Information Technology Consulting

This report provides Monadnock Research estimates for 2026 IT Consulting rates in the United States from our firm's continuous cross-industry consulting rate analysis of current negotiated master service agreements between clients and strategic firms. Consulting rates in this report cover mean and median rates for IT consulting work across all service areas. This report includes mean and median hourly, daily and weekly rates for the 15 most common categories of professional, with full detail on experience, education and customary titles for each level. The report includes rate break-outs for the following service provider specialist categories: All providers of IT services, large IT specialists, small and mid-market IT specialists, Indian IT majors, public sector defense and aerospace IT specialists and operations specialists. We also include IT Consulting rate break-outs for 14 large US metropolitan areas and 11 IT Consulting practice area sub-categories. (82 Pages, 37 Exhibits)...More

This report provides Monadnock Research estimates for 2025 IT Consulting rates in the United States from our firm's continuous cross-industry consulting rate analysis of current negotiated master service agreements between clients and strategic firms. Consulting rates in this report cover mean and median rates for IT consulting work across all service areas. This report includes mean and median hourly, daily and weekly rates for the 15 most common categories of professional, with full detail on experience, education and customary titles for each level. The report includes rate break-outs for the following service provider specialist categories: All providers of IT services, large IT specialists, small and midmarket IT specialists, Indian IT majors, public sector defense and aerospace IT specialists and operations specialists. We also include IT Consulting rate break-outs for 14 large US metropolitan areas and 11 IT Consulting practice area sub-categories. (81Pages, 37 Exhibits)...More

This report provides Monadnock Research estimates for 2024 IT Consulting rates in the United States from our firm's continuous cross-industry consulting rate analysis of current negotiated master service agreements between clients and strategic firms. Consulting rates in this report cover mean and median rates for IT consulting work across all service areas. This report includes mean and median hourly, daily and weekly rates for the 15 most common categories of professional, with full detail on experience, education and customary titles for each level. The report includes rate break-outs for the following service provider specialist categories: All providers of IT services, large IT specialists, small and midmarket IT specialists, Indian IT majors, public sector defense and aerospace IT specialists and operations specialists. We also include IT Consulting rate break-outs for 14 large US metropolitan areas and 9 IT Consulting practice area sub-categories. (73Pages, 36 Exhibits)...More

2024 rates for the US and other global markets are now available for Monadnock Research clients. This includes management consulting and business advisory services rates for Strategy, Operations, HR and Marketing Consulting; Tax, Financial, Transaction, Accounting, Internal Audit, Risk, Regulatory, Governance, Legal and Forensic Advisory; and IT Consulting Rates, with breakouts for consulting in the areas of Analytics, AI and Big Data, Digital, Interactive Services, Cybersecurity, Enterprise Applications, Software Development, Systems Integration, Quality Assurance and Testing, Cloud and Communications, and Technology and Support Services....More

This report provides Monadnock Research estimates for 2023 US IT Consulting rates for Systems Integration Services from our firm's continuous cross-industry consulting rate analysis of current negotiated master service agreements between clients and strategic firms. Consulting rates in this report include mean and median rates for IT consulting work across these practice specialty areas. The report includes hourly, daily and weekly rates for the 15 most common categories of professional, with full detail on experience, education and customary titles for each level. Rate break-outs are also provided for the following service provider specialist categories: All providers of IT services; large IT specialists; small and midmarket specialists; India IT majors; aerospace, defense and public sector IT specialists; the Big Four; financial and business advisory specialists; and operations specialists. (70 Pages, 30 Exhibits)...More

This report provides Monadnock Research estimates for 2023 US IT Consulting rates for Software Development Services from our firm's continuous cross-industry consulting rate analysis of current negotiated master service agreements between clients and strategic firms. Consulting rates in this report include mean and median rates for IT consulting work across these practice specialty areas. The report includes hourly, daily and weekly rates for the 15 most common categories of professional, with full detail on experience, education and customary titles for each level. Rate break-outs are also provided for the following service provider specialist categories: All providers of IT services; large IT specialists; small and midmarket specialists; India IT majors; aerospace, defense and public sector IT specialists; the Big Four; financial and business advisory specialists; and operations specialists. (67 Pages, 27 Exhibits)...More

