Data Consultant Contracts

Data Consultant
UK

The median Data Consultant daily rate in the UK is £530 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 419 553 607
Rank change year-on-year +134 +54 -101
Contract jobs requiring a Data Consultant 152 134 241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.24% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.25% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 100 134
10th Percentile £406 £425 £375
25th Percentile £450 £486 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £605 £650 £617
90th Percentile £775 £709 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £41.50
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £67.50
75th Percentile - - £83.75
90th Percentile - - £93.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Data Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Consultant in the UK

Data Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Consultant in the UK

Data Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Consultant over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Consultant in the UK

Data Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Consultant in the UK

Data Consultant
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 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
England +137 131 £530 -3.64% 60
London +111 78 £537 -2.28% 36
Work from Home +111 71 £525 - 31
UK excluding London +79 53 £513 -2.38% 29
North of England +44 17 £500 -21.57% 7
Midlands +33 15 £613 -6.67% 3
West Midlands +31 11 £600 -10.28% 3
Yorkshire +22 10 £401 -31.83% 2
South East +32 7 £537 +5.29% 6
North West +26 7 £500 -26.61% 5
South West +5 5 £413 -21.43% 7
Scotland +42 4 - - 3
Wales +20 4 - - 2
East Midlands +14 2 £625 +4.17%
East of England +2 1 - -

Data Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Data 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 featuring Data Consultant in the job title.

1 53 (34.87%) Migration
2 48 (31.58%) Data Migration
3 29 (19.08%) Security Cleared
4 28 (18.42%) SAP
5 27 (17.76%) Social Skills
6 26 (17.11%) SQL
6 26 (17.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 24 (15.79%) Data Quality
8 22 (14.47%) Data Governance
9 18 (11.84%) Data Management
9 18 (11.84%) Azure
10 17 (11.18%) Oracle
11 16 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
12 15 (9.87%) Data Analysis
12 15 (9.87%) Retail
13 14 (9.21%) Data Modelling
13 14 (9.21%) ETL
13 14 (9.21%) Microsoft
13 14 (9.21%) Analytics
13 14 (9.21%) SC Cleared
13 14 (9.21%) Data Protection
13 14 (9.21%) Decision-Making
13 14 (9.21%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (9.21%) Data Lineage
14 13 (8.55%) Finance
15 11 (7.24%) Informatica
15 11 (7.24%) Python
15 11 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
15 11 (7.24%) GDPR
15 11 (7.24%) SAP S/4HANA

Data Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (1.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.66%) SAS
2 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.66%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (7.24%) SAP MDG
1 11 (7.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (5.26%) SAP Retail
3 3 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.66%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.66%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.66%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.66%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.66%) SAP MDM
4 1 (0.66%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.66%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.66%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 18 (11.84%) Azure
2 10 (6.58%) Power Platform
3 9 (5.92%) AWS
4 7 (4.61%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (3.95%) GCP
6 4 (2.63%) Google Analytics
7 3 (1.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (1.97%) Collibra
8 2 (1.32%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (1.32%) Alation
8 2 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.66%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.66%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.66%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.66%) SaaS
9 1 (0.66%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.32%) VSAN
2 1 (0.66%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.58%) Power BI
2 9 (5.92%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.61%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (4.61%) Metadata
4 5 (3.29%) Big Data
4 5 (3.29%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.97%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.97%) Data Mining
5 3 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.32%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (1.32%) Looker
6 2 (1.32%) Oracle BI EE
6 2 (1.32%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (1.32%) PowerCenter
6 2 (1.32%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.32%) Star Schema
6 2 (1.32%) Tableau
7 1 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (1.32%) JIRA
2 1 (0.66%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.66%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.66%) LSMW
2 1 (0.66%) Postman
2 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (17.76%) Social Skills
2 15 (9.87%) Retail
3 13 (8.55%) Finance
4 11 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.92%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.26%) Banking
7 4 (2.63%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.63%) Local Government
7 4 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.97%) Billing
8 3 (1.97%) Legal
8 3 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.97%) Police
9 2 (1.32%) Automotive
9 2 (1.32%) Law
10 1 (0.66%) Advertising
10 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.66%) Marketing
10 1 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.97%) SAP ALE
1 3 (1.97%) XML
2 2 (1.32%) CSS
2 2 (1.32%) HTML
2 2 (1.32%) IDoc
2 2 (1.32%) jQuery
2 2 (1.32%) JSON
2 2 (1.32%) Kafka
2 2 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.32%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (1.32%) Web Dynpro
3 1 (0.66%) .NET
3 1 (0.66%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.66%) BAPI
3 1 (0.66%) DOM
3 1 (0.66%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.66%) Node.js
3 1 (0.66%) PySpark
3 1 (0.66%) SOAP
3 1 (0.66%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 6 (3.95%) Mainframe
3 4 (2.63%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.97%) Replication
5 2 (1.32%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.32%) IoT
5 2 (1.32%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.32%) NHS
5 2 (1.32%) VxBlock/Vblock
6 1 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.66%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.66%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.66%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.66%) FMCG
6 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.66%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.66%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.66%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (34.87%) Migration
2 48 (31.58%) Data Migration
3 26 (17.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 22 (14.47%) Data Governance
5 18 (11.84%) Data Management
6 16 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
7 15 (9.87%) Data Analysis
8 14 (9.21%) Analytics
8 14 (9.21%) Data Lineage
8 14 (9.21%) Data Modelling
8 14 (9.21%) Data Protection
8 14 (9.21%) Decision-Making
8 14 (9.21%) ETL
8 14 (9.21%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (6.58%) Validation
10 9 (5.92%) Data Integration
10 9 (5.92%) Data Privacy
10 9 (5.92%) Use Case
11 8 (5.26%) Data Engineering
11 8 (5.26%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 26 (17.11%) SQL
2 11 (7.24%) Python
3 5 (3.29%) ABAP
4 4 (2.63%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.32%) Java
6 1 (0.66%) Bash
6 1 (0.66%) C#
6 1 (0.66%) C++
6 1 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.66%) Perl
6 1 (0.66%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.66%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (19.08%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.21%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.58%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.26%) Degree
5 4 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.32%) CIPD
6 2 (1.32%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.66%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.66%) CISM
7 1 (0.66%) CISSP
7 1 (0.66%) MBA
7 1 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.66%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (15.79%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.24%) GDPR
3 3 (1.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (1.97%) QA
4 2 (1.32%) PMO
5 1 (0.66%) FATCA
5 1 (0.66%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (2.63%) vSphere
2 2 (1.32%) Docker
2 2 (1.32%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (1.32%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.32%) Terraform
1 2 (1.32%) vCenter Server
1 2 (1.32%) VxRail
2 1 (0.66%) Control-M
2 1 (0.66%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 28 (18.42%) SAP
2 17 (11.18%) Oracle
3 14 (9.21%) Microsoft
4 11 (7.24%) Informatica
5 10 (6.58%) EMC
6 7 (4.61%) Dell
7 6 (3.95%) Databricks
8 4 (2.63%) Cisco
8 4 (2.63%) Google
8 4 (2.63%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.63%) VMware
9 3 (1.97%) CA
9 3 (1.97%) Facebook
9 3 (1.97%) Instagram
9 3 (1.97%) JDA
9 3 (1.97%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.32%) Monetate
10 2 (1.32%) OneTrust
10 2 (1.32%) Optimizely
10 2 (1.32%) Sparx