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 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 51 89
Rank change year-on-year +20 +38 -40
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 252 214 189
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 5.32% 3.88% 2.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.71% 4.07% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 141 137
10th Percentile £376 £438 £370
25th Percentile £450 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £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 £61.60 £64.84 £70.50
% change year-on-year -4.99% -8.03% +22.61%

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 4,410 5,258 6,892
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.02% 95.43% 96.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,721 3,683 5,047
10th Percentile £263 £270 £204
25th Percentile £386 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £598 £563
90th Percentile £670 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 163 272
10th Percentile £11.09 £14.05 £11.35
25th Percentile £13.00 £17.72 £14.61
Median hourly rate £22.50 £28.70 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.60% +45.32% +11.99%
75th Percentile £47.50 £45.62 £33.96
90th Percentile £66.61 £65.60 £62.70
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%

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 1 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 1 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 +21 160 £550 +1.85% 187
Yorkshire +25 85 £475 -15.56% 80
North East +5 7 £590 +18.00% 11
Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 85 (33.73%) SAP
2 70 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 53 (21.03%) Stakeholder Management
4 49 (19.44%) Security Cleared
5 39 (15.48%) SC Cleared
6 35 (13.89%) Finance
6 35 (13.89%) SAP S/4HANA
7 31 (12.30%) Public Sector
7 31 (12.30%) Microsoft
8 29 (11.51%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (10.32%) Migration
10 21 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
11 20 (7.94%) Roadmaps
11 20 (7.94%) Data Migration
12 18 (7.14%) Asset Management
12 18 (7.14%) SuccessFactors
13 17 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
13 17 (6.75%) Azure
14 16 (6.35%) Programme Management
14 16 (6.35%) Programme Delivery
15 15 (5.95%) Customer Service
15 15 (5.95%) Oracle
16 14 (5.56%) User Acceptance Testing
17 13 (5.16%) SAP EWM
17 13 (5.16%) Service Management
17 13 (5.16%) DevOps
18 12 (4.76%) Power Platform
18 12 (4.76%) Product Roadmap
18 12 (4.76%) Service Delivery
18 12 (4.76%) ITIL