This report provides Monadnock Research estimates for 2023 US IT Consulting rates for Enterprise Applications from our firm's continuous cross-industry consulting rate analysis of current negotiated master service agreements between clients and strategic firms. Consulting rates in this report include mean and median rates for IT consulting work across these practice specialty areas. The report includes hourly, daily and weekly rates for the 15 most common categories of professional, with full detail on experience, education and customary titles for each level. Rate break-outs are also provided for the following service provider specialist categories: All providers of IT services; large IT specialists; small and midmarket specialists; India IT majors; aerospace, defense and public sector IT specialists; the Big Four; financial and business advisory specialists; and operations specialists. (67 Pages, 27 Exhibits)...More

This report provides Monadnock Research estimates for 2023 US IT Consulting rates in Digital Services from our firm's continuous cross-industry consulting rate analysis of current negotiated master service agreements between clients and strategic firms. Consulting rates in this report include mean and median rates for IT consulting work across these practice specialty areas. The report includes hourly, daily and weekly rates for the 15 most common categories of professional, with full detail on experience, education and customary titles for each level. Rate break-outs are also provided for the following service provider specialist categories: All providers of IT services; large IT specialists; small and midmarket specialists; India IT majors; aerospace, defense and public sector IT specialists; the Big Four; and operations specialists. (68 Pages, 27 Exhibits)...More

This report provides Monadnock Research estimates for 2023 US IT Consulting rates in Analytics, AI and Big Data from our firm's continuous cross-industry consulting rate analysis of current negotiated master service agreements between clients and strategic firms. Consulting rates in this report include mean and median rates for IT consulting work across these practice specialty areas. The report includes hourly, daily and weekly rates for the 15 most common categories of professional, with full detail on experience, education and customary titles for each level. Rate break-outs are also provided for the following service provider specialist categories: All providers of IT services; large IT specialists; small and midmarket specialists; India IT majors; aerospace, defense and public sector IT specialists; the Big Four; and operations specialists. (67 Pages, 27 Exhibits)...More

This report provides Monadnock Research estimates for 2023 US IT Consulting rates in CyberSecurity Services from our firm's continuous cross-industry consulting rate analysis of current negotiated master service agreements between clients and strategic firms. Consulting rates in this report include mean and median rates for IT consulting work across these practice specialty areas. The report includes hourly, daily and weekly rates for the 15 most common categories of professional, with full detail on experience, education and customary titles for each level. Rate break-outs are also provided for the following service provider specialist categories: All providers of IT services; large IT specialists; small and midmarket specialists; India IT majors; aerospace, defense and public sector IT specialists; the Big Four; and operations specialists. (67 Pages, 27 Exhibits)...More

This overview report provides Monadnock Research estimates for 2023 IT Consulting rates in the United States from our firm's continuous cross-industry consulting rate analysis of current negotiated master service agreements between clients and strategic firms. Consulting rates in this report cover mean and median rates for IT consulting work across all service areas. We will soon publish breakout reports for 9 sub-categories of IT consulting rates. This report includes mean and median hourly, daily and weekly rates for the 15 most common categories of professional, with full detail on experience, education and customary titles for each level. The report includes rate break-outs for the following service provider specialist categories: All providers of IT services, large IT specialists, small and midmarket IT specialists, Indian IT majors, public sector defense and aerospace IT specialists and operations specialists. We also include IT Consulting rate break-outs for 14 large US metropol...More

This report discusses rate trends for 2023 and the ten levers of consulting and advisory services rate negotiations. The 2023 Consulting Rate Factors report helps organizations and their consulting and advisory service providers understand key elements that impact consulting rates from the perspective of client organization and its strategic service providers. (53 pages)...More

This report provides Monadnock Research estimates for 2022 US IT Consulting rates for Enterprise Applications from our firm's continuous cross-industry consulting rate analysis of current negotiated master service agreements between clients and strategic firms. Consulting rates in this report include mean and median rates for IT consulting work across these practice specialty areas. The report includes hourly, daily and weekly rates for the 15 most common categories of professional, with full detail on experience, education and customary titles for each level. Rate break-outs are also provided for the following service provider specialist categories: All providers of IT services; large IT specialists; small and midmarket specialists; India IT majors; aerospace, defense and public sector IT specialists; the Big Four; financial and business advisory specialists; and operations specialists. (70 Pages, 30 Exhibits)...More

