Consultant Contracts 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 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 37 60
Rank change year-on-year +6 +23 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 124 147 202
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 5.31% 4.87% 4.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.70% 5.16% 4.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 105 142
10th Percentile £408 £419 £425
25th Percentile £511 £495 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £680 £699
90th Percentile £738 £775 £756
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.75 - -
Median hourly rate £41.50 - -
75th Percentile £42.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £52.75 £84.50 £77.50
% change year-on-year -37.57% +9.03% +171.93%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 2,175 2,847 4,613
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.07% 94.24% 95.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,366 1,999 3,161
10th Percentile £361 £340 £350
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £687 £690 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £788
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 18 60
10th Percentile £21.29 £17.00 £16.20
25th Percentile £30.19 £19.51 £19.69
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -9.76% +28.13%
75th Percentile £82.19 £51.56 £57.50
90th Percentile £129.85 £70.25 £78.75
London median hourly rate £39.00 £40.50 £32.25
% change year-on-year -3.70% +25.58% +7.50%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in Central London

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant 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 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in Central London

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant 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 31 October 2024. 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 +7 106 £575 +4.55% 44
West End of London +1 6 £546 +10.20% 1
City of Westminster - 5 £575 - 1
Camden -1 3 £551 +11.31% 2
Lambeth - 3 - -
Southwark - 1 £591 - 3
Consultant
London

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, 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 Central London region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 45 (36.29%) Finance
2 32 (25.81%) Social Skills
3 22 (17.74%) Migration
3 22 (17.74%) SQL
4 21 (16.94%) Oracle
4 21 (16.94%) Microsoft
5 18 (14.52%) SAP
6 17 (13.71%) Azure
7 16 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (11.29%) Cybersecurity
8 14 (11.29%) Banking
9 12 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (9.68%) Public Sector
10 11 (8.87%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (8.87%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (8.87%) Risk Management
10 11 (8.87%) ERP
10 11 (8.87%) Agile
11 10 (8.06%) Degree
11 10 (8.06%) Data Migration
11 10 (8.06%) ITIL
12 9 (7.26%) Windows
12 9 (7.26%) ETL
12 9 (7.26%) Active Directory
12 9 (7.26%) Validation
12 9 (7.26%) Security Cleared
12 9 (7.26%) SAP S/4HANA
12 9 (7.26%) Decision-Making
13 8 (6.45%) SC Cleared
13 8 (6.45%) Information Security

