Consultant Contracts in London

The median contractor rate for a Consultant was £500 per day in advertised job vacancies in London during the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

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

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Consultant England / London
Location	3 months to 26 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	28	28	26
Rank change year-on-year	0	-2
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant	1300	1305	1452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	6.26%	6.10%	6.22%
As % of the Job Titles category	6.60%	6.41%	6.57%
Number of daily rates quoted	775	822	833
Median daily rate	£500	£475	£475
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.26%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£350	£342	£325
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£616	£645
UK excluding London median daily rate	£475	£450	£435
% change year-on-year	+5.55%	+3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted	3	2	16
Median hourly rate	£62.50	£41.99	£12.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+48.86%	+235.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£26.50	£35.57	£11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£76.90	£48.40	£81.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£53.00	£49.95	£42.00
% change year-on-year	+6.10%	+18.92%

The next table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all job roles in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title. As such, the figures in the first row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract IT Job Roles London
Contract job vacancies with a job title containing a recognized job role	19705	20363	22100
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London	94.93%	95.26%	94.68%
Number of daily rates quoted	14056	14779	15421
Median daily rate	£500	£463	£440
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+8.10%	+5.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£315	£295	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£625	£600
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£400	£370
% change year-on-year	-	+8.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted	245	225	369
Median hourly rate	£19.82	£17.89	£19.72
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+10.81%	-9.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.50	£12.00	£11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£47.76	£42.60	£52.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£17.45	£16.00
% change year-on-year	+0.28%	+9.06%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in London that featured Consultant in the job title.

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in London

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Consultant in London.

Contractor daily rate trend for Consultant in London

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in London

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Consultant in London over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Consultant in London

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant in London.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Consultant in London

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in London

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Consultant in London over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Consultant in London

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the London region over the 3 months to 26 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
City of London	-1	137	£500	+5.26%	103
Brentford	+5	14	£225	-44.44%	1
Docklands, London	-1	5	£325	-46.93%
Canary Wharf	-2	5	-	-
Croydon	-1	4	-	-
Enfield	-	3	-	-	1
Kingston Upon Thames	-7	2	£600	+33.33%
Ealing	-	2	£463	-
West End of London	-	2	£481	-
Hayes	-	2	£450	-	1
Harrow	+6	1	£425	+7.59%
Westminster	+5	1	£575	+45.56%
Hounslow	-2	1	£375	-9.63%	1
Thornton Heath	-	1	£550	-
West Drayton	-	1	£555	-
Hammersmith	-	1	£650	-
Bromley	-	1	£550	-	1
Consultant England

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in London

For the 6 months to 26 June 2017, Consultant contract jobs required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the London region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1	592 (23.55%)	Finance
2	468 (18.62%)	SAP
3	294 (11.69%)	Microsoft
4	289 (11.50%)	Agile Software Development
5	275 (10.94%)	SQL
6	227 (9.03%)	Banking
7	221 (8.79%)	Oracle
8	209 (8.31%)	Migration
9	189 (7.52%)	Analytical Skills
10	188 (7.48%)	Linux
11	185 (7.36%)	CRM
12	182 (7.24%)	Windows
13	180 (7.16%)	Java
14	178 (7.08%)	Stakeholder Management
15	168 (6.68%)	Business Intelligence

16	159 (6.32%)	Retail
16	159 (6.32%)	Microsoft Azure
17	149 (5.93%)	DevOps
18	148 (5.89%)	Analytics
19	125 (4.97%)	SQL Server
20	124 (4.93%)	Active Directory
21	121 (4.81%)	Amazon AWS
22	117 (4.65%)	Dynamics CRM
22	117 (4.65%)	.NET
22	117 (4.65%)	Security Cleared
23	116 (4.61%)	JavaScript
24	113 (4.49%)	Project Management
25	111 (4.42%)	Change Management
26	110 (4.38%)	HTML
27	104 (4.14%)	Web Services

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring IT Skills in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	82 (3.26%)	SharePoint
2	42 (1.67%)	Skype for Business
3	41 (1.63%)	Apache Spark
4	36 (1.43%)	MS Exchange
5	32 (1.27%)	CMS
6	27 (1.07%)	SAS
7	23 (0.91%)	BizTalk Server
7	23 (0.91%)	Confluence
8	19 (0.76%)	Exchange Server 2013
8	19 (0.76%)	Tomcat
9	17 (0.68%)	Apache
9	17 (0.68%)	IIS
9	17 (0.68%)	WebSphere
10	16 (0.64%)	Exchange Server 2010
11	15 (0.60%)	OpenStack
12	14 (0.56%)	Elasticsearch
12	14 (0.56%)	Exchange Server 2007
13	13 (0.52%)	Adobe Experience Manager
13	13 (0.52%)	Documentum
14	12 (0.48%)	SharePoint 2013

