Consultant Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Consultant
Central London > City of London

The median Consultant daily rate in the City of London is £536, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 38 37
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +25
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 104 106 130
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.70% 5.13% 5.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.10% 5.52% 5.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 61 93
10th Percentile £413 £400 £375
25th Percentile £466 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £680
90th Percentile £704 £788 £755
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £545
% change year-on-year -8.70% +5.50% -9.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £40.20 - -
25th Percentile £41.06 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £50.63 - -
90th Percentile £52.50 - -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £41.50 -
% change year-on-year +8.43% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,706 1,922 2,383
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.58% 93.03% 94.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,182 1,714
10th Percentile £328 £363 £350
25th Percentile £423 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -
75th Percentile £675 £685 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £569
% change year-on-year -4.35% +1.05% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 14
10th Percentile £19.98 £15.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.36 £22.00 £19.51
Median hourly rate £31.00 £57.50 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.09% +134.69% -30.00%
75th Percentile £43.33 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £55.25 £132.40 £66.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £24.99
% change year-on-year -25.40% +40.08% -23.12%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of 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 the City of London.

Consultant job vacancy trend in the City of London

Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in the City of London

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in the City of London over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in the City of London

Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in the City of London

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
London Bridge 0 1 - -
Consultant
Central London

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 21 December 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 City of London region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 21 (20.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 19 (18.27%) Oracle
3 16 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (15.38%) SAP
4 15 (14.42%) Microsoft
4 15 (14.42%) SC Cleared
4 15 (14.42%) Security Cleared
5 14 (13.46%) Azure
6 13 (12.50%) Agile
6 13 (12.50%) Migration
6 13 (12.50%) SQL
7 11 (10.58%) Power Platform
7 11 (10.58%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (9.62%) Analytics
8 10 (9.62%) ERP
8 10 (9.62%) Power BI
8 10 (9.62%) SharePoint
8 10 (9.62%) User Acceptance Testing
9 9 (8.65%) AWS
9 9 (8.65%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (8.65%) Requirements Gathering
9 9 (8.65%) Workshop Facilitation
10 8 (7.69%) Degree
10 8 (7.69%) Oracle EBS
10 8 (7.69%) Oracle Financials
10 8 (7.69%) Oracle Payables
10 8 (7.69%) Python
10 8 (7.69%) Roadmaps
10 8 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
11 7 (6.73%) Data Modelling

Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 10 (9.62%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.96%) Apache
3 1 (0.96%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.96%) CMS
3 1 (0.96%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (7.69%) Oracle EBS
1 8 (7.69%) Oracle Financials
1 8 (7.69%) Oracle Payables
1 8 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (5.77%) Oracle Cash Management
3 4 (3.85%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (3.85%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (2.88%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (2.88%) SAP CO
4 3 (2.88%) SAP FI
4 3 (2.88%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (1.92%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (1.92%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (1.92%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.96%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.96%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.96%) Oracle ASCP
6 1 (0.96%) SAP FI-CA
6 1 (0.96%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 14 (13.46%) Azure
2 11 (10.58%) Power Platform
3 9 (8.65%) AWS
4 7 (6.73%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (5.77%) GCP
5 6 (5.77%) Power Automate
6 5 (4.81%) PowerApps
7 4 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (3.85%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.88%) OCI
8 3 (2.88%) OneDrive
8 3 (2.88%) SaaS
9 2 (1.92%) Google Analytics
9 2 (1.92%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.92%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.96%) GitHub
10 1 (0.96%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.73%) Firewall
2 3 (2.88%) BGP
2 3 (2.88%) MPLS
2 3 (2.88%) VPN
3 2 (1.92%) DHCP
3 2 (1.92%) DNS
3 2 (1.92%) HTTP
3 2 (1.92%) OSPF
3 2 (1.92%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.92%) WAN
4 1 (0.96%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.96%) 4G
4 1 (0.96%) 5G
4 1 (0.96%) Internet
4 1 (0.96%) Intranet
4 1 (0.96%) IPsec
4 1 (0.96%) LAN
4 1 (0.96%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.96%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.62%) Power BI
2 3 (2.88%) Tableau
3 2 (1.92%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.92%) Looker
4 1 (0.96%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.96%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 5 (4.81%) JIRA
2 1 (0.96%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.96%) Git
2 1 (0.96%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (0.96%) Selenium
General
1 37 (35.58%) Finance
2 28 (26.92%) Social Skills
3 12 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.62%) Banking
5 7 (6.73%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (6.73%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.85%) Legal
7 3 (2.88%) Billing
8 2 (1.92%) Advertising
8 2 (1.92%) Back Office
8 2 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.92%) Law
8 2 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.92%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.96%) Front Office
9 1 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.96%) International Banking
9 1 (0.96%) Marketing
9 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.81%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (2.88%) WSE
3 2 (1.92%) REST
4 1 (0.96%) CSS
4 1 (0.96%) HTML
4 1 (0.96%) JSON
4 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.96%) RESTful
4 1 (0.96%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.96%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.96%) SPFx
4 1 (0.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.85%) Onboarding
2 3 (2.88%) Data Centre
2 3 (2.88%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.92%) Operational Technology
3 2 (1.92%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.92%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.92%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.96%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.96%) CMDB
4 1 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.96%) Life Science
4 1 (0.96%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.96%) NHS
4 1 (0.96%) Pricing Data
4 1 (0.96%) SCADA
4 1 (0.96%) Taxonomies
4 1 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.77%) Windows
2 1 (0.96%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (20.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 16 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (12.50%) Agile
3 13 (12.50%) Migration
4 11 (10.58%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (9.62%) Analytics
5 10 (9.62%) ERP
5 10 (9.62%) User Acceptance Testing
6 9 (8.65%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (8.65%) Requirements Gathering
6 9 (8.65%) Workshop Facilitation
7 8 (7.69%) Roadmaps
8 7 (6.73%) Data Modelling
8 7 (6.73%) Knowledge Transfer
8 7 (6.73%) Project Management
9 6 (5.77%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (5.77%) Data Migration
9 6 (5.77%) Decision-Making
9 6 (5.77%) Test Scripting
9 6 (5.77%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 13 (12.50%) SQL
2 8 (7.69%) Python
3 7 (6.73%) PowerShell
4 6 (5.77%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.85%) Java
6 3 (2.88%) Go
7 2 (1.92%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.96%) ABAP
8 1 (0.96%) Bash
8 1 (0.96%) BeanShell
8 1 (0.96%) C#
8 1 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.96%) Korn
8 1 (0.96%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.96%) ProC
8 1 (0.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (14.42%) SC Cleared
1 15 (14.42%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.69%) Degree
3 3 (2.88%) CISSP
3 3 (2.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (1.92%) CCNA
4 2 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.92%) GIAC
4 2 (1.92%) ISACA
4 2 (1.92%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.96%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.96%) CISA
5 1 (0.96%) CISM
5 1 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.96%) CRISC
5 1 (0.96%) CSSLP
5 1 (0.96%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.96%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.77%) QA
2 4 (3.85%) NIST
3 3 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.92%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.96%) COBIT
5 1 (0.96%) COSO
5 1 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.96%) DICOM
5 1 (0.96%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.96%) GDPR
5 1 (0.96%) HL7
5 1 (0.96%) NCSC
5 1 (0.96%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.96%) PMO
5 1 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (4.81%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.96%) Docker
3 1 (0.96%) Firmware
3 1 (0.96%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (3.85%) Terraform
1 4 (3.85%) vRealize
2 3 (2.88%) Ansible
3 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.92%) SCCM
4 1 (0.96%) CASB
4 1 (0.96%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.96%) Packer
4 1 (0.96%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 19 (18.27%) Oracle
2 16 (15.38%) SAP
3 15 (14.42%) Microsoft
4 6 (5.77%) VMware
5 5 (4.81%) Google
6 4 (3.85%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.88%) Databricks
7 3 (2.88%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.92%) Adobe
8 2 (1.92%) Dell
8 2 (1.92%) Remedy
8 2 (1.92%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.96%) AlgoSec
9 1 (0.96%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.96%) ForeScout
9 1 (0.96%) IFS
9 1 (0.96%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.96%) Meraki
9 1 (0.96%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.96%) Tufin