Data Consultant Contracts in England

Data Consultant
UK > England

The median Data Consultant daily rate in England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 424 560 609
Rank change year-on-year +136 +49 -145
Contract jobs requiring a Data Consultant 127 105 175
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.21% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.22% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 81 107
10th Percentile £425 £425 £370
25th Percentile £460 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £596 £675 £616
90th Percentile £728 £731 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,508 48,174 68,262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.56% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,974 34,135 48,471
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,404 1,457 1,922
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.33 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.00 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +0.94%

Data Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Consultant in England

Data Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Consultant in England

Data Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Consultant in England over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Consultant in England

Data Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Consultant in England

Data Consultant
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
London +104 72 £525 -4.55% 26
North of England +43 19 £525 -9.68% 10
Midlands +52 18 £600 -10.28% 3
West Midlands +49 14 £525 -21.50% 1
Yorkshire +29 11 £525 -10.64% 4
North West +23 8 £513 -24.77% 5
South East +16 6 £537 +5.29% 2
South West +18 4 £450 -14.29% 4
East Midlands - 2 £625 - 2
Data Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 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 across the England region featuring Data Consultant in the job title.

1 37 (29.13%) Migration
2 33 (25.98%) Data Migration
3 32 (25.20%) Security Cleared
4 21 (16.54%) SAP
5 20 (15.75%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (14.96%) Social Skills
7 18 (14.17%) Data Quality
8 16 (12.60%) Data Protection
8 16 (12.60%) Public Sector
9 15 (11.81%) GDPR
9 15 (11.81%) Oracle
9 15 (11.81%) Data Governance
10 14 (11.02%) SC Cleared
10 14 (11.02%) Data Management
11 13 (10.24%) SQL
11 13 (10.24%) ETL
11 13 (10.24%) Business Intelligence
12 12 (9.45%) Informatica
12 12 (9.45%) Analytics
12 12 (9.45%) Data Lineage
12 12 (9.45%) Decision-Making
13 11 (8.66%) Cybersecurity
13 11 (8.66%) Azure
13 11 (8.66%) Data Modelling
13 11 (8.66%) Information Security
14 10 (7.87%) Retail
14 10 (7.87%) EMC
14 10 (7.87%) Data Integration
14 10 (7.87%) Police
14 10 (7.87%) SAP MDG

Data Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (1.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.79%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (7.87%) SAP MDG
2 7 (5.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (3.94%) SAP Retail
4 1 (0.79%) Relativity
4 1 (0.79%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.79%) SAP MDM
4 1 (0.79%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.79%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.79%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 11 (8.66%) Azure
2 9 (7.09%) Power Platform
3 7 (5.51%) AWS
4 4 (3.15%) Google Analytics
5 3 (2.36%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (2.36%) GCP
6 2 (1.57%) Adobe Analytics
6 2 (1.57%) Collibra
6 2 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.79%) Alation
7 1 (0.79%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (0.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.79%) ChatGPT
7 1 (0.79%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.79%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.79%) SaaS
7 1 (0.79%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.79%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.09%) Power BI
2 8 (6.30%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.72%) Metadata
4 4 (3.15%) Data Lake
4 4 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.36%) Big Data
5 3 (2.36%) BigQuery
5 3 (2.36%) PowerCenter
5 3 (2.36%) Star Schema
5 3 (2.36%) Tableau
6 2 (1.57%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.57%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (1.57%) Looker
6 2 (1.57%) Oracle BI EE
6 2 (1.57%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.57%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (1.57%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (1.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.79%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Cypress.io
1 1 (0.79%) Postman
1 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (14.96%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.60%) Public Sector
3 10 (7.87%) Police
3 10 (7.87%) Retail
4 9 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.30%) Finance
6 5 (3.94%) Banking
7 4 (3.15%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.36%) Local Government
8 3 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.57%) Automotive
10 1 (0.79%) Advertising
10 1 (0.79%) Billing
10 1 (0.79%) Hungarian Language
10 1 (0.79%) Law
10 1 (0.79%) Legal
10 1 (0.79%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.57%) IDoc
1 2 (1.57%) jQuery
1 2 (1.57%) JSON
1 2 (1.57%) Kafka
1 2 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (1.57%) SAP ALE
1 2 (1.57%) SAP Fiori
1 2 (1.57%) Web Dynpro
1 2 (1.57%) XML
2 1 (0.79%) .NET
2 1 (0.79%) .NET Core
2 1 (0.79%) CSS
2 1 (0.79%) DOM
2 1 (0.79%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.79%) HTML
2 1 (0.79%) Node.js
2 1 (0.79%) PySpark
2 1 (0.79%) SOAP
2 1 (0.79%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.72%) Data Centre
1 6 (4.72%) Mainframe
2 4 (3.15%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.57%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.57%) IoT
4 2 (1.57%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.57%) NHS
4 2 (1.57%) Replication
5 1 (0.79%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.79%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.79%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (0.79%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.79%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (29.13%) Migration
2 33 (25.98%) Data Migration
3 20 (15.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (12.60%) Data Protection
5 15 (11.81%) Data Governance
6 14 (11.02%) Data Management
7 13 (10.24%) Business Intelligence
7 13 (10.24%) ETL
8 12 (9.45%) Analytics
8 12 (9.45%) Data Lineage
8 12 (9.45%) Decision-Making
9 11 (8.66%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (8.66%) Data Modelling
9 11 (8.66%) Information Security
10 10 (7.87%) Data Integration
11 9 (7.09%) Data Analysis
11 9 (7.09%) Use Case
12 7 (5.51%) Machine Learning
12 7 (5.51%) Validation
12 7 (5.51%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (10.24%) SQL
2 9 (7.09%) Python
3 5 (3.94%) ABAP
4 3 (2.36%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.57%) Java
6 1 (0.79%) Bash
6 1 (0.79%) C#
6 1 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.79%) Perl
6 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (25.20%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.02%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.72%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.94%) Degree
5 3 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.57%) CIPD
7 1 (0.79%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.79%) CISM
7 1 (0.79%) CISSP
7 1 (0.79%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.17%) Data Quality
2 15 (11.81%) GDPR
3 2 (1.57%) QA
4 1 (0.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.79%) FATCA
4 1 (0.79%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (0.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.57%) Terraform
2 1 (0.79%) Control-M
2 1 (0.79%) CSIRT
2 1 (0.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (16.54%) SAP
2 15 (11.81%) Oracle
3 12 (9.45%) Informatica
4 10 (7.87%) EMC
5 7 (5.51%) Microsoft
6 5 (3.94%) Databricks
7 4 (3.15%) Google
7 4 (3.15%) OpenAI
8 3 (2.36%) Ariba
8 3 (2.36%) Dell
8 3 (2.36%) Facebook
8 3 (2.36%) Instagram
8 3 (2.36%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.57%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.57%) CA
9 2 (1.57%) IBM
9 2 (1.57%) Monetate
9 2 (1.57%) Optimizely
9 2 (1.57%) Sparx
9 2 (1.57%) Symantec