The first table below looks at the demand for Data Quality skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 Leeds 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 72 63 54
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -9
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 2 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.272% 0.568% 0.156%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.922% 9.804% 2.703%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 0
Average daily rate - £380 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £383 £370 £400
% change year-on-year
+3.37% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £17.00 £19.79
% change year-on-year
- -14.08%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
51 51 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 6.948% 5.789% 5.763%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 25 21
Average daily rate £319 £380 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.11% +1.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £200 £308
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £500 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 8
Average hourly rate £13.25 £12.00 £11.82
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.41% +1.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.45 £10.80 £6.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.05 £32.80 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -46.66%
Data Quality
West Yorkshire

Data Quality
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Data Quality Daily Rate Trend

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 Leeds region.

Leeds Data Quality Hourly Rate Trend

Data Quality
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 3 (60.00%) SQL
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) OLAP
2 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (40.00%) Data Management
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (40.00%) MDX
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Informatica
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (40.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) ERwin
3 1 (20.00%) DataFlux
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Siebel
3 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) SOA
3 1 (20.00%) ETL

Data Quality
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 2 (40.00%) MDX
2 1 (20.00%) XML
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (40.00%) OLAP
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) ERwin
General
1 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Data Management
1 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) SOA
2 1 (20.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Informatica
3 1 (20.00%) DataFlux
3 1 (20.00%) Siebel
Leeds, West Yorkshire
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Posted: 21 May 2013
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