Consultant Contract Job Trends in London

Consultant
England > London

The median Consultant daily rate in London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 33 30
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 1,053 743 1,107
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.66% 6.08% 6.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.09% 6.50% 6.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 470 711
10th Percentile £363 £415 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £650
90th Percentile £748 £762 £775
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 5 3
10th Percentile £36.10 £30.84 £45.34
25th Percentile £36.25 £36.00 £51.46
Median hourly rate £59.00 £42.82 £63.36
Median % change year-on-year +37.80% -32.42% +15.19%
75th Percentile £88.75 £55.25 £70.02
90th Percentile - £60.35 £73.01
England median hourly rate £57.50 £63.75 £60.80
% change year-on-year -9.80% +4.85% -6.23%

All Contract IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 17,290 11,429 16,523
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 93.53% 93.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,417 7,726 11,916
10th Percentile £356 £350 £325
25th Percentile £434 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £761 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 161 326
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.23
Median hourly rate £39.25 £32.50 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +20.77% +16.86% -22.75%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.50 £46.77
90th Percentile £76.74 £63.75 £67.50
England median hourly rate £45.78 £30.00 £38.14
% change year-on-year +52.60% -21.33% -15.26%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Consultant' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Consultant job vacancy trend in London

Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in London

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in London over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in London

Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in London

Consultant
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Consultant in London over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

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 7 June 2026. 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 +10 157 £550 -8.33% 210
West London +9 38 £687 +44.63% 11
East London -4 7 £387 -33.85% 24
South London -15 2 £375 -28.57% 5
Consultant
England

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 7 June 2026, Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 157 (14.91%) Migration
2 155 (14.72%) SAP
3 151 (14.34%) Security Cleared
4 134 (12.73%) Microsoft
5 119 (11.30%) Azure
5 119 (11.30%) Oracle
6 115 (10.92%) SC Cleared
7 112 (10.64%) Stakeholder Management
8 92 (8.74%) User Acceptance Testing
9 88 (8.36%) SQL
10 87 (8.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 76 (7.22%) AI
12 75 (7.12%) Problem-Solving
13 71 (6.74%) SAP S/4HANA
14 69 (6.55%) Dynamics 365
15 68 (6.46%) Power Platform
16 64 (6.08%) Workshop Facilitation
17 63 (5.98%) Analytics
18 62 (5.89%) ERP
19 60 (5.70%) Agile
20 58 (5.51%) Business Intelligence
20 58 (5.51%) Data Migration
21 56 (5.32%) DevOps
22 55 (5.22%) Validation
23 54 (5.13%) Translating Business Requirements
24 52 (4.94%) Decision-Making
24 52 (4.94%) Roadmaps
25 51 (4.84%) Change Management
25 51 (4.84%) Cybersecurity
26 50 (4.75%) AWS

Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 46 (4.37%) SharePoint
2 20 (1.90%) Confluence
3 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.28%) IIS
6 2 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.095%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.095%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 1 (0.095%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.095%) WordPress
Applications
1 31 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 71 (6.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (3.04%) Oracle EBS
3 21 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
4 20 (1.90%) SAP Travel Management
5 19 (1.80%) Oracle Payables
6 15 (1.42%) Oracle EBS R12
7 13 (1.23%) Oracle Receivables
8 10 (0.95%) SAP EWM
8 10 (0.95%) SAP MM
9 9 (0.85%) NetSuite
9 9 (0.85%) Oracle General Ledger
10 8 (0.76%) Oracle Assets
10 8 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
10 8 (0.76%) SAP HR
11 7 (0.66%) Oracle Cash Management
11 7 (0.66%) Oracle Financials
11 7 (0.66%) SAP BRIM
11 7 (0.66%) SAP IBP
11 7 (0.66%) SAP PP
12 6 (0.57%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 119 (11.30%) Azure
2 69 (6.55%) Dynamics 365
3 68 (6.46%) Power Platform
4 50 (4.75%) AWS
5 46 (4.37%) Microsoft 365
6 37 (3.51%) Power Automate
7 27 (2.56%) SaaS
8 24 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (2.28%) GCP
9 23 (2.18%) Entra ID
9 23 (2.18%) SuccessFactors
10 20 (1.90%) OCI
11 19 (1.80%) Microsoft Copilot
12 14 (1.33%) GitHub
12 14 (1.33%) Microsoft Purview
12 14 (1.33%) PowerApps
13 13 (1.23%) Serverless
14 11 (1.04%) Azure Logic Apps
15 10 (0.95%) Copilot Studio
15 10 (0.95%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.23%) SMS
2 11 (1.04%) Firewall
3 9 (0.85%) VSAN
4 6 (0.57%) Network Security
5 5 (0.47%) NAS
5 5 (0.47%) SAN
5 5 (0.47%) VPN
6 3 (0.28%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.28%) SSL
6 3 (0.28%) VLAN
6 3 (0.28%) WAN
6 3 (0.28%) Wireless
7 2 (0.19%) IPsec
7 2 (0.19%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.19%) MPLS
7 2 (0.19%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.19%) X.509
8 1 (0.095%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.095%) SMTP
8 1 (0.095%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (3.51%) Power BI
2 16 (1.52%) SQL Server
3 15 (1.42%) Tableau
4 14 (1.33%) Oracle Reports
5 13 (1.23%) Metadata
6 10 (0.95%) SAP HANA
7 7 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.47%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 4 (0.38%) Crystal Reports
9 4 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
9 4 (0.38%) Essbase
9 4 (0.38%) Power Query
10 3 (0.28%) GIS
10 3 (0.28%) SAP BW
10 3 (0.28%) Spotfire
10 3 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.19%) Data Mart
11 2 (0.19%) EDRMS
11 2 (0.19%) QlikView
11 2 (0.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (3.04%) JIRA
2 10 (0.95%) Oracle Forms
3 6 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (0.38%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.28%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (0.28%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.28%) GitLab
6 2 (0.19%) git-flow
6 2 (0.19%) Hudson
6 2 (0.19%) Selenium
6 2 (0.19%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.095%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.095%) Charles Proxy
7 1 (0.095%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.095%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.095%) Git
7 1 (0.095%) LSMW
7 1 (0.095%) PeopleTools
7 1 (0.095%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.095%) TeamCity
General
1 266 (25.26%) Finance
2 220 (20.89%) Social Skills
3 91 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (4.84%) Public Sector
5 48 (4.56%) Banking
6 36 (3.42%) Marketing
7 27 (2.56%) Legal
8 25 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
9 22 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 21 (1.99%) General Ledger
11 18 (1.71%) Manufacturing
12 17 (1.61%) Billing
13 16 (1.52%) Telecoms
14 15 (1.42%) Retail
15 14 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
16 13 (1.23%) Law
17 10 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
17 10 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
17 10 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
18 9 (0.85%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (3.70%) Oracle Fusion
2 24 (2.28%) REST
3 20 (1.90%) SAP TM
4 19 (1.80%) Middleware
5 15 (1.42%) HTML
6 12 (1.14%) CSS
7 11 (1.04%) Web Services
8 10 (0.95%) .NET
8 10 (0.95%) JSON
9 9 (0.85%) SOAP
9 9 (0.85%) XML
10 8 (0.76%) OAuth
10 8 (0.76%) React
10 8 (0.76%) SAP Basis
11 7 (0.66%) Kafka
11 7 (0.66%) SAP Fiori
12 6 (0.57%) LDAP
12 6 (0.57%) SAML
13 5 (0.47%) SAP Core Interface
13 5 (0.47%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 29 (2.75%) Onboarding
2 22 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
