Lead Consultant Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Lead Consultant
North West > Manchester

The median Lead Consultant daily rate in Manchester is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 September 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
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 77 108
Rank change year-on-year -8 +31 +36
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Consultant 2 9 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.20% 0.77% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.82% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £387
25th Percentile - - £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.67%
75th Percentile - - £556
90th Percentile - - £568
North West median daily rate £488 - £494
% change year-on-year - - -17.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 930 1,102 1,597
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.03% 93.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 650 1,156
10th Percentile £300 £323 £285
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £499 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.27% -0.25% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £593
90th Percentile £661 £676 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 36 63
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.56 £14.37
25th Percentile £17.13 £20.13 £16.46
Median hourly rate £22.32 £33.75 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.88% +77.63% -2.56%
75th Percentile £32.04 £63.13 £43.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £83.75 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £36.50 £30.54
% change year-on-year -31.10% +19.52% +31.07%

Lead Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Consultant in Manchester

Lead Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Consultant job vacancies in Manchester.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Consultant job vacancies in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 27 September 2025, Lead 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 Lead Consultant in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Veeva
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) GxP
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Adobe
2 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Content Management
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Life Science
2 1 (50.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation

Lead 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 1 (50.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) Veeva
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Content Management
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GxP
1 1 (50.00%) HIPAA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce