Consultant Contracts in London

Consultant
England > London

The median Consultant daily rate in London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 52 68
Rank change year-on-year +24 +16 -21
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 1,099 1,142 1,466
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 6.28% 4.49% 3.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.71% 4.72% 3.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 709 690 963
10th Percentile £400 £420 £425
25th Percentile £460 £493 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% +1.82%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 4
10th Percentile £45.34 £22.50 £53.90
25th Percentile £51.46 £40.88 £59.75
Median hourly rate £63.36 £55.00 £71.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.19% -23.08% +24.35%
75th Percentile £70.02 £62.19 £85.63
90th Percentile £73.01 £78.75 £91.25
England median hourly rate £61.60 £64.84 £70.50
% change year-on-year -4.99% -8.03% +22.61%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,385 24,202 36,842
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.15% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,830 17,663 27,089
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 278 414
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.18 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £82.33 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in London

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in London

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in London

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in London

Consultant
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Consultant in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Consultant in London

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Central London +42 174 £575 +4.55% 105
East London +10 27 £605 -19.33% 23
West London +29 17 £627 +22.34% 17
South London +4 4 £550 -7.37% 8
North London +1 2 £446 +16.98% 1
Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 London region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 326 (29.66%) Social Skills
2 304 (27.66%) Finance
3 215 (19.56%) SAP
4 186 (16.92%) Microsoft
5 170 (15.47%) Azure
6 147 (13.38%) Migration
7 123 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
8 116 (10.56%) Degree
9 113 (10.28%) Security Cleared
10 112 (10.19%) Public Sector
11 111 (10.10%) Problem-Solving
11 111 (10.10%) Oracle
12 97 (8.83%) Agile
13 96 (8.74%) Stakeholder Management
14 93 (8.46%) SQL
15 91 (8.28%) SC Cleared
16 84 (7.64%) SAP S/4HANA
17 79 (7.19%) DevOps
17 79 (7.19%) Cybersecurity
18 78 (7.10%) Business Intelligence
19 76 (6.92%) Project Management
20 74 (6.73%) Dynamics 365
21 72 (6.55%) Banking
21 72 (6.55%) AWS
22 68 (6.19%) Power Platform
23 64 (5.82%) Data Migration
24 60 (5.46%) Requirements Gathering
25 59 (5.37%) Power BI
26 58 (5.28%) ERP
27 49 (4.46%) GCP

