Consultant Contracts in London

Consultant
England > London

The median Consultant daily rate in London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 December 2023.

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
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 39 59 61
Rank change year-on-year +20 +2 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 927 1,417 1,682
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.86% 4.03% 4.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.20% 4.22% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 552 937 1,144
10th Percentile £425 £413 £413
25th Percentile £495 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £685 £675 £675
90th Percentile £800 £775 £763
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 6
10th Percentile £45.63 £35.00 -
25th Percentile £61.88 £38.13 -
Median hourly rate £84.75 £70.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.07% +159.26% -23.94%
75th Percentile £92.19 £83.75 £31.13
90th Percentile £93.75 £89.50 £47.38
England median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year -10.34% +15.08% +16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 17,831 33,539 36,399
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.46% 95.38% 95.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,895 23,958 26,456
10th Percentile £331 £373 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £687 £700 £659
90th Percentile £788 £788 £750
England median daily rate £533 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -3.09% +5.77% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 282 398
10th Percentile £18.00 £16.14 £14.34
25th Percentile £21.69 £21.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.82 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +7.69% +3.19%
75th Percentile £59.06 £58.75 £52.31
90th Percentile £73.68 £75.00 £66.35
England median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +38.46% +62.50% -16.67%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in London

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in London

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in London over the 6 months to 10 December 2023.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in London

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in London

Consultant
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Consultant in London over the 6 months to 10 December 2023.

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 6 months to 10 December 2023. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +26 143 £545 -9.17% 131
East London +12 18 £540 - 42
West London +13 17 £575 +9.52% 24
South London +19 6 £613 -12.50% 11
Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 December 2023, 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 London region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 258 (27.83%) Finance
2 229 (24.70%) Social Skills
3 185 (19.96%) SAP
4 137 (14.78%) Microsoft
5 133 (14.35%) Migration
6 114 (12.30%) Oracle
7 105 (11.33%) Security Cleared
8 102 (11.00%) Azure
9 100 (10.79%) Problem-Solving
10 92 (9.92%) Agile
11 78 (8.41%) Information Security
11 78 (8.41%) Data Migration
12 75 (8.09%) SC Cleared
13 74 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
14 72 (7.77%) SQL
14 72 (7.77%) SAP S/4HANA
15 70 (7.55%) Stakeholder Management
16 69 (7.44%) Banking
17 61 (6.58%) DevOps
18 59 (6.36%) Roadmaps
19 56 (6.04%) Cybersecurity
19 56 (6.04%) ERP
20 55 (5.93%) Python
20 55 (5.93%) Dynamics 365
21 54 (5.83%) Degree
22 48 (5.18%) AWS
23 47 (5.07%) Analytics
24 46 (4.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
25 45 (4.85%) Java
26 44 (4.75%) Risk Management

