Consultant Contracts in Lancashire

Consultant
North West > Lancashire

The median Consultant daily rate in Lancashire is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 24 40
Rank change year-on-year +14 +16 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 23 10 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 11.79% 4.13% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.77% 4.55% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 3 0
10th Percentile £413 £535 -
25th Percentile £431 £588 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% - -
75th Percentile £779 £731 -
90th Percentile £978 £735 -
North West median daily rate £538 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +3.76% -5.82% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Lancashire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Lancashire. 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 Lancashire with a recognized job title 167 220 253
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.64% 90.91% 97.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 124 163
10th Percentile £200 £240 £205
25th Percentile £363 £408 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +18.75%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £572
90th Percentile £750 £700 £700
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 36 48
10th Percentile £15.00 £23.05 £14.98
25th Percentile £25.60 £28.40 £17.19
Median hourly rate £42.91 £41.37 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year +3.72% +16.13% +39.71%
75th Percentile £46.18 £52.13 £44.03
90th Percentile £49.69 £54.91 £53.64
North West median hourly rate £26.53 £30.54 £20.31
% change year-on-year -13.15% +50.37% +12.47%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in Lancashire

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in Lancashire

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in Lancashire over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in Lancashire

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in Lancashire

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 29 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
Blackburn +5 9 £425 -
Preston +10 6 £950 +33.33% 1
Consultant
North West

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 Lancashire region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 12 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 10 (43.48%) Finance
3 9 (39.13%) SAP
3 9 (39.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (30.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (30.43%) Asset Management
4 7 (30.43%) SAP FI
4 7 (30.43%) Investment Management
4 7 (30.43%) Public Sector
5 6 (26.09%) Housing Management
5 6 (26.09%) Data Migration
5 6 (26.09%) Local Government
5 6 (26.09%) Migration
6 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
6 4 (17.39%) Operational Technology
7 3 (13.04%) Customer Experience
7 3 (13.04%) Aareon QL
7 3 (13.04%) Aareon
7 3 (13.04%) Data Analysis
7 3 (13.04%) Northgate
7 3 (13.04%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (13.04%) Data Cleansing
7 3 (13.04%) Data Transformation
8 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
8 2 (8.70%) Process Improvement
8 2 (8.70%) Analytics
8 2 (8.70%) Mentoring
8 2 (8.70%) Translating Business Requirements
8 2 (8.70%) Threat Management
8 2 (8.70%) Azure

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (39.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (30.43%) SAP FI
3 3 (13.04%) Aareon QL
4 2 (8.70%) SAP SD
5 1 (4.35%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (4.35%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.70%) Azure
1 2 (8.70%) Entra ID
2 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
General
1 12 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 10 (43.48%) Finance
3 7 (30.43%) Public Sector
4 6 (26.09%) Local Government
5 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Legal
5 1 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.35%) Public Speaking
5 1 (4.35%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (4.35%) Lucene
1 1 (4.35%) SailPoint
1 1 (4.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Operational Technology
2 2 (8.70%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) Asset Management
1 7 (30.43%) Investment Management
1 7 (30.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (26.09%) Data Migration
2 6 (26.09%) Housing Management
2 6 (26.09%) Migration
3 3 (13.04%) Customer Experience
3 3 (13.04%) Data Analysis
3 3 (13.04%) Data Cleansing
3 3 (13.04%) Data Transformation
3 3 (13.04%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (8.70%) Analytics
4 2 (8.70%) Change Management
4 2 (8.70%) Data Modelling
4 2 (8.70%) Decision-Making
4 2 (8.70%) Integration Testing
4 2 (8.70%) Mentoring
4 2 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (8.70%) Process Improvement
4 2 (8.70%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.35%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) NIST
2 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) SAP
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.04%) Aareon
3 3 (13.04%) Northgate
4 1 (4.35%) Intel