBP
14 12 (0.99%) SAP PP
15 11 (0.91%) Oracle Receivables
16 10 (0.82%) Dynamics GP
17 9 (0.74%) SimCorp Dimension
18 8 (0.66%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 159 (13.11%) Azure
2 105 (8.66%) Dynamics 365
3 79 (6.51%) Power Platform
4 59 (4.86%) AWS
5 49 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
6 45 (3.71%) Power Automate
7 39 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
8 35 (2.89%) OCI
8 35 (2.89%) PowerApps
9 34 (2.80%) SuccessFactors
10 32 (2.64%) GCP
11 22 (1.81%) SaaS
12 18 (1.48%) Entra ID
13 16 (1.32%) IaaS
14 12 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (0.66%) Oracle Service Cloud
15 8 (0.66%) WhatsApp
16 7 (0.58%) Amazon EKS
17 6 (0.49%) Amazon S3
18 5 (0.41%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 22 (1.81%) Firewall
2 12 (0.99%) Network Security
3 10 (0.82%) WAN
4 9 (0.74%) SD-WAN
4 9 (0.74%) VPN
5 8 (0.66%) LAN
5 8 (0.66%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.58%) SSH
6 7 (0.58%) Wireless
7 6 (0.49%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (0.49%) Cisco Nexus
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%) SSL
8 5 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.33%) HTTP
9 4 (0.33%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (5.03%) Power BI
2 30 (2.47%) Data Lake
3 27 (2.23%) SQL Server
4 21 (1.73%) SAP HANA
5 17 (1.40%) BusinessObjects
6 13 (1.07%) SAP BW
7 12 (0.99%) Oracle Database
8 10 (0.82%) Oracle Reports
8 10 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (0.74%) Relational Database
10 8 (0.66%) Big Data
11 7 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.41%) MySQL
13 5 (0.41%) Oracle BI EE
13 5 (0.41%) Siebel EIM
14 4 (0.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 4 (0.33%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 23 (1.90%) JIRA
2 10 (0.82%) Oracle Forms
3 7 (0.58%) Git
4 6 (0.49%) Selenium
5 5 (0.41%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.33%) SoapUI
7 3 (0.25%) Appium
7 3 (0.25%) eggPlant
7 3 (0.25%) JMeter
7 3 (0.25%) JUnit
7 3 (0.25%) Maven
7 3 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.25%) Postman
7 3 (0.25%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.25%) SOAtest
7 3 (0.25%) TestNG
7 3 (0.25%) WebDriver
8 2 (0.16%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.16%) RStudio
8 2 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 298 (24.57%) Social Skills
2 279 (23.00%) Finance
3 101 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (7.09%) Public Sector
5 70 (5.77%) Retail
6 52 (4.29%) Manufacturing
7 36 (2.97%) Banking
8 33 (2.72%) Marketing
9 27 (2.23%) Telecoms
10 26 (2.14%) General Ledger
10 26 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
11 22 (1.81%) Billing
12 20 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
13 14 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 13 (1.07%) German Language
15 12 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (0.91%) Law
16 11 (0.91%) Legal
17 8 (0.66%) French Language
17 8 (0.66%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.98%) Web Services
2 23 (1.90%) Oracle Fusion
3 22 (1.81%) SAP Fiori
4 17 (1.40%) SailPoint
5 15 (1.24%) EDI
5 15 (1.24%) SAP Basis
6 14 (1.15%) HTML
7 12 (0.99%) XML
8 11 (0.91%) CSS
9 9 (0.74%) SAP TM
10 8 (0.66%) LDAP
10 8 (0.66%) Middleware
10 8 (0.66%) OpenID
10 8 (0.66%) REST
11 7 (0.58%) .NET
11 7 (0.58%) SAML
12 6 (0.49%) JSON
12 6 (0.49%) SOAP
13 5 (0.41%) RESTful
13 5 (0.41%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 27 (2.23%) Onboarding
2 25 (2.06%) Data Structures
3 20 (1.65%) Data Centre
4 16 (1.32%) Management Information System
5 13 (1.07%) Mainframe
6 11 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (0.82%) Replication
7 10 (0.82%) Virtual Team
8 8 (0.66%) EMV
8 8 (0.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (0.66%) Product Ownership
8 8 (0.66%) Public Cloud
8 8 (0.66%) Security Posture
9 7 (0.58%) CMDB
9 7 (0.58%) NHS
10 6 (0.49%) IoT
10 6 (0.49%) Tandem
11 5 (0.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 37 (3.05%) Linux
2 36 (2.97%) Windows
3 20 (1.65%) Unix
4 9 (0.74%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.49%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.41%) VMS
