Data Quality Contracts in the North of England

Data Quality
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 142 156
Rank change year-on-year +38 +14 -42
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 83 71 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.77% 1.23% 1.38%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.42% 8.95% 10.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 42 63
10th Percentile £333 £288 £219
25th Percentile £425 £316 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £444 £430
Median % change year-on-year +12.68% +3.20% -14.00%
75th Percentile £575 £532 £533
90th Percentile £659 £673 £599
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 13
10th Percentile - - £9.37
25th Percentile £14.13 - £9.92
Median hourly rate £14.27 - £18.50
75th Percentile £41.57 - £24.00
90th Percentile £57.88 - £26.00
England median hourly rate £22.56 £22.49 £20.49
% change year-on-year +0.32% +9.74% +2.45%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 727 793 945
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.49% 13.69% 13.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 492 674
10th Percentile £323 £288 £190
25th Percentile £413 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £489 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.30% +8.61% +2.27%
75th Percentile £591 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 40 55
10th Percentile - £17.61 £11.36
25th Percentile £10.95 £29.30 £12.02
Median hourly rate £12.84 £39.80 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -67.74% +112.83% +6.86%
75th Percentile £26.66 £49.43 £27.88
90th Percentile £48.75 £68.30 £51.36
England median hourly rate £22.34 £37.50 £27.25
% change year-on-year -40.43% +37.61% +29.76%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in the North of England

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in the North of England

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in the North of England

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in the North of England

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Quality in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Quality in the North of England

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 4 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
North West +29 64 £500 +15.94% 41
Yorkshire +22 18 £434 -13.20% 29
North East +21 4 £466 +12.85% 7
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 6 (7.23%) Apache Spark
1 6 (7.23%) SAS
2 2 (2.41%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.41%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.41%) ResourceLink
2 2 (2.41%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.20%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.20%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 15 (18.07%) Power Platform
2 14 (16.87%) Azure
3 12 (14.46%) Snowflake
4 9 (10.84%) AWS
5 6 (7.23%) Azure Stack
5 6 (7.23%) Collibra
5 6 (7.23%) Microsoft Purview
5 6 (7.23%) Power Automate
6 4 (4.82%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.61%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (3.61%) GCP
8 2 (2.41%) Google Analytics
9 1 (1.20%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (1.20%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (1.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.20%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (21.69%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (18.07%) Power BI
3 11 (13.25%) Data Lake
4 10 (12.05%) SQL Server
5 7 (8.43%) Qlik Sense
5 7 (8.43%) Snowflake Schema
6 6 (7.23%) Ataccama
6 6 (7.23%) Hadoop
6 6 (7.23%) Metadata
7 5 (6.02%) Data Mining
8 4 (4.82%) Big Data
8 4 (4.82%) Relational Database
8 4 (4.82%) Tableau
9 3 (3.61%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (3.61%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (3.61%) HBase
9 3 (3.61%) MySQL
9 3 (3.61%) SAP BW
9 3 (3.61%) SAP Data Services
9 3 (3.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (7.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (4.82%) ERwin
3 3 (3.61%) JIRA
3 3 (3.61%) LSMW
4 1 (1.20%) Git
4 1 (1.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (55.42%) Social Skills
2 18 (21.69%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (15.66%) Finance
4 11 (13.25%) Pharmaceutical
4 11 (13.25%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.23%) Manufacturing
5 6 (7.23%) Retail
6 4 (4.82%) Electronics
6 4 (4.82%) Marketing
6 4 (4.82%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.61%) Publishing
8 2 (2.41%) Banking
8 2 (2.41%) Health Technology
8 2 (2.41%) Legal
8 2 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.20%) Law
9 1 (1.20%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 24 (28.92%) Analyst
2 17 (20.48%) Architect
3 15 (18.07%) Data Analyst
3 15 (18.07%) Senior
4 14 (16.87%) Lead
5 13 (15.66%) Data Architect
6 11 (13.25%) Senior Analyst
7 10 (12.05%) Data Engineer
8 9 (10.84%) Data Quality Analyst
8 9 (10.84%) QA Analyst
8 9 (10.84%) Quality Analyst
9 8 (9.64%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
9 8 (9.64%) Senior QA Analyst
9 8 (9.64%) Senior Quality Analyst
10 6 (7.23%) Business Analyst
10 6 (7.23%) Software Asset Manager
10 6 (7.23%) Software Manager
11 5 (6.02%) Developer
12 4 (4.82%) Enterprise Architect
12 4 (4.82%) Enterprise Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.23%) JSON
1 6 (7.23%) REST
1 6 (7.23%) XML
2 4 (4.82%) CSS
2 4 (4.82%) HTML
3 3 (3.61%) AngularJS
3 3 (3.61%) BAPI
3 3 (3.61%) Kafka
3 3 (3.61%) LDAP
3 3 (3.61%) PySpark
4 2 (2.41%) React Native
5 1 (1.20%) Express.js
5 1 (1.20%) React
5 1 (1.20%) RESTful
5 1 (1.20%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.46%) CMDB
2 11 (13.25%) Management Information System
3 8 (9.64%) Data Structures
4 7 (8.43%) NHS
4 7 (8.43%) Product Ownership
4 7 (8.43%) Reference Data
5 6 (7.23%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (7.23%) Virtual Team
6 4 (4.82%) Wiki
7 3 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.41%) BBC
8 2 (2.41%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (2.41%) Taxonomies
9 1 (1.20%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.20%) Cloud Native
9 1 (1.20%) Industry 4.0
9 1 (1.20%) Life Science
9 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (40.96%) Data Governance
2 31 (37.35%) Data Modelling
3 27 (32.53%) Data Management
4 23 (27.71%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (24.10%) Business Intelligence
6 18 (21.69%) Agile
6 18 (21.69%) Data Analysis
6 18 (21.69%) Data Architecture
7 15 (18.07%) Analytics
8 14 (16.87%) Data Cleansing
9 13 (15.66%) Change Management
10 12 (14.46%) Data Protection
10 12 (14.46%) Data Strategy
10 12 (14.46%) ETL
11 11 (13.25%) Data Lineage
11 11 (13.25%) Data Pipeline
11 11 (13.25%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (12.05%) Visualisation
13 9 (10.84%) Data Integration
13 9 (10.84%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 24 (28.92%) SQL
2 21 (25.30%) Python
3 5 (6.02%) Java
3 5 (6.02%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.82%) Scala
5 3 (3.61%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.41%) Perl
6 2 (2.41%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.20%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (15.66%) SC Cleared
1 13 (15.66%) Security Cleared
2 12 (14.46%) Degree
3 3 (3.61%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.20%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (19.28%) QA
2 8 (9.64%) GDPR
3 3 (3.61%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.61%) GRC
Systems Management
1 3 (3.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (25.30%) SAP
2 6 (7.23%) Alteryx
2 6 (7.23%) Dataiku
2 6 (7.23%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.23%) Trillium
3 5 (6.02%) Informatica
4 4 (4.82%) Facebook
4 4 (4.82%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.82%) Sparx
5 3 (3.61%) Google
6 2 (2.41%) Databricks
6 2 (2.41%) Instagram
7 1 (1.20%) Adobe
7 1 (1.20%) BMC
7 1 (1.20%) Brio
7 1 (1.20%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.20%) Intel
7 1 (1.20%) Liquidlogic
7 1 (1.20%) Splunk
7 1 (1.20%) Teradata