IT Consultant Contracts in London

IT Consultant
England > London

The median IT Consultant daily rate in London is £520 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 364 462 571
Rank change year-on-year +98 +109 -124
Contract jobs requiring an IT Consultant 24 39 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.15% 0.095%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.15% 0.100%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 32 29
10th Percentile £400 £416 £343
25th Percentile £500 £461 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -14.58% -1.64%
75th Percentile £564 £539 £775
90th Percentile £650 £618 £813
England median daily rate £545 £518 £450
% change year-on-year +5.31% +15.00% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,501 25,472 37,134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 95.25% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,931 18,450 27,143
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £681
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 290 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.40
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.24
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +10.62%
75th Percentile £43.75 £61.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.20 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%

IT Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Consultant in London

IT Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for IT Consultant in London

IT Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Consultant in London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Consultant in London

IT Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Consultant in London

IT Consultant
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Consultant within the London region over the 6 months to 5 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
Central London +32 5 £520 +0.97% 4
West London - 1 £400 -
IT Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, IT 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 London region featuring IT Consultant in the job title.

1 11 (45.83%) Finance
2 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 6 (25.00%) Banking
3 6 (25.00%) Degree
4 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (20.83%) Project Management
4 5 (20.83%) Azure
4 5 (20.83%) Business Case
5 4 (16.67%) Hyper-V
5 4 (16.67%) Process Improvement
5 4 (16.67%) Unix
5 4 (16.67%) Oracle
5 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (16.67%) Cisco
5 4 (16.67%) Law
5 4 (16.67%) ACCA
5 4 (16.67%) VMware
5 4 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
5 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
5 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (16.67%) Financial Modelling
5 4 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (12.50%) Data Centre
7 2 (8.33%) Target Operating Model
7 2 (8.33%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (8.33%) Analytics

IT Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (8.33%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) Azure
2 2 (8.33%) AWS
2 2 (8.33%) Nutanix
3 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (8.33%) Firewall
1 2 (8.33%) Network Security
1 2 (8.33%) VSAN
2 1 (4.17%) Internet
General
1 11 (45.83%) Finance
2 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 6 (25.00%) Banking
4 4 (16.67%) Law
4 4 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
7 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (4.17%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.33%) Credit Derivative
2 2 (8.33%) Derivative
2 2 (8.33%) Equities
2 2 (8.33%) Fixed Income
2 2 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (8.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.17%) Hedge funds
3 1 (4.17%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Unix
2 2 (8.33%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.83%) Business Case
1 5 (20.83%) Project Management
2 4 (16.67%) Financial Modelling
2 4 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
2 4 (16.67%) Process Improvement
3 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (8.33%) Analytics
4 2 (8.33%) Capacity Management
4 2 (8.33%) Ethical Hacking
4 2 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (8.33%) IT Strategy
4 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (8.33%) Product Management
4 2 (8.33%) Security Auditing
4 2 (8.33%) Security Hardening
4 2 (8.33%) Server Management
4 2 (8.33%) SIEM
4 2 (8.33%) Target Operating Model
4 2 (8.33%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (8.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) Bash
1 2 (8.33%) Python
1 2 (8.33%) SQL
2 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Degree
2 4 (16.67%) ACCA
2 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) CCNP
3 2 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.33%) KVM
2 2 (8.33%) VMware NSX
2 2 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) SCCM
1 2 (8.33%) SCOM
1 2 (8.33%) SCVMM
2 1 (4.17%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Cisco
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle
1 4 (16.67%) VMware
2 1 (4.17%) CheckPoint
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) Qualys
2 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow