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 £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 37 36
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +22
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 108 109 128
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.96% 5.04% 4.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.39% 5.42% 5.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 61 91
10th Percentile £413 £408 £406
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £645 £688 £680
90th Percentile £761 £765 £775
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 1,691 2,012 2,450
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.37% 93.11% 93.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,185 1,245 1,741
10th Percentile £325 £359 £355
25th Percentile £419 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £764 £778 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 15 14
10th Percentile £20.06 £16.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.88 £22.00 £19.51
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +57.14% -42.35%
75th Percentile £52.19 £102.25 £44.56
90th Percentile £64.30 £127.30 £66.25
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £24.99
% change year-on-year -20.00% +40.08% -40.51%

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 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 5 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 - - 1
Consultant
Central London

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 (19.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 18 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (15.74%) Agile
3 17 (15.74%) Oracle
4 16 (14.81%) SAP
4 16 (14.81%) SC Cleared
4 16 (14.81%) Security Cleared
5 15 (13.89%) Microsoft
5 15 (13.89%) SQL
6 14 (12.96%) Azure
7 12 (11.11%) Migration
7 12 (11.11%) Power Platform
8 11 (10.19%) Analytics
8 11 (10.19%) AWS
8 11 (10.19%) Power BI
8 11 (10.19%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (9.26%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (9.26%) Oracle EBS
9 10 (9.26%) Oracle Financials
9 10 (9.26%) Oracle Payables
9 10 (9.26%) SharePoint
9 10 (9.26%) User Acceptance Testing
10 9 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
10 9 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
11 8 (7.41%) Degree
11 8 (7.41%) ERP
11 8 (7.41%) Project Management
11 8 (7.41%) Python
11 8 (7.41%) Roadmaps
11 8 (7.41%) SAP S/4HANA

