IT Consultant Contracts in West Yorkshire

IT Consultant
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median IT Consultant daily rate in West Yorkshire is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an IT Consultant 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.55% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £350 - -
25th Percentile £388 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £494 - -
90th Percentile £520 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 - -

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 526 928 1,593
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 92.89% 97.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 561 1,105
10th Percentile £255 £275 £327
25th Percentile £357 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +6.60%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £641 £656 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £469 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.26% -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%

IT Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Consultant in West Yorkshire

IT Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for IT Consultant in West Yorkshire

IT Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Consultant in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Consultant in West Yorkshire

IT Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Consultant in West Yorkshire

IT 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 IT Consultant within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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 - 2 £438 - 3
Bradford - 1 £450 - 1
IT Consultant
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, IT 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 IT Consultant in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (33.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
2 1 (33.33%) Runbook
2 1 (33.33%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (33.33%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) SOC 2
2 1 (33.33%) GRC
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Register
2 1 (33.33%) Impact Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Business Impact Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Service Catalogue
2 1 (33.33%) CISM
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Nessus
2 1 (33.33%) Logistics
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) Degree

IT 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
General
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) BCP
1 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
1 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity Planning
1 1 (33.33%) Business Impact Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) High Availability
1 1 (33.33%) Impact Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
1 1 (33.33%) Logistics
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Register
1 1 (33.33%) Runbook
1 1 (33.33%) Service Catalogue
1 1 (33.33%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CISM
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
1 1 (33.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) GRC
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) LogicMonitor
1 1 (33.33%) Qualys