Data Consultant
UK

The median Data Consultant salary in the UK is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 720 776 909
Rank change year-on-year +56 +133 -208
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Consultant 168 220 335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.22% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.24% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 104 128 195
10th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £35,400
25th Percentile £54,688 £54,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% +1.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £84,375
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

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

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,864 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,182 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Consultant in the UK

Data Consultant
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Consultant over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Consultant in the UK

Data Consultant
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +8 134 £72,500 +7.41% 53
Work from Home +77 99 £75,000 - 30
London +106 77 £77,500 +3.33% 31
UK excluding London -3 75 £55,000 -8.33% 18
South East +38 25 £65,000 +36.84%
North of England +29 17 £47,500 -30.91% 8
Scotland -47 13 £60,743 -36.89% 1
Yorkshire +84 9 £25,000 -64.29% 2
North West -8 8 £47,500 -32.14% 5
South West -25 8 £77,500 +3.33% 5
Northern Ireland - 5 £50,000 - 2
Midlands -10 4 - - 2
East Midlands - 3 - -
Wales - 3 - -
West Midlands -5 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Data Consultant 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 permanent job ads featuring Data Consultant in the job title.

1 78 (46.43%) Azure
2 67 (39.88%) Finance
3 55 (32.74%) SQL
4 54 (32.14%) Social Skills
5 52 (30.95%) Data Lake
6 51 (30.36%) AWS
7 50 (29.76%) Data Architecture
8 48 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
9 47 (27.98%) Analytics
10 46 (27.38%) Roadmaps
11 42 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
11 42 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
12 40 (23.81%) Presales
13 36 (21.43%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 36 (21.43%) Presentation Skills
14 35 (20.83%) Strategic Roadmap
14 35 (20.83%) Azure Certification
14 35 (20.83%) AWS Certification
14 35 (20.83%) Workflow
15 34 (20.24%) Power BI
15 34 (20.24%) Power Platform
16 33 (19.64%) Microsoft
16 33 (19.64%) Python
17 31 (18.45%) Data Engineering
17 31 (18.45%) Data Quality
17 31 (18.45%) Data Strategy
18 27 (16.07%) Actionable Insight
18 27 (16.07%) Data Analytics
18 27 (16.07%) Data Governance
18 27 (16.07%) Agile

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 11 (6.55%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.76%) Apache
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.60%) SAS
3 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (5.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.19%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.60%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 78 (46.43%) Azure
2 51 (30.36%) AWS
3 34 (20.24%) Power Platform
4 25 (14.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 17 (10.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 15 (8.93%) Collibra
7 6 (3.57%) GCP
8 5 (2.98%) dbt
8 5 (2.98%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.98%) Snowflake
9 4 (2.38%) Alation
10 3 (1.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.19%) Serverless
12 1 (0.60%) Amazon Kinesis
12 1 (0.60%) Azure Functions
12 1 (0.60%) Azure Machine Learning
12 1 (0.60%) Azure Stack
12 1 (0.60%) Boomi
12 1 (0.60%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.19%) Cisco IPT
1 2 (1.19%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (30.95%) Data Lake
2 48 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (21.43%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 34 (20.24%) Power BI
5 24 (14.29%) SQL Server
6 20 (11.90%) Tableau
7 10 (5.95%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (5.36%) Big Data
9 8 (4.76%) Qlik Sense
10 7 (4.17%) Metadata
11 6 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (2.38%) BigQuery
12 4 (2.38%) Looker
12 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 4 (2.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (1.79%) Ataccama
13 3 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
14 2 (1.19%) Data Hub
14 2 (1.19%) Delta Lake
General
1 67 (39.88%) Finance
2 54 (32.14%) Social Skills
3 36 (21.43%) Presentation Skills
4 18 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.17%) Advertising
5 7 (4.17%) Banking
6 6 (3.57%) Billing
6 6 (3.57%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.98%) Retail
8 4 (2.38%) Law
8 4 (2.38%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.38%) Marketing
9 3 (1.79%) Legal
9 3 (1.79%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.19%) Electronics
10 2 (1.19%) German Language
10 2 (1.19%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.36%) PySpark
2 2 (1.19%) Web Services
2 2 (1.19%) XML
3 1 (0.60%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.60%) JSON
3 1 (0.60%) Kafka
3 1 (0.60%) RESTful
3 1 (0.60%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.17%) Management Information System
2 4 (2.38%) Data Centre
3 3 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (1.79%) Client/Server
3 3 (1.79%) Reference Data
3 3 (1.79%) Taxonomies
4 1 (0.60%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.60%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.60%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (0.60%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.60%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.60%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.60%) Linux
1 1 (0.60%) Unix
1 1 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (29.76%) Data Architecture
2 47 (27.98%) Analytics
3 46 (27.38%) Roadmaps
4 42 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 42 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 40 (23.81%) Presales
6 35 (20.83%) Strategic Roadmap
6 35 (20.83%) Workflow
7 31 (18.45%) Data Engineering
7 31 (18.45%) Data Strategy
8 27 (16.07%) Actionable Insight
8 27 (16.07%) Agile
8 27 (16.07%) Data Analytics
8 27 (16.07%) Data Governance
8 27 (16.07%) Data Management
9 26 (15.48%) ETL
10 24 (14.29%) Data Modelling
11 23 (13.69%) Visualisation
12 20 (11.90%) Data Cleansing
13 18 (10.71%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 55 (32.74%) SQL
2 33 (19.64%) Python
3 11 (6.55%) R
4 9 (5.36%) Java
5 8 (4.76%) C#
6 7 (4.17%) Go
6 7 (4.17%) PowerShell
6 7 (4.17%) Ruby
7 2 (1.19%) Scala
7 2 (1.19%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.60%) C++
8 1 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 35 (20.83%) AWS Certification
1 35 (20.83%) Azure Certification
2 22 (13.10%) Degree
3 21 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 16 (9.52%) SC Cleared
5 13 (7.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (5.36%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.19%) CISM
7 2 (1.19%) CISSP
7 2 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.19%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.60%) ACCA
8 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.60%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (18.45%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.95%) GMP
3 2 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.19%) GDPR
3 2 (1.19%) QA
4 1 (0.60%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (0.60%) Control-M
Vendors
1 33 (19.64%) Microsoft
2 25 (14.88%) Databricks
3 12 (7.14%) Informatica
4 11 (6.55%) SAP
5 8 (4.76%) Salesforce
6 7 (4.17%) F5
6 7 (4.17%) Talend
7 5 (2.98%) Google
7 5 (2.98%) Oracle
8 1 (0.60%) Ab Initio
8 1 (0.60%) BMC
8 1 (0.60%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.60%) IBM
8 1 (0.60%) Splunk