This report provides Monadnock Research estimates for 2022 US IT Consulting rates for Systems Integration Services from our firm's continuous cross-industry consulting rate analysis of current negotiated master service agreements between clients and strategic firms. Consulting rates in this report include mean and median rates for IT consulting work across these practice specialty areas. The report includes hourly, daily and weekly rates for the 15 most common categories of professional, with full detail on experience, education and customary titles for each level. Rate break-outs are also provided for the following service provider specialist categories: All providers of IT services; large IT specialists; small and midmarket specialists; India IT majors; aerospace, defense and public sector IT specialists; the Big Four; financial and business advisory specialists; and operations specialists. (70 Pages, 30 Exhibits)...More

This report provides Monadnock Research estimates for 2022 US IT Consulting rates for Software Development Services from our firm's continuous cross-industry consulting rate analysis of current negotiated master service agreements between clients and strategic firms. Consulting rates in this report include mean and median rates for IT consulting work across these practice specialty areas. The report includes hourly, daily and weekly rates for the 15 most common categories of professional, with full detail on experience, education and customary titles for each level. Rate break-outs are also provided for the following service provider specialist categories: All providers of IT services; large IT specialists; small and midmarket specialists; India IT majors; aerospace, defense and public sector IT specialists; the Big Four; financial and business advisory specialists; and operations specialists. (70 Pages, 30 Exhibits)...More

This report provides Monadnock Research estimates for 2022 US IT Consulting rates for Quality Assurance & Testing Services from our firm's continuous cross-industry consulting rate analysis of current negotiated master service agreements between clients and strategic firms. Consulting rates in this report include mean and median rates for IT consulting work across these practice specialty areas. The report includes hourly, daily and weekly rates for the 15 most common categories of professional, with full detail on experience, education and customary titles for each level. Rate break-outs are also provided for the following service provider specialist categories: All providers of IT services; large IT specialists; small and midmarket specialists; India IT majors; aerospace, defense and public sector IT specialists; the Big Four; financial and business advisory specialists; and operations specialists. (70 Pages, 30 Exhibits)...More

This report provides Monadnock Research estimates for 2022 US IT Consulting rates in Digital Services from our firm's continuous cross-industry consulting rate analysis of current negotiated master service agreements between clients and strategic firms. Consulting rates in this report include mean and median rates for IT consulting work across these practice specialty areas. The report includes hourly, daily and weekly rates for the 15 most common categories of professional, with full detail on experience, education and customary titles for each level. Rate break-outs are also provided for the following service provider specialist categories: All providers of IT services; large IT specialists; small and midmarket specialists; India IT majors; aerospace, defense and public sector IT specialists; the Big Four; financial and business advisory specialists; and operations specialists. (70 Pages, 30 Exhibits)...More

This report provides Monadnock Research estimates for 2022 US IT Consulting rates in Cloud, Internet & Communication Services from our firm's continuous cross-industry consulting rate analysis of current negotiated master service agreements between clients and strategic firms. Consulting rates in this report include mean and median rates for IT consulting work across these practice specialty areas. The report includes hourly, daily and weekly rates for the 15 most common categories of professional, with full detail on experience, education and customary titles for each level. Rate break-outs are also provided for the following service provider specialist categories: All providers of IT services; large IT specialists; small and midmarket specialists; India IT majors; aerospace, defense and public sector IT specialists; the Big Four; financial and business advisory specialists; and operations specialists. (70 Pages, 30 Exhibits)...More

This report provides Monadnock Research estimates for 2022 US IT Consulting rates in CyberSecurity Services from our firm's continuous cross-industry consulting rate analysis of current negotiated master service agreements between clients and strategic firms. Consulting rates in this report include mean and median rates for IT consulting work across these practice specialty areas. The report includes hourly, daily and weekly rates for the 15 most common categories of professional, with full detail on experience, education and customary titles for each level. Rate break-outs are also provided for the following service provider specialist categories: All providers of IT services; large IT specialists; small and midmarket specialists; India IT majors; aerospace, defense and public sector IT specialists; the Big Four; financial and business advisory specialists; and operations specialists. (70 Pages, 30 Exhibits)...More