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 18 (1.94%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.19%) MS Exchange
3 7 (0.76%) CMS
4 6 (0.65%) Confluence
4 6 (0.65%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.54%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.43%) Apache
6 4 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.22%) Drupal
7 2 (0.22%) EPiServer
7 2 (0.22%) IIS
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.22%) WordPress
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.11%) nginx
8 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (0.11%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
Applications
1 15 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.65%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.32%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.11%) Notepad++
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 72 (7.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (3.78%) SAP FI
3 20 (2.16%) Oracle EBS
4 18 (1.94%) SAP CO
5 17 (1.83%) SAP FI-CA
6 16 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
6 16 (1.73%) SAP FI/CO
7 15 (1.62%) SAP PSCD
8 13 (1.40%) SAP EWM
9 11 (1.19%) Oracle Receivables
10 10 (1.08%) OpenText VIM for SAP
10 10 (1.08%) Oracle Applications
10 10 (1.08%) SAP SD
11 9 (0.97%) Oracle Payables
11 9 (0.97%) Oracle Payroll
11 9 (0.97%) SAP MM
12 8 (0.86%) NetSuite
12 8 (0.86%) Oracle EBS R12
12 8 (0.86%) Oracle Financials
12 8 (0.86%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 102 (11.00%) Azure
2 55 (5.93%) Dynamics 365
3 48 (5.18%) AWS
4 39 (4.21%) OCI
5 37 (3.99%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (3.13%) Power Platform
7 23 (2.48%) SaaS
8 21 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (2.16%) Oracle Service Cloud
10 17 (1.83%) GCP
11 15 (1.62%) SuccessFactors
12 13 (1.40%) Power Automate
13 12 (1.29%) PowerApps
13 12 (1.29%) WhatsApp
14 10 (1.08%) Serverless
15 9 (0.97%) Entra ID
15 9 (0.97%) IaaS
16 8 (0.86%) GitHub
16 8 (0.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 7 (0.76%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.59%) Firewall
2 20 (2.16%) Network Security
3 11 (1.19%) DNS
4 9 (0.97%) WAN
5 8 (0.86%) SAN
5 8 (0.86%) Wireless
6 7 (0.76%) Internet
7 6 (0.65%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.54%) Cisco ISE
8 5 (0.54%) HTTP
9 4 (0.43%) 5G
10 3 (0.32%) 3GPP
10 3 (0.32%) BGP
10 3 (0.32%) DHCP
10 3 (0.32%) FTP
10 3 (0.32%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.32%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.32%) MPLS
10 3 (0.32%) OSPF
10 3 (0.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (2.37%) Power BI
2 20 (2.16%) SQL Server
3 15 (1.62%) Oracle Reports
4 11 (1.19%) Oracle Database
5 9 (0.97%) Tableau
6 8 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (0.76%) BusinessObjects
7 7 (0.76%) SAP BW
8 6 (0.65%) Big Data
8 6 (0.65%) Data Lake
8 6 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (0.65%) SAP HANA
9 4 (0.43%) Data Mart
9 4 (0.43%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.32%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.32%) Siebel EIM
10 3 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.32%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (1.51%) JIRA
2 10 (1.08%) Git
2 10 (1.08%) Postman
3 9 (0.97%) Fiddler
3 9 (0.97%) Oracle Forms
3 9 (0.97%) SoapUI
4 8 (0.86%) Cypress.io
4 8 (0.86%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.54%) GitLab
6 4 (0.43%) Maven
6 4 (0.43%) Protractor
7 3 (0.32%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.22%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.22%) JDeveloper
8 2 (0.22%) LSMW
8 2 (0.22%) WiX
9 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.11%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 258 (27.83%) Finance
2 229 (24.70%) Social Skills
3 74 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (7.44%) Banking
5 38 (4.10%) Public Sector
6 36 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
7 28 (3.02%) Legal
7 28 (3.02%) Marketing
8 27 (2.91%) Manufacturing
9 26 (2.80%) Billing
9 26 (2.80%) Retail
10 15 (1.62%) Investment Banking
11 14 (1.51%) Telecoms
12 13 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (1.40%) Law
13 12 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (1.08%) Financial Institution
15 10 (1.08%) General Ledger
16 8 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (3.56%) Oracle Fusion
2 22 (2.37%) Web Services
3 20 (2.16%) .NET
4 19 (2.05%) REST
5 17 (1.83%) SailPoint
6 15 (1.62%) XML
7 10 (1.08%) Node.js
8 7 (0.76%) HTML
9 6 (0.65%) CSS
9 6 (0.65%) LDAP
9 6 (0.65%) SAP Fiori
9 6 (0.65%) SAP PI
9 6 (0.65%) SOAP
10 5 (0.54%) Middleware
11 4 (0.43%) AngularJS
11 4 (0.43%) Apache Camel
11 4 (0.43%) Jest
11 4 (0.43%) Murex MxML
11 4 (0.43%) RESTful
11 4 (0.43%) Velocity
Miscellaneous
1 31 (3.34%) Management Information System
