Data Consultant Contracts in London

Data Consultant
England > London

The median Data Consultant daily rate in London is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 317 429 517
Rank change year-on-year +112 +88 -142
Contract jobs requiring a Data Consultant 74 70 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.41% 0.26% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.27% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 59 60
10th Percentile £437 £425 £413
25th Percentile £469 £472 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.33%
75th Percentile £646 £675 £633
90th Percentile £775 £739 £826
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,618 26,148 37,443
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.14% 95.28% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,014 18,877 27,349
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £441 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 297 456
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.99 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £22.08
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% - +12.90%
75th Percentile £44.50 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £64.95 £76.95 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
% change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%

Data Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Consultant in London

Data Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Consultant in London

Data Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Consultant in London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Consultant in London

Data Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Consultant in London

Data Consultant
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 19 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
East London - 6 £478 -
Central London +43 5 £525 - 1
Data Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 London region featuring Data Consultant in the job title.

1 19 (25.68%) Security Cleared
2 15 (20.27%) Migration
3 14 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (17.57%) Data Migration
4 13 (17.57%) Data Quality
5 12 (16.22%) Data Management
5 12 (16.22%) Social Skills
6 11 (14.86%) SC Cleared
7 10 (13.51%) SQL
7 10 (13.51%) SAP
8 9 (12.16%) Python
8 9 (12.16%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (10.81%) SQL Server
9 8 (10.81%) ETL
9 8 (10.81%) Azure
9 8 (10.81%) Power BI
9 8 (10.81%) Data Lineage
9 8 (10.81%) Power Platform
10 7 (9.46%) Data Centre
10 7 (9.46%) Machine Learning
10 7 (9.46%) Data Governance
10 7 (9.46%) Analytics
10 7 (9.46%) Data Integration
10 7 (9.46%) Informatica
11 6 (8.11%) Oracle
11 6 (8.11%) DV Cleared
11 6 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (8.11%) Decision-Making
12 5 (6.76%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (6.76%) DAMA

Data Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.35%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (5.41%) SAP MDG
2 2 (2.70%) SAP Retail
2 2 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.35%) Relativity
3 1 (1.35%) SAP HR
3 1 (1.35%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (1.35%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.81%) Azure
1 8 (10.81%) Power Platform
2 5 (6.76%) AWS
3 3 (4.05%) GCP
4 2 (2.70%) Adobe Analytics
4 2 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (2.70%) Collibra
4 2 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (2.70%) Google Analytics
4 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.35%) Alation
5 1 (1.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.35%) ChatGPT
5 1 (1.35%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.35%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.35%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.81%) Power BI
1 8 (10.81%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.76%) Metadata
3 3 (4.05%) Big Data
3 3 (4.05%) BigQuery
3 3 (4.05%) Data Lake
3 3 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.05%) PowerCenter
3 3 (4.05%) Star Schema
3 3 (4.05%) Tableau
4 2 (2.70%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (2.70%) Looker
4 2 (2.70%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.35%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.35%) MySQL
5 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.35%) Sisense
5 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Cypress.io
1 1 (1.35%) Postman
1 1 (1.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (16.22%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.76%) Banking
3 5 (6.76%) Retail
4 4 (5.41%) Investment Banking
4 4 (5.41%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Advertising
7 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Law
7 1 (1.35%) Legal
7 1 (1.35%) Marketing
7 1 (1.35%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.70%) jQuery
2 1 (1.35%) .NET
2 1 (1.35%) .NET Core
2 1 (1.35%) CSS
2 1 (1.35%) DOM
2 1 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.35%) HTML
2 1 (1.35%) JSON
2 1 (1.35%) Kafka
2 1 (1.35%) Node.js
2 1 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.35%) SOAP
2 1 (1.35%) Swagger
2 1 (1.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.46%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.41%) Mainframe
3 3 (4.05%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.70%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.70%) IoT
4 2 (2.70%) NHS
5 1 (1.35%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.35%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.35%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (20.27%) Migration
2 14 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (17.57%) Data Migration
4 12 (16.22%) Data Management
5 9 (12.16%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (10.81%) Data Lineage
6 8 (10.81%) ETL
7 7 (9.46%) Analytics
7 7 (9.46%) Data Governance
7 7 (9.46%) Data Integration
7 7 (9.46%) Machine Learning
8 6 (8.11%) Decision-Making
9 5 (6.76%) Agile
9 5 (6.76%) Artificial Intelligence
9 5 (6.76%) Data Analysis
9 5 (6.76%) Data Modelling
9 5 (6.76%) Data Protection
9 5 (6.76%) Master Data Management
9 5 (6.76%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (6.76%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (13.51%) SQL
2 9 (12.16%) Python
3 3 (4.05%) ABAP
3 3 (4.05%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.70%) Java
5 1 (1.35%) Bash
5 1 (1.35%) C#
5 1 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.35%) Perl
5 1 (1.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (25.68%) Security Cleared
2 11 (14.86%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.11%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.05%) Degree
5 1 (1.35%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.35%) CISM
5 1 (1.35%) CISSP
5 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.35%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.57%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.05%) GDPR
3 2 (2.70%) QA
4 1 (1.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.35%) FATCA
4 1 (1.35%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (1.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.35%) Control-M
1 1 (1.35%) CSIRT
1 1 (1.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (13.51%) SAP
2 7 (9.46%) Informatica
3 6 (8.11%) Oracle
4 5 (6.76%) EMC
4 5 (6.76%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.41%) OpenAI
6 3 (4.05%) Databricks
7 2 (2.70%) Adobe
7 2 (2.70%) Alteryx
7 2 (2.70%) Ariba
7 2 (2.70%) CA
7 2 (2.70%) Dell
7 2 (2.70%) Google
7 2 (2.70%) IBM
7 2 (2.70%) Monetate
7 2 (2.70%) Optimizely
7 2 (2.70%) Sparx
7 2 (2.70%) Symantec
8 1 (1.35%) Okta
8 1 (1.35%) OneTrust