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 £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 38 40
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 101 106 129
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.87% 5.05% 4.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.27% 5.41% 4.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 56 90
10th Percentile £413 £404 £450
25th Percentile £463 £494 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £709 £665 £686
90th Percentile £822 £751 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.50 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £47.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 1,611 1,961 2,608
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.61% 93.34% 94.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,119 1,200 1,825
10th Percentile £325 £363 £351
25th Percentile £418 £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
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 15 15
10th Percentile £16.96 £16.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.06 £17.97
Median hourly rate £27.50 £57.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.17% +51.32% -6.17%
75th Percentile £41.75 £112.00 £50.63
90th Percentile £64.11 £137.50 £71.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% -7.89% -6.17%

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

For the 6 months to 5 November 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 (20.79%) SQL
2 20 (19.80%) Agile
3 19 (18.81%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (18.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 17 (16.83%) Microsoft
4 17 (16.83%) Oracle
5 15 (14.85%) Requirements Gathering
6 14 (13.86%) Power Platform
6 14 (13.86%) SAP
7 13 (12.87%) Analytics
7 13 (12.87%) Azure
7 13 (12.87%) SC Cleared
7 13 (12.87%) Security Cleared
8 12 (11.88%) Migration
8 12 (11.88%) Power BI
8 12 (11.88%) Project Management
9 11 (10.89%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (10.89%) Oracle EBS
9 11 (10.89%) Oracle Financials
9 11 (10.89%) Oracle Payables
9 11 (10.89%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (9.90%) SharePoint
10 10 (9.90%) Validation
11 9 (8.91%) AWS
11 9 (8.91%) Business Analysis
11 9 (8.91%) Change Management
11 9 (8.91%) Microsoft Excel
11 9 (8.91%) Scrum
11 9 (8.91%) User Acceptance Testing
12 8 (7.92%) Asset Management

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 (9.90%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (1.98%) Confluence
2 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.99%) Apache
3 1 (0.99%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.99%) Camunda
3 1 (0.99%) CMS
3 1 (0.99%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (8.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.98%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (10.89%) Oracle EBS
1 11 (10.89%) Oracle Financials
1 11 (10.89%) Oracle Payables
2 7 (6.93%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (5.94%) Oracle Cash Management
3 6 (5.94%) Oracle EBS R12
3 6 (5.94%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (3.96%) Oracle Assets
4 4 (3.96%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (2.97%) Aladdin
6 2 (1.98%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 2 (1.98%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (1.98%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (1.98%) SAP CO
6 2 (1.98%) SAP FI
6 2 (1.98%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (1.98%) SAP MDG
6 2 (1.98%) SAP PLM
6 2 (1.98%) SAP VC
7 1 (0.99%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 14 (13.86%) Power Platform
2 13 (12.87%) Azure
3 9 (8.91%) AWS
4 7 (6.93%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (4.95%) GCP
5 5 (4.95%) SaaS
6 4 (3.96%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.97%) OneDrive
7 3 (2.97%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.98%) Google Analytics
8 2 (1.98%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.98%) OCI
8 2 (1.98%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.99%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (0.99%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.99%) Azure AI
9 1 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.99%) Google Tag Manager
9 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.93%) Firewall
2 3 (2.97%) BGP
2 3 (2.97%) MPLS
2 3 (2.97%) VPN
3 2 (1.98%) DHCP
3 2 (1.98%) DNS
3 2 (1.98%) HTTP
3 2 (1.98%) OSPF
3 2 (1.98%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.98%) WAN
4 1 (0.99%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.99%) 4G
4 1 (0.99%) 5G
4 1 (0.99%) Internet
4 1 (0.99%) Intranet
4 1 (0.99%) IPsec
4 1 (0.99%) LAN
4 1 (0.99%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.99%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.88%) Power BI
2 4 (3.96%) Data Mining
3 3 (2.97%) Tableau
4 2 (1.98%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.98%) Looker
5 1 (0.99%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.99%) Metadata
5 1 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.99%) Power Query
5 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (6.93%) JIRA
2 1 (0.99%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.99%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.99%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.99%) Git
2 1 (0.99%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (0.99%) Selenium
General
1 42 (41.58%) Social Skills
2 41 (40.59%) Finance
3 14 (13.86%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (12.87%) Banking
5 8 (7.92%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (6.93%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.94%) Front Office
8 4 (3.96%) General Ledger
8 4 (3.96%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.96%) Legal
9 3 (2.97%) Billing
9 3 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.97%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.98%) Back Office
10 2 (1.98%) Law
11 1 (0.99%) Advertising
11 1 (0.99%) Marketing
11 1 (0.99%) Retail
11 1 (0.99%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.97%) REST
2 2 (1.98%) HTML
3 1 (0.99%) CSS
3 1 (0.99%) JPA
3 1 (0.99%) JSON
3 1 (0.99%) Kafka
3 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.99%) OAuth
3 1 (0.99%) OpenID
3 1 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.99%) React
3 1 (0.99%) RESTful
3 1 (0.99%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.99%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.99%) Semantic HTML
3 1 (0.99%) SPFx
3 1 (0.99%) Spring
3 1 (0.99%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.99%) XACML
3 1 (0.99%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.96%) Market Risk
2 3 (2.97%) Data Centre
2 3 (2.97%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.98%) NHS
3 2 (1.98%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.98%) Operational Technology
3 2 (1.98%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.98%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.99%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.99%) CMDB
4 1 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.99%) Life Science
4 1 (0.99%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.99%) Pricing Data
4 1 (0.99%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.99%) SCADA
4 1 (0.99%) Taxonomies
4 1 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.96%) Windows
2 1 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (19.80%) Agile
2 19 (18.81%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (18.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 15 (14.85%) Requirements Gathering
4 13 (12.87%) Analytics
5 12 (11.88%) Migration
5 12 (11.88%) Project Management
6 11 (10.89%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (10.89%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (9.90%) Validation
8 9 (8.91%) Business Analysis
8 9 (8.91%) Change Management
8 9 (8.91%) Scrum
8 9 (8.91%) User Acceptance Testing
9 8 (7.92%) Asset Management
9 8 (7.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (7.92%) Data Analysis
9 8 (7.92%) GAP Analysis
10 7 (6.93%) Project Delivery
10 7 (6.93%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 21 (20.79%) SQL
2 7 (6.93%) Python
3 5 (4.95%) JavaScript
3 5 (4.95%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.96%) Java
5 2 (1.98%) ABAP
6 1 (0.99%) Bash
6 1 (0.99%) BeanShell
6 1 (0.99%) C#
6 1 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.99%) Korn
Qualifications
1 13 (12.87%) SC Cleared
1 13 (12.87%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.96%) Degree
3 3 (2.97%) CISSP
4 2 (1.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.99%) CCNA
5 1 (0.99%) CCNP
5 1 (0.99%) CISA
5 1 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.99%) CISM
5 1 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.99%) CRISC
5 1 (0.99%) CSSLP
5 1 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.99%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.99%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.99%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.95%) EMIR
1 5 (4.95%) MiFID
1 5 (4.95%) NIST
2 4 (3.96%) Basel II
2 4 (3.96%) QA
3 3 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.98%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.98%) GDPR
5 1 (0.99%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.99%) COBIT
5 1 (0.99%) COSO
5 1 (0.99%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.99%) NCSC
5 1 (0.99%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.99%) PMO
5 1 (0.99%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (5.94%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.99%) Docker
3 1 (0.99%) Firmware
3 1 (0.99%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.99%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (2.97%) Terraform
1 3 (2.97%) vRealize
2 2 (1.98%) Ansible
2 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.98%) SCCM
3 1 (0.99%) CASB
3 1 (0.99%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.99%) QRadar
3 1 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.99%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 17 (16.83%) Microsoft
1 17 (16.83%) Oracle
2 14 (13.86%) SAP
3 4 (3.96%) Google
3 4 (3.96%) Palo Alto
3 4 (3.96%) VMware
4 3 (2.97%) Adobe
4 3 (2.97%) Charles River
4 3 (2.97%) Databricks
4 3 (2.97%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.98%) Dell
5 2 (1.98%) Remedy
5 2 (1.98%) Tenable
6 1 (0.99%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.99%) Cisco
6 1 (0.99%) Citrix
6 1 (0.99%) IBM
6 1 (0.99%) Juniper
6 1 (0.99%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.99%) Salesforce