Consultant Contracts in Central London

Consultant
London > Central London

The median Consultant daily rate in Central London is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 64 88
Rank change year-on-year +39 +24 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 174 126 123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 7.27% 3.41% 2.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.62% 3.59% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 89 91
10th Percentile £434 £438 £413
25th Percentile £475 £475 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -2.31% +2.36%
75th Percentile £674 £763 £669
90th Percentile £775 £800 £738
London median daily rate £550 £575 £560
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% +1.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,284 3,510 4,244
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.45% 95.12% 94.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,605 2,388 3,219
10th Percentile £340 £325 £356
25th Percentile £438 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £675
90th Percentile £788 £804 £775
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 23 49
10th Percentile £20.07 £15.50 £15.38
25th Percentile £21.44 £18.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £27.41 £35.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.70% -11.39% +122.69%
75th Percentile £28.98 £61.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £41.88 £87.64 £62.50
London median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +8.63%

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 May 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 May 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 +36 155 £575 +4.55% 86
West End of London +9 7 £538 -32.75% 2
Camden - 7 £538 - 2
City of Westminster - 6 £575 - 1
Consultant
London

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 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 61 (35.06%) Finance
2 53 (30.46%) Social Skills
3 40 (22.99%) SAP
3 40 (22.99%) Microsoft
4 33 (18.97%) Azure
5 25 (14.37%) Degree
6 23 (13.22%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (12.07%) Public Sector
8 20 (11.49%) SQL
9 19 (10.92%) Agile
10 18 (10.34%) Test Scripting
11 17 (9.77%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (9.77%) Cybersecurity
12 15 (8.62%) Power Platform
12 15 (8.62%) Banking
12 15 (8.62%) Oracle
13 14 (8.05%) Business Intelligence
13 14 (8.05%) Migration
13 14 (8.05%) Security Cleared
14 13 (7.47%) SC Cleared
14 13 (7.47%) Information Security
14 13 (7.47%) SLA
14 13 (7.47%) Power BI
14 13 (7.47%) Dynamics 365
15 12 (6.90%) SuccessFactors
15 12 (6.90%) Requirements Gathering
15 12 (6.90%) Retail
15 12 (6.90%) User Acceptance Testing
16 11 (6.32%) AWS
16 11 (6.32%) Project Management

