Junior Consultant Contracts

Junior Consultant
UK

The median Junior Consultant daily rate in the UK is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 564 680 830
Rank change year-on-year +116 +150 -112
Contract jobs requiring a Junior Consultant 15 4 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.007% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.008% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 7
10th Percentile £219 - £226
25th Percentile £331 £143 £239
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £145 £250
Median % change year-on-year +141.38% -42.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile - £235 £394
90th Percentile - £288 £512
UK excluding London median daily rate - £145 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £65.25
Median hourly rate - - £65.50
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Junior Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior Consultant in the UK

Junior Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Junior Consultant in the UK

Junior Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Junior Consultant over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Junior Consultant in the UK

Junior Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Junior Consultant in the UK

Junior Consultant
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Junior Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
Work from Home +118 10 £350 +11.11% 13
London +104 5 £300 - 1
England +99 5 £300 +106.90% 12

Junior Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Junior 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 featuring Junior Consultant in the job title.

1 8 (53.33%) Retail
1 8 (53.33%) Workday
2 3 (20.00%) Analytics
2 3 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (13.33%) C#
3 2 (13.33%) Windows
3 2 (13.33%) Linux
3 2 (13.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 2 (13.33%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (13.33%) GIAC
3 2 (13.33%) Wireless
3 2 (13.33%) OWASP
3 2 (13.33%) Mobile App
3 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (13.33%) Go
3 2 (13.33%) IoT
3 2 (13.33%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) OSCP
3 2 (13.33%) CHECK Team Leader
3 2 (13.33%) CREST Certified
3 2 (13.33%) Social Engineering
3 2 (13.33%) Tableau
3 2 (13.33%) Data Analytics
3 2 (13.33%) Power BI
3 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (13.33%) NIST
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (13.33%) Red Team

Junior Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
1 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.67%) ChatGPT
2 1 (6.67%) GCP
2 1 (6.67%) PaaS
2 1 (6.67%) SaaS
2 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Power BI
1 2 (13.33%) Tableau
2 1 (6.67%) Big Data
2 1 (6.67%) Flink
2 1 (6.67%) Tableau Server
General
1 8 (53.33%) Retail
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Beam
1 1 (6.67%) Google JAX
1 1 (6.67%) Kafka
1 1 (6.67%) PyTorch
1 1 (6.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) IoT
1 2 (13.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) Analytics
2 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (13.33%) Data Analytics
2 2 (13.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (13.33%) Offensive Security
2 2 (13.33%) OWASP
2 2 (13.33%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (13.33%) Red Team
2 2 (13.33%) Social Engineering
2 2 (13.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (6.67%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (6.67%) Business Case
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Vision
3 1 (6.67%) Data Collection
3 1 (6.67%) DevSecOps
3 1 (6.67%) Generative AI
3 1 (6.67%) LLM
3 1 (6.67%) Reinforcement Learning
3 1 (6.67%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) C#
2 2 (13.33%) Go
3 1 (6.67%) Julia
3 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) CHECK Team Leader
1 2 (13.33%) CREST Certified
1 2 (13.33%) GIAC
1 2 (13.33%) OSCP
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) NIST
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Workday
2 1 (6.67%) Ariba
2 1 (6.67%) Cloudera
2 1 (6.67%) SAP
2 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow