Senior Consultant Contracts in London

Senior Consultant
England > London

The median Senior Consultant daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 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
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 278 341 449
Rank change year-on-year +63 +108 +79
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Consultant 63 61 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.52% 0.35% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.38% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 39 30
10th Percentile £450 £445 £468
25th Percentile £481 £505 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £606
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -5.15% -6.73%
75th Percentile £688 £713 £725
90th Percentile £838 £775 £839
England median daily rate £586 £579 £600
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £37.58 - -
25th Percentile £39.94 £61.68 -
Median hourly rate £45.25 £63.36 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.58% - -
75th Percentile £50.94 £65.03 -
90th Percentile £53.53 - -
England median hourly rate £45.25 £56.89 £56.89
% change year-on-year -20.45% - -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 11,402 16,265 24,406
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.31% 93.47% 95.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,774 11,762 17,762
10th Percentile £343 £325 £363
25th Percentile £427 £441 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £578
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.43%
75th Percentile £675 £681 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 319 282
10th Percentile £20.24 £16.02 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.18 £20.22 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.00 £27.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -23.61% +2.86%
75th Percentile £49.75 £44.25 £62.64
90th Percentile £62.30 £65.23 £82.48
England median hourly rate £29.07 £37.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.81% -17.38% +95.65%

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 24 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Consultant in London over the 6 months to 24 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 24 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 +10 9 £755 +31.30% 21
East London - 2 £543 - 3
West London - 1 - - 48
Senior Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 32 (50.79%) Social Skills
2 21 (33.33%) Agile
3 19 (30.16%) Finance
4 13 (20.63%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (20.63%) SQL
5 12 (19.05%) SAP
5 12 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (17.46%) Azure
6 11 (17.46%) Analytics
7 8 (12.70%) Degree
7 8 (12.70%) Banking
8 7 (11.11%) Java
8 7 (11.11%) SC Cleared
8 7 (11.11%) Security Cleared
8 7 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
8 7 (11.11%) Power Platform
9 6 (9.52%) Scenario Testing
9 6 (9.52%) SaaS
9 6 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 6 (9.52%) DevOps
9 6 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (9.52%) SDLC
9 6 (9.52%) Power BI
9 6 (9.52%) Python
9 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
9 6 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (9.52%) Microsoft
10 5 (7.94%) Scrum
10 5 (7.94%) Information Security
10 5 (7.94%) Retail

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 (1.59%) Confluence
1 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.17%) Sketch
3 1 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (6.35%) SAP EWM
3 3 (4.76%) SAP CO
3 3 (4.76%) SAP FI
4 2 (3.17%) Endur
5 1 (1.59%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (1.59%) SAP CS
5 1 (1.59%) SAP ERP
5 1 (1.59%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (1.59%) SAP GRC
5 1 (1.59%) SAP LE
5 1 (1.59%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 11 (17.46%) Azure
2 7 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 6 (9.52%) SaaS
4 5 (7.94%) AWS
5 4 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.76%) Figma
6 3 (4.76%) GitHub
7 2 (3.17%) GCP
8 1 (1.59%) Alation
8 1 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.59%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.59%) Boomi
8 1 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.59%) Collibra
8 1 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.59%) IaaS
8 1 (1.59%) OCI
8 1 (1.59%) PaaS
8 1 (1.59%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.59%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.35%) Multicast
2 3 (4.76%) BGP
2 3 (4.76%) OSPF
3 2 (3.17%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (3.17%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (3.17%) VXLAN
3 2 (3.17%) WebEx
4 1 (1.59%) 3G
4 1 (1.59%) 4G
4 1 (1.59%) 5G
4 1 (1.59%) 5G NR
4 1 (1.59%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.59%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.59%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (1.59%) Firewall
4 1 (1.59%) LAN
4 1 (1.59%) LTE
4 1 (1.59%) MPLS
4 1 (1.59%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (1.59%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.52%) Power BI
2 5 (7.94%) Data Mining
3 3 (4.76%) Tableau
4 2 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.59%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.59%) Metadata
5 1 (1.59%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.59%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 4 (6.35%) JMeter
1 4 (6.35%) LoadRunner
1 4 (6.35%) Serenity BDD
2 3 (4.76%) Axure RP
2 3 (4.76%) Subversion
3 2 (3.17%) JIRA
4 1 (1.59%) Git
4 1 (1.59%) GitLab
4 1 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.59%) Toad
General
1 32 (50.79%) Social Skills
2 19 (30.16%) Finance
3 8 (12.70%) Banking
4 6 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.94%) Investment Banking
5 5 (7.94%) Retail
6 2 (3.17%) Back Office
6 2 (3.17%) Marketing
6 2 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.59%) Advertising
7 1 (1.59%) Agriculture
7 1 (1.59%) Automotive
7 1 (1.59%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.59%) Law
7 1 (1.59%) Legal
7 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.76%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.59%) JSON
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.59%) REST
2 1 (1.59%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.59%) SAP TM
2 1 (1.59%) SOAP
2 1 (1.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.94%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (7.94%) Market Risk
2 4 (6.35%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.17%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.17%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.59%) PKI
5 1 (1.59%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.59%) Linux
1 1 (1.59%) Unix
1 1 (1.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (33.33%) Agile
2 13 (20.63%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (17.46%) Analytics
5 6 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (9.52%) DevOps
5 6 (9.52%) Scenario Testing
5 6 (9.52%) SDLC
5 6 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (7.94%) Computer Science
6 5 (7.94%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (7.94%) Information Security
6 5 (7.94%) Scrum
6 5 (7.94%) Service Delivery
6 5 (7.94%) Stress Testing
7 4 (6.35%) Defect Management
7 4 (6.35%) Microservices
7 4 (6.35%) Performance Engineering
7 4 (6.35%) Performance Testing
7 4 (6.35%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.63%) SQL
2 7 (11.11%) Java
3 6 (9.52%) Python
4 4 (6.35%) C#
4 4 (6.35%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.59%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (12.70%) Degree
2 7 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 7 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 5 (7.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.76%) CISSP
5 2 (3.17%) CCA
5 2 (3.17%) CISM
5 2 (3.17%) CRISC
6 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) Basel II
2 3 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 1 (1.59%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.59%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.59%) GDPR
3 1 (1.59%) GRC
3 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 4 (6.35%) Perfmon
2 1 (1.59%) NSN NetAct
2 1 (1.59%) RSA Archer
2 1 (1.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (19.05%) SAP
2 6 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.35%) Cisco
3 4 (6.35%) Dynatrace
3 4 (6.35%) New Relic
3 4 (6.35%) Oracle
4 3 (4.76%) Arista
5 2 (3.17%) Ariba
5 2 (3.17%) CheckPoint
5 2 (3.17%) Guidewire
5 2 (3.17%) OpenLink
5 2 (3.17%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.59%) Google
6 1 (1.59%) IBM
6 1 (1.59%) Juniper
6 1 (1.59%) Kronos
6 1 (1.59%) Murex
6 1 (1.59%) Nokia
6 1 (1.59%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.59%) Talend