Consultant Contracts in Somerset

Consultant
South West > Somerset

The median Consultant daily rate in Somerset is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 July 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
25 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 21 26
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 3 6 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 1.81% 3.08% 2.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.17% 3.49% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile £490 £385 £378
25th Percentile £513 £475 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £638 £525 £419
90th Percentile £660 £569 £423
South West median daily rate £575 £575 £525
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £77.25
% change year-on-year +40.00% -35.28% +6.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Somerset

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Somerset. 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 Somerset with a recognized job title 138 172 178
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 83.13% 88.21% 98.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 121 128
10th Percentile £254 £208 £210
25th Percentile £411 £313 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £461
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £650
90th Percentile £757 £625 £723
South West median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 23
10th Percentile £15.48 £12.25 £33.42
25th Percentile £19.14 £12.50 £46.09
Median hourly rate £23.08 £25.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -7.68% -51.82% +3.78%
75th Percentile £51.29 £48.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £66.25 £63.75 £69.94
South West median hourly rate £26.96 £65.00 £64.15
% change year-on-year -58.52% +1.33% +37.95%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in Somerset

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Consultant in Somerset.

Daily rate trend for Consultant in Somerset

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in Somerset over the 6 months to 25 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in Somerset

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Consultant in Somerset.

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in Somerset

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 25 July 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
Bath -11 1 £500 - 6
Street - 1 - - 1
Consultant
South West

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

For the 6 months to 25 July 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 Somerset region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Data Security
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) dbt
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
2 1 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) ETL

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) dbt
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
1 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity Management
1 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Security
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) ETL
1 1 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
1 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
1 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft