Data Consultant Contracts in England

Data Consultant
UK > England

The median Data Consultant daily rate in England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 403 543 612
Rank change year-on-year +140 +69 -135
Contract jobs requiring a Data Consultant 139 102 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.21% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.22% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 77 100
10th Percentile £425 £425 £374
25th Percentile £463 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £603 £675 £619
90th Percentile £760 £728 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,916 46,484 67,372
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.64% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,507 32,994 47,972
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £639
90th Percentile £750 £758 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,425 1,382 1,859
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.37
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +100.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.45 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £62.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Data Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Consultant in England

Data Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Consultant in England

Data Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Consultant in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Consultant in England

Data Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Consultant in England

Data Consultant
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 7 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
London +101 80 £537 -2.28% 32
North of England +39 20 £525 -17.65% 9
Midlands +47 17 £600 -10.28% 2
West Midlands +35 13 £525 -21.50% 2
Yorkshire +35 12 £525 -10.64% 3
North West +29 8 £513 -24.77% 5
South East +19 7 £537 +5.29%
South West +14 5 £413 -21.43% 6
East Midlands - 2 £625 -
East of England +2 1 - -
Data Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 England region featuring Data Consultant in the job title.

1 42 (30.22%) Migration
2 37 (26.62%) Data Migration
3 36 (25.90%) Security Cleared
4 24 (17.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 24 (17.27%) SAP
5 22 (15.83%) Data Quality
5 22 (15.83%) Social Skills
6 18 (12.95%) SQL
6 18 (12.95%) Data Protection
6 18 (12.95%) Data Governance
7 16 (11.51%) Oracle
7 16 (11.51%) Data Management
7 16 (11.51%) Public Sector
7 16 (11.51%) GDPR
8 15 (10.79%) Business Intelligence
9 14 (10.07%) SC Cleared
9 14 (10.07%) Decision-Making
10 13 (9.35%) Data Lineage
10 13 (9.35%) Azure
10 13 (9.35%) ETL
10 13 (9.35%) Data Analysis
11 12 (8.63%) Retail
11 12 (8.63%) Data Modelling
11 12 (8.63%) Analytics
12 11 (7.91%) Cybersecurity
12 11 (7.91%) Informatica
12 11 (7.91%) Information Security
12 11 (7.91%) Finance
13 10 (7.19%) EMC
13 10 (7.19%) Python

Data Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (1.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.72%) SAS
2 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (7.19%) SAP MDG
2 9 (6.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (5.04%) SAP Retail
4 1 (0.72%) Relativity
4 1 (0.72%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.72%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.72%) SAP MDM
4 1 (0.72%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.72%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.72%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 13 (9.35%) Azure
2 9 (6.47%) Power Platform
3 8 (5.76%) AWS
4 5 (3.60%) GCP
5 4 (2.88%) Google Analytics
6 3 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (2.16%) Collibra
7 2 (1.44%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.72%) Alation
8 1 (0.72%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (0.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.72%) ChatGPT
8 1 (0.72%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.72%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.72%) SaaS
8 1 (0.72%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.72%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.47%) Power BI
2 8 (5.76%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.32%) Metadata
4 5 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.88%) Big Data
6 3 (2.16%) BigQuery
6 3 (2.16%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.16%) Data Mining
7 2 (1.44%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (1.44%) Looker
7 2 (1.44%) Oracle BI EE
7 2 (1.44%) Oracle ODI
7 2 (1.44%) PowerCenter
7 2 (1.44%) SAP Data Services
7 2 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.44%) Star Schema
7 2 (1.44%) Tableau
8 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.72%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.72%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Cypress.io
1 1 (0.72%) Postman
1 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (15.83%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.51%) Public Sector
3 12 (8.63%) Retail
4 11 (7.91%) Finance
5 10 (7.19%) Police
6 8 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.32%) Banking
8 4 (2.88%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.88%) Local Government
8 4 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.44%) Automotive
10 2 (1.44%) Legal
11 1 (0.72%) Advertising
11 1 (0.72%) Billing
11 1 (0.72%) Hungarian Language
11 1 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.72%) Law
11 1 (0.72%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.44%) IDoc
1 2 (1.44%) jQuery
1 2 (1.44%) JSON
1 2 (1.44%) Kafka
1 2 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (1.44%) SAP ALE
1 2 (1.44%) SAP Fiori
1 2 (1.44%) Web Dynpro
1 2 (1.44%) XML
2 1 (0.72%) .NET
2 1 (0.72%) .NET Core
2 1 (0.72%) CSS
2 1 (0.72%) DOM
2 1 (0.72%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.72%) HTML
2 1 (0.72%) Node.js
2 1 (0.72%) PySpark
2 1 (0.72%) SOAP
2 1 (0.72%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.32%) Data Centre
1 6 (4.32%) Mainframe
2 4 (2.88%) Data Structures
2 4 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.44%) Algorithms
3 2 (1.44%) IoT
3 2 (1.44%) NHS
3 2 (1.44%) Replication
4 1 (0.72%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.72%) Credit Risk
4 1 (0.72%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.72%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.72%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (0.72%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (30.22%) Migration
2 37 (26.62%) Data Migration
3 24 (17.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (12.95%) Data Governance
4 18 (12.95%) Data Protection
5 16 (11.51%) Data Management
6 15 (10.79%) Business Intelligence
7 14 (10.07%) Decision-Making
8 13 (9.35%) Data Analysis
8 13 (9.35%) Data Lineage
8 13 (9.35%) ETL
9 12 (8.63%) Analytics
9 12 (8.63%) Data Modelling
10 11 (7.91%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (7.91%) Information Security
11 9 (6.47%) Data Integration
11 9 (6.47%) Use Case
12 8 (5.76%) Data Engineering
12 8 (5.76%) Validation
13 7 (5.04%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 18 (12.95%) SQL
2 10 (7.19%) Python
3 5 (3.60%) ABAP
4 3 (2.16%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.44%) Java
6 1 (0.72%) Bash
6 1 (0.72%) C#
6 1 (0.72%) C++
6 1 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.72%) Perl
6 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (25.90%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.07%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.19%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.32%) Degree
5 3 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.44%) CIPD
7 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.72%) CISM
7 1 (0.72%) CISSP
7 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.72%) MBA
7 1 (0.72%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.72%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (15.83%) Data Quality
2 16 (11.51%) GDPR
3 3 (2.16%) QA
4 2 (1.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.72%) FATCA
5 1 (0.72%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.72%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.44%) Terraform
2 1 (0.72%) Control-M
2 1 (0.72%) CSIRT
2 1 (0.72%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (17.27%) SAP
2 16 (11.51%) Oracle
3 11 (7.91%) Informatica
4 10 (7.19%) EMC
5 7 (5.04%) Microsoft
6 5 (3.60%) Databricks
7 4 (2.88%) Google
7 4 (2.88%) OpenAI
8 3 (2.16%) Ariba
8 3 (2.16%) CA
8 3 (2.16%) Dell
8 3 (2.16%) Facebook
8 3 (2.16%) Instagram
8 3 (2.16%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.44%) Adobe
9 2 (1.44%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.44%) JDA
9 2 (1.44%) Monetate
9 2 (1.44%) Optimizely
9 2 (1.44%) Sparx