Data Consultant Jobs

Data Consultant
UK

The median Data Consultant salary in the UK is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 705 710 922
Rank change year-on-year +5 +212 -127
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Consultant 137 177 356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.22% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.24% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 75 119 195
10th Percentile £43,750 £49,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £94,500 £100,000 £94,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,372 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.77% -15.38% +15.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 85,709 74,085 167,386
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 91.81% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58,134 51,472 87,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,800 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%

Data Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Consultant in the UK

Data Consultant
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Consultant in the UK

Data Consultant
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Consultant over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Consultant in the UK

Data Consultant
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Work from Home +49 103 £71,500 +6.72% 18
England -38 96 £71,500 +6.72% 20
UK excluding London -1 79 £60,372 +9.77% 16
London +28 38 £75,000 - 8
North of England +12 21 £61,250 +11.36% 2
South East +21 15 £67,500 +35.00% 2
Scotland -33 12 £60,743 +34.98% 3
North West -10 11 £47,500 -34.48% 2
Yorkshire +65 10 £67,500 +37.76%
South West +2 9 £37,500 -23.47% 4
Midlands -30 9 £40,000 -18.37% 2
Northern Ireland - 6 £50,000 - 1
Wales - 6 - -
West Midlands -17 5 £40,000 -18.37% 2
East Midlands - 4 - -
East of England -11 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 featuring Data Consultant in the job title.

1 74 (54.01%) Azure
2 61 (44.53%) Finance
2 61 (44.53%) Data Architecture
3 59 (43.07%) Artificial Intelligence
3 59 (43.07%) AWS
4 56 (40.88%) Data Lake
4 56 (40.88%) Data Warehouse
5 55 (40.15%) Roadmaps
6 51 (37.23%) Presales
7 50 (36.50%) Azure Certification
7 50 (36.50%) Presentation Skills
8 49 (35.77%) Strategic Roadmap
9 47 (34.31%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 47 (34.31%) AWS Certification
9 47 (34.31%) Workflow
10 39 (28.47%) Analytics
11 32 (23.36%) Data Management
12 28 (20.44%) Social Skills
13 27 (19.71%) Actionable Insight
14 25 (18.25%) SQL
15 24 (17.52%) Data Quality
16 23 (16.79%) Data Governance
16 23 (16.79%) Data Strategy
16 23 (16.79%) Power Platform
16 23 (16.79%) Business Intelligence
17 22 (16.06%) Power BI
18 20 (14.60%) Python
19 19 (13.87%) Microsoft
19 19 (13.87%) Migration
20 17 (12.41%) Data Analysis

Data Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.73%) SAS
1 1 (0.73%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (8.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.46%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.73%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.73%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 74 (54.01%) Azure
2 59 (43.07%) AWS
3 23 (16.79%) Power Platform
4 13 (9.49%) Collibra
5 12 (8.76%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (5.84%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (5.11%) GCP
8 5 (3.65%) dbt
9 4 (2.92%) Alation
9 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.46%) Azure Stack
10 2 (1.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.46%) Serverless
11 1 (0.73%) Amazon Cognito
11 1 (0.73%) Azure Cognitive Services
11 1 (0.73%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.73%) Fivetran
11 1 (0.73%) Prefect
11 1 (0.73%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (40.88%) Data Lake
1 56 (40.88%) Data Warehouse
2 47 (34.31%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 22 (16.06%) Power BI
4 13 (9.49%) Tableau
5 9 (6.57%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (5.11%) Metadata
6 7 (5.11%) SQL Server
7 5 (3.65%) Ataccama
7 5 (3.65%) QlikView
7 5 (3.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (2.92%) BigQuery
8 4 (2.92%) Looker
9 2 (1.46%) Big Data
9 2 (1.46%) Data Hub
10 1 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.73%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.73%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (0.73%) SAP Data Services
General
1 61 (44.53%) Finance
2 50 (36.50%) Presentation Skills
3 28 (20.44%) Social Skills
4 12 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.76%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.65%) Legal
6 4 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.92%) Social Housing
7 3 (2.19%) Banking
7 3 (2.19%) Marketing
7 3 (2.19%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.46%) Electronics
8 2 (1.46%) Law
8 2 (1.46%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.46%) Retail
9 1 (0.73%) Advertising
9 1 (0.73%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.19%) PySpark
2 1 (0.73%) JSON
2 1 (0.73%) RESTful
2 1 (0.73%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.11%) Taxonomies
2 6 (4.38%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.65%) Reference Data
4 3 (2.19%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.19%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.46%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.73%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.73%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.73%) Smart Meter
6 1 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.73%) Linux
1 1 (0.73%) Unix
1 1 (0.73%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (44.53%) Data Architecture
2 59 (43.07%) Artificial Intelligence
3 55 (40.15%) Roadmaps
4 51 (37.23%) Presales
5 49 (35.77%) Strategic Roadmap
6 47 (34.31%) Workflow
7 39 (28.47%) Analytics
8 32 (23.36%) Data Management
9 27 (19.71%) Actionable Insight
10 23 (16.79%) Business Intelligence
10 23 (16.79%) Data Governance
10 23 (16.79%) Data Strategy
11 19 (13.87%) Migration
12 17 (12.41%) Data Analysis
13 16 (11.68%) Visualisation
14 15 (10.95%) Data Migration
15 14 (10.22%) Machine Learning
15 14 (10.22%) Mentoring
16 13 (9.49%) Data Analytics
16 13 (9.49%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (18.25%) SQL
2 20 (14.60%) Python
3 4 (2.92%) Java
3 4 (2.92%) R
3 4 (2.92%) Scala
4 3 (2.19%) C#
5 2 (1.46%) Go
5 2 (1.46%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.73%) C++
6 1 (0.73%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.73%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 50 (36.50%) Azure Certification
2 47 (34.31%) AWS Certification
3 16 (11.68%) Security Cleared
4 14 (10.22%) Degree
5 12 (8.76%) SC Cleared
6 6 (4.38%) DV Cleared
7 5 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.92%) Master's Degree
9 3 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.73%) MBA
10 1 (0.73%) MCP
10 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.73%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (17.52%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.46%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.73%) GDPR
3 1 (0.73%) GMP
3 1 (0.73%) NCSC
Vendors
1 19 (13.87%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.22%) SAP
3 10 (7.30%) Databricks
4 9 (6.57%) Talend
5 7 (5.11%) Google
5 7 (5.11%) Informatica
6 2 (1.46%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.73%) Ab Initio
7 1 (0.73%) Computacenter
7 1 (0.73%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.73%) Oracle
7 1 (0.73%) YouTube