Senior Consultant Contracts in London

Senior Consultant
England > London

The median Senior Consultant daily rate in London is £565, 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 298 322 452
Rank change year-on-year +24 +130 +45
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Consultant 55 69 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.44% 0.39% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.42% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 46 25
10th Percentile £410 £456 £481
25th Percentile £481 £503 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -2.92% -11.28%
75th Percentile £649 £713 £725
90th Percentile £800 £794 £845
England median daily rate £600 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.75 £61.68 -
Median hourly rate £53.50 £63.36 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% - -
75th Percentile £55.25 £65.03 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £53.50 £56.89 £56.89
% change year-on-year -5.95% - -28.89%

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%

Senior Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Consultant in London

Senior Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Consultant in London

Senior Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Consultant in London

Senior Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Consultant in London

Senior 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 Senior 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 -2 6 £575 -1.29% 6
East London - 2 £543 - 4
West London - 1 - - 3
Senior Consultant
England

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

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

1 25 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 19 (34.55%) Agile
3 18 (32.73%) Finance
4 12 (21.82%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (20.00%) Azure
6 10 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (16.36%) SAP
8 7 (12.73%) SQL
8 7 (12.73%) Java
8 7 (12.73%) Banking
9 6 (10.91%) Degree
9 6 (10.91%) Information Security
9 6 (10.91%) SC Cleared
9 6 (10.91%) Security Cleared
9 6 (10.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 6 (10.91%) DevOps
10 5 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (9.09%) Analytics
10 5 (9.09%) AWS
10 5 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
10 5 (9.09%) Computer Science
10 5 (9.09%) Python
10 5 (9.09%) Microsoft
10 5 (9.09%) Risk Management
10 5 (9.09%) Project Delivery
11 4 (7.27%) Power Platform
11 4 (7.27%) Serenity BDD
11 4 (7.27%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (7.27%) Containerisation

Senior 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 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.64%) Sketch
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (7.27%) SAP EWM
3 2 (3.64%) Endur
4 1 (1.82%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.82%) SAP CS
4 1 (1.82%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.82%) SAP GRC
4 1 (1.82%) SAP LE
4 1 (1.82%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 11 (20.00%) Azure
2 5 (9.09%) AWS
3 4 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (7.27%) Power Platform
4 3 (5.45%) Figma
4 3 (5.45%) SaaS
5 2 (3.64%) GCP
5 2 (3.64%) GitHub
5 2 (3.64%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.82%) Boomi
6 1 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.82%) IaaS
6 1 (1.82%) PaaS
6 1 (1.82%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.82%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.45%) Multicast
2 2 (3.64%) BGP
2 2 (3.64%) OSPF
2 2 (3.64%) VXLAN
2 2 (3.64%) WebEx
3 1 (1.82%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (1.82%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.82%) Cisco Wireless
3 1 (1.82%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (1.82%) Firewall
3 1 (1.82%) IGMP
3 1 (1.82%) LAN
3 1 (1.82%) MPLS
3 1 (1.82%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (1.82%) WAN
3 1 (1.82%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.45%) Power BI
1 3 (5.45%) Tableau
2 2 (3.64%) Data Mining
2 2 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.82%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.82%) DB2
3 1 (1.82%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (7.27%) JMeter
1 4 (7.27%) LoadRunner
1 4 (7.27%) Serenity BDD
2 3 (5.45%) Axure RP
2 3 (5.45%) GitLab
2 3 (5.45%) Subversion
3 1 (1.82%) ChangeMan
3 1 (1.82%) Git
3 1 (1.82%) JIRA
3 1 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.82%) Toad
General
1 25 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 18 (32.73%) Finance
3 7 (12.73%) Banking
4 5 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.27%) Retail
6 3 (5.45%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.64%) Back Office
7 2 (3.64%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.82%) Agriculture
8 1 (1.82%) Automotive
8 1 (1.82%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.82%) Law
8 1 (1.82%) Legal
8 1 (1.82%) Marketing
8 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.82%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.45%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.82%) JSON
2 1 (1.82%) REST
2 1 (1.82%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.82%) SAP TM
2 1 (1.82%) SOAP
2 1 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.27%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (5.45%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.45%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.64%) Market Risk
3 2 (3.64%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.82%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.82%) PKI
4 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.64%) Windows
2 1 (1.82%) Linux
2 1 (1.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (34.55%) Agile
2 12 (21.82%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (10.91%) DevOps
4 6 (10.91%) Information Security
4 6 (10.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (9.09%) Analytics
5 5 (9.09%) Computer Science
5 5 (9.09%) Project Delivery
5 5 (9.09%) Risk Management
6 4 (7.27%) Containerisation
6 4 (7.27%) Defect Management
6 4 (7.27%) DevSecOps
6 4 (7.27%) Microservices
6 4 (7.27%) Performance Engineering
6 4 (7.27%) Performance Testing
6 4 (7.27%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (7.27%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 4 (7.27%) SDLC
6 4 (7.27%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.73%) Java
1 7 (12.73%) SQL
2 5 (9.09%) Python
3 4 (7.27%) C#
3 4 (7.27%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.82%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.82%) REXX
Qualifications
1 6 (10.91%) Degree
1 6 (10.91%) SC Cleared
1 6 (10.91%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.45%) CISSP
4 2 (3.64%) CISM
4 2 (3.64%) CRISC
5 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.82%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 2 (3.64%) Basel II
3 1 (1.82%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.82%) GRC
3 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 4 (7.27%) Perfmon
2 2 (3.64%) RSA Archer
3 1 (1.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (16.36%) SAP
2 5 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.27%) Dynatrace
3 4 (7.27%) New Relic
4 3 (5.45%) Cisco
4 3 (5.45%) IBM
4 3 (5.45%) Oracle
5 2 (3.64%) Ariba
5 2 (3.64%) Arista
5 2 (3.64%) CheckPoint
5 2 (3.64%) Guidewire
5 2 (3.64%) OpenLink
5 2 (3.64%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.64%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.82%) Avaloq
6 1 (1.82%) F5
6 1 (1.82%) Micro Focus
6 1 (1.82%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.82%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.82%) Talend