Data Consultant Contracts

Data Consultant
UK

The median Data Consultant daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 428 567 594
Rank change year-on-year +139 +27 -106
Contract jobs requiring a Data Consultant 155 136 249
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.23% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.25% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 99 140
10th Percentile £425 £425 £375
25th Percentile £460 £478 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £603 £650 £625
90th Percentile £775 £711 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% +12.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £41.50
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £67.50
75th Percentile - - £83.75
90th Percentile - - £93.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,888 54,783 83,316
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,953 38,247 58,493
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,534 2,048
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Consultant in the UK

Data Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Consultant over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Consultant in the UK

Data Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Consultant in the UK

Data Consultant
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England +127 133 £525 -4.55% 49
London +106 78 £537 -4.45% 29
Work from Home +122 75 £525 - 26
UK excluding London +82 56 £525 - 17
North of England +46 18 £500 -21.57% 8
Midlands +39 16 £600 -10.28% 2
West Midlands +27 12 £563 -15.89% 2
Yorkshire +27 11 £463 -21.23% 2
North West +28 7 £500 -26.61% 5
South East +20 7 £537 +5.29%
Scotland +41 5 - - 1
South West +16 5 £413 -21.43% 5
Wales +19 4 - -
East Midlands - 2 £625 -
East of England +13 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 featuring Data Consultant in the job title.

1 53 (34.19%) Migration
2 48 (30.97%) Data Migration
3 33 (21.29%) Security Cleared
4 27 (17.42%) SAP
4 27 (17.42%) Social Skills
5 25 (16.13%) SQL
5 25 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
6 24 (15.48%) Data Quality
7 22 (14.19%) Data Governance
8 18 (11.61%) Azure
8 18 (11.61%) Data Protection
9 17 (10.97%) Data Management
9 17 (10.97%) Oracle
10 15 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
10 15 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (9.68%) GDPR
11 14 (9.03%) Decision-Making
11 14 (9.03%) Data Lineage
11 14 (9.03%) Data Modelling
11 14 (9.03%) ETL
11 14 (9.03%) Retail
11 14 (9.03%) Data Analysis
11 14 (9.03%) SC Cleared
12 13 (8.39%) Finance
12 13 (8.39%) Microsoft
12 13 (8.39%) Public Sector
13 12 (7.74%) Analytical Skills
13 12 (7.74%) Analytics
14 11 (7.10%) Informatica
14 11 (7.10%) Python

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 2 (1.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.65%) SAS
2 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (7.10%) SAP MDG
2 10 (6.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (5.16%) SAP Retail
4 3 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.65%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.65%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.65%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.65%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.65%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.65%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.65%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.65%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 18 (11.61%) Azure
2 10 (6.45%) AWS
3 9 (5.81%) Power Platform
4 6 (3.87%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (3.87%) GCP
5 4 (2.58%) Google Analytics
6 3 (1.94%) Collibra
7 2 (1.29%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (1.29%) Alation
7 2 (1.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (0.65%) ChatGPT
8 1 (0.65%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.65%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.65%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.65%) SaaS
8 1 (0.65%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.29%) VSAN
2 1 (0.65%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.81%) Power BI
2 8 (5.16%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.52%) Metadata
4 6 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.23%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.58%) Big Data
7 3 (1.94%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.94%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.29%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (1.29%) Looker
8 2 (1.29%) Oracle BI EE
8 2 (1.29%) Oracle ODI
8 2 (1.29%) PowerCenter
8 2 (1.29%) SAP Data Services
8 2 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.29%) Star Schema
8 2 (1.29%) Tableau
9 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.29%) JIRA
2 1 (0.65%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.65%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.65%) Postman
2 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (17.42%) Social Skills
2 14 (9.03%) Retail
3 13 (8.39%) Finance
3 13 (8.39%) Public Sector
4 12 (7.74%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.16%) Banking
6 7 (4.52%) Police
7 4 (2.58%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.58%) Local Government
7 4 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.94%) Billing
8 3 (1.94%) Legal
8 3 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.29%) Automotive
9 2 (1.29%) Law
10 1 (0.65%) Advertising
10 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Marketing
10 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.94%) SAP ALE
1 3 (1.94%) XML
2 2 (1.29%) CSS
2 2 (1.29%) HTML
2 2 (1.29%) IDoc
2 2 (1.29%) jQuery
2 2 (1.29%) JSON
2 2 (1.29%) Kafka
2 2 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.29%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (1.29%) Web Dynpro
3 1 (0.65%) .NET
3 1 (0.65%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.65%) BAPI
3 1 (0.65%) DOM
3 1 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.65%) Node.js
3 1 (0.65%) PySpark
3 1 (0.65%) SOAP
3 1 (0.65%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.16%) Data Centre
2 6 (3.87%) Mainframe
3 4 (2.58%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.94%) Replication
5 2 (1.29%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.29%) IoT
5 2 (1.29%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.29%) NHS
5 2 (1.29%) VxBlock/Vblock
6 1 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.65%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.65%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.65%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.65%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.65%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.65%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (34.19%) Migration
2 48 (30.97%) Data Migration
3 25 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
4 22 (14.19%) Data Governance
5 18 (11.61%) Data Protection
6 17 (10.97%) Data Management
7 15 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
7 15 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (9.03%) Data Analysis
8 14 (9.03%) Data Lineage
8 14 (9.03%) Data Modelling
8 14 (9.03%) Decision-Making
8 14 (9.03%) ETL
9 12 (7.74%) Analytics
10 10 (6.45%) Validation
11 9 (5.81%) Data Integration
11 9 (5.81%) Use Case
12 8 (5.16%) Cybersecurity
12 8 (5.16%) Data Transformation
12 8 (5.16%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 25 (16.13%) SQL
2 11 (7.10%) Python
3 5 (3.23%) ABAP
4 4 (2.58%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.29%) Java
6 1 (0.65%) Bash
6 1 (0.65%) C#
6 1 (0.65%) C++
6 1 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.65%) Perl
6 1 (0.65%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (21.29%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.03%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.45%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.16%) Degree
5 4 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.29%) CIPD
6 2 (1.29%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.65%) CISM
7 1 (0.65%) CISSP
7 1 (0.65%) MBA
7 1 (0.65%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.65%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (15.48%) Data Quality
2 15 (9.68%) GDPR
3 3 (1.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (1.94%) QA
4 2 (1.29%) PMO
5 1 (0.65%) FATCA
5 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (2.58%) vSphere
2 2 (1.29%) Docker
2 2 (1.29%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (1.29%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.29%) Terraform
1 2 (1.29%) vCenter Server
1 2 (1.29%) VxRail
2 1 (0.65%) Control-M
2 1 (0.65%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 27 (17.42%) SAP
2 17 (10.97%) Oracle
3 13 (8.39%) Microsoft
4 11 (7.10%) Informatica
5 10 (6.45%) EMC
6 7 (4.52%) Dell
7 6 (3.87%) Databricks
8 4 (2.58%) Cisco
8 4 (2.58%) Google
8 4 (2.58%) OpenAI
8 4 (2.58%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.58%) VMware
9 3 (1.94%) CA
9 3 (1.94%) Facebook
9 3 (1.94%) Instagram
9 3 (1.94%) JDA
10 2 (1.29%) Monetate
10 2 (1.29%) OneTrust
10 2 (1.29%) Optimizely
10 2 (1.29%) Sparx