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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 159 206
Rank change year-on-year +43 +47 -27
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 733 850 1,018
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.99% 1.70% 1.43%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.02% 12.74% 10.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 569 712
10th Percentile £363 £350 £313
25th Percentile £450 £425 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +0.04% +9.96%
75th Percentile £680 £650 £638
90th Percentile £800 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £538 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +1.42% -3.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 18 25
10th Percentile £13.92 £17.69 £9.23
25th Percentile £15.39 £21.24 £13.20
Median hourly rate £22.56 £22.49 £20.49
Median % change year-on-year +0.32% +9.74% +2.45%
75th Percentile £49.44 £27.49 £24.35
90th Percentile £62.45 £55.29 £58.15
UK median hourly rate £16.34 £22.49 £18.75
% change year-on-year -27.35% +19.92% -8.31%

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 5,228 6,670 9,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.18% 13.35% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,353 4,545 6,433
10th Percentile £300 £281 £289
25th Percentile £408 £413 £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 £514
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.24% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 349 214 259
10th Percentile £10.95 £15.06 £12.02
25th Percentile £13.18 £19.07 £16.38
Median hourly rate £22.34 £36.25 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.37% +31.82% +30.95%
75th Percentile £45.00 £62.92 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.60 £79.93 £68.35
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +27.27% +30.95%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 5 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
London +38 445 £561 -1.97% 222
North of England +44 83 £500 +12.68% 75
South East -3 66 £475 -9.52% 65
North West +38 64 £500 +15.94% 43
Midlands +48 57 £550 +37.50% 50
West Midlands +36 46 £575 +43.75% 28
East of England +4 37 £500 - 24
South West +16 28 £513 -0.97% 22
Yorkshire +21 18 £434 -13.20% 27
East Midlands +28 13 £422 -0.82% 21
North East +19 4 £466 +12.85% 6
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 48 (6.55%) Apache Airflow
2 44 (6.00%) Apache
3 27 (3.68%) Apache Spark
4 25 (3.41%) SharePoint
5 10 (1.36%) Confluence
5 10 (1.36%) SAS
6 3 (0.41%) CMS
6 3 (0.41%) govService
7 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.14%) Luigi
Applications
1 54 (7.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.86%) MS Visio
3 20 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
5 14 (1.91%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.55%) SPSS
8 2 (0.27%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.27%) Revit
Business Applications
1 19 (2.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.68%) SAP MDG
3 5 (0.68%) Siebel CRM
4 4 (0.55%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.41%) ENOVIA
5 3 (0.41%) MIS ActiveH
5 3 (0.41%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.41%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.41%) SAP PLM
5 3 (0.41%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.27%) NetSuite
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
7 1 (0.14%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 132 (18.01%) Azure
2 119 (16.23%) Power Platform
3 100 (13.64%) AWS
4 54 (7.37%) Snowflake
5 41 (5.59%) dbt
6 35 (4.77%) GCP
7 34 (4.64%) Azure Data Factory
8 27 (3.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 23 (3.14%) Collibra
10 17 (2.32%) Microsoft Purview
11 16 (2.18%) Amazon S3
12 14 (1.91%) Serverless
13 13 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (1.77%) Azure Stack
14 12 (1.64%) Amazon Kinesis
15 11 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
16 10 (1.36%) Azure API Management
16 10 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
16 10 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
16 10 (1.36%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.36%) Internet
2 4 (0.55%) Intranet
3 1 (0.14%) DNS
3 1 (0.14%) Firewall
3 1 (0.14%) VLAN
3 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (19.92%) Data Warehouse
2 119 (16.23%) Power BI
3 70 (9.55%) Data Lake
4 58 (7.91%) Metadata
5 57 (7.78%) Big Data
6 54 (7.37%) SQL Server
7 51 (6.96%) Tableau
8 35 (4.77%) Amazon Athena
9 28 (3.82%) NoSQL
10 26 (3.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 25 (3.41%) Apache Arrow
11 25 (3.41%) Apache Ignite
11 25 (3.41%) Azure SQL Database
11 25 (3.41%) Dremio
12 21 (2.86%) Data Mining
13 19 (2.59%) Relational Database
14 14 (1.91%) Hadoop
14 14 (1.91%) Snowflake Schema
15 13 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (1.77%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 28 (3.82%) ERwin
2 20 (2.73%) JIRA
3 16 (2.18%) Git
4 15 (2.05%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (0.68%) MLflow
6 4 (0.55%) Deequ
6 4 (0.55%) Visual Studio Team System
7 3 (0.41%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.41%) LSMW
7 3 (0.41%) Poetry
8 2 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.27%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.14%) GitLab
9 1 (0.14%) RStudio