Applications
1	42 (1.67%)	Microsoft Excel
2	20 (0.80%)	Microsoft Office
3	15 (0.60%)	MS Visio
4	14 (0.56%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	9 (0.36%)	Microsoft Project
6	6 (0.24%)	OmniGraffle
6	6 (0.24%)	Photoshop
6	6 (0.24%)	SPSS
7	4 (0.16%)	Adobe Illustrator
8	3 (0.12%)	Spreadsheet
9	2 (0.080%)	HipChat
9	2 (0.080%)	InDesign
10	1 (0.040%)	Adobe After Effects
10	1 (0.040%)	Adobe Premiere
10	1 (0.040%)	AutoCAD

Business Applications
1	117 (4.65%)	Dynamics CRM
2	74 (2.94%)	SAP CO
3	70 (2.78%)	SAP FI
4	62 (2.47%)	SAP FI/CO
5	42 (1.67%)	Dynamics AX
6	41 (1.63%)	SAP SD
7	35 (1.39%)	SAP MM
8	28 (1.11%)	SAP HR
9	26 (1.03%)	Oracle EBS
10	23 (0.91%)	Oracle EBS R12
10	23 (0.91%)	SAP Retail
11	22 (0.88%)	Dynamics NAV
12	19 (0.76%)	Oracle Receivables
12	19 (0.76%)	SAP ERP
13	17 (0.68%)	Oracle Payables
13	17 (0.68%)	SAP S/4HANA
14	16 (0.64%)	SAP CRM
14	16 (0.64%)	SAP FSCM
14	16 (0.64%)	SAP HCM
15	14 (0.56%)	SAP Oil and Gas

Cloud Services
1	159 (6.32%)	Microsoft Azure
2	121 (4.81%)	Amazon AWS
3	97 (3.86%)	Office 365
4	42 (1.67%)	Azure Active Directory
5	38 (1.51%)	IaaS
6	36 (1.43%)	PaaS
7	34 (1.35%)	SaaS
8	26 (1.03%)	Dynamics 365
9	22 (0.88%)	SuccessFactors
10	14 (0.56%)	Google Analytics
10	14 (0.56%)	OpenShift
10	14 (0.56%)	Yammer
11	13 (0.52%)	Adobe Analytics
12	11 (0.44%)	Azure Data Factory
13	10 (0.40%)	Google Cloud Platform
14	9 (0.36%)	Taleo
15	8 (0.32%)	AWS CloudFormation
15	8 (0.32%)	FinancialForce.com
15	8 (0.32%)	GitHub
15	8 (0.32%)	Salesforce Sales Cloud

Communications & Networking
1	87 (3.46%)	Firewall
2	55 (2.19%)	Network Security
3	37 (1.47%)	VPN
4	36 (1.43%)	LDAP
5	29 (1.15%)	Skype
6	25 (0.99%)	TCP/IP
7	24 (0.95%)	DNS
8	22 (0.88%)	HTTP
9	21 (0.84%)	WAN
10	20 (0.80%)	NetScaler
11	18 (0.72%)	Internet
12	17 (0.68%)	Cisco ASA
13	16 (0.64%)	BIG-IP
13	16 (0.64%)	DHCP
13	16 (0.64%)	SAN
14	15 (0.60%)	SSL
15	14 (0.56%)	Cisco Nexus
16	13 (0.52%)	LAN
16	13 (0.52%)	Wireless
17	12 (0.48%)	Kerberos

Database & Business Intelligence
1	125 (4.97%)	SQL Server
2	72 (2.86%)	Big Data
3	59 (2.35%)	Hadoop
4	54 (2.15%)	Data Warehouse
4	54 (2.15%)	SAP HANA
5	39 (1.55%)	QlikView
5	39 (1.55%)	SAP BW
5	39 (1.55%)	SQL Server Integration Services
6	34 (1.35%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
7	29 (1.15%)	Power BI
7	29 (1.15%)	Relational Database
8	27 (1.07%)	Oracle Reports
9	23 (0.91%)	Oracle Database
10	21 (0.84%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
11	20 (0.80%)	Oracle BI EE
11	20 (0.80%)	RDBMS
12	19 (0.76%)	Apache Hive
12	19 (0.76%)	BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
13	18 (0.72%)	Oracle BI Publisher
13	18 (0.72%)	Qlik Sense

Development Applications
1	63 (2.51%)	Jenkins
2	51 (2.03%)	JIRA
3	44 (1.75%)	Git (software)
4	33 (1.31%)	Maven
5	25 (0.99%)	Team Foundation Server
6	23 (0.91%)	Visual Studio
7	17 (0.68%)	Sonatype Nexus
8	16 (0.64%)	Selenium
9	12 (0.48%)	Artifactory
9	12 (0.48%)	Cucumber
10	11 (0.44%)	Axure RP
10	11 (0.44%)	LSMW
10	11 (0.44%)	Subversion
11	10 (0.40%)	Atlassian Bamboo
11	10 (0.40%)	TeamCity
12	9 (0.36%)	NUnit
13	8 (0.32%)	GitLab
13	8 (0.32%)	MSTest
13	8 (0.32%)	Oracle APEX
14	7 (0.28%)	Gradle

