Data Quality Contracts in the Midlands

Data Quality
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Data Quality skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Quality over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 122 130
Rank change year-on-year +34 +8 -14
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 53 36 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.80% 1.12% 1.52%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.25% 7.55% 10.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 29 54
10th Percentile £339 £313 £200
25th Percentile £419 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £425 £494
Median % change year-on-year +26.47% -13.92% +16.18%
75th Percentile £747 £538 £555
90th Percentile £813 £700 £665
England median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £6.57 - -
Median hourly rate £7.85 - £13.20
75th Percentile £9.14 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £21.00 £22.49 £23.68
% change year-on-year -6.60% -5.03% +12.74%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Midlands

Data Quality falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 400 477 706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.57% 14.82% 14.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 304 510
10th Percentile £240 £265 £212
25th Percentile £313 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £613 £578 £556
90th Percentile £755 £679 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 22 14
10th Percentile £11.32 £12.50 £12.55
25th Percentile £13.14 £18.69 £13.25
Median hourly rate £14.70 £27.50 £17.30
Median % change year-on-year -46.55% +58.94% +27.67%
75th Percentile £34.20 £31.32 £20.56
90th Percentile £58.75 £64.00 £25.63
England median hourly rate £24.18 £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -43.11% +54.55% +33.92%

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 17 June 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
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 17 June 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 +28 43 £550 +33.33% 20
East Midlands +16 12 £422 -38.69% 18
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 (3.77%) Confluence
2 1 (1.89%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.89%) SAS
2 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (15.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) SAP Business One
1 2 (3.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.89%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 17 (32.08%) Power Platform
2 6 (11.32%) AWS
3 4 (7.55%) Azure
3 4 (7.55%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (5.66%) Amazon EMR
4 3 (5.66%) Amazon Kinesis
4 3 (5.66%) Amazon MSK
4 3 (5.66%) Amazon S3
4 3 (5.66%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (3.77%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.89%) GCP
6 1 (1.89%) Matillion
6 1 (1.89%) OCI
6 1 (1.89%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.89%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (32.08%) Power BI
2 11 (20.75%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (15.09%) Tableau
4 6 (11.32%) Metadata
4 6 (11.32%) MySQL
5 5 (9.43%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (7.55%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (7.55%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (7.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (5.66%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (3.77%) Big Data
8 2 (3.77%) Hadoop
8 2 (3.77%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (3.77%) SAP HANA
9 1 (1.89%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.89%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (1.89%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (1.89%) Oracle ODI
9 1 (1.89%) Pentaho
9 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.77%) JIRA
2 1 (1.89%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.89%) GitLab
2 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (32.08%) Social Skills
2 11 (20.75%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (20.75%) Finance
3 6 (11.32%) Automotive
3 6 (11.32%) Retail
4 5 (9.43%) Law
5 3 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Advertising
6 1 (1.89%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Police
6 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (24.53%) Analyst
2 8 (15.09%) Lead
3 7 (13.21%) Data Analyst
3 7 (13.21%) Data Engineer
4 6 (11.32%) Architect
4 6 (11.32%) Data Architect
5 5 (9.43%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 5 (9.43%) Consultant
5 5 (9.43%) Data Consultant
5 5 (9.43%) Data Governance Consultant
5 5 (9.43%) Governance Consultant
6 4 (7.55%) Automation Tester
6 4 (7.55%) Technical Leader
6 4 (7.55%) Tester
7 3 (5.66%) AWS Data Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Business Analyst
7 3 (5.66%) Developer
7 3 (5.66%) Power BI Analyst
8 2 (3.77%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.66%) RESTful
2 1 (1.89%) Middleware
2 1 (1.89%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) Data Structures
2 7 (13.21%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.66%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.77%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.77%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (33.96%) Business Intelligence
2 17 (32.08%) Data Migration
2 17 (32.08%) Migration
3 16 (30.19%) Data Management
4 14 (26.42%) ETL
5 13 (24.53%) Data Governance
6 12 (22.64%) Data Modelling
7 11 (20.75%) Analytics
8 10 (18.87%) Roadmaps
9 9 (16.98%) Data Design
10 8 (15.09%) Data Architecture
10 8 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (13.21%) Data Integration
11 7 (13.21%) Decision-Making
11 7 (13.21%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (13.21%) System Integration Testing
11 7 (13.21%) User Acceptance Testing
11 7 (13.21%) Validation
12 6 (11.32%) Agile
12 6 (11.32%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 18 (33.96%) SQL
2 10 (18.87%) Python
3 5 (9.43%) Java
4 3 (5.66%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.66%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.89%) HiveQL
5 1 (1.89%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.89%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (5.66%) Degree
2 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.89%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.89%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.55%) QA
2 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.89%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (1.89%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (24.53%) Informatica
2 7 (13.21%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.43%) Autodesk
3 5 (9.43%) SAP
4 4 (7.55%) ServiceNow
5 3 (5.66%) Oracle
6 2 (3.77%) Facebook
6 2 (3.77%) Instagram
7 1 (1.89%) Denodo
7 1 (1.89%) Splunk
7 1 (1.89%) Talend
7 1 (1.89%) Teradata