This report provides Monadnock Research estimates for 2022 US IT Consulting rates in Technology and Support Services from our firm's continuous cross-industry consulting rate analysis of current negotiated master service agreements between clients and strategic firms. Consulting rates in this report include mean and median rates for IT consulting work across these practice specialty areas. The report includes hourly, daily and weekly rates for the 15 most common categories of professional, with full detail on experience, education and customary titles for each level. Rate break-outs are also provided for the following service provider specialist categories: All providers of IT services; large IT specialists; small and midmarket specialists; India IT majors; aerospace, defense and public sector IT specialists; the Big Four; financial and business advisory specialists; and operations specialists. (70 Pages, 30 Exhibits)...More

This report provides Monadnock Research estimates for 2022 US IT Consulting rates in Analytics, AI and Big Data from our firm's continuous cross-industry consulting rate analysis of current negotiated master service agreements between clients and strategic firms. Consulting rates in this report include mean and median rates for IT consulting work across these practice specialty areas. The report includes hourly, daily and weekly rates for the 15 most common categories of professional, with full detail on experience, education and customary titles for each level. Rate break-outs are also provided for the following service provider specialist categories: All providers of IT services; large IT specialists; small and midmarket specialists; India IT majors; aerospace, defense and public sector IT specialists; the Big Four; financial and business advisory specialists; and operations specialists. (70 Pages, 30 Exhibits)...More

This overview report provides Monadnock Research estimates for 2022 IT Consulting rates in the United States from our firm's continuous cross-industry consulting rate analysis of current negotiated master service agreements between clients and strategic firms. Consulting rates in this report cover mean and median rates for IT consulting work across all service areas. We will soon publish breakout reports for 9 sub-categories of IT consulting rates. This report includes mean and median hourly, daily and weekly rates for the 15 most common categories of professional, with full detail on experience, education and customary titles for each level. The report includes rate break-outs for the following service provider specialist categories: All providers of IT services, large IT specialists, small and midmarket IT specialists, Indian IT majors, public sector defense and aerospace IT specialists and operations specialists. We also include IT Consulting rate break-outs for 14 large US metropol...More

This report provides an analysis of women serving at various levels of consulting service providers, with a special focus on related efforts of the Big Four and Accenture. We also provide analysis on diversity in the private equity and venture capital industries, and the challenges facing early stage companies across a number of other industries. Our analysis of the consulting sector should be viewed as a best-case example since the efforts of the Big Four and Accenture are significant, and these service providers have devoted more resources than most companies toward addressing the challenge of gender equality in hiring and advancement. (1,904 words, 1 graphic)...More

Most organizations are struggling today with an unfamiliar reality, where businesses and public service organizations must continue to deliver products and services during a global pandemic. Face-to-face contact is minimized, even eliminated, in many jurisdictions. To help clients and firms better understand how this may impact consulting rates, this report updates our analysis of rate differentials between services provided on a client's premises, and those provided by consulting staff located off site. Where firms offer these two rate alternatives, a second set of rates is provided for services performed from the consulting firm's offices or other off-site facilities, in addition to the standard rate schedule for services performed on the client site. This report provides results of MR's 2020 study of rate differentials. Master services agreements for 18 location-based rating schemes from 16 firms were analyzed for 2020 rates, contrasting these results with trends detailed in our 201...More

Table of Contents: (1) 2020 UK Information Technology Consulting Rates; (2) 2020 UK Operations Consulting Rates; (3) Capgemini Agrees to Acquire Purpose; Regulators Allow $4B Altran Deal to Proceed; (4) Accenture Announces Reorganization; Completes Acquisitions of maihiro and Clarity; (5) Canadian Cybersecurity Firm, Cytelligence, Acquired by Aon; (6) McKinsey Makes Series A Investment in Cybersecurity firm, Praetorian; (7) SAIC to Acquire Unisys Federal in $1.2 Billion Transaction; (8) Segal Acquires Retirement Systems Consultancy, LRWL; (9) Quartz Publishes Series on Risk When Biggest Auditors Became Bigger Consultants; (10) Ankura Acquires Ann Arbor-based 284 Partners; (11) Consulting Leadership: Accenture, PA Consulting and SAIC; (12) Thought Leadership: Accenture. (2,825 words)...More

