Consultant Contracts in Cheshire

Consultant
North West > Cheshire

The median Consultant daily rate in Cheshire is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 23 50
Rank change year-on-year +1 +27 -20
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 39 32 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 7.17% 6.30% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.49% 6.96% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 28 4
10th Percentile £388 £513 £422
25th Percentile £463 £536 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £547
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.32% +9.45%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £632
90th Percentile £638 £611 -
North West median daily rate £550 £540 £525
% change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% +5.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 521 460 517
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.77% 90.55% 93.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 308 282
10th Percentile £284 £288 £185
25th Percentile £376 £400 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £516 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% +14.67% +4.53%
75th Percentile £578 £586 £538
90th Percentile £638 £658 £631
North West median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 27 32
10th Percentile £13.49 £14.15 £12.51
25th Percentile £15.69 £18.75 £19.75
Median hourly rate £30.83 £23.15 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year +33.17% -2.53% +25.00%
75th Percentile £43.75 £35.00 £33.79
90th Percentile - £44.00 £57.13
North West median hourly rate £32.90 £28.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year +16.07% +13.36% +38.45%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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
Knutsford -9 9 £550 -7.56% 3
Chester +12 4 - - 1
Macclesfield -4 4 £500 +11.11% 3
Warrington +4 2 £463 -11.90% 7
Crewe -8 1 £388 -28.24%
Northwich - 1 - -
Consultant
North West

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

For the 6 months to 16 June 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 12 (30.77%) Azure
2 11 (28.21%) Degree
3 10 (25.64%) SAP
3 10 (25.64%) Finance
3 10 (25.64%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (23.08%) Change Management
5 8 (20.51%) Computer Science
6 7 (17.95%) AWS
6 7 (17.95%) Security Monitoring
6 7 (17.95%) Observability
6 7 (17.95%) Social Skills
7 6 (15.38%) OCI
7 6 (15.38%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (15.38%) NIST
7 6 (15.38%) Test Automation
7 6 (15.38%) Oracle
8 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
8 5 (12.82%) SaaS
8 5 (12.82%) PowerShell
8 5 (12.82%) Public Cloud
8 5 (12.82%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (12.82%) Security Posture
9 4 (10.26%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (10.26%) ServiceNow
9 4 (10.26%) JIRA
9 4 (10.26%) Incident Management
9 4 (10.26%) SIEM
9 4 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management

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 3 (7.69%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 4 (10.26%) SAP PP
2 3 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (2.56%) SAP GTS
3 1 (2.56%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.77%) Azure
2 7 (17.95%) AWS
3 6 (15.38%) OCI
3 6 (15.38%) Oracle Service Cloud
4 5 (12.82%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (12.82%) SaaS
5 2 (5.13%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) Power BI
2 1 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.56%) Big Data
2 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.56%) SAP BW
2 1 (2.56%) SAP HANA
2 1 (2.56%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) JIRA
2 3 (7.69%) Bitbucket
General
1 10 (25.64%) Finance
2 9 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (17.95%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.69%) Banking
4 3 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.13%) Aeronautics
6 1 (2.56%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) SAP Basis
2 1 (2.56%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Public Cloud
1 5 (12.82%) Security Posture
2 4 (10.26%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.13%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.56%) ASIC
5 1 (2.56%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.26%) Unix
1 4 (10.26%) Windows
2 1 (2.56%) Linux
2 1 (2.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (25.64%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (23.08%) Change Management
3 8 (20.51%) Computer Science
4 7 (17.95%) Observability
4 7 (17.95%) Security Monitoring
5 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (15.38%) Test Automation
6 4 (10.26%) Incident Management
6 4 (10.26%) Information Security
6 4 (10.26%) SIEM
6 4 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (7.69%) Business Transformation
7 3 (7.69%) Cost Reduction
7 3 (7.69%) Data Loss Prevention
7 3 (7.69%) Roadmaps
7 3 (7.69%) SDLC
8 2 (5.13%) Critical Thinking
8 2 (5.13%) Record to Report
8 2 (5.13%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
8 2 (5.13%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.82%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.13%) C#
Qualifications
1 11 (28.21%) Degree
2 3 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) NIST
2 3 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (5.13%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.56%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.56%) EMIR
System Software
1 3 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.56%) BitLocker
Vendors
1 10 (25.64%) SAP
2 6 (15.38%) Oracle
3 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
4 4 (10.26%) Salesforce
4 4 (10.26%) ServiceNow
5 3 (7.69%) Atlassian
6 2 (5.13%) Ariba
7 1 (2.56%) Databricks
7 1 (2.56%) Tanium
7 1 (2.56%) Teradata
7 1 (2.56%) Zscaler