Consultant Contracts in Central London

Consultant
London > Central London

The median Consultant daily rate in Central London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 24 66
Rank change year-on-year -16 +42 +22
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 96 176 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.74% 7.17% 3.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.10% 7.52% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 130 90
10th Percentile £477 £430 £416
25th Percentile £525 £466 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £689 £675 £750
90th Percentile £785 £775 £800
London median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £53.50 £75.00 £46.88
% change year-on-year -28.67% +60.00% -25.60%

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 1,881 2,339 3,682
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.84% 95.24% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,217 1,670 2,514
10th Percentile £350 £340 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +2.68%
75th Percentile £675 £681 £725
90th Percentile £775 £788 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 34 30
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.23 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.44 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%
75th Percentile £35.00 £27.81 £58.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £48.30 £85.33
London median hourly rate £35.00 £27.66 £35.25
% change year-on-year +26.56% -21.55% +0.71%

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 25 April 2025.

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 25 April 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 -24 81 £600 +4.35% 98
West End of London -4 4 £512 -4.83% 3
City of Westminster -1 3 £550 +22.22%
Camden -4 2 £474 -11.90% 1
Southwark - 1 £238 - 1
Consultant
London

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 44 (45.83%) Finance
2 31 (32.29%) Social Skills
3 22 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (19.79%) Banking
5 18 (18.75%) Agile
5 18 (18.75%) Oracle
5 18 (18.75%) Microsoft
6 15 (15.63%) SAP
7 13 (13.54%) SQL
7 13 (13.54%) Migration
8 11 (11.46%) Azure
8 11 (11.46%) Cybersecurity
9 9 (9.38%) Risk Management
9 9 (9.38%) Windows
9 9 (9.38%) ERP
9 9 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
10 8 (8.33%) Analytics
10 8 (8.33%) SaaS
10 8 (8.33%) Data Migration
10 8 (8.33%) Change Management
11 7 (7.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (7.29%) ITIL
11 7 (7.29%) Salesforce
11 7 (7.29%) Investment Banking
12 6 (6.25%) User Acceptance Testing
12 6 (6.25%) Test Automation
12 6 (6.25%) Security Cleared
12 6 (6.25%) SharePoint
12 6 (6.25%) Linux
12 6 (6.25%) Law

