Consultant Contracts in Manchester

Consultant
North West > Manchester

The median Consultant daily rate in Manchester is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 56 77
Rank change year-on-year +17 +21 -37
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 65 65 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 4.37% 3.47% 2.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.56% 3.60% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 51 56
10th Percentile £413 £413 £350
25th Percentile £480 £466 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £586 £625
90th Percentile £720 £650 £656
North West median daily rate £550 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +6.18% -5.82% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,427 1,805 2,542
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.84% 96.42% 97.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 990 1,346 1,993
10th Percentile £313 £313 £226
25th Percentile £400 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £584 £594 £575
90th Percentile £694 £675 £655
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 49 59
10th Percentile £12.02 £16.23 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £20.00 £12.02
Median hourly rate £26.26 £35.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.97% +100.00% +9.38%
75th Percentile £62.50 £48.75 £24.38
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £34.00
North West median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £20.32
% change year-on-year -23.83% +72.29% +13.49%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in Manchester

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in Manchester

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in Manchester over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in Manchester

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in Manchester

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 6 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
Stockport +4 3 £475 -26.92% 1
Consultant
North West

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 Manchester region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 18 (27.69%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (26.15%) Migration
3 16 (24.62%) SAP
3 16 (24.62%) Data Migration
4 15 (23.08%) Marketing
4 15 (23.08%) Dynamics 365
4 15 (23.08%) Translating Business Requirements
5 14 (21.54%) User Acceptance Testing
6 12 (18.46%) System Testing
6 12 (18.46%) Security Cleared
6 12 (18.46%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (16.92%) Social Skills
7 11 (16.92%) Customer Experience
7 11 (16.92%) End-to-End Testing
7 11 (16.92%) Customer Insight
7 11 (16.92%) Dynamics CRM
7 11 (16.92%) CRM
8 9 (13.85%) SC Cleared
8 9 (13.85%) SAP EWM
9 8 (12.31%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (12.31%) AWS
9 8 (12.31%) Dell
9 8 (12.31%) Public Sector
10 7 (10.77%) Dell DRAC
10 7 (10.77%) InfiniBand
10 7 (10.77%) Onboarding
10 7 (10.77%) MATLAB
10 7 (10.77%) Red Hat
10 7 (10.77%) Firmware
10 7 (10.77%) Active Directory

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (3.08%) CMS
2 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.54%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (1.54%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 11 (16.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (13.85%) SAP EWM
3 6 (9.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.54%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (1.54%) NetSuite
4 1 (1.54%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (1.54%) SAP GTS
4 1 (1.54%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 15 (23.08%) Dynamics 365
2 8 (12.31%) AWS
3 3 (4.62%) Azure
4 2 (3.08%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (3.08%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.54%) Datadog
5 1 (1.54%) GCP
5 1 (1.54%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.54%) Serverless
5 1 (1.54%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.77%) InfiniBand
2 4 (6.15%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.54%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (1.54%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.54%) Metadata
1 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.54%) Power BI
1 1 (1.54%) PowerPivot
1 1 (1.54%) SQL Server
1 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Git
General
1 15 (23.08%) Marketing
2 11 (16.92%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.31%) Public Sector
4 6 (9.23%) Finance
5 4 (6.15%) Manufacturing
5 4 (6.15%) Police
6 2 (3.08%) Automotive
6 2 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Electronics
6 2 (3.08%) French Language
6 2 (3.08%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.54%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.08%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.54%) CSS
2 1 (1.54%) HTML
2 1 (1.54%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.46%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (10.77%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.62%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.54%) Life Science
4 1 (1.54%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.54%) Windows
1 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (27.69%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (26.15%) Migration
3 16 (24.62%) Data Migration
4 15 (23.08%) Translating Business Requirements
5 14 (21.54%) User Acceptance Testing
6 12 (18.46%) System Testing
7 11 (16.92%) CRM
7 11 (16.92%) Customer Experience
7 11 (16.92%) Customer Insight
7 11 (16.92%) End-to-End Testing
8 8 (12.31%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (10.77%) Deep Learning
9 7 (10.77%) Stress Testing
10 6 (9.23%) Data Protection
10 6 (9.23%) Information Security
11 5 (7.69%) Agile
11 5 (7.69%) Requirements Gathering
12 4 (6.15%) CI/CD
12 4 (6.15%) Containerisation
12 4 (6.15%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.77%) MATLAB
2 4 (6.15%) Bash
2 4 (6.15%) Python
3 2 (3.08%) SQL
4 1 (1.54%) ABAP
4 1 (1.54%) Java
4 1 (1.54%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.54%) PHP
4 1 (1.54%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.54%) X++
Qualifications
1 12 (18.46%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.85%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.15%) AWS Certification
3 4 (6.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (3.08%) CISM
4 2 (3.08%) CISSP
5 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.62%) GDPR
3 2 (3.08%) Government Security Classifications
3 2 (3.08%) GRC
3 2 (3.08%) NCSC
4 1 (1.54%) NIST
4 1 (1.54%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.54%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (10.77%) Active Directory
1 7 (10.77%) Firmware
2 4 (6.15%) Docker
3 2 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.54%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (10.77%) Dell DRAC
2 4 (6.15%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.15%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (24.62%) SAP
2 8 (12.31%) Dell
3 7 (10.77%) Isilon
3 7 (10.77%) Red Hat
4 3 (4.62%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.62%) Siemens
5 2 (3.08%) BMC
5 2 (3.08%) HP
5 2 (3.08%) VMware
6 1 (1.54%) Ariba
6 1 (1.54%) Cisco
6 1 (1.54%) Citrix
6 1 (1.54%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.54%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.54%) Oracle
6 1 (1.54%) Splunk