Consultant Contracts in the City of London

Consultant
Central London > City of London

The median Consultant daily rate in the City of London is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 66 87
Rank change year-on-year +41 +21 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 161 119 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 7.28% 3.25% 2.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.66% 3.42% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 84 90
10th Percentile £430 £417 £413
25th Percentile £469 £468 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £675 £750 £659
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,102 3,480 3,996
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.98% 95.19% 94.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,492 2,360 3,018
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £792 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £580 £560
% change year-on-year -5.17% +3.57% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 25 50
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.50 £13.74
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -6.04% +107.23%
75th Percentile £27.50 £58.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £44.10 £86.98 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -26.34% -6.04% +107.23%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in the City of London

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in the City of London

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in the City of London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in the City of London

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 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 Consultant in the job title.

1 65 (40.37%) Finance
2 49 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 36 (22.36%) Microsoft
4 32 (19.88%) SAP
4 32 (19.88%) Azure
5 24 (14.91%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (13.04%) Degree
7 20 (12.42%) Cybersecurity
8 18 (11.18%) Information Security
9 17 (10.56%) SQL
9 17 (10.56%) Test Scripting
9 17 (10.56%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (9.32%) Public Sector
10 15 (9.32%) Banking
10 15 (9.32%) Agile
11 14 (8.70%) Risk Management
11 14 (8.70%) Power Platform
11 14 (8.70%) Dynamics 365
12 13 (8.07%) Business Intelligence
12 13 (8.07%) User Acceptance Testing
13 12 (7.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 12 (7.45%) Use Case
13 12 (7.45%) Requirements Gathering
13 12 (7.45%) NIST
13 12 (7.45%) DevOps
13 12 (7.45%) Power BI
14 11 (6.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (6.83%) Security Cleared
15 10 (6.21%) Retail
15 10 (6.21%) Dynamics GP

