Consultant Contract Job Trends in Central London

Consultant
London > Central London

The median Consultant daily rate in Central London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 March 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 37 23
Rank change year-on-year +1 -14 +44
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 125 113 187
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.70% 5.51% 7.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.05% 5.93% 7.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 75 140
10th Percentile £425 £467 £425
25th Percentile £478 £523 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% +6.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £653 £666 £675
90th Percentile £746 £745 £739
London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £40.20 - -
25th Percentile £41.06 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £50.63 - -
90th Percentile £52.50 - -
London median hourly rate £55.75 £53.50 £88.75
% change year-on-year +4.21% -39.72% +26.79%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,065 1,904 2,459
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.16% 92.92% 95.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,412 1,218 1,756
10th Percentile £350 £363 £328
25th Percentile £446 £463 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 19 33
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.29 £30.04 £20.22
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +40.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £43.86 £41.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.64 £112.00 £49.95
London median hourly rate £34.50 £35.00 £28.75
% change year-on-year -1.44% +21.74% -17.86%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Consultant job vacancy trend in Central London

Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in Central London over the 6 months to 9 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in Central London

Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in Central London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in Central London

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the Central London region over the 6 months to 9 March 2026. 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
City of London +7 120 £575 -4.17% 94
West End of London +6 3 £575 +4.55% 3
Southwark +1 1 - -
Consultant
London

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

For the 6 months to 9 March 2026, 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 Central London region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 21 (16.80%) Azure
2 20 (16.00%) Migration
3 18 (14.40%) Microsoft
3 18 (14.40%) SAP
3 18 (14.40%) Security Cleared
4 16 (12.80%) Oracle
4 16 (12.80%) SQL
5 15 (12.00%) SC Cleared
5 15 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (11.20%) Analytics
7 12 (9.60%) Python
7 12 (9.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 11 (8.80%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (8.80%) Decision-Making
8 11 (8.80%) ERP
8 11 (8.80%) PowerShell
9 10 (8.00%) Agile
9 10 (8.00%) Oracle Fusion
9 10 (8.00%) Power Platform
9 10 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (8.00%) VMware
10 9 (7.20%) AI
10 9 (7.20%) Business Continuity
10 9 (7.20%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (7.20%) Power Automate
10 9 (7.20%) Power BI
10 9 (7.20%) SAP S/4HANA
11 8 (6.40%) Degree
11 8 (6.40%) DevOps
11 8 (6.40%) JavaScript

Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central 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 6 (4.80%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.80%) Apache
2 1 (0.80%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.80%) ArcGIS
2 1 (0.80%) Confluence
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (7.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.40%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.40%) SAP EWM
3 2 (1.60%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.60%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (1.60%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.60%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.60%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.60%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (1.60%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.80%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.80%) SAP FI-CA
4 1 (0.80%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 21 (16.80%) Azure
2 10 (8.00%) Power Platform
3 9 (7.20%) Dynamics 365
3 9 (7.20%) Power Automate
4 7 (5.60%) AWS
4 7 (5.60%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (5.60%) GCP
5 6 (4.80%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (4.00%) Entra ID
6 5 (4.00%) PowerApps
7 3 (2.40%) OCI
7 3 (2.40%) SaaS
8 2 (1.60%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.60%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.60%) GitHub
8 2 (1.60%) Google Analytics
8 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.60%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.60%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.20%) Firewall
2 3 (2.40%) MPLS
3 2 (1.60%) HTTP
3 2 (1.60%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.60%) VPN
3 2 (1.60%) VSAN
3 2 (1.60%) WAN
4 1 (0.80%) BGP
4 1 (0.80%) Internet
4 1 (0.80%) Network Security
4 1 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.20%) Power BI
2 3 (2.40%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (2.40%) Tableau
3 2 (1.60%) Looker
3 2 (1.60%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.80%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.80%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 3 (2.40%) JIRA
2 2 (1.60%) git-flow
3 1 (0.80%) Git
3 1 (0.80%) GitLab
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
General
1 28 (22.40%) Finance
2 18 (14.40%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.60%) Banking
5 4 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.60%) Advertising
7 2 (1.60%) Billing
7 2 (1.60%) General Ledger
7 2 (1.60%) Law
7 2 (1.60%) Legal
7 2 (1.60%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.60%) Publishing
7 2 (1.60%) Retail
8 1 (0.80%) Dutch Language
8 1 (0.80%) French Language
8 1 (0.80%) International Banking
8 1 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.80%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (3.20%) WSE
3 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (2.40%) REST
4 2 (1.60%) EDI
4 2 (1.60%) Flash
4 2 (1.60%) IDoc
5 1 (0.80%) BAPI
5 1 (0.80%) CSS
5 1 (0.80%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.80%) HTML
5 1 (0.80%) JSON
5 1 (0.80%) Middleware
5 1 (0.80%) OAuth
5 1 (0.80%) RESTful
5 1 (0.80%) SAML
5 1 (0.80%) SAP ALE
5 1 (0.80%) SAP PI
5 1 (0.80%) SPFx
5 1 (0.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.20%) Data Centre
1 4 (3.20%) Onboarding
2 3 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (2.40%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.60%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.80%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.80%) CMDB
4 1 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.80%) IoT
4 1 (0.80%) Life Science
4 1 (0.80%) Mainframe
4 1 (0.80%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.80%) PACS
4 1 (0.80%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.80%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.80%) Windows
2 1 (0.80%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.80%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (16.00%) Migration
2 15 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (11.20%) Analytics
4 12 (9.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 11 (8.80%) Business Intelligence
5 11 (8.80%) Decision-Making
5 11 (8.80%) ERP
6 10 (8.00%) Agile
6 10 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (7.20%) AI
7 9 (7.20%) Business Continuity
8 8 (6.40%) DevOps
8 8 (6.40%) Validation
9 7 (5.60%) Data Modelling
9 7 (5.60%) ITIL
9 7 (5.60%) Workflow
10 6 (4.80%) CI/CD
10 6 (4.80%) GAP Analysis
10 6 (4.80%) Requirements Gathering
10 6 (4.80%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (12.80%) SQL
2 12 (9.60%) Python
3 11 (8.80%) PowerShell
4 8 (6.40%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.20%) Go
6 3 (2.40%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.40%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.60%) Java
7 2 (1.60%) Korn
8 1 (0.80%) ABAP
8 1 (0.80%) Assembly Language
8 1 (0.80%) Bash
8 1 (0.80%) BeanShell
8 1 (0.80%) C#
8 1 (0.80%) JCL
8 1 (0.80%) ProC
8 1 (0.80%) REXX
8 1 (0.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (14.40%) Security Cleared
2 15 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.40%) Degree
4 5 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (1.60%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.60%) CISM
5 2 (1.60%) CISSP
5 2 (1.60%) GIAC
5 2 (1.60%) ISACA
5 2 (1.60%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.80%) CCNA
6 1 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.80%) CRISC
6 1 (0.80%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.80%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.80%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.40%) PCI DSS
3 3 (2.40%) QA
4 2 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.60%) NCSC
4 2 (1.60%) NIST
5 1 (0.80%) DICOM
5 1 (0.80%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.80%) GDPR
5 1 (0.80%) HL7
5 1 (0.80%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.80%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (4.80%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.80%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (0.80%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.80%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (5.60%) vRealize
2 5 (4.00%) Terraform
3 4 (3.20%) Ansible
3 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.60%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 1 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.80%) CASB
5 1 (0.80%) Packer
5 1 (0.80%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (14.40%) Microsoft
1 18 (14.40%) SAP
2 16 (12.80%) Oracle
3 10 (8.00%) VMware
4 7 (5.60%) Google
5 6 (4.80%) Databricks
6 5 (4.00%) Pure Storage
7 4 (3.20%) Adobe
8 3 (2.40%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.60%) Broadcom
9 2 (1.60%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.60%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.80%) Ahrefs
10 1 (0.80%) Amplitude
10 1 (0.80%) Concur
10 1 (0.80%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.80%) IBM
10 1 (0.80%) IFS
10 1 (0.80%) Okta
10 1 (0.80%) Screaming Frog