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 31 May 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 24 68
Rank change year-on-year -18 +44 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 99 177 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 5.19% 7.40% 3.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.56% 7.76% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 128 87
10th Percentile £475 £430 £433
25th Percentile £525 £472 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -2.31%
75th Percentile £725 £675 £763
90th Percentile £830 £775 £800
London median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +2.68%
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 £63.36 £55.00
% change year-on-year -32.42% +15.19% -23.08%

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 1,781 2,281 3,512
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.39% 95.36% 95.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,159 1,606 2,395
10th Percentile £350 £340 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 25 23
10th Percentile £18.10 £20.04 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £28.15 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% -22.86% -8.50%
75th Percentile £34.68 £27.81 £61.25
90th Percentile £63.75 £40.00 £87.64
London median hourly rate £31.67 £27.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year +15.17% -23.61% +2.86%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -16 84 £650 +13.04% 106
City of Westminster -1 2 £575 - 1
West End of London -4 1 £550 +2.23% 3
Southwark - 1 £238 - 1
Consultant
London

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 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 45 (45.45%) Finance
2 44 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 26 (26.26%) Microsoft
4 24 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (23.23%) Agile
6 22 (22.22%) SQL
7 21 (21.21%) Banking
8 17 (17.17%) Oracle
9 15 (15.15%) Change Management
10 14 (14.14%) Scrum
10 14 (14.14%) SAP
11 13 (13.13%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (12.12%) Risk Management
12 12 (12.12%) Project Management
13 11 (11.11%) Investment Banking
13 11 (11.11%) Project Delivery
13 11 (11.11%) Analytics
14 10 (10.10%) Cybersecurity
14 10 (10.10%) Requirements Gathering
14 10 (10.10%) System Testing
14 10 (10.10%) Azure
14 10 (10.10%) SaaS
14 10 (10.10%) Validation
14 10 (10.10%) Migration
15 9 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
15 9 (9.09%) Asset Management
15 9 (9.09%) End-to-End Testing
16 8 (8.08%) Power Platform
16 8 (8.08%) Power BI
16 8 (8.08%) Scenario Testing

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 4 (4.04%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.03%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.01%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.01%) CMS
4 1 (1.01%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (7.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (6.06%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (4.04%) Aladdin
3 3 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (3.03%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (3.03%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (3.03%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (3.03%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (3.03%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (3.03%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (2.02%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (2.02%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 2 (2.02%) Oracle Internet Expenses
4 2 (2.02%) Oracle iProcurement
4 2 (2.02%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (2.02%) SAP CO
4 2 (2.02%) SAP FI
4 2 (2.02%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (2.02%) SAP IBP
4 2 (2.02%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 10 (10.10%) Azure
1 10 (10.10%) SaaS
2 8 (8.08%) Power Platform
3 6 (6.06%) Microsoft Purview
4 5 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.04%) AWS
5 4 (4.04%) OCI
6 3 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.02%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.02%) IaaS
7 2 (2.02%) Mimecast
7 2 (2.02%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.02%) PaaS
7 2 (2.02%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (1.01%) Alation
8 1 (1.01%) Boomi
8 1 (1.01%) Collibra
8 1 (1.01%) dbt
8 1 (1.01%) Intacct
8 1 (1.01%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.04%) Firewall
2 2 (2.02%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (2.02%) HTTP
2 2 (2.02%) Multicast
2 2 (2.02%) VXLAN
3 1 (1.01%) BGP
3 1 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (1.01%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.01%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (1.01%) IGMP
3 1 (1.01%) LAN
3 1 (1.01%) VPN
3 1 (1.01%) WAN
3 1 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.08%) Power BI
2 6 (6.06%) Data Mining
3 4 (4.04%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.03%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (2.02%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.02%) Metadata
6 1 (1.01%) Data Mart
6 1 (1.01%) DataStage
6 1 (1.01%) KDB
6 1 (1.01%) Kdb+
6 1 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.01%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (4.04%) JIRA
2 2 (2.02%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.01%) Ant
3 1 (1.01%) GitLab
3 1 (1.01%) MSI
3 1 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 45 (45.45%) Finance
2 44 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 21 (21.21%) Banking
4 11 (11.11%) Investment Banking
5 8 (8.08%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (7.07%) Front Office
7 6 (6.06%) Law
8 5 (5.05%) Public Sector
9 4 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (4.04%) Telecoms
10 3 (3.03%) Billing
10 3 (3.03%) General Ledger
11 2 (2.02%) Back Office
11 2 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (2.02%) Manufacturing
11 2 (2.02%) Marketing
11 2 (2.02%) Police
11 2 (2.02%) Retail
12 1 (1.01%) Legal
12 1 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.04%) CSS
1 4 (4.04%) HTML
2 1 (1.01%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.01%) JSON
2 1 (1.01%) Middleware
2 1 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.01%) Semantic HTML
2 1 (1.01%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.07%) Market Risk
2 3 (3.03%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.03%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.02%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.01%) CMDB
4 1 (1.01%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.01%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.01%) Derivative
4 1 (1.01%) Equities
4 1 (1.01%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.01%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.01%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.07%) Windows
2 5 (5.05%) Linux
3 3 (3.03%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.01%) AIX
4 1 (1.01%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.01%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (1.01%) Unix
4 1 (1.01%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (23.23%) Agile
3 15 (15.15%) Change Management
4 14 (14.14%) Scrum
5 13 (13.13%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (12.12%) Project Management
6 12 (12.12%) Risk Management
7 11 (11.11%) Analytics
7 11 (11.11%) Project Delivery
8 10 (10.10%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (10.10%) Migration
8 10 (10.10%) Requirements Gathering
8 10 (10.10%) System Testing
8 10 (10.10%) Validation
9 9 (9.09%) Asset Management
9 9 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (9.09%) End-to-End Testing
10 8 (8.08%) Data Analysis
10 8 (8.08%) GAP Analysis
10 8 (8.08%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (22.22%) SQL
2 5 (5.05%) Java
3 3 (3.03%) JavaScript
3 3 (3.03%) Python
4 2 (2.02%) ABAP
4 2 (2.02%) C++
4 2 (2.02%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.01%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (6.06%) Azure Certification
2 5 (5.05%) Degree
2 5 (5.05%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.03%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.02%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.01%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.01%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.01%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.01%) PMP
5 1 (1.01%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.07%) Basel II
1 7 (7.07%) EMIR
1 7 (7.07%) MiFID
2 4 (4.04%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.04%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.02%) QA
3 2 (2.02%) SLA
4 1 (1.01%) Basel III
4 1 (1.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.01%) GDPR
4 1 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.01%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (4.04%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.01%) Docker
2 1 (1.01%) Firmware
2 1 (1.01%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.01%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (4.04%) SCCM
2 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.01%) CEMLI
3 1 (1.01%) Control-M
3 1 (1.01%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.01%) WSUS
Vendors
1 26 (26.26%) Microsoft
2 17 (17.17%) Oracle
3 14 (14.14%) SAP
4 6 (6.06%) Zscaler
5 4 (4.04%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.03%) Charles River
6 3 (3.03%) Workday
7 2 (2.02%) Cisco
7 2 (2.02%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.02%) Sage
8 1 (1.01%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.01%) Concur
8 1 (1.01%) Dataiku
8 1 (1.01%) F5
8 1 (1.01%) Pega
8 1 (1.01%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (1.01%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.01%) SimCorp
8 1 (1.01%) UiPath
8 1 (1.01%) VMware