Technical Consultant Contracts in the City of London

Technical Consultant
Central London > City of London

The median Technical Consultant daily rate in the City of London is £489, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 123 168
Rank change year-on-year +8 +45 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Consultant 4 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.23% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.14% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £465 £521
25th Percentile £483 £488 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £494 £663 £616
90th Percentile - £715 £629
Central London median daily rate £489 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -11.18% -2.22% +2.27%

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 1,634 2,090 3,462
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.00% 95.13% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,025 1,486 2,357
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 £684 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 22
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% -6.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.97
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -28.57% -6.04%

Technical Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Consultant in the City of London

Technical Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Consultant in the City of London

Technical Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Consultant in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Consultant in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Technical 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 Technical Consultant in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Forms
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (50.00%) Back Office
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (50.00%) Workflow
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (50.00%) Procure-to-Pay
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Receivables
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Internet Expenses
1 2 (50.00%) Order to Cash
1 2 (50.00%) Record to Report
1 2 (50.00%) SaaS
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle iProcurement
1 2 (50.00%) OCI
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS

Technical 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 2 (50.00%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Internet Expenses
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle iProcurement
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) OCI
1 2 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 2 (50.00%) Back Office
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Order to Cash
1 2 (50.00%) Procure-to-Pay
1 2 (50.00%) Record to Report
1 2 (50.00%) Workflow
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) IT Asset Management
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Service Catalogue
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) VMware