Data Quality Contracts in the Thames Valley

Data Quality
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 114 140
Rank change year-on-year +17 +26 -40
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 44 42 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.62% 1.43% 0.83%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.09% 9.77% 5.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 29 20
10th Percentile £385 £466 £372
25th Percentile £425 £488 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -2.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £488 £688 £683
90th Percentile £838 £784 £745
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £24.43 - -
South East median hourly rate £24.43 £31.00 £17.64
% change year-on-year -21.19% +75.74% -6.05%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 484 430 538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 17.83% 14.62% 15.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 259 341
10th Percentile £180 £252 £220
25th Percentile £316 £400 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +7.14%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £600 £675 £625
South East median daily rate £475 £470 £475
% change year-on-year +1.06% -1.05% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 15 15
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.50 £11.39
25th Percentile £22.94 £19.75 £13.16
Median hourly rate £27.50 £23.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% +9.52% -0.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £38.00 £21.28
90th Percentile £68.84 £65.66 £25.30
South East median hourly rate £27.50 £31.00 £21.05
% change year-on-year -11.29% +47.27% -17.45%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in the Thames Valley

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in the Thames Valley

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in the Thames Valley

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in the Thames Valley

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Berkshire -13 25 £475 -13.64% 8
Buckinghamshire +38 14 £463 -4.64% 11
Oxfordshire - 5 £450 - 2
Data Quality
South East

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (4.55%) SAS
2 1 (2.27%) Apache
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.27%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (6.82%) SAP CO
1 3 (6.82%) SAP FI
1 3 (6.82%) SAP FI/CO
1 3 (6.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (18.18%) Power Platform
2 5 (11.36%) Snowflake
3 3 (6.82%) AWS
3 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (4.55%) Amazon S3
4 2 (4.55%) Azure
4 2 (4.55%) dbt
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.27%) GitHub
5 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.18%) Power BI
2 6 (13.64%) Tableau
3 4 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.55%) Big Data
4 2 (4.55%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.55%) Impala
4 2 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.27%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.27%) PowerCenter
5 1 (2.27%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (2.27%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) ERwin
2 1 (2.27%) JIRA
General
1 9 (20.45%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.36%) Telecoms
3 4 (9.09%) Finance
4 3 (6.82%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (38.64%) Analyst
1 17 (38.64%) Data Analyst
2 5 (11.36%) Master Data Analyst
3 4 (9.09%) Data Manager
3 4 (9.09%) Developer
3 4 (9.09%) Informatica Developer
3 4 (9.09%) Lead
4 3 (6.82%) Finance Manager
4 3 (6.82%) SAP Data Manager
4 3 (6.82%) SAP Manager
5 2 (4.55%) Data Modeller
5 2 (4.55%) Finance Systems Manager
5 2 (4.55%) Systems Manager
6 1 (2.27%) Architect
6 1 (2.27%) Consultant
6 1 (2.27%) Data Architect
6 1 (2.27%) Data Migration Manager
6 1 (2.27%) Governance Analyst
6 1 (2.27%) Project Analyst
6 1 (2.27%) SAP Data Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.27%) D3.js
1 1 (2.27%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.27%) Biopharmaceutical
1 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
1 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
1 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (43.18%) Data Governance
2 11 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 9 (20.45%) Data Architecture
3 9 (20.45%) Data Integration
4 8 (18.18%) Business Development
4 8 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (18.18%) CRM
4 8 (18.18%) Data Lineage
4 8 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 7 (15.91%) Data Management
5 7 (15.91%) Data Strategy
5 7 (15.91%) Decision-Making
5 7 (15.91%) ETL
6 6 (13.64%) Architectural Design
6 6 (13.64%) Customer Requirements
6 6 (13.64%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 6 (13.64%) Information Management
6 6 (13.64%) Master Data Management
6 6 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
6 6 (13.64%) Product Information Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.45%) SQL
2 5 (11.36%) Python
3 1 (2.27%) Java
3 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.27%) R
3 1 (2.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 4 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.27%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.27%) QA
Vendors
1 13 (29.55%) Informatica
2 6 (13.64%) Salesforce
3 5 (11.36%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.82%) Databricks
4 3 (6.82%) Facebook
4 3 (6.82%) Instagram
4 3 (6.82%) SAP
5 2 (4.55%) Cloudera