Data Quality Contracts in England

Data Quality
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 159 208
Rank change year-on-year +45 +49 -20
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 741 873 1,008
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.00% 1.73% 1.42%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.08% 12.94% 10.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 587 701
10th Percentile £351 £345 £319
25th Percentile £450 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £638
90th Percentile £796 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £531 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -1.30% -2.18% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 16 24
10th Percentile £13.92 - £9.06
25th Percentile £15.39 £21.24 £12.38
Median hourly rate £22.56 £22.49 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +0.32% +8.28% +3.83%
75th Percentile £49.44 £29.69 £24.89
90th Percentile £62.45 £63.07 £59.05
UK median hourly rate £16.34 £22.49 £18.50
% change year-on-year -27.35% +21.54% -7.50%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,262 6,748 9,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.24% 13.35% 13.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,344 4,590 6,375
10th Percentile £300 £275 £288
25th Percentile £409 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 206 260
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.60 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.05 £19.07 £16.88
Median hourly rate £22.04 £40.25 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.25% +46.36% +30.95%
75th Percentile £44.69 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.38 £79.88 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £20.61 £37.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year -45.05% +31.58% +35.71%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in England

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in England

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in England

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in England

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Quality in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Quality in England

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 27 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
London +41 439 £550 -3.72% 166
North of England +41 92 £500 +17.65% 56
North West +24 70 £520 +23.81% 41
South East 0 67 £475 -9.52% 40
Midlands +42 58 £550 +41.03% 26
West Midlands +43 47 £550 +41.03% 14
East of England +6 38 £500 -2.44% 13
South West +14 29 £513 -0.97% 15
Yorkshire +22 21 £378 -25.15% 12
East Midlands +27 13 £422 -0.82% 11
North East +22 4 £466 +12.85% 4
Data Quality
UK

