Consultant Contracts in West Yorkshire

Consultant
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Consultant daily rate in West Yorkshire is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 May 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 39 50
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 +34
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 21 37 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 3.79% 3.72% 3.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.95% 4.01% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 25 21
10th Percentile £335 £333 £475
25th Percentile £438 £344 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £597 £550 £631
90th Percentile £663 - £750
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £475 £538
% change year-on-year +10.53% -11.63% +2.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 532 923 1,586
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.03% 92.86% 97.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 558 1,102
10th Percentile £256 £281 £330
25th Percentile £358 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £498 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.52% -5.24% +6.60%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £639 £660 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £470 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.05% -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 24 15
10th Percentile £19.61 £11.75 £12.46
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.25 £14.46
Median hourly rate £24.82 £14.34 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +73.14% -55.89% +92.88%
75th Percentile £55.29 £29.25 £66.88
90th Percentile £100.28 £53.75 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £14.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +51.71% -36.36% +25.71%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in West Yorkshire

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in West Yorkshire

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in West Yorkshire

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in West Yorkshire

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Leeds -11 18 £525 +16.67% 50
Bradford - 1 £450 - 12
Consultant
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 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 West Yorkshire region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 6 (28.57%) Banking
2 5 (23.81%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Project Delivery
3 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Azure
4 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (14.29%) High Availability
4 3 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (14.29%) CISM
4 3 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (14.29%) Middleware
4 3 (14.29%) Mainframe
4 3 (14.29%) Oracle
4 3 (14.29%) SharePoint
4 3 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (14.29%) IBM
4 3 (14.29%) CISSP
4 3 (14.29%) Clustering
4 3 (14.29%) NIST
5 2 (9.52%) Power Automate
5 2 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (9.52%) Confluent
5 2 (9.52%) Workshop Facilitation
5 2 (9.52%) DevSecOps
5 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
5 2 (9.52%) PowerApps
5 2 (9.52%) Key Management
5 2 (9.52%) Snowflake
5 2 (9.52%) Impact Assessments
5 2 (9.52%) Low-Code

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 3 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) Azure
2 2 (9.52%) OpenShift
2 2 (9.52%) Power Automate
2 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
2 2 (9.52%) PowerApps
2 2 (9.52%) Snowflake
3 1 (4.76%) AWS
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (4.76%) GCP
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.76%) OCI
3 1 (4.76%) PaaS
3 1 (4.76%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) NAS
1 2 (9.52%) SAN
1 2 (9.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (9.52%) Power BI
2 1 (4.76%) DB2
General
1 6 (28.57%) Banking
2 5 (23.81%) Finance
3 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Retail
5 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.76%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) Middleware
2 2 (9.52%) Kafka
2 2 (9.52%) LDAP
2 2 (9.52%) REST
3 1 (4.76%) .NET
3 1 (4.76%) EntireX
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Clustering
1 3 (14.29%) Mainframe
2 2 (9.52%) FMCG
2 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) IBM Mainframe
2 2 (9.52%) Low-Code
2 2 (9.52%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) CMDB
3 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (23.81%) Project Delivery
2 3 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (14.29%) High Availability
2 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (9.52%) Agile
3 2 (9.52%) Behavioural Change
3 2 (9.52%) Business Continuity
3 2 (9.52%) Data Strategy
3 2 (9.52%) DevSecOps
3 2 (9.52%) Incident Management
3 2 (9.52%) Migration
3 2 (9.52%) Network Architecture
3 2 (9.52%) OWASP
3 2 (9.52%) Project Planning
3 2 (9.52%) Security Management
3 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (9.52%) Waterfall
3 2 (9.52%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) C#
1 1 (4.76%) COBOL
1 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) CISM
1 3 (14.29%) CISSP
2 2 (9.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (9.52%) CCSP
2 2 (9.52%) CEH
2 2 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (9.52%) OSCP
3 1 (4.76%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (4.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) NIST
2 2 (9.52%) COBIT
2 2 (9.52%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.76%) GDPR
3 1 (4.76%) GRC
3 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Grafana
1 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
1 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.76%) Nessus
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) IBM
1 3 (14.29%) Oracle
2 2 (9.52%) Confluent
2 2 (9.52%) Splunk
3 1 (4.76%) BMC
3 1 (4.76%) Databricks
3 1 (4.76%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Qualys
3 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.76%) Software AG
3 1 (4.76%) webMethods