Senior Consultant Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Senior Consultant
Central London > City of London

The median Senior Consultant daily rate in the City of London is £613, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 120 129
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 +63
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Consultant 9 6 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.50% 0.29% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.31% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 10
10th Percentile £449 - £160
25th Percentile £472 - £251
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £474 £675
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -29.78% +3.85%
75th Percentile £696 - £876
90th Percentile £888 - £884
Central London median daily rate £613 £474 £495
% change year-on-year +29.22% -4.24% -23.85%

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 1,701 1,915 2,399
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.56% 92.92% 93.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,195 1,176 1,730
10th Percentile £326 £354 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 14
10th Percentile £19.98 £15.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.36 £22.00 £19.51
Median hourly rate £31.00 £57.50 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.09% +134.69% -30.00%
75th Percentile £43.33 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £55.25 £132.40 £66.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.50 £35.00 £24.99
% change year-on-year -24.29% +40.08% -23.12%

Senior Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Senior Consultant job vacancy trend in the City of London

Senior Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Senior Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Consultant in the City of London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Consultant in the City of London

Senior Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Consultant job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Consultant job vacancies in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, Senior 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 Senior Consultant in the job title.

1 4 (44.44%) Analytics
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) GCP
2 3 (33.33%) Power BI
2 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (22.22%) Asset Management
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Azure
3 2 (22.22%) BigQuery
3 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (22.22%) Data Management
3 2 (22.22%) Databricks
3 2 (22.22%) Digital Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) Google
3 2 (22.22%) Google Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (22.22%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) Looker
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) Process Improvement
3 2 (22.22%) Python
3 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 2 (22.22%) SAP
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (22.22%) Tableau
3 2 (22.22%) Visualisation
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) AI
4 1 (11.11%) API Testing

Senior 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Endur
1 1 (11.11%) OpenLink RightAngle
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) GCP
1 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Google Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Power BI
2 2 (22.22%) BigQuery
2 2 (22.22%) Looker
2 2 (22.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) Selenium
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Banking
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Legal
3 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Back Office
4 1 (11.11%) Front Office
4 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
1 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
1 1 (11.11%) Taxonomies
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Analytics
2 2 (22.22%) Asset Management
2 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (22.22%) Data Management
2 2 (22.22%) Digital Analytics
2 2 (22.22%) Process Improvement
2 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (22.22%) Visualisation
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) AI
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
3 1 (11.11%) Generative AI
3 1 (11.11%) LLM
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
3 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CISA
1 1 (11.11%) CISSP
1 1 (11.11%) CRISC
1 1 (11.11%) CSSLP
1 1 (11.11%) DBS Check
1 1 (11.11%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (11.11%) EU AI Act
2 1 (11.11%) NCSC
2 1 (11.11%) NIST
2 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Databricks
1 2 (22.22%) Google
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) OpenLink
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
2 1 (11.11%) Qualys
2 1 (11.11%) Rapid7
2 1 (11.11%) Tenable