IT Consultant Contracts in London

IT Consultant
England > London

The median IT Consultant daily rate in London is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 August 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
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 366 432
Rank change year-on-year +15 +66 +153
Contract jobs requiring an IT Consultant 21 25 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.16% 0.15% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.16% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 16 32
10th Percentile £422 £425 £450
25th Percentile £475 £508 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -12.66%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £540
90th Percentile £660 £675 £549
England median daily rate £523 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -9.13% +15.00% -9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 12,578 15,245 22,363
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.98% 94.05% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,479 10,726 16,384
10th Percentile £325 £350 £358
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 203 237
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.30 £18.37
25th Percentile £22.98 £22.00 £22.90
Median hourly rate £29.54 £34.25 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.77% -9.87% +13.43%
75th Percentile £50.13 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £71.75 £82.35
England median hourly rate £25.32 £45.00 £41.90
% change year-on-year -43.73% +7.40% +63.16%

IT Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Consultant in London

IT Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for IT Consultant in London

IT Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Consultant in London over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Consultant in London

IT Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Consultant in London

IT 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 IT Consultant within the London region over the 6 months to 14 August 2025. 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 -3 3 £575 +2.22% 3
IT Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 August 2025, IT 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 IT Consultant in the job title.

1 9 (42.86%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
3 5 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (23.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
4 4 (19.05%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (19.05%) IT Strategy
4 4 (19.05%) GRC
4 4 (19.05%) Incident Response
5 3 (14.29%) ITGC
5 3 (14.29%) NIST
5 3 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
5 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 3 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 3 (14.29%) IT Governance
5 3 (14.29%) Change Management
5 3 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (14.29%) SQL
5 3 (14.29%) Python
5 3 (14.29%) Risk Management
6 2 (9.52%) Business Continuity
6 2 (9.52%) Manufacturing
6 2 (9.52%) Investment Banking
6 2 (9.52%) Banking
6 2 (9.52%) ITIL
6 2 (9.52%) Incident Management
6 2 (9.52%) Problem Management

IT 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.76%) AutoCAD
1 1 (4.76%) Photoshop
1 1 (4.76%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.76%) SAP CO
2 1 (4.76%) SAP FI
2 1 (4.76%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (4.76%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) Azure
1 1 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (4.76%) IaaS
1 1 (4.76%) PaaS
1 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
1 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) DB2
1 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 9 (42.86%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Banking
3 2 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (9.52%) Investment Banking
3 2 (9.52%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.76%) Local Government
4 1 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) .NET
1 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Algorithms
1 2 (9.52%) Operational Technology
1 2 (9.52%) SCADA
2 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
2 5 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (19.05%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (19.05%) Incident Response
3 4 (19.05%) IT Strategy
4 3 (14.29%) Change Management
4 3 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (14.29%) IT Governance
4 3 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 3 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
4 3 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 2 (9.52%) BCP
5 2 (9.52%) Business Continuity
5 2 (9.52%) Data Modelling
5 2 (9.52%) Incident Management
5 2 (9.52%) ITIL
5 2 (9.52%) Problem Management
5 2 (9.52%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 3 (14.29%) Python
1 3 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) CISM
2 1 (4.76%) ACCA
2 1 (4.76%) CIMA
2 1 (4.76%) CISA
2 1 (4.76%) CISSP
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (19.05%) GRC
3 3 (14.29%) ITGC
3 3 (14.29%) NIST
3 3 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
4 1 (4.76%) GDPR
4 1 (4.76%) GxP
4 1 (4.76%) IFRS
4 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
4 1 (4.76%) SOC 1
4 1 (4.76%) SOC 2
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) SAP
2 1 (4.76%) Autodesk
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Qualys