Consultant Contracts 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 during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 65 88
Rank change year-on-year +40 +23 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 155 117 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 7.19% 3.37% 2.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.55% 3.55% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 80 83
10th Percentile £430 £419 £413
25th Percentile £475 £490 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £766 £669
90th Percentile £775 £803 £788
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £563
% change year-on-year +4.55% -2.31% +2.36%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,053 3,296 3,968
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.22% 95.04% 94.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,430 2,238 2,981
10th Percentile £343 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% +4.65%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £688
90th Percentile £788 £813 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 20 48
10th Percentile £14.90 £15.37 £15.19
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.03 £21.00
Median hourly rate £22.75 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% -12.50% +122.53%
75th Percentile £37.34 £72.50 £55.38
90th Percentile £47.18 £88.30 £65.28
Central London median hourly rate £27.41 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -21.70% -13.58% +125.31%

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 1 June 2024.

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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 57 (36.77%) Finance
2 46 (29.68%) Social Skills
3 37 (23.87%) Microsoft
4 34 (21.94%) SAP
5 30 (19.35%) Azure
6 23 (14.84%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (13.55%) Degree
8 18 (11.61%) Test Scripting
9 17 (10.97%) SQL
9 17 (10.97%) Cybersecurity
10 16 (10.32%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (10.32%) Public Sector
11 15 (9.68%) Power Platform
11 15 (9.68%) Banking
12 14 (9.03%) Business Intelligence
13 13 (8.39%) Agile
13 13 (8.39%) Information Security
13 13 (8.39%) Dynamics 365
13 13 (8.39%) Power BI
14 12 (7.74%) Requirements Gathering
14 12 (7.74%) User Acceptance Testing
15 11 (7.10%) AWS
15 11 (7.10%) Risk Management
15 11 (7.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 11 (7.10%) DevOps
16 10 (6.45%) Power Automate
16 10 (6.45%) NIST
16 10 (6.45%) Oracle
16 10 (6.45%) Migration
16 10 (6.45%) Stakeholder Management

