Consultant Contracts in Wales

Consultant
UK > Wales

The median Consultant daily rate in Wales is £650 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 50 58
Rank change year-on-year +20 +8 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 17 11 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 4.24% 1.74% 1.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.76% 1.83% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 14
10th Percentile £428 £323 £395
25th Percentile £473 £434 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £488 £493
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -1.02% +6.20%
75th Percentile £725 £556 £560
90th Percentile - £603 £615
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £27.00
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £66.00 £64.25
% change year-on-year -6.67% +2.72% +18.98%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 Wales with a recognized job title 357 600 977
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.03% 94.64% 96.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 463 722
10th Percentile £188 £172 £180
25th Percentile £350 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 33 39
10th Percentile £11.75 £13.25 £11.15
25th Percentile £13.06 £15.25 £12.62
Median hourly rate £19.09 £18.14 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year +5.21% -8.89% +20.58%
75th Percentile £31.02 £19.98 £26.38
90th Percentile £86.54 £45.75 £46.98
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
% change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in Wales

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in Wales

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in Wales

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in Wales

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in 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 Wales 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
South Wales +20 11 £700 +43.59% 16
Dyfed 0 1 - -
West Wales - 1 £550 - 1
Consultant
UK

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

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 Wales region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 8 (47.06%) SC Cleared
1 8 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 6 (35.29%) Identity Management
3 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
3 5 (29.41%) SQL
3 5 (29.41%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (23.53%) Azure
4 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
5 3 (17.65%) Data Migration
5 3 (17.65%) Data Mapping
5 3 (17.65%) Migration
5 3 (17.65%) CRM
5 3 (17.65%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (17.65%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (5.88%) Retail
6 1 (5.88%) SAP Retail
6 1 (5.88%) Data Protection
6 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (5.88%) Welsh Language
6 1 (5.88%) QA
6 1 (5.88%) Unit Testing
6 1 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (5.88%) ERP
6 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
6 1 (5.88%) Business Continuity
6 1 (5.88%) Risk Assessment
6 1 (5.88%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (5.88%) JDA
6 1 (5.88%) NHS

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (5.88%) SAP Retail
2 1 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (5.88%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.88%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (5.88%) MySQL
1 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
1 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
1 1 (5.88%) Retail
1 1 (5.88%) Welsh Language
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Cyberattack
1 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (5.88%) Mainframe
1 1 (5.88%) NHS
1 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Identity Management
2 5 (29.41%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
3 3 (17.65%) CRM
3 3 (17.65%) Data Mapping
3 3 (17.65%) Data Migration
3 3 (17.65%) Migration
3 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (5.88%) BCP
4 1 (5.88%) Business Continuity
4 1 (5.88%) Data Protection
4 1 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (5.88%) ERP
4 1 (5.88%) Project Management
4 1 (5.88%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (5.88%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) SC Cleared
1 8 (47.06%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) JDA
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) SAP