General
1	592 (23.55%)	Finance
2	227 (9.03%)	Banking
3	159 (6.32%)	Retail
4	83 (3.30%)	Marketing
5	78 (3.10%)	Pharmaceutical
6	53 (2.11%)	Manufacturing
7	46 (1.83%)	Telecoms
8	45 (1.79%)	Legal
9	44 (1.75%)	Investment Banking
10	37 (1.47%)	Front Office
11	36 (1.43%)	Financial Institution
12	30 (1.19%)	Back Office
13	29 (1.15%)	Law
14	22 (0.88%)	Billing
15	20 (0.80%)	Advertising
16	19 (0.76%)	General Ledger
17	16 (0.64%)	Electronics
18	15 (0.60%)	Private Banking
19	11 (0.44%)	Retail Banking
20	7 (0.28%)	Dutch Language

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	117 (4.65%)	.NET
2	110 (4.38%)	HTML
3	104 (4.14%)	Web Services
4	76 (3.02%)	CSS
5	56 (2.23%)	XML
6	40 (1.59%)	REST
7	35 (1.39%)	Middleware
8	31 (1.23%)	Oracle Fusion
9	28 (1.11%)	ASP.NET
10	27 (1.07%)	SOAP
11	26 (1.03%)	AngularJS
11	26 (1.03%)	JSON
12	24 (0.95%)	Spring
13	21 (0.84%)	SAP Fiori
14	19 (0.76%)	J2EE
14	19 (0.76%)	WCF
15	17 (0.68%)	.NET Framework
15	17 (0.68%)	Kafka
15	17 (0.68%)	SAP Basis
16	16 (0.64%)	SAML

Miscellaneous
1	189 (7.52%)	Analytical Skills
2	73 (2.90%)	Data Centre
3	48 (1.91%)	Greenfield Project
4	44 (1.75%)	User Experience
5	35 (1.39%)	Management Information System
6	32 (1.27%)	FMCG
7	26 (1.03%)	Computer Science
8	25 (0.99%)	Fintech
9	24 (0.95%)	Enterprise Software
10	21 (0.84%)	Mobile App
11	19 (0.76%)	Virtual Team
12	17 (0.68%)	iPad
13	16 (0.64%)	CMDB
13	16 (0.64%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
13	16 (0.64%)	Public Cloud
14	15 (0.60%)	Derivative
15	14 (0.56%)	Replication
15	14 (0.56%)	Social Media
16	13 (0.52%)	PKI
17	12 (0.48%)	Fixed Income

Operating Systems
1	188 (7.48%)	Linux
2	182 (7.24%)	Windows
3	90 (3.58%)	Unix
4	52 (2.07%)	Windows Server
5	28 (1.11%)	Windows Server 2008
6	25 (0.99%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7	24 (0.95%)	Windows 10
7	24 (0.95%)	Windows Server 2012
8	16 (0.64%)	Android
9	15 (0.60%)	Apple iOS
9	15 (0.60%)	CentOS
10	14 (0.56%)	Solaris
11	12 (0.48%)	Windows 7
12	11 (0.44%)	Windows Server 2003
13	9 (0.36%)	VMS
14	7 (0.28%)	AIX
14	7 (0.28%)	zOS
15	5 (0.20%)	CoreOS
16	4 (0.16%)	Ubuntu
17	3 (0.12%)	Windows Mobile

Processes & Methodologies
1	289 (11.50%)	Agile Software Development
2	209 (8.31%)	Migration
3	185 (7.36%)	CRM
4	178 (7.08%)	Stakeholder Management
5	168 (6.68%)	Business Intelligence
6	149 (5.93%)	DevOps
7	148 (5.89%)	Analytics
8	113 (4.49%)	Project Management
9	111 (4.42%)	Change Management
10	97 (3.86%)	ERP
11	91 (3.62%)	Business Analysis
11	91 (3.62%)	Workflow
12	79 (3.14%)	ITIL
13	72 (2.86%)	Scrum
14	69 (2.74%)	Information Security
15	67 (2.67%)	Risk Management
16	63 (2.51%)	User Acceptance Testing
17	60 (2.39%)	ETL
18	59 (2.35%)	Continuous Integration
18	59 (2.35%)	Data Management