7 4 (0.33%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.16%) OpenVMS
9 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.082%) AIX
10 1 (0.082%) Android
10 1 (0.082%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.082%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.082%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.082%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.082%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (12.12%) Migration
2 127 (10.47%) Agile
3 126 (10.39%) Problem-Solving
4 97 (8.00%) DevOps
5 91 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 76 (6.27%) Data Migration
7 75 (6.18%) Business Intelligence
8 67 (5.52%) ERP
8 67 (5.52%) Requirements Gathering
9 61 (5.03%) Project Management
10 51 (4.20%) Analytics
10 51 (4.20%) Roadmaps
11 48 (3.96%) CRM
11 48 (3.96%) Cybersecurity
12 43 (3.54%) User Acceptance Testing
13 42 (3.46%) Change Management
14 39 (3.22%) Logistics
14 39 (3.22%) Requirements Workshops
14 39 (3.22%) Use Case
15 38 (3.13%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 95 (7.83%) SQL
2 37 (3.05%) Python
3 28 (2.31%) ABAP
4 26 (2.14%) PowerShell
5 23 (1.90%) Java
6 21 (1.73%) JavaScript
7 9 (0.74%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.58%) 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 (0.25%) C
12 3 (0.25%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.16%) AWK
13 2 (0.16%) COBOL
13 2 (0.16%) DCL
13 2 (0.16%) Ruby
13 2 (0.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 142 (11.71%) Security Cleared
2 111 (9.15%) SC Cleared
3 83 (6.84%) Degree
4 25 (2.06%) CISSP
5 24 (1.98%) DV Cleared
6 23 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (1.15%) CISM
10 13 (1.07%) AWS Certification
10 13 (1.07%) SAP Certification
11 12 (0.99%) CCIE
11 12 (0.99%) CCNP
12 11 (0.91%) Master's Degree
13 10 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.58%) CRISC
16 5 (0.41%) Azure Certification
17 3 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 3 (0.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (2.23%) NIST
2 23 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (1.65%) Data Quality
4 19 (1.57%) QA
5 14 (1.15%) GDPR
6 12 (0.99%) GRC
6 12 (0.99%) PMO
6 12 (0.99%) SLA
7 11 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (0.82%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.58%) COBIT
10 5 (0.41%) NCSC
10 5 (0.41%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.33%) IFRS
12 3 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.25%) RMADS
13 2 (0.16%) COSO
13 2 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
13 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
System Software
1 38 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 23 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (1.40%) VMware NSX
4 14 (1.15%) Docker
5 7 (0.58%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.58%) vSphere
6 4 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.16%) KVM
8 2 (0.16%) QEMU
8 2 (0.16%) XenApp
8 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.082%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 20 (1.65%) Terraform
2 17 (1.40%) Kubernetes
3 14 (1.15%) Ansible
4 10 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.58%) SCCM
6 6 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.33%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.33%) VxRail
8 3 (0.25%) Grafana
8 3 (0.25%) PingFederate
9 2 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.16%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.082%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.082%) Cisco UCCX
10 1 (0.082%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.082%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 1 (0.082%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.082%) SCOM
10 1 (0.082%) SCVMM
10 1 (0.082%) vRealize
Vendors
1 278 (22.92%) SAP
2 184 (15.17%) Microsoft
3 131 (10.80%) Oracle
4 57 (4.70%) ServiceNow
5 37 (3.05%) VMware
6 35 (2.89%) Workday
7 24 (1.98%) Cisco
8 18 (1.48%) Salesforce
9 17 (1.40%) Ariba
9 17 (1.40%) CyberArk
10 15 (1.24%) Adobe
11 12 (0.99%) Sage
12 11 (0.91%) OpenText
13 9 (0.74%) Dell
13 9 (0.74%) Google
13 9 (0.74%) SimCorp
14 8 (0.66%) Informatica
14 8 (0.66%) Palo Alto
15 7 (0.58%) IBM
16 6 (0.49%) Siebel