Consultant Contracts in Preston

Consultant
Lancashire > Preston

The median Consultant daily rate in Preston is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 22 -
Rank change year-on-year +15 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 10 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Preston 17.24% 3.33% -
As % of the Job Titles category 26.32% 4.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 0
10th Percentile £623 £679 -
25th Percentile £627 £684 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £713 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% - -
75th Percentile £978 £734 -
90th Percentile £988 £736 -
Lancashire median daily rate £500 £700 -
% change year-on-year -28.57% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Preston

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Preston. 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 Preston with a recognized job title 38 75 78
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 65.52% 83.33% 92.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 26 40
10th Percentile £241 £281 £162
25th Percentile £359 £363 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £571 £420 £340
Median % change year-on-year +36.06% +23.53% -15.00%
75th Percentile £673 £523 £478
90th Percentile £915 £794 £571
Lancashire median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 38 26
10th Percentile - £25.75 £15.38
25th Percentile £11.77 £29.30 £22.16
Median hourly rate £40.25 £42.33 £39.61
Median % change year-on-year -4.91% +6.85% +96.39%
75th Percentile £46.18 £51.66 £44.52
90th Percentile - £56.39 £52.08
Lancashire median hourly rate £42.91 £42.33 £34.50
% change year-on-year +1.38% +22.69% +56.82%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in Preston

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Preston

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in Preston

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in Preston

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in Preston over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in Preston

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Preston

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in Preston

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 Preston region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 5 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (40.00%) Operational Technology
2 4 (40.00%) Product Roadmap
2 4 (40.00%) SAP
2 4 (40.00%) SuccessFactors
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
4 2 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (20.00%) NIST
4 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Azure
4 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (20.00%) Threat Management
4 2 (20.00%) Security Operations
5 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
5 1 (10.00%) Privileged Access Management
5 1 (10.00%) Privileged Identity Management
5 1 (10.00%) Threat Intelligence
5 1 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 1 (10.00%) Target Operating Model
5 1 (10.00%) User Experience
5 1 (10.00%) Product Management
5 1 (10.00%) DevOps

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

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) SuccessFactors
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Speaking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (10.00%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (40.00%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (20.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (20.00%) Threat Management
4 1 (10.00%) Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (10.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (10.00%) Information Retrieval
4 1 (10.00%) Open Source
4 1 (10.00%) Product Management
4 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Target Operating Model
4 1 (10.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) NIST
2 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) SAP
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Intel