Lead Consultant Contracts in Central London

Lead Consultant
London > Central London

The median Lead Consultant daily rate in Central London is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 128 169
Rank change year-on-year +8 +41 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Consultant 7 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.35% 0.041% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.043% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 4
10th Percentile £529 - -
25th Percentile £572 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £900 £531
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +69.41% -21.30%
75th Percentile £734 - £639
90th Percentile £850 - £721
London median daily rate £585 £625 £620
% change year-on-year -6.40% +0.81% -20.00%

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 1,857 2,323 3,673
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 95.32% 95.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,200 1,655 2,515
10th Percentile £350 £342 £325
25th Percentile £455 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -6.38% +4.91%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £725
90th Percentile £775 £795 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 31 27
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.63 £19.36
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -28.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 £27.81 £58.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £40.00 £86.32
London median hourly rate £34.65 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.00% -21.43% -

Lead Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Consultant in Central London

Lead Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Consultant in Central London

Lead Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Consultant in Central London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Consultant in Central London

Lead 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 Lead Consultant within the Central London region over the 6 months to 3 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 +9 6 £700 -22.22% 3
Lead Consultant
London

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Lead 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 Lead Consultant in the job title.

1 4 (57.14%) Requirements Gathering
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) Project Management
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Validation
2 3 (42.86%) Portfolio Management
2 3 (42.86%) MiFID
2 3 (42.86%) System Testing
2 3 (42.86%) EMIR
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) Asset Management
2 3 (42.86%) Data Analysis
2 3 (42.86%) Business Analysis
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (42.86%) Scrum
2 3 (42.86%) Change Management
2 3 (42.86%) GAP Analysis
2 3 (42.86%) Front Office
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Project Delivery
2 3 (42.86%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
3 2 (28.57%) Firewall
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (28.57%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365

Lead 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 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (14.29%) Mimecast
1 1 (14.29%) OneDrive
1 1 (14.29%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) BGP
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (14.29%) Ethernet
2 1 (14.29%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (14.29%) LAN
2 1 (14.29%) Multicast
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) VXLAN
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Front Office
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) Project Management
1 4 (57.14%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (42.86%) Asset Management
2 3 (42.86%) Business Analysis
2 3 (42.86%) Change Management
2 3 (42.86%) Data Analysis
2 3 (42.86%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (42.86%) GAP Analysis
2 3 (42.86%) Portfolio Management
2 3 (42.86%) Project Delivery
2 3 (42.86%) Scrum
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (42.86%) System Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Validation
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
3 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (14.29%) Backlog Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) EMIR
1 3 (42.86%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Blue Prism
2 1 (14.29%) Charles River
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) SimCorp
2 1 (14.29%) UiPath