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 £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 35 35
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 142 106 106
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.22% 5.91% 5.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.60% 6.29% 5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 70 59
10th Percentile £388 £413 £404
25th Percentile £425 £475 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +5.50%
75th Percentile £650 £734 £654
90th Percentile £771 £838 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +6.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.25 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% - -
75th Percentile £38.75 £63.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £62.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +50.60% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 2,150 1,684 1,973
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 93.82% 94.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,449 1,121 1,258
10th Percentile £363 £325 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £783
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 14
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.87
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £20.88
Median hourly rate £20.25 £28.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% +4.91% -25.00%
75th Percentile £31.52 £53.50 £89.06
90th Percentile £49.64 £65.39 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.50 £28.33 £34.00
% change year-on-year -13.50% -16.69% -4.23%

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 12 September 2026.

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 12 September 2026. 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 - 1 £650 -
Consultant
Central London

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

For the 6 months to 12 September 2026, 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 35 (24.65%) Microsoft
2 33 (23.24%) Migration
3 26 (18.31%) Oracle
4 24 (16.90%) Stakeholder Management
5 21 (14.79%) Azure
6 20 (14.08%) Security Cleared
7 17 (11.97%) Oracle Fusion
7 17 (11.97%) Power Platform
8 15 (10.56%) Data Migration
8 15 (10.56%) SQL
9 14 (9.86%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (9.86%) SAP
10 12 (8.45%) SC Cleared
10 12 (8.45%) User Acceptance Testing
11 11 (7.75%) Analytics
11 11 (7.75%) ERP
11 11 (7.75%) SharePoint
11 11 (7.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 10 (7.04%) Business Intelligence
12 10 (7.04%) Decision-Making
12 10 (7.04%) Oracle EBS
12 10 (7.04%) Power BI
12 10 (7.04%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (7.04%) Workshop Facilitation
13 9 (6.34%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (6.34%) DevOps
13 9 (6.34%) Power Automate
13 9 (6.34%) Roadmaps
13 9 (6.34%) Translating Business Requirements
14 8 (5.63%) AI

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 11 (7.75%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.70%) CMS
2 1 (0.70%) Confluence
2 1 (0.70%) SAS
2 1 (0.70%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (7.04%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (4.93%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (4.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (4.23%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (4.23%) Oracle Financials
3 6 (4.23%) Oracle General Ledger
3 6 (4.23%) Oracle Receivables
3 6 (4.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (2.82%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (2.11%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (2.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (1.41%) Oracle SCM
6 2 (1.41%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.70%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.70%) Oracle Payroll
7 1 (0.70%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.70%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.70%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.70%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.70%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 21 (14.79%) Azure
2 17 (11.97%) Power Platform
3 14 (9.86%) Dynamics 365
4 9 (6.34%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (6.34%) Power Automate
5 8 (5.63%) AWS
6 5 (3.52%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (2.82%) Azure AKS
7 4 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.11%) Azure Databricks
8 3 (2.11%) PowerApps
8 3 (2.11%) SaaS
9 2 (1.41%) Azure AI
9 2 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.41%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.41%) OCI
9 2 (1.41%) ShareGate
10 1 (0.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.70%) BGP
1 1 (0.70%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (0.70%) Cisco IPT
1 1 (0.70%) Firewall
1 1 (0.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.04%) Power BI
2 4 (2.82%) Metadata
2 4 (2.82%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.11%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.41%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.41%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.70%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.70%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.70%) Looker
5 1 (0.70%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.70%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (0.70%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (2.11%) JIRA
2 2 (1.41%) Git
3 1 (0.70%) PowerBuilder
General
1 44 (30.99%) Finance
2 27 (19.01%) Social Skills
3 7 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (4.93%) Legal
4 5 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (3.52%) Law
4 5 (3.52%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.82%) General Ledger
6 3 (2.11%) Banking
6 3 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.11%) Retail
7 2 (1.41%) Billing
8 1 (0.70%) Automotive
8 1 (0.70%) Front Office
8 1 (0.70%) Japanese Language
8 1 (0.70%) Local Government
8 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.70%) Marketing
8 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.97%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (2.82%) Terraform
2 4 (2.82%) YAML
3 2 (1.41%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.70%) .NET
4 1 (0.70%) HTML
4 1 (0.70%) Murex MxML
4 1 (0.70%) OAuth
4 1 (0.70%) PySpark
4 1 (0.70%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.70%) SAML
4 1 (0.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.23%) Onboarding
2 3 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (1.41%) Market Risk
3 2 (1.41%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.70%) CCTV
4 1 (0.70%) CMDB
4 1 (0.70%) Credit Risk
4 1 (0.70%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.70%) Derivative
4 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.70%) Equities
4 1 (0.70%) Fixed Income
4 1 (0.70%) Life Science
4 1 (0.70%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.70%) NHS
4 1 (0.70%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.70%) PMI
4 1 (0.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.11%) Solaris
2 2 (1.41%) Unix
3 1 (0.70%) Windows
3 1 (0.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (23.24%) Migration
2 24 (16.90%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (10.56%) Data Migration
4 12 (8.45%) User Acceptance Testing
5 11 (7.75%) Analytics
5 11 (7.75%) ERP
5 11 (7.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 10 (7.04%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (7.04%) Decision-Making
6 10 (7.04%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (7.04%) Workshop Facilitation
7 9 (6.34%) DevOps
7 9 (6.34%) Roadmaps
7 9 (6.34%) Translating Business Requirements
8 8 (5.63%) AI
8 8 (5.63%) Requirements Gathering
9 7 (4.93%) Validation
10 6 (4.23%) CRM
10 6 (4.23%) Data Modelling
10 6 (4.23%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 15 (10.56%) SQL
2 5 (3.52%) PowerShell
3 4 (2.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (2.82%) Python
4 2 (1.41%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.41%) PL/SQL
4 2 (1.41%) XMLA
5 1 (0.70%) C#
Qualifications
1 20 (14.08%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.45%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.23%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.41%) Degree
5 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.70%) CCIE
5 1 (0.70%) CCIE Routing and Switching
5 1 (0.70%) CCIE Security
5 1 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.70%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.52%) QA
2 4 (2.82%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.82%) NIST
3 3 (2.11%) GDPR
3 3 (2.11%) GRC
3 3 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.11%) NCSC
4 2 (1.41%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.41%) PMO
5 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.70%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.70%) IFRS
5 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (0.70%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.70%) MiFID
5 1 (0.70%) PERC
5 1 (0.70%) PSD2
5 1 (0.70%) UCITS
System Software
1 2 (1.41%) IAG
Systems Management
1 5 (3.52%) SCCM
2 4 (2.82%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 35 (24.65%) Microsoft
2 26 (18.31%) Oracle
3 14 (9.86%) SAP
4 8 (5.63%) Databricks
5 7 (4.93%) Citrix
6 4 (2.82%) Okta
7 3 (2.11%) Murex
8 2 (1.41%) Adobe
8 2 (1.41%) Broadcom
8 2 (1.41%) eFront
8 2 (1.41%) Google
8 2 (1.41%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.41%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.41%) VMware
8 2 (1.41%) Workday
8 2 (1.41%) Xero
9 1 (0.70%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.70%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.70%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.70%) Palantir