Consultant Contracts in West Yorkshire

Consultant
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Consultant daily rate in West Yorkshire is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 34 54
Rank change year-on-year -3 +20 +30
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 28 40 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 4.90% 4.14% 3.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.09% 4.46% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 27 20
10th Percentile £338 £336 £475
25th Percentile £363 £344 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £531
Median % change year-on-year - -15.29% +6.25%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £642
90th Percentile £547 £560 £753
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% -

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 550 896 1,484
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.32% 92.66% 97.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 551 1,032
10th Percentile £265 £300 £326
25th Percentile £375 £400 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -5.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £625
90th Percentile £600 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 28 17
10th Percentile - £11.75 £12.00
25th Percentile - £12.46 £13.16
Median hourly rate £22.14 £15.37 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.09% -23.18% +7.53%
75th Percentile £30.10 £48.75 £56.00
90th Percentile £34.43 £53.75 £66.25
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £15.37 £21.00
% change year-on-year +38.24% -26.83% +15.07%

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 31 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 31 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 -7 21 £475 +5.56% 43
Halifax - 3 £388 -
Bradford +6 2 £450 - 2
Consultant
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Power BI
2 5 (17.86%) Power Platform
2 5 (17.86%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 4 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (14.29%) Finance
3 4 (14.29%) Banking
3 4 (14.29%) Azure
3 4 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 4 (14.29%) PowerApps
3 4 (14.29%) Power Automate
4 3 (10.71%) Project Delivery
4 3 (10.71%) Customer Engagement
4 3 (10.71%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (10.71%) REST
4 3 (10.71%) High Availability
4 3 (10.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (10.71%) Clustering
4 3 (10.71%) Business Continuity
4 3 (10.71%) IBM
4 3 (10.71%) Middleware
4 3 (10.71%) C#
4 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
4 3 (10.71%) Oracle
4 3 (10.71%) SharePoint
4 3 (10.71%) Data Modelling
5 2 (7.14%) HTML
5 2 (7.14%) CRM

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 (10.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.57%) Q-Pulse
2 1 (3.57%) SAP PS
2 1 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) Power Platform
2 4 (14.29%) Azure
2 4 (14.29%) Power Automate
2 4 (14.29%) PowerApps
3 3 (10.71%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
4 2 (7.14%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.57%) AWS
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (3.57%) GCP
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.57%) OCI
5 1 (3.57%) PaaS
5 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 1 (3.57%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) NAS
1 2 (7.14%) SAN
1 2 (7.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Power BI
2 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.57%) DB2
3 1 (3.57%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (3.57%) SAP HANA
General
1 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Banking
2 4 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (7.14%) Retail
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Games
4 1 (3.57%) Legal
4 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) Middleware
1 3 (10.71%) REST
2 2 (7.14%) CSS
2 2 (7.14%) HTML
2 2 (7.14%) Kafka
2 2 (7.14%) LDAP
3 1 (3.57%) .NET
3 1 (3.57%) EntireX
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.57%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (3.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Clustering
2 2 (7.14%) FMCG
2 2 (7.14%) IBM Mainframe
2 2 (7.14%) Low-Code
2 2 (7.14%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.57%) CMDB
3 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.86%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (10.71%) Business Continuity
3 3 (10.71%) Customer Engagement
3 3 (10.71%) Data Modelling
3 3 (10.71%) High Availability
3 3 (10.71%) Project Delivery
3 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (7.14%) Analytics
4 2 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (7.14%) Containerisation
4 2 (7.14%) CRM
4 2 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (7.14%) Data Strategy
4 2 (7.14%) Incident Management
4 2 (7.14%) ITSM
4 2 (7.14%) Key Management
4 2 (7.14%) Runbook
4 2 (7.14%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (7.14%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) C#
1 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
2 2 (7.14%) SQL
3 1 (3.57%) COBOL
3 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) CISM
2 1 (3.57%) CISSP
2 1 (3.57%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (3.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (7.14%) NIST
3 1 (3.57%) GDPR
3 1 (3.57%) GRC
3 1 (3.57%) ISO 22301
3 1 (3.57%) ISO 9001
3 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (3.57%) QA
3 1 (3.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Grafana
1 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 2 (7.14%) Prometheus
2 1 (3.57%) Nessus
2 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 4 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 3 (10.71%) IBM
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle
3 2 (7.14%) Confluent
3 2 (7.14%) LogicMonitor
3 2 (7.14%) Splunk
4 1 (3.57%) Databricks
4 1 (3.57%) Qualys
4 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.57%) SAP
4 1 (3.57%) Software AG
4 1 (3.57%) webMethods