Data Consultant Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Consultant
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Consultant daily rate in Work from Home is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 264 395 458
Rank change year-on-year +131 +63 -88
Contract jobs requiring a Data Consultant 80 76 166
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.52% 0.30% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.31% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 56 91
10th Percentile £425 £425 £375
25th Percentile £450 £486 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £550 £641 £623
90th Percentile £638 £688 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £41.50
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £67.50
75th Percentile - - £83.75
90th Percentile - - £93.50
UK median hourly rate - - £67.50
% change year-on-year - - +92.86%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 14,262 24,476 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.36% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,547 17,287 30,849
10th Percentile £325 £356 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 563 608
10th Percentile £14.34 £18.50 £13.21
25th Percentile £23.32 £25.98 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%

Data Consultant
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Data Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Consultant trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Consultant
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Data Consultant over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 2 May 2024, 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 27 (33.75%) Migration
1 27 (33.75%) Data Migration
2 17 (21.25%) Security Cleared
3 16 (20.00%) GDPR
4 15 (18.75%) SAP
4 15 (18.75%) Data Protection
5 14 (17.50%) SQL
6 13 (16.25%) Data Governance
6 13 (16.25%) Social Skills
7 12 (15.00%) Azure
8 11 (13.75%) Public Sector
8 11 (13.75%) Microsoft
9 10 (12.50%) Information Security
9 10 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (12.50%) Police
9 10 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (11.25%) Analytics
10 9 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (10.00%) SAP MDG
11 8 (10.00%) Data Centre
11 8 (10.00%) Finance
11 8 (10.00%) Data Modelling
11 8 (10.00%) Retail
12 7 (8.75%) Use Case
12 7 (8.75%) Oracle
12 7 (8.75%) SAP S/4HANA
13 6 (7.50%) Data Lineage
13 6 (7.50%) Databricks
13 6 (7.50%) Decision-Making
13 6 (7.50%) Analytical Skills

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 2 (2.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.25%) SAS
2 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (10.00%) SAP MDG
2 7 (8.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (7.50%) SAP Retail
4 3 (3.75%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (1.25%) Infor M3
5 1 (1.25%) Relativity
5 1 (1.25%) SAP HR
5 1 (1.25%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (1.25%) SAP MDM
5 1 (1.25%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (1.25%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 12 (15.00%) Azure
2 5 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (3.75%) Google Analytics
3 3 (3.75%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.25%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (1.25%) Alation
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (1.25%) AWS
5 1 (1.25%) ChatGPT
5 1 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.25%) GCP
5 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.75%) Power BI
2 2 (2.50%) Data Lake
2 2 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (2.50%) Tableau
3 1 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.25%) Big Data
3 1 (1.25%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.25%) Looker
3 1 (1.25%) Metadata
3 1 (1.25%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (1.25%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (1.25%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.25%) Sisense
3 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.50%) JIRA
2 1 (1.25%) Eclipse
2 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (16.25%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.75%) Public Sector
3 10 (12.50%) Police
4 8 (10.00%) Finance
4 8 (10.00%) Retail
5 6 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.75%) Banking
6 3 (3.75%) Billing
7 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Law
7 1 (1.25%) Legal
7 1 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.75%) SAP ALE
2 2 (2.50%) IDoc
2 2 (2.50%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (2.50%) Web Dynpro
3 1 (1.25%) BAPI
3 1 (1.25%) CSS
3 1 (1.25%) HTML
3 1 (1.25%) jQuery
3 1 (1.25%) JSON
3 1 (1.25%) Kafka
3 1 (1.25%) PySpark
3 1 (1.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.75%) Replication
3 2 (2.50%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.50%) VxBlock/Vblock
4 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.25%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.25%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (33.75%) Data Migration
1 27 (33.75%) Migration
2 15 (18.75%) Data Protection
3 13 (16.25%) Data Governance
4 10 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 10 (12.50%) Information Security
4 10 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (11.25%) Analytics
5 9 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (10.00%) Data Modelling
7 7 (8.75%) Use Case
8 6 (7.50%) Data Lineage
8 6 (7.50%) Decision-Making
9 5 (6.25%) Agile
9 5 (6.25%) Data Analysis
9 5 (6.25%) Data Privacy
9 5 (6.25%) Data Validation
9 5 (6.25%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 5 (6.25%) Validation
10 4 (5.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (17.50%) SQL
2 6 (7.50%) Python
3 5 (6.25%) ABAP
4 2 (2.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.25%) C++
5 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (21.25%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.25%) DV Cleared
3 3 (3.75%) Degree
4 2 (2.50%) CIPD
4 2 (2.50%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.25%) MBA
5 1 (1.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (20.00%) GDPR
2 6 (7.50%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (2.50%) PMO
4 1 (1.25%) FATCA
4 1 (1.25%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.25%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (5.00%) vSphere
2 2 (2.50%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (2.50%) vCenter Server
1 2 (2.50%) VxRail
2 1 (1.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (18.75%) SAP
2 11 (13.75%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.75%) Oracle
4 6 (7.50%) Databricks
4 6 (7.50%) Informatica
5 4 (5.00%) Cisco
5 4 (5.00%) Dell
5 4 (5.00%) OpenAI
5 4 (5.00%) VMware
6 3 (3.75%) Facebook
6 3 (3.75%) Google
6 3 (3.75%) Instagram
7 2 (2.50%) JDA
7 2 (2.50%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.25%) Adobe
8 1 (1.25%) CA
8 1 (1.25%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.25%) Infor
8 1 (1.25%) Monetate
8 1 (1.25%) OneTrust