2 19 (2.05%) Data Centre
3 15 (1.62%) Enterprise Cloud
4 14 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 11 (1.19%) IoT
6 11 (1.19%) Onboarding
7 9 (0.97%) CMDB
7 9 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (0.97%) Product Ownership
8 7 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (0.65%) Data Structures
9 6 (0.65%) Marketing Technology
9 6 (0.65%) Operational Technology
9 6 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (0.54%) FMCG
10 5 (0.54%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.43%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 35 (3.78%) Linux
2 24 (2.59%) Windows
3 16 (1.73%) Unix
4 9 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (0.97%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.65%) Solaris
6 5 (0.54%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.43%) HPUX
8 3 (0.32%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.22%) OpenVMS
9 2 (0.22%) VMS
9 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.11%) AIX
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.11%) OS/390
10 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (14.35%) Migration
2 100 (10.79%) Problem-Solving
3 92 (9.92%) Agile
4 78 (8.41%) Data Migration
4 78 (8.41%) Information Security
5 70 (7.55%) Stakeholder Management
6 61 (6.58%) DevOps
7 59 (6.36%) Roadmaps
8 56 (6.04%) Cybersecurity
8 56 (6.04%) ERP
9 47 (5.07%) Analytics
10 44 (4.75%) Project Management
10 44 (4.75%) Risk Management
11 41 (4.42%) Requirements Gathering
12 39 (4.21%) Decision-Making
13 38 (4.10%) User Acceptance Testing
14 36 (3.88%) GAP Analysis
15 33 (3.56%) Change Management
15 33 (3.56%) Process Improvement
15 33 (3.56%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 72 (7.77%) SQL
2 55 (5.93%) Python
3 45 (4.85%) Java
4 28 (3.02%) PowerShell
5 23 (2.48%) ABAP
6 20 (2.16%) JavaScript
7 13 (1.40%) C#
8 12 (1.29%) TypeScript
9 10 (1.08%) PL/SQL
10 9 (0.97%) BeanShell
10 9 (0.97%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.43%) Bash
11 4 (0.43%) Go
11 4 (0.43%) R
12 3 (0.32%) Groovy
12 3 (0.32%) Ruby
12 3 (0.32%) Scala
13 2 (0.22%) DCL
13 2 (0.22%) PHP
13 2 (0.22%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 105 (11.33%) Security Cleared
2 75 (8.09%) SC Cleared
3 54 (5.83%) Degree
4 37 (3.99%) CISSP
5 32 (3.45%) CISM
6 24 (2.59%) CRISC
7 20 (2.16%) DV Cleared
8 19 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
9 18 (1.94%) CISA
10 12 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (0.76%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.76%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.65%) GIAC
13 6 (0.65%) PCI QSA
14 5 (0.54%) CCA
14 5 (0.54%) CCIE
14 5 (0.54%) CCNA
14 5 (0.54%) GCFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (4.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 38 (4.10%) QA
3 34 (3.67%) NIST
4 19 (2.05%) GRC
5 17 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 13 (1.40%) PCI DSS
7 12 (1.29%) Data Quality
8 11 (1.19%) PMO
9 9 (0.97%) NIST 800
10 8 (0.86%) COBIT
11 7 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.54%) ISO 31000
12 5 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 5 (0.54%) NCSC
12 5 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.43%) ISO 22301
13 4 (0.43%) SLA
14 3 (0.32%) IFRS
14 3 (0.32%) ITGC
15 2 (0.22%) GDPR
System Software
1 30 (3.24%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.65%) Docker
3 6 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.43%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.32%) Firmware
5 3 (0.32%) UAG
5 3 (0.32%) vSphere
6 2 (0.22%) Ceph
6 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.22%) XenApp
7 1 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.11%) IAG
7 1 (0.11%) LXC
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.11%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (0.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 19 (2.05%) Kubernetes
1 19 (2.05%) Terraform
2 14 (1.51%) Ansible
3 5 (0.54%) CSIRT
4 4 (0.43%) Puppet
4 4 (0.43%) SCCM
4 4 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.43%) vRealize
5 3 (0.32%) EnCase
5 3 (0.32%) FTK
5 3 (0.32%) VxRail
6 2 (0.22%) CASB
6 2 (0.22%) CEMLI
6 2 (0.22%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.22%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.22%) Kibana
6 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.22%) MOM
6 2 (0.22%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.11%) XenMobile
Vendors
1 185 (19.96%) SAP
2 137 (14.78%) Microsoft
3 114 (12.30%) Oracle
4 36 (3.88%) ServiceNow
5 30 (3.24%) VMware
6 28 (3.02%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.83%) Cisco
8 14 (1.51%) Ariba
8 14 (1.51%) IBM
9 9 (0.97%) Red Hat
10 8 (0.86%) Adobe
10 8 (0.86%) Google
10 8 (0.86%) HP
11 7 (0.76%) Informatica
11 7 (0.76%) Murex
11 7 (0.76%) Remedy
12 6 (0.65%) CheckPoint
12 6 (0.65%) Cognos
12 6 (0.65%) Dell
12 6 (0.65%) Splunk