Consultant Contract Job Trends in Central London

Consultant
London > Central London

The median Consultant daily rate in Central London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
21 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 31 34
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 +26
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 112 125 152
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.68% 5.32% 5.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.08% 5.72% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 71 112
10th Percentile £413 £408 £409
25th Percentile £475 £509 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £641 £676
90th Percentile £748 £738 £773
London median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £39.91 - -
25th Percentile £40.34 £40.75 -
Median hourly rate £42.89 £41.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% - -
75th Percentile £46.11 £42.25 -
90th Percentile £46.94 - -
London median hourly rate £40.78 £63.00 £84.50
% change year-on-year -35.27% -25.44% +14.58%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 1,841 2,185 2,734
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.40% 93.06% 94.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,283 1,361 1,933
10th Percentile £325 £363 £344
25th Percentile £419 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £670 £675 £688
90th Percentile £759 £775 £808
London median daily rate £538 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -2.27% -2.25% -2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 23 19
10th Percentile £18.22 £21.48 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £33.13 £20.09
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -2.78% -15.29%
75th Percentile £41.75 £85.63 £58.75
90th Percentile £58.15 £132.40 £69.75
London median hourly rate £26.57 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -29.15% - +7.14%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Consultant' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Consultant job vacancy trend in Central London

Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in Central London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in Central London

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in Central London over the 6 months to 21 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in Central London

Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in Central London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in Central London

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the Central London region over the 6 months to 21 November 2025. 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
City of London +1 104 £550 -4.35% 267
West End of London +2 2 - - 6
City of Westminster -3 1 - - 2
Consultant
London

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 21 November 2025, Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Central London region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 22 (19.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 20 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 20 (17.86%) SQL
3 19 (16.96%) Agile
3 19 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (16.07%) Security Cleared
5 16 (14.29%) Oracle
5 16 (14.29%) SAP
5 16 (14.29%) SC Cleared
6 14 (12.50%) Azure
6 14 (12.50%) Migration
6 14 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
7 13 (11.61%) Power Platform
8 12 (10.71%) Analytics
8 12 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (9.82%) Project Management
9 11 (9.82%) SharePoint
10 10 (8.93%) Oracle EBS
10 10 (8.93%) Oracle Financials
10 10 (8.93%) Oracle Payables
10 10 (8.93%) Power BI
10 10 (8.93%) User Acceptance Testing
11 9 (8.04%) AWS
11 9 (8.04%) Business Intelligence
11 9 (8.04%) Change Management
11 9 (8.04%) ERP
11 9 (8.04%) SAP S/4HANA
11 9 (8.04%) Validation
11 9 (8.04%) Workshop Facilitation
12 8 (7.14%) Active Directory

Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 11 (9.82%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.79%) Confluence
4 1 (0.89%) Apache
4 1 (0.89%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.89%) Camunda
4 1 (0.89%) CMS
4 1 (0.89%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (5.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.79%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (8.93%) Oracle EBS
1 10 (8.93%) Oracle Financials
1 10 (8.93%) Oracle Payables
2 9 (8.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (5.36%) Oracle Cash Management
4 5 (4.46%) Oracle EBS R12
4 5 (4.46%) Oracle General Ledger
5 4 (3.57%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (2.68%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (2.68%) SAP CO
6 3 (2.68%) SAP FI
6 3 (2.68%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (1.79%) Aladdin
7 2 (1.79%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (1.79%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (1.79%) SAP MDG
7 2 (1.79%) SAP MM
7 2 (1.79%) SAP PLM
7 2 (1.79%) SAP VC
8 1 (0.89%) Oracle E-Business Tax
Cloud Services
1 14 (12.50%) Azure
2 13 (11.61%) Power Platform
3 9 (8.04%) AWS
4 8 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (5.36%) Entra ID
6 5 (4.46%) GCP
6 5 (4.46%) OneDrive
6 5 (4.46%) Power Automate
6 5 (4.46%) SaaS
7 4 (3.57%) PowerApps
8 3 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.79%) Google Analytics
9 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.79%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.79%) OCI
10 1 (0.89%) Alation
10 1 (0.89%) Azure AI
10 1 (0.89%) Collibra
10 1 (0.89%) dbt
10 1 (0.89%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.25%) Firewall
2 3 (2.68%) BGP
2 3 (2.68%) DHCP
2 3 (2.68%) DNS
2 3 (2.68%) MPLS
2 3 (2.68%) VPN
3 2 (1.79%) HTTP
3 2 (1.79%) OSPF
3 2 (1.79%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.79%) WAN
4 1 (0.89%) 4G
4 1 (0.89%) 5G
4 1 (0.89%) DKIM
4 1 (0.89%) DMARC
4 1 (0.89%) Internet
4 1 (0.89%) Intranet
4 1 (0.89%) LAN
4 1 (0.89%) PSTN
4 1 (0.89%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.89%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.93%) Power BI
2 3 (2.68%) Tableau
3 2 (1.79%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.79%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.79%) Looker
4 1 (0.89%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.89%) Metadata
4 1 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.89%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 7 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (0.89%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.89%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.89%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.89%) Git
2 1 (0.89%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (0.89%) Selenium
2 1 (0.89%) Snyk
General
1 41 (36.61%) Finance
2 39 (34.82%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.61%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (11.61%) Banking
4 9 (8.04%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (4.46%) Front Office
7 4 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.57%) Law
7 4 (3.57%) Legal
8 3 (2.68%) Billing
8 3 (2.68%) General Ledger
8 3 (2.68%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.68%) Retail
9 2 (1.79%) Back Office
9 2 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.79%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.89%) Advertising
10 1 (0.89%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.68%) REST
1 3 (2.68%) WSE
2 2 (1.79%) HTML
3 1 (0.89%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.89%) CSS
3 1 (0.89%) JPA
3 1 (0.89%) JSON
3 1 (0.89%) Kafka
3 1 (0.89%) OAuth
3 1 (0.89%) OpenID
3 1 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.89%) React
3 1 (0.89%) RESTful
3 1 (0.89%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.89%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.89%) Semantic HTML
3 1 (0.89%) Spring
3 1 (0.89%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.89%) XACML
3 1 (0.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (2.68%) Data Centre
1 3 (2.68%) Data Structures
1 3 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (2.68%) Onboarding
2 2 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (1.79%) Market Risk
2 2 (1.79%) NHS
2 2 (1.79%) Operational Technology
2 2 (1.79%) Product Ownership
2 2 (1.79%) Security Posture
3 1 (0.89%) Cloud Native
3 1 (0.89%) CMDB
3 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (0.89%) Life Science
3 1 (0.89%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.89%) Pricing Data
3 1 (0.89%) Public Cloud
3 1 (0.89%) SCADA
3 1 (0.89%) Taxonomies
3 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.46%) Windows
2 1 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (19.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 19 (16.96%) Agile
2 19 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (12.50%) Migration
3 14 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
4 12 (10.71%) Analytics
4 12 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (9.82%) Project Management
6 10 (8.93%) User Acceptance Testing
7 9 (8.04%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (8.04%) Change Management
7 9 (8.04%) ERP
7 9 (8.04%) Validation
7 9 (8.04%) Workshop Facilitation
8 8 (7.14%) Business Analysis
8 8 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (6.25%) Asset Management
9 7 (6.25%) GAP Analysis
9 7 (6.25%) ITIL
9 7 (6.25%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 20 (17.86%) SQL
2 8 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 8 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 8 (7.14%) Python
3 5 (4.46%) Java
4 3 (2.68%) Go
4 3 (2.68%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.79%) ABAP
6 1 (0.89%) Bash
6 1 (0.89%) BeanShell
6 1 (0.89%) C#
6 1 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.89%) Korn
6 1 (0.89%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.89%) ProC
6 1 (0.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (16.07%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.36%) Degree
4 3 (2.68%) CISSP
4 3 (2.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (1.79%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.89%) CCNA
6 1 (0.89%) CCNP
6 1 (0.89%) CISA
6 1 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.89%) CISM
6 1 (0.89%) CRISC
6 1 (0.89%) CSSLP
6 1 (0.89%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.89%) GIAC
6 1 (0.89%) ISACA
6 1 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.89%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.36%) QA
2 5 (4.46%) NIST
3 4 (3.57%) EMIR
3 4 (3.57%) MiFID
4 3 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.79%) Basel II
5 2 (1.79%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.79%) GDPR
6 1 (0.89%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.89%) COBIT
6 1 (0.89%) COSO
6 1 (0.89%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.89%) NCSC
6 1 (0.89%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.89%) PMO
6 1 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.79%) Firmware
4 1 (0.89%) Docker
4 1 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.89%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (3.57%) vRealize
2 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.68%) Terraform
3 2 (1.79%) Ansible
3 2 (1.79%) SCCM
4 1 (0.89%) CASB
4 1 (0.89%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.89%) QRadar
4 1 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.89%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 20 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.29%) Oracle
2 16 (14.29%) SAP
3 6 (5.36%) VMware
4 5 (4.46%) Google
5 4 (3.57%) Palo Alto
5 4 (3.57%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.68%) Databricks
6 3 (2.68%) Tenable
7 2 (1.79%) Adobe
7 2 (1.79%) Charles River
7 2 (1.79%) Cisco
7 2 (1.79%) Dell
7 2 (1.79%) Remedy
7 2 (1.79%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.89%) Ariba
8 1 (0.89%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.89%) Citrix
8 1 (0.89%) Juniper
8 1 (0.89%) OpenLink
283 Consultant jobs in Central London