Consultant Contracts in Manchester

Consultant
North West > Manchester

The median Consultant daily rate in Manchester is £513 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 51 77
Rank change year-on-year +17 +26 -39
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 60 65 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 4.14% 3.59% 2.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.32% 3.72% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 51 56
10th Percentile £444 £413 £355
25th Percentile £491 £466 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £587 £586 £625
90th Percentile £738 £650 £669
North West median daily rate £538 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +3.76% -5.82% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,389 1,745 2,537
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.73% 96.30% 97.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 964 1,295 1,978
10th Percentile £313 £313 £226
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +12.94%
75th Percentile £585 £590 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £660
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +13.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 46 68
10th Percentile £12.05 £15.19 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £17.92 £13.83
Median hourly rate £27.00 £31.35 £18.06
Median % change year-on-year -13.88% +73.61% +11.26%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.94 £33.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £27.00 £32.88 £24.75
% change year-on-year -17.88% +32.84% +36.63%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in Manchester

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in Manchester

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in Manchester over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in Manchester

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, 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 Manchester region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 18 (30.00%) Migration
1 18 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (26.67%) Data Migration
3 15 (25.00%) SAP
3 15 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 14 (23.33%) Dynamics 365
4 14 (23.33%) Marketing
4 14 (23.33%) User Acceptance Testing
5 12 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (20.00%) System Testing
6 11 (18.33%) Dynamics CRM
6 11 (18.33%) Customer Insight
6 11 (18.33%) CRM
6 11 (18.33%) Social Skills
6 11 (18.33%) Customer Experience
6 11 (18.33%) End-to-End Testing
7 10 (16.67%) Security Cleared
8 9 (15.00%) SAP EWM
9 8 (13.33%) SC Cleared
9 8 (13.33%) AWS
10 6 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
10 6 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
11 5 (8.33%) DevOps
11 5 (8.33%) Active Directory
11 5 (8.33%) Public Sector
11 5 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
12 4 (6.67%) Dell DRAC
12 4 (6.67%) CI/CD
12 4 (6.67%) Containerisation
12 4 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (3.33%) CMS
2 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.67%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (1.67%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 11 (18.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (15.00%) SAP EWM
3 6 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (3.33%) NetSuite
5 1 (1.67%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 1 (1.67%) Oracle Internet Expenses
5 1 (1.67%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (1.67%) SAP GTS
5 1 (1.67%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 14 (23.33%) Dynamics 365
2 8 (13.33%) AWS
3 2 (3.33%) Amazon EventBridge
3 2 (3.33%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (3.33%) Azure
4 1 (1.67%) GCP
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.67%) SaaS
4 1 (1.67%) Serverless
4 1 (1.67%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.67%) InfiniBand
1 4 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.67%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (1.67%) Metadata
1 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.67%) PowerPivot
1 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Git
General
1 14 (23.33%) Marketing
2 11 (18.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.67%) Finance
5 3 (5.00%) Police
6 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Automotive
6 2 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.67%) Electronics
7 1 (1.67%) French Language
7 1 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.67%) Retail
7 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.67%) CSS
2 1 (1.67%) HTML
2 1 (1.67%) Node.js
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.67%) Life Science
4 1 (1.67%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (30.00%) Migration
1 18 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (26.67%) Data Migration
3 15 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 14 (23.33%) User Acceptance Testing
5 12 (20.00%) System Testing
6 11 (18.33%) CRM
6 11 (18.33%) Customer Experience
6 11 (18.33%) Customer Insight
6 11 (18.33%) End-to-End Testing
7 6 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (8.33%) DevOps
8 5 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
9 4 (6.67%) Agile
9 4 (6.67%) CI/CD
9 4 (6.67%) Containerisation
9 4 (6.67%) Deep Learning
9 4 (6.67%) Information Security
9 4 (6.67%) Integration Testing
9 4 (6.67%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.67%) Bash
1 4 (6.67%) MATLAB
1 4 (6.67%) Python
2 1 (1.67%) ABAP
2 1 (1.67%) Java
2 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.67%) PHP
2 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 4 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.67%) CISM
4 1 (1.67%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.33%) GDPR
2 2 (3.33%) GRC
3 1 (1.67%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.67%) NCSC
3 1 (1.67%) NIST
3 1 (1.67%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.67%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.67%) Docker
2 4 (6.67%) Firmware
3 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (6.67%) Dell DRAC
1 4 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (6.67%) Terraform
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (25.00%) SAP
2 4 (6.67%) Dell
2 4 (6.67%) Isilon
2 4 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.67%) Red Hat
3 3 (5.00%) Siemens
4 2 (3.33%) HP
4 2 (3.33%) Oracle
4 2 (3.33%) VMware
5 1 (1.67%) Ariba
5 1 (1.67%) BMC