Consultant Contracts in Liverpool

Consultant
Merseyside > Liverpool

The median Consultant daily rate in Liverpool is £535, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 24 28
Rank change year-on-year +8 +4 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 9 7 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Liverpool 6.52% 3.80% 4.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.87% 4.02% 5.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 9
10th Percentile £463 - £441
25th Percentile £484 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.13% -6.25% -4.76%
75th Percentile £545 £533 £600
90th Percentile - £603 £606
Merseyside median daily rate £535 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +14.13% -6.25% -4.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Liverpool

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Liverpool. 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 Liverpool with a recognized job title 131 174 256
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.93% 94.57% 96.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 85 187
10th Percentile £140 £143 £243
25th Percentile £163 £213 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +16.25% -15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £494 £538
90th Percentile £638 £595 £626
Merseyside median daily rate £419 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +4.69% -15.79% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 26 12
10th Percentile £13.28 - -
25th Percentile - £15.50 £10.09
Median hourly rate £17.44 £18.06 £16.19
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% +11.55% +9.73%
75th Percentile £20.00 £34.32 £18.75
90th Percentile £25.22 £37.18 £23.25
Merseyside median hourly rate £17.44 £19.97 £16.94
% change year-on-year -12.65% +17.89% +12.90%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in Liverpool

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in Liverpool

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in Liverpool

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 Liverpool region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 5 (55.56%) Oracle
2 4 (44.44%) Essbase
2 4 (44.44%) MDX
2 4 (44.44%) Financial Modelling
2 4 (44.44%) Metadata Management
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 4 (44.44%) Planning and Forecasting
2 4 (44.44%) Metadata
2 4 (44.44%) Budgeting
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
5 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
5 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
5 1 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (11.11%) VXLAN
5 1 (11.11%) Threat Detection
5 1 (11.11%) Two-Factor Authentication
5 1 (11.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 1 (11.11%) Security Monitoring
5 1 (11.11%) Privileged Identity Management
5 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
5 1 (11.11%) GRC
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Ethernet VPN

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Liverpool 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) BGP
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (11.11%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) NGFW
1 1 (11.11%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Essbase
1 4 (44.44%) Metadata
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) MDX
2 1 (11.11%) EntireX
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Budgeting
1 4 (44.44%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 4 (44.44%) Financial Modelling
1 4 (44.44%) Metadata Management
1 4 (44.44%) Planning and Forecasting
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (11.11%) Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
4 1 (11.11%) Data Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (11.11%) Identity Management
4 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (11.11%) Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
4 1 (11.11%) Threat Detection
4 1 (11.11%) Two-Factor Authentication
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) BMC
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco
3 1 (11.11%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
3 1 (11.11%) Software AG
3 1 (11.11%) webMethods