Lead Consultant Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Lead Consultant
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Lead Consultant daily rate in South Yorkshire is £460, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Consultant 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.28% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £431 - -
25th Percentile £442 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 - -
75th Percentile £480 - -
90th Percentile £492 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £460 - £500

All Contract IT Job Roles
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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 South Yorkshire with a recognized job title 978 336 416
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.72% 91.06% 91.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 226 259
10th Percentile £355 £185 £231
25th Percentile £412 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £472 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% -0.63% -13.64%
75th Percentile £550 £561 £578
90th Percentile £669 £638 £640
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £472 £475
% change year-on-year +1.69% -0.63% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 18
10th Percentile - - £10.90
25th Percentile - £18.10 £12.63
Median hourly rate £25.77 £18.35 £13.60
Median % change year-on-year +40.42% +34.99% -23.28%
75th Percentile - £18.50 £23.31
90th Percentile £31.17 £18.51 £23.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £21.24 £14.25
% change year-on-year +29.47% +49.05% -35.23%

Lead Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Lead Consultant' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Lead Consultant job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Lead Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Consultant job vacancies in South Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Consultant job vacancies in South Yorkshire

Lead Consultant
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 6 May 2026. 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
Sheffield - 3 £460 - 3
Lead Consultant
Yorkshire

Lead Consultant Skill Set
Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 6 May 2026, Lead Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South Yorkshire region featuring Lead Consultant in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 3 (100.00%) Kanban
1 3 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (100.00%) OO
1 3 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Active Listening
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Data Privacy

Lead Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 3 (100.00%) NoSQL
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Kanban
1 3 (100.00%) OO
1 3 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Active Listening
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk