Consultant Contracts in the South West

Consultant
England > South West

The median Consultant daily rate in the South West is £550 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 45 62 75
Rank change year-on-year +17 +13 -26
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 126 118 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.88% 3.49% 2.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.18% 3.77% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 74 75
10th Percentile £361 £450 £378
25th Percentile £450 £475 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.37% -7.73% +15.79%
75th Percentile £647 £609 £619
90th Percentile £762 £675 £704
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 16 0
10th Percentile £50.88 £60.00 -
25th Percentile £52.19 £61.50 -
Median hourly rate £56.25 £77.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.18% - -
75th Percentile £62.19 £87.50 -
90th Percentile £64.63 £91.88 -
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
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South 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 South West with a recognized job title 3,011 3,132 3,497
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 92.58% 95.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,894 2,325 2,533
10th Percentile £213 £281 £225
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £600
90th Percentile £700 £719 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 440 250 210
10th Percentile £13.86 £17.72 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £50.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £64.15 £45.20
Median % change year-on-year -14.26% +41.91% +1.57%
75th Percentile £71.25 £74.69 £63.33
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.40 £68.38
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in the South West

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in the South West

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in the South West over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in the South West

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in the South West

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West 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
Wiltshire +1 35 £625 +25.00% 25
Bristol -4 29 £500 -4.76% 85
Gloucestershire +8 17 £540 -6.09% 30
Devon +8 13 £450 -10.00% 16
Dorset +11 12 £650 +30.00% 5
Somerset +3 9 £350 -18.84% 4
Cornwall - 1 £625 -
Consultant
England

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

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 South West region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 45 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 32 (25.40%) Social Skills
3 31 (24.60%) Microsoft
4 28 (22.22%) DV Cleared
5 22 (17.46%) Finance
6 19 (15.08%) SAP
7 18 (14.29%) Migration
8 16 (12.70%) Cybersecurity
8 16 (12.70%) SC Cleared
9 15 (11.90%) Public Sector
10 14 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
10 14 (11.11%) Data Migration
10 14 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
11 12 (9.52%) Agile
11 12 (9.52%) Risk Management
11 12 (9.52%) Oracle
11 12 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (8.73%) NIST
12 11 (8.73%) Project Management
12 11 (8.73%) Azure
13 9 (7.14%) Protective Monitoring
13 9 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
13 9 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (7.14%) Power Platform
13 9 (7.14%) SIEM
13 9 (7.14%) SharePoint
13 9 (7.14%) Manufacturing
14 8 (6.35%) ERP
14 8 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (6.35%) Analytics

