Lead Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Lead Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 417 490
Rank change year-on-year +37 +73 -73
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Consultant 18 38 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.087% 0.16% 0.097%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.094% 0.17% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 25 18
10th Percentile £503 £470 £400
25th Percentile £540 £580 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £688 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +44.74% -13.64%
75th Percentile £725 £694 £543
90th Percentile - £765 £725
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £55.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,163 22,551 29,607
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.57% 94.20% 95.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,700 15,818 20,751
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,248 1,160 1,483
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.02
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £39.55 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.20
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%

Lead Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Lead Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Consultant in the UK excluding London

Lead Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Lead Consultant in the UK excluding London

Lead Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Consultant in the UK excluding London

Lead Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Lead Consultant in the UK excluding London

Lead Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
South East +17 5 £650 -4.41% 1
South West +30 4 £700 -9.68% 5
East of England +16 4 £600 -22.58% 1
North of England +26 2 £500 - 2
Yorkshire +18 2 £500 -
Midlands +16 2 £494 -28.18% 1
West Midlands +12 2 £494 -28.18% 1
Scotland - 1 £770 -
Lead Consultant
UK

Lead Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Consultant in the job title.

1 9 (50.00%) Finance
2 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 6 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (22.22%) Supply Chain Management
4 4 (22.22%) Migration
4 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (22.22%) GAP Analysis
4 4 (22.22%) ERP
4 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (22.22%) System Testing
4 4 (22.22%) Data Migration
4 4 (22.22%) IFS
4 4 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (22.22%) Requirements Workshops
4 4 (22.22%) Inventory Management
5 3 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (16.67%) SAP
6 2 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (11.11%) Information Security Management
6 2 (11.11%) Security Management
6 2 (11.11%) ITIL
6 2 (11.11%) HP
6 2 (11.11%) Change Management
6 2 (11.11%) Workflow
6 2 (11.11%) Information Security
6 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
6 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared

Lead Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (11.11%) SAP EWM
3 1 (5.56%) SAP CO
3 1 (5.56%) SAP FI
3 1 (5.56%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.56%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Rational DOORS
General
1 9 (50.00%) Finance
2 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Marketing
3 2 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Cyberattack
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (22.22%) Data Migration
1 4 (22.22%) ERP
1 4 (22.22%) GAP Analysis
1 4 (22.22%) Inventory Management
1 4 (22.22%) Migration
1 4 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
1 4 (22.22%) Requirements Workshops
1 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (22.22%) Supply Chain Management
1 4 (22.22%) System Testing
1 4 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (11.11%) Capacity Management
3 2 (11.11%) Change Management
3 2 (11.11%) Information Security
3 2 (11.11%) OWASP
3 2 (11.11%) Project Planning
3 2 (11.11%) SIEM
3 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (11.11%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) ISACA
3 1 (5.56%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) COBIT
1 2 (11.11%) GDPR
1 2 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) IFS
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) SAP
3 2 (11.11%) HP
4 1 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (5.56%) Splunk