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 (9.26%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (1.85%) Confluence
2 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.93%) Apache
3 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.93%) Camunda
3 1 (0.93%) CMS
3 1 (0.93%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (9.26%) Oracle EBS
1 10 (9.26%) Oracle Financials
1 10 (9.26%) Oracle Payables
2 8 (7.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (5.56%) Oracle Cash Management
4 5 (4.63%) Oracle EBS R12
4 5 (4.63%) Oracle General Ledger
5 4 (3.70%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (2.78%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (2.78%) SAP CO
6 3 (2.78%) SAP FI
6 3 (2.78%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (1.85%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (1.85%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.93%) Endur
8 1 (0.93%) Oracle SCM
8 1 (0.93%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.93%) SAP PS
8 1 (0.93%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 14 (12.96%) Azure
2 12 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 11 (10.19%) AWS
4 7 (6.48%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (5.56%) GCP
5 6 (5.56%) Power Automate
6 5 (4.63%) PowerApps
7 4 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (3.70%) Entra ID
7 4 (3.70%) SaaS
8 3 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.78%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.85%) Google Analytics
9 2 (1.85%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.85%) OCI
9 2 (1.85%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.93%) Adobe Analytics
10 1 (0.93%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.93%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.48%) Firewall
2 3 (2.78%) BGP
2 3 (2.78%) MPLS
2 3 (2.78%) VPN
3 2 (1.85%) DHCP
3 2 (1.85%) DNS
3 2 (1.85%) HTTP
3 2 (1.85%) OSPF
3 2 (1.85%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.85%) WAN
4 1 (0.93%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.93%) Internet
4 1 (0.93%) Intranet
4 1 (0.93%) IPsec
4 1 (0.93%) LAN
4 1 (0.93%) Network Security
4 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.93%) VLAN
4 1 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.93%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.19%) Power BI
2 3 (2.78%) Tableau
3 2 (1.85%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.85%) Looker
4 1 (0.93%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.93%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.93%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 7 (6.48%) JIRA
2 2 (1.85%) Git
3 1 (0.93%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.93%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.93%) Selenium
General
1 39 (36.11%) Finance
2 30 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 12 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (11.11%) Banking
4 8 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
4 8 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.70%) Legal
6 3 (2.78%) Billing
6 3 (2.78%) General Ledger
7 2 (1.85%) Advertising
7 2 (1.85%) Back Office
7 2 (1.85%) Law
7 2 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.85%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.93%) Dutch Language
8 1 (0.93%) French Language
8 1 (0.93%) Front Office
8 1 (0.93%) International Banking
8 1 (0.93%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.78%) REST
1 3 (2.78%) WSE
2 1 (0.93%) CSS
2 1 (0.93%) HTML
2 1 (0.93%) JPA
2 1 (0.93%) JSON
2 1 (0.93%) Kafka
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (0.93%) OAuth
2 1 (0.93%) OpenID
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.93%) React
2 1 (0.93%) RESTful
2 1 (0.93%) SailPoint
2 1 (0.93%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (0.93%) SPFx
2 1 (0.93%) Spring
2 1 (0.93%) Spring Boot
2 1 (0.93%) XACML
2 1 (0.93%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.70%) Onboarding
2 3 (2.78%) Data Centre
2 3 (2.78%) Data Structures
2 3 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (2.78%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.85%) NHS
3 2 (1.85%) Operational Technology
3 2 (1.85%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.85%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.93%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.93%) CMDB
4 1 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.93%) Life Science
4 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.93%) Market Risk
4 1 (0.93%) PACS
4 1 (0.93%) Pricing Data
4 1 (0.93%) SCADA
4 1 (0.93%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.56%) Windows
2 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (19.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 18 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (15.74%) Agile
4 12 (11.11%) Migration
5 11 (10.19%) Analytics
5 11 (10.19%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (9.26%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (9.26%) User Acceptance Testing
7 9 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
7 9 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
8 8 (7.41%) ERP
8 8 (7.41%) Project Management
8 8 (7.41%) Roadmaps
8 8 (7.41%) Workflow
9 7 (6.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (6.48%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (6.48%) Data Modelling
9 7 (6.48%) Knowledge Transfer
10 6 (5.56%) Cash Management
10 6 (5.56%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 15 (13.89%) SQL
2 8 (7.41%) Python
3 7 (6.48%) JavaScript
3 7 (6.48%) PowerShell
4 5 (4.63%) Java
5 3 (2.78%) Go
6 2 (1.85%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.93%) ABAP
7 1 (0.93%) Bash
7 1 (0.93%) BeanShell
7 1 (0.93%) C#
7 1 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.93%) Korn
7 1 (0.93%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.93%) ProC
7 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (14.81%) SC Cleared
1 16 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.41%) Degree
3 3 (2.78%) CISSP
3 3 (2.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (1.85%) CCNA
4 2 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.85%) GIAC
4 2 (1.85%) ISACA
4 2 (1.85%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.93%) CRISC
5 1 (0.93%) CSSLP
5 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.93%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.56%) QA
2 5 (4.63%) NIST
3 3 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.93%) Basel II
4 1 (0.93%) COBIT
4 1 (0.93%) COSO
4 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.93%) DICOM
4 1 (0.93%) EU AI Act
4 1 (0.93%) GDPR
4 1 (0.93%) HL7
4 1 (0.93%) NCSC
4 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.93%) PMO
4 1 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.93%) Docker
3 1 (0.93%) Firmware
3 1 (0.93%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.93%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (3.70%) Terraform
1 4 (3.70%) vRealize
2 3 (2.78%) Ansible
3 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.85%) SCCM
4 1 (0.93%) CASB
4 1 (0.93%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.93%) Packer
4 1 (0.93%) QRadar
4 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.93%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 17 (15.74%) Oracle
2 16 (14.81%) SAP
3 15 (13.89%) Microsoft
4 6 (5.56%) VMware
5 5 (4.63%) Google
6 4 (3.70%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.78%) Databricks
7 3 (2.78%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.85%) Adobe
8 2 (1.85%) Dell
8 2 (1.85%) Remedy
8 2 (1.85%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.85%) Tenable
9 1 (0.93%) Charles River
9 1 (0.93%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.93%) Cisco
9 1 (0.93%) Citrix
9 1 (0.93%) IBM
9 1 (0.93%) Juniper
9 1 (0.93%) OpenLink