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 17 September 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
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 32 48
Rank change year-on-year -2 +16 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 114 125 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 5.86% 5.43% 4.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.28% 5.77% 4.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 71 101
10th Percentile £413 £408 £438
25th Percentile £475 £450 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +6.98% -10.42%
75th Percentile £725 £625 £680
90th Percentile £838 £725 £775
London median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 £40.75 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £41.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +50.60% - -
75th Percentile £63.75 £42.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £39.91 £63.18 £55.00
% change year-on-year -36.83% +14.87% -12.70%

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 1,814 2,166 3,075
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.17% 94.17% 94.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,231 1,399 2,137
10th Percentile £315 £363 £340
25th Percentile £422 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +2.65%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £781 £800
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 25 13
10th Percentile £18.51 £20.33 £16.69
25th Percentile £22.75 £23.80 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.15 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.57% - -15.66%
75th Percentile £43.75 £42.25 £42.32
90th Percentile £64.11 £119.50 £65.50
London median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -14.29% -6.27% +14.89%

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
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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 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
City of London 0 105 £585 +1.74% 239
West End of London -2 1 - - 2
City of Westminster -6 1 - -
Consultant
London

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 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 Central London region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 48 (42.11%) Finance
1 48 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 24 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (21.05%) Agile
3 23 (20.18%) Microsoft
4 22 (19.30%) SQL
5 20 (17.54%) Banking
6 17 (14.91%) Project Management
6 17 (14.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 16 (14.04%) Analytics
7 16 (14.04%) Requirements Gathering
7 16 (14.04%) Scrum
7 16 (14.04%) Oracle
8 15 (13.16%) SAP
8 15 (13.16%) Power Platform
9 14 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (12.28%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (12.28%) Change Management
10 13 (11.40%) Validation
10 13 (11.40%) Security Cleared
10 13 (11.40%) Analytical Skills
10 13 (11.40%) Power BI
11 12 (10.53%) Project Delivery
11 12 (10.53%) Business Analysis
11 12 (10.53%) Migration
12 11 (9.65%) Oracle EBS
12 11 (9.65%) Oracle Financials
12 11 (9.65%) Microsoft Excel
12 11 (9.65%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (9.65%) System Testing

