Consultant Contracts in the North West

Consultant
England > North West

The median Consultant daily rate in the North West is £550 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 25 44 81
Rank change year-on-year +19 +37 -34
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 168 134 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 6.04% 4.45% 2.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.39% 4.70% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 98 81
10th Percentile £413 £456 £400
25th Percentile £463 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £595 £625
90th Percentile £725 £650 £650
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +4.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,631 2,854 3,913
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 94.72% 96.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,629 2,025 2,844
10th Percentile £268 £300 £219
25th Percentile £385 £406 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £575
90th Percentile £673 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.19% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 310 132 164
10th Percentile £11.71 £14.56 £11.83
25th Percentile £14.17 £17.72 £15.30
Median hourly rate £32.95 £29.00 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year +13.61% +17.17% +37.50%
75th Percentile £48.00 £43.75 £51.95
90th Percentile £71.87 £59.08 £75.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in the North West

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in the North West

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in the North West

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in the North West

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +14 62 £525 -3.67% 131
Cheshire +5 45 £538 -0.37% 23
Lancashire +27 39 £575 -17.86% 17
Cumbria -6 11 £650 +24.05%
Merseyside +2 9 £488 -2.50% 7
Consultant
England

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

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 West region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 67 (39.88%) SAP
2 43 (25.60%) Social Skills
3 28 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 27 (16.07%) Finance
4 27 (16.07%) Security Cleared
4 27 (16.07%) SAP S/4HANA
5 21 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 21 (12.50%) SC Cleared
6 20 (11.90%) Azure
6 20 (11.90%) Roadmaps
7 19 (11.31%) SuccessFactors
8 18 (10.71%) Microsoft
9 17 (10.12%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (9.52%) Migration
10 16 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
10 16 (9.52%) AWS
11 14 (8.33%) Product Roadmap
11 14 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
12 12 (7.14%) Degree
12 12 (7.14%) NIST
13 11 (6.55%) Pharmaceutical
13 11 (6.55%) Data Migration
14 10 (5.95%) Test Automation
14 10 (5.95%) Ariba
15 9 (5.36%) Change Management
15 9 (5.36%) Oracle
15 9 (5.36%) Asset Management
15 9 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 9 (5.36%) Business Transformation
16 8 (4.76%) Programme Delivery

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (1.19%) CMS
1 2 (1.19%) Confluence
2 1 (0.60%) NetWeaver
2 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.60%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (0.60%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 27 (16.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (4.76%) SAP EWM
3 7 (4.17%) SAP FI
3 7 (4.17%) SAP PP
4 3 (1.79%) Aareon QL
4 3 (1.79%) NetSuite
5 2 (1.19%) SAP GTS
5 2 (1.19%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.60%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.60%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle Internet Expenses
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.60%) SAP APO
6 1 (0.60%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.60%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.60%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.60%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 20 (11.90%) Azure
2 19 (11.31%) SuccessFactors
3 16 (9.52%) AWS
4 6 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (3.57%) OCI
4 6 (3.57%) Oracle Service Cloud
4 6 (3.57%) SaaS
5 5 (2.98%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (2.38%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.79%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.19%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (1.19%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.60%) Boomi
9 1 (0.60%) GCP
9 1 (0.60%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.38%) Network Security
2 1 (0.60%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.38%) Adabas
1 4 (2.38%) Power BI
2 2 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (1.19%) Big Data
2 2 (1.19%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.19%) Hadoop
2 2 (1.19%) Snowflake Schema
2 2 (1.19%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.60%) Metadata
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (0.60%) PowerPivot
3 1 (0.60%) SAP BW
3 1 (0.60%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (1.79%) Git
1 3 (1.79%) JIRA
2 2 (1.19%) Bitbucket
General
1 43 (25.60%) Social Skills
2 27 (16.07%) Finance
3 21 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 16 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.55%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (3.57%) Local Government
7 4 (2.38%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.79%) Aeronautics
8 3 (1.79%) Banking
8 3 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.79%) Marketing
9 2 (1.19%) Automotive
9 2 (1.19%) Publishing
10 1 (0.60%) French Language
10 1 (0.60%) Legal
10 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Public Speaking
10 1 (0.60%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.19%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (1.19%) SAP Basis
1 2 (1.19%) Web Services
2 1 (0.60%) CSS
2 1 (0.60%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.60%) HTML
2 1 (0.60%) Lucene
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.60%) SailPoint
2 1 (0.60%) SAP Core Interface
2 1 (0.60%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.76%) Security Posture
2 7 (4.17%) Life Science
3 5 (2.98%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (2.98%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.98%) Public Cloud
3 5 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (2.98%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 4 (2.38%) Operational Technology
4 4 (2.38%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.19%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.60%) ASIC
7 1 (0.60%) CMDB
7 1 (0.60%) Derivative
7 1 (0.60%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.60%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.38%) Windows
1 4 (2.38%) zOS
2 3 (1.79%) Unix
3 2 (1.19%) Linux
3 2 (1.19%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.60%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 20 (11.90%) Roadmaps
3 17 (10.12%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (9.52%) Migration
5 14 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
5 14 (8.33%) Product Roadmap
6 11 (6.55%) Data Migration
7 10 (5.95%) Test Automation
8 9 (5.36%) Asset Management
8 9 (5.36%) Business Transformation
8 9 (5.36%) Change Management
9 8 (4.76%) Computer Science
9 8 (4.76%) Investment Management
9 8 (4.76%) Programme Delivery
9 8 (4.76%) Programme Management
10 7 (4.17%) Information Security
10 7 (4.17%) Observability
10 7 (4.17%) Security Monitoring
10 7 (4.17%) Translating Business Requirements
11 6 (3.57%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.57%) PowerShell
2 4 (2.38%) Natural
3 3 (1.79%) Bash
3 3 (1.79%) Python
3 3 (1.79%) SQL
4 2 (1.19%) C#
5 1 (0.60%) ABAP
5 1 (0.60%) Java
5 1 (0.60%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.60%) PHP
Qualifications
1 27 (16.07%) Security Cleared
2 21 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.14%) Degree
4 5 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.79%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.60%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.14%) NIST
2 9 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.38%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.79%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (1.19%) GDPR
5 2 (1.19%) GRC
6 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.60%) EMIR
6 1 (0.60%) GxP
6 1 (0.60%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (2.98%) Active Directory
1 5 (2.98%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.79%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.79%) Terraform
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 67 (39.88%) SAP
2 18 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.95%) Ariba
4 9 (5.36%) Oracle
5 5 (2.98%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.98%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.38%) Siemens
6 4 (2.38%) Software AG
7 3 (1.79%) Aareon
7 3 (1.79%) Databricks
7 3 (1.79%) Northgate
7 3 (1.79%) VMware
8 2 (1.19%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.19%) Teradata
9 1 (0.60%) Dell
9 1 (0.60%) Intel
9 1 (0.60%) Tanium
9 1 (0.60%) TOWER Software
9 1 (0.60%) Zscaler