Consultant Contracts in the North of England

Consultant
England > North of England

The median Consultant daily rate in the North of England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 46 84
Rank change year-on-year +18 +38 -37
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 269 224 193
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 5.55% 4.10% 2.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.98% 4.31% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 145 141
10th Percentile £375 £443 £375
25th Percentile £450 £500 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £625
90th Percentile £725 £675 £688
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £18.70
England median hourly rate £60.80 £64.84 £70.25
% change year-on-year -6.23% -7.70% +22.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,500 5,202 6,871
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.82% 95.33% 96.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,727 3,644 5,017
10th Percentile £263 £264 £206
25th Percentile £388 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £569
90th Percentile £668 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 458 163 268
10th Percentile £11.12 £14.05 £11.28
25th Percentile £13.23 £17.60 £14.82
Median hourly rate £23.48 £27.20 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.69% +36.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £47.88 £43.75 £33.96
90th Percentile £67.25 £58.90 £63.00
England median hourly rate £38.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -14.44% +87.50% +14.01%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in the North of England

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Consultant in the North of England

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in the North of England over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in the North of England

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in the North of England

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the North of England region over the 6 months to 10 June 2024. 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
North West +21 171 £550 +1.85% 164
Yorkshire +14 91 £488 -15.22% 77
North East +7 7 £590 +18.00% 18
Consultant
England

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 10 June 2024, 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 North of England region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 87 (32.34%) SAP
2 72 (26.77%) Social Skills
3 49 (18.22%) Security Cleared
4 46 (17.10%) Stakeholder Management
5 45 (16.73%) Finance
6 39 (14.50%) SC Cleared
7 37 (13.75%) Microsoft
8 36 (13.38%) SAP S/4HANA
9 32 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (10.41%) Analytical Skills
11 24 (8.92%) Azure
12 23 (8.55%) Public Sector
12 23 (8.55%) Roadmaps
13 21 (7.81%) Migration
14 20 (7.43%) SuccessFactors
15 19 (7.06%) Cybersecurity
16 18 (6.69%) Dynamics 365
16 18 (6.69%) AWS
16 18 (6.69%) Asset Management
17 16 (5.95%) Customer Service
17 16 (5.95%) ServiceNow
18 15 (5.58%) Data Migration
18 15 (5.58%) Service Management
18 15 (5.58%) Change Management
18 15 (5.58%) Oracle
19 14 (5.20%) Pharmaceutical
19 14 (5.20%) Power Platform
19 14 (5.20%) Product Roadmap
20 13 (4.83%) NIST
20 13 (4.83%) DevOps