3 20 (1.90%) Product Ownership
3 20 (1.90%) Security Posture
4 15 (1.42%) AI Agents
5 13 (1.23%) CMDB
5 13 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (1.04%) Cloud Native
7 10 (0.95%) Life Science
7 10 (0.95%) NHS
7 10 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (0.85%) Algorithms
8 9 (0.85%) Data Structures
9 8 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (0.66%) Data Centre
10 7 (0.66%) Management Information System
11 6 (0.57%) Mainframe
11 6 (0.57%) PACS
12 5 (0.47%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (0.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.28%) Windows
2 9 (0.85%) Linux
3 6 (0.57%) Unix
4 5 (0.47%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.28%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.28%) Solaris
5 3 (0.28%) zOS
6 2 (0.19%) Android
6 2 (0.19%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.095%) VMS
7 1 (0.095%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (14.91%) Migration
2 112 (10.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 92 (8.74%) User Acceptance Testing
4 87 (8.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 76 (7.22%) AI
6 75 (7.12%) Problem-Solving
7 64 (6.08%) Workshop Facilitation
8 63 (5.98%) Analytics
9 62 (5.89%) ERP
10 60 (5.70%) Agile
11 58 (5.51%) Business Intelligence
11 58 (5.51%) Data Migration
12 56 (5.32%) DevOps
13 55 (5.22%) Validation
14 54 (5.13%) Translating Business Requirements
15 52 (4.94%) Decision-Making
15 52 (4.94%) Roadmaps
16 51 (4.84%) Change Management
16 51 (4.84%) Cybersecurity
17 47 (4.46%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 88 (8.36%) SQL
2 42 (3.99%) Python
3 28 (2.66%) JavaScript
4 20 (1.90%) PL/SQL
5 17 (1.61%) PowerShell
6 13 (1.23%) Java
7 11 (1.04%) ABAP
8 10 (0.95%) C#
9 8 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (0.66%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.66%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.38%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.28%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.28%) Groovy
12 3 (0.28%) Korn
12 3 (0.28%) Perl
13 2 (0.19%) Bash
13 2 (0.19%) C++
13 2 (0.19%) COBOL
13 2 (0.19%) RPG
Qualifications
1 151 (14.34%) Security Cleared
2 115 (10.92%) SC Cleared
3 27 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 26 (2.47%) DV Cleared
5 25 (2.37%) Degree
6 14 (1.33%) CIMA
6 14 (1.33%) CISSP
7 11 (1.04%) CISM
8 6 (0.57%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.47%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.38%) ACCA
10 4 (0.38%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.38%) CEH
10 4 (0.38%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (0.38%) CRISC
10 4 (0.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.38%) PMP
10 4 (0.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.28%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (2.56%) Data Quality
2 27 (2.56%) NIST
3 23 (2.18%) GDPR
4 17 (1.61%) NCSC
4 17 (1.61%) QA
5 16 (1.52%) GRC
6 12 (1.14%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.04%) Accessibility
8 10 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (0.85%) PMO
9 9 (0.85%) SLA
10 7 (0.66%) COBIT
11 6 (0.57%) GAAP
12 5 (0.47%) DICOM
12 5 (0.47%) HL7
12 5 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.38%) GxP
System Software
1 19 (1.80%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.14%) VMware NSX
3 10 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.85%) vSphere
5 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.28%) Docker
8 2 (0.19%) BitLocker
8 2 (0.19%) IAG
9 1 (0.095%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.095%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 1 (0.095%) NFS
9 1 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (1.42%) Terraform
2 14 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (1.14%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.66%) SCCM
4 7 (0.66%) vRealize
5 6 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.28%) Control-M
7 2 (0.19%) Grafana
7 2 (0.19%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.19%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.19%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.095%) Ansible
8 1 (0.095%) EMC VPLEX
8 1 (0.095%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.095%) Kibana
8 1 (0.095%) PingFederate
8 1 (0.095%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.095%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.095%) vMotion
Vendors
1 155 (14.72%) SAP
2 134 (12.73%) Microsoft
3 119 (11.30%) Oracle
4 41 (3.89%) Salesforce
5 33 (3.13%) ServiceNow
6 27 (2.56%) VMware
7 26 (2.47%) Workday
8 15 (1.42%) Adobe
9 13 (1.23%) Databricks
10 12 (1.14%) Ariba
10 12 (1.14%) Google
11 9 (0.85%) Citrix
11 9 (0.85%) Murex
11 9 (0.85%) OpenAI
12 8 (0.76%) Splunk
13 7 (0.66%) PeopleSoft
13 7 (0.66%) Pure Storage
14 6 (0.57%) Broadcom
14 6 (0.57%) Zscaler
15 5 (0.47%) Foundry