The first table below looks at the demand for Data Quality skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Data Quality over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Quality
Rank 194 182 211
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +29
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 21 40 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.305% 0.519% 0.369%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.031% 6.079% 4.637%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 33 28
Average daily rate £470 £500 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.00% +11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £352 £349
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £670 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £390 £373 £400
% change year-on-year
+4.69% -6.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £17.00 £18.06
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -5.86%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
521 658 798
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 7.556% 8.531% 7.956%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 446 555
Average daily rate £450 £475 £488
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% -2.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £298 £291 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 24 17
Average hourly rate £32.00 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+68.42% -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.97 £13.15 £12.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £28.10 £50.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £16.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+10.64% -44.26%
Data Quality
London

Data Quality
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Data Quality across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

City of London Data Quality Jobs Demand Trend

Data Quality
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Data Quality across the City of London region.

City of London Data Quality Daily Rate Trend

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Quality across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

City of London Data Quality Daily Rate Histogram

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Data Quality across the City of London region.

City of London Data Quality Hourly Rate Trend

Data Quality
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Data Quality also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Data Quality.

1 17 (44.74%) Finance
2 13 (34.21%) Banking
3 12 (31.58%) ETL
4 11 (28.95%) Data Analysis
5 10 (26.32%) Retail
5 10 (26.32%) DataFlux
6 9 (23.68%) Zachman Framework
6 9 (23.68%) TOGAF
6 9 (23.68%) Business Analysis
6 9 (23.68%) Informatica
7 8 (21.05%) IBM
7 8 (21.05%) Data Modelling
7 8 (21.05%) Ab Initio
7 8 (21.05%) ERwin
7 8 (21.05%) Data Management
7 8 (21.05%) Waterfall
7 8 (21.05%) Kimball Methodology
7 8 (21.05%) Inmon Methodology
7 8 (21.05%) Metadata Management
8 6 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (15.79%) E-Commerce
8 6 (15.79%) SQL
9 5 (13.16%) Migration
9 5 (13.16%) Data Migration
9 5 (13.16%) Reference Data
10 4 (10.53%) Data Cleansing
10 4 (10.53%) Investment Banking
10 4 (10.53%) Project Management
10 4 (10.53%) SQL Server
10 4 (10.53%) MS Excel

Data Quality
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Data Quality also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Data Quality. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (2.632%) .NET
1 1 (2.632%) XML
1 1 (2.632%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 2 (5.263%) SAS
2 1 (2.632%) WebLogic Portal
2 1 (2.632%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.632%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (10.53%) MS Excel
2 2 (5.263%) MS Visio
2 2 (5.263%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (2.632%) MS Project
3 1 (2.632%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.632%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (10.53%) SQL Server
3 3 (7.895%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (5.263%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (5.263%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (5.263%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (5.263%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.632%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (2.632%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.632%) TOAD
5 1 (2.632%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (2.632%) PowerCenter
5 1 (2.632%) Oracle OWB
5 1 (2.632%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (2.632%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.632%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 8 (21.05%) ERwin
General
1 17 (44.74%) Finance
2 13 (34.21%) Banking
3 10 (26.32%) Retail
4 4 (10.53%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.263%) Marketing
6 1 (2.632%) Front Office
6 1 (2.632%) Advertising
6 1 (2.632%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (47.37%) Analyst
2 13 (34.21%) Data Analyst
3 8 (21.05%) Architect
4 7 (18.42%) Data Architect
5 5 (13.16%) Business Analyst
6 4 (10.53%) Data Quality Analyst
6 4 (10.53%) Quality Analyst
6 4 (10.53%) Project Manager
7 3 (7.895%) Systems Analyst
8 2 (5.263%) Consultant
8 2 (5.263%) Systems Administrator
8 2 (5.263%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (5.263%) Administrator
8 2 (5.263%) Banking Business Analyst
8 2 (5.263%) Data Manager
8 2 (5.263%) Data Migration Specialist
9 1 (2.632%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 1 (2.632%) Insurance Business Analyst
9 1 (2.632%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
9 1 (2.632%) Data Quality Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Reference Data
2 2 (5.263%) Data Integration
2 2 (5.263%) Derivative
2 2 (5.263%) Mathematics
3 1 (2.632%) Computer Science
3 1 (2.632%) Credit Risk
3 1 (2.632%) Market Risk
3 1 (2.632%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 1 (2.632%) Statistics
3 1 (2.632%) FMCG
3 1 (2.632%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.632%) UNIX
1 1 (2.632%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (31.58%) ETL
2 11 (28.95%) Data Analysis
3 9 (23.68%) Zachman Framework
3 9 (23.68%) TOGAF
3 9 (23.68%) Business Analysis
4 8 (21.05%) Data Management
4 8 (21.05%) Waterfall
4 8 (21.05%) Kimball Methodology
4 8 (21.05%) Inmon Methodology
4 8 (21.05%) Metadata Management
4 8 (21.05%) Data Modelling
5 6 (15.79%) E-Commerce
6 5 (13.16%) Migration
6 5 (13.16%) Data Migration
7 4 (10.53%) Data Cleansing
7 4 (10.53%) Project Management
8 3 (7.895%) Quality Management
8 3 (7.895%) Data Governance
8 3 (7.895%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (7.895%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.79%) SQL
2 3 (7.895%) VBA
3 1 (2.632%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.632%) Java
3 1 (2.632%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.632%) T-SQL
3 1 (2.632%) VB
3 1 (2.632%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (5.263%) Degree
2 1 (2.632%) ISEB
2 1 (2.632%) OCP
2 1 (2.632%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (2.632%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.632%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (2.632%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (2.632%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (2.632%) Control-M
Vendors
1 10 (26.32%) DataFlux
2 9 (23.68%) Informatica
3 8 (21.05%) Ab Initio
3 8 (21.05%) IBM
4 3 (7.895%) Microsoft
4 3 (7.895%) Salesforce.com
5 2 (5.263%) GoldenSource
5 2 (5.263%) Oracle
5 2 (5.263%) Cadis
6 1 (2.632%) SAP
City of London
My client, a leading global banking organisation is seeking a Systems Analyst/Administrator to manage the end-to-end transition of the current Data Quality UAT data repository...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £400 - £401 per day
Posted: 30 May 2013