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 3 (1.86%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.62%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (6.21%) Dynamics GP
2 8 (4.97%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (3.11%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.86%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (1.86%) NEC Housing
4 3 (1.86%) SAP HR
4 3 (1.86%) SAP MRS
4 3 (1.86%) SAP PS
5 2 (1.24%) SAP CO
5 2 (1.24%) SAP FI
5 2 (1.24%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (1.24%) Teamcenter
5 2 (1.24%) Unica
6 1 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.62%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.62%) SAP CCM
6 1 (0.62%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.62%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.62%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.62%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 32 (19.88%) Azure
2 14 (8.70%) Dynamics 365
2 14 (8.70%) Power Platform
3 9 (5.59%) AWS
3 9 (5.59%) Power Automate
4 8 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (4.97%) Entra ID
4 8 (4.97%) GCP
4 8 (4.97%) PowerApps
5 6 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (3.73%) SuccessFactors
6 5 (3.11%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (2.48%) WhatsApp
8 3 (1.86%) OCI
9 1 (0.62%) Akamai
9 1 (0.62%) AWS IoT
9 1 (0.62%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.62%) GitHub
9 1 (0.62%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.62%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.73%) WAN
2 4 (2.48%) Firewall
2 4 (2.48%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.86%) DHCP
3 3 (1.86%) DNS
4 2 (1.24%) LAN
4 2 (1.24%) Unified Communications
4 2 (1.24%) Wireless
4 2 (1.24%) WLAN
5 1 (0.62%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.62%) SMS
5 1 (0.62%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.45%) Power BI
2 8 (4.97%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.24%) Big Data
3 2 (1.24%) PostHog
3 2 (1.24%) Sybase ASE
4 1 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.62%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.62%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.62%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.62%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.62%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.62%) PowerCenter
4 1 (0.62%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.62%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (3.11%) Git
2 2 (1.24%) Appium
2 2 (1.24%) Cucumber
2 2 (1.24%) eggPlant
2 2 (1.24%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.24%) JUnit
2 2 (1.24%) Postman
2 2 (1.24%) REST Assured
2 2 (1.24%) Selenium
2 2 (1.24%) SoapUI
2 2 (1.24%) SOAtest
2 2 (1.24%) TestNG
2 2 (1.24%) WebDriver
3 1 (0.62%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.62%) JIRA
3 1 (0.62%) RStudio
3 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 65 (40.37%) Finance
2 49 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 24 (14.91%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.32%) Banking
4 15 (9.32%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.21%) Retail
6 9 (5.59%) General Ledger
7 6 (3.73%) Law
7 6 (3.73%) Marketing
8 5 (3.11%) Legal
9 3 (1.86%) Automotive
9 3 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.86%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.24%) Back Office
10 2 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.24%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.24%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.62%) French Language
11 1 (0.62%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.48%) SAP Fiori
2 3 (1.86%) EDI
2 3 (1.86%) HTML
2 3 (1.86%) Web Services
3 2 (1.24%) .NET
3 2 (1.24%) CSS
3 2 (1.24%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.24%) SailPoint
3 2 (1.24%) XML
4 1 (0.62%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.62%) LDAP
4 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.62%) OpenID
4 1 (0.62%) SAML
4 1 (0.62%) SAP Core Interface
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.21%) Data Structures
2 8 (4.97%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.11%) PKI
4 3 (1.86%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (1.86%) Reinsurance
5 2 (1.24%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (1.24%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.62%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.62%) Blog
6 1 (0.62%) CMDB
6 1 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.62%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.62%) Life Science
6 1 (0.62%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.62%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.62%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.62%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.62%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.62%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.86%) Windows
2 1 (0.62%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (12.42%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (11.18%) Information Security
3 17 (10.56%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (10.56%) Test Scripting
4 15 (9.32%) Agile
5 14 (8.70%) Risk Management
6 13 (8.07%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (8.07%) User Acceptance Testing
7 12 (7.45%) DevOps
7 12 (7.45%) Requirements Gathering
7 12 (7.45%) Use Case
8 10 (6.21%) Requirements Workshops
8 10 (6.21%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (5.59%) Accounts Payable
9 9 (5.59%) Accounts Receivable
9 9 (5.59%) Data Modelling
9 9 (5.59%) Identity Access Management
10 8 (4.97%) Cloud Security
10 8 (4.97%) Customer Service
10 8 (4.97%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 17 (10.56%) SQL
2 6 (3.73%) Java
2 6 (3.73%) PowerShell
3 4 (2.48%) ABAP
4 3 (1.86%) Python
5 2 (1.24%) C#
5 2 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (1.24%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.62%) C++
6 1 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.62%) R
6 1 (0.62%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (13.04%) Degree
2 11 (6.83%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.59%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.48%) CISM
4 4 (2.48%) CISSP
4 4 (2.48%) CRISC
5 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.62%) CISA
7 1 (0.62%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.62%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 12 (7.45%) NIST
2 11 (6.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 7 (4.35%) SLA
4 4 (2.48%) GRC
5 3 (1.86%) ISO 31000
5 3 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (1.86%) NIST 800
5 3 (1.86%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.24%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.24%) GAAP
6 2 (1.24%) GDPR
6 2 (1.24%) QA
7 1 (0.62%) COBIT
7 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.62%) ISAE 3402
7 1 (0.62%) NCSC
7 1 (0.62%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (3.73%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.62%) Docker
3 1 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.62%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.62%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (1.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.62%) Control-M
3 1 (0.62%) Grafana
3 1 (0.62%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.62%) PingFederate
3 1 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.62%) Terraform
3 1 (0.62%) vRealize
3 1 (0.62%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 36 (22.36%) Microsoft
2 32 (19.88%) SAP
3 7 (4.35%) Google
3 7 (4.35%) Oracle
4 4 (2.48%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.86%) Adobe
5 3 (1.86%) NEC
6 2 (1.24%) Apple
6 2 (1.24%) IBM
6 2 (1.24%) McAfee
6 2 (1.24%) Ping Identity
6 2 (1.24%) Sybase
6 2 (1.24%) VMware
6 2 (1.24%) Workday
7 1 (0.62%) Ahrefs
7 1 (0.62%) AlgoSec
7 1 (0.62%) ForeScout
7 1 (0.62%) Meraki
7 1 (0.62%) Qualys
7 1 (0.62%) Spotify