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 6 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.13%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (2.08%) Confluence
4 1 (1.04%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.04%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.08%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (5.21%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (5.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (3.13%) SAP CO
2 3 (3.13%) SAP FI
2 3 (3.13%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (2.08%) Actimize
3 2 (2.08%) NetSuite
3 2 (2.08%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (2.08%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (2.08%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (2.08%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (2.08%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (2.08%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 2 (2.08%) Oracle iProcurement
3 2 (2.08%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (2.08%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (2.08%) SAP IBP
4 1 (1.04%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (1.04%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 11 (11.46%) Azure
2 8 (8.33%) SaaS
3 6 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
4 5 (5.21%) AWS
4 5 (5.21%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.17%) OCI
6 3 (3.13%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.13%) Mimecast
6 3 (3.13%) OneDrive
6 3 (3.13%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.08%) IaaS
7 2 (2.08%) PaaS
7 2 (2.08%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.04%) Boomi
8 1 (1.04%) dbt
8 1 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.04%) IBM Blueworks
8 1 (1.04%) Intacct
8 1 (1.04%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.21%) Firewall
2 2 (2.08%) BGP
2 2 (2.08%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (2.08%) HTTP
2 2 (2.08%) Multicast
2 2 (2.08%) VPN
2 2 (2.08%) VXLAN
3 1 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (1.04%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.04%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (1.04%) IGMP
3 1 (1.04%) LAN
3 1 (1.04%) OSPF
3 1 (1.04%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.04%) VLAN
3 1 (1.04%) WAN
3 1 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.21%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (3.13%) Power BI
3 2 (2.08%) Data Mining
3 2 (2.08%) DataStage
3 2 (2.08%) DB2
3 2 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.04%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.04%) Data Mart
4 1 (1.04%) Essbase
4 1 (1.04%) KDB
4 1 (1.04%) Kdb+
4 1 (1.04%) Metadata
4 1 (1.04%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 5 (5.21%) JIRA
2 2 (2.08%) ChangeMan
2 2 (2.08%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.04%) Ant
3 1 (1.04%) GitLab
3 1 (1.04%) MSI
3 1 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 44 (45.83%) Finance
2 31 (32.29%) Social Skills
3 19 (19.79%) Banking
4 9 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.29%) Investment Banking
6 6 (6.25%) Law
7 5 (5.21%) Public Sector
8 4 (4.17%) Billing
9 3 (3.13%) General Ledger
9 3 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (3.13%) Telecoms
10 2 (2.08%) Back Office
10 2 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.08%) Legal
10 2 (2.08%) Manufacturing
10 2 (2.08%) Police
10 2 (2.08%) Retail
11 1 (1.04%) Automotive
11 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.17%) CSS
2 3 (3.13%) HTML
3 2 (2.08%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.08%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (2.08%) Web Services
4 1 (1.04%) Bootstrap
4 1 (1.04%) JSON
4 1 (1.04%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.13%) CMDB
2 3 (3.13%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.13%) Market Risk
2 3 (3.13%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.13%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.08%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.08%) Derivative
3 2 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.08%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.04%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.04%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.04%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.04%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.04%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.38%) Windows
2 6 (6.25%) Linux
3 4 (4.17%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.08%) Unix
5 1 (1.04%) AIX
5 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.04%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (1.04%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (18.75%) Agile
3 13 (13.54%) Migration
4 11 (11.46%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (9.38%) ERP
5 9 (9.38%) Risk Management
6 8 (8.33%) Analytics
6 8 (8.33%) Change Management
6 8 (8.33%) Data Migration
7 7 (7.29%) ITIL
7 7 (7.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (6.25%) Data Loss Prevention
8 6 (6.25%) Roadmaps
8 6 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (6.25%) Test Automation
8 6 (6.25%) User Acceptance Testing
9 5 (5.21%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (5.21%) ITSM
9 5 (5.21%) SDLC
10 4 (4.17%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.54%) SQL
2 5 (5.21%) Java
3 4 (4.17%) JavaScript
3 4 (4.17%) Python
4 3 (3.13%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.08%) C++
5 2 (2.08%) REXX
6 1 (1.04%) ABAP
6 1 (1.04%) Bash
6 1 (1.04%) Bicep
6 1 (1.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (6.25%) Azure Certification
1 6 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.21%) Degree
3 3 (3.13%) DV Cleared
3 3 (3.13%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.04%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.04%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.04%) PMP
4 1 (1.04%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.13%) Basel II
3 2 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.08%) QA
3 2 (2.08%) SLA
4 1 (1.04%) Basel III
4 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.04%) Docker
2 1 (1.04%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.04%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (5.21%) SCCM
2 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.04%) Ansible
3 1 (1.04%) CEMLI
3 1 (1.04%) Control-M
3 1 (1.04%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.04%) Terraform
3 1 (1.04%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (18.75%) Microsoft
1 18 (18.75%) Oracle
2 15 (15.63%) SAP
3 7 (7.29%) Salesforce
4 6 (6.25%) Zscaler
5 3 (3.13%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.08%) Cisco
6 2 (2.08%) Informatica
6 2 (2.08%) Micro Focus
6 2 (2.08%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.08%) Sage
6 2 (2.08%) VMware
7 1 (1.04%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.04%) Concur
7 1 (1.04%) F5
7 1 (1.04%) Murex
7 1 (1.04%) Pega
7 1 (1.04%) Progress
7 1 (1.04%) Sun
7 1 (1.04%) Workday