Consultant Contracts in Yorkshire

Consultant
England > Yorkshire

The median Consultant daily rate in Yorkshire is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 June 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
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 35 51
Rank change year-on-year -12 +16 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 51 85 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 4.60% 4.96% 3.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.88% 5.48% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 58 35
10th Percentile £356 £344 £475
25th Percentile £406 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £481 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -16.30% +9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £628
90th Percentile £559 £675 £765
England median daily rate £550 £550 £568
% change year-on-year - -3.08% +3.18%

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 1,045 1,550 2,076
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.23% 90.38% 95.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 659 961 1,401
10th Percentile £254 £250 £225
25th Percentile £369 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £548 £575 £613
90th Percentile £613 £650 £700
England median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 76 30
10th Percentile £14.86 £11.30 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £12.53 £16.75
Median hourly rate £21.24 £17.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.37% -16.67% +13.51%
75th Percentile £22.14 £25.83 £43.38
90th Percentile £29.21 £53.75 £56.78
England median hourly rate £29.57 £38.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.21% -14.44% +88.21%

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 8 June 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 8 June 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 28 £450 - 47
North Yorkshire +8 10 - - 5
South Yorkshire -5 10 £500 +14.29% 15
Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 June 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 12 (23.53%) Migration
2 11 (21.57%) Social Skills
3 10 (19.61%) SAP
4 9 (17.65%) Change Management
4 9 (17.65%) Management Information System
4 9 (17.65%) Data Migration
5 8 (15.69%) Use Case
5 8 (15.69%) French Language
5 8 (15.69%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 8 (15.69%) ServiceNow
6 7 (13.73%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (11.76%) Microsoft
7 6 (11.76%) Finance
7 6 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (9.80%) Power Platform
8 5 (9.80%) Project Delivery
8 5 (9.80%) Power BI
8 5 (9.80%) Banking
8 5 (9.80%) Incident Management
8 5 (9.80%) Middleware
8 5 (9.80%) SAP PP
9 4 (7.84%) Configuration Management
9 4 (7.84%) SAP SD
9 4 (7.84%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (7.84%) DNS
9 4 (7.84%) IBM
9 4 (7.84%) Linux
9 4 (7.84%) Oracle
9 4 (7.84%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (7.84%) CMDB

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 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (9.80%) SAP PP
2 4 (7.84%) SAP SD
3 2 (3.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (3.92%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (1.96%) Q-Pulse
4 1 (1.96%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.80%) Power Platform
2 4 (7.84%) Azure
2 4 (7.84%) Power Automate
2 4 (7.84%) PowerApps
3 3 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (3.92%) OCI
4 2 (3.92%) OpenShift
4 2 (3.92%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.96%) AWS
5 1 (1.96%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.96%) GCP
5 1 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.96%) PaaS
5 1 (1.96%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.84%) DNS
2 3 (5.88%) DHCP
2 3 (5.88%) NAS
2 3 (5.88%) SAN
3 2 (3.92%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.80%) Power BI
2 2 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.96%) DB2
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (1.96%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (1.96%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Git
1 1 (1.96%) GitLab
1 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.69%) French Language
3 6 (11.76%) Finance
4 5 (9.80%) Banking
5 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.92%) Legal
6 2 (3.92%) Retail
7 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.96%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.96%) Games
7 1 (1.96%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.96%) Law
7 1 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.96%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.80%) Middleware
2 3 (5.88%) REST
3 2 (3.92%) CSS
3 2 (3.92%) EntireX
3 2 (3.92%) HTML
3 2 (3.92%) Kafka
3 2 (3.92%) LDAP
4 1 (1.96%) .NET
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.96%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.96%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.65%) Management Information System
2 4 (7.84%) CMDB
2 4 (7.84%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (5.88%) Clustering
3 3 (5.88%) Mainframe
4 2 (3.92%) FMCG
4 2 (3.92%) IBM Mainframe
4 2 (3.92%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.96%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.96%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.84%) Linux
2 3 (5.88%) Windows
3 1 (1.96%) Unix
3 1 (1.96%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.96%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.96%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (23.53%) Migration
2 9 (17.65%) Change Management
2 9 (17.65%) Data Migration
3 8 (15.69%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 8 (15.69%) Use Case
4 7 (13.73%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (9.80%) Incident Management
6 5 (9.80%) Project Delivery
7 4 (7.84%) Agile
7 4 (7.84%) Configuration Management
7 4 (7.84%) Data Protection
7 4 (7.84%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (5.88%) Business Continuity
8 3 (5.88%) Customer Engagement
8 3 (5.88%) Data Modelling
8 3 (5.88%) High Availability
8 3 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (3.92%) Data Strategy
9 2 (3.92%) Release Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.84%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.88%) C#
2 3 (5.88%) JavaScript
2 3 (5.88%) Python
3 2 (3.92%) SQL
4 1 (1.96%) COBOL
4 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 3 (5.88%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.96%) CISM
2 1 (1.96%) CISSP
2 1 (1.96%) Degree
2 1 (1.96%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.96%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (1.96%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.92%) NIST
3 1 (1.96%) GDPR
3 1 (1.96%) GRC
3 1 (1.96%) ISO 22301
3 1 (1.96%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.96%) QA
3 1 (1.96%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (3.92%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (1.96%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.96%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (3.92%) Ansible
1 2 (3.92%) Control-M
1 2 (3.92%) Grafana
1 2 (3.92%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.92%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.96%) Nessus
2 1 (1.96%) Terraform
2 1 (1.96%) vCenter Server
2 1 (1.96%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (19.61%) SAP
2 8 (15.69%) ServiceNow
3 6 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 4 (7.84%) IBM
4 4 (7.84%) Oracle
5 2 (3.92%) Confluent
5 2 (3.92%) Infoblox
5 2 (3.92%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (3.92%) Software AG
5 2 (3.92%) Splunk
5 2 (3.92%) webMethods
6 1 (1.96%) Databricks
6 1 (1.96%) Qualys
6 1 (1.96%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.96%) VMware
6 1 (1.96%) Zscaler