Data Consultant Jobs in Edinburgh

Data Consultant
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Data Consultant salary in Edinburgh is £56,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 May 2025.

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

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 99 149
Rank change year-on-year +12 +50 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Consultant 2 10 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.22% 0.67% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.70% 0.052%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £53,875 - -
25th Percentile £54,063 £59,145 £111,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £60,743 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.40% -47.18% +91.67%
75th Percentile £59,688 £62,342 £119,000
90th Percentile £60,625 - -
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £60,743 £96,250
% change year-on-year -5.34% -36.89% +75.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Edinburgh with a recognized job title 818 1,426 1,921
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.59% 95.90% 94.91%
Number of salaries quoted 385 1,004 1,139
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £44,516
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,921 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £91,934 £89,852
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -6.25% +6.67%

Data Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Consultant in Edinburgh

Data Consultant
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Consultant in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Data Consultant in Edinburgh

Data Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, Data Consultant 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 permanent job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Data Consultant in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) CISM
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Tableau
2 1 (50.00%) CRISC
2 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics

Data Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Application Security
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) Data Security
1 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (50.00%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft