Lead Consultant Contracts in Watford

Lead Consultant
Hertfordshire > Watford

The median Lead Consultant daily rate in Watford is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 August 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
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Consultant 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Watford 4.08% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 4.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £578 - -
25th Percentile £581 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - -
75th Percentile £594 - -
90th Percentile £598 - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £588 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Watford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Watford. 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 Watford with a recognized job title 48 87 116
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.96% 94.57% 99.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 68 82
10th Percentile £281 £289 £170
25th Percentile £425 £322 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £388 £525
Median % change year-on-year +41.94% -26.19% +23.53%
75th Percentile £575 £495 £675
90th Percentile - £690 £750
Hertfordshire median daily rate £525 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 6
10th Percentile £27.93 £13.20 £16.38
25th Percentile £28.52 £13.69 £17.63
Median hourly rate £31.49 £14.13 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +122.94% -35.80% -37.14%
75th Percentile £34.16 £14.75 £23.00
90th Percentile £34.58 £14.90 £24.59
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% +18.18%

Lead Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Consultant in Watford

Lead Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Watford

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Consultant in Watford

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

For the 6 months to 14 August 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 Watford region featuring Lead Consultant in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) SAP
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) SAP BW
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (100.00%) Semantic Layer
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (50.00%) Batch Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) Epics
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lineage
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) SAP HANA
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse

Lead Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Watford 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 2 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SAP BW
1 2 (100.00%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (50.00%) SAP HANA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) Batch Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lineage
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) Epics
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) SAP