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 8 (7.02%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.63%) Confluence
2 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.75%) CMS
4 1 (0.88%) Camunda
4 1 (0.88%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (9.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (9.65%) Oracle EBS
1 11 (9.65%) Oracle Financials
2 10 (8.77%) Oracle Payables
3 7 (6.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (5.26%) Oracle Cash Management
4 6 (5.26%) Oracle EBS R12
4 6 (5.26%) Oracle General Ledger
5 4 (3.51%) Aladdin
5 4 (3.51%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (2.63%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (2.63%) SAP CO
6 3 (2.63%) SAP FI
6 3 (2.63%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (2.63%) SAP PLM
7 2 (1.75%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (1.75%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 2 (1.75%) SAP MDG
7 2 (1.75%) SAP MM
7 2 (1.75%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 15 (13.16%) Power Platform
2 8 (7.02%) Azure
2 8 (7.02%) SaaS
3 7 (6.14%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (4.39%) AWS
5 3 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (2.63%) Entra ID
5 3 (2.63%) OCI
5 3 (2.63%) OneDrive
6 2 (1.75%) Power Automate
6 2 (1.75%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (0.88%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (0.88%) Alation
7 1 (0.88%) Cohesity
7 1 (0.88%) Collibra
7 1 (0.88%) GCP
7 1 (0.88%) IaaS
7 1 (0.88%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.88%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.88%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.51%) Firewall
2 3 (2.63%) DHCP
2 3 (2.63%) DNS
3 2 (1.75%) BGP
3 2 (1.75%) HTTP
3 2 (1.75%) MPLS
3 2 (1.75%) OSPF
3 2 (1.75%) VPN
3 2 (1.75%) WAN
4 1 (0.88%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.88%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (0.88%) IGMP
4 1 (0.88%) Intranet
4 1 (0.88%) IPsec
4 1 (0.88%) LAN
4 1 (0.88%) PSTN
4 1 (0.88%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.88%) VLAN
4 1 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.88%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.40%) Power BI
2 7 (6.14%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.75%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.75%) Metadata
4 1 (0.88%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.88%) Looker
4 1 (0.88%) Power Query
4 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (7.02%) JIRA
2 1 (0.88%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.88%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.88%) Git
2 1 (0.88%) GitLab
2 1 (0.88%) Selenium
2 1 (0.88%) Snyk
2 1 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 48 (42.11%) Finance
1 48 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 20 (17.54%) Banking
3 13 (11.40%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.77%) Investment Banking
4 10 (8.77%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.89%) Front Office
6 6 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (4.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.39%) Law
8 4 (3.51%) General Ledger
8 4 (3.51%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.63%) Retail
10 2 (1.75%) Back Office
10 2 (1.75%) Billing
10 2 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.75%) Legal
10 2 (1.75%) Marketing
10 2 (1.75%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.63%) HTML
2 2 (1.75%) CSS
3 1 (0.88%) JPA
3 1 (0.88%) JSON
3 1 (0.88%) Kafka
3 1 (0.88%) OAuth
3 1 (0.88%) OpenID
3 1 (0.88%) React
3 1 (0.88%) REST
3 1 (0.88%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.88%) Semantic HTML
3 1 (0.88%) Spring
3 1 (0.88%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.88%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.14%) Market Risk
2 4 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.63%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.63%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.63%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.75%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.75%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.75%) NHS
4 2 (1.75%) Operational Technology
4 2 (1.75%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.88%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.88%) CMDB
5 1 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.88%) Life Science
5 1 (0.88%) Pricing Data
5 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.88%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.39%) Windows
2 1 (0.88%) AIX
2 1 (0.88%) Linux
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (0.88%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (21.05%) Agile
1 24 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (14.91%) Project Management
2 17 (14.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 16 (14.04%) Analytics
3 16 (14.04%) Requirements Gathering
3 16 (14.04%) Scrum
4 14 (12.28%) Change Management
4 14 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
4 14 (12.28%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (11.40%) Validation
6 12 (10.53%) Business Analysis
6 12 (10.53%) Migration
6 12 (10.53%) Project Delivery
7 11 (9.65%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (9.65%) System Testing
8 10 (8.77%) Asset Management
8 10 (8.77%) Data Analysis
8 10 (8.77%) GAP Analysis
8 10 (8.77%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (19.30%) SQL
2 5 (4.39%) Java
3 4 (3.51%) JavaScript
3 4 (3.51%) Python
4 3 (2.63%) ABAP
4 3 (2.63%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.75%) C++
6 1 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 13 (11.40%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.77%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.63%) Degree
4 2 (1.75%) CISSP
4 2 (1.75%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.88%) CCNA
5 1 (0.88%) CCNP
5 1 (0.88%) CISA
5 1 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.88%) CRISC
5 1 (0.88%) CSSLP
5 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.88%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.88%) PMP
5 1 (0.88%) SANS
5 1 (0.88%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.02%) EMIR
1 8 (7.02%) MiFID
2 7 (6.14%) Basel II
3 6 (5.26%) QA
4 4 (3.51%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.51%) NIST
5 3 (2.63%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.88%) COBIT
6 1 (0.88%) COSO
6 1 (0.88%) GDPR
6 1 (0.88%) NCSC
6 1 (0.88%) PMO
6 1 (0.88%) SLA
6 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (4.39%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.75%) Firmware
3 1 (0.88%) Docker
3 1 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (1.75%) SCCM
2 1 (0.88%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.88%) QRadar
2 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.88%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (20.18%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.04%) Oracle
3 15 (13.16%) SAP
4 4 (3.51%) Charles River
4 4 (3.51%) Palo Alto
5 3 (2.63%) Adobe
5 3 (2.63%) Cisco
5 3 (2.63%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.63%) Tenable
6 2 (1.75%) Ariba
6 2 (1.75%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.75%) Dell
6 2 (1.75%) Google
6 2 (1.75%) UiPath
6 2 (1.75%) VMware
6 2 (1.75%) Workday
7 1 (0.88%) Ahrefs
7 1 (0.88%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.88%) Okta
7 1 (0.88%) Screaming Frog