Data Consultant Contracts

Data Consultant
UK

The median Data Consultant daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 440 576 592
Rank change year-on-year +136 +16 -112
Contract jobs requiring a Data Consultant 158 143 263
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.24% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.25% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 102 152
10th Percentile £425 £425 £375
25th Percentile £460 £477 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +15.26%
75th Percentile £600 £655 £625
90th Percentile £750 £725 £687
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £41.50
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £67.50
75th Percentile - - £83.75
90th Percentile - - £93.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

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

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Consultant in the UK

Data Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Consultant over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Consultant in the UK

Data Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Consultant in the UK

Data Consultant
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
England +158 134 £525 -4.55% 43
Work from Home +132 79 £525 - 20
London +111 77 £531 -3.45% 27
UK excluding London +89 58 £525 - 13
North of England +46 20 £525 -9.68% 8
Midlands +38 18 £600 -10.28% 2
West Midlands +41 14 £525 -21.50% 2
Yorkshire +29 12 £525 -10.64% 2
North West +22 8 £513 -24.77% 5
South East +24 7 £537 +5.29%
Scotland +34 5 - - 1
South West +19 4 £450 -14.29% 3
Wales +18 4 - -
East Midlands - 2 £625 -

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 featuring Data Consultant in the job title.

1 52 (32.91%) Migration
2 47 (29.75%) Data Migration
3 34 (21.52%) Security Cleared
4 29 (18.35%) SAP
5 26 (16.46%) Social Skills
6 24 (15.19%) Stakeholder Management
7 23 (14.56%) Data Quality
8 22 (13.92%) Data Governance
8 22 (13.92%) SQL
9 19 (12.03%) Data Protection
10 17 (10.76%) Azure
10 17 (10.76%) Data Management
10 17 (10.76%) GDPR
11 16 (10.13%) Public Sector
11 16 (10.13%) Oracle
12 14 (8.86%) Decision-Making
12 14 (8.86%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (8.86%) Data Modelling
12 14 (8.86%) Business Intelligence
12 14 (8.86%) Retail
12 14 (8.86%) SC Cleared
13 13 (8.23%) Analytics
13 13 (8.23%) ETL
13 13 (8.23%) Microsoft
13 13 (8.23%) SAP MDG
14 12 (7.59%) SAP S/4HANA
14 12 (7.59%) Data Lineage
14 12 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
15 11 (6.96%) Informatica
15 11 (6.96%) Data Analysis

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 2 (1.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (8.23%) SAP MDG
2 12 (7.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (5.06%) SAP Retail
4 3 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.63%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.63%) Relativity
5 1 (0.63%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.63%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.63%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.63%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.63%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.63%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 17 (10.76%) Azure
2 11 (6.96%) AWS
3 10 (6.33%) Power Platform
4 6 (3.80%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (3.80%) GCP
5 4 (2.53%) Google Analytics
6 3 (1.90%) Collibra
7 2 (1.27%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (1.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.63%) Alation
8 1 (0.63%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (0.63%) ChatGPT
8 1 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.63%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.63%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.63%) SaaS
8 1 (0.63%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.27%) VSAN
2 1 (0.63%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.33%) Power BI
2 8 (5.06%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.80%) Data Lake
3 6 (3.80%) Metadata
4 5 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.90%) Big Data
5 3 (1.90%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.90%) Tableau
6 2 (1.27%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.27%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (1.27%) Looker
6 2 (1.27%) Oracle BI EE
6 2 (1.27%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (1.27%) PowerCenter
6 2 (1.27%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.27%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.63%) MySQL
7 1 (0.63%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (1.27%) JIRA
2 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.63%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.63%) Postman
2 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (16.46%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.13%) Public Sector
3 14 (8.86%) Retail
4 12 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.96%) Finance
6 10 (6.33%) Police
7 7 (4.43%) Banking
8 4 (2.53%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.90%) Billing
9 3 (1.90%) Legal
9 3 (1.90%) Local Government
9 3 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.27%) Automotive
10 2 (1.27%) Law
11 1 (0.63%) Advertising
11 1 (0.63%) German Language
11 1 (0.63%) Hungarian Language
11 1 (0.63%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.90%) SAP ALE
1 3 (1.90%) XML
2 2 (1.27%) CSS
2 2 (1.27%) HTML
2 2 (1.27%) IDoc
2 2 (1.27%) jQuery
2 2 (1.27%) JSON
2 2 (1.27%) Kafka
2 2 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.27%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (1.27%) Web Dynpro
3 1 (0.63%) .NET
3 1 (0.63%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.63%) BAPI
3 1 (0.63%) DOM
3 1 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.63%) Node.js
3 1 (0.63%) PySpark
3 1 (0.63%) SOAP
3 1 (0.63%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.70%) Data Centre
2 6 (3.80%) Mainframe
3 4 (2.53%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.90%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.90%) Replication
5 2 (1.27%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.27%) IoT
5 2 (1.27%) NHS
5 2 (1.27%) VxBlock/Vblock
6 1 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.63%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.63%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.63%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.63%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.63%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.63%) Linux
1 1 (0.63%) Windows
1 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (32.91%) Migration
2 47 (29.75%) Data Migration
3 24 (15.19%) Stakeholder Management
4 22 (13.92%) Data Governance
5 19 (12.03%) Data Protection
6 17 (10.76%) Data Management
7 14 (8.86%) Business Intelligence
7 14 (8.86%) Data Modelling
7 14 (8.86%) Decision-Making
7 14 (8.86%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (8.23%) Analytics
8 13 (8.23%) ETL
9 12 (7.59%) Data Lineage
10 11 (6.96%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (6.96%) Data Analysis
10 11 (6.96%) Information Security
11 9 (5.70%) Data Engineering
11 9 (5.70%) Data Integration
11 9 (5.70%) Use Case
11 9 (5.70%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 22 (13.92%) SQL
2 10 (6.33%) Python
3 7 (4.43%) ABAP
4 4 (2.53%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.27%) Java
6 1 (0.63%) Bash
6 1 (0.63%) C#
6 1 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.63%) Perl
6 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (21.52%) Security Cleared
2 14 (8.86%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.06%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.43%) Degree
5 4 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.27%) CIPD
7 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.63%) CISM
7 1 (0.63%) CISSP
7 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (14.56%) Data Quality
2 17 (10.76%) GDPR
3 2 (1.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (1.27%) PMO
3 2 (1.27%) QA
4 1 (0.63%) FATCA
4 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
System Software
1 4 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (2.53%) vSphere
2 2 (1.27%) Docker
2 2 (1.27%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (1.27%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.27%) Terraform
1 2 (1.27%) vCenter Server
1 2 (1.27%) VxRail
2 1 (0.63%) Control-M
2 1 (0.63%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 29 (18.35%) SAP
2 16 (10.13%) Oracle
3 13 (8.23%) Microsoft
4 11 (6.96%) Informatica
5 10 (6.33%) EMC
6 7 (4.43%) Dell
7 6 (3.80%) Databricks
8 5 (3.16%) VMware
9 4 (2.53%) Cisco
9 4 (2.53%) Google
9 4 (2.53%) OpenAI
9 4 (2.53%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.90%) Ariba
10 3 (1.90%) Facebook
10 3 (1.90%) Instagram
10 3 (1.90%) JDA
11 2 (1.27%) Adobe
11 2 (1.27%) CA
11 2 (1.27%) IBM
11 2 (1.27%) Symantec
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