Consultant Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Consultant
North West > Merseyside

The median Consultant daily rate in Merseyside is £623, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 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
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 17 29
Rank change year-on-year 0 +12 0
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 8 10 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 4.49% 4.41% 2.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.60% 4.72% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 6
10th Percentile £436 £522 £456
25th Percentile £500 £572 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £634 - £575
90th Percentile £643 - £600
North West median daily rate £620 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +12.73% +4.76% +5.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Merseyside

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Merseyside. 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 Merseyside with a recognized job title 174 212 221
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.75% 93.39% 92.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 104 135
10th Percentile £129 £165 £208
25th Percentile £203 £213 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -11.11% +2.27%
75th Percentile £564 £575 £531
90th Percentile £687 £600 £600
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 20 14
10th Percentile - £15.22 -
25th Percentile £12.21 £17.33 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.37 £18.12 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% -7.08% +11.24%
75th Percentile £17.44 £24.18 £28.58
90th Percentile £21.11 £41.40 £44.00
North West median hourly rate £24.88 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.75% +5.71% +46.17%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in Merseyside

Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in Merseyside.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in Merseyside

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in Merseyside over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in Merseyside

Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in Merseyside.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in Merseyside

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 17 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Liverpool +1 8 £623 +3.75% 22
Consultant
North West

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 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 Merseyside region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) IBM
2 2 (25.00%) SAP
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) SAP EHS
2 2 (25.00%) Validation
2 2 (25.00%) Logistics
2 2 (25.00%) Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (25.00%) Power BI
2 2 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (12.50%) Data Science
3 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
3 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) GRC
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Power Query
3 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
3 1 (12.50%) Threat Management
3 1 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (12.50%) Data Transformation
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) SAP EHS
1 2 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (12.50%) Power Query
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) Star Schema
General
1 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Local Government
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (12.50%) EntireX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Analytics
1 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Logistics
1 2 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Validation
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
2 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
2 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
2 1 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (12.50%) Data Science
2 1 (12.50%) Data Transformation
2 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
2 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
2 1 (12.50%) Mathematics
2 1 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
2 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (12.50%) Threat Management
2 1 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GRC
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) IBM
1 2 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) Capita
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Software AG
2 1 (12.50%) webMethods