Data Quality Contracts

Data Quality
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 155 208
Rank change year-on-year +36 +53 -20
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 825 994 1,228
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.89% 1.66% 1.38%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.20% 12.43% 10.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 665 858
10th Percentile £350 £343 £325
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.56% -2.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £674 £644 £638
90th Percentile £780 £749 £732
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 16 27
10th Percentile £12.25 - £9.13
25th Percentile £14.13 £21.24 £10.49
Median hourly rate £16.34 £22.49 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.35% +21.54% -7.50%
75th Percentile £42.50 £29.69 £24.35
90th Percentile £54.55 £63.07 £56.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.79 £29.25 £17.50
% change year-on-year -46.02% +67.14% -3.51%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,249 7,996 11,760
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.35% 13.33% 13.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,946 5,483 8,026
10th Percentile £300 £275 £294
25th Percentile £405 £408 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £618
90th Percentile £750 £738 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +3.16% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 382 229 302
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.06 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.50 £17.06
Median hourly rate £20.80 £37.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.53% +31.58% +35.55%
75th Percentile £45.00 £62.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.38 £77.50 £67.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £35.00 £21.53
% change year-on-year -48.57% +62.60% +2.50%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in the UK

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in the UK

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in the UK

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in the UK

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Quality over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Quality in the UK

Data Quality
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 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
England +37 747 £550 - 330
London +38 445 £550 -3.72% 170
Work from Home +49 346 £535 -2.73% 135
UK excluding London +41 312 £500 - 163
North of England +35 92 £500 +17.65% 59
North West +28 70 £520 +23.81% 42
South East -2 67 £475 -9.52% 40
Midlands +48 58 £550 +41.03% 27
West Midlands +43 47 £550 +41.03% 15
East of England +2 38 £500 -2.44% 13
South West +15 29 £513 -0.97% 14
Yorkshire +22 21 £378 -25.15% 14
Scotland +34 19 £475 -5.00% 11
East Midlands +31 13 £422 -0.82% 11
Northern Ireland +12 8 - - 2
Wales +16 5 £525 +10.53% 5
North East +23 4 £466 +12.85% 5

