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 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 54 90
Rank change year-on-year +24 +36 -41
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 253 214 182
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 5.39% 3.75% 2.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.79% 3.93% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 140 131
10th Percentile £386 £415 £363
25th Percentile £450 £469 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.00%
75th Percentile £636 £600 £625
90th Percentile £725 £675 £688
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £18.70
England median hourly rate £61.60 £66.00 £70.50
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.38% +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 4,373 5,442 6,917
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.34% 96.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,731 3,843 5,087
10th Percentile £263 £285 £200
25th Percentile £382 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £554
90th Percentile £672 £687 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 400 155 280
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.00 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.54 £14.19
Median hourly rate £20.60 £30.76 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -33.02% +65.42% +3.87%
75th Percentile £46.18 £51.19 £28.94
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.41 £51.48
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.38% +100.00% +2.27%

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 8 May 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 8 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
North West +22 152 £525 +1.35% 137
Yorkshire +29 92 £488 -11.36% 55
North East +13 9 £425 -20.56% 17
Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 of England region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 65 (25.69%) SAP
1 65 (25.69%) Social Skills
2 63 (24.90%) Security Cleared
3 57 (22.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 48 (18.97%) SC Cleared
5 43 (17.00%) Public Sector
6 35 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (13.04%) SAP S/4HANA
7 33 (13.04%) Finance
8 31 (12.25%) Migration
9 29 (11.46%) Microsoft
10 28 (11.07%) Dynamics 365
11 27 (10.67%) Data Migration
12 21 (8.30%) User Acceptance Testing
13 20 (7.91%) Programme Management
14 19 (7.51%) Programme Delivery
14 19 (7.51%) Cybersecurity
15 18 (7.11%) Translating Business Requirements
15 18 (7.11%) Information Security
15 18 (7.11%) Asset Management
16 15 (5.93%) Data Protection
16 15 (5.93%) Oracle
16 15 (5.93%) Customer Service
17 14 (5.53%) Customer Experience
17 14 (5.53%) DevOps
17 14 (5.53%) Marketing
17 14 (5.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
18 13 (5.14%) Dynamics CRM
18 13 (5.14%) System Testing
18 13 (5.14%) Azure

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 33 (13.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (5.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (5.14%) SAP EWM
3 11 (4.35%) SAP FI
4 7 (2.77%) SAP PP
5 5 (1.98%) NetSuite
6 4 (1.58%) SAP CO
6 4 (1.58%) SAP Retail
7 3 (1.19%) Aareon QL
7 3 (1.19%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.40%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.40%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle Payroll
8 1 (0.40%) SAP BPC
8 1 (0.40%) SAP EHS
8 1 (0.40%) SAP GTS
8 1 (0.40%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.40%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.40%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.40%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 28 (11.07%) Dynamics 365
2 13 (5.14%) Azure
3 11 (4.35%) Power Platform
4 10 (3.95%) AWS
5 7 (2.77%) OCI
6 6 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (1.98%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (1.98%) Entra ID
7 5 (1.98%) Oracle Service Cloud
8 2 (0.79%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (0.79%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (0.79%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.40%) GCP
9 1 (0.40%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.40%) SaaS
9 1 (0.40%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.58%) InfiniBand
1 4 (1.58%) Network Security
2 2 (0.79%) VLAN
3 1 (0.40%) DWDM
3 1 (0.40%) LAN
3 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.58%) BusinessObjects
1 4 (1.58%) Power BI
2 2 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (0.79%) Big Data
2 2 (0.79%) Hadoop
2 2 (0.79%) SAP BW
