Data Quality Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Quality
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 149 196
Rank change year-on-year +51 +47 -4
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 332 420 610
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.20% 1.67% 1.38%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.29% 13.69% 10.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 295 472
10th Percentile £350 £363 £313
25th Percentile £450 £453 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £718 £650 £625
90th Percentile £850 £717 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £539 £550
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 8
10th Percentile £10.35 £30.50 £9.92
25th Percentile £14.13 £48.13 £10.35
Median hourly rate £17.63 £80.00 £10.49
Median % change year-on-year -77.96% +662.63% -57.18%
75th Percentile £23.38 £86.25 £33.38
90th Percentile £46.38 £88.50 £75.00
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,172 3,067 5,880
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.39% 12.21% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,495 2,245 4,192
10th Percentile £313 £325 £313
25th Percentile £419 £420 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% +4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £600
90th Percentile £750 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 64 118
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.56 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.00 £23.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £22.25 £39.80 £42.73
Median % change year-on-year -44.10% -6.85% +112.19%
75th Percentile £48.75 £60.94 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.28 £66.45
UK median hourly rate £20.61 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -41.13% +27.27% +30.95%

Data Quality
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Quality trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Quality
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Quality.

Data Quality daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Quality over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Data Quality daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Quality.

Data Quality hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Quality over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Data Quality hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 36 (10.84%) Apache Airflow
2 30 (9.04%) Apache
3 11 (3.31%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.41%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.51%) Confluence
6 2 (0.60%) CMS
7 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.81%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.60%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.60%) Revit
4 2 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.90%) MIS ActiveH
3 3 (0.90%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.60%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.60%) ResourceLink
4 2 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.60%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.60%) Shopify
4 2 (0.60%) Siebel CRM
5 1 (0.30%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.30%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.30%) SAP GTS
5 1 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 55 (16.57%) Azure
2 53 (15.96%) AWS
3 40 (12.05%) Power Platform
4 38 (11.45%) dbt
4 38 (11.45%) Snowflake
5 19 (5.72%) GCP
6 13 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (2.71%) Microsoft Purview
8 8 (2.41%) Azure Stack
8 8 (2.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (1.51%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (1.51%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.20%) Collibra
11 3 (0.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.90%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (0.90%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (0.90%) NuGet
11 3 (0.90%) OCI
11 3 (0.90%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (19.88%) Data Warehouse
2 38 (11.45%) Power BI
3 35 (10.54%) Data Lake
4 30 (9.04%) Metadata
5 29 (8.73%) Amazon Athena
6 28 (8.43%) Apache Arrow
6 28 (8.43%) Apache Ignite
6 28 (8.43%) Dremio
7 25 (7.53%) SQL Server
8 22 (6.63%) Tableau
9 20 (6.02%) Big Data
10 18 (5.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (3.01%) BigQuery
11 10 (3.01%) Snowflake Schema
12 9 (2.71%) Relational Database
13 8 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (2.11%) Data Mining
14 7 (2.11%) Parquet
14 7 (2.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 6 (1.81%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (4.82%) ERwin
2 9 (2.71%) JIRA
3 6 (1.81%) Git
3 6 (1.81%) MLflow
4 4 (1.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (0.90%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.60%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.60%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.60%) Visual Studio Team System