General
1 258 (35.20%) Social Skills
2 202 (27.56%) Finance
3 171 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (8.19%) Public Sector
5 58 (7.91%) Banking
6 39 (5.32%) Front Office
7 34 (4.64%) Investment Banking
8 33 (4.50%) Retail
9 26 (3.55%) Marketing
10 23 (3.14%) Pharmaceutical
11 22 (3.00%) Local Government
12 20 (2.73%) Manufacturing
12 20 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (2.46%) Legal
13 18 (2.46%) Telecoms
14 16 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
15 14 (1.91%) Electronics
16 13 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 10 (1.36%) Law
17 10 (1.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 186 (25.38%) Analyst
2 123 (16.78%) Data Analyst
3 116 (15.83%) Data Engineer
4 103 (14.05%) Architect
5 85 (11.60%) Data Architect
6 73 (9.96%) Lead
7 67 (9.14%) Senior
8 49 (6.68%) Business Analyst
9 45 (6.14%) Developer
10 43 (5.87%) Data Manager
11 41 (5.59%) Consultant
12 30 (4.09%) Data Business Analyst
13 26 (3.55%) AWS Engineer
14 24 (3.27%) Senior Analyst
15 23 (3.14%) Data Quality Analyst
16 21 (2.86%) Data Consultant
16 21 (2.86%) Quality Analyst
17 19 (2.59%) Governance Analyst
18 16 (2.18%) Data Migration Analyst
18 16 (2.18%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (4.37%) Pandas
1 32 (4.37%) PySpark
2 28 (3.82%) NumPy
2 28 (3.82%) SciPy
3 25 (3.41%) gRPC
3 25 (3.41%) Protocol Buffers
3 25 (3.41%) REST
4 24 (3.27%) JSON
5 16 (2.18%) XML
6 12 (1.64%) HTML
6 12 (1.64%) YAML
7 10 (1.36%) Apache Avro
7 10 (1.36%) JSON Schema
7 10 (1.36%) Kafka
8 9 (1.23%) CSS
9 8 (1.09%) Middleware
10 7 (0.95%) Great Expectations
10 7 (0.95%) SOAP
11 6 (0.82%) GraphQL
12 5 (0.68%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 53 (7.23%) Management Information System
2 39 (5.32%) Data Structures
3 35 (4.77%) Derivative
4 34 (4.64%) Equities
5 31 (4.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 25 (3.41%) Fixed Income
6 25 (3.41%) Hedge funds
7 24 (3.27%) Reference Data
8 23 (3.14%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (2.86%) Product Ownership
10 20 (2.73%) CMDB
10 20 (2.73%) NHS
11 19 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
12 15 (2.05%) Wiki
13 11 (1.50%) Onboarding
13 11 (1.50%) Virtual Team
14 10 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (1.23%) Algorithms
16 8 (1.09%) Cloud Native
17 6 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.91%) Unix
2 4 (0.55%) Linux
3 2 (0.27%) Windows
4 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (36.15%) Data Modelling
2 248 (33.83%) Data Governance
3 195 (26.60%) Data Management
4 179 (24.42%) Analytics
5 170 (23.19%) Business Intelligence
6 160 (21.83%) ETL
7 150 (20.46%) Problem-Solving
8 140 (19.10%) Migration
9 139 (18.96%) Agile
10 119 (16.23%) Data Migration
11 115 (15.69%) Data Analysis
12 102 (13.92%) Data Integration
13 98 (13.37%) Data Architecture
14 97 (13.23%) Visualisation
15 86 (11.73%) Stakeholder Management
16 84 (11.46%) Data Pipeline
17 79 (10.78%) Data Cleansing
18 78 (10.64%) Decision-Making
19 67 (9.14%) Data Lineage
20 66 (9.00%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 242 (33.02%) SQL
2 176 (24.01%) Python
3 62 (8.46%) Java
4 43 (5.87%) JavaScript
5 32 (4.37%) TypeScript
6 30 (4.09%) Scala
7 17 (2.32%) T-SQL
8 14 (1.91%) C#
9 12 (1.64%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.23%) R
11 5 (0.68%) Apex Code
11 5 (0.68%) Bicep
11 5 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.55%) VBA
13 3 (0.41%) Bash
13 3 (0.41%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.41%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.27%) Perl
14 2 (0.27%) XPath
14 2 (0.27%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 86 (11.73%) Degree
2 80 (10.91%) Security Cleared
3 73 (9.96%) SC Cleared
4 26 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.91%) Master's Degree
6 5 (0.68%) DV Cleared
6 5 (0.68%) PMP
7 4 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
7 4 (0.55%) PhD
8 3 (0.41%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.41%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.27%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.14%) ECDL
10 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (8.32%) QA
2 41 (5.59%) GDPR
3 12 (1.64%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.36%) SLA
5 7 (0.95%) PMO
6 5 (0.68%) GRC
7 4 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.41%) IFRS
8 3 (0.41%) IFRS 17
8 3 (0.41%) MiFID
8 3 (0.41%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.27%) EMIR
10 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 8 (1.09%) Docker
2 2 (0.27%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.27%) HDFS
3 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (1.77%) Terraform
2 8 (1.09%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.55%) Ansible
4 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.14%) Matomo
5 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 74 (10.10%) Informatica
2 70 (9.55%) SAP
3 65 (8.87%) Databricks
4 61 (8.32%) Microsoft
5 40 (5.46%) Oracle
6 29 (3.96%) Salesforce
7 17 (2.32%) Google
8 16 (2.18%) Alteryx
8 16 (2.18%) Talend
9 15 (2.05%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.91%) Sparx
11 10 (1.36%) Facebook
12 8 (1.09%) Instagram
13 7 (0.95%) Dataiku
13 7 (0.95%) IBM
13 7 (0.95%) Palantir
13 7 (0.95%) Trillium
14 6 (0.82%) Foundry
15 5 (0.68%) Siebel
15 5 (0.68%) Symantec