Consultant Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Consultant
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Consultant daily rate in Leeds is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 44 46
Rank change year-on-year -25 +2 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 22 30 22
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 2.11% 4.55% 3.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.23% 4.71% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 15
10th Percentile £438 £363 £489
25th Percentile £456 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -22.92% +9.09%
75th Percentile £532 £602 -
90th Percentile £575 £699 £680
West Yorkshire median daily rate £469 £463 £588
% change year-on-year +1.35% -21.28% +6.82%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 986 637 643
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 96.66% 93.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 414 408
10th Percentile £363 £302 £334
25th Percentile £420 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £567 £575
90th Percentile £656 £650 £648
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 29
10th Percentile £18.39 £25.05 £17.65
25th Percentile £25.88 £25.13 £19.50
Median hourly rate £26.25 £25.50 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +5.46% +24.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.13 £48.75
90th Percentile - £26.35 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 £50.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -48.46% +100.00% +31.58%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Consultant' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Consultant job vacancy trend in Leeds

Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in Leeds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in Leeds

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in Leeds over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in Leeds

Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in Leeds.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in Leeds

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 6 October 2026, Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Leeds region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 7 (31.82%) Dynamics 365
1 7 (31.82%) Power Platform
1 7 (31.82%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
3 4 (18.18%) Agile
3 4 (18.18%) Azure
3 4 (18.18%) Internal Audit
3 4 (18.18%) ISO 14001
3 4 (18.18%) ISO 9001
3 4 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 4 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (18.18%) Migration
3 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (13.64%) Customer Engagement
4 3 (13.64%) Risk Management
4 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
4 3 (13.64%) SharePoint
5 2 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (9.09%) Accessibility
5 2 (9.09%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (9.09%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (9.09%) CCSP
5 2 (9.09%) CEH
5 2 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 2 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (9.09%) CISM

Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (13.64%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (4.55%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) Dynamics 365
1 7 (31.82%) Power Platform
2 4 (18.18%) Azure
3 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (9.09%) GitHub
3 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.55%) AWS
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.55%) OneDrive
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle Forms
General
1 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 2 (9.09%) Retail
4 1 (4.55%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) General Ledger
4 1 (4.55%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) RESTful
1 2 (9.09%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Management Information System
1 2 (9.09%) Private Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (18.18%) Agile
2 4 (18.18%) Internal Audit
2 4 (18.18%) Migration
3 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (13.64%) Customer Engagement
3 3 (13.64%) Risk Management
3 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
4 2 (9.09%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Security
4 2 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement Process
4 2 (9.09%) Decision-Making
4 2 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (9.09%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 2 (9.09%) Risk Register
4 2 (9.09%) Technical Debt
4 2 (9.09%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (9.09%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.55%) PL/SQL
1 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (9.09%) CCSP
3 2 (9.09%) CEH
3 2 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (9.09%) CISM
3 2 (9.09%) CISSP
3 2 (9.09%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) ISO 14001
1 4 (18.18%) ISO 9001
1 4 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 4 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 2 (9.09%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (9.09%) COBIT
2 2 (9.09%) GDPR
2 2 (9.09%) NIST
2 2 (9.09%) PCI DSS
2 2 (9.09%) QA
2 2 (9.09%) WCAG
3 1 (4.55%) GRC
3 1 (4.55%) GxP
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 2 (9.09%) OpenText
1 2 (9.09%) SAP
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle
2 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow