Consultant Contracts in Sheffield

Consultant
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Consultant daily rate in Sheffield is £438 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 39 38
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 21 11 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 5.71% 2.45% 3.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.38% 2.49% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 5 12
10th Percentile £394 £530 £380
25th Percentile £400 £575 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -32.69% +23.81% +31.25%
75th Percentile £500 £1,038 £563
90th Percentile £538 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £650 £525
% change year-on-year -30.77% +23.81% +29.23%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Sheffield

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Sheffield. 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 Sheffield with a recognized job title 329 442 374
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.40% 98.44% 95.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 308 303
10th Percentile £374 £363 £300
25th Percentile £414 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +15.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £566
90th Percentile £650 £743 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 11
10th Percentile £10.90 £13.60 £9.49
25th Percentile £11.33 £17.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +19.40% +9.30%
75th Percentile £23.75 £22.75 £18.57
90th Percentile - £33.10 £24.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.60 £20.00 £18.32
% change year-on-year -32.03% +9.17% -1.08%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in Sheffield

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in Sheffield

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in Sheffield over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in Sheffield

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in Sheffield

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 Sheffield region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 7 (33.33%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) EMC
2 6 (28.57%) Performance Analysis
2 6 (28.57%) DevOps
2 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
3 5 (23.81%) Build Automation
3 5 (23.81%) Continuous Delivery
3 5 (23.81%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
4 4 (19.05%) Data Protection
4 4 (19.05%) Oracle
4 4 (19.05%) ITIL
4 4 (19.05%) Validation
4 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
5 3 (14.29%) Police
5 3 (14.29%) Ansible
5 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
5 3 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 3 (14.29%) Information Security
6 2 (9.52%) Banking
6 2 (9.52%) e-Learning
6 2 (9.52%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (9.52%) VLAN
6 2 (9.52%) Change Management
6 2 (9.52%) Mainframe
6 2 (9.52%) Windows
6 2 (9.52%) Linux

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 2 (9.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.76%) NEC Housing
2 1 (4.76%) NetSuite
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (9.52%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) VLAN
2 1 (4.76%) LAN
2 1 (4.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle Reports
General
1 7 (33.33%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
4 3 (14.29%) Police
5 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (9.52%) Banking
6 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) ISPF
1 1 (4.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) e-Learning
1 2 (9.52%) Mainframe
1 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (4.76%) LPAR
2 1 (4.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) DevOps
1 6 (28.57%) Performance Analysis
2 5 (23.81%) Build Automation
2 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
2 5 (23.81%) Continuous Delivery
2 5 (23.81%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (19.05%) Data Protection
3 4 (19.05%) ITIL
3 4 (19.05%) Validation
4 3 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (14.29%) Information Security
4 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (9.52%) Change Management
5 2 (9.52%) CRM
5 2 (9.52%) Storyboarding
5 2 (9.52%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (4.76%) Information Security Management
6 1 (4.76%) Project Management
6 1 (4.76%) Security Management
6 1 (4.76%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) Bash
1 1 (4.76%) JCL
1 1 (4.76%) Perl
1 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
1 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) CISM
3 1 (4.76%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.76%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (4.76%) Microcode
1 1 (4.76%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Ansible
2 2 (9.52%) Puppet
3 1 (4.76%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) EMC
2 4 (19.05%) Oracle
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.76%) IBM
4 1 (4.76%) NEC
4 1 (4.76%) Northgate
4 1 (4.76%) Symantec
4 1 (4.76%) Veritas
4 1 (4.76%) VMware