Implementation Consultant Contracts

Implementation Consultant
UK

The median Implementation Consultant daily rate in the UK is £550, 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 524 673 820
Rank change year-on-year +149 +147 -150
Contract jobs requiring an Implementation Consultant 60 24 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.043% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.046% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 14 21
10th Percentile £412 £408 £425
25th Percentile £480 £431 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £559 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% +1.59% +15.79%
75th Percentile £631 £600 £675
90th Percentile £763 £675 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +22.22% -7.69% -15.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £70.50 - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - -
Median hourly rate £72.50 - -
75th Percentile £73.75 - -
90th Percentile £74.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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%

Implementation Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Implementation Consultant in the UK

Implementation Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Implementation Consultant in the UK

Implementation Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Implementation Consultant in the UK

Implementation Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Implementation Consultant in the UK

Implementation Consultant
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Implementation 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 +114 44 £550 -4.35% 45
Work from Home +127 26 £550 -4.35% 38
London +100 25 £570 -8.80% 13
UK excluding London +39 18 £550 +22.22% 33
North of England +22 8 - - 10
North West +21 7 - - 6
Midlands +17 4 £430 -4.44% 8
South West - 4 £550 - 5
East Midlands - 3 £430 - 3
South East +16 2 £500 +66.67% 4
Yorkshire +14 1 - - 4
Scotland - 1 - - 3

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

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

1 13 (21.67%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.33%) Finance
3 10 (16.67%) Change Management
3 10 (16.67%) Oracle
4 9 (15.00%) Project Management
4 9 (15.00%) Banking
4 9 (15.00%) Analytics
5 7 (11.67%) Microsoft
6 6 (10.00%) ERP
6 6 (10.00%) Migration
6 6 (10.00%) Data Management
6 6 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 6 (10.00%) Order Management
7 5 (8.33%) Roadmaps
7 5 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (8.33%) ServiceNow
7 5 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (8.33%) Agile
7 5 (8.33%) Service Management
7 5 (8.33%) SQL
7 5 (8.33%) Asset Management
7 5 (8.33%) Azure
8 4 (6.67%) AWS
8 4 (6.67%) Investment Management
8 4 (6.67%) Data Integration
8 4 (6.67%) Portfolio Management
8 4 (6.67%) SimCorp
8 4 (6.67%) SimCorp Dimension
8 4 (6.67%) Degree
8 4 (6.67%) HTML

Implementation 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 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Oracle Financials
1 4 (6.67%) SimCorp Dimension
2 3 (5.00%) NEC Housing
2 3 (5.00%) NetSuite
3 2 (3.33%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (1.67%) Relativity
4 1 (1.67%) ResourceLink
4 1 (1.67%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.67%) SAP IBP
4 1 (1.67%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (1.67%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.33%) Azure
2 4 (6.67%) AWS
2 4 (6.67%) GCP
3 3 (5.00%) Adobe Analytics
3 3 (5.00%) Google Analytics
3 3 (5.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (5.00%) SaaS
4 2 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.67%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.67%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.67%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.00%) Power BI
3 2 (3.33%) BigQuery
3 2 (3.33%) Looker
3 2 (3.33%) RDBMS
3 2 (3.33%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.33%) Tableau
4 1 (1.67%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Hudson
1 1 (1.67%) Postman
1 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (21.67%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.33%) Finance
3 9 (15.00%) Banking
4 5 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.67%) Legal
6 3 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.00%) Retail
7 2 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.33%) Law
7 2 (3.33%) Local Government
7 2 (3.33%) Marketing
7 2 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.67%) Advertising
8 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.67%) HTML
2 2 (3.33%) CSS
2 2 (3.33%) HTML5
2 2 (3.33%) jQuery
2 2 (3.33%) Middleware
2 2 (3.33%) PyTorch
2 2 (3.33%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.67%) DOM
3 1 (1.67%) JSON
3 1 (1.67%) Node.js
3 1 (1.67%) Swagger
3 1 (1.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.67%) CMDB
3 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.67%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.00%) Windows
2 2 (3.33%) Linux
2 2 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (16.67%) Change Management
2 9 (15.00%) Analytics
2 9 (15.00%) Project Management
3 6 (10.00%) Data Management
3 6 (10.00%) ERP
3 6 (10.00%) Migration
3 6 (10.00%) Order Management
3 6 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 5 (8.33%) Agile
4 5 (8.33%) Asset Management
4 5 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (8.33%) Roadmaps
4 5 (8.33%) Service Management
5 4 (6.67%) Data Integration
5 4 (6.67%) Data Modelling
5 4 (6.67%) Investment Management
5 4 (6.67%) Performance Attribution
5 4 (6.67%) Performance Measurement
5 4 (6.67%) Portfolio Management
6 3 (5.00%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.33%) SQL
2 4 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (5.00%) Python
4 1 (1.67%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 4 (6.67%) Degree
2 3 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (5.00%) Master's Degree
2 3 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.67%) CIPD
4 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (3.33%) QA
2 1 (1.67%) GDPR
2 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 10 (16.67%) Oracle
2 7 (11.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 4 (6.67%) SAP
4 4 (6.67%) SimCorp
5 3 (5.00%) Adobe
5 3 (5.00%) CyberArk
5 3 (5.00%) Google
5 3 (5.00%) iManage
5 3 (5.00%) NEC
5 3 (5.00%) Sage
6 2 (3.33%) Monetate
6 2 (3.33%) Northgate
6 2 (3.33%) Optimizely
6 2 (3.33%) Tealium
7 1 (1.67%) HubSpot
7 1 (1.67%) Infor
7 1 (1.67%) Omniture
7 1 (1.67%) OpenText
7 1 (1.67%) SYSPRO