Lead Consultant Contracts in London

Lead Consultant
England > London

The median Lead Consultant daily rate in London is £580, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 377 426
Rank change year-on-year +53 +49 +108
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Consultant 29 14 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.23% 0.079% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.084% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 10 46
10th Percentile £493 £504 £545
25th Percentile £519 £546 £577
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £638 £610
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% +4.51% -21.29%
75th Percentile £684 £719 £750
90th Percentile £750 £908 £800
England median daily rate £575 £600 £630
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.78% -9.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £56.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £55.00

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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Lead Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Consultant in London

Lead Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Consultant in London

Lead Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Consultant in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Consultant in London

Lead Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead Consultant in London

Lead 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 Lead Consultant within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +7 4 £550 -38.89% 3
East London +16 2 £585 +6.36%
Lead Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Lead 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 Lead Consultant in the job title.

1 12 (41.38%) Finance
2 8 (27.59%) Migration
2 8 (27.59%) Azure
3 6 (20.69%) Data Migration
3 6 (20.69%) SAP
3 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
4 5 (17.24%) Data Centre
4 5 (17.24%) Firewall
4 5 (17.24%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (17.24%) AWS
5 4 (13.79%) Mentoring
5 4 (13.79%) Agile
5 4 (13.79%) Windows
5 4 (13.79%) SharePoint
5 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
5 4 (13.79%) Project Management
5 4 (13.79%) Entra ID
5 4 (13.79%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (13.79%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (10.34%) System Integration Testing
6 3 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (10.34%) SD-WAN
6 3 (10.34%) Threat Management
6 3 (10.34%) Translating Business Requirements
6 3 (10.34%) Defect Management
6 3 (10.34%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (10.34%) Charles River
6 3 (10.34%) Active Directory
6 3 (10.34%) WAN

Lead 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 4 (13.79%) SharePoint
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (13.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (6.90%) SAP HCM
3 1 (3.45%) SAP GRC
3 1 (3.45%) SAP MDG
3 1 (3.45%) SAP MII
3 1 (3.45%) SAP PP
3 1 (3.45%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) Azure
2 5 (17.24%) AWS
2 5 (17.24%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (13.79%) Entra ID
4 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (10.34%) Mimecast
4 3 (10.34%) OneDrive
5 2 (6.90%) Boomi
5 2 (6.90%) GitHub
5 2 (6.90%) Power Automate
5 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.90%) PowerApps
6 1 (3.45%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.45%) GCP
6 1 (3.45%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) Firewall
2 3 (10.34%) SD-WAN
2 3 (10.34%) WAN
3 2 (6.90%) DHCP
3 2 (6.90%) DNS
3 2 (6.90%) VLAN
4 1 (3.45%) BGP
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (3.45%) Ethernet
4 1 (3.45%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (3.45%) LAN
4 1 (3.45%) Multicast
4 1 (3.45%) Network Security
4 1 (3.45%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (3.45%) VPN
4 1 (3.45%) VXLAN
4 1 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (3.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (6.90%) Power BI
1 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.45%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Subversion
General
1 12 (41.38%) Finance
2 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Back Office
3 3 (10.34%) Front Office
4 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Law
5 1 (3.45%) General Ledger
5 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.45%) Marketing
5 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.45%) Retail
5 1 (3.45%) Spanish Language
5 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) .NET
1 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET
1 1 (3.45%) REST
1 1 (3.45%) SOAP
1 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Data Centre
2 4 (13.79%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.45%) CCTV
3 1 (3.45%) FMCG
3 1 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.45%) LIMS
3 1 (3.45%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.45%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.45%) PACS
3 1 (3.45%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (27.59%) Migration
2 6 (20.69%) Data Migration
3 4 (13.79%) Agile
3 4 (13.79%) Mentoring
3 4 (13.79%) Project Management
4 3 (10.34%) Asset Management
4 3 (10.34%) Data Integration
4 3 (10.34%) Defect Management
4 3 (10.34%) ERP
4 3 (10.34%) Functional Testing
4 3 (10.34%) ITIL
4 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (10.34%) System Integration Testing
4 3 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (10.34%) Threat Management
4 3 (10.34%) Translating Business Requirements
4 3 (10.34%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (10.34%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 2 (6.90%) API Management
5 2 (6.90%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.90%) SQL
2 1 (3.45%) C#
2 1 (3.45%) Java
2 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.45%) Python
2 1 (3.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) Degree
2 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.45%) BICSI Certification
2 1 (3.45%) BICSI RCDD
2 1 (3.45%) CCNP
2 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) GRC
1 1 (3.45%) QA
1 1 (3.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (10.34%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) SAP
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.34%) Charles River
4 2 (6.90%) Cisco
4 2 (6.90%) Dell
4 2 (6.90%) Guidewire
4 2 (6.90%) MuleSoft
4 2 (6.90%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.45%) Ariba
5 1 (3.45%) Blue Prism
5 1 (3.45%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.45%) Juniper
5 1 (3.45%) ScienceLogic
5 1 (3.45%) UiPath
5 1 (3.45%) VMware