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 £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 404 446
Rank change year-on-year +68 +42 -51
Contract jobs requiring a Data Consultant 55 32 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.14% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.15% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 21 41
10th Percentile £369 £468 £375
25th Percentile £425 £488 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £588
90th Percentile £663 £675 £683
UK median daily rate £536 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.55% - +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 19,671 21,392 29,056
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 94.22% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,752 14,865 20,430
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,087 1,380
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.06 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +110.00% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £46.91
90th Percentile £74.37 £75.57 £61.71
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 +40 16 £500 -12.09% 9
Midlands +24 13 £625 -4.76% 4
West Midlands +18 9 £613 -8.41% 4
Yorkshire +11 9 £401 -31.83%
South East +17 8 £537 +5.29% 1
North West +20 7 £500 -21.57% 9
South West +5 7 £450 -12.20% 8
Scotland +39 4 - - 3
Wales +25 4 - - 2
East Midlands +9 2 £625 +4.17%
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
East of England +2 1 - - 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 11 June 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 24 (43.64%) Migration
2 22 (40.00%) Data Migration
3 13 (23.64%) Finance
4 10 (18.18%) SQL
4 10 (18.18%) Analytics
5 9 (16.36%) Oracle
6 8 (14.55%) ETL
6 8 (14.55%) Microsoft
6 8 (14.55%) Azure
6 8 (14.55%) Data Engineering
6 8 (14.55%) Social Skills
7 7 (12.73%) Decision-Making
7 7 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (12.73%) Data Governance
7 7 (12.73%) Use Case
7 7 (12.73%) SAP
7 7 (12.73%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (10.91%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (10.91%) Data Modelling
8 6 (10.91%) Data Protection
8 6 (10.91%) Validation
8 6 (10.91%) Data Quality
8 6 (10.91%) Data Analytics
9 5 (9.09%) Data Transformation
9 5 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
9 5 (9.09%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 5 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (9.09%) Data Analysis
9 5 (9.09%) Dell
9 5 (9.09%) EMC

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 (3.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (5.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (5.45%) SAP Retail
3 2 (3.64%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.55%) Azure
2 5 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (5.45%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.64%) AWS
4 2 (3.64%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.82%) GCP
5 1 (1.82%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.64%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (5.45%) Power BI
2 2 (3.64%) Data Mining
2 2 (3.64%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (3.64%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.82%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.82%) Data Vault
3 1 (1.82%) Metadata
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.82%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (1.82%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (3.64%) JIRA
2 1 (1.82%) RStudio
General
1 13 (23.64%) Finance
2 8 (14.55%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.09%) Retail
4 4 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.27%) Automotive
4 4 (7.27%) Local Government
5 3 (5.45%) Billing
5 3 (5.45%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.64%) Agriculture
6 2 (3.64%) Banking
6 2 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Korean Language
7 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.64%) IDoc
1 2 (3.64%) SAP ALE
1 2 (3.64%) SAP Fiori
1 2 (3.64%) Web Dynpro
2 1 (1.82%) JSON
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.64%) Data Centre
1 2 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (3.64%) Mainframe
1 2 (3.64%) Replication
1 2 (3.64%) VxBlock/Vblock
2 1 (1.82%) Data Structures
2 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.82%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (43.64%) Migration
2 22 (40.00%) Data Migration
3 10 (18.18%) Analytics
4 8 (14.55%) Data Engineering
4 8 (14.55%) ETL
5 7 (12.73%) Data Governance
5 7 (12.73%) Decision-Making
5 7 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (12.73%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (12.73%) Use Case
6 6 (10.91%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (10.91%) Data Analytics
6 6 (10.91%) Data Modelling
6 6 (10.91%) Data Protection
6 6 (10.91%) Validation
7 5 (9.09%) Data Analysis
7 5 (9.09%) Data Transformation
7 5 (9.09%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 4 (7.27%) Data Design
8 4 (7.27%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.18%) SQL
2 2 (3.64%) ABAP
3 1 (1.82%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.82%) Python
3 1 (1.82%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (7.27%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.45%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.64%) CIPD
3 2 (3.64%) Degree
4 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.91%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.27%) GDPR
3 2 (3.64%) PMO
4 1 (1.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.82%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (7.27%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (7.27%) vSphere
2 2 (3.64%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.64%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (3.64%) vCenter Server
1 2 (3.64%) VxRail
2 1 (1.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (16.36%) Oracle
2 8 (14.55%) Microsoft
3 7 (12.73%) SAP
4 5 (9.09%) Dell
4 5 (9.09%) EMC
4 5 (9.09%) Informatica
5 4 (7.27%) Cisco
5 4 (7.27%) VMware
6 3 (5.45%) Databricks
7 2 (3.64%) Facebook
7 2 (3.64%) Google
7 2 (3.64%) Instagram
7 2 (3.64%) JDA
7 2 (3.64%) Salesforce
7 2 (3.64%) Splunk
8 1 (1.82%) Ab Initio
8 1 (1.82%) Ariba
8 1 (1.82%) Concur
8 1 (1.82%) Liquidlogic