Consultant Contracts in the North East

Consultant
England > North East

The median Consultant daily rate in the North East is £534, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 30 38
Rank change year-on-year +13 +8 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 24 8 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 7.57% 2.43% 3.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.92% 2.68% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 5 10
10th Percentile £319 - £443
25th Percentile £423 £400 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £450 £518
Median % change year-on-year +18.67% -13.04% +3.50%
75th Percentile £591 £590 £607
90th Percentile £706 - £653
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 the North East with a recognized job title 303 299 378
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.58% 90.88% 97.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 133 294
10th Percentile £200 £192 £231
25th Percentile £346 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £590 £625
90th Percentile £625 £670 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 62 2
10th Percentile - £10.42 £32.98
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.50 £35.56
Median hourly rate £13.00 £13.99 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -65.67% +139.71%
75th Percentile £23.97 £46.14 £45.56
90th Percentile £49.73 £50.00 £47.93
England median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £44.06
% change year-on-year -20.00% -14.88% +91.54%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in the North East

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Consultant in the North East

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in the North East over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in the North East

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in the North East

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the North East region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
Tyne and Wear +4 13 £534 -9.49% 33
Durham +6 8 £535 +33.75% 1
Consultant
England

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 14 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 North East region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 8 (33.33%) Finance
2 7 (29.17%) SAP
2 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
3 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
3 5 (20.83%) Manufacturing
4 4 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (16.67%) Degree
4 4 (16.67%) Oracle
4 4 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (16.67%) Azure
5 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (12.50%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 3 (12.50%) Impact Analysis
5 3 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (12.50%) PeopleSoft
5 3 (12.50%) GAP Analysis
5 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
5 3 (12.50%) PeopleSoft Financials
5 3 (12.50%) PeopleCode
5 3 (12.50%) SAP FI
5 3 (12.50%) SAP CO
5 3 (12.50%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (12.50%) Information Security
6 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (8.33%) SAP PP
6 2 (8.33%) CISM
6 2 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (8.33%) SAP SD

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 (4.17%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (12.50%) PeopleSoft Financials
2 3 (12.50%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 3 (12.50%) SAP CO
2 3 (12.50%) SAP FI
2 3 (12.50%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (8.33%) SAP PP
3 2 (8.33%) SAP SD
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (8.33%) IaaS
3 2 (8.33%) PaaS
3 2 (8.33%) SaaS
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) DNS
1 1 (4.17%) Firewall
1 1 (4.17%) IPsec
1 1 (4.17%) LAN
1 1 (4.17%) MPLS
1 1 (4.17%) SSL
1 1 (4.17%) Unified Communications
1 1 (4.17%) VPN
1 1 (4.17%) WAN
1 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (4.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (4.17%) SAP HANA
General
1 8 (33.33%) Finance
2 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
3 5 (20.83%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.17%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) SAP ALE
1 1 (4.17%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (12.50%) GAP Analysis
2 3 (12.50%) Impact Analysis
2 3 (12.50%) Information Security
3 2 (8.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (8.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (8.33%) Process Improvement
3 2 (8.33%) Remediation Plan
3 2 (8.33%) SAP Implementation
3 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (8.33%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (4.17%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (4.17%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (4.17%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (4.17%) Customer Service
4 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (4.17%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (4.17%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) PeopleCode
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (8.33%) CISM
2 2 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.33%) CRISC
3 1 (4.17%) ACCA
3 1 (4.17%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) SAP
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
3 4 (16.67%) Oracle
4 3 (12.50%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco
5 1 (4.17%) F5
5 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.17%) Tenable