Data Quality Contracts in the Midlands

Data Quality
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Data Quality skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Quality over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 134 144
Rank change year-on-year +53 +10 -16
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 52 36 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.90% 1.04% 1.24%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.21% 6.74% 9.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 32 46
10th Percentile £398 £250 £356
25th Percentile £425 £313 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £370 £494
Median % change year-on-year +48.65% -25.06% +11.27%
75th Percentile £738 £532 £550
90th Percentile £813 £631 £625
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £8.68 - -
25th Percentile £11.86 - -
Median hourly rate £19.18 - £13.20
75th Percentile £27.22 - -
90th Percentile £30.84 - -
England median hourly rate £24.00 £22.49 £21.04
% change year-on-year +6.74% +6.87% +5.20%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Midlands

Data Quality is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 366 534 679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.41% 15.37% 13.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 350 490
10th Percentile £254 £231 £203
25th Percentile £353 £321 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £611 £588 £550
90th Percentile £750 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 12 15
10th Percentile £11.25 £11.15 £9.89
25th Percentile £13.00 £12.50 £11.63
Median hourly rate £14.00 £21.21 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.98% +46.24% -21.62%
75th Percentile £29.70 £29.12 £19.38
90th Percentile £58.75 £53.01 £25.47
England median hourly rate £20.50 £40.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -49.38% +47.27% +30.95%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Data Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in the Midlands

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in the Midlands

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in the Midlands

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in the Midlands

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Quality in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Quality in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Quality within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +42 41 £600 +71.43% 20
East Midlands +21 11 £422 -0.82% 8
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (5.77%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.92%) Apache
2 1 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.92%) Confluence
2 1 (1.92%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Primavera
1 2 (3.85%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 13 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (5.77%) AWS
3 2 (3.85%) Azure
3 2 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (3.85%) GCP
4 1 (1.92%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (25.00%) Power BI
2 10 (19.23%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (15.38%) Tableau
4 6 (11.54%) Metadata
5 4 (7.69%) Big Data
6 3 (5.77%) Hadoop
6 3 (5.77%) MySQL
7 2 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (3.85%) SAP HANA
7 2 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.92%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.92%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.92%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.92%) Data Vault
8 1 (1.92%) Impala
8 1 (1.92%) Pentaho
8 1 (1.92%) Presto
8 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Bitbucket
1 1 (1.92%) GitLab
1 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.92%) JIRA
General
1 12 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 10 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (15.38%) Automotive
4 6 (11.54%) Finance
4 6 (11.54%) Retail
5 5 (9.62%) Law
6 1 (1.92%) Advertising
6 1 (1.92%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (1.92%) Police
6 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (28.85%) Lead
2 9 (17.31%) Analyst
2 9 (17.31%) Architect
2 9 (17.31%) Data Architect
3 5 (9.62%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 5 (9.62%) Consultant
3 5 (9.62%) Data Consultant
3 5 (9.62%) Data Governance Consultant
3 5 (9.62%) Governance Consultant
4 4 (7.69%) Automation Tester
4 4 (7.69%) Technical Leader
4 4 (7.69%) Tester
5 3 (5.77%) Data Analyst
5 3 (5.77%) Data Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Power BI Analyst
5 3 (5.77%) Senior
6 2 (3.85%) Data Manager
6 2 (3.85%) Data Quality Manager
6 2 (3.85%) Developer
6 2 (3.85%) Quality Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.92%) Apache Beam
1 1 (1.92%) Kafka
1 1 (1.92%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.46%) Management Information System
2 5 (9.62%) Data Structures
3 3 (5.77%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (34.62%) Data Governance
2 15 (28.85%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (26.92%) Data Architecture
3 14 (26.92%) Data Management
4 13 (25.00%) Data Integration
5 11 (21.15%) ETL
6 10 (19.23%) Analytics
6 10 (19.23%) Roadmaps
7 8 (15.38%) Data Migration
7 8 (15.38%) Migration
7 8 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (13.46%) Data Design
8 7 (13.46%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (11.54%) Data Analytics
9 6 (11.54%) Data Modelling
9 6 (11.54%) Decision-Making
9 6 (11.54%) System Integration Testing
9 6 (11.54%) User Acceptance Testing
9 6 (11.54%) Visualisation
10 5 (9.62%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 11 (21.15%) SQL
2 5 (9.62%) Python
3 3 (5.77%) Java
3 3 (5.77%) T-SQL
4 2 (3.85%) Scala
5 1 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.92%) HiveQL
5 1 (1.92%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.92%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (9.62%) Degree
2 2 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.92%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.92%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.92%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (1.92%) Ansible
Vendors
1 20 (38.46%) Informatica
2 6 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.62%) Autodesk
4 4 (7.69%) ServiceNow
5 3 (5.77%) Oracle
6 2 (3.85%) Facebook
6 2 (3.85%) Instagram
6 2 (3.85%) SAP
7 1 (1.92%) Denodo
7 1 (1.92%) Splunk
7 1 (1.92%) Talend
7 1 (1.92%) Teradata