Data Consultant Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Consultant
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Consultant daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 277 392 494
Rank change year-on-year +115 +102 -111
Contract jobs requiring a Data Consultant 64 65 129
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.43% 0.27% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.29% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 49 74
10th Percentile £366 £445 £375
25th Percentile £425 £488 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £617
90th Percentile £648 £690 £693
UK median daily rate £536 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate - - £35.00

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 13,801 22,740 41,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.25% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,147 30,496
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 528 563
10th Percentile £14.27 £16.98 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +25.00% +70.21%
75th Percentile £63.56 £66.05 £59.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.15 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 24 (37.50%) Migration
1 24 (37.50%) Data Migration
2 15 (23.44%) SQL
3 14 (21.88%) Social Skills
4 11 (17.19%) Data Governance
4 11 (17.19%) Analytics
5 10 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (15.63%) Finance
5 10 (15.63%) SAP
5 10 (15.63%) Microsoft
5 10 (15.63%) Azure
6 9 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (12.50%) Data Modelling
7 8 (12.50%) Data Centre
7 8 (12.50%) Decision-Making
8 7 (10.94%) Data Quality
8 7 (10.94%) SAP S/4HANA
8 7 (10.94%) Security Cleared
8 7 (10.94%) Use Case
9 6 (9.38%) Data Protection
9 6 (9.38%) Data Analysis
9 6 (9.38%) Informatica
9 6 (9.38%) Python
9 6 (9.38%) Oracle
9 6 (9.38%) GDPR
9 6 (9.38%) Data Lineage
9 6 (9.38%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 6 (9.38%) Data Analytics
9 6 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (7.81%) DV Cleared

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 (3.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.56%) SAS
2 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (10.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (6.25%) SAP MDG
3 3 (4.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (4.69%) SAP Retail
4 1 (1.56%) Infor M3
4 1 (1.56%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (1.56%) SAP MDM
4 1 (1.56%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.63%) Azure
2 5 (7.81%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (4.69%) Google Analytics
4 2 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (3.13%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.56%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (1.56%) Alation
5 1 (1.56%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (1.56%) AWS
5 1 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.56%) GCP
5 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.13%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.13%) Big Data
1 2 (3.13%) Data Lake
1 2 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (3.13%) Power BI
1 2 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.56%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.56%) Data Mining
2 1 (1.56%) Looker
2 1 (1.56%) Metadata
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle ODI
2 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.56%) Sisense
2 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (1.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (3.13%) JIRA
2 1 (1.56%) Eclipse
2 1 (1.56%) LSMW
2 1 (1.56%) RStudio
2 1 (1.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.63%) Finance
3 6 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.81%) Retail
5 3 (4.69%) Banking
5 3 (4.69%) Billing
6 2 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Korean Language
7 1 (1.56%) Law
7 1 (1.56%) Legal
7 1 (1.56%) Local Government
7 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.69%) SAP ALE
2 2 (3.13%) IDoc
2 2 (3.13%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (3.13%) Web Dynpro
3 1 (1.56%) BAPI
3 1 (1.56%) CSS
3 1 (1.56%) HTML
3 1 (1.56%) jQuery
3 1 (1.56%) JSON
3 1 (1.56%) Kafka
3 1 (1.56%) PySpark
3 1 (1.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.69%) Replication
3 2 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.13%) VxBlock/Vblock
4 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.56%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.56%) FMCG
4 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (37.50%) Data Migration
1 24 (37.50%) Migration
2 11 (17.19%) Analytics
2 11 (17.19%) Data Governance
3 10 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (12.50%) Data Modelling
5 8 (12.50%) Decision-Making
6 7 (10.94%) Use Case
7 6 (9.38%) Data Analysis
7 6 (9.38%) Data Analytics
7 6 (9.38%) Data Lineage
7 6 (9.38%) Data Protection
7 6 (9.38%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 5 (7.81%) Agile
9 4 (6.25%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (6.25%) CRM
9 4 (6.25%) Data Management
9 4 (6.25%) Data Mapping
9 4 (6.25%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 15 (23.44%) SQL
2 6 (9.38%) Python
3 3 (4.69%) ABAP
4 2 (3.13%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.56%) C++
5 1 (1.56%) R
5 1 (1.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (10.94%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.81%) DV Cleared
3 4 (6.25%) Degree
4 2 (3.13%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.56%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.56%) CIPD
5 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.56%) MBA
5 1 (1.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.94%) Data Quality
2 6 (9.38%) GDPR
3 3 (4.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (3.13%) PMO
5 1 (1.56%) FATCA
5 1 (1.56%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.56%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 4 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (6.25%) vSphere
2 2 (3.13%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (3.13%) vCenter Server
1 2 (3.13%) VxRail
2 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (15.63%) Microsoft
1 10 (15.63%) SAP
2 6 (9.38%) Informatica
2 6 (9.38%) Oracle
3 5 (7.81%) Databricks
4 4 (6.25%) Cisco
4 4 (6.25%) Dell
4 4 (6.25%) VMware
5 3 (4.69%) Facebook
5 3 (4.69%) Google
5 3 (4.69%) Instagram
6 2 (3.13%) JDA
6 2 (3.13%) OpenAI
6 2 (3.13%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.56%) Adobe
7 1 (1.56%) CA
7 1 (1.56%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.56%) Infor
7 1 (1.56%) Liquidlogic
7 1 (1.56%) OneTrust