Lead Consultant Contracts in England

Lead Consultant
UK > England

The median Lead Consultant daily rate in England is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 499 552 672
Rank change year-on-year +53 +120 -105
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Consultant 36 111 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.097% 0.22% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.23% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 73 55
10th Percentile £503 £500 £420
25th Percentile £541 £575 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £630 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.78% -9.98% +27.27%
75th Percentile £719 £700 £813
90th Percentile £725 £800 £965
UK median daily rate £613 £630 £600
% change year-on-year -2.80% +5.02% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £55.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 England with a recognized job title 34,271 47,824 67,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.61% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,751 33,955 48,268
10th Percentile £275 £312 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,422 1,902
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.71 £48.70
90th Percentile £72.54 £77.00 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Lead Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Consultant in England

Lead Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Consultant in England.

Daily rate trend for Lead Consultant in England

Lead Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Consultant in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Consultant in England

Lead Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead Consultant in England.

Hourly rate trend for Lead Consultant in England

Lead Consultant
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Consultant within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +49 15 £625 +2.46% 12
South East +18 5 £650 -4.41% 1
South West +25 4 £700 -9.68% 3
East of England +18 4 £600 -22.58% 1
North of England +27 2 £500 - 1
West Midlands +22 2 £494 -28.18% 1
Yorkshire +18 2 £500 -
Midlands +12 2 £494 -28.18% 1
Lead Consultant
UK

Lead Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Lead 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 England region featuring Lead Consultant in the job title.

1 10 (27.78%) SAP
1 10 (27.78%) Finance
2 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (19.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (16.67%) Migration
4 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 6 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 6 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (13.89%) Inventory Management
5 5 (13.89%) ERP
6 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (11.11%) GAP Analysis
6 4 (11.11%) System Testing
6 4 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (11.11%) Supply Chain Management
6 4 (11.11%) Requirements Workshops
6 4 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (11.11%) IFS
7 3 (8.33%) Roadmaps
7 3 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (8.33%) SIEM
7 3 (8.33%) AWS
7 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
7 3 (8.33%) Network Security
7 3 (8.33%) Information Security
8 2 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (5.56%) Validation
8 2 (5.56%) Firmware
8 2 (5.56%) SAP SD

Lead Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Business Applications
1 7 (19.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (5.56%) SAP EWM
2 2 (5.56%) SAP SD
3 1 (2.78%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (2.78%) SAP CO
3 1 (2.78%) SAP FI
3 1 (2.78%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (2.78%) SAP IBP
3 1 (2.78%) SAP MDG
3 1 (2.78%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (8.33%) AWS
3 2 (5.56%) Azure
3 2 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (2.78%) GCP
4 1 (2.78%) OCI
4 1 (2.78%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) Network Security
2 1 (2.78%) DNS
2 1 (2.78%) VPN
2 1 (2.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Rational DOORS
General
1 10 (27.78%) Finance
2 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Marketing
3 2 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Banking
4 1 (2.78%) Billing
4 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.78%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) Middleware
1 1 (2.78%) Web Services
1 1 (2.78%) XML
1 1 (2.78%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.56%) Data Centre
1 2 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.78%) Cyberattack
2 1 (2.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (16.67%) Data Migration
2 6 (16.67%) Migration
3 5 (13.89%) ERP
3 5 (13.89%) Inventory Management
4 4 (11.11%) GAP Analysis
4 4 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (11.11%) Requirements Workshops
4 4 (11.11%) Supply Chain Management
4 4 (11.11%) System Testing
4 4 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (8.33%) Information Security
5 3 (8.33%) Roadmaps
5 3 (8.33%) SIEM
6 2 (5.56%) Application Security
6 2 (5.56%) Batch Management
6 2 (5.56%) Budget Management
6 2 (5.56%) Cloud Security
6 2 (5.56%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.78%) ABAP
1 1 (2.78%) Python
1 1 (2.78%) XPath
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) Degree
4 1 (2.78%) ISACA
4 1 (2.78%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) COBIT
1 2 (5.56%) GDPR
1 2 (5.56%) GRC
1 2 (5.56%) NIST
2 1 (2.78%) PMO
2 1 (2.78%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (27.78%) SAP
2 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (11.11%) IFS
4 2 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (5.56%) HP
4 2 (5.56%) Splunk
5 1 (2.78%) F5
5 1 (2.78%) MobileIron
5 1 (2.78%) Oracle
5 1 (2.78%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.78%) Tanium
5 1 (2.78%) Virgin Media
5 1 (2.78%) Workday