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 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 708 776 909
Rank change year-on-year +68 +133 -172
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Consultant 178 200 344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.20% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.22% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 103 124 188
10th Percentile £45,500 £45,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £54,375 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,813 £81,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £90,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £61,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.20% +6.52% +4.55%

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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 20 May 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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +31 136 £73,750 +5.36% 53
Work from Home +119 112 £75,000 - 31
UK excluding London +23 84 £55,000 -10.20% 27
London +86 74 £80,000 +6.67% 33
South East +34 26 £65,000 +36.84% 5
North of England +34 20 £47,500 -32.14% 7
Scotland -51 15 £60,743 -36.89% 3
Yorkshire +91 10 £25,000 -64.29% 2
North West -10 10 £47,500 -32.14% 5
South West -17 8 £50,000 -33.33% 6
Northern Ireland - 6 £50,000 - 2
Midlands -16 5 - - 3
East Midlands - 4 - -
Wales - 4 - - 2
West Midlands 0 1 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 88 (49.44%) Azure
2 79 (44.38%) Finance
3 62 (34.83%) AWS
3 62 (34.83%) Data Lake
4 60 (33.71%) Data Architecture
5 59 (33.15%) Roadmaps
6 58 (32.58%) Data Warehouse
7 53 (29.78%) Social Skills
8 52 (29.21%) SQL
8 52 (29.21%) Artificial Intelligence
8 52 (29.21%) Presales
9 48 (26.97%) Presentation Skills
9 48 (26.97%) Strategic Roadmap
10 47 (26.40%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 47 (26.40%) Azure Certification
10 47 (26.40%) AWS Certification
10 47 (26.40%) Workflow
11 45 (25.28%) Analytics
12 40 (22.47%) Business Intelligence
13 33 (18.54%) Python
13 33 (18.54%) Data Quality
13 33 (18.54%) Data Strategy
14 31 (17.42%) Data Engineering
15 30 (16.85%) Power BI
15 30 (16.85%) Power Platform
16 29 (16.29%) Data Governance
16 29 (16.29%) Microsoft
16 29 (16.29%) Data Management
17 27 (15.17%) Actionable Insight
18 25 (14.04%) 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 10 (5.62%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.49%) Apache
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.56%) SAS
3 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.93%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (4.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.12%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.56%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 88 (49.44%) Azure
2 62 (34.83%) AWS
3 30 (16.85%) Power Platform
4 22 (12.36%) Azure Data Factory
5 17 (9.55%) Collibra
6 15 (8.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (2.81%) dbt
7 5 (2.81%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (2.81%) GCP
8 4 (2.25%) Alation
8 4 (2.25%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.12%) Azure Stack
10 2 (1.12%) Serverless
11 1 (0.56%) Amazon Cognito
11 1 (0.56%) Azure Cognitive Services
11 1 (0.56%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.56%) Fivetran
11 1 (0.56%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.12%) Cisco IPT
1 2 (1.12%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (34.83%) Data Lake
2 58 (32.58%) Data Warehouse
3 47 (26.40%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 30 (16.85%) Power BI
5 22 (12.36%) Tableau
6 20 (11.24%) SQL Server
7 9 (5.06%) Big Data
8 8 (4.49%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (4.49%) Qlik Sense
9 7 (3.93%) Metadata
10 5 (2.81%) Ataccama
11 4 (2.25%) BigQuery
11 4 (2.25%) Looker
11 4 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (1.12%) Data Hub
12 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 2 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (1.12%) QlikView
12 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 79 (44.38%) Finance
2 53 (29.78%) Social Skills
3 48 (26.97%) Presentation Skills
4 19 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.93%) Advertising
6 6 (3.37%) Banking
6 6 (3.37%) Billing
6 6 (3.37%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.81%) Legal
7 5 (2.81%) Retail
8 4 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.25%) Law
8 4 (2.25%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.25%) Marketing
9 3 (1.69%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.12%) Electronics
10 2 (1.12%) German Language
10 2 (1.12%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.06%) PySpark
2 2 (1.12%) Web Services
2 2 (1.12%) XML
3 1 (0.56%) JSON
3 1 (0.56%) RESTful
3 1 (0.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.93%) Management Information System
2 5 (2.81%) Data Centre
2 5 (2.81%) Reference Data
2 5 (2.81%) Taxonomies
3 3 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (1.69%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.56%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.56%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.56%) Linux
1 1 (0.56%) Unix
1 1 (0.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (33.71%) Data Architecture
2 59 (33.15%) Roadmaps
3 52 (29.21%) Artificial Intelligence
3 52 (29.21%) Presales
4 48 (26.97%) Strategic Roadmap
5 47 (26.40%) Workflow
6 45 (25.28%) Analytics
7 40 (22.47%) Business Intelligence
8 33 (18.54%) Data Strategy
9 31 (17.42%) Data Engineering
10 29 (16.29%) Data Governance
10 29 (16.29%) Data Management
11 27 (15.17%) Actionable Insight
12 25 (14.04%) Agile
12 25 (14.04%) Data Analytics
13 24 (13.48%) Data Modelling
13 24 (13.48%) ETL
14 22 (12.36%) Visualisation
15 20 (11.24%) Data Cleansing
16 19 (10.67%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 52 (29.21%) SQL
2 33 (18.54%) Python
3 9 (5.06%) Java
3 9 (5.06%) R
4 8 (4.49%) C#
5 7 (3.93%) Go
5 7 (3.93%) PowerShell
5 7 (3.93%) Ruby
6 2 (1.12%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.56%) C++
7 1 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 47 (26.40%) AWS Certification
1 47 (26.40%) Azure Certification
2 23 (12.92%) Degree
3 21 (11.80%) Security Cleared
4 16 (8.99%) SC Cleared
5 11 (6.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (5.06%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.12%) CISM
7 2 (1.12%) CISSP
7 2 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.12%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.56%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (18.54%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.62%) GMP
3 2 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.12%) GDPR
4 1 (0.56%) NCSC
4 1 (0.56%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (0.56%) Control-M
Vendors
1 29 (16.29%) Microsoft
2 22 (12.36%) Databricks
3 12 (6.74%) Informatica
4 10 (5.62%) SAP
5 9 (5.06%) Talend
6 8 (4.49%) Salesforce
7 7 (3.93%) F5
8 4 (2.25%) Google
9 3 (1.69%) Oracle
10 1 (0.56%) Ab Initio
10 1 (0.56%) BMC
10 1 (0.56%) Dataiku