Data Consultant
UK

The median Data Consultant salary in the UK is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 740 776 893
Rank change year-on-year +36 +117 -217
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Consultant 154 218 326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.21% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.23% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 100 131 200
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £37,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.13% +5.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 92,901 95,961 148,050
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,751 60,281 85,224
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,495
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Consultant in the UK

Data Consultant
Top 15 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 April 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
England +43 128 £72,500 +7.41% 43
Work from Home +81 85 £75,000 - 20
London +126 77 £75,000 - 27
UK excluding London -13 64 £55,000 -8.33% 13
South East +47 24 £65,000 +36.84%
North of England +29 14 £47,500 -32.14% 8
Scotland -52 10 £60,372 -37.28% 1
Yorkshire +97 8 £25,000 -64.29% 2
South West -25 7 £77,500 +3.33% 3
North West -7 6 £47,500 -32.14% 5
Northern Ireland - 4 £50,000 -
Midlands -10 3 - - 2
East Midlands - 2 - -
Wales - 2 - -
West Midlands +8 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 66 (42.86%) Azure
2 57 (37.01%) Finance
2 57 (37.01%) SQL
3 52 (33.77%) Social Skills
4 47 (30.52%) Analytics
5 43 (27.92%) Business Intelligence
6 40 (25.97%) Data Lake
7 39 (25.32%) AWS
8 38 (24.68%) Data Architecture
9 36 (23.38%) Power BI
9 36 (23.38%) Data Warehouse
9 36 (23.38%) Power Platform
10 35 (22.73%) Python
11 34 (22.08%) Microsoft
11 34 (22.08%) Roadmaps
12 32 (20.78%) Artificial Intelligence
13 31 (20.13%) Data Engineering
14 30 (19.48%) Data Strategy
15 29 (18.83%) Data Quality
16 28 (18.18%) Agile
17 27 (17.53%) Data Analytics
17 27 (17.53%) Presales
18 26 (16.88%) ETL
19 25 (16.23%) Data Management
19 25 (16.23%) Data Governance
19 25 (16.23%) Databricks
19 25 (16.23%) Azure Data Factory
20 24 (15.58%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
20 24 (15.58%) Presentation Skills
20 24 (15.58%) Visualisation

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 13 (8.44%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.19%) Apache
3 1 (0.65%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (5.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.30%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.65%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 66 (42.86%) Azure
2 39 (25.32%) AWS
3 36 (23.38%) Power Platform
4 25 (16.23%) Azure Data Factory
5 17 (11.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 14 (9.09%) Collibra
7 6 (3.90%) GCP
8 5 (3.25%) dbt
8 5 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (3.25%) Snowflake
9 4 (2.60%) Alation
10 3 (1.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.30%) Serverless
12 1 (0.65%) Amazon Cognito
12 1 (0.65%) Azure Cognitive Services
12 1 (0.65%) Azure Functions
12 1 (0.65%) Azure Stack
12 1 (0.65%) Fivetran
12 1 (0.65%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.30%) Cisco IPT
1 2 (1.30%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (25.97%) Data Lake
2 36 (23.38%) Data Warehouse
2 36 (23.38%) Power BI
3 24 (15.58%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 24 (15.58%) SQL Server
4 20 (12.99%) Tableau
5 10 (6.49%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (5.84%) Big Data
7 8 (5.19%) Qlik Sense
8 7 (4.55%) Metadata
9 6 (3.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (2.60%) BigQuery
10 4 (2.60%) Looker
10 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 4 (2.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (2.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (1.95%) Power Query
12 2 (1.30%) Ataccama
12 2 (1.30%) Delta Lake
General
1 57 (37.01%) Finance
2 52 (33.77%) Social Skills
3 24 (15.58%) Presentation Skills
4 17 (11.04%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.19%) Banking
6 7 (4.55%) Advertising
6 7 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.90%) Billing
7 6 (3.90%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.25%) Retail
9 4 (2.60%) Law
9 4 (2.60%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.60%) Marketing
10 3 (1.95%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.30%) Electronics
11 2 (1.30%) German Language
11 2 (1.30%) Legal
11 2 (1.30%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.84%) PySpark
2 2 (1.30%) Web Services
2 2 (1.30%) XML
3 1 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.65%) JSON
3 1 (0.65%) Kafka
3 1 (0.65%) RESTful
3 1 (0.65%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 4 (2.60%) Data Centre
3 3 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (1.95%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.30%) Reference Data
4 2 (1.30%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.65%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.65%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.65%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.65%) Linux
1 1 (0.65%) Unix
1 1 (0.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (30.52%) Analytics
2 43 (27.92%) Business Intelligence
3 38 (24.68%) Data Architecture
4 34 (22.08%) Roadmaps
5 32 (20.78%) Artificial Intelligence
6 31 (20.13%) Data Engineering
7 30 (19.48%) Data Strategy
8 28 (18.18%) Agile
9 27 (17.53%) Data Analytics
9 27 (17.53%) Presales
10 26 (16.88%) ETL
11 25 (16.23%) Data Governance
11 25 (16.23%) Data Management
12 24 (15.58%) Actionable Insight
12 24 (15.58%) Data Modelling
12 24 (15.58%) Visualisation
13 23 (14.94%) Strategic Roadmap
13 23 (14.94%) Workflow
14 19 (12.34%) Data Cleansing
15 18 (11.69%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 57 (37.01%) SQL
2 35 (22.73%) Python
3 13 (8.44%) R
4 9 (5.84%) Java
5 8 (5.19%) C#
6 7 (4.55%) Go
6 7 (4.55%) PowerShell
6 7 (4.55%) Ruby
7 3 (1.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.30%) Scala
8 2 (1.30%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.65%) C++
Qualifications
1 23 (14.94%) AWS Certification
1 23 (14.94%) Azure Certification
2 22 (14.29%) Degree
3 21 (13.64%) Security Cleared
4 16 (10.39%) SC Cleared
5 13 (8.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (5.84%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.30%) CISM
7 2 (1.30%) CISSP
7 2 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.30%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.65%) ACCA
8 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.65%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (18.83%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.49%) GMP
3 2 (1.30%) GDPR
3 2 (1.30%) QA
4 1 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 1 (0.65%) Control-M
Vendors
1 34 (22.08%) Microsoft
2 25 (16.23%) Databricks
3 12 (7.79%) Informatica
4 10 (6.49%) SAP
5 8 (5.19%) Salesforce
6 7 (4.55%) F5
7 6 (3.90%) Talend
8 5 (3.25%) Google
8 5 (3.25%) Oracle
9 1 (0.65%) Ab Initio
9 1 (0.65%) BMC
9 1 (0.65%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.65%) IBM
9 1 (0.65%) Splunk