Data Consultant Contracts in England

Data Consultant
UK > England

The median Data Consultant daily rate in England is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025.

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

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 397 415 549
Rank change year-on-year +18 +134 +75
Contract jobs requiring a Data Consultant 83 123 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.34% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.36% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 88 77
10th Percentile £425 £404 £425
25th Percentile £488 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.40% -2.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £675
90th Percentile £710 £775 £728
UK median daily rate £555 £537 £550
% change year-on-year +3.35% -2.36% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.00 - -
Median hourly rate £37.00 - -
75th Percentile £38.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £37.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 22,000 33,716 45,324
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.29% 92.79% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,637 22,379 32,182
10th Percentile £290 £283 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £640 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.33% -2.82% +2.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 882 2,449 1,335
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.51
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £37.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.81% -17.38% +95.65%
75th Percentile £61.09 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.90 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% -18.89% +88.21%

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 23 May 2025.

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 23 May 2025. 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 +22 42 £600 +11.64% 118
South East +56 12 £575 +7.08% 136
South West +39 6 £588 +42.42% 52
North West +8 6 £555 +11.00% 42
North of England +7 6 £555 +18.40% 114
East of England +33 4 £604 - 67
Midlands +8 4 £544 -13.00% 82
East Midlands +12 3 £550 -12.00% 33
West Midlands +4 1 £500 -18.37% 43
Data Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 2025, 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 38 (45.78%) Migration
2 37 (44.58%) Social Skills
3 34 (40.96%) Data Migration
4 26 (31.33%) Data Governance
5 24 (28.92%) SQL
6 22 (26.51%) Data Modelling
6 22 (26.51%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (25.30%) Data Quality
8 19 (22.89%) ETL
8 19 (22.89%) Data Management
9 18 (21.69%) Artificial Intelligence
9 18 (21.69%) Validation
9 18 (21.69%) Finance
10 15 (18.07%) Data Cleansing
11 14 (16.87%) Analytical Skills
11 14 (16.87%) Security Cleared
12 13 (15.66%) Analytics
12 13 (15.66%) Data Mapping
12 13 (15.66%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (14.46%) Business Intelligence
13 12 (14.46%) SAP
13 12 (14.46%) Data Transformation
13 12 (14.46%) Azure
14 11 (13.25%) Python
14 11 (13.25%) SC Cleared
15 10 (12.05%) GDPR
16 9 (10.84%) Actionable Insight
16 9 (10.84%) Power BI
16 9 (10.84%) Data Security
16 9 (10.84%) Power Platform

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 3 (3.61%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.41%) Apache
2 2 (2.41%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.20%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (6.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (4.82%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (2.41%) Infor SunSystems
3 2 (2.41%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (2.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.20%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.20%) NEC Housing
4 1 (1.20%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (1.20%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (1.20%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (1.20%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (1.20%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (1.20%) SAP HCM
4 1 (1.20%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 12 (14.46%) Azure
2 9 (10.84%) Power Platform
3 8 (9.64%) AWS
4 6 (7.23%) Snowflake
5 4 (4.82%) dbt
5 4 (4.82%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (4.82%) GCP
6 3 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.41%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.20%) Alation
8 1 (1.20%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (1.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.20%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.20%) ChatGPT
8 1 (1.20%) Collibra
8 1 (1.20%) GitHub
8 1 (1.20%) OCI
8 1 (1.20%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.82%) InfiniBand
2 1 (1.20%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (1.20%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.84%) Power BI
2 7 (8.43%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (7.23%) Tableau
4 5 (6.02%) SAP Data Services
5 4 (4.82%) Metadata
6 3 (3.61%) Big Data
7 2 (2.41%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.41%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.41%) QGIS
7 2 (2.41%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.20%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (1.20%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (1.20%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (1.20%) GIS
8 1 (1.20%) MySQL
8 1 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.20%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (3.61%) ERwin
2 2 (2.41%) Git
3 1 (1.20%) Hudson
3 1 (1.20%) JIRA
General
1 37 (44.58%) Social Skills
2 18 (21.69%) Finance
3 14 (16.87%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.02%) Marketing
5 4 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.82%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (4.82%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.41%) Legal
7 2 (2.41%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.41%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.41%) Retail
7 2 (2.41%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.20%) Automotive
8 1 (1.20%) Banking
8 1 (1.20%) Billing
8 1 (1.20%) Games
8 1 (1.20%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.20%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.61%) Kafka
2 2 (2.41%) PySpark
3 1 (1.20%) GeoPandas
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.20%) Pandas
3 1 (1.20%) PostGIS
3 1 (1.20%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.20%) Web Services
3 1 (1.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.64%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (8.43%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.82%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.82%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.41%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.41%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.41%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (2.41%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.20%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (45.78%) Migration
2 34 (40.96%) Data Migration
3 26 (31.33%) Data Governance
4 22 (26.51%) Data Modelling
4 22 (26.51%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (22.89%) Data Management
5 19 (22.89%) ETL
6 18 (21.69%) Artificial Intelligence
6 18 (21.69%) Validation
7 15 (18.07%) Data Cleansing
8 13 (15.66%) Analytics
8 13 (15.66%) Data Mapping
8 13 (15.66%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (14.46%) Business Intelligence
9 12 (14.46%) Data Transformation
10 9 (10.84%) Actionable Insight
10 9 (10.84%) Data Security
11 8 (9.64%) Decision-Making
11 8 (9.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 7 (8.43%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 24 (28.92%) SQL
2 11 (13.25%) Python
3 5 (6.02%) PL/SQL
4 3 (3.61%) ABAP
5 1 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.20%) R
5 1 (1.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (16.87%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.25%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.02%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.61%) Degree
5 2 (2.41%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.20%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (25.30%) Data Quality
2 10 (12.05%) GDPR
3 3 (3.61%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.20%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.20%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (1.20%) NIST
Vendors
1 12 (14.46%) SAP
2 8 (9.64%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.64%) Oracle
3 4 (4.82%) Informatica
3 4 (4.82%) NVIDIA
4 3 (3.61%) Databricks
4 3 (3.61%) Foundry
4 3 (3.61%) Google
5 2 (2.41%) IBM
5 2 (2.41%) Palantir
5 2 (2.41%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.41%) Sun
6 1 (1.20%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.20%) Brocade
6 1 (1.20%) ICL
6 1 (1.20%) IFS
6 1 (1.20%) NEC
6 1 (1.20%) Sparx
6 1 (1.20%) Sybase
6 1 (1.20%) Virgin Media