Consultant Contracts in the City of London

Consultant
Central London > City of London

The median Consultant daily rate in the City of London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 26 64
Rank change year-on-year -19 +38 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 80 154 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.60% 7.15% 3.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.94% 7.52% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 112 82
10th Percentile £481 £430 £421
25th Percentile £525 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £545
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +5.50% -2.02%
75th Percentile £750 £675 £759
90th Percentile £828 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -2.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £62.50 - -

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 1,620 2,049 3,356
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 95.08% 95.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,014 1,442 2,284
10th Percentile £350 £350 £356
25th Percentile £458 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £563 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 16 21
10th Percentile £22.00 £16.33 £15.50
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.58 £23.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.85% -32.86% -2.78%
75th Percentile £47.50 £27.97 £58.75
90th Percentile £89.13 £40.00 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £28.61 £25.63 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.65% -26.79% -5.41%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in the City of London

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Consultant 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 15 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in the City of London

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Consultant in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Consultant 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 15 May 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 - 1 £238 -
Consultant
Central London

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 15 May 2025, Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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 (43.75%) Finance
2 31 (38.75%) Social Skills
3 19 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (21.25%) Agile
4 17 (21.25%) SQL
5 15 (18.75%) Microsoft
6 14 (17.50%) Oracle
7 13 (16.25%) SAP
8 11 (13.75%) Banking
9 10 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (12.50%) Azure
10 9 (11.25%) Analytics
10 9 (11.25%) Investment Banking
11 8 (10.00%) SaaS
11 8 (10.00%) Scrum
11 8 (10.00%) Risk Management
11 8 (10.00%) Windows
12 7 (8.75%) Migration
12 7 (8.75%) Continuous Improvement
13 6 (7.50%) Test Automation
13 6 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
13 6 (7.50%) System Testing
13 6 (7.50%) Validation
13 6 (7.50%) Oracle EBS
13 6 (7.50%) Change Management
13 6 (7.50%) Project Management
13 6 (7.50%) Azure Certification
13 6 (7.50%) Roadmaps
13 6 (7.50%) Scenario Testing
14 5 (6.25%) SDLC

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.75%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (2.50%) Confluence
3 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.25%) Anypoint
Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (7.50%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.75%) Oracle Assets
2 3 (3.75%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (3.75%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (3.75%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (3.75%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (3.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (3.75%) SAP CO
2 3 (3.75%) SAP FI
2 3 (3.75%) SAP FI/CO
2 3 (3.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.50%) Actimize
3 2 (2.50%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.50%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 2 (2.50%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 2 (2.50%) Oracle iProcurement
3 2 (2.50%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (2.50%) SAP IBP
4 1 (1.25%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.50%) Azure
2 8 (10.00%) SaaS
3 5 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.00%) AWS
4 4 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.75%) OCI
6 2 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.50%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.50%) IaaS
6 2 (2.50%) Mimecast
6 2 (2.50%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.50%) PaaS
6 2 (2.50%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.25%) Boomi
7 1 (1.25%) dbt
7 1 (1.25%) IBM Blueworks
7 1 (1.25%) Intacct
7 1 (1.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (1.25%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.00%) Firewall
2 2 (2.50%) HTTP
3 1 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.25%) Power BI
1 5 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.00%) Data Mining
3 3 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.75%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (2.50%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.50%) DataStage
4 2 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.25%) Data Mart
5 1 (1.25%) KDB
5 1 (1.25%) Kdb+
5 1 (1.25%) Metadata
5 1 (1.25%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 3 (3.75%) JIRA
2 2 (2.50%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.25%) Ant
3 1 (1.25%) MSI
General
1 35 (43.75%) Finance
2 31 (38.75%) Social Skills
3 11 (13.75%) Banking
4 9 (11.25%) Investment Banking
5 6 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.25%) Law
6 5 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 4 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.75%) Billing
8 3 (3.75%) Front Office
8 3 (3.75%) General Ledger
8 3 (3.75%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.50%) Back Office
9 2 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.50%) Legal
9 2 (2.50%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.50%) Marketing
9 2 (2.50%) Police
9 2 (2.50%) Retail
10 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.00%) CSS
2 3 (3.75%) HTML
3 2 (2.50%) Web Services
4 1 (1.25%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.25%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.25%) Market Risk
2 3 (3.75%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.50%) CMDB
3 2 (2.50%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.25%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.25%) Derivative
4 1 (1.25%) Equities
4 1 (1.25%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.25%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.00%) Windows
2 5 (6.25%) Linux
3 4 (5.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.50%) Unix
5 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.25%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (21.25%) Agile
3 10 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (11.25%) Analytics
5 8 (10.00%) Risk Management
5 8 (10.00%) Scrum
6 7 (8.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (8.75%) Migration
7 6 (7.50%) Change Management
7 6 (7.50%) Project Management
7 6 (7.50%) Roadmaps
7 6 (7.50%) Scenario Testing
7 6 (7.50%) System Testing
7 6 (7.50%) Test Automation
7 6 (7.50%) Validation
8 5 (6.25%) End-to-End Testing
8 5 (6.25%) ITIL
8 5 (6.25%) Project Delivery
8 5 (6.25%) SDLC
8 5 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 17 (21.25%) SQL
2 5 (6.25%) Java
3 3 (3.75%) JavaScript
3 3 (3.75%) Python
4 2 (2.50%) C++
4 2 (2.50%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.25%) ABAP
5 1 (1.25%) Bicep
5 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (7.50%) Azure Certification
2 5 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.00%) Degree
4 3 (3.75%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.50%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.25%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.25%) PMP
6 1 (1.25%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) Basel II
2 3 (3.75%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.75%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.75%) EMIR
2 3 (3.75%) MiFID
3 2 (2.50%) QA
3 2 (2.50%) SLA
4 1 (1.25%) Basel III
4 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.25%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (6.25%) SCCM
2 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.25%) CEMLI
3 1 (1.25%) Control-M
3 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 14 (17.50%) Oracle
3 13 (16.25%) SAP
4 5 (6.25%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.75%) Workday
6 2 (2.50%) Informatica
6 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.25%) Ariba
7 1 (1.25%) Calypso
7 1 (1.25%) Charles River
7 1 (1.25%) Citrix
7 1 (1.25%) Concur
7 1 (1.25%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.25%) Murex
7 1 (1.25%) Pega
7 1 (1.25%) Progress
7 1 (1.25%) Sage
7 1 (1.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.25%) SimCorp
7 1 (1.25%) VMware