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 7 August 2026.

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

 6 months to
7 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 39 34
Rank change year-on-year -16 -5 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 33 23 32
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 3.19% 3.97% 4.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.37% 4.08% 4.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 24
10th Percentile £438 £335 £468
25th Percentile £462 £363 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £488 £538 £591
90th Percentile - £583 £600
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £463 £550
% change year-on-year +2.70% -15.91% -8.33%

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 979 564 661
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.59% 97.41% 91.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 372 437
10th Percentile £363 £308 £334
25th Percentile £419 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -6.10%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £575
90th Percentile £650 £611 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -2.01% -0.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 20
10th Percentile £18.23 £25.15 £17.84
25th Percentile £25.69 £25.38 £18.44
Median hourly rate £26.25 £29.56 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% +2.80% +51.32%
75th Percentile £35.00 £50.48 £48.75
90th Percentile - £79.33 £49.50
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 £25.00 £28.75
% change year-on-year +3.08% -13.04% +51.32%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 9 (27.27%) Oracle
1 9 (27.27%) Risk Management
2 8 (24.24%) GRC
2 8 (24.24%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (24.24%) SC Cleared
2 8 (24.24%) Security Cleared
3 7 (21.21%) Oracle Reports
3 7 (21.21%) PL/SQL
3 7 (21.21%) SQL
4 6 (18.18%) Azure
4 6 (18.18%) Oracle Forms
4 6 (18.18%) Translating Business Requirements
4 6 (18.18%) Workflow
5 4 (12.12%) Agile
5 4 (12.12%) Migration
5 4 (12.12%) NIST
5 4 (12.12%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (9.09%) AWS
6 3 (9.09%) CCSP
6 3 (9.09%) CEH
6 3 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (9.09%) CISM
6 3 (9.09%) CISSP
6 3 (9.09%) COBIT
6 3 (9.09%) Containerisation
6 3 (9.09%) Cryptography
6 3 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (9.09%) Data Migration

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 (9.09%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (6.06%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.03%) Confluence
3 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.03%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.03%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 8 (24.24%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (6.06%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (3.03%) SAP FI
3 1 (3.03%) SAP FI-AP
3 1 (3.03%) SAP Retail
3 1 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.18%) Azure
2 3 (9.09%) AWS
3 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.06%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (6.06%) GitHub
3 2 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (6.06%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.03%) OneDrive
4 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Finance
3 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.09%) Retail
4 1 (3.03%) Banking
4 1 (3.03%) General Ledger
4 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) RESTful
2 2 (6.06%) REST
3 1 (3.03%) Jakarta EE
3 1 (3.03%) JSP
3 1 (3.03%) LDAP
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.03%) SailPoint
3 1 (3.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Private Cloud
2 2 (6.06%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.03%) NHS
3 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (27.27%) Risk Management
2 6 (18.18%) Translating Business Requirements
2 6 (18.18%) Workflow
3 4 (12.12%) Agile
3 4 (12.12%) Migration
3 4 (12.12%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (9.09%) Containerisation
4 3 (9.09%) Cryptography
4 3 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (9.09%) Data Migration
4 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (9.09%) Microservices
4 3 (9.09%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 3 (9.09%) OWASP
4 3 (9.09%) Roadmaps
4 3 (9.09%) Security Management
4 3 (9.09%) Security Testing
4 3 (9.09%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (6.06%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.21%) PL/SQL
1 7 (21.21%) SQL
2 2 (6.06%) Java
3 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (24.24%) SC Cleared
1 8 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 3 (9.09%) CCSP
2 3 (9.09%) CEH
2 3 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (9.09%) CISM
2 3 (9.09%) CISSP
2 3 (9.09%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (24.24%) GRC
2 4 (12.12%) NIST
3 3 (9.09%) COBIT
3 3 (9.09%) PCI DSS
4 2 (6.06%) Accessibility
4 2 (6.06%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (6.06%) GDPR
4 2 (6.06%) WCAG
5 1 (3.03%) GxP
5 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (3.03%) NCSC
5 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (27.27%) Oracle
2 3 (9.09%) OpenText
2 3 (9.09%) SAP
3 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.03%) IBM
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.03%) Okta
36 Consultant jobs in Leeds