Consultant Contracts 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 5 July 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
5 Jul 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 32 51
Rank change year-on-year -7 +19 +33
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 22 38 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 4.19% 4.76% 3.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.28% 5.21% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 27 15
10th Percentile £328 £336 £423
25th Percentile £359 £344 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £542 £563 £613
90th Percentile £596 £600 £703
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +15.00%

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 514 730 1,185
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.90% 91.48% 98.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 472 839
10th Percentile £293 £300 £363
25th Percentile £400 £400 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £628
90th Percentile £600 £642 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £495 £525
% change year-on-year -1.11% -5.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 23 16
10th Percentile £31.53 £11.75 £12.00
25th Percentile £31.62 £12.25 £16.31
Median hourly rate £33.11 £18.27 £20.66
Median % change year-on-year +81.23% -11.55% -2.80%
75th Percentile £66.51 £48.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £85.74 - £59.88
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £18.27 £19.00
% change year-on-year +21.18% -3.84% +1.60%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 4 (18.18%) IBM
1 4 (18.18%) Banking
1 4 (18.18%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (13.64%) REST
2 3 (13.64%) Customer Engagement
2 3 (13.64%) Power BI
2 3 (13.64%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
2 3 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (13.64%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Clustering
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle
2 3 (13.64%) Data Modelling
2 3 (13.64%) C#
2 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
2 3 (13.64%) Middleware
2 3 (13.64%) Project Delivery
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Power Automate
3 2 (9.09%) NIST
3 2 (9.09%) Containerisation
3 2 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (9.09%) Key Management
3 2 (9.09%) Confluent
3 2 (9.09%) SAN

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 (4.55%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.55%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
3 2 (9.09%) OpenShift
3 2 (9.09%) Power Automate
3 2 (9.09%) PowerApps
4 1 (4.55%) AWS
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (4.55%) GCP
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.55%) OCI
4 1 (4.55%) PaaS
4 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
4 1 (4.55%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) NAS
1 2 (9.09%) SAN
1 2 (9.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Power BI
2 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.55%) DB2
General
1 4 (18.18%) Banking
2 3 (13.64%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Games
3 1 (4.55%) Legal
3 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.55%) Retail
3 1 (4.55%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Middleware
1 3 (13.64%) REST
2 2 (9.09%) CSS
2 2 (9.09%) HTML
2 2 (9.09%) Kafka
2 2 (9.09%) LDAP
3 1 (4.55%) .NET
3 1 (4.55%) EntireX
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (4.55%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Clustering
2 2 (9.09%) IBM Mainframe
2 2 (9.09%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.55%) CMDB
3 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Customer Engagement
1 3 (13.64%) Data Modelling
1 3 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (13.64%) Project Delivery
2 2 (9.09%) Business Continuity
2 2 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (9.09%) Containerisation
2 2 (9.09%) CRM
2 2 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (9.09%) High Availability
2 2 (9.09%) Incident Management
2 2 (9.09%) Key Management
2 2 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (9.09%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (4.55%) Agile
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Security
3 1 (4.55%) Content Management
3 1 (4.55%) Incident Response
3 1 (4.55%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.64%) C#
1 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
2 2 (9.09%) SQL
3 1 (4.55%) COBOL
3 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
1 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) CISM
2 1 (4.55%) CISSP
2 1 (4.55%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (4.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (9.09%) NIST
3 1 (4.55%) GDPR
3 1 (4.55%) GRC
3 1 (4.55%) ISO 22301
3 1 (4.55%) ISO 9001
3 1 (4.55%) QA
3 1 (4.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Grafana
1 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.55%) Nessus
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) IBM
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle
3 2 (9.09%) Confluent
3 2 (9.09%) LogicMonitor
3 2 (9.09%) Splunk
4 1 (4.55%) Databricks
4 1 (4.55%) Qualys
4 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.55%) Software AG
4 1 (4.55%) webMethods
224 Consultant jobs in West Yorkshire