7 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.30%) Deequ
7 1 (0.30%) GitLab
7 1 (0.30%) RStudio
General
1 117 (35.24%) Social Skills
2 112 (33.73%) Finance
3 80 (24.10%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (14.76%) Banking
5 39 (11.75%) Front Office
6 36 (10.84%) Investment Banking
7 29 (8.73%) Public Sector
8 19 (5.72%) Retail
9 16 (4.82%) Manufacturing
10 14 (4.22%) Marketing
10 14 (4.22%) Telecoms
11 13 (3.92%) Legal
12 11 (3.31%) Electronics
13 9 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (1.20%) Financial Institution
15 4 (1.20%) Law
15 4 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (1.20%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 71 (21.39%) Analyst
2 53 (15.96%) Data Engineer
3 48 (14.46%) Architect
4 45 (13.55%) Data Analyst
5 43 (12.95%) Data Architect
6 39 (11.75%) Lead
7 31 (9.34%) Senior
8 25 (7.53%) Developer
9 22 (6.63%) Business Analyst
10 21 (6.33%) AWS Engineer
11 18 (5.42%) Consultant
12 16 (4.82%) AWS Software Engineer
12 16 (4.82%) Senior Software Engineer
12 16 (4.82%) Software Engineer
13 14 (4.22%) Technical Leader
14 12 (3.61%) Data Business Analyst
14 12 (3.61%) Data Manager
14 12 (3.61%) Lead Data Engineer
15 11 (3.31%) Enterprise Architect
15 11 (3.31%) Enterprise Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (8.73%) Pandas
2 28 (8.43%) gRPC
2 28 (8.43%) NumPy
2 28 (8.43%) Protocol Buffers
2 28 (8.43%) SciPy
3 15 (4.52%) PySpark
4 12 (3.61%) JSON
4 12 (3.61%) REST
5 10 (3.01%) XML
6 7 (2.11%) Apache Avro
7 4 (1.20%) JSON Schema
7 4 (1.20%) Middleware
7 4 (1.20%) YAML
8 3 (0.90%) .NET
8 3 (0.90%) .NET Core
8 3 (0.90%) EDI
8 3 (0.90%) GraphQL
8 3 (0.90%) SOAP
9 2 (0.60%) Node.js
9 2 (0.60%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 34 (10.24%) Derivative
2 33 (9.94%) Equities
3 28 (8.43%) Fixed Income
3 28 (8.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 28 (8.43%) Hedge funds
4 16 (4.82%) Data Structures
5 14 (4.22%) Data Protection Act
6 13 (3.92%) Reference Data
6 13 (3.92%) Wiki
7 12 (3.61%) Management Information System
8 10 (3.01%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.11%) NHS
9 7 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.81%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (1.81%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.51%) CMDB
11 5 (1.51%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.81%) Unix
2 2 (0.60%) AIX
2 2 (0.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (38.55%) Data Modelling
2 121 (36.45%) Data Governance
3 86 (25.90%) Data Management
4 80 (24.10%) Analytics
5 75 (22.59%) Agile
6 71 (21.39%) Business Intelligence
7 68 (20.48%) ETL
8 65 (19.58%) Problem-Solving
9 53 (15.96%) Migration
10 52 (15.66%) Data Integration
11 50 (15.06%) Data Migration
12 43 (12.95%) Data Architecture
13 42 (12.65%) Stakeholder Management
14 41 (12.35%) Data Analysis
15 39 (11.75%) Software Engineering
16 38 (11.45%) Asset Management
16 38 (11.45%) Data Cleansing
16 38 (11.45%) Visualisation
17 36 (10.84%) Master Data Management
18 35 (10.54%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 98 (29.52%) SQL
2 90 (27.11%) Python
3 42 (12.65%) Java
4 35 (10.54%) JavaScript
5 32 (9.64%) TypeScript
6 12 (3.61%) Scala
7 8 (2.41%) C#
8 6 (1.81%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.20%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.90%) Bicep
10 3 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.60%) Bash
11 2 (0.60%) R
11 2 (0.60%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.30%) HiveQL
12 1 (0.30%) Perl
12 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.30%) Tcl
12 1 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 38 (11.45%) Security Cleared
2 37 (11.14%) Degree
2 37 (11.14%) SC Cleared
3 12 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.81%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.60%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.13%) GDPR
2 24 (7.23%) QA
3 7 (2.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (1.20%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.90%) IFRS
5 3 (0.90%) IFRS 17
5 3 (0.90%) PMO
5 3 (0.90%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.60%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (1.20%) Docker
2 2 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.30%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (1.20%) Ansible
1 4 (1.20%) Kubernetes
1 4 (1.20%) Terraform
2 2 (0.60%) Data Guard
2 2 (0.60%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.30%) Matomo
Vendors
1 35 (10.54%) Informatica
2 27 (8.13%) Databricks
3 24 (7.23%) Microsoft
4 21 (6.33%) SAP
5 18 (5.42%) Oracle
6 13 (3.92%) Sparx
7 12 (3.61%) Google
8 9 (2.71%) Salesforce
9 8 (2.41%) Facebook
10 6 (1.81%) Instagram
11 3 (0.90%) Adobe
11 3 (0.90%) Foundry
11 3 (0.90%) NEC
11 3 (0.90%) Palantir
11 3 (0.90%) Phenom
11 3 (0.90%) Splunk
11 3 (0.90%) Teradata
12 2 (0.60%) Ariba
12 2 (0.60%) Liquidlogic
12 2 (0.60%) Siebel