Consultant Contracts in South Wales

Consultant
Wales > South Wales

The median Consultant daily rate in South Wales is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 50 64
Rank change year-on-year +18 +14 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 11 7 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 3.24% 1.34% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.63% 1.41% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 10
10th Percentile £425 £302 £375
25th Percentile £466 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% +5.56% -0.55%
75th Percentile £725 £500 £508
90th Percentile - £579 £591
Wales median daily rate £650 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +36.84% -3.55% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £27.00
Wales median hourly rate - - £27.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in South Wales. 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 South Wales with a recognized job title 303 498 875
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.12% 95.22% 97.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 386 650
10th Percentile £173 £173 £200
25th Percentile £350 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £563 £571 £575
90th Percentile £644 £650 £638
Wales median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 27 36
10th Percentile £11.75 £12.85 £11.15
25th Percentile £15.20 £16.60 £11.97
Median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year +25.03% -8.89% +10.61%
75th Percentile £53.75 £19.98 £26.06
90th Percentile £87.80 £49.25 £47.14
Wales median hourly rate £19.09 £18.14 £19.91
% change year-on-year +5.21% -8.89% +20.67%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in South Wales

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in South Wales

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in South Wales over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in South Wales

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in South Wales

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 25 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
Bridgend 0 6 £700 +40.00%
Cardiff +6 4 £469 +1.35% 8
Monmouthshire - 1 £425 - 3
Consultant
Wales

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 South Wales region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 8 (72.73%) SC Cleared
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 6 (54.55%) Identity Management
3 5 (45.45%) Software Engineering
3 5 (45.45%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (9.09%) Business Continuity
4 1 (9.09%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (9.09%) Welsh Language
4 1 (9.09%) QA
4 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
4 1 (9.09%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) MySQL
4 1 (9.09%) Unix
4 1 (9.09%) Linux
4 1 (9.09%) ERP
4 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
4 1 (9.09%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (9.09%) BCP
4 1 (9.09%) Project Management
4 1 (9.09%) Mainframe
4 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (9.09%) Azure
4 1 (9.09%) AWS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
4 1 (9.09%) Cyberattack
4 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (9.09%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
1 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
1 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
1 1 (9.09%) Welsh Language
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cyberattack
1 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (9.09%) Mainframe
1 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Identity Management
2 5 (45.45%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (45.45%) Software Engineering
3 1 (9.09%) BCP
3 1 (9.09%) Business Continuity
3 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
3 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (9.09%) ERP
3 1 (9.09%) Project Management
3 1 (9.09%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) SC Cleared
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA