Data Consultant Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £547, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 329 385
Rank change year-on-year -10 +56 +78
Contract jobs requiring a Data Consultant 37 40 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.22% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.24% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 27 18
10th Percentile £400 £348 £398
25th Percentile £461 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.60% +7.32% -2.38%
75th Percentile £666 £590 £618
90th Percentile £750 £638 £666
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -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 13,901 16,529 20,119
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.86% 92.25% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,552 9,598 13,421
10th Percentile £213 £220 £225
25th Percentile £361 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £660 £676 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,264 1,436 1,179
10th Percentile £13.47 £14.34 £14.11
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £17.89
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% +4.65% +95.45%
75th Percentile £52.50 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Consultant job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Consultant job vacancies 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 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Consultant in the UK excluding London

Data Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Consultant job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Consultant job vacancies 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 18 September 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
North of England -10 11 £750 +36.36% 10
South East +12 10 £578 -0.31% 39
North West -8 10 £750 +51.90% 7
South West +26 6 £400 -11.11% 2
Midlands -13 6 £585 -6.40% 3
East of England +5 3 £604 - 3
West Midlands -10 3 £625 - 1
East Midlands - 3 £550 - 2
Yorkshire -18 1 £525 -4.55% 3
Scotland - 1 - - 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 18 September 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 17 (45.95%) Migration
2 15 (40.54%) Finance
3 14 (37.84%) Data Migration
4 13 (35.14%) Social Skills
5 10 (27.03%) SAP
5 10 (27.03%) Analytics
6 9 (24.32%) Data Quality
6 9 (24.32%) SQL
7 8 (21.62%) Data Cleansing
7 8 (21.62%) Data Mapping
8 7 (18.92%) Validation
8 7 (18.92%) Data Modelling
8 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (16.22%) Snowflake
9 6 (16.22%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (16.22%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (16.22%) Data Governance
9 6 (16.22%) Data Transformation
9 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (16.22%) SAP S/4HANA
10 5 (13.51%) Matrix Organization
10 5 (13.51%) Actionable Insight
10 5 (13.51%) Security Cleared
10 5 (13.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 5 (13.51%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (13.51%) ERP
11 4 (10.81%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (10.81%) Data Strategy
11 4 (10.81%) Thought Leadership
11 4 (10.81%) Mentoring

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:

Business Applications
1 6 (16.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.70%) SAP HR
2 1 (2.70%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.22%) Snowflake
2 4 (10.81%) Matillion
3 3 (8.11%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (5.41%) OCI
5 1 (2.70%) Azure
5 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.70%) dbt
5 1 (2.70%) PaaS
5 1 (2.70%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.22%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (8.11%) Power BI
3 2 (5.41%) SAP Data Services
3 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.70%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.70%) Lumira
4 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.70%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Git
2 1 (2.70%) Hudson
General
1 15 (40.54%) Finance
2 13 (35.14%) Social Skills
3 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (16.22%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (10.81%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (10.81%) Marketing
5 3 (8.11%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.70%) Games
6 1 (2.70%) General Ledger
6 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.70%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.70%) Streamlit
2 1 (2.70%) Web Services
2 1 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.41%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (45.95%) Migration
2 14 (37.84%) Data Migration
3 10 (27.03%) Analytics
4 8 (21.62%) Data Cleansing
4 8 (21.62%) Data Mapping
5 7 (18.92%) Data Modelling
5 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (18.92%) Validation
6 6 (16.22%) Data Governance
6 6 (16.22%) Data Transformation
7 5 (13.51%) Actionable Insight
7 5 (13.51%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (13.51%) ERP
7 5 (13.51%) Matrix Organization
7 5 (13.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (10.81%) Business Development
8 4 (10.81%) Data Management
8 4 (10.81%) ETL
8 4 (10.81%) Project Planning
8 4 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (24.32%) SQL
2 2 (5.41%) Python
3 1 (2.70%) C
3 1 (2.70%) C++
3 1 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (2.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.81%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (10.81%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (24.32%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.70%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (2.70%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.70%) GDPR
2 1 (2.70%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) CASB
Vendors
1 10 (27.03%) SAP
2 4 (10.81%) Oracle
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.70%) IFS
4 1 (2.70%) Intel
4 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.70%) Sybase