Senior Consultant Contracts in the City of London

Senior Consultant
Central London > City of London

The median Senior Consultant daily rate in the City of London is £583 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 172 180
Rank change year-on-year +53 +8 -37
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Consultant 12 4 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.54% 0.11% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.11% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 9
10th Percentile £463 £603 £540
25th Percentile £500 £625 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £725 £800
Median % change year-on-year -19.66% -9.38% +18.52%
75th Percentile £700 £850 -
90th Percentile £775 £888 -
Central London median daily rate £583 £625 £800
% change year-on-year -6.80% -21.88% +18.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London. 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 City of London with a recognized job title 2,111 3,519 4,037
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.05% 95.24% 94.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,504 2,375 3,064
10th Percentile £350 £350 £365
25th Percentile £450 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £789 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £560
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 28 50
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.50 £13.74
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.49 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -6.04% +77.47%
75th Percentile £27.50 £58.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £44.10 £85.99 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -24.11% -6.04% +77.47%

Senior Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Consultant in the City of London

Senior Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Consultant in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Senior Consultant in the City of London

Senior Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Consultant in the City of London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Consultant in the City of London

Senior Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Consultant in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Consultant in the City of London

Senior Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Senior 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 City of London region featuring Senior Consultant in the job title.

1 5 (41.67%) Data Protection
1 5 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Legal
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 3 (25.00%) Banking
3 3 (25.00%) AWS
3 3 (25.00%) Reinsurance
3 3 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (16.67%) Public Cloud
4 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 2 (16.67%) NIST
4 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) FinOps
4 2 (16.67%) Presales
4 2 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (16.67%) GCP
4 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 2 (16.67%) Security Architecture
4 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
4 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (16.67%) Information Security
4 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
4 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 2 (16.67%) Telecoms

Senior Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) AWS IoT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) InfluxDB
General
1 4 (33.33%) Legal
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Reinsurance
2 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (8.33%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (41.67%) Data Protection
2 3 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (16.67%) FinOps
3 2 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 2 (16.67%) Information Security
3 2 (16.67%) Presales
3 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 2 (16.67%) Security Architecture
4 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (8.33%) Code Quality
4 1 (8.33%) ERP
4 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (8.33%) Project Management
4 1 (8.33%) Software Architecture
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (16.67%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (8.33%) Ariba
3 1 (8.33%) SAP