Consultant Contracts in Central London

Consultant
London > Central London

The median Consultant daily rate in Central London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 27 59
Rank change year-on-year -11 +32 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 107 157 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 5.32% 6.62% 3.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.72% 6.93% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 110 98
10th Percentile £450 £438 £450
25th Percentile £519 £508 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £738 £665 £772
90th Percentile £836 £772 £825
London median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £42.82 £63.68 £55.00
% change year-on-year -32.76% +15.78% -2.65%

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 1,872 2,264 3,577
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.09% 95.53% 94.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,212 1,567 2,433
10th Percentile £338 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.18% -8.33% +7.53%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £713
90th Percentile £775 £791 £820
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 24 22
10th Percentile £21.51 £20.01 £15.61
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.63 £18.93
Median hourly rate £30.04 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.24% -22.86% -16.67%
75th Percentile £51.31 £34.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.89 £48.30 £87.97
London median hourly rate £32.00 £27.81 £38.25
% change year-on-year +15.07% -27.29% +9.29%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in Central London

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant 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 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in Central London

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant 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 6 July 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 -15 95 £650 +8.79% 323
City of Westminster -4 2 £575 - 2
West End of London -5 1 £550 +2.23% 8
Consultant
London

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

For the 6 months to 6 July 2025, 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 Central London region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 50 (46.73%) Finance
2 44 (41.12%) Social Skills
3 27 (25.23%) Microsoft
4 26 (24.30%) Agile
5 24 (22.43%) SQL
6 22 (20.56%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (18.69%) Banking
8 19 (17.76%) Oracle
9 16 (14.95%) Scrum
9 16 (14.95%) Change Management
10 15 (14.02%) Project Management
11 14 (13.08%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (13.08%) SAP
12 13 (12.15%) System Testing
12 13 (12.15%) Project Delivery
12 13 (12.15%) Analytics
13 12 (11.21%) Requirements Gathering
13 12 (11.21%) Azure
13 12 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (11.21%) Investment Banking
14 11 (10.28%) Business Analysis
14 11 (10.28%) SaaS
14 11 (10.28%) Validation
15 10 (9.35%) Migration
15 10 (9.35%) Power Platform
15 10 (9.35%) End-to-End Testing
16 9 (8.41%) Cybersecurity
16 9 (8.41%) Power BI
16 9 (8.41%) Scenario Testing
16 9 (8.41%) GAP Analysis

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 (2.80%) Confluence
1 3 (2.80%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.87%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.93%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.93%) Camunda
3 1 (0.93%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (7.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (7.48%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (5.61%) Oracle Financials
2 6 (5.61%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (4.67%) Oracle Assets
3 5 (4.67%) Oracle EBS R12
3 5 (4.67%) Oracle General Ledger
3 5 (4.67%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (3.74%) Aladdin
5 3 (2.80%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (2.80%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 3 (2.80%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (2.80%) SAP PLM
6 2 (1.87%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (1.87%) Oracle Internet Expenses
6 2 (1.87%) Oracle iProcurement
6 2 (1.87%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (1.87%) SAP IBP
6 2 (1.87%) SAP MDG
6 2 (1.87%) SAP VC
7 1 (0.93%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 12 (11.21%) Azure
2 11 (10.28%) SaaS
3 10 (9.35%) Power Platform
4 6 (5.61%) AWS
5 5 (4.67%) OCI
6 4 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.87%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.87%) IaaS
8 2 (1.87%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.87%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.87%) PaaS
9 1 (0.93%) Boomi
9 1 (0.93%) Collibra
9 1 (0.93%) dbt
9 1 (0.93%) Intacct
9 1 (0.93%) Oracle Service Cloud
9 1 (0.93%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 1 (0.93%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.67%) Firewall
2 2 (1.87%) BGP
2 2 (1.87%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (1.87%) HTTP
2 2 (1.87%) LAN
2 2 (1.87%) Multicast
2 2 (1.87%) VPN
2 2 (1.87%) VXLAN
2 2 (1.87%) WAN
3 1 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (0.93%) DHCP
3 1 (0.93%) DNS
3 1 (0.93%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.93%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (0.93%) IGMP
3 1 (0.93%) MPLS
3 1 (0.93%) OSPF
3 1 (0.93%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.41%) Power BI
2 7 (6.54%) Data Mining
3 3 (2.80%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (2.80%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.87%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.87%) Metadata
5 1 (0.93%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.93%) KDB
5 1 (0.93%) Kdb+
5 1 (0.93%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (3.74%) JIRA
2 2 (1.87%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.93%) Ant
3 1 (0.93%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.93%) Git
3 1 (0.93%) GitLab
3 1 (0.93%) MSI
3 1 (0.93%) Snyk
3 1 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 50 (46.73%) Finance
2 44 (41.12%) Social Skills
3 20 (18.69%) Banking
4 12 (11.21%) Investment Banking
5 8 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.48%) Front Office
6 5 (4.67%) Law
6 5 (4.67%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.74%) General Ledger
7 4 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.74%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.80%) Billing
8 3 (2.80%) Legal
8 3 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.87%) Back Office
9 2 (1.87%) Marketing
9 2 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.87%) Police
9 2 (1.87%) Retail
10 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.74%) HTML
2 3 (2.80%) CSS
3 1 (0.93%) JPA
3 1 (0.93%) JSON
3 1 (0.93%) Kafka
3 1 (0.93%) Middleware
3 1 (0.93%) OAuth
3 1 (0.93%) OpenID
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.93%) React
3 1 (0.93%) REST
3 1 (0.93%) Semantic HTML
3 1 (0.93%) Spring
3 1 (0.93%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.93%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.48%) Market Risk
2 3 (2.80%) Data Centre
2 3 (2.80%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (2.80%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (1.87%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.87%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.93%) Credit Risk
4 1 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.93%) Derivative
4 1 (0.93%) Equities
4 1 (0.93%) Fixed Income
4 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.93%) NHS
4 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.61%) Windows
2 4 (3.74%) Linux
3 2 (1.87%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.93%) AIX
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.93%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (24.30%) Agile
2 22 (20.56%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (14.95%) Change Management
3 16 (14.95%) Scrum
4 15 (14.02%) Project Management
5 14 (13.08%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (12.15%) Analytics
6 13 (12.15%) Project Delivery
6 13 (12.15%) System Testing
7 12 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (11.21%) Requirements Gathering
8 11 (10.28%) Business Analysis
8 11 (10.28%) Validation
9 10 (9.35%) End-to-End Testing
9 10 (9.35%) Migration
10 9 (8.41%) Asset Management
10 9 (8.41%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (8.41%) GAP Analysis
10 9 (8.41%) ITIL
10 9 (8.41%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (22.43%) SQL
2 6 (5.61%) Java
3 3 (2.80%) ABAP
3 3 (2.80%) JavaScript
3 3 (2.80%) Python
4 2 (1.87%) C++
4 2 (1.87%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (5.61%) Azure Certification
1 6 (5.61%) Degree
1 6 (5.61%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.74%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.87%) DV Cleared
3 2 (1.87%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.93%) CCNA
4 1 (0.93%) CCNP
4 1 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.93%) CISSP
4 1 (0.93%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.93%) PMP
4 1 (0.93%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.48%) Basel II
1 8 (7.48%) EMIR
1 8 (7.48%) MiFID
2 4 (3.74%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.87%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.87%) NIST
3 2 (1.87%) QA
3 2 (1.87%) SLA
4 1 (0.93%) Basel III
4 1 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.93%) COBIT
4 1 (0.93%) COSO
4 1 (0.93%) GDPR
4 1 (0.93%) NCSC
4 1 (0.93%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (4.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.93%) Docker
2 1 (0.93%) Firmware
2 1 (0.93%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (3.74%) SCCM
2 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.93%) CEMLI
3 1 (0.93%) Control-M
3 1 (0.93%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.93%) QRadar
3 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.93%) WSUS
Vendors
1 27 (25.23%) Microsoft
2 19 (17.76%) Oracle
3 14 (13.08%) SAP
4 4 (3.74%) Charles River
4 4 (3.74%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.74%) Zscaler
5 3 (2.80%) Cisco
5 3 (2.80%) Palo Alto
5 3 (2.80%) Workday
6 2 (1.87%) Citrix
6 2 (1.87%) Sage
6 2 (1.87%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.87%) Tenable
6 2 (1.87%) UiPath
6 2 (1.87%) VMware
7 1 (0.93%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.93%) ForeScout
7 1 (0.93%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.93%) Meraki
7 1 (0.93%) Okta