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (0.74%) CMS
1 2 (0.74%) Confluence
1 2 (0.74%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.37%) NetWeaver
2 1 (0.37%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (0.37%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 36 (13.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (4.09%) SAP EWM
2 11 (4.09%) SAP FI
3 7 (2.60%) SAP PP
4 5 (1.86%) NetSuite
5 4 (1.49%) SAP CO
6 3 (1.12%) Aareon QL
6 3 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (1.12%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (1.12%) SAP MM
6 3 (1.12%) SAP Retail
7 2 (0.74%) SAP GTS
7 2 (0.74%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.74%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.37%) SAP APO
8 1 (0.37%) SAP EHS
8 1 (0.37%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.37%) SAP Travel Management
8 1 (0.37%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 24 (8.92%) Azure
2 20 (7.43%) SuccessFactors
3 18 (6.69%) AWS
3 18 (6.69%) Dynamics 365
4 14 (5.20%) Power Platform
5 7 (2.60%) OCI
5 7 (2.60%) SaaS
6 6 (2.23%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (2.23%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 5 (1.86%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (0.74%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (0.74%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (0.37%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.37%) Boomi
10 1 (0.37%) GCP
10 1 (0.37%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.37%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.49%) Network Security
2 2 (0.74%) VLAN
3 1 (0.37%) DNS
3 1 (0.37%) DWDM
3 1 (0.37%) LAN
3 1 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.97%) Adabas
2 7 (2.60%) Power BI
3 4 (1.49%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (1.49%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.12%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.74%) Big Data
5 2 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.74%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.74%) MySQL
5 2 (0.74%) Qlik Sense
5 2 (0.74%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.37%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.37%) Metadata
6 1 (0.37%) PowerPivot
6 1 (0.37%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (0.37%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.37%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 4 (1.49%) JIRA
2 3 (1.12%) Git
3 2 (0.74%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.37%) JMeter
4 1 (0.37%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.37%) NeoLoad
4 1 (0.37%) RStudio
General
1 72 (26.77%) Social Skills
2 45 (16.73%) Finance
3 28 (10.41%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (8.55%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.20%) Pharmaceutical
6 8 (2.97%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.60%) Local Government
8 6 (2.23%) Retail
9 5 (1.86%) Banking
9 5 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.12%) Aeronautics
10 3 (1.12%) Marketing
11 2 (0.74%) Automotive
11 2 (0.74%) Legal
11 2 (0.74%) Publishing
11 2 (0.74%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.37%) French Language
12 1 (0.37%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.37%) Public Speaking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.72%) Web Services
2 2 (0.74%) CSS
2 2 (0.74%) EDI
2 2 (0.74%) HTML
2 2 (0.74%) ISPF
2 2 (0.74%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (0.74%) SAP Basis
3 1 (0.37%) ADO
3 1 (0.37%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.37%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.37%) Lucene
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.37%) REST
3 1 (0.37%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.37%) SAP Core Interface
3 1 (0.37%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.37%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 9 (3.35%) Security Posture
2 8 (2.97%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (2.60%) Life Science
3 7 (2.60%) Mainframe
4 6 (2.23%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.86%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (1.49%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 4 (1.49%) Operational Technology
6 4 (1.49%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.12%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.74%) e-Learning
8 2 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.74%) LPAR
8 2 (0.74%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.74%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.37%) FMCG
9 1 (0.37%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.72%) zOS
2 8 (2.97%) Windows
3 5 (1.86%) Linux
4 4 (1.49%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.12%) Unix
6 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (17.10%) Stakeholder Management
2 32 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (8.55%) Roadmaps
4 21 (7.81%) Migration
5 19 (7.06%) Cybersecurity
6 18 (6.69%) Asset Management
7 16 (5.95%) Customer Service
8 15 (5.58%) Change Management
8 15 (5.58%) Data Migration
8 15 (5.58%) Service Management
9 14 (5.20%) Product Roadmap
10 13 (4.83%) DevOps
10 13 (4.83%) ITIL
10 13 (4.83%) ITSM
11 12 (4.46%) Risk Management
11 12 (4.46%) Service Delivery
12 10 (3.72%) Test Automation
13 9 (3.35%) Business Transformation
13 9 (3.35%) Incident Management
13 9 (3.35%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (3.72%) SQL
2 8 (2.97%) Natural
3 7 (2.60%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.49%) Bash
4 4 (1.49%) Python
5 2 (0.74%) C#
5 2 (0.74%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.74%) JCL
5 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.37%) ABAP
6 1 (0.37%) CLIST
6 1 (0.37%) Java
6 1 (0.37%) Perl
6 1 (0.37%) PHP
6 1 (0.37%) R
6 1 (0.37%) REXX
6 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (18.22%) Security Cleared
2 39 (14.50%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.83%) Degree
4 6 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.86%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.12%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.74%) CIPD
7 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.74%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.74%) PMP
8 1 (0.37%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.83%) NIST
2 9 (3.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.49%) GDPR
3 4 (1.49%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (0.74%) GRC
6 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.37%) EMIR
6 1 (0.37%) GxP
6 1 (0.37%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.37%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (2.60%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.86%) Docker
3 2 (0.74%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 2 (0.74%) Microcode
3 2 (0.74%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (0.37%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.49%) Ansible
1 4 (1.49%) Terraform
2 3 (1.12%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (1.12%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.12%) Puppet
3 1 (0.37%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 87 (32.34%) SAP
2 37 (13.75%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.95%) ServiceNow
4 15 (5.58%) Oracle
5 11 (4.09%) Ariba
6 8 (2.97%) Software AG
7 6 (2.23%) EMC
8 5 (1.86%) AVEVA
8 5 (1.86%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.49%) Northgate
9 4 (1.49%) Siemens
9 4 (1.49%) VMware
10 3 (1.12%) Aareon
10 3 (1.12%) Databricks
10 3 (1.12%) HP
10 3 (1.12%) JDA
11 2 (0.74%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.74%) IBM
11 2 (0.74%) Syclo
11 2 (0.74%) Teradata