Data Consultant Contracts

Data Consultant
UK

The median Data Consultant daily rate in the UK is £536, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 439 575 628
Rank change year-on-year +136 +53 -121
Contract jobs requiring a Data Consultant 146 122 222
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.22% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.23% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 89 134
10th Percentile £399 £450 £383
25th Percentile £450 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £613
90th Percentile £730 £703 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

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 12 June 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 16 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 12 June 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 +114 122 £537 -2.36% 68
London +98 72 £537 -8.13% 37
Work from Home +115 64 £513 -2.38% 36
UK excluding London +49 54 £500 -4.76% 29
North of England +27 15 £500 -12.09% 9
Midlands +25 13 £625 -4.76% 4
West Midlands +24 9 £613 -8.41% 4
Yorkshire +19 8 £401 -31.83%
South East +14 8 £537 +2.29% 4
North West +21 7 £500 -21.57% 9
South West -1 7 £450 -12.20% 8
Scotland +51 4 - - 3
Wales +23 4 - - 2
East Midlands +7 2 £625 +4.17%
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
East of England +4 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 43 (29.45%) Migration
2 39 (26.71%) Data Migration
3 29 (19.86%) Security Cleared
4 27 (18.49%) Social Skills
5 26 (17.81%) Data Quality
5 26 (17.81%) SQL
6 25 (17.12%) Stakeholder Management
7 24 (16.44%) Data Management
8 23 (15.75%) Data Governance
9 21 (14.38%) Analytics
10 19 (13.01%) SAP
10 19 (13.01%) Azure
11 16 (10.96%) SC Cleared
11 16 (10.96%) Finance
11 16 (10.96%) Decision-Making
12 15 (10.27%) Data Analysis
12 15 (10.27%) Data Modelling
12 15 (10.27%) Business Intelligence
13 14 (9.59%) Data Lineage
14 13 (8.90%) Oracle
15 12 (8.22%) Python
15 12 (8.22%) Microsoft
15 12 (8.22%) Problem-Solving
16 11 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
16 11 (7.53%) ETL
16 11 (7.53%) Retail
16 11 (7.53%) DV Cleared
17 10 (6.85%) Data Protection
17 10 (6.85%) Use Case
17 10 (6.85%) Data Analytics

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 (1.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.68%) SAS
2 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (6.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.42%) SAP MDG
2 5 (3.42%) SAP Retail
3 3 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.68%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.68%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.68%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.68%) SAP MDM
4 1 (0.68%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 19 (13.01%) Azure
2 10 (6.85%) Power Platform
3 8 (5.48%) AWS
4 7 (4.79%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (4.11%) GCP
6 4 (2.74%) Google Analytics
7 3 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.37%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (1.37%) Alation
8 2 (1.37%) Collibra
8 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.68%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.68%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.68%) SaaS
9 1 (0.68%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.37%) VSAN
2 1 (0.68%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.85%) Power BI
2 7 (4.79%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (4.79%) Metadata
3 5 (3.42%) Big Data
3 5 (3.42%) Data Lake
3 5 (3.42%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.05%) BigQuery
4 3 (2.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.37%) Data Mining
5 2 (1.37%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (1.37%) Looker
5 2 (1.37%) Oracle BI EE
5 2 (1.37%) Oracle ODI
5 2 (1.37%) Tableau
6 1 (0.68%) Ataccama
6 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.68%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (0.68%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 2 (1.37%) JIRA
2 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.68%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.68%) LSMW
2 1 (0.68%) Postman
2 1 (0.68%) RStudio
2 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (18.49%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.96%) Finance
3 11 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (7.53%) Retail
4 7 (4.79%) Banking
5 6 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (4.11%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.74%) Automotive
6 4 (2.74%) Investment Banking
6 4 (2.74%) Local Government
6 4 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.05%) Billing
7 3 (2.05%) Legal
8 2 (1.37%) Agriculture
8 2 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.37%) Law
9 1 (0.68%) Advertising
9 1 (0.68%) Korean Language
9 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.68%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.05%) SAP ALE
2 2 (1.37%) CSS
2 2 (1.37%) HTML
2 2 (1.37%) IDoc
2 2 (1.37%) jQuery
2 2 (1.37%) JSON
2 2 (1.37%) Kafka
2 2 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.37%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (1.37%) Web Dynpro
2 2 (1.37%) XML
3 1 (0.68%) .NET
3 1 (0.68%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.68%) BAPI
3 1 (0.68%) DOM
3 1 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.68%) Node.js
3 1 (0.68%) PySpark
3 1 (0.68%) SAP Basis
3 1 (0.68%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.48%) Data Centre
2 6 (4.11%) Mainframe
3 3 (2.05%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.05%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.05%) Replication
4 2 (1.37%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.37%) IoT
4 2 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.37%) NHS
4 2 (1.37%) VxBlock/Vblock
5 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.68%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.68%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.68%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.68%) FMCG
5 1 (0.68%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (0.68%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.37%) Windows
2 1 (0.68%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (29.45%) Migration
2 39 (26.71%) Data Migration
3 25 (17.12%) Stakeholder Management
4 24 (16.44%) Data Management
5 23 (15.75%) Data Governance
6 21 (14.38%) Analytics
7 16 (10.96%) Decision-Making
8 15 (10.27%) Business Intelligence
8 15 (10.27%) Data Analysis
8 15 (10.27%) Data Modelling
9 14 (9.59%) Data Lineage
10 12 (8.22%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (7.53%) ETL
12 10 (6.85%) Data Analytics
12 10 (6.85%) Data Engineering
12 10 (6.85%) Data Protection
12 10 (6.85%) Use Case
13 9 (6.16%) Data Strategy
13 9 (6.16%) Validation
14 8 (5.48%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 26 (17.81%) SQL
2 12 (8.22%) Python
3 4 (2.74%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.05%) ABAP
5 2 (1.37%) Java
6 1 (0.68%) Bash
6 1 (0.68%) C#
6 1 (0.68%) C++
6 1 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.68%) Perl
6 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.68%) R
6 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (19.86%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.96%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.53%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.48%) Degree
5 3 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.37%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.68%) CIPD
7 1 (0.68%) CISM
7 1 (0.68%) CISSP
7 1 (0.68%) MBA
7 1 (0.68%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.68%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (17.81%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.79%) GDPR
3 3 (2.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (2.05%) QA
4 2 (1.37%) PMO
5 1 (0.68%) FATCA
5 1 (0.68%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (2.74%) vSphere
2 2 (1.37%) Docker
2 2 (1.37%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (1.37%) Avamar
1 2 (1.37%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.37%) Terraform
1 2 (1.37%) vCenter Server
1 2 (1.37%) VxRail
2 1 (0.68%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 19 (13.01%) SAP
2 13 (8.90%) Oracle
3 12 (8.22%) Microsoft
4 10 (6.85%) EMC
5 9 (6.16%) Informatica
6 7 (4.79%) Dell
7 6 (4.11%) Databricks
8 4 (2.74%) Cisco
8 4 (2.74%) Google
8 4 (2.74%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.74%) VMware
9 3 (2.05%) CA
9 3 (2.05%) Facebook
9 3 (2.05%) Instagram
9 3 (2.05%) JDA
9 3 (2.05%) Splunk
10 2 (1.37%) OneTrust
10 2 (1.37%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.37%) Sparx
10 2 (1.37%) Symantec