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 19 (1.73%) SharePoint
2 10 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.55%) CMS
3 6 (0.55%) NetWeaver
4 5 (0.45%) Confluence
4 5 (0.45%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 4 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.27%) IBM Domino
6 3 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.18%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.18%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.18%) IIS
7 2 (0.18%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.091%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.091%) Drupal
8 1 (0.091%) GemFire
8 1 (0.091%) WildFly
Applications
1 13 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.18%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.18%) Revit
5 1 (0.091%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.091%) FileZilla
5 1 (0.091%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.091%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.091%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.091%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 84 (7.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (2.00%) Dynamics AX
4 19 (1.73%) SAP EWM
5 18 (1.64%) SAP SD
5 18 (1.64%) Workday HCM
6 12 (1.09%) SAP MDG
7 10 (0.91%) Dynamics GP
7 10 (0.91%) NetSuite
7 10 (0.91%) Oracle Payables
7 10 (0.91%) SAP FI
8 9 (0.82%) Oracle Receivables
8 9 (0.82%) SAP CO
8 9 (0.82%) SAP FI/CO
8 9 (0.82%) SimCorp Dimension
9 8 (0.73%) Oracle Cash Management
9 8 (0.73%) Oracle Financials
10 7 (0.64%) NEC Housing
10 7 (0.64%) Relativity
11 6 (0.55%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 170 (15.47%) Azure
2 74 (6.73%) Dynamics 365
3 72 (6.55%) AWS
4 68 (6.19%) Power Platform
5 49 (4.46%) GCP
6 46 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
7 40 (3.64%) Power Automate
8 39 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
9 33 (3.00%) OCI
10 30 (2.73%) PowerApps
11 29 (2.64%) Entra ID
12 21 (1.91%) WhatsApp
13 19 (1.73%) SuccessFactors
14 17 (1.55%) SaaS
15 13 (1.18%) IaaS
16 12 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
17 10 (0.91%) Microsoft Purview
18 9 (0.82%) Snowflake
19 7 (0.64%) GitHub
20 5 (0.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.37%) Firewall
2 17 (1.55%) WAN
3 12 (1.09%) SD-WAN
4 10 (0.91%) Network Security
5 9 (0.82%) DNS
6 8 (0.73%) DHCP
6 8 (0.73%) SSH
6 8 (0.73%) VPN
7 6 (0.55%) LAN
7 6 (0.55%) Wireless
8 5 (0.45%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.45%) WebEx
9 4 (0.36%) WLAN
10 3 (0.27%) DMARC
10 3 (0.27%) Unified Communications
11 2 (0.18%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (0.18%) DKIM
11 2 (0.18%) NetScaler
11 2 (0.18%) NX-OS
11 2 (0.18%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (5.37%) Power BI
2 37 (3.37%) Data Lake
3 35 (3.18%) SQL Server
4 32 (2.91%) SAP HANA
5 17 (1.55%) Big Data
6 16 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (1.09%) Metadata
8 11 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
9 8 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (0.73%) Relational Database
10 7 (0.64%) MySQL
10 7 (0.64%) SAP BW
10 7 (0.64%) Tableau
11 6 (0.55%) Electronic Patient Records
11 6 (0.55%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.45%) EDRMS
13 4 (0.36%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 4 (0.36%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.36%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 13 (1.18%) Git
1 13 (1.18%) JIRA
2 6 (0.55%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.45%) Postman
3 5 (0.45%) Selenium
4 4 (0.36%) Appium
4 4 (0.36%) Cucumber
4 4 (0.36%) eggPlant
4 4 (0.36%) JUnit
4 4 (0.36%) REST Assured
4 4 (0.36%) SoapUI
4 4 (0.36%) SOAtest
4 4 (0.36%) TestNG
4 4 (0.36%) WebDriver
5 3 (0.27%) GitLab
5 3 (0.27%) LSMW
5 3 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.18%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.18%) RStudio
6 2 (0.18%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 326 (29.66%) Social Skills
2 304 (27.66%) Finance
3 123 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (10.19%) Public Sector
5 72 (6.55%) Banking
6 47 (4.28%) Presentation Skills
7 43 (3.91%) Retail
8 38 (3.46%) Marketing
9 33 (3.00%) Manufacturing
10 28 (2.55%) General Ledger
11 18 (1.64%) Legal
11 18 (1.64%) Telecoms
12 17 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
13 15 (1.36%) Law
14 14 (1.27%) German Language
14 14 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 11 (1.00%) Billing
16 10 (0.91%) Automotive
17 9 (0.82%) Electronics
18 8 (0.73%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (3.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 26 (2.37%) Web Services
3 20 (1.82%) SailPoint
4 15 (1.36%) XML
5 14 (1.27%) EDI
5 14 (1.27%) OpenID
5 14 (1.27%) SAP Basis
5 14 (1.27%) SAP Fiori
6 13 (1.18%) HTML
7 11 (1.00%) LDAP
8 9 (0.82%) .NET
9 8 (0.73%) CSS
9 8 (0.73%) JSON
9 8 (0.73%) SAML
9 8 (0.73%) SAP TM
10 7 (0.64%) JWT
10 7 (0.64%) Middleware
11 6 (0.55%) SOAP
12 5 (0.45%) BAPI
12 5 (0.45%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 29 (2.64%) Data Structures
2 27 (2.46%) Onboarding
3 22 (2.00%) Management Information System
4 19 (1.73%) Data Centre
5 18 (1.64%) CMDB
6 15 (1.36%) Security Posture
