Data Quality Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Quality
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 144 189 214
Rank change year-on-year +45 +25 -30
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 285 310 370
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.40% 1.32% 1.21%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.41% 8.88% 8.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 208 263
10th Percentile £325 £288 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £575
90th Percentile £725 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £539 £550
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 6 18
10th Percentile - £15.11 £9.23
25th Percentile £12.25 £16.10 £10.06
Median hourly rate £15.79 £23.50 £15.35
Median % change year-on-year -32.81% +53.09% -15.37%
75th Percentile £24.00 £31.56 £23.07
90th Percentile £42.50 £38.07 £24.75
UK median hourly rate £16.34 £22.49 £18.75
% change year-on-year -27.35% +19.92% -6.25%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,030 3,490 4,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.87% 14.85% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,774 2,350 3,075
10th Percentile £250 £218 £204
25th Percentile £363 £363 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £479 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% +6.44% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £569
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 186 193
10th Percentile £10.95 £12.67 £11.39
25th Percentile £12.63 £18.02 £15.00
Median hourly rate £18.00 £32.94 £21.04
Median % change year-on-year -45.36% +56.57% +0.07%
75th Percentile £45.00 £59.82 £44.69
90th Percentile £68.00 £77.50 £64.19
UK median hourly rate £20.55 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -41.28% +27.27% +30.95%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in the UK excluding London

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in the UK excluding London

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in the UK excluding London

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in the UK excluding London

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Quality in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Quality in the UK excluding London

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
North of England +38 82 £500 +11.11% 68
South East -4 66 £475 -9.52% 48
North West +37 64 £500 +14.29% 39
Midlands +50 54 £550 +37.50% 50
West Midlands +35 43 £600 +50.00% 32
East of England -12 33 £500 - 20
South West +9 28 £513 -0.97% 23
Yorkshire +27 18 £434 -13.20% 23
Scotland +41 13 £481 -3.75% 5
East Midlands +29 13 £422 -0.82% 17
Northern Ireland +11 8 - - 3
Wales +16 5 £525 +5.00% 3
North East +16 3 £477 +15.64% 7
Data Quality
UK

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (3.51%) SAS
2 9 (3.16%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.40%) Apache
4 3 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.05%) CMS
4 3 (1.05%) Confluence
4 3 (1.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 21 (7.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (2.46%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.40%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.35%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (3.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.05%) ENOVIA
2 3 (1.05%) SAP CO
2 3 (1.05%) SAP FI
2 3 (1.05%) SAP FI/CO
2 3 (1.05%) SAP PLM
2 3 (1.05%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.70%) ResourceLink
3 2 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.70%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.70%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.35%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.35%) Shopify
4 1 (0.35%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 54 (18.95%) Power Platform
2 34 (11.93%) Azure
3 27 (9.47%) AWS
4 20 (7.02%) Snowflake
5 9 (3.16%) Amazon S3
5 9 (3.16%) Power Automate
6 7 (2.46%) Collibra
6 7 (2.46%) Microsoft Purview
7 6 (2.11%) Azure Stack
7 6 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (2.11%) GCP
8 4 (1.40%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (1.40%) iPaaS
8 4 (1.40%) Serverless
9 3 (1.05%) AWS CodeCommit
9 3 (1.05%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.05%) Internet
2 1 (0.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (18.95%) Power BI
2 47 (16.49%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (9.82%) Tableau
4 22 (7.72%) Metadata
5 18 (6.32%) Data Lake
6 16 (5.61%) SQL Server
7 13 (4.56%) Big Data
8 11 (3.86%) Data Mining
9 9 (3.16%) Qlik Sense
9 9 (3.16%) Snowflake Schema
10 8 (2.81%) Hadoop
10 8 (2.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (2.46%) Ataccama
12 6 (2.11%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (2.11%) MySQL
12 6 (2.11%) Relational Database
13 5 (1.75%) BusinessObjects
13 5 (1.75%) Parquet
14 4 (1.40%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 9 (3.16%) JIRA
1 9 (3.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 6 (2.11%) ERwin
3 4 (1.40%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.40%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.05%) LSMW
5 2 (0.70%) Maven
5 2 (0.70%) NUnit
5 2 (0.70%) Selenium
6 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.35%) Git
6 1 (0.35%) GitLab
General
1 102 (35.79%) Social Skills
2 57 (20.00%) Finance
3 56 (19.65%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (9.82%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
6 16 (5.61%) Retail
7 14 (4.91%) Legal
8 11 (3.86%) Manufacturing
9 10 (3.51%) Local Government
10 9 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (3.16%) Telecoms
11 8 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (2.46%) Automotive
12 7 (2.46%) Electronics
12 7 (2.46%) Law
12 7 (2.46%) Marketing
12 7 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.40%) Banking
13 4 (1.40%) Billing
13 4 (1.40%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 76 (26.67%) Analyst
2 54 (18.95%) Data Analyst
3 37 (12.98%) Lead
4 33 (11.58%) Architect
5 29 (10.18%) Data Engineer
6 28 (9.82%) Data Architect
7 22 (7.72%) Data Manager
8 21 (7.37%) Developer
9 20 (7.02%) Senior
10 14 (4.91%) Senior Analyst
11 13 (4.56%) Data Quality Analyst
11 13 (4.56%) Quality Analyst
12 10 (3.51%) AWS Data Engineer
12 10 (3.51%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (3.51%) QA Analyst
13 9 (3.16%) Data Governance Analyst
13 9 (3.16%) Data Governance Manager
13 9 (3.16%) Governance Manager
13 9 (3.16%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
13 9 (3.16%) Senior Quality Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.61%) PySpark
2 10 (3.51%) HTML
2 10 (3.51%) REST
3 7 (2.46%) CSS
3 7 (2.46%) JSON
4 6 (2.11%) XML
5 4 (1.40%) Apache Avro
6 3 (1.05%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.05%) BAPI
6 3 (1.05%) Kafka
6 3 (1.05%) LDAP
6 3 (1.05%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (1.05%) Middleware
6 3 (1.05%) Visualforce
7 2 (0.70%) .NET
7 2 (0.70%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.70%) React Native
8 1 (0.35%) React
8 1 (0.35%) RESTful
8 1 (0.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (13.68%) Management Information System
2 17 (5.96%) Legacy Systems
2 17 (5.96%) NHS
3 15 (5.26%) Data Structures
4 12 (4.21%) CMDB
5 10 (3.51%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.81%) Reference Data
7 7 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.11%) Freedom of Information
8 6 (2.11%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.40%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.40%) e-Health
9 4 (1.40%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.40%) Wiki
10 3 (1.05%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.05%) e-Learning
11 2 (0.70%) IoT
11 2 (0.70%) Taxonomies
12 1 (0.35%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.75%) Unix
2 4 (1.40%) Linux
3 2 (0.70%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (32.28%) Data Governance
2 76 (26.67%) Data Management
3 67 (23.51%) Business Intelligence
4 65 (22.81%) Data Modelling
5 53 (18.60%) Migration
6 51 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (16.84%) Data Architecture
8 47 (16.49%) Analytics
9 43 (15.09%) Data Migration
9 43 (15.09%) ETL
10 42 (14.74%) Data Analysis
11 37 (12.98%) Data Integration
12 35 (12.28%) Decision-Making
12 35 (12.28%) Stakeholder Management
13 33 (11.58%) Agile
14 31 (10.88%) Data Strategy
14 31 (10.88%) Visualisation
15 30 (10.53%) Data Cleansing
16 26 (9.12%) Data Pipeline
17 25 (8.77%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 72 (25.26%) SQL
2 51 (17.89%) Python
3 14 (4.91%) Java
4 8 (2.81%) JavaScript
4 8 (2.81%) Scala
5 6 (2.11%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (1.40%) PowerShell
6 4 (1.40%) R
7 3 (1.05%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.70%) C#
8 2 (0.70%) Perl
8 2 (0.70%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.70%) VBA
9 1 (0.35%) HiveQL
9 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (11.93%) Degree
2 29 (10.18%) Security Cleared
3 27 (9.47%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.11%) HNC
4 6 (2.11%) NVQ Level 3
5 3 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.70%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.70%) IBM Certification
6 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.70%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (0.70%) PMP
7 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.35%) PhD
7 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (12.63%) QA
2 11 (3.86%) GDPR
3 4 (1.40%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.05%) GRC
5 2 (0.70%) SLA
6 1 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.35%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (0.70%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.35%) Docker
2 1 (0.35%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (0.70%) Data Guard
2 2 (0.70%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.35%) Ansible
3 1 (0.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 44 (15.44%) SAP
2 38 (13.33%) Informatica
3 24 (8.42%) Microsoft
4 12 (4.21%) Alteryx
4 12 (4.21%) Salesforce
5 10 (3.51%) Oracle
6 9 (3.16%) Databricks
6 9 (3.16%) Facebook
7 8 (2.81%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.46%) Dataiku
8 7 (2.46%) Instagram
8 7 (2.46%) Trillium
9 5 (1.75%) Autodesk
10 4 (1.40%) IFS
10 4 (1.40%) Sparx
11 3 (1.05%) Google
11 3 (1.05%) Liquidlogic
11 3 (1.05%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 2 (0.70%) IBM
12 2 (0.70%) Teradata