Strategy Consulting Industry Statistics: 31 Numbers That Define 2026
Market size, utilisation, margins, day rates and hiring, each with its source, sample size and date. Built to be quoted, not skimmed.
Founded ConsultingDemand to give the people who buy consulting the numbers the people who sell it would rather they did not have. Writes the leaders and signs off every post.
Waseem Bashir is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of ConsultingDemand, and the founder of Apexure, a conversion-focused design agency. He started ConsultingDemand after years of hiring consultants and being hired as one, and noticing that almost everything written about the industry was written by the people selling it.
He writes the leaders: the pieces about where consulting is going, how AI is changing what firms sell and how they price it, and the annual statistics roundups. Every post on the site goes through his desk before it is published.