Consultant Contract Job Trends in Central London

Consultant
London > Central London

The median Consultant daily rate in Central London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 33 37
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 +22
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 113 123 148
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.03% 5.27% 4.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.47% 5.66% 5.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 67 106
10th Percentile £413 £408 £422
25th Percentile £475 £511 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £725 £625 £679
90th Percentile £829 £738 £775
London median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.50 £40.75 -
Median hourly rate £45.00 £41.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% - -
75th Percentile £47.50 £42.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £40.50 £52.75 £84.50
% change year-on-year -23.22% -37.57% +9.03%

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 1,747 2,175 2,860
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.17% 93.19% 94.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,211 1,368 2,008
10th Percentile £325 £359 £340
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 24 17
10th Percentile £17.61 £21.29 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.86 £30.19 £18.93
Median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% -2.78% -12.20%
75th Percentile £38.88 £82.19 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.65 £129.85 £70.75
London median hourly rate £27.40 £38.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -27.89% -6.17% +24.62%

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 31 October 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 31 October 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 +3 105 £580 +0.87% 234
West End of London +2 2 - - 1
City of Westminster -4 1 - - 3
Consultant
London

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 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 26 (23.01%) SQL
2 24 (21.24%) Agile
3 23 (20.35%) Microsoft
4 21 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (18.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 18 (15.93%) Requirements Gathering
6 17 (15.04%) Oracle
7 16 (14.16%) Power Platform
8 15 (13.27%) Azure
8 15 (13.27%) Project Management
8 15 (13.27%) SAP
8 15 (13.27%) Security Cleared
8 15 (13.27%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (12.39%) Analytics
9 14 (12.39%) Migration
10 13 (11.50%) Change Management
10 13 (11.50%) Power BI
10 13 (11.50%) SC Cleared
10 13 (11.50%) Scrum
10 13 (11.50%) Validation
11 12 (10.62%) Business Analysis
11 12 (10.62%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (9.73%) Asset Management
12 11 (9.73%) Data Analysis
12 11 (9.73%) Oracle EBS
12 11 (9.73%) Oracle Financials
12 11 (9.73%) Oracle Payables
12 11 (9.73%) SharePoint
13 10 (8.85%) GAP Analysis
13 10 (8.85%) Microsoft Excel

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 (9.73%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.77%) Confluence
4 1 (0.88%) Apache
4 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.88%) Camunda
4 1 (0.88%) CMS
4 1 (0.88%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (8.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.77%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (9.73%) Oracle EBS
1 11 (9.73%) Oracle Financials
1 11 (9.73%) Oracle Payables
2 8 (7.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (5.31%) Oracle Cash Management
3 6 (5.31%) Oracle EBS R12
3 6 (5.31%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (3.54%) Aladdin
4 4 (3.54%) Oracle Assets
4 4 (3.54%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (1.77%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 2 (1.77%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (1.77%) SAP CO
5 2 (1.77%) SAP FI
5 2 (1.77%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (1.77%) SAP MDG
5 2 (1.77%) SAP MM
5 2 (1.77%) SAP PLM
5 2 (1.77%) SAP VC
6 1 (0.88%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 16 (14.16%) Power Platform
2 15 (13.27%) Azure
3 9 (7.96%) AWS
3 9 (7.96%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (5.31%) Entra ID
4 6 (5.31%) SaaS
5 5 (4.42%) GCP
5 5 (4.42%) OneDrive
6 4 (3.54%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.65%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.77%) Google Analytics
8 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.77%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.77%) OCI
9 1 (0.88%) Alation
9 1 (0.88%) Azure AI
9 1 (0.88%) Collibra
9 1 (0.88%) dbt
9 1 (0.88%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.19%) Firewall
2 3 (2.65%) BGP
2 3 (2.65%) DHCP
2 3 (2.65%) DNS
2 3 (2.65%) MPLS
2 3 (2.65%) VPN
3 2 (1.77%) HTTP
3 2 (1.77%) OSPF
3 2 (1.77%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.77%) WAN
4 1 (0.88%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.88%) 4G
4 1 (0.88%) 5G
4 1 (0.88%) DKIM
4 1 (0.88%) DMARC
4 1 (0.88%) Intranet
4 1 (0.88%) LAN
4 1 (0.88%) PSTN
4 1 (0.88%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.50%) Power BI
2 5 (4.42%) Data Mining
3 3 (2.65%) Tableau
4 2 (1.77%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.77%) Looker
5 1 (0.88%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.88%) Metadata
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.88%) Power Query
5 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (5.31%) JIRA
2 1 (0.88%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.88%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.88%) Git
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (0.88%) Selenium
2 1 (0.88%) Snyk
General
1 47 (41.59%) Social Skills
2 44 (38.94%) Finance
3 16 (14.16%) Banking
4 14 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.96%) Front Office
5 9 (7.96%) Public Sector
6 8 (7.08%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (4.42%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.54%) General Ledger
8 4 (3.54%) Law
8 4 (3.54%) Legal
9 3 (2.65%) Billing
9 3 (2.65%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.77%) Back Office
10 2 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.77%) Retail
11 1 (0.88%) Advertising
11 1 (0.88%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.65%) REST
2 2 (1.77%) HTML
3 1 (0.88%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.88%) CSS
3 1 (0.88%) JPA
3 1 (0.88%) JSON
3 1 (0.88%) Kafka
3 1 (0.88%) OAuth
3 1 (0.88%) OpenID
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.88%) React
3 1 (0.88%) RESTful
3 1 (0.88%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.88%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.88%) Semantic HTML
3 1 (0.88%) Spring
3 1 (0.88%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.88%) WSE
3 1 (0.88%) XACML
3 1 (0.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.42%) Market Risk
2 3 (2.65%) Data Centre
2 3 (2.65%) Data Structures
2 3 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.77%) NHS
3 2 (1.77%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.77%) Operational Technology
3 2 (1.77%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.77%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.88%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.88%) CMDB
4 1 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.88%) Life Science
4 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.88%) Pricing Data
4 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.88%) SCADA
4 1 (0.88%) Taxonomies
4 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.42%) Windows
2 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (21.24%) Agile
2 21 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (18.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 18 (15.93%) Requirements Gathering
4 15 (13.27%) Project Management
4 15 (13.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (12.39%) Analytics
5 14 (12.39%) Migration
6 13 (11.50%) Change Management
6 13 (11.50%) Scrum
6 13 (11.50%) Validation
7 12 (10.62%) Business Analysis
7 12 (10.62%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (9.73%) Asset Management
8 11 (9.73%) Data Analysis
9 10 (8.85%) GAP Analysis
9 10 (8.85%) Project Delivery
9 10 (8.85%) System Testing
10 9 (7.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (7.96%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (23.01%) SQL
2 7 (6.19%) PowerShell
2 7 (6.19%) Python
3 6 (5.31%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.54%) Java
5 2 (1.77%) ABAP
6 1 (0.88%) Bash
6 1 (0.88%) BeanShell
6 1 (0.88%) C#
6 1 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.88%) Go
6 1 (0.88%) Korn
6 1 (0.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (13.27%) Security Cleared
2 13 (11.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.54%) Degree
4 3 (2.65%) CISSP
5 2 (1.77%) CTC Cleared
5 2 (1.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.88%) CCNA
6 1 (0.88%) CCNP
6 1 (0.88%) CISA
6 1 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.88%) CISM
6 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.88%) CRISC
6 1 (0.88%) CSSLP
6 1 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.88%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.08%) EMIR
1 8 (7.08%) MiFID
2 5 (4.42%) Basel II
2 5 (4.42%) NIST
3 4 (3.54%) QA
4 3 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.77%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.77%) GDPR
6 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.88%) COBIT
6 1 (0.88%) COSO
6 1 (0.88%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.88%) NCSC
6 1 (0.88%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.88%) PMO
6 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (7.08%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.77%) Firmware
4 1 (0.88%) Docker
4 1 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.88%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (2.65%) Terraform
1 3 (2.65%) vRealize
2 2 (1.77%) Ansible
2 2 (1.77%) SCCM
3 1 (0.88%) CASB
3 1 (0.88%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.88%) QRadar
3 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.88%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 23 (20.35%) Microsoft
2 17 (15.04%) Oracle
3 15 (13.27%) SAP
4 5 (4.42%) VMware
5 4 (3.54%) Charles River
5 4 (3.54%) Google
5 4 (3.54%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.65%) Adobe
6 3 (2.65%) Databricks
6 3 (2.65%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.65%) Tenable
7 2 (1.77%) Cisco
7 2 (1.77%) Dell
7 2 (1.77%) Workday
8 1 (0.88%) ForeScout
8 1 (0.88%) IFS
8 1 (0.88%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (0.88%) Okta
8 1 (0.88%) Screaming Frog
8 1 (0.88%) UiPath