Data Consultant Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Consultant
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Consultant daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £575, 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 260 265 400
Rank change year-on-year +5 +135 +65
Contract jobs requiring a Data Consultant 44 80 77
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.44% 0.52% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.56% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 44 57
10th Percentile £395 £425 £425
25th Percentile £456 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - -
75th Percentile £627 £550 £638
90th Percentile £688 £638 £685
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Data Consultant
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Data Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Consultant trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Consultant
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Consultant.

Data Consultant daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Consultant over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Data Consultant daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Consultant.

Data Consultant hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Data Consultant in the job title.

1 23 (52.27%) Migration
2 20 (45.45%) Data Migration
3 15 (34.09%) Data Governance
4 14 (31.82%) SQL
5 11 (25.00%) Data Quality
6 10 (22.73%) Validation
6 10 (22.73%) Data Cleansing
6 10 (22.73%) Data Management
7 9 (20.45%) ETL
8 8 (18.18%) Data Modelling
8 8 (18.18%) SAP
8 8 (18.18%) Azure
8 8 (18.18%) Social Skills
8 8 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (15.91%) Data Mapping
9 7 (15.91%) Microsoft
10 6 (13.64%) Oracle
10 6 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (11.36%) Data Transformation
11 5 (11.36%) Data Validation
11 5 (11.36%) Artificial Intelligence
11 5 (11.36%) Analytics
11 5 (11.36%) Data Security
11 5 (11.36%) Finance
11 5 (11.36%) Business Intelligence
11 5 (11.36%) Informatica
12 4 (9.09%) PL/SQL
12 4 (9.09%) SQL Server
12 4 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (9.09%) ERP

Data Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (2.27%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (6.82%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (4.55%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (4.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (2.27%) Aladdin
4 1 (2.27%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (2.27%) NetSuite
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (2.27%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (2.27%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 8 (18.18%) Azure
2 4 (9.09%) AWS
2 4 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (9.09%) Power Platform
3 3 (6.82%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (6.82%) Snowflake
4 2 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (4.55%) dbt
4 2 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (4.55%) OCI
4 2 (4.55%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (2.27%) GCP
5 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (2.27%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (2.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (9.09%) Power BI
1 4 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.55%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (4.55%) Power Query
2 2 (4.55%) SAP Data Services
2 2 (4.55%) Tableau
3 1 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.27%) Ataccama
3 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.27%) Big Data
3 1 (2.27%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.27%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.27%) Metadata
3 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.27%) ERwin
1 1 (2.27%) Hudson
1 1 (2.27%) LSMW
General
1 8 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.36%) Finance
4 4 (9.09%) Marketing
5 2 (4.55%) Automotive
5 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.27%) Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Billing
6 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Legal
6 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Publishing
6 1 (2.27%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.27%) BAPI
1 1 (2.27%) Kafka
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (2.27%) REST
1 1 (2.27%) Web Services
1 1 (2.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.55%) Marketing Technology
2 2 (4.55%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (52.27%) Migration
2 20 (45.45%) Data Migration
3 15 (34.09%) Data Governance
4 10 (22.73%) Data Cleansing
4 10 (22.73%) Data Management
4 10 (22.73%) Validation
5 9 (20.45%) ETL
6 8 (18.18%) Data Modelling
6 8 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (15.91%) Data Mapping
8 5 (11.36%) Analytics
8 5 (11.36%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (11.36%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (11.36%) Data Security
8 5 (11.36%) Data Transformation
8 5 (11.36%) Data Validation
9 4 (9.09%) Actionable Insight
9 4 (9.09%) Decision-Making
9 4 (9.09%) DevOps
9 4 (9.09%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 14 (31.82%) SQL
2 4 (9.09%) PL/SQL
3 3 (6.82%) Python
3 3 (6.82%) T-SQL
4 2 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (4.55%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.27%) Degree
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.55%) GDPR
3 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.27%) EU AI Act
3 1 (2.27%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (18.18%) SAP
2 7 (15.91%) Microsoft
3 6 (13.64%) Oracle
4 5 (11.36%) Informatica
5 3 (6.82%) Salesforce
6 2 (4.55%) Ariba
7 1 (2.27%) Alteryx
7 1 (2.27%) Brocade
7 1 (2.27%) Databricks
7 1 (2.27%) Google
7 1 (2.27%) ICL
7 1 (2.27%) IFS
7 1 (2.27%) JD Edwards
7 1 (2.27%) OpenText
7 1 (2.27%) Sybase
7 1 (2.27%) Zuora