Data Consultant Contracts in England

Data Consultant
UK > England

The median Data Consultant daily rate in England is £536 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 400 543 618
Rank change year-on-year +143 +75 -142
Contract jobs requiring a Data Consultant 131 103 159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.36% 0.21% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.22% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 79 96
10th Percentile £407 £425 £397
25th Percentile £450 £481 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £613
90th Percentile £775 £726 £685
UK median daily rate £536 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.55% +4.76% +5.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,767 45,838 67,777
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.60% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,422 32,556 48,342
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,441 1,340 1,860
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.05 £64.78
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Data Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Consultant in England

Data Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Consultant in England.

Daily rate trend for Data Consultant in England

Data Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Consultant in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Consultant in England

Data Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Consultant in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Consultant in England

Data Consultant
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Consultant within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +113 78 £537 -2.28% 32
North of England +41 17 £500 -21.57% 7
Midlands +28 15 £613 -6.67% 3
West Midlands +29 11 £600 -10.28% 3
Yorkshire +26 10 £401 -31.83% 2
North West +21 7 £500 -26.61% 5
South East +20 7 £537 +5.29% 5
South West +7 5 £413 -21.43% 7
East Midlands +17 2 £625 +4.17%
East of England +9 1 - -
Data Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 job ads across the England region featuring Data Consultant in the job title.

1 41 (31.30%) Migration
2 36 (27.48%) Data Migration
3 30 (22.90%) Security Cleared
4 24 (18.32%) Stakeholder Management
5 23 (17.56%) Data Quality
6 22 (16.79%) SAP
6 22 (16.79%) Social Skills
7 19 (14.50%) Data Governance
7 19 (14.50%) SQL
8 18 (13.74%) Data Management
9 16 (12.21%) Business Intelligence
10 15 (11.45%) Oracle
11 14 (10.69%) Data Analysis
11 14 (10.69%) SC Cleared
11 14 (10.69%) Analytics
11 14 (10.69%) Decision-Making
12 13 (9.92%) Data Lineage
12 13 (9.92%) Azure
12 13 (9.92%) Retail
12 13 (9.92%) ETL
13 12 (9.16%) Data Modelling
13 12 (9.16%) Data Protection
14 11 (8.40%) DV Cleared
14 11 (8.40%) Informatica
14 11 (8.40%) Finance
15 10 (7.63%) EMC
15 10 (7.63%) Python
15 10 (7.63%) Power BI
15 10 (7.63%) Power Platform
16 9 (6.87%) GDPR

Data Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (1.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.76%) SAS
2 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.76%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (6.87%) SAP MDG
2 8 (6.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (5.34%) SAP Retail
4 1 (0.76%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.76%) SAP MDM
4 1 (0.76%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.76%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 13 (9.92%) Azure
2 10 (7.63%) Power Platform
3 7 (5.34%) AWS
4 5 (3.82%) GCP
5 4 (3.05%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (3.05%) Google Analytics
6 3 (2.29%) Collibra
7 2 (1.53%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (1.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.76%) Alation
8 1 (0.76%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (0.76%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.76%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.76%) SaaS
8 1 (0.76%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.76%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.63%) Power BI
2 9 (6.87%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.58%) Metadata
4 5 (3.82%) Big Data
5 3 (2.29%) BigQuery
5 3 (2.29%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.29%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.53%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (1.53%) Looker
6 2 (1.53%) Oracle BI EE
6 2 (1.53%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (1.53%) PowerCenter
6 2 (1.53%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.53%) Star Schema
6 2 (1.53%) Tableau
7 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Cypress.io
1 1 (0.76%) LSMW
1 1 (0.76%) Postman
1 1 (0.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (16.79%) Social Skills
2 13 (9.92%) Retail
3 11 (8.40%) Finance
4 8 (6.11%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.58%) Banking
7 4 (3.05%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.05%) Local Government
7 4 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.29%) Police
9 2 (1.53%) Automotive
9 2 (1.53%) Legal
10 1 (0.76%) Advertising
10 1 (0.76%) Billing
10 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Law
10 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.76%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.53%) IDoc
1 2 (1.53%) jQuery
1 2 (1.53%) JSON
1 2 (1.53%) Kafka
1 2 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (1.53%) SAP ALE
1 2 (1.53%) SAP Fiori
1 2 (1.53%) Web Dynpro
1 2 (1.53%) XML
2 1 (0.76%) .NET
2 1 (0.76%) .NET Core
2 1 (0.76%) CSS
2 1 (0.76%) DOM
2 1 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.76%) HTML
2 1 (0.76%) Node.js
2 1 (0.76%) PySpark
2 1 (0.76%) SOAP
2 1 (0.76%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.58%) Data Centre
1 6 (4.58%) Mainframe
2 4 (3.05%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.53%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.53%) IoT
4 2 (1.53%) NHS
4 2 (1.53%) Replication
5 1 (0.76%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.76%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.76%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.76%) FMCG
5 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.76%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (0.76%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (31.30%) Migration
2 36 (27.48%) Data Migration
3 24 (18.32%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (14.50%) Data Governance
5 18 (13.74%) Data Management
6 16 (12.21%) Business Intelligence
7 14 (10.69%) Analytics
7 14 (10.69%) Data Analysis
7 14 (10.69%) Decision-Making
8 13 (9.92%) Data Lineage
8 13 (9.92%) ETL
9 12 (9.16%) Data Modelling
9 12 (9.16%) Data Protection
10 9 (6.87%) Data Integration
10 9 (6.87%) Use Case
11 8 (6.11%) Data Engineering
11 8 (6.11%) Validation
12 7 (5.34%) Data Strategy
12 7 (5.34%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 7 (5.34%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 19 (14.50%) SQL
2 10 (7.63%) Python
3 3 (2.29%) ABAP
3 3 (2.29%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.53%) Java
5 1 (0.76%) Bash
5 1 (0.76%) C#
5 1 (0.76%) C++
5 1 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.76%) Perl
5 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (22.90%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.69%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.40%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.58%) Degree
5 3 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.53%) CIPD
7 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.76%) CISM
7 1 (0.76%) CISSP
7 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.76%) MBA
7 1 (0.76%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.76%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (17.56%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.87%) GDPR
3 3 (2.29%) QA
4 2 (1.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.76%) FATCA
5 1 (0.76%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.53%) Terraform
2 1 (0.76%) Control-M
2 1 (0.76%) CSIRT
2 1 (0.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (16.79%) SAP
2 15 (11.45%) Oracle
3 11 (8.40%) Informatica
4 10 (7.63%) EMC
5 8 (6.11%) Microsoft
6 5 (3.82%) Databricks
7 4 (3.05%) Google
8 3 (2.29%) CA
8 3 (2.29%) Dell
8 3 (2.29%) Facebook
8 3 (2.29%) Instagram
8 3 (2.29%) OpenAI
8 3 (2.29%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.53%) Adobe
9 2 (1.53%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.53%) IBM
9 2 (1.53%) JDA
9 2 (1.53%) Monetate
9 2 (1.53%) Optimizely
9 2 (1.53%) Sparx