The first table below looks at the demand for Data Quality skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Data Quality over the 3 months to 23 May 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 Hertfordshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Quality
Rank 61 - 59
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 2 0 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.314% - 0.566%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.407% - 6.173%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £455 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £383 £370 £400
% change year-on-year
+3.37% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £17.00 £19.79
% change year-on-year
- -14.08%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
27 56 81
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 4.239% 5.767% 9.173%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 18 16
Average daily rate £430 £413 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.24% +10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £305 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £590 £433 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 9
Average hourly rate £15.00 £12.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -46.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -46.66%
Data Quality
East of England

Data Quality
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Data Quality Daily Rate Trend

Data Quality
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Quality within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
St Albans - 1 £410 -
Data Quality
East of England

Data Quality
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Informatica
1 1 (50.00%) ERwin
1 1 (50.00%) Web Dynpro
1 1 (50.00%) Ab Initio
1 1 (50.00%) SAP MDM
1 1 (50.00%) Teradata
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Zachman Framework
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) DataFlux
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
1 1 (50.00%) Kimball Methodology
1 1 (50.00%) Inmon Methodology
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management

Data Quality
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) Web Dynpro
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SAP MDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) ERwin
General
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modeller
1 1 (50.00%) SAP MDM Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) SAP EP Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Zachman Framework
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
1 1 (50.00%) Kimball Methodology
1 1 (50.00%) Inmon Methodology
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Informatica
1 1 (50.00%) Ab Initio
1 1 (50.00%) Teradata
1 1 (50.00%) DataFlux