Data Consultant Contracts in London

Data Consultant
England > London

The median Data Consultant daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 323 419
Rank change year-on-year +21 +96 +100
Contract jobs requiring a Data Consultant 39 73 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.32% 0.42% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.45% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 53 49
10th Percentile £436 £415 £450
25th Percentile £488 £468 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £537 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.73% -6.61% +4.55%
75th Percentile £728 £644 £670
90th Percentile £750 £803 £726
England median daily rate £588 £535 £550
% change year-on-year +9.81% -2.73% +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 - - -
England median hourly rate £37.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,322 16,344 24,264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.55% 95.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,688 11,839 17,686
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.00% -4.55% +3.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 322 279
10th Percentile £20.24 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.42 £20.22 £22.57
Median hourly rate £31.00 £27.66 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.10% -23.18% +2.86%
75th Percentile £49.88 £46.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £65.03 £82.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.48% -16.67% +93.05%

Data Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Consultant in London

Data Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Consultant in London

Data Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Consultant in London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Consultant in London

Data Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Consultant in London

Data Consultant
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 29 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
Central London +7 4 £700 +19.15% 2
Data Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 London region featuring Data Consultant in the job title.

1 19 (48.72%) Social Skills
2 16 (41.03%) Data Modelling
3 14 (35.90%) SQL
3 14 (35.90%) Data Governance
3 14 (35.90%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (33.33%) Migration
5 12 (30.77%) Finance
5 12 (30.77%) ETL
5 12 (30.77%) Data Quality
5 12 (30.77%) Data Migration
6 11 (28.21%) Artificial Intelligence
6 11 (28.21%) Data Management
7 10 (25.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (25.64%) Python
8 9 (23.08%) Azure
8 9 (23.08%) Analytics
9 8 (20.51%) SAP
10 7 (17.95%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (17.95%) Decision-Making
10 7 (17.95%) Power BI
10 7 (17.95%) Data Transformation
10 7 (17.95%) Power Platform
11 6 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (15.38%) Actionable Insight
11 6 (15.38%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 6 (15.38%) Security Cleared
11 6 (15.38%) Data Analysis
11 6 (15.38%) Validation
12 5 (12.82%) Microsoft

Data Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.13%) Apache
2 2 (5.13%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (12.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (5.13%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (2.56%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (2.56%) SAP HCM
3 1 (2.56%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 9 (23.08%) Azure
2 7 (17.95%) Power Platform
3 5 (12.82%) AWS
4 4 (10.26%) GCP
5 3 (7.69%) Snowflake
6 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.56%) Alation
7 1 (2.56%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (2.56%) ChatGPT
7 1 (2.56%) Collibra
7 1 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.56%) GitHub
7 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.56%) OneDrive
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) Power BI
2 5 (12.82%) Tableau
3 4 (10.26%) Metadata
4 3 (7.69%) Big Data
4 3 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (5.13%) QGIS
5 2 (5.13%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (2.56%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.56%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.56%) Delta Lake
6 1 (2.56%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (2.56%) GIS
6 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.56%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.56%) MySQL
6 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) ERwin
2 1 (2.56%) Git
2 1 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 19 (48.72%) Social Skills
2 12 (30.77%) Finance
3 6 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (10.26%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Marketing
6 2 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.56%) Automotive
7 1 (2.56%) Banking
7 1 (2.56%) Billing
7 1 (2.56%) General Ledger
7 1 (2.56%) Legal
7 1 (2.56%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) Kafka
2 2 (5.13%) PySpark
3 1 (2.56%) GeoPandas
3 1 (2.56%) Pandas
3 1 (2.56%) PostGIS
3 1 (2.56%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (10.26%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.13%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.13%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.13%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (41.03%) Data Modelling
2 14 (35.90%) Data Governance
2 14 (35.90%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (33.33%) Migration
4 12 (30.77%) Data Migration
4 12 (30.77%) ETL
5 11 (28.21%) Artificial Intelligence
5 11 (28.21%) Data Management
6 10 (25.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (23.08%) Analytics
8 7 (17.95%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (17.95%) Data Transformation
8 7 (17.95%) Decision-Making
9 6 (15.38%) Actionable Insight
9 6 (15.38%) Data Analysis
9 6 (15.38%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 6 (15.38%) Validation
10 5 (12.82%) Machine Learning
11 4 (10.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 4 (10.26%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.90%) SQL
2 10 (25.64%) Python
3 2 (5.13%) ABAP
3 2 (5.13%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.56%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.69%) Degree
4 2 (5.13%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (30.77%) Data Quality
2 5 (12.82%) GDPR
3 3 (7.69%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (2.56%) EU AI Act
4 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (2.56%) NIST
Vendors
1 8 (20.51%) SAP
2 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.69%) Databricks
3 3 (7.69%) Foundry
3 3 (7.69%) Google
3 3 (7.69%) Oracle
4 2 (5.13%) IBM
4 2 (5.13%) Informatica
4 2 (5.13%) Palantir
4 2 (5.13%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.13%) Sun
5 1 (2.56%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.56%) Sparx
5 1 (2.56%) Virgin Media