Consultant Contracts in Yorkshire

Consultant
England > Yorkshire

The median Consultant daily rate in Yorkshire is £525, 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 48 29 55
Rank change year-on-year -19 +26 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 44 87 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 4.33% 5.15% 3.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.59% 5.63% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 59 33
10th Percentile £395 £344 £444
25th Percentile £463 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £569 £550 £631
90th Percentile £638 £675 £770
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 959 1,546 2,201
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 91.53% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 962 1,502
10th Percentile £224 £233 £260
25th Percentile £358 £378 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £629 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 65 27
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.23 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.25 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.24 £14.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.71% -36.36% +25.71%
75th Percentile £22.14 £23.75 £54.07
90th Percentile £80.10 £51.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in Yorkshire

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in Yorkshire

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in Yorkshire

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in Yorkshire

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
West Yorkshire -1 21 £525 +16.67% 93
North Yorkshire +7 10 £550 -15.38% 18
South Yorkshire -9 10 £519 +12.16% 36
Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 Yorkshire region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 14 (31.82%) Migration
2 11 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 10 (22.73%) Change Management
4 9 (20.45%) SAP
5 8 (18.18%) Management Information System
5 8 (18.18%) Use Case
5 8 (18.18%) French Language
5 8 (18.18%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 7 (15.91%) Banking
7 6 (13.64%) Mainframe
7 6 (13.64%) Project Delivery
7 6 (13.64%) Social Skills
8 5 (11.36%) SAP PP
8 5 (11.36%) IBM
8 5 (11.36%) Finance
8 5 (11.36%) ServiceNow
9 4 (9.09%) PowerShell
9 4 (9.09%) Azure
9 4 (9.09%) Incident Management
9 4 (9.09%) CMDB
9 4 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (9.09%) Agile
9 4 (9.09%) Data Protection
9 4 (9.09%) DNS
9 4 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (9.09%) Middleware
9 4 (9.09%) Configuration Management
9 4 (9.09%) SAP SD
9 4 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (6.82%) NIST

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (6.82%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 5 (11.36%) SAP PP
2 4 (9.09%) SAP SD
3 1 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (9.09%) Azure
2 2 (4.55%) OpenShift
2 2 (4.55%) Power Automate
2 2 (4.55%) Power Platform
2 2 (4.55%) PowerApps
2 2 (4.55%) Snowflake
3 1 (2.27%) AWS
3 1 (2.27%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (2.27%) GCP
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.27%) OCI
3 1 (2.27%) PaaS
3 1 (2.27%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.09%) DNS
2 3 (6.82%) DHCP
2 3 (6.82%) NAS
2 3 (6.82%) SAN
3 2 (4.55%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (4.55%) Power BI
2 1 (2.27%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Git
1 1 (2.27%) GitLab
1 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (18.18%) French Language
2 7 (15.91%) Banking
3 6 (13.64%) Social Skills
4 5 (11.36%) Finance
5 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Retail
6 1 (2.27%) Law
6 1 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.27%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.09%) Middleware
2 2 (4.55%) EntireX
2 2 (4.55%) Kafka
2 2 (4.55%) LDAP
2 2 (4.55%) REST
3 1 (2.27%) .NET
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 6 (13.64%) Mainframe
3 4 (9.09%) CMDB
3 4 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (6.82%) Clustering
4 3 (6.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.55%) FMCG
5 2 (4.55%) IBM Mainframe
5 2 (4.55%) Low-Code
5 2 (4.55%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.27%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.82%) Linux
2 2 (4.55%) Windows
3 1 (2.27%) Unix
3 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.82%) Migration
2 11 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 10 (22.73%) Change Management
4 8 (18.18%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 8 (18.18%) Use Case
5 6 (13.64%) Project Delivery
6 4 (9.09%) Agile
6 4 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (9.09%) Configuration Management
6 4 (9.09%) Data Protection
6 4 (9.09%) Incident Management
6 4 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (6.82%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (6.82%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (6.82%) High Availability
7 3 (6.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 2 (4.55%) Analytics
8 2 (4.55%) DevOps
8 2 (4.55%) DevSecOps
8 2 (4.55%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.82%) Python
3 1 (2.27%) C#
3 1 (2.27%) COBOL
3 1 (2.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (6.82%) CISM
1 3 (6.82%) CISSP
2 2 (4.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (4.55%) CCSP
2 2 (4.55%) CEH
2 2 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (4.55%) OSCP
2 2 (4.55%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.55%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.27%) Degree
3 1 (2.27%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (2.27%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.82%) NIST
2 2 (4.55%) COBIT
2 2 (4.55%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.27%) GDPR
3 1 (2.27%) GRC
3 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (4.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.27%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (4.55%) Ansible
1 2 (4.55%) Control-M
1 2 (4.55%) Grafana
1 2 (4.55%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.55%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.27%) CA Endevor
2 1 (2.27%) Nessus
2 1 (2.27%) Terraform
2 1 (2.27%) vCenter Server
2 1 (2.27%) vRealize
Vendors
1 9 (20.45%) SAP
2 5 (11.36%) IBM
2 5 (11.36%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.82%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.82%) Oracle
4 2 (4.55%) BMC
4 2 (4.55%) Confluent
4 2 (4.55%) Infoblox
4 2 (4.55%) Software AG
4 2 (4.55%) Splunk
4 2 (4.55%) webMethods
5 1 (2.27%) Broadcom
5 1 (2.27%) Databricks
5 1 (2.27%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (2.27%) Qualys
5 1 (2.27%) VMware