Data Consultant Jobs

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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 732 760 919
Rank change year-on-year +28 +159 -176
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Consultant 176 188 352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.20% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.22% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 103 115 185
10th Percentile £47,750 £46,800 £34,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,125 £83,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,372 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.62% +4.35% +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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

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 1 June 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 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -9 136 £75,000 +7.14% 62
Work from Home +79 112 £75,000 - 35
UK excluding London +5 84 £60,372 +0.62% 25
London +91 72 £80,000 +6.67% 36
South East +16 25 £65,000 +36.84%
North of England +36 23 £51,250 -26.79% 7
Scotland -53 13 £60,743 -47.18% 3
Yorkshire - 13 £55,000 -
North West -12 10 £47,500 -32.14% 7
South West -19 8 £50,000 -33.33% 6
Northern Ireland - 6 £50,000 -
Midlands -22 5 - - 8
East Midlands - 4 - -
Wales - 4 - - 2
West Midlands -27 1 - - 8

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 (50.00%) Azure
2 80 (45.45%) Finance
3 64 (36.36%) AWS
4 61 (34.66%) Data Lake
5 60 (34.09%) Data Architecture
6 59 (33.52%) Roadmaps
7 58 (32.95%) Data Warehouse
8 54 (30.68%) SQL
9 53 (30.11%) Artificial Intelligence
10 52 (29.55%) Presales
11 48 (27.27%) Azure Certification
11 48 (27.27%) Social Skills
11 48 (27.27%) Presentation Skills
11 48 (27.27%) Strategic Roadmap
12 47 (26.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 47 (26.70%) AWS Certification
12 47 (26.70%) Workflow
13 44 (25.00%) Analytics
14 38 (21.59%) Business Intelligence
15 36 (20.45%) Python
16 33 (18.75%) Data Quality
17 32 (18.18%) Data Strategy
18 31 (17.61%) Data Engineering
18 31 (17.61%) Data Management
19 29 (16.48%) Microsoft
19 29 (16.48%) Power BI
19 29 (16.48%) Power Platform
20 28 (15.91%) Data Governance
21 27 (15.34%) Actionable Insight
22 25 (14.20%) Data Modelling

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 9 (5.11%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.55%) Apache
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.57%) SAS
3 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (5.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.98%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.14%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.57%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 88 (50.00%) Azure
2 64 (36.36%) AWS
3 29 (16.48%) Power Platform
4 22 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 16 (9.09%) Collibra
6 14 (7.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (3.41%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.84%) dbt
8 5 (2.84%) GCP
9 4 (2.27%) Alation
10 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.70%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (1.14%) Azure Stack
11 2 (1.14%) Serverless
12 1 (0.57%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.57%) Azure Machine Learning
12 1 (0.57%) Boomi
12 1 (0.57%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.14%) Cisco IPT
1 2 (1.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (34.66%) Data Lake
2 58 (32.95%) Data Warehouse
3 47 (26.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 29 (16.48%) Power BI
5 24 (13.64%) Tableau
6 18 (10.23%) SQL Server
7 9 (5.11%) Big Data
8 8 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (3.41%) Metadata
9 6 (3.41%) Qlik Sense
10 5 (2.84%) Ataccama
10 5 (2.84%) QlikView
11 4 (2.27%) BigQuery
11 4 (2.27%) Looker
11 4 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (1.14%) Data Hub
12 2 (1.14%) Delta Lake
12 2 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
13 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 80 (45.45%) Finance
2 48 (27.27%) Presentation Skills
2 48 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 20 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.98%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.41%) Advertising
5 6 (3.41%) Billing
6 5 (2.84%) Banking
6 5 (2.84%) Law
6 5 (2.84%) Legal
6 5 (2.84%) Retail
7 4 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.27%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.27%) Marketing
8 3 (1.70%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.14%) Electronics
9 2 (1.14%) German Language
10 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.57%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.11%) PySpark
2 2 (1.14%) Web Services
2 2 (1.14%) XML
3 1 (0.57%) JSON
3 1 (0.57%) RESTful
3 1 (0.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.98%) Management Information System
2 5 (2.84%) Data Centre
2 5 (2.84%) Reference Data
2 5 (2.84%) Taxonomies
3 3 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (1.70%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.57%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.57%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (0.57%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.57%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.57%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.57%) Linux
1 1 (0.57%) Unix
1 1 (0.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (34.09%) Data Architecture
2 59 (33.52%) Roadmaps
3 53 (30.11%) Artificial Intelligence
4 52 (29.55%) Presales
5 48 (27.27%) Strategic Roadmap
6 47 (26.70%) Workflow
7 44 (25.00%) Analytics
8 38 (21.59%) Business Intelligence
9 32 (18.18%) Data Strategy
10 31 (17.61%) Data Engineering
10 31 (17.61%) Data Management
11 28 (15.91%) Data Governance
12 27 (15.34%) Actionable Insight
13 25 (14.20%) Agile
13 25 (14.20%) Data Modelling
14 24 (13.64%) ETL
15 22 (12.50%) Data Analysis
15 22 (12.50%) Visualisation
16 21 (11.93%) Data Analytics
17 19 (10.80%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 54 (30.68%) SQL
2 36 (20.45%) Python
3 9 (5.11%) Java
4 8 (4.55%) R
5 7 (3.98%) C#
6 6 (3.41%) Go
6 6 (3.41%) PowerShell
6 6 (3.41%) Ruby
7 2 (1.14%) C++
7 2 (1.14%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 48 (27.27%) Azure Certification
2 47 (26.70%) AWS Certification
3 25 (14.20%) Degree
4 20 (11.36%) Security Cleared
5 15 (8.52%) SC Cleared
6 10 (5.68%) DV Cleared
6 10 (5.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.14%) CISM
8 2 (1.14%) CISSP
8 2 (1.14%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.57%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.68%) GMP
3 2 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.14%) GDPR
4 1 (0.57%) NCSC
4 1 (0.57%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (0.57%) Control-M
Vendors
1 29 (16.48%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.36%) Databricks
3 11 (6.25%) Informatica
4 10 (5.68%) SAP
5 9 (5.11%) Salesforce
5 9 (5.11%) Talend
6 7 (3.98%) F5
7 4 (2.27%) Google
8 3 (1.70%) Oracle
9 1 (0.57%) Ab Initio
9 1 (0.57%) BMC
9 1 (0.57%) Dataiku