Consultant Contracts in Cardiff

Consultant
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Consultant daily rate in Cardiff is £469 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 39 48
Rank change year-on-year +8 +9 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 4 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 1.88% 1.79% 1.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.02% 1.85% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 8
10th Percentile £433 £282 £405
25th Percentile £444 £374 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% +2.78% +12.50%
75th Percentile £520 £523 £509
90th Percentile £568 £588 £624
South Wales median daily rate £700 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +47.37% +5.56% +2.56%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cardiff. 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 Cardiff with a recognized job title 198 324 515
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 96.43% 96.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 261 395
10th Percentile £199 £183 £233
25th Percentile £369 £350 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £538
90th Percentile £620 £625 £638
South Wales median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 5
10th Percentile £11.32 £13.00 £13.45
25th Percentile £11.75 £13.81 £15.25
Median hourly rate £13.50 £17.25 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.75% -7.99% +14.42%
75th Percentile £18.00 £22.34 £23.75
90th Percentile £39.45 £24.38 £24.95
South Wales median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £19.91
% change year-on-year +25.03% -8.89% +10.61%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in Cardiff

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in Cardiff

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in Cardiff over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in Cardiff

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in Cardiff

Consultant Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff

For the 6 months to 27 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 Cardiff region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Welsh Language
2 1 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (25.00%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (25.00%) BCP
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (25.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Welsh Language
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cyberattack
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) BCP
1 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (25.00%) Project Management
1 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA