Consultant Contracts in the North of England

Consultant
England > North of England

The median Consultant daily rate in the North of England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 46 86
Rank change year-on-year +16 +40 -36
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 264 224 193
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 5.49% 4.10% 2.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.91% 4.31% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 145 141
10th Percentile £374 £443 £375
25th Percentile £450 £500 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £600 £625
90th Percentile £725 £675 £688
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £18.70
England median hourly rate £60.80 £64.84 £70.25
% change year-on-year -6.23% -7.70% +22.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 4,470 5,202 6,914
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 95.33% 96.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,715 3,644 5,048
10th Percentile £263 £264 £206
25th Percentile £388 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £569
90th Percentile £668 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.19% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 450 163 271
10th Percentile £11.11 £14.05 £11.30
25th Percentile £13.02 £17.60 £14.57
Median hourly rate £23.48 £27.20 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.69% +36.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £48.00 £43.75 £34.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £58.90 £63.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -12.22% +88.21% +13.59%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in the North of England

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Consultant in the North of England

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in the North of England

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in the North of England

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 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
North West +19 168 £550 +1.85% 174
Yorkshire +16 89 £481 -16.30% 75
North East +7 7 £590 +18.00% 21
Consultant
England

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 9 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 job ads across the North of England region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 87 (32.95%) SAP
2 72 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 49 (18.56%) Security Cleared
4 46 (17.42%) Stakeholder Management
5 44 (16.67%) Finance
6 39 (14.77%) SC Cleared
7 37 (14.02%) Microsoft
8 36 (13.64%) SAP S/4HANA
9 31 (11.74%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
11 23 (8.71%) Public Sector
11 23 (8.71%) Roadmaps
12 22 (8.33%) Azure
13 21 (7.95%) Migration
14 20 (7.58%) SuccessFactors
15 18 (6.82%) Asset Management
15 18 (6.82%) Cybersecurity
15 18 (6.82%) Dynamics 365
16 16 (6.06%) AWS
16 16 (6.06%) Customer Service
17 15 (5.68%) ServiceNow
17 15 (5.68%) Data Migration
17 15 (5.68%) Oracle
18 14 (5.30%) Pharmaceutical
18 14 (5.30%) Service Management
18 14 (5.30%) Change Management
18 14 (5.30%) Product Roadmap
19 13 (4.92%) Power Platform
19 13 (4.92%) NIST
19 13 (4.92%) DevOps

