Data Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 420 444
Rank change year-on-year +82 +24 -66
Contract jobs requiring a Data Consultant 56 31 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.13% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.14% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 19 38
10th Percentile £390 £457 £388
25th Percentile £450 £481 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% +12.63%
75th Percentile £600 £666 £575
90th Percentile £663 £680 £621
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,943 22,066 29,076
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.30% 95.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,549 15,423 20,326
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,262 1,138 1,451
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.99
90th Percentile £73.98 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

Data Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Consultant in the UK excluding London

Data Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Consultant in the UK excluding London

Data Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Consultant in the UK excluding London

Data Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Consultant in the UK excluding London

Data Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
North of England +46 18 £500 -21.57% 10
Midlands +39 16 £600 -10.28% 3
West Midlands +27 12 £563 -15.89% 3
Yorkshire +27 11 £463 -21.23% 3
North West +28 7 £500 -26.61% 6
South East +20 7 £537 +5.29%
Scotland +41 5 - - 1
South West +16 5 £413 -21.43% 5
Wales +19 4 - -
East Midlands - 2 £625 -
East of England +13 1 - -
Data Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Data Consultant in the job title.

1 26 (46.43%) Migration
2 24 (42.86%) Data Migration
3 12 (21.43%) Data Protection
4 11 (19.64%) Finance
5 10 (17.86%) Security Cleared
5 10 (17.86%) GDPR
6 9 (16.07%) Public Sector
6 9 (16.07%) Oracle
7 8 (14.29%) SAP
7 8 (14.29%) SQL
7 8 (14.29%) Social Skills
8 7 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (12.50%) Microsoft
8 7 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (12.50%) Data Governance
9 6 (10.71%) Validation
9 6 (10.71%) Azure
9 6 (10.71%) Data Quality
9 6 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (10.71%) Retail
9 6 (10.71%) Information Security
9 6 (10.71%) ETL
9 6 (10.71%) Police
9 6 (10.71%) Decision-Making
10 5 (8.93%) SAP S/4HANA
10 5 (8.93%) Data Transformation
10 5 (8.93%) Informatica
10 5 (8.93%) Dell
10 5 (8.93%) EMC
10 5 (8.93%) Data Modelling

Data Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (3.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (8.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (7.14%) SAP Retail
3 3 (5.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (5.36%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.71%) Azure
2 4 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (3.57%) AWS
3 2 (3.57%) Google Analytics
4 1 (1.79%) GCP
4 1 (1.79%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.79%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.36%) Data Mining
2 2 (3.57%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (3.57%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (1.79%) Data Vault
3 1 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.79%) Metadata
3 1 (1.79%) Power BI
3 1 (1.79%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 2 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 11 (19.64%) Finance
2 9 (16.07%) Public Sector
3 8 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 6 (10.71%) Police
4 6 (10.71%) Retail
5 4 (7.14%) Local Government
6 3 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.36%) Billing
7 2 (3.57%) Automotive
7 2 (3.57%) Banking
8 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.57%) IDoc
1 2 (3.57%) SAP ALE
1 2 (3.57%) SAP Fiori
1 2 (3.57%) Web Dynpro
2 1 (1.79%) JSON
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.36%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (3.57%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.57%) Mainframe
2 2 (3.57%) Replication
2 2 (3.57%) VxBlock/Vblock
3 1 (1.79%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.79%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (46.43%) Migration
2 24 (42.86%) Data Migration
3 12 (21.43%) Data Protection
4 7 (12.50%) Data Governance
4 7 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (10.71%) Decision-Making
5 6 (10.71%) ETL
5 6 (10.71%) Information Security
5 6 (10.71%) Validation
6 5 (8.93%) Data Modelling
6 5 (8.93%) Data Transformation
6 5 (8.93%) Use Case
7 4 (7.14%) Analytics
7 4 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (7.14%) CRM
7 4 (7.14%) Data Analysis
7 4 (7.14%) Data Cleansing
7 4 (7.14%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.29%) SQL
2 2 (3.57%) ABAP
3 1 (1.79%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.36%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.57%) CIPD
3 2 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.86%) GDPR
2 6 (10.71%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.57%) PMO
4 1 (1.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.79%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (7.14%) vSphere
2 2 (3.57%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (3.57%) vCenter Server
1 2 (3.57%) VxRail
2 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (16.07%) Oracle
2 8 (14.29%) SAP
3 7 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 5 (8.93%) Dell
4 5 (8.93%) EMC
4 5 (8.93%) Informatica
5 4 (7.14%) Cisco
5 4 (7.14%) VMware
6 2 (3.57%) Databricks
6 2 (3.57%) Facebook
6 2 (3.57%) Google
6 2 (3.57%) Instagram
6 2 (3.57%) JDA
6 2 (3.57%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.79%) Ab Initio
7 1 (1.79%) Ariba
7 1 (1.79%) Concur
7 1 (1.79%) Liquidlogic