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 (0.79%) CMS
1 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (0.79%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (0.40%) NetWeaver
2 1 (0.40%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (0.40%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 35 (13.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (5.16%) SAP EWM
3 11 (4.37%) SAP FI
4 8 (3.17%) SAP PP
5 6 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (1.98%) NetSuite
7 4 (1.59%) SAP CO
8 3 (1.19%) Aareon QL
8 3 (1.19%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (1.19%) SAP MM
8 3 (1.19%) SAP Retail
9 2 (0.79%) SAP GTS
9 2 (0.79%) SAP IBP
9 2 (0.79%) SAP SD
10 1 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.40%) SAP APO
10 1 (0.40%) SAP EHS
10 1 (0.40%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 1 (0.40%) SAP Travel Management
10 1 (0.40%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 21 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
2 18 (7.14%) SuccessFactors
3 17 (6.75%) Azure
4 12 (4.76%) Power Platform
5 10 (3.97%) AWS
6 7 (2.78%) OCI
7 6 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.38%) Oracle Service Cloud
8 5 (1.98%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.79%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (0.79%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (0.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.40%) Boomi
10 1 (0.40%) GCP
10 1 (0.40%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.40%) SaaS
10 1 (0.40%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.19%) Network Security
2 2 (0.79%) VLAN
3 1 (0.40%) DNS
3 1 (0.40%) DWDM
3 1 (0.40%) LAN
3 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.98%) Power BI
2 4 (1.59%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (0.79%) Big Data
3 2 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.79%) Hadoop
3 2 (0.79%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (0.79%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.40%) Metadata
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (0.40%) PowerPivot
4 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.40%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (0.40%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.40%) Sisense
4 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (1.19%) Git
2 2 (0.79%) JIRA
3 1 (0.40%) JMeter
3 1 (0.40%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.40%) NeoLoad
3 1 (0.40%) RStudio
General
1 70 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 35 (13.89%) Finance
3 31 (12.30%) Public Sector
4 17 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
6 9 (3.57%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.78%) Local Government
8 6 (2.38%) Marketing
8 6 (2.38%) Retail
9 5 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.59%) Banking
11 3 (1.19%) Aeronautics
12 2 (0.79%) Automotive
12 2 (0.79%) Legal
12 2 (0.79%) Spanish Language
13 1 (0.40%) French Language
13 1 (0.40%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.40%) Public Speaking
13 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.97%) Web Services
2 2 (0.79%) EDI
2 2 (0.79%) ISPF
2 2 (0.79%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (0.79%) SAP Basis
3 1 (0.40%) ADO
3 1 (0.40%) CSS
3 1 (0.40%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.40%) HTML
3 1 (0.40%) Lucene
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.40%) REST
3 1 (0.40%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.40%) SAP Core Interface
3 1 (0.40%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.40%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 7 (2.78%) Life Science
1 7 (2.78%) Mainframe
2 5 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (1.59%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 4 (1.59%) Management Information System
3 4 (1.59%) Operational Technology
3 4 (1.59%) Security Posture
3 4 (1.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (1.19%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.19%) Virtual Team
5 2 (0.79%) e-Learning
5 2 (0.79%) LPAR
5 2 (0.79%) Mobile App
5 2 (0.79%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.40%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.40%) Derivative
6 1 (0.40%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.38%) Windows
2 4 (1.59%) Linux
3 3 (1.19%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.79%) zOS
5 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.40%) Unix
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (21.03%) Stakeholder Management
2 29 (11.51%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (10.32%) Migration
4 20 (7.94%) Data Migration
4 20 (7.94%) Roadmaps
5 18 (7.14%) Asset Management
6 16 (6.35%) Programme Delivery
6 16 (6.35%) Programme Management
7 15 (5.95%) Customer Service
8 14 (5.56%) User Acceptance Testing
9 13 (5.16%) DevOps
9 13 (5.16%) Service Management
10 12 (4.76%) ITIL
10 12 (4.76%) Product Roadmap
10 12 (4.76%) Service Delivery
11 11 (4.37%) ITSM
11 11 (4.37%) Risk Management
11 11 (4.37%) Translating Business Requirements
12 9 (3.57%) Cybersecurity
12 9 (3.57%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.17%) PowerShell
2 7 (2.78%) SQL
3 4 (1.59%) Bash
3 4 (1.59%) Python
4 3 (1.19%) ABAP
5 2 (0.79%) C#
5 2 (0.79%) JCL
5 2 (0.79%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.40%) CLIST
6 1 (0.40%) Java
6 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.40%) Perl
6 1 (0.40%) PHP
6 1 (0.40%) R
6 1 (0.40%) REXX
Qualifications
1 49 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 39 (15.48%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (1.98%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.59%) Degree
6 3 (1.19%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.79%) CIPD
7 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.40%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (2.78%) NIST
3 3 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (1.19%) GDPR
3 3 (1.19%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.79%) GRC
4 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.40%) EMIR
5 1 (0.40%) GxP
5 1 (0.40%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.40%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (3.17%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.19%) Docker
3 2 (0.79%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 2 (0.79%) Microcode
3 2 (0.79%) Time Sharing Option
3 2 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (1.19%) Ansible
1 3 (1.19%) HP Quality Center
1 3 (1.19%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (1.19%) Terraform
2 2 (0.79%) Puppet
3 1 (0.40%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.40%) SCCM
Vendors
1 85 (33.73%) SAP
2 31 (12.30%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.95%) Oracle
4 10 (3.97%) Ariba
5 9 (3.57%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.38%) EMC
7 5 (1.98%) AVEVA
7 5 (1.98%) VMware
8 4 (1.59%) Northgate
8 4 (1.59%) Siemens
9 3 (1.19%) Aareon
9 3 (1.19%) Databricks
9 3 (1.19%) HP
9 3 (1.19%) JDA
10 2 (0.79%) IBM
10 2 (0.79%) Syclo
10 2 (0.79%) Teradata
11 1 (0.40%) NEC
11 1 (0.40%) Symantec
11 1 (0.40%) TOWER Software