Data Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £543, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 341 414
Rank change year-on-year +39 +73 +26
Contract jobs requiring a Data Consultant 37 58 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.28% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.30% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 37 20
10th Percentile £400 £415 £462
25th Percentile £431 £450 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% - -
75th Percentile £615 £600 £661
90th Percentile £666 £663 £678
UK median daily rate £553 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +5.24% -4.55% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,790 19,217 22,597
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.60% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,554 11,733 15,842
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £599 £598
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,245 1,162
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.50 £42.43
Median % change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%

Data Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Consultant in the UK excluding London

Data Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Consultant in the UK excluding London

Data Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Consultant in the UK excluding London

Data Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Consultant in the UK excluding London

Data Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South East +52 13 £563 +4.75% 21
South West +45 6 £588 +30.56% 4
North West +12 6 £555 +8.29% 8
North of England +9 6 £555 +5.71% 19
Wales +5 5 £400 - 2
Midlands +5 4 £544 -9.38% 8
East Midlands +15 3 £550 -12.00% 6
East of England - 2 £488 - 3
Scotland +9 1 - - 3
West Midlands +2 1 £500 -4.76% 1
Data Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 UK excluding London region featuring Data Consultant in the job title.

1 24 (64.86%) Migration
2 16 (43.24%) Data Migration
3 12 (32.43%) SQL
3 12 (32.43%) Social Skills
4 10 (27.03%) Data Governance
5 9 (24.32%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (21.62%) Azure
6 8 (21.62%) Security Cleared
7 7 (18.92%) Data Mapping
7 7 (18.92%) SC Cleared
7 7 (18.92%) Validation
7 7 (18.92%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (16.22%) Data Modelling
8 6 (16.22%) ETL
8 6 (16.22%) Data Cleansing
8 6 (16.22%) Data Management
8 6 (16.22%) Data Quality
9 5 (13.51%) Data Transformation
9 5 (13.51%) Power BI
9 5 (13.51%) Data Security
9 5 (13.51%) Oracle
9 5 (13.51%) Power Platform
9 5 (13.51%) Azure Certification
10 4 (10.81%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (10.81%) dbt
10 4 (10.81%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (10.81%) PL/SQL
10 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
10 4 (10.81%) Oracle EBS

Data Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (8.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (5.41%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.62%) Azure
2 5 (13.51%) Power Platform
3 4 (10.81%) dbt
4 3 (8.11%) AWS
4 3 (8.11%) Snowflake
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.70%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (2.70%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) Power BI
2 4 (10.81%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.41%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.41%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.70%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.70%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (2.70%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Git
1 1 (2.70%) Hudson
General
1 12 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 9 (24.32%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.81%) Finance
4 2 (5.41%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.41%) Marketing
4 2 (5.41%) Retail
5 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Games
5 1 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (2.70%) Web Services
1 1 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.41%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.41%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (64.86%) Migration
2 16 (43.24%) Data Migration
3 10 (27.03%) Data Governance
4 7 (18.92%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (18.92%) Data Mapping
4 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (18.92%) Validation
5 6 (16.22%) Data Cleansing
5 6 (16.22%) Data Management
5 6 (16.22%) Data Modelling
5 6 (16.22%) ETL
6 5 (13.51%) Data Security
6 5 (13.51%) Data Transformation
7 4 (10.81%) Actionable Insight
7 4 (10.81%) Analytics
7 4 (10.81%) Data Engineering
7 4 (10.81%) TOGAF
8 3 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (8.11%) Machine Learning
8 3 (8.11%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 12 (32.43%) SQL
2 4 (10.81%) PL/SQL
3 2 (5.41%) Python
4 1 (2.70%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) Security Cleared
2 7 (18.92%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.51%) Azure Certification
4 4 (10.81%) TOGAF Certification
5 3 (8.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.70%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.22%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.11%) GDPR
3 1 (2.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) Oracle
2 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.41%) Databricks
3 2 (5.41%) SAP
4 1 (2.70%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.70%) Brocade
4 1 (2.70%) ICL
4 1 (2.70%) IFS
4 1 (2.70%) Informatica
4 1 (2.70%) Sybase