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 3 (1.72%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.57%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (5.75%) Dynamics GP
2 8 (4.60%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (2.87%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.72%) NEC Housing
4 3 (1.72%) SAP HR
4 3 (1.72%) SAP MRS
4 3 (1.72%) SAP PS
5 2 (1.15%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (1.15%) SAP CO
5 2 (1.15%) SAP FI
5 2 (1.15%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (1.15%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.57%) SAP CCM
6 1 (0.57%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.57%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.57%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 33 (18.97%) Azure
2 15 (8.62%) Power Platform
3 13 (7.47%) Dynamics 365
4 12 (6.90%) SuccessFactors
5 11 (6.32%) AWS
6 10 (5.75%) Power Automate
7 9 (5.17%) GCP
7 9 (5.17%) PowerApps
8 8 (4.60%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (4.60%) Entra ID
9 5 (2.87%) OCI
9 5 (2.87%) WhatsApp
10 4 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.72%) Azure App Service
11 3 (1.72%) Azure Storage
11 3 (1.72%) IaaS
11 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (1.72%) PaaS
12 2 (1.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 2 (1.15%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.45%) WAN
2 5 (2.87%) Firewall
3 4 (2.30%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.15%) DHCP
4 2 (1.15%) DNS
4 2 (1.15%) LAN
4 2 (1.15%) Unified Communications
4 2 (1.15%) VPN
4 2 (1.15%) Wireless
4 2 (1.15%) WLAN
5 1 (0.57%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.57%) SMS
5 1 (0.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.47%) Power BI
2 8 (4.60%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.15%) Big Data
3 2 (1.15%) PostHog
3 2 (1.15%) Sybase ASE
4 1 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.57%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.57%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.57%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.57%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.57%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.57%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.57%) PowerCenter
4 1 (0.57%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (2.87%) Git
2 2 (1.15%) Appium
2 2 (1.15%) Cucumber
2 2 (1.15%) eggPlant
2 2 (1.15%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.15%) JUnit
2 2 (1.15%) Postman
2 2 (1.15%) REST Assured
2 2 (1.15%) Selenium
2 2 (1.15%) SoapUI
2 2 (1.15%) SOAtest
2 2 (1.15%) TestNG
2 2 (1.15%) WebDriver
3 1 (0.57%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.57%) JIRA
3 1 (0.57%) RStudio
3 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 61 (35.06%) Finance
2 53 (30.46%) Social Skills
3 23 (13.22%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (12.07%) Public Sector
5 15 (8.62%) Banking
6 12 (6.90%) Retail
7 8 (4.60%) General Ledger
8 7 (4.02%) Law
9 6 (3.45%) Marketing
9 6 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.87%) Legal
11 4 (2.30%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.72%) Automotive
13 2 (1.15%) Back Office
13 2 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.57%) Front Office
14 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.87%) SAP Fiori
2 3 (1.72%) EDI
2 3 (1.72%) HTML
2 3 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (1.72%) Web Services
3 2 (1.15%) .NET
3 2 (1.15%) CSS
3 2 (1.15%) OpenID
3 2 (1.15%) SailPoint
3 2 (1.15%) XML
4 1 (0.57%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.57%) JWT
4 1 (0.57%) Kafka
4 1 (0.57%) LDAP
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.57%) SAML
4 1 (0.57%) SAP Core Interface
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.17%) Data Structures
2 5 (2.87%) Management Information System
2 5 (2.87%) PKI
3 3 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (1.72%) Reinsurance
4 2 (1.15%) CMDB
4 2 (1.15%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.15%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.15%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.57%) Blog
5 1 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.57%) iPad
5 1 (0.57%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.57%) Life Science
5 1 (0.57%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.57%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.57%) SCORM
5 1 (0.57%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.57%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.87%) Windows
2 3 (1.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (10.92%) Agile
2 18 (10.34%) Test Scripting
3 17 (9.77%) Cybersecurity
3 17 (9.77%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (8.05%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (8.05%) Migration
5 13 (7.47%) Information Security
6 12 (6.90%) Requirements Gathering
6 12 (6.90%) User Acceptance Testing
7 11 (6.32%) DevOps
7 11 (6.32%) Project Management
7 11 (6.32%) Risk Management
7 11 (6.32%) Workflow
8 10 (5.75%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (5.75%) Use Case
9 9 (5.17%) Accounts Receivable
9 9 (5.17%) Cloud Security
9 9 (5.17%) Identity Access Management
9 9 (5.17%) Requirements Workshops
10 8 (4.60%) Accounts Payable
Programming Languages
1 20 (11.49%) SQL
2 7 (4.02%) Java
3 5 (2.87%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.30%) ABAP
5 3 (1.72%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.72%) Python
6 2 (1.15%) C#
6 2 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.15%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.57%) C++
7 1 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.57%) R
7 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (14.37%) Degree
2 14 (8.05%) Security Cleared
3 13 (7.47%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.30%) ACCA
4 4 (2.30%) CISM
4 4 (2.30%) CISSP
4 4 (2.30%) CRISC
5 3 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.57%) CISA
6 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.57%) SAP Certification
6 1 (0.57%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.47%) SLA
2 11 (6.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 10 (5.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (5.75%) NIST
4 3 (1.72%) ISO 31000
4 3 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (1.72%) NIST 800
4 3 (1.72%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.15%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.15%) GAAP
5 2 (1.15%) PMO
5 2 (1.15%) QA
6 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.57%) GDPR
6 1 (0.57%) GRC
6 1 (0.57%) ISAE 3402
6 1 (0.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.57%) Docker
3 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (1.15%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.57%) Control-M
3 1 (0.57%) Grafana
3 1 (0.57%) PingFederate
3 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.57%) Terraform
3 1 (0.57%) vRealize
3 1 (0.57%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 40 (22.99%) Microsoft
1 40 (22.99%) SAP
2 15 (8.62%) Oracle
3 8 (4.60%) Google
4 6 (3.45%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.72%) Adobe
5 3 (1.72%) Apple
5 3 (1.72%) NEC
6 2 (1.15%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.15%) McAfee
6 2 (1.15%) Ping Identity
6 2 (1.15%) Sybase
6 2 (1.15%) VMware
6 2 (1.15%) Workday
7 1 (0.57%) Ahrefs
7 1 (0.57%) AlgoSec
7 1 (0.57%) ForeScout
7 1 (0.57%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.57%) Spotify