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 3 (1.94%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.65%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (6.45%) Dynamics GP
2 8 (5.16%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.94%) NEC Housing
4 3 (1.94%) SAP HR
4 3 (1.94%) SAP MRS
4 3 (1.94%) SAP PS
5 2 (1.29%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (1.29%) SAP CO
5 2 (1.29%) SAP FI
5 2 (1.29%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (1.29%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.65%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.65%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.65%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 30 (19.35%) Azure
2 15 (9.68%) Power Platform
3 13 (8.39%) Dynamics 365
4 11 (7.10%) AWS
5 10 (6.45%) Power Automate
6 9 (5.81%) GCP
6 9 (5.81%) PowerApps
7 8 (5.16%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (5.16%) Entra ID
8 6 (3.87%) SuccessFactors
9 5 (3.23%) OCI
9 5 (3.23%) WhatsApp
10 4 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.65%) AWS IoT
12 1 (0.65%) ChatGPT
12 1 (0.65%) GitHub
12 1 (0.65%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.65%) Snowflake
12 1 (0.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.87%) WAN
2 5 (3.23%) Firewall
3 4 (2.58%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.29%) DHCP
4 2 (1.29%) DNS
4 2 (1.29%) LAN
4 2 (1.29%) Unified Communications
4 2 (1.29%) Wireless
4 2 (1.29%) WLAN
5 1 (0.65%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.65%) SMS
5 1 (0.65%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.39%) Power BI
2 8 (5.16%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.29%) Big Data
3 2 (1.29%) PostHog
3 2 (1.29%) Sybase ASE
4 1 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.65%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.65%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.65%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.65%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.65%) PowerCenter
4 1 (0.65%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (3.23%) Git
2 2 (1.29%) Appium
2 2 (1.29%) Cucumber
2 2 (1.29%) eggPlant
2 2 (1.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.29%) JUnit
2 2 (1.29%) Postman
2 2 (1.29%) REST Assured
2 2 (1.29%) Selenium
2 2 (1.29%) SoapUI
2 2 (1.29%) SOAtest
2 2 (1.29%) TestNG
2 2 (1.29%) WebDriver
3 1 (0.65%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.65%) JIRA
3 1 (0.65%) RStudio
3 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 57 (36.77%) Finance
2 46 (29.68%) Social Skills
3 23 (14.84%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.32%) Public Sector
5 15 (9.68%) Banking
6 10 (6.45%) Retail
7 8 (5.16%) General Ledger
8 5 (3.23%) Legal
8 5 (3.23%) Marketing
9 3 (1.94%) Automotive
9 3 (1.94%) Law
9 3 (1.94%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.29%) Back Office
10 2 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.65%) Front Office
11 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.23%) SAP Fiori
2 3 (1.94%) EDI
2 3 (1.94%) Web Services
3 2 (1.29%) .NET
3 2 (1.29%) HTML
3 2 (1.29%) OpenID
3 2 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.29%) SailPoint
3 2 (1.29%) XML
4 1 (0.65%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.65%) CSS
4 1 (0.65%) JWT
4 1 (0.65%) Kafka
4 1 (0.65%) LDAP
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.65%) SAML
4 1 (0.65%) SAP Core Interface
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.81%) Data Structures
2 5 (3.23%) Management Information System
2 5 (3.23%) PKI
3 3 (1.94%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (1.94%) Reinsurance
4 2 (1.29%) CMDB
4 2 (1.29%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.65%) Blog
5 1 (0.65%) iPad
5 1 (0.65%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.65%) Life Science
5 1 (0.65%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.65%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.65%) SCORM
5 1 (0.65%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (0.65%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (11.61%) Test Scripting
2 17 (10.97%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (10.32%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (9.03%) Business Intelligence
5 13 (8.39%) Agile
5 13 (8.39%) Information Security
6 12 (7.74%) Requirements Gathering
6 12 (7.74%) User Acceptance Testing
7 11 (7.10%) DevOps
7 11 (7.10%) Risk Management
8 10 (6.45%) Migration
8 10 (6.45%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (6.45%) Use Case
9 9 (5.81%) Accounts Receivable
9 9 (5.81%) Cloud Security
9 9 (5.81%) Identity Access Management
9 9 (5.81%) Requirements Workshops
10 8 (5.16%) Accounts Payable
10 8 (5.16%) Customer Service
11 7 (4.52%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 17 (10.97%) SQL
2 7 (4.52%) Java
3 5 (3.23%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.58%) ABAP
5 3 (1.94%) Python
6 2 (1.29%) C#
6 2 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.29%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.65%) C++
7 1 (0.65%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.65%) R
7 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (13.55%) Degree
2 10 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.81%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.58%) CISM
4 4 (2.58%) CISSP
4 4 (2.58%) CRISC
5 3 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.65%) CISA
6 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.65%) SAP Certification
6 1 (0.65%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 10 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (6.45%) NIST
3 7 (4.52%) SLA
4 3 (1.94%) ISO 31000
4 3 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (1.94%) NIST 800
4 3 (1.94%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.29%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.29%) GAAP
5 2 (1.29%) PMO
5 2 (1.29%) QA
6 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.65%) GDPR
6 1 (0.65%) GRC
6 1 (0.65%) ISAE 3402
6 1 (0.65%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (3.87%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.65%) Docker
3 1 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.65%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (1.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.65%) Control-M
3 1 (0.65%) Grafana
3 1 (0.65%) PingFederate
3 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.65%) Terraform
3 1 (0.65%) vRealize
3 1 (0.65%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 37 (23.87%) Microsoft
2 34 (21.94%) SAP
3 10 (6.45%) Oracle
4 7 (4.52%) Google
5 4 (2.58%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.94%) Apple
6 3 (1.94%) NEC
7 2 (1.29%) Adobe
7 2 (1.29%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.29%) McAfee
7 2 (1.29%) Ping Identity
7 2 (1.29%) Sybase
7 2 (1.29%) VMware
7 2 (1.29%) Workday
8 1 (0.65%) Ahrefs
8 1 (0.65%) AlgoSec
8 1 (0.65%) Concur
8 1 (0.65%) ForeScout
8 1 (0.65%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.65%) Spotify