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 48 (5.82%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (4.85%) Apache
3 31 (3.76%) Apache Spark
4 28 (3.39%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.45%) Confluence
6 11 (1.33%) SAS
7 3 (0.36%) CMS
7 3 (0.36%) govService
7 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.12%) Luigi
Applications
1 56 (6.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 21 (2.55%) MS Visio
3 19 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (1.70%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.48%) SPSS
7 2 (0.24%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.24%) Revit
Business Applications
1 26 (3.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.85%) SAP MDG
3 7 (0.85%) Siebel CRM
4 5 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.48%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.36%) ENOVIA
6 3 (0.36%) MIS ActiveH
6 3 (0.36%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.36%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.36%) SAP PLM
6 3 (0.36%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.24%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.24%) Primavera
7 2 (0.24%) ResourceLink
7 2 (0.24%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.24%) SAP MDM
7 2 (0.24%) Shopify
7 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 140 (16.97%) Azure
2 131 (15.88%) Power Platform
3 114 (13.82%) AWS
4 55 (6.67%) Snowflake
5 41 (4.97%) dbt
6 40 (4.85%) GCP
7 28 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
8 24 (2.91%) Collibra
9 22 (2.67%) Amazon S3
9 22 (2.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 20 (2.42%) Microsoft Purview
11 15 (1.82%) Amazon Kinesis
11 15 (1.82%) Azure Stack
12 14 (1.70%) Serverless
13 13 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (1.33%) Power Automate
15 10 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
16 9 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
17 8 (0.97%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.21%) Internet
2 4 (0.48%) Intranet
3 1 (0.12%) DNS
3 1 (0.12%) Firewall
3 1 (0.12%) VLAN
3 1 (0.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (19.88%) Data Warehouse
2 129 (15.64%) Power BI
3 67 (8.12%) Big Data
3 67 (8.12%) Metadata
4 61 (7.39%) Data Lake
5 58 (7.03%) SQL Server
6 51 (6.18%) Tableau
7 35 (4.24%) Amazon Athena
8 28 (3.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 26 (3.15%) NoSQL
10 22 (2.67%) Apache Arrow
10 22 (2.67%) Apache Ignite
10 22 (2.67%) Dremio
10 22 (2.67%) Hadoop
11 21 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
11 21 (2.55%) Data Mining
12 20 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
13 18 (2.18%) Relational Database
14 17 (2.06%) Snowflake Schema
15 14 (1.70%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 28 (3.39%) ERwin
2 25 (3.03%) JIRA
3 17 (2.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 15 (1.82%) Git
5 6 (0.73%) MLflow
6 5 (0.61%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.61%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.48%) GitLab
7 4 (0.48%) Visual Studio Team System
8 3 (0.36%) Deequ
8 3 (0.36%) LSMW
8 3 (0.36%) Poetry
8 3 (0.36%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.24%) Maven
9 2 (0.24%) NUnit
9 2 (0.24%) Selenium
9 2 (0.24%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.12%) RStudio
General
1 289 (35.03%) Social Skills
2 212 (25.70%) Finance
3 192 (23.27%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (8.12%) Public Sector
5 58 (7.03%) Banking
6 37 (4.48%) Front Office
7 32 (3.88%) Investment Banking
7 32 (3.88%) Retail
8 31 (3.76%) Legal
9 26 (3.15%) Pharmaceutical
9 26 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
10 25 (3.03%) Marketing
11 24 (2.91%) Manufacturing
12 22 (2.67%) Local Government
13 19 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
14 18 (2.18%) Telecoms
15 15 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 13 (1.58%) Electronics
17 12 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
18 10 (1.21%) Law
Job Titles
1 209 (25.33%) Analyst
2 142 (17.21%) Data Analyst
3 129 (15.64%) Data Engineer
4 105 (12.73%) Architect
5 86 (10.42%) Data Architect
6 77 (9.33%) Lead
7 74 (8.97%) Senior
8 57 (6.91%) Developer
9 52 (6.30%) Business Analyst
10 47 (5.70%) Data Manager
11 45 (5.45%) Consultant
12 33 (4.00%) Data Business Analyst
13 30 (3.64%) Senior Analyst
14 29 (3.52%) AWS Engineer
15 27 (3.27%) Data Quality Analyst
16 25 (3.03%) Quality Analyst
17 23 (2.79%) Data Consultant
18 19 (2.30%) Governance Analyst
19 18 (2.18%) Migration Analyst
19 18 (2.18%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (4.36%) PySpark
2 29 (3.52%) Pandas
3 28 (3.39%) JSON
4 27 (3.27%) REST
5 25 (3.03%) NumPy
5 25 (3.03%) SciPy
6 22 (2.67%) gRPC
6 22 (2.67%) Protocol Buffers
6 22 (2.67%) XML
7 13 (1.58%) Kafka
8 12 (1.45%) HTML
8 12 (1.45%) YAML
9 11 (1.33%) Apache Avro
10 9 (1.09%) CSS
10 9 (1.09%) JSON Schema
10 9 (1.09%) Middleware
11 7 (0.85%) SOAP
12 6 (0.73%) .NET
12 6 (0.73%) GraphQL
12 6 (0.73%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 55 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 50 (6.06%) Data Structures
3 33 (4.00%) Derivative
4 31 (3.76%) Equities
5 28 (3.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 26 (3.15%) NHS
6 26 (3.15%) Reference Data
7 24 (2.91%) Product Ownership
8 23 (2.79%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (2.67%) Fixed Income
9 22 (2.67%) Hedge funds
10 21 (2.55%) CMDB
11 20 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
12 14 (1.70%) Freedom of Information
12 14 (1.70%) Wiki
13 13 (1.58%) Virtual Team
14 12 (1.45%) Onboarding
14 12 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
16 9 (1.09%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.70%) Unix
2 8 (0.97%) Linux
3 2 (0.24%) AIX
3 2 (0.24%) Windows
4 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (36.12%) Data Modelling
2 272 (32.97%) Data Governance
3 215 (26.06%) Data Management
4 188 (22.79%) Analytics
5 185 (22.42%) ETL
6 177 (21.45%) Business Intelligence
7 172 (20.85%) Problem-Solving
8 144 (17.45%) Migration
9 142 (17.21%) Agile
10 124 (15.03%) Data Analysis
11 122 (14.79%) Data Migration
12 115 (13.94%) Data Integration
13 105 (12.73%) Stakeholder Management
14 103 (12.48%) Visualisation
15 100 (12.12%) Data Architecture
16 92 (11.15%) Data Pipeline
17 82 (9.94%) Decision-Making
18 79 (9.58%) Data Cleansing
19 78 (9.45%) Validation
20 76 (9.21%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 261 (31.64%) SQL
2 185 (22.42%) Python
3 63 (7.64%) Java
4 41 (4.97%) JavaScript
5 30 (3.64%) Scala
6 29 (3.52%) TypeScript
7 16 (1.94%) C#
8 14 (1.70%) T-SQL
9 12 (1.45%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.09%) R
11 6 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (0.73%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.61%) Apex Code
12 5 (0.61%) Bicep
12 5 (0.61%) Perl
12 5 (0.61%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.36%) VBA
14 2 (0.24%) Bash
14 2 (0.24%) XPath
14 2 (0.24%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 104 (12.61%) Degree
2 92 (11.15%) Security Cleared
3 86 (10.42%) SC Cleared
4 33 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (1.82%) Master's Degree
6 6 (0.73%) HNC
6 6 (0.73%) NVQ Level 3
7 5 (0.61%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.61%) PMP
8 4 (0.48%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (0.48%) PhD
9 3 (0.36%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.24%) IBM Certification
11 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.12%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.12%) ECDL
11 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (9.21%) QA
2 47 (5.70%) GDPR
3 12 (1.45%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.21%) SLA
5 9 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (0.85%) GRC
6 7 (0.85%) PMO
7 4 (0.48%) MiFID
8 3 (0.36%) EMIR
9 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.24%) IFRS
9 2 (0.24%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.24%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 8 (0.97%) Docker
2 2 (0.24%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.24%) HDFS
2 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (1.94%) Terraform
2 8 (0.97%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.48%) Ansible
4 3 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.24%) Data Guard
5 2 (0.24%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.12%) Matomo
6 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 80 (9.70%) SAP
2 78 (9.45%) Informatica
3 67 (8.12%) Microsoft
4 60 (7.27%) Databricks
5 51 (6.18%) Oracle
6 29 (3.52%) Salesforce
7 18 (2.18%) Google
7 18 (2.18%) Talend
8 16 (1.94%) Alteryx
8 16 (1.94%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.58%) Sparx
10 10 (1.21%) Facebook
11 8 (0.97%) Instagram
12 7 (0.85%) Dataiku
12 7 (0.85%) IBM
12 7 (0.85%) Palantir
12 7 (0.85%) Siebel
12 7 (0.85%) Trillium
13 6 (0.73%) Ariba
13 6 (0.73%) Foundry