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 9 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.59%) CMS
4 1 (0.79%) IIS
4 1 (0.79%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.38%) Oracle Payroll
3 2 (1.59%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (1.59%) SAP ERP
3 2 (1.59%) SAP HCM
3 2 (1.59%) SAP HR
3 2 (1.59%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (1.59%) SAP PP
3 2 (1.59%) SAP PS
4 1 (0.79%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.79%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 1 (0.79%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.79%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.79%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.79%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.79%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.79%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 11 (8.73%) Azure
2 9 (7.14%) Power Platform
3 8 (6.35%) Dynamics 365
3 8 (6.35%) Entra ID
3 8 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (3.97%) OneDrive
5 4 (3.17%) AWS
5 4 (3.17%) OCI
5 4 (3.17%) Power Automate
5 4 (3.17%) SuccessFactors
6 3 (2.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (2.38%) Azure Pipelines
6 3 (2.38%) IaaS
6 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (2.38%) PaaS
6 3 (2.38%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.79%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.79%) GCP
7 1 (0.79%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.97%) DNS
2 4 (3.17%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (2.38%) VPN
4 2 (1.59%) Firewall
4 2 (1.59%) LAN
4 2 (1.59%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.59%) WAN
4 2 (1.59%) WLAN
5 1 (0.79%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.79%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.79%) Network Security
5 1 (0.79%) SAN
5 1 (0.79%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.56%) Power BI
2 5 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.59%) Big Data
3 2 (1.59%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (1.59%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (0.79%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.79%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.79%) Power Query
4 1 (0.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.59%) HP UFT
1 2 (1.59%) JIRA
1 2 (1.59%) LoadRunner
General
1 32 (25.40%) Social Skills
2 22 (17.46%) Finance
3 15 (11.90%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.14%) Manufacturing
4 9 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (3.97%) Electronics
5 5 (3.97%) Local Government
6 4 (3.17%) Marketing
6 4 (3.17%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.59%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.59%) General Ledger
7 2 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.59%) Law
7 2 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.59%) Retail
8 1 (0.79%) Banking
8 1 (0.79%) Billing
8 1 (0.79%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.79%) Public Speaking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.35%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.79%) .NET
2 1 (0.79%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.79%) JSON
2 1 (0.79%) LDAP
2 1 (0.79%) Lucene
2 1 (0.79%) REST
2 1 (0.79%) SailPoint
2 1 (0.79%) SAP Basis
2 1 (0.79%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.56%) Cyber Defence
1 7 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (4.76%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 2 (1.59%) CMDB
3 2 (1.59%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.59%) Operational Technology
3 2 (1.59%) Replication
4 1 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.79%) Blog
4 1 (0.79%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.79%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (0.79%) Cyberattack
4 1 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.79%) Mainframe
4 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.79%) PKI
4 1 (0.79%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.79%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.97%) Windows
2 2 (1.59%) Linux
3 1 (0.79%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.79%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (14.29%) Migration
2 16 (12.70%) Cybersecurity
3 14 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (11.11%) Data Migration
4 12 (9.52%) Agile
4 12 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (9.52%) Risk Management
5 11 (8.73%) Project Management
6 9 (7.14%) Protective Monitoring
6 9 (7.14%) SIEM
7 8 (6.35%) Analytics
7 8 (6.35%) ERP
7 8 (6.35%) Mentoring
7 8 (6.35%) Requirements Gathering
8 7 (5.56%) DevOps
8 7 (5.56%) Incident Management
8 7 (5.56%) Incident Response
8 7 (5.56%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 7 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (5.56%) Supply Chain Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.76%) ABAP
2 5 (3.97%) SQL
3 3 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (1.59%) Python
5 1 (0.79%) C#
5 1 (0.79%) Java
5 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.79%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.79%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 45 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 28 (22.22%) DV Cleared
3 16 (12.70%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.56%) CISSP
5 5 (3.97%) CESG Certified Professional
5 5 (3.97%) CLAS
6 4 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.17%) Degree
6 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.38%) CISM
8 2 (1.59%) CIPD
8 2 (1.59%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.59%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.79%) OSCP
9 1 (0.79%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.79%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 1 (0.79%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.73%) NIST
2 7 (5.56%) RMADS
3 6 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.97%) JSP 440
5 3 (2.38%) GDPR
5 3 (2.38%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.59%) COBIT
6 2 (1.59%) COSO
6 2 (1.59%) PMO
7 1 (0.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.79%) NCSC
7 1 (0.79%) NIST 800
System Software
1 7 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.17%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (2.38%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.79%) Docker
4 1 (0.79%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (4.76%) Ansible
2 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.38%) vRealize
2 3 (2.38%) VxRail
3 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (24.60%) Microsoft
2 19 (15.08%) SAP
3 12 (9.52%) Oracle
4 6 (4.76%) VMware
5 5 (3.97%) Splunk
6 3 (2.38%) OpenText
7 2 (1.59%) FIS
7 2 (1.59%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.59%) Tanium
8 1 (0.79%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.79%) CA
8 1 (0.79%) Ceridian
8 1 (0.79%) Cisco
8 1 (0.79%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.79%) Google
8 1 (0.79%) Infor
8 1 (0.79%) JDA
8 1 (0.79%) Sage
8 1 (0.79%) Thales