Technology Consultant Contract Job Trends in London

Technology Consultant
England > London

The median Technology Consultant daily rate in London is £596, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 367 402
Rank change year-on-year +5 +35 +162
Contract jobs requiring a Technology Consultant 7 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.049% 0.013% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% 0.014% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £384 - -
25th Percentile £472 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £596 - -
75th Percentile £661 - -
90th Percentile £681 - -
England median daily rate £263 £600 -
% change year-on-year -56.25% - -

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 13,187 14,093 17,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 93.53% 93.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,735 9,130 12,805
10th Percentile £343 £335 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -2.22% -3.02%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £684
90th Percentile £759 £799 £788
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 153 211
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.47 £17.75
25th Percentile £22.38 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.65 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.30% - -
75th Percentile £57.13 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.50 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.39% -20.00% +38.46%

Technology Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Technology Consultant' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Technology Consultant job vacancy trend in London

Technology Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technology Consultant job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technology Consultant job vacancies in London

Technology Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technology Consultant in London over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technology Consultant in London

Technology 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 Technology Consultant within the London region over the 6 months to 18 December 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 - 1 £543 - 1
Technology Consultant
England

Technology Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 18 December 2025, Technology Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Technology Consultant in the job title.

1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) Identity Management
2 3 (42.86%) Acceptance Criteria
2 3 (42.86%) BDD
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
2 3 (42.86%) DevSecOps
2 3 (42.86%) E-Commerce
2 3 (42.86%) Epics
2 3 (42.86%) Event-Driven
2 3 (42.86%) GDPR
2 3 (42.86%) PERC
2 3 (42.86%) Privacy Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Release Train
2 3 (42.86%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 3 (42.86%) SDLC
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Architecture Governance
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco
3 2 (28.57%) Coaching
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Data Privacy
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 2 (28.57%) Remediation Plan
3 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis

Technology Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (14.29%) Mimecast
1 1 (14.29%) OneDrive
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) SAN
General
1 3 (42.86%) Legal
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Electronics
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Client/Server
2 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 1 (14.29%) EPoS
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
3 1 (14.29%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) Identity Management
2 3 (42.86%) Acceptance Criteria
2 3 (42.86%) BDD
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
2 3 (42.86%) DevSecOps
2 3 (42.86%) E-Commerce
2 3 (42.86%) Epics
2 3 (42.86%) Event-Driven
2 3 (42.86%) Privacy Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Release Train
2 3 (42.86%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 3 (42.86%) SDLC
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (14.29%) CISSP
1 1 (14.29%) GIAC
1 1 (14.29%) SANS
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) GDPR
1 3 (42.86%) PERC
2 1 (14.29%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (14.29%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (14.29%) EMC VPLEX
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Brocade
2 1 (14.29%) Dell
2 1 (14.29%) EMC
2 1 (14.29%) Isilon
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) VMware