Programming Languages
1	275 (10.94%)	SQL
2	180 (7.16%)	Java
3	116 (4.61%)	JavaScript
4	99 (3.94%)	Python
5	88 (3.50%)	C#
6	65 (2.59%)	PowerShell
7	45 (1.79%)	Bash Shell
8	40 (1.59%)	ABAP
9	39 (1.55%)	C
10	35 (1.39%)	Perl
11	34 (1.35%)	Ruby
11	34 (1.35%)	Scala
12	28 (1.11%)	PL/SQL
13	21 (0.84%)	Shell Script
14	19 (0.76%)	T-SQL
15	16 (0.64%)	PHP
15	16 (0.64%)	R
16	14 (0.56%)	C++
17	11 (0.44%)	VBA
18	9 (0.36%)	Groovy

Qualifications
1	117 (4.65%)	Security Cleared
2	89 (3.54%)	SC Cleared
3	83 (3.30%)	Degree
4	58 (2.31%)	CISSP
5	38 (1.51%)	Cisco Certification
6	29 (1.15%)	CISM
7	20 (0.80%)	CCIE
8	19 (0.76%)	CCNP
9	16 (0.64%)	Computer Science Degree
9	16 (0.64%)	Microsoft Certification
10	14 (0.56%)	CISA
11	13 (0.52%)	Master's Degree
12	12 (0.48%)	PMI Certification
12	12 (0.48%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13	11 (0.44%)	CESG Certified Professional
13	11 (0.44%)	DV Cleared
14	10 (0.40%)	CCNA
14	10 (0.40%)	ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14	10 (0.40%)	Six Sigma Black Belt
15	9 (0.36%)	PMP

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	58 (2.31%)	QA
2	44 (1.75%)	ISO/IEC 27001
3	33 (1.31%)	GDPR
4	20 (0.80%)	Data Quality
4	20 (0.80%)	PCI DSS
5	17 (0.68%)	MiFID
6	15 (0.60%)	SLA
7	11 (0.44%)	GMP
7	11 (0.44%)	PMO
8	10 (0.40%)	ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9	9 (0.36%)	RMADS
10	8 (0.32%)	21 CFR Part 11
10	8 (0.32%)	COBIT
10	8 (0.32%)	GxP
10	8 (0.32%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
11	6 (0.24%)	EMIR
11	6 (0.24%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
12	5 (0.20%)	IFRS
13	4 (0.16%)	GPG13
13	4 (0.16%)	NIST 800

System Software
1	124 (4.93%)	Active Directory
2	74 (2.94%)	Docker
3	49 (1.95%)	VMware Infrastructure
4	20 (0.80%)	Hyper-V
5	16 (0.64%)	vSphere
6	15 (0.60%)	XenApp
7	14 (0.56%)	VMware ESXi
8	11 (0.44%)	Virtual Machines
9	10 (0.40%)	HDFS
9	10 (0.40%)	XenDesktop
10	9 (0.36%)	Microsoft App-V
10	9 (0.36%)	vCloud
11	8 (0.32%)	XenServer
12	6 (0.24%)	Virtual Desktop
13	5 (0.20%)	Apache Flume
13	5 (0.20%)	etcd
13	5 (0.20%)	flannel
14	4 (0.16%)	Ceph
14	4 (0.16%)	GlusterFS
14	4 (0.16%)	Time Sharing Option

Systems Management
1	74 (2.94%)	Puppet
2	68 (2.70%)	Ansible
3	53 (2.11%)	Kubernetes
4	52 (2.07%)	SCCM
5	48 (1.91%)	Opscode Chef
6	27 (1.07%)	Terraform
7	20 (0.80%)	SCOM
8	11 (0.44%)	logstash
8	11 (0.44%)	Nagios
9	10 (0.40%)	Graphite
10	9 (0.36%)	HP Quality Center
10	9 (0.36%)	ITRS Geneos
11	8 (0.32%)	Tivoli Identity Manager
11	8 (0.32%)	vCenter Server
11	8 (0.32%)	ZABBIX
12	7 (0.28%)	Cisco CUCM
12	7 (0.28%)	Kibana
12	7 (0.28%)	Microsoft Intune
12	7 (0.28%)	Prometheus
13	6 (0.24%)	yum

Vendors
1	468 (18.62%)	SAP
2	294 (11.69%)	Microsoft
3	221 (8.79%)	Oracle
4	93 (3.70%)	Cisco
5	77 (3.06%)	VMware
6	76 (3.02%)	IBM
7	73 (2.90%)	Salesforce.com
8	58 (2.31%)	ServiceNow
9	53 (2.11%)	Tableau
10	48 (1.91%)	Citrix
11	38 (1.51%)	Splunk
12	37 (1.47%)	Adobe
12	37 (1.47%)	Google
12	37 (1.47%)	Red Hat
13	36 (1.43%)	HP
14	31 (1.23%)	Workday
15	30 (1.19%)	F5
16	26 (1.03%)	AppDynamics
16	26 (1.03%)	JD Edwards
17	24 (0.95%)	CheckPoint