IT Consultant Contracts in London

IT Consultant
England > London

The median IT Consultant daily rate in London is £540, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 443 566
Rank change year-on-year +68 +123 -85
Contract jobs requiring an IT Consultant 25 39 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.16% 0.099%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.16% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 32 31
10th Percentile £410 £416 -
25th Percentile £500 £460 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -16.67% -1.64%
75th Percentile £591 £539 £775
90th Percentile £645 £550 £813
England median daily rate £545 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +5.31% -5.91% +15.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
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 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

IT Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Consultant in London

IT Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for IT Consultant in London

IT Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Consultant in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Consultant in London

IT Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Consultant in London

IT 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 IT Consultant within the London region over the 6 months to 12 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 +33 7 £600 +17.65% 5
East London -3 2 £540 -
West London - 1 £400 -
IT Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, IT 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 IT Consultant in the job title.

1 10 (40.00%) Finance
2 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (24.00%) Penetration Testing
3 6 (24.00%) Degree
4 5 (20.00%) Azure
4 5 (20.00%) Project Management
5 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (16.00%) Cisco
5 4 (16.00%) ACCA
5 4 (16.00%) Oracle
5 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (16.00%) Unix
5 4 (16.00%) Law
5 4 (16.00%) VMware
5 4 (16.00%) Network Security
5 4 (16.00%) Hyper-V
5 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
5 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
5 4 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (16.00%) Financial Modelling
5 4 (16.00%) Banking
5 4 (16.00%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (16.00%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (16.00%) Business Case
5 4 (16.00%) Security Posture
5 4 (16.00%) Process Improvement
5 4 (16.00%) Threat Modelling
6 3 (12.00%) Data Centre
6 3 (12.00%) Security Monitoring
6 3 (12.00%) Test Strategy

IT 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 2 (8.00%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (8.00%) AWS
2 2 (8.00%) Nutanix
3 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) Network Security
2 2 (8.00%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (8.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (8.00%) Firewall
2 2 (8.00%) VSAN
General
1 10 (40.00%) Finance
2 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Banking
3 4 (16.00%) Law
3 4 (16.00%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.00%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Security Posture
2 3 (12.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.00%) Credit Derivative
3 2 (8.00%) Derivative
3 2 (8.00%) Equities
3 2 (8.00%) Fixed Income
3 2 (8.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Unix
2 2 (8.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (24.00%) Penetration Testing
2 5 (20.00%) Project Management
3 4 (16.00%) Business Case
3 4 (16.00%) Financial Modelling
3 4 (16.00%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (16.00%) Process Improvement
3 4 (16.00%) Threat Modelling
4 3 (12.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (12.00%) Architectural Design
4 3 (12.00%) Security Monitoring
4 3 (12.00%) Test Strategy
4 3 (12.00%) Use Case
5 2 (8.00%) Analytics
5 2 (8.00%) Capacity Management
5 2 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (8.00%) Product Management
5 2 (8.00%) Security Auditing
5 2 (8.00%) Service Delivery
5 2 (8.00%) SIEM
5 2 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) Bash
1 2 (8.00%) Python
1 2 (8.00%) SQL
2 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Degree
2 4 (16.00%) ACCA
2 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) CCNP
3 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Hyper-V
1 4 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.00%) KVM
2 2 (8.00%) VMware NSX
2 2 (8.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) SCCM
1 2 (8.00%) SCOM
1 2 (8.00%) SCVMM
2 1 (4.00%) Ansible
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Cisco
1 4 (16.00%) Oracle
1 4 (16.00%) VMware
2 1 (4.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft