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 2 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
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 23 70
Rank change year-on-year -18 +47 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 99 181 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 5.03% 7.11% 3.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.42% 7.46% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 133 96
10th Percentile £474 £430 £425
25th Percentile £525 £488 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £556
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +3.37% +1.14%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £739
90th Percentile £753 £755 £800
London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
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 £58.00 £84.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -31.36% +53.64% +10.00%

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 1,826 2,425 3,929
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 95.32% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,190 1,719 2,673
10th Percentile £363 £338 £345
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +3.14%
75th Percentile £675 £677 £719
90th Percentile £763 £793 £815
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 33 35
10th Percentile £22.00 £18.93 £15.60
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.25 £19.36
Median hourly rate £30.04 £26.56 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.08% -24.11% -7.89%
75th Percentile £35.00 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £56.25 £49.95 £84.50
London median hourly rate £35.00 £27.81 £35.50
% change year-on-year +25.85% -21.66% +1.43%

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 2 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 2 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 -16 81 £600 +3.23% 96
West End of London -5 7 £550 +2.23% 10
Camden -1 5 £533 -0.93% 2
City of Westminster +2 3 £550 -
Southwark - 1 £238 -
Consultant
London

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 50 (50.51%) Finance
2 33 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 23 (23.23%) Oracle
4 22 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (19.19%) Microsoft
6 18 (18.18%) Migration
6 18 (18.18%) Agile
6 18 (18.18%) Banking
7 13 (13.13%) Azure
7 13 (13.13%) SQL
7 13 (13.13%) SAP
8 12 (12.12%) Cybersecurity
8 12 (12.12%) Data Migration
8 12 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (11.11%) ERP
9 11 (11.11%) Risk Management
10 9 (9.09%) Oracle EBS
10 9 (9.09%) Windows
11 8 (8.08%) ITIL
12 7 (7.07%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (7.07%) Change Management
12 7 (7.07%) SharePoint
12 7 (7.07%) Salesforce
12 7 (7.07%) SaaS
12 7 (7.07%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (7.07%) Public Sector
12 7 (7.07%) Azure Certification
12 7 (7.07%) Roadmaps
13 6 (6.06%) Decision-Making
13 6 (6.06%) Microsoft Purview

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 7 (7.07%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.04%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.01%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.01%) CMS
3 1 (1.01%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.02%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (9.09%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (5.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (4.04%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (3.03%) Oracle Assets
4 3 (3.03%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (3.03%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (3.03%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (3.03%) Oracle Internet Expenses
4 3 (3.03%) Oracle iProcurement
4 3 (3.03%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (3.03%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (3.03%) SAP CO
4 3 (3.03%) SAP FI
4 3 (3.03%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (2.02%) Actimize
5 2 (2.02%) NetSuite
5 2 (2.02%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (2.02%) SAP IBP
6 1 (1.01%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (1.01%) Oracle E-Business Tax
Cloud Services
1 13 (13.13%) Azure
2 7 (7.07%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (7.07%) SaaS
3 6 (6.06%) AWS
3 6 (6.06%) Microsoft Purview
4 5 (5.05%) OCI
5 4 (4.04%) Entra ID
5 4 (4.04%) Mimecast
5 4 (4.04%) OneDrive
6 3 (3.03%) WhatsApp
7 2 (2.02%) IaaS
7 2 (2.02%) PaaS
8 1 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.01%) Boomi
8 1 (1.01%) dbt
8 1 (1.01%) IBM Blueworks
8 1 (1.01%) Intacct
8 1 (1.01%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.01%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.05%) Firewall
2 3 (3.03%) VPN
3 2 (2.02%) BGP
3 2 (2.02%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (2.02%) Multicast
3 2 (2.02%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.02%) VXLAN
4 1 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.01%) DNS
4 1 (1.01%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.01%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.01%) HTTP
4 1 (1.01%) IGMP
4 1 (1.01%) LAN
4 1 (1.01%) OSPF
4 1 (1.01%) VLAN
4 1 (1.01%) WAN
4 1 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.05%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (4.04%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (2.02%) DataStage
3 2 (2.02%) DB2
3 2 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.01%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (1.01%) Data Mart
4 1 (1.01%) Essbase
4 1 (1.01%) KDB
4 1 (1.01%) Kdb+
4 1 (1.01%) Metadata
4 1 (1.01%) Power BI
4 1 (1.01%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (1.01%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (3.03%) JIRA
1 3 (3.03%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (2.02%) ChangeMan
3 1 (1.01%) Ant
3 1 (1.01%) GitLab
3 1 (1.01%) LSMW
3 1 (1.01%) MSI
3 1 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 50 (50.51%) Finance
2 33 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 18 (18.18%) Banking
4 12 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.07%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.06%) Law
7 5 (5.05%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.03%) Back Office
8 3 (3.03%) Billing
8 3 (3.03%) General Ledger
8 3 (3.03%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.02%) Legal
9 2 (2.02%) Police
10 1 (1.01%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.01%) Automotive
10 1 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.01%) Military
10 1 (1.01%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.02%) AngularJS
1 2 (2.02%) CSS
1 2 (2.02%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (2.02%) Web Services
2 1 (1.01%) BAPI
2 1 (1.01%) Bootstrap
2 1 (1.01%) HTML
2 1 (1.01%) JSON
2 1 (1.01%) Middleware
2 1 (1.01%) SOAP
2 1 (1.01%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.06%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.04%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.03%) CMDB
3 3 (3.03%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.02%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.02%) Derivative
4 2 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.02%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.02%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.01%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.01%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.01%) Equities
5 1 (1.01%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.01%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.01%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.01%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.01%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.09%) Windows
2 6 (6.06%) Linux
3 4 (4.04%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.02%) Unix
5 1 (1.01%) AIX
5 1 (1.01%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.01%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (1.01%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (18.18%) Agile
2 18 (18.18%) Migration
3 12 (12.12%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (12.12%) Data Migration
4 11 (11.11%) ERP
4 11 (11.11%) Risk Management
5 8 (8.08%) ITIL
6 7 (7.07%) Change Management
6 7 (7.07%) Roadmaps
6 7 (7.07%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (6.06%) Analytics
7 6 (6.06%) Data Loss Prevention
7 6 (6.06%) Data Modelling
7 6 (6.06%) Decision-Making
7 6 (6.06%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (5.05%) Data Integration
8 5 (5.05%) Test Automation
8 5 (5.05%) User Acceptance Testing
8 5 (5.05%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.13%) SQL
2 4 (4.04%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.03%) Java
4 2 (2.02%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.02%) Python
4 2 (2.02%) REXX
5 1 (1.01%) ABAP
5 1 (1.01%) Bash
5 1 (1.01%) Bicep
5 1 (1.01%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (7.07%) Azure Certification
2 6 (6.06%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.05%) Degree
4 3 (3.03%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.03%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.01%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.01%) CISSP
5 1 (1.01%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.01%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.04%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.01%) Basel II
2 1 (1.01%) Basel III
2 1 (1.01%) GRC
2 1 (1.01%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (4.04%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.01%) Docker
2 1 (1.01%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.01%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.01%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (5.05%) SCCM
2 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.01%) Ansible
3 1 (1.01%) CEMLI
3 1 (1.01%) Control-M
3 1 (1.01%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.01%) Terraform
3 1 (1.01%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (23.23%) Oracle
2 19 (19.19%) Microsoft
3 13 (13.13%) SAP
4 7 (7.07%) Salesforce
5 6 (6.06%) Zscaler
6 3 (3.03%) Cisco
6 3 (3.03%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.02%) Informatica
7 2 (2.02%) Micro Focus
7 2 (2.02%) Okta
7 2 (2.02%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.02%) Sage
7 2 (2.02%) VMware
8 1 (1.01%) Blue Prism
8 1 (1.01%) Dataiku
8 1 (1.01%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.01%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (1.01%) UiPath
8 1 (1.01%) Workday
8 1 (1.01%) Zuora