Principal Consultant Contract Job Trends in Central London

Principal Consultant
London > Central London

The median Principal Consultant daily rate in Central London is £1,250, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 137 152
Rank change year-on-year +11 +15 -
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Consultant 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.11% 0.043% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.046% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £1,125 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,250 - -
75th Percentile £1,375 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £615 £829 £700
% change year-on-year -25.79% +18.39% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £41.50 -
London median hourly rate - £41.50 -

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 1,740 2,194 2,880
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 93.52% 94.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,200 1,381 2,014
10th Percentile £321 £363 £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 £695
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £545 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 24 15
10th Percentile £17.43 £21.29 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.09 £30.19 £19.13
Median hourly rate £26.57 £35.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.09% -2.78% -11.11%
75th Percentile £35.75 £82.19 £47.75
90th Percentile £62.35 £129.85 £62.25
London median hourly rate £26.50 £38.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -30.26% -6.17% +24.62%

Principal Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Principal Consultant job vacancy trend in Central London

Principal Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

Principal 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 Principal Consultant within the Central London region over the 6 months to 23 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 - 2 £1,250 - 20
Principal Consultant
London

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

For the 6 months to 23 October 2025, Principal 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 Principal Consultant in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Bill of Materials
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) CISM
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps

Principal 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 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Bill of Materials
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Presales
2 1 (50.00%) Sales Enablement
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks