Consultant Contracts in Leeds

Consultant
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Consultant daily rate in Leeds is £525, 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 42 30 58
Rank change year-on-year -12 +28 +25
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 18 36 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 3.87% 4.51% 2.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.98% 4.89% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 25 16
10th Percentile £328 £333 £475
25th Percentile £434 £344 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £506
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% +1.25%
75th Percentile £638 £550 £598
90th Percentile £676 - £763
West Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £450 £531
% change year-on-year +16.67% -15.29% +6.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 452 736 1,303
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.20% 92.12% 97.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 458 948
10th Percentile £257 £300 £356
25th Percentile £352 £413 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -7.11% +7.65%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £619
90th Percentile £638 £675 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 11
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.24 £12.00
25th Percentile £31.47 £11.75 £16.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.53 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +227.21% -79.95% +179.02%
75th Percentile £98.56 £15.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £17.67 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.82 £14.34 £32.50
% change year-on-year +73.14% -55.89% +92.88%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in Leeds

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in Leeds

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

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

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in Leeds

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in Leeds

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

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 Leeds region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 6 (33.33%) Banking
2 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Project Delivery
3 4 (22.22%) Azure
4 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 3 (16.67%) NIST
4 3 (16.67%) Clustering
4 3 (16.67%) Oracle
4 3 (16.67%) IBM
4 3 (16.67%) Middleware
4 3 (16.67%) Mainframe
4 3 (16.67%) CISSP
4 3 (16.67%) CISM
5 2 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Impact Assessments
5 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
5 2 (11.11%) Security Management
5 2 (11.11%) Change Management
5 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (11.11%) SAN
5 2 (11.11%) CCSP
5 2 (11.11%) LDAP
5 2 (11.11%) CEH
5 2 (11.11%) Agile
5 2 (11.11%) Incident Management
5 2 (11.11%) Project Planning
5 2 (11.11%) COBIT

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) OpenShift
3 1 (5.56%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (5.56%) GCP
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.56%) OCI
3 1 (5.56%) PaaS
3 1 (5.56%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) NAS
1 2 (11.11%) SAN
1 2 (11.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) DB2
General
1 6 (33.33%) Banking
2 5 (27.78%) Finance
3 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.56%) Retail
5 1 (5.56%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) Middleware
2 2 (11.11%) Kafka
2 2 (11.11%) LDAP
2 2 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (5.56%) .NET
3 1 (5.56%) EntireX
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Clustering
1 3 (16.67%) Mainframe
2 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) IBM Mainframe
2 2 (11.11%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) CMDB
3 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Project Delivery
2 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (11.11%) Agile
3 2 (11.11%) Behavioural Change
3 2 (11.11%) Change Management
3 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
3 2 (11.11%) DevOps
3 2 (11.11%) DevSecOps
3 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (11.11%) High Availability
3 2 (11.11%) Impact Assessments
3 2 (11.11%) Incident Management
3 2 (11.11%) Migration
3 2 (11.11%) Network Architecture
3 2 (11.11%) OWASP
3 2 (11.11%) Programme Delivery
3 2 (11.11%) Security Management
3 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (11.11%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) C#
1 1 (5.56%) COBOL
1 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) CISM
1 3 (16.67%) CISSP
2 2 (11.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (11.11%) CCSP
2 2 (11.11%) CEH
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (11.11%) OSCP
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (5.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) NIST
2 2 (11.11%) COBIT
2 2 (11.11%) PCI DSS
3 1 (5.56%) GDPR
3 1 (5.56%) GRC
3 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Grafana
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.11%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.56%) Nessus
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) IBM
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) Confluent
2 2 (11.11%) Splunk
3 1 (5.56%) BMC
3 1 (5.56%) Databricks
3 1 (5.56%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (5.56%) Qualys
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.56%) Software AG
3 1 (5.56%) webMethods
90 Consultant jobs in West Yorkshire