IT Consultant Contracts in the City of London

IT Consultant
Central London > City of London

The median IT Consultant daily rate in the City of London is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 November 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
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 137 190
Rank change year-on-year +18 +53 -11
Contract jobs requiring an IT Consultant 8 13 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.38% 0.47% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.50% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 13 4
10th Percentile £521 £496 £434
25th Percentile £534 £510 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £540 £480
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £584 £575 £521
90th Percentile £594 £662 £531
Central London median daily rate £563 £540 £480
% change year-on-year +4.17% +12.50% -4.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,978 2,612 4,256
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.17% 94.06% 94.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,214 1,841 2,835
10th Percentile £363 £350 £356
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £792
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £575
% change year-on-year - - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 55
10th Percentile £15.95 £17.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £28.06 £17.97 £18.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £38.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.63% -9.52% +29.63%
75th Percentile £112.00 £50.63 £58.13
90th Percentile £137.50 £71.75 £78.75
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £38.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -7.89% -6.17% +20.90%

IT Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Consultant in the City of London

IT Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for IT Consultant in the City of London

IT Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Consultant in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 14 November 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 City of London region featuring IT Consultant in the job title.

1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Information Security
2 3 (37.50%) Remediation Plan
2 3 (37.50%) Information Security Governance
2 3 (37.50%) CISSP
2 3 (37.50%) ITIL
2 3 (37.50%) Attestation
2 3 (37.50%) Risk Register
2 3 (37.50%) GRC
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
3 2 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco
3 2 (25.00%) CheckPoint
3 2 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (12.50%) SIEM
4 1 (12.50%) Data Encryption
4 1 (12.50%) Network Segmentation
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Database Security
4 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Ansible
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (12.50%) Terraform
4 1 (12.50%) Security Auditing
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps

IT Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Attestation
1 3 (37.50%) Information Security
1 3 (37.50%) Information Security Governance
1 3 (37.50%) ITIL
1 3 (37.50%) Remediation Plan
1 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
1 3 (37.50%) Risk Register
2 2 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) API Management
3 1 (12.50%) Application Security
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
3 1 (12.50%) Data Encryption
3 1 (12.50%) Ethical Hacking
3 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
3 1 (12.50%) Observability
3 1 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Purple Team
3 1 (12.50%) Red Team
3 1 (12.50%) Security Auditing
3 1 (12.50%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Nessus
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Qualys
2 1 (12.50%) Tripwire