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 46 (6.21%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (5.13%) Apache
3 26 (3.51%) Apache Spark
3 26 (3.51%) SharePoint
4 12 (1.62%) Confluence
5 11 (1.48%) SAS
6 3 (0.40%) CMS
6 3 (0.40%) govService
7 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.13%) Luigi
Applications
1 52 (7.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.83%) MS Visio
3 20 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
5 14 (1.89%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.54%) SPSS
8 2 (0.27%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.27%) Revit
Business Applications
1 25 (3.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.67%) SAP MDG
3 5 (0.67%) Siebel CRM
4 4 (0.54%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.40%) ENOVIA
5 3 (0.40%) MIS ActiveH
5 3 (0.40%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.40%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.40%) SAP PLM
5 3 (0.40%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.27%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.27%) Primavera
6 2 (0.27%) ResourceLink
6 2 (0.27%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.27%) SAP MDM
6 2 (0.27%) Shopify
6 2 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 122 (16.46%) Azure
2 117 (15.79%) Power Platform
3 101 (13.63%) AWS
4 52 (7.02%) Snowflake
5 39 (5.26%) dbt
6 36 (4.86%) GCP
7 26 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
8 22 (2.97%) Collibra
9 21 (2.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 18 (2.43%) Amazon S3
10 18 (2.43%) Microsoft Purview
11 13 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (1.75%) Azure Stack
11 13 (1.75%) Serverless
12 12 (1.62%) Amazon Kinesis
12 12 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
13 10 (1.35%) Power Automate
14 8 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
15 7 (0.94%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.35%) Internet
2 4 (0.54%) Intranet
3 1 (0.13%) DNS
3 1 (0.13%) Firewall
3 1 (0.13%) VLAN
3 1 (0.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (19.43%) Data Warehouse
2 117 (15.79%) Power BI
3 60 (8.10%) Data Lake
4 56 (7.56%) Metadata
5 55 (7.42%) Big Data
6 54 (7.29%) SQL Server
7 50 (6.75%) Tableau
8 32 (4.32%) Amazon Athena
9 26 (3.51%) NoSQL
10 24 (3.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 22 (2.97%) Apache Arrow
11 22 (2.97%) Apache Ignite
11 22 (2.97%) Dremio
12 21 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
12 21 (2.83%) Data Mining
13 17 (2.29%) Amazon Redshift
13 17 (2.29%) Hadoop
13 17 (2.29%) Relational Database
14 14 (1.89%) MySQL
14 14 (1.89%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (3.64%) ERwin
2 22 (2.97%) JIRA
3 15 (2.02%) Git
3 15 (2.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (0.67%) MLflow
5 4 (0.54%) Visual Studio Team System
6 3 (0.40%) Deequ
6 3 (0.40%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.40%) LSMW
6 3 (0.40%) Poetry
7 2 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.27%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.13%) GitLab
8 1 (0.13%) RStudio
General
1 258 (34.82%) Social Skills
2 197 (26.59%) Finance
3 172 (23.21%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (7.96%) Public Sector
5 56 (7.56%) Banking
6 36 (4.86%) Front Office
7 32 (4.32%) Retail
8 31 (4.18%) Investment Banking
9 26 (3.51%) Pharmaceutical
10 25 (3.37%) Marketing
11 22 (2.97%) Local Government
11 22 (2.97%) Manufacturing
12 20 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (2.43%) Telecoms
14 17 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
14 17 (2.29%) Legal
15 13 (1.75%) Electronics
15 13 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 10 (1.35%) Publishing
17 9 (1.21%) Law
Job Titles
1 194 (26.18%) Analyst
2 130 (17.54%) Data Analyst
3 117 (15.79%) Data Engineer
4 99 (13.36%) Architect
5 81 (10.93%) Data Architect
6 75 (10.12%) Lead
7 72 (9.72%) Senior
8 50 (6.75%) Business Analyst
9 45 (6.07%) Developer
10 44 (5.94%) Data Manager
11 41 (5.53%) Consultant
12 31 (4.18%) Data Business Analyst
13 30 (4.05%) Senior Analyst
14 25 (3.37%) AWS Engineer
15 23 (3.10%) Data Quality Analyst
16 21 (2.83%) Quality Analyst
17 20 (2.70%) Data Consultant
18 19 (2.56%) Governance Analyst
19 18 (2.43%) Data Migration Analyst
19 18 (2.43%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.91%) Pandas
1 29 (3.91%) PySpark
2 25 (3.37%) NumPy
2 25 (3.37%) REST
2 25 (3.37%) SciPy
3 23 (3.10%) JSON
4 22 (2.97%) gRPC
4 22 (2.97%) Protocol Buffers
5 16 (2.16%) XML
6 13 (1.75%) Kafka
7 12 (1.62%) HTML
7 12 (1.62%) YAML
8 9 (1.21%) CSS
8 9 (1.21%) JSON Schema
9 7 (0.94%) Apache Avro
9 7 (0.94%) Middleware
9 7 (0.94%) SOAP
10 6 (0.81%) GraphQL
10 6 (0.81%) Great Expectations
11 5 (0.67%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 54 (7.29%) Management Information System
2 47 (6.34%) Data Structures
3 32 (4.32%) Derivative
4 31 (4.18%) Equities
5 28 (3.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 24 (3.24%) Reference Data
7 23 (3.10%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (2.97%) Fixed Income
8 22 (2.97%) Hedge funds
9 21 (2.83%) CMDB
10 20 (2.70%) NHS
10 20 (2.70%) Product Ownership
11 19 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
12 14 (1.89%) Wiki
13 13 (1.75%) Virtual Team
14 12 (1.62%) Onboarding
15 10 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
16 9 (1.21%) Algorithms
17 8 (1.08%) Freedom of Information
18 7 (0.94%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.89%) Unix
2 4 (0.54%) Linux
3 2 (0.27%) Windows
4 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (35.63%) Data Modelling
2 247 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 193 (26.05%) Data Management
4 173 (23.35%) Analytics
5 167 (22.54%) Business Intelligence
6 166 (22.40%) ETL
7 152 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
8 141 (19.03%) Migration
9 131 (17.68%) Agile
10 121 (16.33%) Data Analysis
11 120 (16.19%) Data Migration
12 104 (14.04%) Data Integration
13 96 (12.96%) Data Architecture
14 95 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
14 95 (12.82%) Visualisation
15 83 (11.20%) Data Pipeline
16 77 (10.39%) Decision-Making
17 76 (10.26%) Data Cleansing
18 70 (9.45%) Validation
19 68 (9.18%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 240 (32.39%) SQL
2 172 (23.21%) Python
3 59 (7.96%) Java
4 40 (5.40%) JavaScript
5 29 (3.91%) Scala
5 29 (3.91%) TypeScript
6 14 (1.89%) C#
6 14 (1.89%) T-SQL
7 12 (1.62%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.21%) R
9 5 (0.67%) Apex Code
9 5 (0.67%) Bicep
10 4 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.40%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.40%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.40%) VBA
12 2 (0.27%) Bash
12 2 (0.27%) Perl
12 2 (0.27%) XPath
12 2 (0.27%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 88 (11.88%) Degree
2 79 (10.66%) Security Cleared
3 73 (9.85%) SC Cleared
4 26 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.89%) Master's Degree
6 5 (0.67%) PMP
7 4 (0.54%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
7 4 (0.54%) PhD
8 3 (0.40%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.40%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.27%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.13%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.13%) ECDL
10 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (8.23%) QA
2 42 (5.67%) GDPR
3 12 (1.62%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.35%) SLA
5 7 (0.94%) PMO
6 5 (0.67%) GRC
7 4 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.54%) MiFID
8 3 (0.40%) EMIR
9 2 (0.27%) IFRS
9 2 (0.27%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 8 (1.08%) Docker
2 2 (0.27%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.27%) HDFS
3 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (1.62%) Terraform
2 8 (1.08%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.54%) Ansible
4 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.13%) Matomo
5 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 76 (10.26%) SAP
2 75 (10.12%) Informatica
3 61 (8.23%) Microsoft
4 56 (7.56%) Databricks
5 45 (6.07%) Oracle
6 28 (3.78%) Salesforce
7 18 (2.43%) Google
8 16 (2.16%) Alteryx
8 16 (2.16%) ServiceNow
9 15 (2.02%) Talend
10 13 (1.75%) Sparx
11 10 (1.35%) Facebook
12 8 (1.08%) Instagram
13 7 (0.94%) Dataiku
13 7 (0.94%) IBM
13 7 (0.94%) Palantir
13 7 (0.94%) Trillium
14 6 (0.81%) Foundry
15 5 (0.67%) Ariba
15 5 (0.67%) Siebel