Data Quality Contracts in the Midlands

Data Quality
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 129 130
Rank change year-on-year +47 +1 -13
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 54 36 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.99% 1.08% 1.35%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.10% 7.20% 10.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 30 49
10th Percentile £343 £273 £345
25th Percentile £425 £322 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £406 £500
Median % change year-on-year +35.38% -18.75% +15.27%
75th Percentile £738 £538 £550
90th Percentile £813 £644 £595
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £8.68 - -
25th Percentile £11.86 - -
Median hourly rate £19.18 - £13.20
75th Percentile £27.22 - -
90th Percentile £30.84 - -
England median hourly rate £22.56 £22.49 £21.04
% change year-on-year +0.32% +6.87% +5.20%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 383 500 668
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.10% 14.98% 13.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 321 477
10th Percentile £251 £250 £215
25th Percentile £344 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +6.67% +9.42%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £550
90th Percentile £756 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 16 15
10th Percentile £11.25 £11.75 £9.89
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.40 £12.85
Median hourly rate £14.00 £22.82 £17.11
Median % change year-on-year -38.64% +33.38% +8.60%
75th Percentile £26.15 £29.06 £20.00
90th Percentile £58.75 £45.04 £25.47
England median hourly rate £22.50 £38.55 £28.50
% change year-on-year -41.63% +35.26% +35.71%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in the Midlands

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in the Midlands

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in the Midlands over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in the Midlands

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in the Midlands

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Quality in the Midlands over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Quality in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 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
West Midlands +27 43 £600 +50.00% 30
East Midlands +29 13 £422 -0.82% 17
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (3.70%) Apache Spark
1 2 (3.70%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) Apache
2 1 (1.85%) SAS
2 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (14.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) SAP Business One
1 2 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (31.48%) Power Platform
2 4 (7.41%) AWS
2 4 (7.41%) Azure
2 4 (7.41%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (3.70%) GCP
4 1 (1.85%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.85%) PowerApps
4 1 (1.85%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (31.48%) Power BI
2 10 (18.52%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (14.81%) Tableau
4 6 (11.11%) Metadata
5 3 (5.56%) Big Data
5 3 (5.56%) MySQL
5 3 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (3.70%) Hadoop
6 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.70%) SAP HANA
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.85%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.85%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.85%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.85%) Data Vault
7 1 (1.85%) Impala
7 1 (1.85%) Pentaho
7 1 (1.85%) Presto
7 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (3.70%) JIRA
2 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.85%) GitLab
2 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 12 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (16.67%) Finance
4 7 (12.96%) Automotive
5 6 (11.11%) Retail
6 5 (9.26%) Law
7 1 (1.85%) Advertising
7 1 (1.85%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.85%) Police
7 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (24.07%) Lead
2 11 (20.37%) Analyst
3 8 (14.81%) Architect
3 8 (14.81%) Data Architect
4 5 (9.26%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 5 (9.26%) Consultant
4 5 (9.26%) Data Analyst
4 5 (9.26%) Data Consultant
4 5 (9.26%) Data Governance Consultant
4 5 (9.26%) Governance Consultant
5 4 (7.41%) Automation Tester
5 4 (7.41%) Data Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Technical Leader
5 4 (7.41%) Tester
6 3 (5.56%) Developer
6 3 (5.56%) Power BI Analyst
6 3 (5.56%) Senior
7 2 (3.70%) Data Migration Lead
7 2 (3.70%) Data Quality Manager
7 2 (3.70%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.85%) Apache Beam
1 1 (1.85%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.96%) Management Information System
2 5 (9.26%) Data Structures
3 3 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.70%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (35.19%) Data Governance
2 17 (31.48%) Business Intelligence
3 15 (27.78%) Data Migration
3 15 (27.78%) Migration
4 13 (24.07%) Data Management
5 12 (22.22%) Data Architecture
5 12 (22.22%) Data Modelling
6 11 (20.37%) Data Integration
6 11 (20.37%) ETL
7 10 (18.52%) Roadmaps
8 9 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (14.81%) Analytics
9 8 (14.81%) Data Design
10 7 (12.96%) Decision-Making
10 7 (12.96%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (12.96%) System Integration Testing
10 7 (12.96%) User Acceptance Testing
11 6 (11.11%) Data Analytics
11 6 (11.11%) Data Cleansing
11 6 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (25.93%) SQL
2 7 (12.96%) Python
3 3 (5.56%) Java
3 3 (5.56%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.85%) HiveQL
4 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.85%) Scala
4 1 (1.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (5.56%) Degree
2 2 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.85%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.41%) QA
2 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.85%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (1.85%) Ansible
Vendors
1 18 (33.33%) Informatica
2 7 (12.96%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.26%) Autodesk
4 4 (7.41%) SAP
4 4 (7.41%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.70%) Facebook
5 2 (3.70%) Instagram
5 2 (3.70%) Oracle
6 1 (1.85%) Denodo
6 1 (1.85%) Splunk
6 1 (1.85%) Talend
6 1 (1.85%) Teradata