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (0.76%) CMS
1 2 (0.76%) Confluence
1 2 (0.76%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.38%) NetWeaver
2 1 (0.38%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (0.38%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 36 (13.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (4.17%) SAP EWM
2 11 (4.17%) SAP FI
3 7 (2.65%) SAP PP
4 5 (1.89%) NetSuite
5 4 (1.52%) SAP CO
6 3 (1.14%) Aareon QL
6 3 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (1.14%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (1.14%) SAP MM
6 3 (1.14%) SAP Retail
7 2 (0.76%) SAP GTS
7 2 (0.76%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.76%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.38%) SAP APO
8 1 (0.38%) SAP EHS
8 1 (0.38%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.38%) SAP Travel Management
8 1 (0.38%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 22 (8.33%) Azure
2 20 (7.58%) SuccessFactors
3 18 (6.82%) Dynamics 365
4 16 (6.06%) AWS
5 13 (4.92%) Power Platform
6 7 (2.65%) OCI
7 6 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (2.27%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 6 (2.27%) SaaS
8 5 (1.89%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.76%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (0.76%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.38%) Boomi
11 1 (0.38%) GCP
11 1 (0.38%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.52%) Network Security
2 2 (0.76%) VLAN
3 1 (0.38%) DNS
3 1 (0.38%) DWDM
3 1 (0.38%) LAN
3 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.03%) Adabas
2 6 (2.27%) Power BI
3 4 (1.52%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.76%) Big Data
4 2 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.76%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.76%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.76%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (0.76%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.38%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.38%) Metadata
5 1 (0.38%) MySQL
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.38%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (0.38%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (0.38%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.38%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 4 (1.52%) JIRA
2 3 (1.14%) Git
3 2 (0.76%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.38%) JMeter
4 1 (0.38%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.38%) NeoLoad
4 1 (0.38%) RStudio
General
1 72 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 44 (16.67%) Finance
3 27 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (8.71%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.30%) Pharmaceutical
6 8 (3.03%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.65%) Local Government
8 6 (2.27%) Retail
9 5 (1.89%) Banking
9 5 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.14%) Aeronautics
10 3 (1.14%) Marketing
11 2 (0.76%) Automotive
11 2 (0.76%) Legal
11 2 (0.76%) Publishing
11 2 (0.76%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.38%) French Language
12 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Public Speaking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.79%) Web Services
2 2 (0.76%) CSS
2 2 (0.76%) EDI
2 2 (0.76%) HTML
2 2 (0.76%) ISPF
2 2 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (0.76%) SAP Basis
3 1 (0.38%) ADO
3 1 (0.38%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.38%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.38%) Lucene
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.38%) REST
3 1 (0.38%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.38%) SAP Core Interface
3 1 (0.38%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.38%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 9 (3.41%) Security Posture
2 8 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (2.65%) Life Science
3 7 (2.65%) Mainframe
4 6 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.89%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.89%) Public Cloud
5 5 (1.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (1.52%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 4 (1.52%) Operational Technology
6 4 (1.52%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.14%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.76%) e-Learning
8 2 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.76%) LPAR
8 2 (0.76%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.76%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.38%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.79%) zOS
2 8 (3.03%) Windows
3 4 (1.52%) Linux
3 4 (1.52%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.14%) Unix
5 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (17.42%) Stakeholder Management
2 31 (11.74%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (8.71%) Roadmaps
4 21 (7.95%) Migration
5 18 (6.82%) Asset Management
5 18 (6.82%) Cybersecurity
6 16 (6.06%) Customer Service
7 15 (5.68%) Data Migration
8 14 (5.30%) Change Management
8 14 (5.30%) Product Roadmap
8 14 (5.30%) Service Management
9 13 (4.92%) DevOps
10 12 (4.55%) ITIL
10 12 (4.55%) ITSM
10 12 (4.55%) Risk Management
10 12 (4.55%) Service Delivery
11 10 (3.79%) Test Automation
12 9 (3.41%) Business Transformation
12 9 (3.41%) Incident Management
12 9 (3.41%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.03%) Natural
1 8 (3.03%) SQL
2 7 (2.65%) PowerShell
3 4 (1.52%) Bash
3 4 (1.52%) Python
4 2 (0.76%) C#
4 2 (0.76%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.76%) JCL
4 2 (0.76%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.38%) ABAP
5 1 (0.38%) CLIST
5 1 (0.38%) Java
5 1 (0.38%) Perl
5 1 (0.38%) PHP
5 1 (0.38%) R
5 1 (0.38%) REXX
Qualifications
1 49 (18.56%) Security Cleared
2 39 (14.77%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.92%) Degree
4 6 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.89%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.14%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.76%) CIPD
7 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.92%) NIST
2 9 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.52%) GDPR
3 4 (1.52%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (0.76%) GRC
6 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.38%) EMIR
6 1 (0.38%) GxP
6 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.38%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (2.65%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.89%) Docker
3 2 (0.76%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 2 (0.76%) Microcode
3 2 (0.76%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (0.38%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.14%) Ansible
1 3 (1.14%) HP Quality Center
1 3 (1.14%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (1.14%) Terraform
2 2 (0.76%) Puppet
3 1 (0.38%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 87 (32.95%) SAP
2 37 (14.02%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.68%) Oracle
3 15 (5.68%) ServiceNow
4 11 (4.17%) Ariba
5 8 (3.03%) Software AG
6 6 (2.27%) EMC
7 5 (1.89%) AVEVA
7 5 (1.89%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.52%) Northgate
8 4 (1.52%) Siemens
8 4 (1.52%) VMware
9 3 (1.14%) Aareon
9 3 (1.14%) Databricks
9 3 (1.14%) HP
9 3 (1.14%) JDA
10 2 (0.76%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.76%) IBM
10 2 (0.76%) Syclo
10 2 (0.76%) Teradata