Data Consultant Contracts

Data Consultant
UK

The median Data Consultant daily rate in the UK is £536 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 429 560 621
Rank change year-on-year +131 +61 -127
Contract jobs requiring a Data Consultant 152 134 242
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.23% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.25% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 100 135
10th Percentile £406 £425 £375
25th Percentile £450 £486 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £613
90th Percentile £776 £709 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +7.69%
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 39,468 54,175 84,246
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.61% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,716 37,826 59,224
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,504 2,051
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.82
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%

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 20 May 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 15 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 20 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
England +143 131 £536 -2.55% 57
London +113 78 £537 -2.28% 33
Work from Home +115 70 £525 - 34
UK excluding London +72 53 £513 -2.38% 31
North of England +41 17 £500 -21.57% 9
Midlands +28 15 £613 -6.67% 4
West Midlands +29 11 £600 -10.28% 3
Yorkshire +26 10 £401 -31.83% 3
North West +21 7 £500 -26.61% 6
South East +20 7 £537 +5.29% 5
South West +7 5 £413 -21.43% 6
Scotland +42 4 - - 3
Wales +22 4 - - 2
East Midlands +17 2 £625 +4.17% 1
East of England +9 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 featuring Data Consultant in the job title.

1 53 (34.87%) Migration
2 48 (31.58%) Data Migration
3 30 (19.74%) Security Cleared
4 27 (17.76%) SAP
4 27 (17.76%) Social Skills
5 26 (17.11%) SQL
6 25 (16.45%) Stakeholder Management
6 25 (16.45%) Data Quality
7 23 (15.13%) Data Governance
8 19 (12.50%) Data Management
9 18 (11.84%) Azure
10 16 (10.53%) Oracle
10 16 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
11 15 (9.87%) Data Analysis
11 15 (9.87%) Retail
11 15 (9.87%) Analytics
11 15 (9.87%) Data Protection
12 14 (9.21%) SC Cleared
12 14 (9.21%) Data Modelling
12 14 (9.21%) ETL
12 14 (9.21%) Microsoft
12 14 (9.21%) Data Lineage
12 14 (9.21%) Decision-Making
12 14 (9.21%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (8.55%) Finance
14 11 (7.24%) DV Cleared
14 11 (7.24%) Informatica
14 11 (7.24%) Python
14 11 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
14 11 (7.24%) GDPR

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 (1.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.66%) SAS
2 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.66%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (7.24%) SAP MDG
1 11 (7.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (5.26%) SAP Retail
3 3 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.66%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.66%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.66%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.66%) SAP MDM
4 1 (0.66%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.66%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 18 (11.84%) Azure
2 10 (6.58%) Power Platform
3 9 (5.92%) AWS
4 7 (4.61%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (3.95%) GCP
6 4 (2.63%) Google Analytics
7 3 (1.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (1.97%) Collibra
8 2 (1.32%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (1.32%) Alation
8 2 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.66%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.66%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.66%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.66%) SaaS
9 1 (0.66%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.32%) VSAN
2 1 (0.66%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.58%) Power BI
2 9 (5.92%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.61%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (4.61%) Metadata
4 5 (3.29%) Big Data
4 5 (3.29%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.97%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.97%) Data Mining
5 3 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.32%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (1.32%) Looker
6 2 (1.32%) Oracle BI EE
6 2 (1.32%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (1.32%) PowerCenter
6 2 (1.32%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.32%) Star Schema
6 2 (1.32%) Tableau
7 1 (0.66%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (1.32%) JIRA
2 1 (0.66%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.66%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.66%) LSMW
2 1 (0.66%) Postman
2 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (17.76%) Social Skills
2 15 (9.87%) Retail
3 13 (8.55%) Finance
4 11 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.26%) Banking
5 8 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.63%) Investment Banking
6 4 (2.63%) Local Government
6 4 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.97%) Billing
7 3 (1.97%) Legal
7 3 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.97%) Police
8 2 (1.32%) Automotive
8 2 (1.32%) Law
9 1 (0.66%) Advertising
9 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.66%) Marketing
9 1 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.97%) SAP ALE
1 3 (1.97%) XML
2 2 (1.32%) CSS
2 2 (1.32%) HTML
2 2 (1.32%) IDoc
2 2 (1.32%) jQuery
2 2 (1.32%) JSON
2 2 (1.32%) Kafka
2 2 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.32%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (1.32%) Web Dynpro
3 1 (0.66%) .NET
3 1 (0.66%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.66%) BAPI
3 1 (0.66%) DOM
3 1 (0.66%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.66%) Node.js
3 1 (0.66%) PySpark
3 1 (0.66%) SOAP
3 1 (0.66%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 6 (3.95%) Mainframe
3 4 (2.63%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.97%) Replication
5 2 (1.32%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.32%) IoT
5 2 (1.32%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.32%) NHS
5 2 (1.32%) VxBlock/Vblock
6 1 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.66%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.66%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.66%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.66%) FMCG
6 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.66%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.66%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.66%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (34.87%) Migration
2 48 (31.58%) Data Migration
3 25 (16.45%) Stakeholder Management
4 23 (15.13%) Data Governance
5 19 (12.50%) Data Management
6 16 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
7 15 (9.87%) Analytics
7 15 (9.87%) Data Analysis
7 15 (9.87%) Data Protection
8 14 (9.21%) Data Lineage
8 14 (9.21%) Data Modelling
8 14 (9.21%) Decision-Making
8 14 (9.21%) ETL
8 14 (9.21%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (6.58%) Validation
10 9 (5.92%) Data Integration
10 9 (5.92%) Data Privacy
10 9 (5.92%) Use Case
11 8 (5.26%) Data Engineering
11 8 (5.26%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 26 (17.11%) SQL
2 11 (7.24%) Python
3 4 (2.63%) ABAP
3 4 (2.63%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.32%) Java
5 1 (0.66%) Bash
5 1 (0.66%) C#
5 1 (0.66%) C++
5 1 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.66%) Perl
5 1 (0.66%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.66%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (19.74%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.21%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.24%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.26%) Degree
5 4 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.32%) CIPD
6 2 (1.32%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.66%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.66%) CISM
7 1 (0.66%) CISSP
7 1 (0.66%) MBA
7 1 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.66%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (16.45%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.24%) GDPR
3 3 (1.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (1.97%) QA
4 2 (1.32%) PMO
5 1 (0.66%) FATCA
5 1 (0.66%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (2.63%) vSphere
2 2 (1.32%) Docker
2 2 (1.32%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (1.32%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.32%) Terraform
1 2 (1.32%) vCenter Server
1 2 (1.32%) VxRail
2 1 (0.66%) Control-M
2 1 (0.66%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 27 (17.76%) SAP
2 16 (10.53%) Oracle
3 14 (9.21%) Microsoft
4 11 (7.24%) Informatica
5 10 (6.58%) EMC
6 7 (4.61%) Dell
7 6 (3.95%) Databricks
8 4 (2.63%) Cisco
8 4 (2.63%) Google
8 4 (2.63%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.63%) VMware
9 3 (1.97%) CA
9 3 (1.97%) Facebook
9 3 (1.97%) Instagram
9 3 (1.97%) JDA
9 3 (1.97%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.32%) Monetate
10 2 (1.32%) OneTrust
10 2 (1.32%) Optimizely
10 2 (1.32%) Sparx