Lead Consultant Contracts in England

Lead Consultant
UK > England

The median Lead Consultant daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 423 511 534
Rank change year-on-year +88 +23 +126
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Consultant 56 35 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.096% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.10% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 23 72
10th Percentile £485 £500 £500
25th Percentile £515 £521 £574
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £628
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.39% -6.16%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £738 £725 £800
UK median daily rate £546 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -8.96% -4.00% -1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £56.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £55.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,424 33,720 45,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 92.73% 94.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,926 22,354 32,457
10th Percentile £300 £281 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.26% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £645 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 908 2,424 1,347
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.54
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.31% -17.38% +95.65%
75th Percentile £63.38 £61.30 £65.30
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.20
UK median hourly rate £28.18 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.79% -18.89% +87.50%

Lead Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Consultant in England

Lead Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Consultant in England

Lead Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Consultant in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Consultant in England

Lead Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead Consultant in England

Lead Consultant
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Consultant within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2025. 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
London +42 30 £585 -0.43% 39
North of England +30 14 £534 +6.80% 12
North West - 11 £538 - 9
South East +50 4 - - 10
Midlands +16 4 £625 +26.58% 8
Yorkshire +15 3 £388 -22.50% 2
East Midlands - 3 - -
South West +38 1 £650 -7.14% 1
East of England +22 1 £700 +16.67% 4
West Midlands +10 1 £625 +26.58% 8
Lead Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Lead 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 England region featuring Lead Consultant in the job title.

1 20 (35.71%) SAP
2 18 (32.14%) Finance
3 15 (26.79%) Social Skills
4 12 (21.43%) Migration
4 12 (21.43%) Roadmaps
5 11 (19.64%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (17.86%) Microsoft
6 10 (17.86%) SuccessFactors
7 9 (16.07%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (16.07%) Azure
7 9 (16.07%) SAP S/4HANA
7 9 (16.07%) Data Migration
8 8 (14.29%) Agile
8 8 (14.29%) Project Management
8 8 (14.29%) Analytics
9 7 (12.50%) AWS
9 7 (12.50%) SQL
10 6 (10.71%) Asset Management
10 6 (10.71%) Front Office
10 6 (10.71%) Data Centre
10 6 (10.71%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (10.71%) Requirements Gathering
11 5 (8.93%) Project Delivery
11 5 (8.93%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (8.93%) Business Transformation
11 5 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (8.93%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (8.93%) Mentoring
11 5 (8.93%) Entra ID
11 5 (8.93%) Change Management

Lead Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (16.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (7.14%) SAP IBP
3 1 (1.79%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.79%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (1.79%) SAP BRIM
3 1 (1.79%) SAP CRM
3 1 (1.79%) SAP GRC
3 1 (1.79%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.79%) SAP MII
3 1 (1.79%) SAP PP
3 1 (1.79%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 10 (17.86%) SuccessFactors
2 9 (16.07%) Azure
3 7 (12.50%) AWS
4 5 (8.93%) Entra ID
4 5 (8.93%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (7.14%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.36%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (5.36%) Mimecast
6 3 (5.36%) OneDrive
7 2 (3.57%) Boomi
7 2 (3.57%) GitHub
7 2 (3.57%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.57%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.79%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (1.79%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (1.79%) dbt
8 1 (1.79%) GCP
8 1 (1.79%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.79%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.93%) Firewall
2 3 (5.36%) SD-WAN
2 3 (5.36%) WAN
3 2 (3.57%) DHCP
3 2 (3.57%) DNS
3 2 (3.57%) VLAN
4 1 (1.79%) BGP
4 1 (1.79%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.79%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.79%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.79%) LAN
4 1 (1.79%) Multicast
4 1 (1.79%) Network Security
4 1 (1.79%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (1.79%) VPN
4 1 (1.79%) VXLAN
4 1 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.14%) Power BI
2 3 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.57%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.79%) Data Hub
4 1 (1.79%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.79%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.79%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Subversion
General
1 18 (32.14%) Finance
2 15 (26.79%) Social Skills
3 9 (16.07%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.71%) Front Office
5 3 (5.36%) Back Office
5 3 (5.36%) Marketing
6 2 (3.57%) Law
6 2 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.79%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.79%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.79%) Retail
7 1 (1.79%) Spanish Language
7 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.57%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.79%) .NET
2 1 (1.79%) ASP.NET
2 1 (1.79%) LDAP
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.79%) REST
2 1 (1.79%) RESTful
2 1 (1.79%) SAPUI5
2 1 (1.79%) SOAP
2 1 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Data Centre
2 4 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.57%) Life Science
3 2 (3.57%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.79%) CCTV
4 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.79%) FMCG
4 1 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.79%) LIMS
4 1 (1.79%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.79%) PACS
4 1 (1.79%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.79%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (21.43%) Migration
1 12 (21.43%) Roadmaps
2 11 (19.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (16.07%) Data Migration
4 8 (14.29%) Agile
4 8 (14.29%) Analytics
4 8 (14.29%) Project Management
5 6 (10.71%) Asset Management
5 6 (10.71%) Requirements Gathering
6 5 (8.93%) Business Transformation
6 5 (8.93%) Change Management
6 5 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (8.93%) Mentoring
6 5 (8.93%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (8.93%) Project Delivery
7 4 (7.14%) Decision-Making
7 4 (7.14%) Regression Testing
7 4 (7.14%) Risk Management
7 4 (7.14%) Scrum
7 4 (7.14%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.50%) SQL
2 2 (3.57%) Python
3 1 (1.79%) ABAP
3 1 (1.79%) C#
3 1 (1.79%) Java
3 1 (1.79%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.79%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (10.71%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.79%) BICSI Certification
3 1 (1.79%) BICSI RCDD
3 1 (1.79%) CCNP
3 1 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.79%) MBA
3 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.79%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.36%) EMIR
1 3 (5.36%) MiFID
2 2 (3.57%) QA
3 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.79%) GRC
3 1 (1.79%) GxP
3 1 (1.79%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.57%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (5.36%) SCCM
2 1 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (35.71%) SAP
2 10 (17.86%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.14%) Charles River
3 4 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.57%) Cisco
4 2 (3.57%) Dell
4 2 (3.57%) Guidewire
4 2 (3.57%) MuleSoft
4 2 (3.57%) Oracle
4 2 (3.57%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.79%) Adobe
5 1 (1.79%) Ariba
5 1 (1.79%) Blue Prism
5 1 (1.79%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.79%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.79%) Juniper
5 1 (1.79%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.79%) SimCorp
5 1 (1.79%) UiPath
5 1 (1.79%) VMware