Consultant Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Consultant
South West > Bristol

The median Consultant daily rate in Bristol is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 47 51
Rank change year-on-year +9 +4 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 32 31 33
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 4.37% 3.51% 3.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.73% 3.69% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 21 23
10th Percentile £404 £400 £314
25th Percentile £525 £450 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -14.89%
75th Percentile £649 £600 £597
90th Percentile £675 - £650
South West median daily rate £583 £598 £525
% change year-on-year -2.51% +13.81% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £66.38
25th Percentile - - £68.44
Median hourly rate - - £73.75
75th Percentile - - £80.94
90th Percentile - - £84.13
South West median hourly rate - - £64.00
% change year-on-year - - -11.72%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 677 841 1,000
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 95.14% 95.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 448 664
10th Percentile £250 £218 £311
25th Percentile £376 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £638
90th Percentile £747 £700 £704
South West median daily rate £510 £508 £538
% change year-on-year +0.49% -5.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 154 118
10th Percentile £12.82 £19.83 £20.95
25th Percentile £18.87 £58.31 £50.00
Median hourly rate £33.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.14% +7.69% +0.39%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £76.25
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -62.74% +12.50% +3.94%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Consultant' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Consultant job vacancy trend in Bristol

Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in Bristol.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in Bristol

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in Bristol over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in Bristol

Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in Bristol.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in Bristol

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 1 October 2025, Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Bristol region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 18 (56.25%) SC Cleared
1 18 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 11 (34.38%) Mentoring
2 11 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 7 (21.88%) Social Skills
4 7 (21.88%) Degree
4 7 (21.88%) Oracle
5 6 (18.75%) ERP
5 6 (18.75%) SAP
5 6 (18.75%) SAP Certification
5 6 (18.75%) SAP WM
5 6 (18.75%) Logistics
5 6 (18.75%) Business Analysis
5 6 (18.75%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (18.75%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (18.75%) Thought Leadership
5 6 (18.75%) Scenario Testing
5 6 (18.75%) Translating Business Requirements
5 6 (18.75%) SAP EWM
5 6 (18.75%) OCI
6 5 (15.63%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (12.50%) Marketing
7 4 (12.50%) Project Planning
7 4 (12.50%) Business Development
7 4 (12.50%) Snowflake
7 4 (12.50%) Matillion
8 3 (9.38%) GRC
8 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
8 3 (9.38%) AWS

Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 6 (18.75%) SAP EWM
1 6 (18.75%) SAP WM
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.75%) OCI
2 4 (12.50%) Matillion
2 4 (12.50%) Snowflake
3 3 (9.38%) AWS
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.13%) Azure
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (3.13%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.13%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) BIG-IP
1 1 (3.13%) DNS
1 1 (3.13%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (3.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.13%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.13%) MySQL
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.13%) Power BI
2 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) GitLab
General
1 8 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 7 (21.88%) Social Skills
3 6 (18.75%) Influencing Skills
3 6 (18.75%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (12.50%) Marketing
5 3 (9.38%) Finance
6 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.13%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) EntireX
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.13%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.13%) Clustering
3 1 (3.13%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.13%) Replication
3 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Mentoring
1 11 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (18.75%) Business Analysis
2 6 (18.75%) ERP
2 6 (18.75%) Logistics
2 6 (18.75%) Scenario Testing
2 6 (18.75%) Thought Leadership
2 6 (18.75%) Translating Business Requirements
3 5 (15.63%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (12.50%) Business Development
4 4 (12.50%) Project Planning
5 3 (9.38%) Information Security
6 2 (6.25%) Analytics
6 2 (6.25%) Change Management
6 2 (6.25%) DevOps
6 2 (6.25%) Migration
6 2 (6.25%) Project Delivery
6 2 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (6.25%) User Experience
6 2 (6.25%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (56.25%) SC Cleared
1 18 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 7 (21.88%) Degree
3 6 (18.75%) SAP Certification
4 2 (6.25%) CISM
4 2 (6.25%) CISSP
4 2 (6.25%) CRISC
4 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.13%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (6.25%) SCCM
1 2 (6.25%) Terraform
2 1 (3.13%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Oracle
2 6 (18.75%) SAP
3 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.25%) IBM
5 1 (3.13%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.13%) F5
5 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.13%) Software AG
5 1 (3.13%) webMethods