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 4 (3.23%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.61%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.81%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (0.81%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.81%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (7.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (4.84%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (4.03%) FLEXCUBE
3 5 (4.03%) Oracle BPM
4 4 (3.23%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (1.61%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (1.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (1.61%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.81%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.81%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.81%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.81%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.81%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.81%) Oracle Internet Expenses
6 1 (0.81%) Oracle iProcurement
6 1 (0.81%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.81%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.81%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.81%) SAP PP-PI
Cloud Services
1 17 (13.71%) Azure
2 11 (8.87%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (4.84%) Entra ID
3 6 (4.84%) OCI
3 6 (4.84%) WhatsApp
4 5 (4.03%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.23%) AWS
6 3 (2.42%) Azure App Service
6 3 (2.42%) Azure Storage
6 3 (2.42%) Google Workspace
6 3 (2.42%) IaaS
6 3 (2.42%) PaaS
7 2 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.61%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.61%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.81%) Intacct
8 1 (0.81%) Twilio
8 1 (0.81%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.42%) Firewall
1 3 (2.42%) Network Security
1 3 (2.42%) VPN
1 3 (2.42%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (2.42%) Wireless
1 3 (2.42%) WLAN
2 1 (0.81%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.81%) DNS
2 1 (0.81%) HTTP
2 1 (0.81%) Internet
2 1 (0.81%) SAN
2 1 (0.81%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.81%) SMS
2 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.81%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.03%) Power BI
2 3 (2.42%) SAP HANA
3 2 (1.61%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.61%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (1.61%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.61%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (0.81%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.81%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Cucumber
1 1 (0.81%) LSMW
1 1 (0.81%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (0.81%) Selenium
1 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (36.29%) Finance
2 32 (25.81%) Social Skills
3 16 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (11.29%) Banking
5 12 (9.68%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.65%) Manufacturing
7 5 (4.03%) Back Office
7 5 (4.03%) Retail
8 4 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.42%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.61%) Advertising
10 2 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.61%) Law
10 2 (1.61%) Legal
10 2 (1.61%) Military
11 1 (0.81%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.81%) Marketing
11 1 (0.81%) Police
11 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.84%) HTML
2 5 (4.03%) CSS
2 5 (4.03%) XML
3 4 (3.23%) SOAP
4 3 (2.42%) JSON
4 3 (2.42%) REST
5 2 (1.61%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.61%) Kafka
6 1 (0.81%) .NET
6 1 (0.81%) BAPI
6 1 (0.81%) Blazor
6 1 (0.81%) EDI
6 1 (0.81%) JWT
6 1 (0.81%) ModSecurity
6 1 (0.81%) OpenID
6 1 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.81%) PySpark
6 1 (0.81%) React
6 1 (0.81%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.81%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.03%) Management Information System
1 5 (4.03%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.23%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.23%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.42%) Educational Technology
3 3 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.42%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.61%) CESG
4 2 (1.61%) CMDB
4 2 (1.61%) e-Learning
4 2 (1.61%) iPad
4 2 (1.61%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.61%) PKI
5 1 (0.81%) Blackberry
5 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.81%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.81%) iPhone
5 1 (0.81%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.81%) SCADA
5 1 (0.81%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.26%) Windows
2 4 (3.23%) Windows 10
3 3 (2.42%) VMS
3 3 (2.42%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (2.42%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.81%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (17.74%) Migration
2 14 (11.29%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (8.87%) Agile
4 11 (8.87%) ERP
4 11 (8.87%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (8.87%) Risk Management
5 10 (8.06%) Data Migration
5 10 (8.06%) ITIL
6 9 (7.26%) Decision-Making
6 9 (7.26%) ETL
6 9 (7.26%) Validation
7 8 (6.45%) Information Security
8 7 (5.65%) Data Analysis
8 7 (5.65%) Data Modelling
9 6 (4.84%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (4.84%) Cloud Security
9 6 (4.84%) Data Security
9 6 (4.84%) Regulatory Compliance
9 6 (4.84%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 22 (17.74%) SQL
2 8 (6.45%) PL/SQL
3 7 (5.65%) JavaScript
4 6 (4.84%) Java
5 3 (2.42%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.81%) ABAP
6 1 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.81%) Python
6 1 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (8.06%) Degree
2 9 (7.26%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.84%) CISSP
5 3 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.42%) CESG Certified Professional
5 3 (2.42%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.61%) ACCA
6 2 (1.61%) CISA
6 2 (1.61%) CISM
6 2 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.61%) ISACA
6 2 (1.61%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.61%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.81%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 1 (0.81%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 1 (0.81%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.23%) GDPR
1 4 (3.23%) GRC
1 4 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (3.23%) SLA
2 3 (2.42%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.42%) QA
3 2 (1.61%) ISO 22301
3 2 (1.61%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.81%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.81%) NIST
4 1 (0.81%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.81%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (7.26%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.42%) Hyper-V
2 3 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.42%) VMware Workstation
3 1 (0.81%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.81%) Docker
3 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (4.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.61%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.61%) Nessus
2 2 (1.61%) Terraform
3 1 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.81%) Ansible
3 1 (0.81%) SCOM
Vendors
1 21 (16.94%) Microsoft
1 21 (16.94%) Oracle
2 18 (14.52%) SAP
3 5 (4.03%) Workday
4 4 (3.23%) Apple
4 4 (3.23%) CyberArk
4 4 (3.23%) Google
5 3 (2.42%) Cisco
5 3 (2.42%) VMware
6 2 (1.61%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.61%) Concur
6 2 (1.61%) Informatica
6 2 (1.61%) Maconomy
6 2 (1.61%) Qualys
6 2 (1.61%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.61%) Tripwire
7 1 (0.81%) Adobe
7 1 (0.81%) Lotus
7 1 (0.81%) Sage
7 1 (0.81%) Unisys