Support Consultant Contracts

Support Consultant
UK

The median Support Consultant daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 552 663 796
Rank change year-on-year +111 +133 -115
Contract jobs requiring a Support Consultant 32 34 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.073% 0.061% 0.060%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.079% 0.065% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 34
10th Percentile £363 £240 £304
25th Percentile £400 £334 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% +25.00%
75th Percentile £528 £556 £569
90th Percentile £616 £593 £622
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% +25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Support Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Consultant in the UK

Support Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Support Consultant in the UK

Support Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Consultant over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Support Consultant in the UK

Support Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Consultant in the UK

Support Consultant
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Support Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +81 20 £400 -6.00% 32
Work from Home +119 19 £463 -11.90% 20
London +86 15 £443 +9.26% 8
UK excluding London +26 9 £475 +11.76% 24
Scotland +52 4 £475 - 1
South West +2 2 £375 -25.00% 3
North of England +14 1 - - 9
North West +13 1 - - 7
South East +13 1 £250 -33.33% 5
Wales - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Support 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 Support Consultant in the job title.

1 10 (31.25%) Finance
2 9 (28.13%) SQL
3 8 (25.00%) Oracle
3 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 7 (21.88%) Windows
4 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
5 5 (15.63%) SAP
5 5 (15.63%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (12.50%) Unix
6 4 (12.50%) EMV
6 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (12.50%) Azure
6 4 (12.50%) DevOps
7 3 (9.38%) Oracle Database
7 3 (9.38%) Windows Server
7 3 (9.38%) Tandem
7 3 (9.38%) Project Management
7 3 (9.38%) Linux
7 3 (9.38%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (9.38%) E-Commerce
7 3 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (9.38%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 3 (9.38%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (9.38%) Onboarding
7 3 (9.38%) Customer Service
7 3 (9.38%) OCI
8 2 (6.25%) Change Advisory Board
8 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (6.25%) Power Automate
8 2 (6.25%) Requirements Gathering

Support 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 (3.13%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle 11i
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle E-Business Tax
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle Receivables
1 2 (6.25%) SAP EWM
1 2 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Internet Expenses
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle iProcurement
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle TCA
2 1 (3.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (3.13%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.63%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (12.50%) Azure
3 3 (9.38%) OCI
3 3 (9.38%) Oracle Service Cloud
4 2 (6.25%) AWS
4 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.25%) Power Automate
4 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.13%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.13%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) Oracle Database
1 3 (9.38%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Discoverer
2 1 (3.13%) Power BI
2 1 (3.13%) SAP HANA
2 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.13%) JIRA
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle APEX
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle Forms
General
1 10 (31.25%) Finance
2 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Banking
3 2 (6.25%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Billing
4 1 (3.13%) General Ledger
4 1 (3.13%) German Language
4 1 (3.13%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.13%) SAP Basis
2 1 (3.13%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) EMV
2 3 (9.38%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (9.38%) Onboarding
2 3 (9.38%) Tandem
3 2 (6.25%) Credit Derivative
3 2 (6.25%) Derivative
3 2 (6.25%) Equities
3 2 (6.25%) Fixed Income
3 2 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (6.25%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.13%) BYOD
4 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.13%) Fat Client
4 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.13%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.88%) Windows
2 4 (12.50%) Unix
3 3 (9.38%) Linux
3 3 (9.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (12.50%) DevOps
1 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (9.38%) Customer Service
2 3 (9.38%) E-Commerce
2 3 (9.38%) Project Management
3 2 (6.25%) Agile
3 2 (6.25%) Business Analysis
3 2 (6.25%) Capacity Management
3 2 (6.25%) Change Advisory Board
3 2 (6.25%) CRM
3 2 (6.25%) ITIL
3 2 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (6.25%) Protective Monitoring
3 2 (6.25%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (6.25%) Security Hardening
3 2 (6.25%) Security Operations
3 2 (6.25%) Server Management
3 2 (6.25%) Virtual Environments
4 1 (3.13%) Order to Cash
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) SQL
2 2 (6.25%) PL/SQL
3 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) DV Cleared
1 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) RMADS
2 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Hyper-V
1 2 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) SCCM
1 2 (6.25%) SCOM
1 2 (6.25%) SCVMM
2 1 (3.13%) Ansible
2 1 (3.13%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) Oracle
2 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
3 5 (15.63%) SAP
4 2 (6.25%) VMware
5 1 (3.13%) Ariba
5 1 (3.13%) Citrix
5 1 (3.13%) HP
5 1 (3.13%) Salesforce