Data Consultant Job Trends

Data Consultant
UK

The median Data Consultant salary in the UK is £73,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 568 605 597
Rank change year-on-year +37 -8 +236
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Consultant 67 104 111
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.19% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.20% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 54 53 73
10th Percentile £33,600 £52,500 -
25th Percentile £53,125 £55,000 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,250 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.03% - +2.84%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £99,625 £99,000 £106,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +47.96% -14.78%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 53,612 51,163 49,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.49% 93.12% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 32,999 26,912 38,093
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,956 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Data Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Data Consultant' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Data Consultant job vacancy trend in the UK

Data Consultant
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Data Consultant job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Data Consultant job vacancies in the UK

Data Consultant
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Consultant over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Consultant in the UK

Data Consultant
Top 10 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 2 January 2026. 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
England +26 54 £70,000 -6.67% 35
London +32 31 £70,750 -8.12% 21
Work from Home +17 28 £85,000 +13.33% 19
UK excluding London +22 21 £70,000 -3.45% 18
North of England +23 9 £65,000 +8.79% 4
South West +16 7 £80,000 +12.28% 1
Yorkshire -2 5 £30,000 -49.79% 1
North West +34 4 £72,500 +11.11% 2
South East +9 4 £31,500 -57.29% 9
East of England - 1 £95,000 -

Data Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 January 2026, Data Consultant job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Data Consultant in the job title.

1 25 (37.31%) AI
1 25 (37.31%) Python
2 24 (35.82%) SQL
3 22 (32.84%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (29.85%) Analytics
5 18 (26.87%) Azure
5 18 (26.87%) Business Intelligence
5 18 (26.87%) Data Engineering
5 18 (26.87%) Security Cleared
6 15 (22.39%) Data Governance
6 15 (22.39%) Databricks
6 15 (22.39%) SAP
7 14 (20.90%) SC Cleared
8 13 (19.40%) Data Modelling
8 13 (19.40%) Data Science
8 13 (19.40%) Machine Learning
8 13 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (17.91%) ETL
9 12 (17.91%) Mentoring
9 12 (17.91%) Microsoft
9 12 (17.91%) Migration
9 12 (17.91%) Power Platform
10 11 (16.42%) Degree
10 11 (16.42%) Power BI
10 11 (16.42%) Snowflake
11 10 (14.93%) AWS
11 10 (14.93%) Data Management
11 10 (14.93%) Data Migration
11 10 (14.93%) Data Strategy
11 10 (14.93%) PyTorch

Data Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.97%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (5.97%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.49%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (5.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.99%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 18 (26.87%) Azure
2 12 (17.91%) Power Platform
3 11 (16.42%) Snowflake
4 10 (14.93%) AWS
5 7 (10.45%) Azure Machine Learning
5 7 (10.45%) GCP
6 6 (8.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (7.46%) Matillion
8 4 (5.97%) Amazon SageMaker
8 4 (5.97%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (5.97%) Dagster
8 4 (5.97%) Vertex AI
9 3 (4.48%) Azure AI
10 2 (2.99%) dbt
10 2 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.99%) Fivetran
10 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (1.49%) Amazon S3
11 1 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (1.49%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (32.84%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (16.42%) Power BI
3 8 (11.94%) SAP Data Services
4 6 (8.96%) SQL Server
5 5 (7.46%) Data Lake
5 5 (7.46%) Tableau
6 4 (5.97%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (5.97%) Apache Iceberg
6 4 (5.97%) BigQuery
6 4 (5.97%) BusinessObjects
6 4 (5.97%) Delta Lake
6 4 (5.97%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (5.97%) Looker
6 4 (5.97%) Metadata
6 4 (5.97%) Pinecone
6 4 (5.97%) Weaviate
7 2 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.99%) Big Data
8 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (10.45%) MLflow
2 1 (1.49%) LSMW
2 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 17 (25.37%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.43%) Finance
3 6 (8.96%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.46%) Marketing
5 4 (5.97%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.99%) Banking
8 1 (1.49%) Electronics
8 1 (1.49%) Legal
8 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.93%) PyTorch
1 10 (14.93%) TensorFlow
2 5 (7.46%) scikit-learn
3 4 (5.97%) Faiss
3 4 (5.97%) PySpark
3 4 (5.97%) vLLM
4 3 (4.48%) CSS
4 3 (4.48%) LangChain
4 3 (4.48%) Pandas
4 3 (4.48%) React
4 3 (4.48%) XGBoost
5 1 (1.49%) Hugging Face
5 1 (1.49%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.46%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.97%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.99%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (37.31%) AI
2 20 (29.85%) Analytics
3 18 (26.87%) Business Intelligence
3 18 (26.87%) Data Engineering
4 15 (22.39%) Data Governance
5 13 (19.40%) Data Modelling
5 13 (19.40%) Data Science
5 13 (19.40%) Machine Learning
5 13 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (17.91%) ETL
6 12 (17.91%) Mentoring
6 12 (17.91%) Migration
7 10 (14.93%) Data Management
7 10 (14.93%) Data Migration
7 10 (14.93%) Data Strategy
8 9 (13.43%) Computer Science
8 9 (13.43%) LLM
8 9 (13.43%) Presales
9 8 (11.94%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (11.94%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 25 (37.31%) Python
2 24 (35.82%) SQL
3 4 (5.97%) Bash
3 4 (5.97%) Go
3 4 (5.97%) Java
3 4 (5.97%) Scala
4 3 (4.48%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.48%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.48%) R
5 2 (2.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.49%) ABAP
6 1 (1.49%) C#
6 1 (1.49%) C++
6 1 (1.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (26.87%) Security Cleared
2 14 (20.90%) SC Cleared
3 11 (16.42%) Degree
4 7 (10.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (5.97%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.99%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.49%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.49%) CFA
7 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.49%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.45%) GDPR
2 6 (8.96%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.97%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.49%) GAAP
System Software
1 7 (10.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.48%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (22.39%) Databricks
1 15 (22.39%) SAP
2 12 (17.91%) Microsoft
3 9 (13.43%) Palantir
4 8 (11.94%) Foundry
5 3 (4.48%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (4.48%) Fortinet
5 3 (4.48%) OpenAI
5 3 (4.48%) Palo Alto
5 3 (4.48%) Talend
6 1 (1.49%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.49%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.49%) Refinitiv