Consultant Contracts in Cheshire

Consultant
North West > Cheshire

The median Consultant daily rate in Cheshire is £538 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 21 34 50
Rank change year-on-year +13 +16 -17
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 37 28 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 7.39% 5.19% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.89% 5.82% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 26 2
10th Percentile £425 £420 -
25th Percentile £503 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £540 £632
Median % change year-on-year -0.46% -14.56% +21.25%
75th Percentile £619 £548 -
90th Percentile £638 £644 -
North West median daily rate £538 £522 £550
% change year-on-year +3.07% -5.18% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 469 481 503
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.61% 89.24% 94.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 331 284
10th Percentile £276 £263 £190
25th Percentile £383 £394 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% +8.57% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £631 £650 £631
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £470
% change year-on-year -1.40% +6.38% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 21 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.00 £11.83
25th Percentile £16.47 £18.82 £16.49
Median hourly rate £20.11 £27.98 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +14.20% +36.87%
75th Percentile £38.00 £35.00 £33.83
90th Percentile £43.75 £40.00 £60.45
North West median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.31
% change year-on-year -13.59% +50.37% +10.74%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in Cheshire

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in Cheshire

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in Cheshire

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in Cheshire

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 27 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
Macclesfield -7 10 £525 +16.67% 1
Chester +10 5 - - 3
Warrington +9 3 £463 -11.90% 3
Knutsford +6 3 £625 +32.28% 1
Northwich - 2 £500 -
Crewe -2 1 £388 -28.24%
Consultant
North West

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

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 Cheshire region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 17 (45.95%) SAP
2 16 (43.24%) Social Skills
3 10 (27.03%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (24.32%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (21.62%) Pharmaceutical
6 7 (18.92%) Life Science
6 7 (18.92%) Ariba
6 7 (18.92%) Business Transformation
7 6 (16.22%) Azure
7 6 (16.22%) Information Security
8 5 (13.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (13.51%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (13.51%) PowerShell
8 5 (13.51%) Cost Reduction
9 4 (10.81%) Roadmaps
9 4 (10.81%) SDLC
9 4 (10.81%) Decision-Making
9 4 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (10.81%) Degree
9 4 (10.81%) Management Information System
9 4 (10.81%) Finance
9 4 (10.81%) SAP PP
10 3 (8.11%) Oracle
10 3 (8.11%) Business Intelligence
10 3 (8.11%) Risk Management
10 3 (8.11%) PCI DSS
10 3 (8.11%) Critical Thinking
10 3 (8.11%) Power Platform
10 3 (8.11%) NIST
10 3 (8.11%) Public Sector

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (2.70%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 9 (24.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (10.81%) SAP PP
3 1 (2.70%) SAP BPC
3 1 (2.70%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.22%) Azure
2 5 (13.51%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (8.11%) OCI
3 3 (8.11%) Oracle Service Cloud
3 3 (8.11%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.41%) AWS
4 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) Power BI
2 2 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (5.41%) Big Data
2 2 (5.41%) Hadoop
2 2 (5.41%) SAP BW
2 2 (5.41%) SAP HANA
2 2 (5.41%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) JIRA
General
1 16 (43.24%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (10.81%) Finance
4 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.41%) Aeronautics
5 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) SAP Basis
2 1 (2.70%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Life Science
2 4 (10.81%) Management Information System
3 3 (8.11%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.70%) ASIC
4 1 (2.70%) Derivative
4 1 (2.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Linux
1 1 (2.70%) Unix
1 1 (2.70%) Windows
1 1 (2.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.03%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (18.92%) Business Transformation
3 6 (16.22%) Information Security
4 5 (13.51%) Cost Reduction
5 4 (10.81%) Decision-Making
5 4 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (10.81%) Roadmaps
5 4 (10.81%) SDLC
6 3 (8.11%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (8.11%) Critical Thinking
6 3 (8.11%) Risk Management
6 3 (8.11%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
6 3 (8.11%) Virtual Team Management
7 2 (5.41%) Incident Management
7 2 (5.41%) ISMS
7 2 (5.41%) Project Management
7 2 (5.41%) Supply Chain Planning
8 1 (2.70%) Accounts Payable
8 1 (2.70%) Cloud Security
8 1 (2.70%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.51%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.41%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (10.81%) Degree
2 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (8.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (8.11%) NIST
2 3 (8.11%) PCI DSS
3 2 (5.41%) GxP
4 1 (2.70%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.70%) EMIR
4 1 (2.70%) GDPR
4 1 (2.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 17 (45.95%) SAP
2 7 (18.92%) Ariba
3 3 (8.11%) Oracle
4 2 (5.41%) Databricks
4 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.41%) Teradata
5 1 (2.70%) Hyperion