Lead Consultant Contracts in the City of London

Lead Consultant
Central London > City of London

The median Lead Consultant daily rate in the City of London is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 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
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 123 166
Rank change year-on-year +9 +43 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Consultant 6 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.34% 0.046% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.048% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £583 - -
25th Percentile £675 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £900 £531
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +69.41% -26.72%
75th Percentile £738 - £639
90th Percentile £873 - £721
Central London median daily rate £700 £900 £531
% change year-on-year -22.22% +69.41% -21.30%

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 1,626 2,066 3,434
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.02% 95.08% 95.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 1,469 2,338
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £590
% change year-on-year +4.55% -6.78% +5.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 23
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -5.41%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.64
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -28.57% -6.04%

Lead Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Consultant in the City of London

Lead Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Consultant in the City of London

Lead Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Consultant in the City of London over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Consultant in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2025, Lead 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 Lead Consultant in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Project Management
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 3 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) Validation
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) MiFID
2 3 (50.00%) System Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Change Management
2 3 (50.00%) GAP Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) Front Office
2 3 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Portfolio Management
2 3 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (50.00%) EMIR
3 2 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) SimCorp
4 1 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) SCCM
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Management

Lead 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 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (16.67%) Mimecast
1 1 (16.67%) OneDrive
1 1 (16.67%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Front Office
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Project Management
2 3 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 3 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) Change Management
2 3 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (50.00%) GAP Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) Portfolio Management
2 3 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (50.00%) System Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (16.67%) Backlog Management
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) EMIR
1 3 (50.00%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Blue Prism
2 1 (16.67%) Charles River
2 1 (16.67%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) SimCorp
2 1 (16.67%) UiPath