Data Quality Contracts in the North West

Data Quality
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 112 137
Rank change year-on-year +38 +25 -27
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 65 49 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.43% 1.58% 1.05%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.07% 10.77% 7.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 29 26
10th Percentile £387 £285 £185
25th Percentile £429 £288 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £406
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +7.69% -18.75%
75th Percentile £578 £488 £472
90th Percentile £708 £650 £538
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile - - £9.23
25th Percentile £14.13 - £9.58
Median hourly rate £14.27 - £9.92
75th Percentile £41.57 - £19.25
90th Percentile £57.88 - £20.27
England median hourly rate £22.56 £22.49 £21.04
% change year-on-year +0.32% +6.87% +8.20%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 462 455 556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 17.25% 14.63% 13.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 292 398
10th Percentile £325 £300 £213
25th Percentile £425 £392 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £473
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +0.53% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £594
90th Percentile £694 £650 £673
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 32 45
10th Percentile - £28.76 £11.36
25th Percentile £10.95 £30.54 £11.75
Median hourly rate £12.84 £41.05 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -68.72% +49.27% +83.33%
75th Percentile £26.66 £48.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £43.75 £78.70 £77.50
England median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +31.58% +35.71%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in the North West

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in the North West

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in the North West over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in the North West

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in the North West

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Quality in the North West over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Quality in the North West

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 10 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
Manchester +39 38 £550 +15.79% 18
Cheshire +6 19 £475 +35.71% 5
Cumbria - 6 £493 - 1
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (9.23%) Apache Spark
1 6 (9.23%) SAS
2 1 (1.54%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (4.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.08%) ResourceLink
3 1 (1.54%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.54%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.54%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 12 (18.46%) Azure
2 11 (16.92%) Power Platform
3 10 (15.38%) Snowflake
4 6 (9.23%) Azure Stack
4 6 (9.23%) Collibra
4 6 (9.23%) Microsoft Purview
4 6 (9.23%) Power Automate
5 5 (7.69%) AWS
6 3 (4.62%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.08%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.08%) GCP
8 1 (1.54%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (1.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.54%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (21.54%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (16.92%) Power BI
3 10 (15.38%) Data Lake
4 8 (12.31%) SQL Server
5 7 (10.77%) Snowflake Schema
6 6 (9.23%) Ataccama
6 6 (9.23%) Hadoop
6 6 (9.23%) Metadata
6 6 (9.23%) Qlik Sense
7 5 (7.69%) Data Mining
8 3 (4.62%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (4.62%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (4.62%) Big Data
8 3 (4.62%) HBase
8 3 (4.62%) MySQL
8 3 (4.62%) SAP BW
8 3 (4.62%) SAP Data Services
9 2 (3.08%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (1.54%) Delta Lake
10 1 (1.54%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 6 (9.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (6.15%) ERwin
3 3 (4.62%) LSMW
General
1 38 (58.46%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (15.38%) Pharmaceutical
4 9 (13.85%) Finance
4 9 (13.85%) Public Sector
5 6 (9.23%) Retail
6 5 (7.69%) Manufacturing
7 4 (6.15%) Electronics
7 4 (6.15%) Marketing
7 4 (6.15%) Telecoms
8 2 (3.08%) Banking
8 2 (3.08%) Legal
8 2 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.54%) Law
9 1 (1.54%) Local Government
9 1 (1.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 19 (29.23%) Analyst
2 17 (26.15%) Architect
3 14 (21.54%) Data Analyst
4 13 (20.00%) Data Architect
4 13 (20.00%) Senior
5 11 (16.92%) Lead
6 10 (15.38%) Senior Analyst
7 9 (13.85%) Data Quality Analyst
7 9 (13.85%) QA Analyst
7 9 (13.85%) Quality Analyst
8 8 (12.31%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
8 8 (12.31%) Senior QA Analyst
8 8 (12.31%) Senior Quality Analyst
9 7 (10.77%) Data Engineer
10 6 (9.23%) Software Asset Manager
10 6 (9.23%) Software Manager
11 4 (6.15%) Enterprise Architect
11 4 (6.15%) Enterprise Data Architect
12 3 (4.62%) Business Analyst
12 3 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.23%) JSON
1 6 (9.23%) REST
1 6 (9.23%) XML
2 3 (4.62%) BAPI
2 3 (4.62%) Kafka
3 2 (3.08%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.85%) CMDB
2 7 (10.77%) Data Structures
2 7 (10.77%) Management Information System
2 7 (10.77%) Reference Data
3 6 (9.23%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (9.23%) Product Ownership
3 6 (9.23%) Virtual Team
4 4 (6.15%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (6.15%) Wiki
5 3 (4.62%) NHS
6 2 (3.08%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.54%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.54%) Industry 4.0
7 1 (1.54%) Life Science
7 1 (1.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.54%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (47.69%) Data Governance
2 26 (40.00%) Data Management
3 22 (33.85%) Data Modelling
4 19 (29.23%) Data Architecture
5 18 (27.69%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (24.62%) Business Intelligence
7 14 (21.54%) Data Analysis
7 14 (21.54%) Data Cleansing
8 12 (18.46%) Data Protection
8 12 (18.46%) Data Strategy
9 11 (16.92%) Agile
9 11 (16.92%) Data Lineage
9 11 (16.92%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (15.38%) Analytics
11 9 (13.85%) Mentoring
11 9 (13.85%) Quality Management
12 8 (12.31%) Change Management
12 8 (12.31%) Configuration Management
12 8 (12.31%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 7 (10.77%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 18 (27.69%) SQL
2 14 (21.54%) Python
3 5 (7.69%) Java
4 4 (6.15%) Scala
5 2 (3.08%) Perl
6 1 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 13 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.77%) Degree
3 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.54%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.92%) QA
2 7 (10.77%) GDPR
3 2 (3.08%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 19 (29.23%) SAP
2 6 (9.23%) Alteryx
2 6 (9.23%) Dataiku
2 6 (9.23%) Trillium
3 5 (7.69%) Informatica
4 4 (6.15%) Facebook
4 4 (6.15%) Sparx
5 3 (4.62%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.08%) Google
6 2 (3.08%) Instagram
7 1 (1.54%) BMC
7 1 (1.54%) Databricks
7 1 (1.54%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.54%) Liquidlogic
7 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.54%) Splunk
7 1 (1.54%) Teradata