Consultant Contracts in Coventry

Consultant
West Midlands > Coventry

The median Consultant daily rate in Coventry is £506, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 18 22
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 5 9 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Coventry 5.15% 6.29% 6.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.62% 6.52% 6.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 18
10th Percentile - £463 £400
25th Percentile £419 £491 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £688
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -23.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £591 £555 £694
90th Percentile £596 £571 -
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £550 £555
% change year-on-year - -0.90% +0.91%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Coventry

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Coventry. 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 Coventry with a recognized job title 89 138 269
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.75% 96.50% 97.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 112 188
10th Percentile £200 £351 £222
25th Percentile £236 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £432 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% +9.38% +2.13%
75th Percentile £519 £616 £550
90th Percentile £635 £675 £666
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -0.77% -2.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.50
Median hourly rate - - £18.11
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.73%
75th Percentile - - £24.42
90th Percentile - - £26.57
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.07 £22.25 £19.50
% change year-on-year -18.81% +14.10% +12.85%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in Coventry

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in Coventry

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in Coventry

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

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in Coventry

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in Coventry

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Coventry region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) VoIP
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (40.00%) Mitel
1 2 (40.00%) Retail
1 2 (40.00%) Network Design
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Architecture
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) Aruba
1 2 (40.00%) Unified Communications
1 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 2 (40.00%) FortiGate
1 2 (40.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 2 (40.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (20.00%) ETL
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) SuccessFactors

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Coventry 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 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (20.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
1 2 (40.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (40.00%) Unified Communications
1 2 (40.00%) VoIP
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
1 2 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (20.00%) DKIM
2 1 (20.00%) FTP
General
1 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Retail
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Learning Management System
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (40.00%) Network Design
1 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Architecture
1 2 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (20.00%) ETL
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Quantitative Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (20.00%) SIEM
2 1 (20.00%) Statistics
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Aruba
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) Mitel
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft