Data Consultant
UK

The median Data Consultant salary in the UK is £72,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 730 761 892
Rank change year-on-year +31 +131 -175
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Consultant 179 200 341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.20% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.22% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 104 124 188
10th Percentile £45,750 £45,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £54,688 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,813 £81,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £90,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £61,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.20% +6.52% +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 94,634 91,081 154,945
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,599 57,631 84,466
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,974 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,183 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.98% +6.37% +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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Consultant in the UK

Data Consultant
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Consultant over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Consultant in the UK

Data Consultant
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +21 138 £72,500 +3.57% 58
Work from Home +99 112 £75,000 - 33
UK excluding London +29 84 £55,000 -10.20% 31
London +79 76 £80,000 +6.67% 35
South East +18 26 £65,000 +36.84% 6
North of England +43 20 £47,500 -32.14% 7
Scotland -57 15 £60,743 -36.89% 4
Yorkshire +91 10 £25,000 -64.29% 2
North West -7 10 £47,500 -32.14% 5
South West -4 8 £50,000 -33.33% 7
Northern Ireland - 6 £50,000 - 2
Midlands -8 5 - - 4
Wales - 4 - - 2
East Midlands - 4 - - 1
West Midlands +1 1 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 2024, Data Consultant 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 permanent job ads featuring Data Consultant in the job title.

1 89 (49.72%) Azure
2 78 (43.58%) Finance
3 63 (35.20%) Data Lake
4 62 (34.64%) AWS
5 61 (34.08%) Data Architecture
6 59 (32.96%) Data Warehouse
6 59 (32.96%) Roadmaps
7 54 (30.17%) Social Skills
8 52 (29.05%) SQL
8 52 (29.05%) Artificial Intelligence
8 52 (29.05%) Presales
9 48 (26.82%) Presentation Skills
9 48 (26.82%) Strategic Roadmap
10 47 (26.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 47 (26.26%) Azure Certification
10 47 (26.26%) AWS Certification
10 47 (26.26%) Workflow
11 45 (25.14%) Analytics
12 40 (22.35%) Business Intelligence
13 34 (18.99%) Data Quality
14 33 (18.44%) Data Strategy
15 32 (17.88%) Python
16 31 (17.32%) Microsoft
16 31 (17.32%) Data Engineering
17 30 (16.76%) Power BI
17 30 (16.76%) Power Platform
18 29 (16.20%) Data Governance
18 29 (16.20%) Data Management
19 27 (15.08%) Actionable Insight
20 26 (14.53%) Data Analytics

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 10 (5.59%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.47%) Apache
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.56%) SAS
3 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (5.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.91%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (4.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.12%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.56%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 89 (49.72%) Azure
2 62 (34.64%) AWS
3 30 (16.76%) Power Platform
4 23 (12.85%) Azure Data Factory
5 17 (9.50%) Collibra
6 16 (8.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (3.35%) GCP
8 5 (2.79%) dbt
8 5 (2.79%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.23%) Alation
9 4 (2.23%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (1.12%) Azure Stack
11 2 (1.12%) Serverless
12 1 (0.56%) Amazon Cognito
12 1 (0.56%) Azure Cognitive Services
12 1 (0.56%) Azure Functions
12 1 (0.56%) Fivetran
12 1 (0.56%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.12%) Cisco IPT
1 2 (1.12%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (35.20%) Data Lake
2 59 (32.96%) Data Warehouse
3 47 (26.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 30 (16.76%) Power BI
5 21 (11.73%) SQL Server
5 21 (11.73%) Tableau
6 9 (5.03%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (5.03%) Big Data
7 8 (4.47%) Qlik Sense
8 7 (3.91%) Metadata
9 5 (2.79%) Ataccama
9 5 (2.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (2.23%) BigQuery
10 4 (2.23%) Looker
11 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 3 (1.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (1.12%) Data Hub
12 2 (1.12%) Delta Lake
12 2 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
General
1 78 (43.58%) Finance
2 54 (30.17%) Social Skills
3 48 (26.82%) Presentation Skills
4 19 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.91%) Advertising
6 6 (3.35%) Banking
6 6 (3.35%) Billing
6 6 (3.35%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.79%) Legal
7 5 (2.79%) Retail
8 4 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.23%) Law
8 4 (2.23%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.23%) Marketing
9 3 (1.68%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.12%) Electronics
10 2 (1.12%) German Language
10 2 (1.12%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.03%) PySpark
2 2 (1.12%) Web Services
2 2 (1.12%) XML
3 1 (0.56%) JSON
3 1 (0.56%) RESTful
3 1 (0.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.91%) Management Information System
2 5 (2.79%) Data Centre
2 5 (2.79%) Reference Data
2 5 (2.79%) Taxonomies
3 3 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (1.68%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.56%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.56%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.56%) Linux
1 1 (0.56%) Unix
1 1 (0.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (34.08%) Data Architecture
2 59 (32.96%) Roadmaps
3 52 (29.05%) Artificial Intelligence
3 52 (29.05%) Presales
4 48 (26.82%) Strategic Roadmap
5 47 (26.26%) Workflow
6 45 (25.14%) Analytics
7 40 (22.35%) Business Intelligence
8 33 (18.44%) Data Strategy
9 31 (17.32%) Data Engineering
10 29 (16.20%) Data Governance
10 29 (16.20%) Data Management
11 27 (15.08%) Actionable Insight
12 26 (14.53%) Data Analytics
13 25 (13.97%) Agile
13 25 (13.97%) ETL
14 24 (13.41%) Data Modelling
15 21 (11.73%) Visualisation
16 20 (11.17%) Data Cleansing
17 18 (10.06%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 52 (29.05%) SQL
2 32 (17.88%) Python
3 9 (5.03%) Java
3 9 (5.03%) R
4 8 (4.47%) C#
5 7 (3.91%) Go
5 7 (3.91%) PowerShell
5 7 (3.91%) Ruby
6 2 (1.12%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.56%) C++
7 1 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 47 (26.26%) AWS Certification
1 47 (26.26%) Azure Certification
2 23 (12.85%) Degree
3 21 (11.73%) Security Cleared
4 16 (8.94%) SC Cleared
5 12 (6.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (5.03%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.12%) CISM
7 2 (1.12%) CISSP
7 2 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.12%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.56%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (18.99%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.59%) GMP
3 2 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.12%) GDPR
4 1 (0.56%) NCSC
4 1 (0.56%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (0.56%) Control-M
Vendors
1 31 (17.32%) Microsoft
2 23 (12.85%) Databricks
3 12 (6.70%) Informatica
4 11 (6.15%) SAP
5 9 (5.03%) Salesforce
5 9 (5.03%) Talend
6 7 (3.91%) F5
7 5 (2.79%) Google
8 4 (2.23%) Oracle
9 1 (0.56%) Ab Initio
9 1 (0.56%) BMC
9 1 (0.56%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.56%) IBM