Consultant Contracts in Lancashire

Consultant
North West > Lancashire

The median Consultant daily rate in Lancashire is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 26 36
Rank change year-on-year +23 +10 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 37 10 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 17.05% 4.12% 1.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 19.58% 4.52% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 3 0
10th Percentile £413 £535 -
25th Percentile £450 £588 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% - -
75th Percentile £630 £731 -
90th Percentile £855 £735 -
North West median daily rate £550 £540 £538
% change year-on-year +1.85% +0.47% +7.50%

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 189 221 240
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.10% 90.95% 96.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 116 162
10th Percentile £198 £249 £176
25th Percentile £344 £392 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £584
90th Percentile £655 £700 £735
North West median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 41 34
10th Percentile £13.72 £25.75 £13.54
25th Percentile £19.18 £29.30 £16.87
Median hourly rate £42.91 £42.50 £30.71
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +38.40% +79.81%
75th Percentile £46.18 £52.13 £44.52
90th Percentile £75.80 £56.38 £84.83
North West median hourly rate £31.50 £30.54 £23.22
% change year-on-year +3.14% +31.51% +29.73%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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
Preston +17 19 £627 -12.00% 9
Blackburn +3 7 £425 - 2
Consultant
North West

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 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 23 (62.16%) SAP
2 16 (43.24%) SuccessFactors
3 13 (35.14%) Roadmaps
4 12 (32.43%) Product Roadmap
4 12 (32.43%) Social Skills
5 9 (24.32%) Public Sector
6 8 (21.62%) SAP S/4HANA
6 8 (21.62%) Finance
7 7 (18.92%) SAP FI
7 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (18.92%) Asset Management
7 7 (18.92%) Investment Management
8 6 (16.22%) Local Government
8 6 (16.22%) Housing Management
9 5 (13.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
10 4 (10.81%) Migration
10 4 (10.81%) Data Migration
10 4 (10.81%) Operational Technology
11 3 (8.11%) Customer Experience
11 3 (8.11%) Data Cleansing
11 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
11 3 (8.11%) Northgate
11 3 (8.11%) Data Transformation
11 3 (8.11%) Aareon QL
11 3 (8.11%) Aareon
11 3 (8.11%) Data Analysis
12 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
12 2 (5.41%) Web Services
12 2 (5.41%) Data Modelling

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 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (21.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (18.92%) SAP FI
3 3 (8.11%) Aareon QL
4 1 (2.70%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 16 (43.24%) SuccessFactors
2 2 (5.41%) Azure
2 2 (5.41%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.70%) Boomi
3 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
General
1 12 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 9 (24.32%) Public Sector
3 8 (21.62%) Finance
4 6 (16.22%) Local Government
5 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Public Speaking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) Web Services
2 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.70%) Lucene
2 1 (2.70%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Operational Technology
2 2 (5.41%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (35.14%) Roadmaps
2 12 (32.43%) Product Roadmap
3 7 (18.92%) Asset Management
3 7 (18.92%) Investment Management
3 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (16.22%) Housing Management
5 4 (10.81%) Data Migration
5 4 (10.81%) Migration
6 3 (8.11%) Customer Experience
6 3 (8.11%) Data Analysis
6 3 (8.11%) Data Cleansing
6 3 (8.11%) Data Transformation
7 2 (5.41%) Data Modelling
7 2 (5.41%) Decision-Making
7 2 (5.41%) Knowledge Transfer
7 2 (5.41%) Mentoring
7 2 (5.41%) Performance Management
7 2 (5.41%) Security Operations
7 2 (5.41%) Threat Management
7 2 (5.41%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) NIST
2 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 23 (62.16%) SAP
2 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.11%) Aareon
3 3 (8.11%) Northgate
4 1 (2.70%) Dell
4 1 (2.70%) Intel