Data Consultant Contracts in the Thames Valley

Data Consultant
South East > Thames Valley

The median Data Consultant daily rate in the Thames Valley is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 143 148
Rank change year-on-year +47 +5 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Data Consultant 6 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.40% 0.074% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.080% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £475 £465 £521
25th Percentile £550 £488 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £588 £563 £584
90th Percentile £594 £585 £594
South East median daily rate £563 £537 £510
% change year-on-year +4.75% +5.29% -7.27%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,405 2,505 2,767
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.98% 93.26% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 1,430 1,916
10th Percentile £300 £206 £313
25th Percentile £409 £370 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 189 76
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.78 £17.31
25th Percentile £16.94 £19.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £45.65 £45.00 £46.70
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -3.64% +166.86%
75th Percentile £65.62 £62.50 £66.21
90th Percentile £77.47 £84.57 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Data Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Consultant in the Thames Valley

Data Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Consultant in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Data Consultant in the Thames Valley

Data Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Consultant in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Consultant in the Thames Valley

Data Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Consultant in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Data Consultant in the Thames Valley

Data Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire +34 4 £575 -4.17% 2
Buckinghamshire +17 2 £475 +5.56%
Data Consultant
South East

Data Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 1 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 Thames Valley region featuring Data Consultant in the job title.

1 3 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Migration
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Data Management
2 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) ERP
3 1 (16.67%) ETL
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Data Management
3 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (16.67%) Alteryx

Data Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 2 (33.33%) Data Management
2 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Data Science
3 1 (16.67%) Data-Driven Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Data Management
3 1 (16.67%) Impact Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) LLM
3 1 (16.67%) Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Alteryx
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks