Principal Consultant Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Principal Consultant
Central London > City of London

The median Principal Consultant daily rate in the City of London is £963, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 - 126
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Consultant 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.16% - 0.082%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% - 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £709 - -
25th Percentile £778 - £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £963 - £675
75th Percentile £1,203 - £688
90th Percentile £1,306 - -
Central London median daily rate £963 - £675

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 1,765 1,750 2,293
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 93.04% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,217 1,069 1,649
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £431 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +2.22% -3.85%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £787 £788
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £551
% change year-on-year -6.09% +4.45% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 20
10th Percentile £19.98 £13.18 £16.58
25th Percentile £24.37 £20.00 £18.45
Median hourly rate £37.25 £27.25 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.70% +13.54% -5.88%
75th Percentile £43.86 £58.19 £41.69
90th Percentile £52.96 £112.00 £52.60
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £26.91
% change year-on-year -25.40% +30.09% +6.55%

Principal Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Principal Consultant' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Principal Consultant job vacancy trend in the City of London

Principal Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Principal Consultant job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Principal Consultant job vacancies in the City of London

Principal Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Principal Consultant in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Principal Consultant in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 30 January 2026, Principal 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 Principal Consultant in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Presales
2 2 (66.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Apache
3 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
3 1 (33.33%) Bill of Materials
3 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) CISM
3 1 (33.33%) CISSP
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Data Security
3 1 (33.33%) Databricks
3 1 (33.33%) Degree

Principal 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 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) MPLS
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
General
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Presales
1 2 (66.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Bill of Materials
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Data Security
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Runbook
2 1 (33.33%) Sales Enablement
2 1 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CISM
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Okta
1 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto