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 23 May 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 45 81
Rank change year-on-year +18 +36 -29
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 153 135 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 5.76% 4.42% 2.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.09% 4.66% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 100 80
10th Percentile £413 £415 £395
25th Percentile £463 £473 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -0.93% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £594 £625
90th Percentile £725 £638 £651
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +7.32%

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 2,514 2,900 3,850
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.58% 95.02% 96.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,623 2,054 2,795
10th Percentile £273 £304 £213
25th Percentile £388 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +12.05%
75th Percentile £580 £586 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.27% +7.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 124 174
10th Percentile £11.09 £14.58 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.00 £18.50 £15.06
Median hourly rate £31.81 £30.27 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year +5.08% +31.45% +28.65%
75th Percentile £47.06 £47.44 £50.52
90th Percentile £71.32 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +6.98%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 +6 54 £500 -4.76% 96
Cheshire +2 36 £525 -2.78% 19
Lancashire +22 34 £575 -17.86% 14
Cumbria 0 21 £650 +36.99% 3
Merseyside +2 7 £488 -2.50% 9
Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 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 59 (38.56%) SAP
2 39 (25.49%) Social Skills
3 37 (24.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 33 (21.57%) Security Cleared
5 31 (20.26%) Public Sector
6 27 (17.65%) SC Cleared
7 25 (16.34%) SAP S/4HANA
8 20 (13.07%) Migration
9 18 (11.76%) Programme Management
9 18 (11.76%) Programme Delivery
10 17 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (11.11%) Data Migration
11 16 (10.46%) Finance
12 15 (9.80%) Roadmaps
13 14 (9.15%) SuccessFactors
14 12 (7.84%) Azure
14 12 (7.84%) Microsoft
15 11 (7.19%) User Acceptance Testing
15 11 (7.19%) Translating Business Requirements
16 10 (6.54%) AWS
16 10 (6.54%) SAP EWM
16 10 (6.54%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (6.54%) Product Roadmap
17 9 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
17 9 (5.88%) Asset Management
17 9 (5.88%) Ariba
18 8 (5.23%) Oracle
18 8 (5.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
18 8 (5.23%) Life Science
18 8 (5.23%) System Testing

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 (1.31%) CMS
2 1 (0.65%) NetWeaver
2 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.65%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (0.65%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 25 (16.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (6.54%) SAP EWM
3 7 (4.58%) SAP FI
3 7 (4.58%) SAP PP
4 5 (3.27%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (1.96%) Aareon QL
5 3 (1.96%) NetSuite
6 2 (1.31%) SAP GTS
6 2 (1.31%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.65%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.65%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle Internet Expenses
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.65%) SAP APO
7 1 (0.65%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.65%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.65%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.65%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 14 (9.15%) SuccessFactors
2 12 (7.84%) Azure
3 10 (6.54%) AWS
4 9 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (3.27%) OCI
6 5 (3.27%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 4 (2.61%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.96%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.31%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (1.31%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (0.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.65%) Boomi
10 1 (0.65%) GCP
10 1 (0.65%) SaaS
10 1 (0.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.61%) Network Security
2 1 (0.65%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.61%) Power BI
2 2 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (1.31%) Big Data
2 2 (1.31%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (1.31%) Hadoop
2 2 (1.31%) SAP BW
2 2 (1.31%) SAP HANA
2 2 (1.31%) Snowflake Schema
2 2 (1.31%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.65%) Metadata
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (0.65%) PowerPivot
3 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (2.61%) Git
2 1 (0.65%) JIRA
General
1 39 (25.49%) Social Skills
2 31 (20.26%) Public Sector
3 16 (10.46%) Finance
4 10 (6.54%) Pharmaceutical
5 7 (4.58%) Marketing
6 6 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.92%) Local Government
7 4 (2.61%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.96%) Aeronautics
8 3 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.31%) Automotive
9 2 (1.31%) Banking
10 1 (0.65%) French Language
10 1 (0.65%) Legal
10 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Public Speaking
10 1 (0.65%) Publishing
10 1 (0.65%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.31%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (1.31%) SAP Basis
1 2 (1.31%) Web Services
2 1 (0.65%) CSS
2 1 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.65%) HTML
2 1 (0.65%) Lucene
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.65%) SailPoint
2 1 (0.65%) SAP Core Interface
2 1 (0.65%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.23%) Life Science
2 6 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.61%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.61%) Operational Technology
4 3 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.96%) Security Posture
4 3 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (1.96%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.31%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.65%) ASIC
6 1 (0.65%) Derivative
6 1 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.31%) Linux
2 1 (0.65%) Unix
2 1 (0.65%) Windows
2 1 (0.65%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (24.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 20 (13.07%) Migration
3 18 (11.76%) Programme Delivery
3 18 (11.76%) Programme Management
4 17 (11.11%) Data Migration
4 17 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (9.80%) Roadmaps
6 11 (7.19%) Translating Business Requirements
6 11 (7.19%) User Acceptance Testing
7 10 (6.54%) Product Roadmap
8 9 (5.88%) Asset Management
9 8 (5.23%) Customer Experience
9 8 (5.23%) Investment Management
9 8 (5.23%) System Testing
10 7 (4.58%) Business Transformation
10 7 (4.58%) DevOps
11 6 (3.92%) Agile
11 6 (3.92%) Housing Management
11 6 (3.92%) Information Security
12 5 (3.27%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.92%) PowerShell
2 4 (2.61%) Bash
2 4 (2.61%) Python
3 3 (1.96%) ABAP
4 2 (1.31%) C#
4 2 (1.31%) SQL
5 1 (0.65%) Java
5 1 (0.65%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.65%) PHP
Qualifications
1 33 (21.57%) Security Cleared
2 27 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.61%) AWS Certification
3 4 (2.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 4 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.96%) Degree
5 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.65%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.92%) NIST
3 3 (1.96%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.31%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.31%) GRC
4 2 (1.31%) GxP
4 2 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.65%) EMIR
5 1 (0.65%) GDPR
5 1 (0.65%) PMO
5 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (3.27%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.61%) Docker
3 1 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.61%) Kubernetes
1 4 (2.61%) Terraform
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 59 (38.56%) SAP
2 12 (7.84%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.88%) Ariba
4 8 (5.23%) Oracle
5 4 (2.61%) Siemens
6 3 (1.96%) Aareon
6 3 (1.96%) Northgate
6 3 (1.96%) VMware
7 2 (1.31%) Databricks
7 2 (1.31%) Teradata
8 1 (0.65%) Dell
8 1 (0.65%) Hyperion
8 1 (0.65%) Intel
8 1 (0.65%) TOWER Software