Consultant Contracts in Tower Hamlets

Consultant
East London > Tower Hamlets

The median Consultant daily rate in Tower Hamlets is £585, 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 9 3 10
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 5 23 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 8.93% 20.72% 11.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.62% 23.96% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 23 8
10th Percentile £541 £503 -
25th Percentile £550 £561 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £625 £750
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% -16.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile - - £781
90th Percentile £594 £737 £800
East London median daily rate £585 £625 £750
% change year-on-year -6.40% -16.67% +76.47%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Tower Hamlets

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Tower Hamlets. 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 Tower Hamlets with a recognized job title 52 96 68
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 86.49% 98.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 94 59
10th Percentile £350 £460 £220
25th Percentile £495 £533 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £597 £613
Median % change year-on-year -2.85% -2.53% +1.66%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £756
90th Percentile £649 £770 £830
East London median daily rate £540 £540 £500
% change year-on-year - +8.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
East London median hourly rate £28.60 £22.91 £27.47
% change year-on-year +24.84% -16.58% +39.84%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Tower Hamlets

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in Tower Hamlets

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Consultant in Tower Hamlets.

Daily rate trend for Consultant in Tower Hamlets

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Consultant in Tower Hamlets.

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in Tower Hamlets

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in Tower Hamlets

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the Tower Hamlets 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
Canary Wharf -8 5 £585 -6.40%
Consultant
East London

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tower Hamlets

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Tower Hamlets region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
3 2 (40.00%) SCCM
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (40.00%) VLAN
3 2 (40.00%) Multicast
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (40.00%) WAN
3 2 (40.00%) DHCP
3 2 (40.00%) DNS
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (40.00%) OSPF
3 2 (40.00%) BGP
3 2 (40.00%) Firewall
3 2 (40.00%) Threat Management
3 2 (40.00%) OneDrive
3 2 (40.00%) Mimecast
3 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (40.00%) Robotic Process Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Desktop Virtualisation
3 2 (40.00%) Arista

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tower Hamlets 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 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 2 (40.00%) Mimecast
1 2 (40.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) BGP
1 2 (40.00%) DHCP
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) Multicast
1 2 (40.00%) OSPF
1 2 (40.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (40.00%) VLAN
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) MPLS
2 1 (20.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (20.00%) VXLAN
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (40.00%) Desktop Virtualisation
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) Robotic Process Automation
1 2 (40.00%) Threat Management
1 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (20.00%) Resilience Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Arista
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco