Lead Consultant Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Lead Consultant
England > North of England

The median Lead Consultant daily rate in the North of England is £438, 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 183 161 192
Rank change year-on-year -22 +31 +45
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Consultant 7 9 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.17% 0.22% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.24% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 7
10th Percentile £374 - £416
25th Percentile £391 - £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £491 - £556
90th Percentile £496 - £625
England median daily rate £625 £631 £600
% change year-on-year -0.99% +5.21% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77.50 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £85.00 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +57.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 3,707 3,813 4,841
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 91.88% 93.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,449 2,122 3,254
10th Percentile £235 £268 £263
25th Percentile £369 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -1.40% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £657 £656 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 237 205
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.22 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.34 £18.00 £17.70
Median hourly rate £23.57 £32.50 £22.53
Median % change year-on-year -27.49% +44.25% +6.85%
75th Percentile £49.94 £50.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.60 £70.00 £63.04
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -44.11% - +73.08%

Lead Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Consultant in the North of England

Lead Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Consultant job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Consultant job vacancies in the North of England

Lead Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Consultant in the North of England over the 6 months to 27 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Consultant in the North of England

Lead Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Lead Consultant job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Lead Consultant job vacancies in the North of England

Lead Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Consultant within the North of England region over the 6 months to 27 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
North West -7 4 £488 - 4
Yorkshire - 3 £388 - 2
Lead Consultant
England

Lead Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

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 North of England region featuring Lead Consultant in the job title.

1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) ServiceNow
4 2 (28.57%) ITSM
4 2 (28.57%) CAD
4 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Marketing
4 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
4 2 (28.57%) Power BI
4 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
5 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
5 1 (14.29%) Veeva
5 1 (14.29%) Retail
5 1 (14.29%) Content Management
5 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) Data Science
5 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 1 (14.29%) Strategic Planning
5 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (14.29%) Risk Register
5 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
5 1 (14.29%) Degree

Lead Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (14.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) Adobe Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (14.29%) Veeva
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) Tableau
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Marketing
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (14.29%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
1 1 (14.29%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) CAD
3 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (28.57%) ITSM
4 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) Content Management
4 1 (14.29%) CRM
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (14.29%) Predictive Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Register
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (14.29%) Strategic Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GxP
1 1 (14.29%) HIPAA
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) Adobe
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce