Consultant Contracts in the North West

Consultant
England > North West

The median Consultant daily rate in the North West is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 47 80
Rank change year-on-year +19 +33 -32
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 159 131 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 5.96% 4.27% 2.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.30% 4.49% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 97 78
10th Percentile £413 £413 £385
25th Percentile £475 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.18% -5.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £625
90th Percentile £725 £646 £654
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,525 2,915 3,889
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 94.95% 96.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,640 2,070 2,834
10th Percentile £276 £300 £213
25th Percentile £390 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +13.10%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £569
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 124 179
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.58 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.50 £19.22 £15.51
Median hourly rate £27.75 £30.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.14% +22.16% +38.45%
75th Percentile £46.91 £48.91 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.70 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
% change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in the North West

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in the North West

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in the North West over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in the North West

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in the North West

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Manchester +8 58 £500 -4.76% 99
Cheshire +13 37 £525 -2.78% 23
Lancashire +25 33 £575 -17.86% 13
Cumbria -2 22 £650 +36.99% 6
Merseyside +2 8 £488 -2.50% 8
Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 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 West region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 57 (35.85%) SAP
2 39 (24.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 38 (23.90%) Social Skills
4 36 (22.64%) Public Sector
4 36 (22.64%) Security Cleared
5 28 (17.61%) SC Cleared
6 24 (15.09%) SAP S/4HANA
7 23 (14.47%) Migration
8 21 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (12.58%) Programme Management
9 20 (12.58%) Data Migration
10 19 (11.95%) Programme Delivery
11 17 (10.69%) Finance
12 16 (10.06%) Roadmaps
13 15 (9.43%) User Acceptance Testing
13 15 (9.43%) Translating Business Requirements
14 13 (8.18%) Dynamics 365
14 13 (8.18%) SuccessFactors
15 12 (7.55%) Microsoft
15 12 (7.55%) Marketing
15 12 (7.55%) Customer Experience
16 11 (6.92%) System Testing
16 11 (6.92%) Azure
17 10 (6.29%) AWS
17 10 (6.29%) SAP EWM
17 10 (6.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
17 10 (6.29%) Information Security
17 10 (6.29%) Pharmaceutical
17 10 (6.29%) Legacy Systems
17 10 (6.29%) Product Roadmap

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (1.26%) CMS
2 1 (0.63%) NetWeaver
2 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.63%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (0.63%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 24 (15.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (6.29%) SAP EWM
3 9 (5.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (4.40%) SAP FI
4 7 (4.40%) SAP PP
5 3 (1.89%) Aareon QL
5 3 (1.89%) NetSuite
6 2 (1.26%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.63%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.63%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle Internet Expenses
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.63%) SAP APO
7 1 (0.63%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.63%) SAP GTS
7 1 (0.63%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.63%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.63%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 13 (8.18%) Dynamics 365
1 13 (8.18%) SuccessFactors
2 11 (6.92%) Azure
3 10 (6.29%) AWS
4 6 (3.77%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (3.14%) OCI
5 5 (3.14%) Oracle Service Cloud
6 4 (2.52%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.89%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.26%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (1.26%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (0.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.63%) Boomi
9 1 (0.63%) GCP
9 1 (0.63%) SaaS
9 1 (0.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.52%) Network Security
2 1 (0.63%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.52%) Power BI
2 2 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (1.26%) Big Data
2 2 (1.26%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (1.26%) Hadoop
2 2 (1.26%) SAP BW
2 2 (1.26%) SAP HANA
2 2 (1.26%) Snowflake Schema
2 2 (1.26%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.63%) Metadata
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (0.63%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.63%) PowerPivot
3 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (2.52%) Git
2 1 (0.63%) JIRA
General
1 38 (23.90%) Social Skills
2 36 (22.64%) Public Sector
3 17 (10.69%) Finance
4 12 (7.55%) Marketing
5 10 (6.29%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (3.77%) Local Government
6 6 (3.77%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.14%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.89%) Aeronautics
8 3 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.89%) Police
9 2 (1.26%) Automotive
9 2 (1.26%) Banking
10 1 (0.63%) Electronics
10 1 (0.63%) French Language
10 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Public Speaking
10 1 (0.63%) Retail
10 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.26%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (1.26%) SAP Basis
1 2 (1.26%) Web Services
2 1 (0.63%) CSS
2 1 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.63%) HTML
2 1 (0.63%) Lucene
2 1 (0.63%) Node.js
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.63%) SailPoint
2 1 (0.63%) SAP Core Interface
2 1 (0.63%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.29%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (5.03%) Life Science
3 5 (3.14%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.52%) Operational Technology
4 4 (2.52%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.89%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.26%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.63%) ASIC
7 1 (0.63%) Derivative
7 1 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.63%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.26%) Linux
2 1 (0.63%) Unix
2 1 (0.63%) Windows
2 1 (0.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (24.53%) Stakeholder Management
2 23 (14.47%) Migration
3 21 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (12.58%) Data Migration
4 20 (12.58%) Programme Management
5 19 (11.95%) Programme Delivery
6 16 (10.06%) Roadmaps
7 15 (9.43%) Translating Business Requirements
7 15 (9.43%) User Acceptance Testing
8 12 (7.55%) Customer Experience
9 11 (6.92%) System Testing
10 10 (6.29%) Information Security
10 10 (6.29%) Product Roadmap
11 9 (5.66%) Asset Management
11 9 (5.66%) CRM
11 9 (5.66%) Customer Insight
11 9 (5.66%) End-to-End Testing
12 8 (5.03%) Cybersecurity
12 8 (5.03%) Investment Management
13 7 (4.40%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.77%) PowerShell
2 4 (2.52%) Bash
2 4 (2.52%) Python
3 3 (1.89%) ABAP
4 2 (1.26%) C#
4 2 (1.26%) Java
4 2 (1.26%) SQL
5 1 (0.63%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.63%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.63%) PHP
Qualifications
1 36 (22.64%) Security Cleared
2 28 (17.61%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.52%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 4 (2.52%) Degree
5 1 (0.63%) CISM
5 1 (0.63%) CISSP
5 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.63%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (4.40%) NIST
3 4 (2.52%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.89%) GDPR
4 3 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (1.26%) GRC
5 2 (1.26%) GxP
6 1 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.63%) EMIR
6 1 (0.63%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.63%) NCSC
6 1 (0.63%) PMO
6 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (3.14%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.52%) Docker
3 1 (0.63%) Firmware
3 1 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.52%) Kubernetes
1 4 (2.52%) Terraform
2 1 (0.63%) Dell DRAC
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 57 (35.85%) SAP
2 12 (7.55%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.66%) Ariba
4 8 (5.03%) Oracle
5 4 (2.52%) Siemens
6 3 (1.89%) Aareon
6 3 (1.89%) Northgate
7 2 (1.26%) Databricks
7 2 (1.26%) Dell
7 2 (1.26%) Teradata
7 2 (1.26%) VMware
8 1 (0.63%) BMC
8 1 (0.63%) Hyperion
8 1 (0.63%) Intel
8 1 (0.63%) Isilon
8 1 (0.63%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.63%) TOWER Software