Subject Matter Expert Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Subject Matter Expert
Central London > City of London

The median Subject Matter Expert daily rate in the City of London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 September 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
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 - 153
Rank change year-on-year - - +48
Contract jobs requiring a Subject Matter Expert 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.12% - 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% - 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
Central London median daily rate £500 - -

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 1,621 1,968 2,831
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.86% 94.16% 94.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,085 1,240 1,958
10th Percentile £325 £363 £359
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £596
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.56% +3.70%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +1.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 13
10th Percentile £17.08 £17.25 £16.69
25th Percentile £23.75 £22.84 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.15 £48.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.35% +33.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £56.75 £112.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £65.57 £137.50 £65.50
Central London median hourly rate £27.83 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -20.50% -1.41% -12.35%

Subject Matter Expert
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Subject Matter Expert in the City of London

Subject Matter Expert
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Subject Matter Expert job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Subject Matter Expert job vacancies in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 22 September 2025, Subject Matter Expert 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 Subject Matter Expert in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Anomaly Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Synthetic Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Tech Ops
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco

Subject Matter Expert 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (50.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Anomaly Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Synthetic Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Tech Ops
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (50.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) VMware