Principal Consultant Contracts in London

Principal Consultant
England > London

The median Principal Consultant daily rate in London is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 498 588
Rank change year-on-year +110 +90 -144
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Consultant 11 4 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.062% 0.015% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% 0.015% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 6
10th Percentile £540 - -
25th Percentile - £606 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £613 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +8.89% -2.17%
75th Percentile £688 £709 £991
90th Percentile £695 £764 £1,125
England median daily rate £630 £613 £625
% change year-on-year +2.86% -2.00% +13.64%

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 16,628 25,954 37,220
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.14% 95.32% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,036 18,763 27,151
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £442 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 294 454
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.55% +0.71% +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £64.45 £77.48 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -21.11% +100.00% +0.36%

Principal Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Consultant in London

Principal Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Principal Consultant in London

Principal Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Principal Consultant in London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Principal Consultant in London

Principal 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 Principal Consultant within the London region over the 6 months to 24 April 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 - 1 £675 - 3
Principal Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Principal 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 Principal Consultant in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (72.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (72.73%) SAP
3 5 (45.45%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (36.36%) Web Services
4 4 (36.36%) ERP
4 4 (36.36%) Adobe
4 4 (36.36%) Project Management
4 4 (36.36%) SAP QM
4 4 (36.36%) Quality Management
4 4 (36.36%) QA
4 4 (36.36%) SAP HANA
4 4 (36.36%) SAP EWM
4 4 (36.36%) ABAP
5 2 (18.18%) Terraform
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (18.18%) CircleCI
5 2 (18.18%) DevSecOps
5 2 (18.18%) NCSC
5 2 (18.18%) NIST
5 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
5 2 (18.18%) Big Data
5 2 (18.18%) GitHub
5 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (18.18%) Docker
5 2 (18.18%) OWASP
5 2 (18.18%) Azure
5 2 (18.18%) AWS
5 2 (18.18%) R
5 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills

Principal 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 (18.18%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 8 (72.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (36.36%) SAP EWM
2 4 (36.36%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) SAP HANA
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (18.18%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) CircleCI
1 2 (18.18%) RStudio
General
1 11 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) ERP
1 4 (36.36%) Project Management
1 4 (36.36%) Quality Management
2 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (18.18%) DevSecOps
2 2 (18.18%) Information Management
2 2 (18.18%) Information Security
2 2 (18.18%) OWASP
2 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
3 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
3 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
3 1 (9.09%) Target Operating Model
3 1 (9.09%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) ABAP
2 2 (18.18%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) QA
2 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (18.18%) NCSC
2 2 (18.18%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) SAP
2 4 (36.36%) Adobe