Consultant Contracts in Southampton

Consultant
Hampshire > Southampton

The median Consultant daily rate in Southampton is £488 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 15 20 37
Rank change year-on-year +5 +17 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 10 6 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Southampton 5.92% 3.92% 2.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.09% 4.23% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 3
10th Percentile £430 - £443
25th Percentile £481 £563 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% - +31.43%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £638
90th Percentile £588 - £668
Hampshire median daily rate £582 £591 £600
% change year-on-year -1.59% -1.52% +33.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Southampton

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Southampton. 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 Southampton with a recognized job title 141 142 309
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 83.43% 92.81% 96.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 99 209
10th Percentile £200 £240 £185
25th Percentile £350 £338 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £593 £545
90th Percentile £713 £666 £721
Hampshire median daily rate £575 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% +11.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 10 10
10th Percentile £15.73 £16.00 £15.51
25th Percentile £62.50 £17.31 £16.29
Median hourly rate £70.00 £23.79 £17.57
Median % change year-on-year +194.24% +35.40% +27.32%
75th Percentile £80.00 £33.27 £22.56
90th Percentile - £45.03 £34.38
Hampshire median hourly rate £57.35 £52.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +9.24% +138.64% -22.81%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in Southampton

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in Southampton

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in Southampton

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

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in Southampton

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Southampton

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in Southampton

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

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 Southampton region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) DV Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) Network Security
3 3 (30.00%) DNS
4 2 (20.00%) Cisco
4 2 (20.00%) WAN
4 2 (20.00%) VPN
4 2 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (20.00%) CISSP
4 2 (20.00%) Juniper
4 2 (20.00%) Internet
4 2 (20.00%) Network Design
4 2 (20.00%) SCADA
4 2 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (20.00%) Firewall
4 2 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (20.00%) WAN Optimisation
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (20.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (20.00%) NX-OS
4 2 (20.00%) GDPR
4 2 (20.00%) GRC
4 2 (20.00%) Operational Technology
5 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (10.00%) Server Management

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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 1 (10.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (10.00%) IaaS
1 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Network Security
2 3 (30.00%) DNS
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (20.00%) Firewall
3 2 (20.00%) Internet
3 2 (20.00%) NX-OS
3 2 (20.00%) VPN
3 2 (20.00%) WAN
3 2 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (10.00%) MPLS
4 1 (10.00%) PBX
4 1 (10.00%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) BusinessObjects
General
1 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Operational Technology
1 2 (20.00%) SCADA
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Analytics
1 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (20.00%) Network Design
1 2 (20.00%) WAN Optimisation
2 1 (10.00%) Presales
2 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (10.00%) Server Management
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) GDPR
1 2 (20.00%) GRC
1 2 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco
1 2 (20.00%) Juniper
1 2 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Siemens
2 1 (10.00%) VMware