2 2 (0.79%) SAP HANA
2 2 (0.79%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.40%) Metadata
3 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.40%) PowerPivot
3 1 (0.40%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (0.40%) Sisense
3 1 (0.40%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (1.58%) Git
2 2 (0.79%) JIRA
3 1 (0.40%) JMeter
3 1 (0.40%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.40%) NeoLoad
General
1 65 (25.69%) Social Skills
2 43 (17.00%) Public Sector
3 33 (13.04%) Finance
4 14 (5.53%) Marketing
5 13 (5.14%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.14%) Pharmaceutical
6 9 (3.56%) Manufacturing
7 8 (3.16%) Police
8 7 (2.77%) Local Government
8 7 (2.77%) Retail
9 5 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.58%) Banking
11 3 (1.19%) Aeronautics
12 2 (0.79%) Automotive
12 2 (0.79%) Spanish Language
13 1 (0.40%) Electronics
13 1 (0.40%) French Language
13 1 (0.40%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.56%) 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%) Node.js
3 1 (0.40%) REST
3 1 (0.40%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.40%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.40%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.74%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (3.16%) Life Science
3 7 (2.77%) Mainframe
4 5 (1.98%) Management Information System
4 5 (1.98%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.58%) Operational Technology
5 4 (1.58%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.19%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (1.19%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 3 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.19%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.79%) e-Learning
7 2 (0.79%) LPAR
7 2 (0.79%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.79%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.40%) Derivative
8 1 (0.40%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.37%) Windows
2 4 (1.58%) 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 57 (22.53%) Stakeholder Management
2 35 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (12.25%) Migration
4 27 (10.67%) Data Migration
5 21 (8.30%) User Acceptance Testing
6 20 (7.91%) Programme Management
7 19 (7.51%) Cybersecurity
7 19 (7.51%) Programme Delivery
8 18 (7.11%) Asset Management
8 18 (7.11%) Information Security
8 18 (7.11%) Translating Business Requirements
9 15 (5.93%) Customer Service
9 15 (5.93%) Data Protection
10 14 (5.53%) Customer Experience
10 14 (5.53%) DevOps
11 13 (5.14%) CRM
11 13 (5.14%) Service Management
11 13 (5.14%) System Testing
12 12 (4.74%) ITIL
12 12 (4.74%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.16%) PowerShell
2 5 (1.98%) Bash
2 5 (1.98%) SQL
3 4 (1.58%) ABAP
3 4 (1.58%) MATLAB
3 4 (1.58%) Python
4 2 (0.79%) C#
4 2 (0.79%) Java
4 2 (0.79%) JCL
4 2 (0.79%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.40%) CLIST
5 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.40%) Perl
5 1 (0.40%) PHP
5 1 (0.40%) REXX
Qualifications
1 63 (24.90%) Security Cleared
2 48 (18.97%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.37%) Degree
4 4 (1.58%) AWS Certification
4 4 (1.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 4 (1.58%) CISM
4 4 (1.58%) CISSP
4 4 (1.58%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.79%) CIPD
5 2 (0.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (3.56%) GDPR
3 7 (2.77%) NIST
4 4 (1.58%) Government Security Classifications
4 4 (1.58%) NCSC
4 4 (1.58%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.79%) GRC
6 2 (0.79%) GxP
7 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.40%) EMIR
7 1 (0.40%) PMO
7 1 (0.40%) QA
7 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.58%) Docker
2 4 (1.58%) Firmware
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 4 (1.58%) Dell DRAC
1 4 (1.58%) Kubernetes
1 4 (1.58%) Terraform
2 3 (1.19%) Ansible
2 3 (1.19%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.79%) Puppet
4 1 (0.40%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.40%) SCCM
Vendors
1 65 (25.69%) SAP
2 29 (11.46%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.93%) Oracle
4 10 (3.95%) Ariba
5 9 (3.56%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.37%) EMC
7 5 (1.98%) AVEVA
7 5 (1.98%) HP
8 4 (1.58%) Dell
8 4 (1.58%) Isilon
8 4 (1.58%) Northgate
8 4 (1.58%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.58%) Siemens
8 4 (1.58%) VMware
9 3 (1.19%) Aareon
9 3 (1.19%) JDA
10 2 (0.79%) Databricks
10 2 (0.79%) IBM
10 2 (0.79%) Syclo
10 2 (0.79%) Teradata