7 13 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (1.18%) Public Cloud
8 12 (1.09%) PKI
9 10 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (0.82%) Product Ownership
10 9 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
11 8 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (0.73%) EMV
11 8 (0.73%) Mobile App
11 8 (0.73%) Replication
12 7 (0.64%) Cyber Threat
12 7 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.64%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (0.64%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 41 (3.73%) Windows
2 30 (2.73%) Linux
3 19 (1.73%) Unix
4 5 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.45%) VMS
5 3 (0.27%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.27%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.18%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.18%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.18%) OpenVMS
6 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.091%) Android
7 1 (0.091%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.091%) NetWare
7 1 (0.091%) OS/390
7 1 (0.091%) Solaris
7 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.091%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (13.38%) Migration
2 111 (10.10%) Problem-Solving
3 97 (8.83%) Agile
4 96 (8.74%) Stakeholder Management
5 79 (7.19%) Cybersecurity
5 79 (7.19%) DevOps
6 78 (7.10%) Business Intelligence
7 76 (6.92%) Project Management
8 64 (5.82%) Data Migration
9 60 (5.46%) Requirements Gathering
10 58 (5.28%) ERP
11 47 (4.28%) Analytics
11 47 (4.28%) Identity Access Management
12 43 (3.91%) Data Management
13 41 (3.73%) CRM
13 41 (3.73%) Data Modelling
14 39 (3.55%) Cloud Security
14 39 (3.55%) Target Operating Model
15 38 (3.46%) Information Security
15 38 (3.46%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 93 (8.46%) SQL
2 44 (4.00%) Python
3 42 (3.82%) ABAP
4 38 (3.46%) Java
5 27 (2.46%) PowerShell
6 24 (2.18%) JavaScript
7 15 (1.36%) C#
8 8 (0.73%) PL/SQL
8 8 (0.73%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.55%) Perl
10 5 (0.45%) C++
10 5 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (0.45%) R
11 4 (0.36%) AWK
11 4 (0.36%) Bash
11 4 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.36%) Go
12 3 (0.27%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.18%) Natural
13 2 (0.18%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 116 (10.56%) Degree
2 113 (10.28%) Security Cleared
3 91 (8.28%) SC Cleared
4 24 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (2.18%) DV Cleared
5 18 (1.64%) CISSP
6 17 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (1.46%) CISM
7 16 (1.46%) Master's Degree
8 9 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (0.73%) CRISC
10 6 (0.55%) ACCA
10 6 (0.55%) CISA
10 6 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.45%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.45%) PhD
12 4 (0.36%) CCNP
12 4 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
12 4 (0.36%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (3.37%) Data Quality
2 32 (2.91%) NIST
3 25 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (2.27%) QA
4 15 (1.36%) SLA
5 14 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 11 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 10 (0.91%) GRC
7 10 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.73%) NIST 800
9 7 (0.64%) GDPR
9 7 (0.64%) NCSC
10 6 (0.55%) PMO
11 5 (0.45%) ISO 31000
12 4 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.27%) GAAP
13 3 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.18%) EMIR
System Software
1 36 (3.28%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (0.91%) Docker
4 9 (0.82%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.36%) vSphere
7 3 (0.27%) XenApp
7 3 (0.27%) XenDesktop
8 2 (0.18%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 2 (0.18%) KVM
8 2 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.18%) Terminal Services
8 2 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.091%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.091%) Firmware
9 1 (0.091%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.091%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (1.73%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.55%) Terraform
3 8 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 8 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.55%) Ansible
4 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.45%) EnCase
5 5 (0.45%) Grafana
5 5 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (0.45%) SCCM
6 3 (0.27%) PingFederate
7 2 (0.18%) Avamar
7 2 (0.18%) Control-M
7 2 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (0.18%) McAfee ePO
7 2 (0.18%) Nessus
7 2 (0.18%) SCOM
7 2 (0.18%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.091%) Puppet
8 1 (0.091%) WSUS
Vendors
1 215 (19.56%) SAP
2 186 (16.92%) Microsoft
3 111 (10.10%) Oracle
4 40 (3.64%) ServiceNow
5 28 (2.55%) Workday
6 23 (2.09%) Adobe
6 23 (2.09%) VMware
7 16 (1.46%) Cisco
7 16 (1.46%) CyberArk
8 15 (1.36%) Google
9 13 (1.18%) Palantir
10 12 (1.09%) Foundry
10 12 (1.09%) Salesforce
11 10 (0.91%) IBM
12 9 (0.82%) Dell
12 9 (0.82%) Informatica
12 9 (0.82%) SimCorp
13 8 (0.73%) Ariba
13 8 (0.73%) Sage
14 7 (0.64%) Citrix