Consultant Contracts in the North West

Consultant
England > North West

The median Consultant daily rate in the North West is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 52 81
Rank change year-on-year +24 +29 -27
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 155 125 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 5.59% 3.88% 2.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.93% 4.10% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 94 73
10th Percentile £413 £413 £352
25th Percentile £463 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £522 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.07% -5.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £575 £625
90th Percentile £725 £650 £638
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,616 3,047 3,885
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.34% 94.63% 96.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,710 2,185 2,841
10th Percentile £280 £300 £206
25th Percentile £390 £403 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +7.53% +9.70%
75th Percentile £587 £588 £563
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 136 177
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.13 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.53 £30.54 £20.49
Median % change year-on-year -13.15% +49.05% +12.41%
75th Percentile £46.18 £47.13 £43.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in the North West

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in the North West

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in the North West over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in the North West

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in the North West

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Manchester +19 66 £525 - 87
Cheshire +11 37 £538 -0.46% 12
Lancashire +17 23 £500 -28.57% 4
Cumbria -4 21 £650 +52.94% 6
Merseyside +7 7 £469 -6.25% 3
Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 North West region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 46 (29.68%) SAP
2 42 (27.10%) Security Cleared
3 39 (25.16%) Stakeholder Management
3 39 (25.16%) Social Skills
4 37 (23.87%) Public Sector
5 35 (22.58%) SC Cleared
6 26 (16.77%) Migration
7 25 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (16.13%) SAP S/4HANA
8 24 (15.48%) Data Migration
9 21 (13.55%) Finance
9 21 (13.55%) Programme Management
10 19 (12.26%) User Acceptance Testing
10 19 (12.26%) Programme Delivery
11 16 (10.32%) Dynamics 365
11 16 (10.32%) Translating Business Requirements
12 15 (9.68%) Marketing
13 14 (9.03%) Customer Experience
14 13 (8.39%) End-to-End Testing
14 13 (8.39%) Information Security
15 12 (7.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 12 (7.74%) System Testing
15 12 (7.74%) Legacy Systems
16 11 (7.10%) Azure
16 11 (7.10%) Customer Insight
16 11 (7.10%) Dynamics CRM
16 11 (7.10%) CRM
16 11 (7.10%) Active Directory
17 10 (6.45%) Pharmaceutical
17 10 (6.45%) Cybersecurity

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (1.29%) CMS
2 1 (0.65%) NetWeaver
2 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.65%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (0.65%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 25 (16.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (7.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (5.81%) SAP EWM
4 7 (4.52%) SAP FI
4 7 (4.52%) SAP PP
5 3 (1.94%) Aareon QL
5 3 (1.94%) SAP SD
6 2 (1.29%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.65%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.65%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.65%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.65%) SAP GTS
7 1 (0.65%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.65%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.65%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 16 (10.32%) Dynamics 365
2 11 (7.10%) Azure
3 10 (6.45%) AWS
4 6 (3.87%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (2.58%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.94%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.94%) OCI
6 3 (1.94%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 2 (1.29%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (1.29%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (1.29%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.65%) Datadog
8 1 (0.65%) GCP
8 1 (0.65%) Serverless
8 1 (0.65%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.16%) InfiniBand
2 4 (2.58%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.58%) Power BI
2 2 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (1.29%) Big Data
2 2 (1.29%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (1.29%) Hadoop
2 2 (1.29%) SAP BW
2 2 (1.29%) SAP HANA
2 2 (1.29%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.65%) Metadata
3 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.65%) PowerPivot
3 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (2.58%) Git
2 1 (0.65%) JIRA
General
1 39 (25.16%) Social Skills
2 37 (23.87%) Public Sector
3 21 (13.55%) Finance
4 15 (9.68%) Marketing
5 10 (6.45%) Pharmaceutical
6 8 (5.16%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.87%) Local Government
8 4 (2.58%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.58%) Police
9 3 (1.94%) Aeronautics
9 3 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.29%) Automotive
10 2 (1.29%) Banking
10 2 (1.29%) Electronics
10 2 (1.29%) French Language
10 2 (1.29%) Retail
10 2 (1.29%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.65%) Legal
11 1 (0.65%) Public Speaking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.29%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (1.29%) SAP Basis
2 1 (0.65%) CSS
2 1 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.65%) HTML
2 1 (0.65%) Lucene
2 1 (0.65%) Node.js
2 1 (0.65%) SailPoint
2 1 (0.65%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (0.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.74%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (5.16%) Life Science
3 7 (4.52%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.23%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.58%) Operational Technology
5 4 (2.58%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.94%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.29%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.65%) ASIC
8 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.65%) Derivative
8 1 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.29%) Linux
1 2 (1.29%) Windows
2 1 (0.65%) Unix
2 1 (0.65%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (25.16%) Stakeholder Management
2 26 (16.77%) Migration
3 25 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (15.48%) Data Migration
5 21 (13.55%) Programme Management
6 19 (12.26%) Programme Delivery
6 19 (12.26%) User Acceptance Testing
7 16 (10.32%) Translating Business Requirements
8 14 (9.03%) Customer Experience
9 13 (8.39%) End-to-End Testing
9 13 (8.39%) Information Security
10 12 (7.74%) System Testing
11 11 (7.10%) CRM
11 11 (7.10%) Customer Insight
12 10 (6.45%) Cybersecurity
13 9 (5.81%) Asset Management
13 9 (5.81%) Deep Learning
14 8 (5.16%) Investment Management
14 8 (5.16%) Stress Testing
15 7 (4.52%) Business Transformation
Programming Languages
1 8 (5.16%) MATLAB
2 6 (3.87%) PowerShell
3 4 (2.58%) Bash
3 4 (2.58%) Python
4 3 (1.94%) ABAP
5 2 (1.29%) C#
5 2 (1.29%) Java
5 2 (1.29%) SQL
6 1 (0.65%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.65%) PHP
6 1 (0.65%) X++
Qualifications
1 42 (27.10%) Security Cleared
2 35 (22.58%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.58%) AWS Certification
3 4 (2.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 4 (2.58%) Degree
4 2 (1.29%) CISM
4 2 (1.29%) CISSP
4 2 (1.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (4.52%) NIST
3 4 (2.58%) GDPR
3 4 (2.58%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (1.29%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (1.29%) GRC
5 2 (1.29%) GxP
5 2 (1.29%) NCSC
6 1 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.65%) EMIR
6 1 (0.65%) PMO
6 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (7.10%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.81%) Firmware
3 4 (2.58%) Docker
4 2 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.65%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (5.16%) Dell DRAC
2 4 (2.58%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.58%) Terraform
Vendors
1 46 (29.68%) SAP
2 9 (5.81%) Ariba
2 9 (5.81%) Dell
2 9 (5.81%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.81%) Red Hat
3 8 (5.16%) Isilon
4 4 (2.58%) Oracle
5 3 (1.94%) Aareon
5 3 (1.94%) Northgate
5 3 (1.94%) Siemens
6 2 (1.29%) BMC
6 2 (1.29%) Databricks
6 2 (1.29%) HP
6 2 (1.29%) Teradata
6 2 (1.29%) VMware
7 1 (0.65%) Cisco
7 1 (0.65%) Citrix
7 1 (0.65%) Hyperion
7 1 (0.65%) Intel
7 1 (0.65%) Splunk