Senior Consultant Contracts in London

Senior Consultant
England > London

The median Senior Consultant daily rate in London is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 455 507
Rank change year-on-year +127 +52 -177
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Consultant 68 41 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.38% 0.15% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.16% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 25 54
10th Percentile £454 £481 £500
25th Percentile £497 £525 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £676
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -11.28% +0.19%
75th Percentile £713 £725 £775
90th Percentile £784 £845 £800
England median daily rate £575 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.68 - -
Median hourly rate £63.36 - -
75th Percentile £65.03 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £56.89 £56.89 £80.00
% change year-on-year - -28.89% -

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 16,604 25,696 37,092
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.23% 95.28% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,003 18,613 27,062
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £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 £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 287 451
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.57 £22.06
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +11.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £64.67 £76.10 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.02 £44.77 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.53% +98.96% +0.36%

Senior Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Consultant in London

Senior Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Consultant in London

Senior Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Consultant in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Consultant in London

Senior Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Consultant in London

Senior 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 Senior Consultant within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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 +47 12 £583 -6.80% 15
Senior Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 London region featuring Senior Consultant in the job title.

1 21 (30.88%) Social Skills
2 15 (22.06%) Finance
2 15 (22.06%) AWS
3 11 (16.18%) Azure
3 11 (16.18%) Microsoft
3 11 (16.18%) Agile
4 10 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (13.24%) Migration
5 9 (13.24%) Java
5 9 (13.24%) SAP
6 8 (11.76%) Public Sector
6 8 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (10.29%) Banking
7 7 (10.29%) Asset Management
8 6 (8.82%) Marketing
8 6 (8.82%) Oracle
8 6 (8.82%) GCP
8 6 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (8.82%) DevOps
8 6 (8.82%) Digital Marketing
8 6 (8.82%) Data Protection
9 5 (7.35%) Investment Management
9 5 (7.35%) Test Automation
9 5 (7.35%) Presales
9 5 (7.35%) Data Modelling
9 5 (7.35%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (7.35%) Requirements Gathering
9 5 (7.35%) CI/CD
9 5 (7.35%) Digital Strategy
10 4 (5.88%) Cost Optimisation

Senior 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 3 (4.41%) CMS
2 1 (1.47%) Apache
2 1 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.47%) Confluence
2 1 (1.47%) GemFire
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.47%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
1 4 (5.88%) SimCorp Dimension
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (1.47%) SAP Business ByDesign
2 1 (1.47%) SAP IBP
2 1 (1.47%) SAP SD
2 1 (1.47%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 15 (22.06%) AWS
2 11 (16.18%) Azure
3 6 (8.82%) GCP
4 4 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (5.88%) Amazon S3
4 4 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (5.88%) CloudFront
4 4 (5.88%) Serverless
5 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (2.94%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.94%) SaaS
7 1 (1.47%) AWS IoT
7 1 (1.47%) OCI
7 1 (1.47%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.47%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.47%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.47%) AMQP
1 1 (1.47%) Firewall
1 1 (1.47%) FIX Connectivity
1 1 (1.47%) HTTPS
1 1 (1.47%) Network Security
1 1 (1.47%) SSH
1 1 (1.47%) SSL
1 1 (1.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.88%) DynamoDB
2 3 (4.41%) Data Mart
2 3 (4.41%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.94%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.47%) Adabas
4 1 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.47%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.47%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (1.47%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.47%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.47%) Power BI
4 1 (1.47%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.47%) Redis
4 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.47%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Cypress.io
1 4 (5.88%) Git
1 4 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 4 (5.88%) JIRA
1 4 (5.88%) Maven
1 4 (5.88%) Protractor
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle Forms
General
1 21 (30.88%) Social Skills
2 15 (22.06%) Finance
3 10 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 7 (10.29%) Banking
6 6 (8.82%) Marketing
7 5 (7.35%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (5.88%) Legal
8 4 (5.88%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.94%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.47%) German Language
10 1 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.47%) Retail
10 1 (1.47%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.88%) AngularJS
1 4 (5.88%) Jest
1 4 (5.88%) Node.js
2 3 (4.41%) Murex MxML
3 2 (2.94%) Middleware
4 1 (1.47%) Ajax
4 1 (1.47%) EDI
4 1 (1.47%) EntireX
4 1 (1.47%) IDoc
4 1 (1.47%) JMS
4 1 (1.47%) JSON
4 1 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.47%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.47%) REST
4 1 (1.47%) RESTful
4 1 (1.47%) SAP TM
4 1 (1.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.88%) Public Cloud
1 4 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (4.41%) Eurex
2 3 (4.41%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.41%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.41%) Reinsurance
3 2 (2.94%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.94%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.47%) IoT
4 1 (1.47%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.47%) Replication
4 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.41%) Unix
2 2 (2.94%) Linux
3 1 (1.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (16.18%) Agile
2 9 (13.24%) Migration
3 8 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (10.29%) Asset Management
5 6 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (8.82%) Data Protection
5 6 (8.82%) DevOps
5 6 (8.82%) Digital Marketing
6 5 (7.35%) CI/CD
6 5 (7.35%) Data Modelling
6 5 (7.35%) Digital Strategy
6 5 (7.35%) Investment Management
6 5 (7.35%) Presales
6 5 (7.35%) Requirements Gathering
6 5 (7.35%) Test Automation
7 4 (5.88%) Acceptance Criteria
7 4 (5.88%) Cost Optimisation
7 4 (5.88%) Data Loss Prevention
7 4 (5.88%) FinOps
7 4 (5.88%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.24%) Java
2 3 (4.41%) Shell Script
3 2 (2.94%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.94%) Python
3 2 (2.94%) SQL
4 1 (1.47%) ABAP
4 1 (1.47%) Natural
4 1 (1.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (5.88%) Degree
2 3 (4.41%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.94%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.47%) CISM
4 1 (1.47%) CISSP
4 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.47%) OCP
4 1 (1.47%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.41%) NIST
2 2 (2.94%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.47%) GRC
3 1 (1.47%) GxP
3 1 (1.47%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.47%) QA
3 1 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (1.47%) Docker
1 1 (1.47%) Terminal Services
1 1 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.47%) Ansible
2 1 (1.47%) Grafana
2 1 (1.47%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.47%) Puppet
2 1 (1.47%) Terraform
2 1 (1.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (16.18%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.24%) SAP
3 6 (8.82%) Oracle
4 4 (5.88%) Salesforce
4 4 (5.88%) SimCorp
5 3 (4.41%) Bloomberg
5 3 (4.41%) Murex
5 3 (4.41%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.41%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.47%) Ariba
6 1 (1.47%) Genesys
6 1 (1.47%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.47%) IBM
6 1 (1.47%) MobileIron
6 1 (1.47%) Reuters
6 1 (1.47%) Software AG
6 1 (1.47%) Tanium
6 1 (1.47%) UiPath
6 1 (1.47%) VMware