This report provides Monadnock Research estimates for 2020 IT Consulting rates in the United Kingdom from our firm's continuous cross-industry consulting rate analysis of current negotiated master service agreements between clients and strategic firms. Mean and median hourly, daily and weekly rates are provided for the 15 most common categories of professional, with full detail on experience, education and customary titles for each level. We also provide rate differential break-outs for 11 large metropolitan IT Consulting markets in the UK. The report also includes rate break-outs for 9 IT consulting service sub-categories, as well as a firm category break-out for Large IT Consulting Specialists; Small and Mid-Market IT Consulting Specialists; the Big Four; and Operations Specialists. (66 Pages, 30 Exhibits)...More

Table of Contents: (1) 2019-2020 US IT Consulting Rates; (2) 2019-2020 US Operations Consulting Rates; (3) 2019-2020 US Strategy Consulting Rates; (4) Deloitte Fiscal 2019 Consulting Revenues Up 13 Percent; Audit Revenues Unchanged; (5) US Census Bureau Publishes Q1 and Q2 Professional Services Revenue Numbers; (6) BearingPoint Reorganizes; Reenters US Consulting Marketplace; (7) BDO US Grows Fiscal 2019 Advisory Revenue by 40 percent; (8) Accenture Acquires Spanish Big Data Consultancy, Pragsis Bidoop; Completes INSITUM Acquisition; (9) Consulting Leadership: DXC, SAIC, Capgemini, Publicis Sapient; and (10) Consulting Thought Leadership: Aon and Accenture. (2,565 words)...More

This report provides Monadnock Research estimates for 2019-2020 IT Consulting rates in the United States from our firm's continuous cross-industry consulting rate analysis of current negotiated master service agreements between clients and strategic firms. Mean and median hourly, daily and weekly rates are provided for the 15 most common categories of professional, with full detail on experience, education and customary titles for each level, along with rate differential break-outs for 14 large metropolitan IT Consulting markets in the US. The report also includes rate break-outs for 9 IT consulting service sub-categories, as well as a firm category break-out for Large IT Consulting Specialists; Large Commercial IT Consultant Specialists, Large Public Sector and Defense Specialists, Small and Mid-Market IT Consulting Specialists, the Big Four and Operations Specialists. (69 Pages, 35 Exhibits)...More

Table of Contents: (1) Big Four Fiscal 2018 Consulting Rankings and Audit Conflict Risk Metrics; (2) Jay Alix Loses Battle with McKinsey; But the AlixPartners/McKinsey Legal War Continues; (3) UK Regulator May Consider Alternatives to Proposed Split of Big Four Consulting and Audit Operations; (4) BDO USA Acquires Management Consultancy, AC Lordi; (5) Accenture Completes Acquisitions of Droga5 and ESP; (6) Consulting Leadership: Deloitte, EY, PwC, BearingPoint and Navigant; and (7) Thought Leadership: A.T. Kearney and PwC. (2,950 words)...More

This is the ninth annual report detailing our analysis of the Big Four's consulting practices, as they continue to seek organic growth and strategic M&A with a special focus on non-audit services. Fiscal 2018 global non-audit advisory services of the Big Four, including tax services, increased to $97.3 billion (USD) in fiscal 2018, an 11.8% increase over fiscal 2017 levels. Total non-tax consulting and advisory services of Deloitte, KPMG, PwC and EY were $63.6 billion, an increase of 13.1% over fiscal 2017. Overall, Big Four fiscal 2018 revenue was $148.21 billion, up 10.29 percent. Growth in advisory, however, contrasts with overall growth of 7.5% in audit revenue to $50.94 billion, up from an increase of 2.79% in fiscal 2017. We note that the Big Four continue to aggressively seek organic growth and strategic M&A in non-audit consulting and advisory services as their number 1 strategic priority. This Research Note offers an in-depth analysis of the growing conflict risk since 2010 po...More