Technical Consultant Contracts in London

Technical Consultant
England > London

The median Technical Consultant daily rate in London is £518, 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 327 331 432
Rank change year-on-year +4 +101 +50
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Consultant 26 60 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.21% 0.34% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.36% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 34 35
10th Percentile £413 £454 £425
25th Percentile £431 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.75% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £667 £819 £638
90th Percentile £730 £875 £790
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.60 - -
Median hourly rate £42.82 - -
75th Percentile £44.03 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £42.82 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -30.50% +2.67% -14.29%

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%

Technical Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Consultant in London

Technical Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Consultant in London

Technical Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Consultant in London

Technical Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Consultant in London

Technical 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 Technical 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 +5 4 £489 -11.18% 6
Technical Consultant
England

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

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

1 7 (26.92%) Oracle
1 7 (26.92%) Finance
2 6 (23.08%) SAP
2 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 5 (19.23%) Agile
3 5 (19.23%) Banking
3 5 (19.23%) Migration
4 4 (15.38%) CSS
4 4 (15.38%) ETL
4 4 (15.38%) Middleware
4 4 (15.38%) SQL
4 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 4 (15.38%) ServiceNow
4 4 (15.38%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (11.54%) IFRS
5 3 (11.54%) IFRS 9
5 3 (11.54%) Architectural Design
5 3 (11.54%) Security Operations
5 3 (11.54%) OCI
5 3 (11.54%) Technical Architecture
5 3 (11.54%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (11.54%) Performance Management
5 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
5 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
5 3 (11.54%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (11.54%) Azure
5 3 (11.54%) HTML
5 3 (11.54%) Data Modelling
5 3 (11.54%) Workflow
5 3 (11.54%) ITSM

Technical 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 2 (7.69%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (15.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle iProcurement
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (3.85%) SAP MDG
4 1 (3.85%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.54%) Azure
1 3 (11.54%) OCI
2 2 (7.69%) SaaS
3 1 (3.85%) AWS
3 1 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (3.85%) GCP
3 1 (3.85%) GitHub
3 1 (3.85%) iPaaS
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.85%) Power Automate
3 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.85%) PowerApps
3 1 (3.85%) Salsify
3 1 (3.85%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.85%) SAP BW
2 1 (3.85%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (3.85%) Subversion
General
1 7 (26.92%) Finance
2 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 5 (19.23%) Banking
4 2 (7.69%) Back Office
4 2 (7.69%) General Ledger
4 2 (7.69%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) CSS
1 4 (15.38%) Middleware
2 3 (11.54%) HTML
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.85%) REST
3 1 (3.85%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (3.85%) SOAP
3 1 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Data Structures
1 2 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.85%) CMDB
2 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.85%) FMCG
2 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.85%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) Reinsurance
2 1 (3.85%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (19.23%) Agile
1 5 (19.23%) Migration
2 4 (15.38%) ETL
3 3 (11.54%) Architectural Design
3 3 (11.54%) Data Modelling
3 3 (11.54%) ITSM
3 3 (11.54%) Performance Management
3 3 (11.54%) Security Operations
3 3 (11.54%) Technical Architecture
3 3 (11.54%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (11.54%) Workflow
4 2 (7.69%) Business Strategy
4 2 (7.69%) Data Integration
4 2 (7.69%) Data Mapping
4 2 (7.69%) Data Migration
4 2 (7.69%) Order to Cash
4 2 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (7.69%) Project Delivery
4 2 (7.69%) Record to Report
4 2 (7.69%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
1 4 (15.38%) SQL
2 2 (7.69%) ABAP
2 2 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (3.85%) PL/SQL
3 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) IFRS
1 3 (11.54%) IFRS 9
2 1 (3.85%) Basel III
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
1 1 (3.85%) IAG
1 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Oracle
2 6 (23.08%) SAP
3 4 (15.38%) ServiceNow
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.85%) Google
5 1 (3.85%) Guidewire
5 1 (3.85%) VMware