Consultant Contracts in South Yorkshire

Consultant
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Consultant daily rate in South Yorkshire is £463 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 45 43
Rank change year-on-year +15 -2 -21
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 27 12 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 5.92% 2.26% 3.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.49% 2.48% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 5 14
10th Percentile £399 £530 £383
25th Percentile £405 £575 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -28.85% +23.81% +31.25%
75th Percentile £532 £1,038 £563
90th Percentile £543 - £563
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +5.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Yorkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 416 484 492
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.23% 91.15% 96.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 343 388
10th Percentile £249 £263 £263
25th Percentile £407 £450 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% +18.75%
75th Percentile £582 £658 £550
90th Percentile £639 £700 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 5 29
10th Percentile £10.90 £11.10 £10.94
25th Percentile £12.63 £11.25 £12.00
Median hourly rate £13.60 £17.72 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -23.28% +0.45% +10.25%
75th Percentile £23.31 £22.50 £22.67
90th Percentile £23.75 £33.00 £24.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.50 £22.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -34.09% +25.71% -7.89%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in South Yorkshire

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in South Yorkshire

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in South Yorkshire

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in South Yorkshire

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 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
Sheffield +13 22 £444 -31.73% 4
Doncaster -4 2 £488 -
Consultant
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 Yorkshire region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (29.63%) Security Cleared
3 7 (25.93%) Finance
4 6 (22.22%) EMC
4 6 (22.22%) Data Protection
4 6 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (22.22%) Performance Analysis
4 6 (22.22%) Public Sector
5 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
5 5 (18.52%) Build Automation
5 5 (18.52%) DevOps
5 5 (18.52%) Continuous Delivery
5 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
5 5 (18.52%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (18.52%) Validation
5 5 (18.52%) Information Security
6 4 (14.81%) ITIL
6 4 (14.81%) Windows
6 4 (14.81%) Police
6 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
7 3 (11.11%) GDPR
7 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (11.11%) Ansible
7 3 (11.11%) Oracle
7 3 (11.11%) Mainframe
7 3 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
8 2 (7.41%) ISPF
8 2 (7.41%) IBM
8 2 (7.41%) VLAN
8 2 (7.41%) e-Learning

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.70%) NEC Housing
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (3.70%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.41%) Azure
1 2 (7.41%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (7.41%) OCI
2 1 (3.70%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) VLAN
2 1 (3.70%) DWDM
2 1 (3.70%) LAN
2 1 (3.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
General
1 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Finance
3 6 (22.22%) Public Sector
4 4 (14.81%) Police
5 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Banking
6 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) ISPF
2 1 (3.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Mainframe
2 2 (7.41%) e-Learning
2 2 (7.41%) LPAR
2 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Windows
2 2 (7.41%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Windows 10
2 2 (7.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (22.22%) Data Protection
1 6 (22.22%) Performance Analysis
2 5 (18.52%) Build Automation
2 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
2 5 (18.52%) Continuous Delivery
2 5 (18.52%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (18.52%) DevOps
2 5 (18.52%) Information Security
2 5 (18.52%) Validation
3 4 (14.81%) ITIL
4 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (7.41%) Change Management
5 2 (7.41%) CRM
5 2 (7.41%) Data Migration
5 2 (7.41%) Information Security Management
5 2 (7.41%) ISMS
5 2 (7.41%) Migration
5 2 (7.41%) Storyboarding
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.41%) JCL
2 1 (3.70%) Bash
2 1 (3.70%) CLIST
2 1 (3.70%) Perl
2 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.70%) REXX
2 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) CISM
3 2 (7.41%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) GDPR
2 2 (7.41%) Government Security Classifications
2 2 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (7.41%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
1 2 (7.41%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 2 (7.41%) Microcode
1 2 (7.41%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Ansible
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (7.41%) Puppet
3 1 (3.70%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) EMC
2 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle
4 2 (7.41%) IBM
5 1 (3.70%) NEC
5 1 (3.70%) Northgate
5 1 (3.70%) SAP
5 1 (3.70%) Symantec
5 1 (3.70%) Veritas
5 1 (3.70%) VMware