Data Quality Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Quality
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 143 178 216
Rank change year-on-year +35 +38 -24
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 313 327 368
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.51% 1.35% 1.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.92% 9.16% 8.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 220 258
10th Percentile £313 £288 £302
25th Percentile £425 £400 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £575
90th Percentile £721 £675 £677
UK median daily rate £531 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -1.67% -1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 4 20
10th Percentile - £21.00 £9.21
25th Percentile £12.25 £24.38 £10.35
Median hourly rate £15.79 £29.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.02% +67.14% -3.51%
75th Percentile £24.00 £35.28 £21.72
90th Percentile £42.50 £40.29 £24.25
UK median hourly rate £16.34 £22.49 £18.50
% change year-on-year -27.35% +21.54% -7.50%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,154 3,569 4,484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.17% 14.76% 14.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,836 2,395 3,067
10th Percentile £251 £213 £200
25th Percentile £369 £363 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £560
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 186 193
10th Percentile £10.95 £12.50 £11.36
25th Percentile £12.48 £18.13 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.72 £35.00 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -49.37% +66.27% +0.24%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £66.19 £77.40 £66.68
UK median hourly rate £20.49 £37.75 £28.25
% change year-on-year -45.74% +33.63% +34.36%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in the UK excluding London

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in the UK excluding London

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in the UK excluding London

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in the UK excluding London

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Quality in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Quality in the UK excluding London

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 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
North of England +41 92 £500 +17.65% 54
North West +24 70 £520 +23.08% 40
South East -13 68 £475 -9.52% 38
Midlands +47 58 £550 +41.03% 27
West Midlands +42 47 £550 +41.03% 15
East of England +2 37 £494 -3.66% 15
South West +14 29 £513 -0.97% 14
Yorkshire +29 21 £378 -25.15% 11
Scotland +27 20 £475 -5.00% 10
East Midlands +27 13 £422 -0.82% 12
Northern Ireland +12 8 - - 2
Wales +18 5 £525 +10.53% 4
North East +21 4 £466 +12.85% 5
Data Quality
UK

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (3.83%) Apache Spark
2 11 (3.51%) SAS
3 5 (1.60%) Apache
3 5 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.96%) CMS
4 3 (0.96%) Confluence
4 3 (0.96%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.32%) Luigi
Applications
1 21 (6.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (2.56%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (1.28%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.32%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 17 (5.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.96%) ENOVIA
2 3 (0.96%) SAP CO
2 3 (0.96%) SAP FI
2 3 (0.96%) SAP FI/CO
2 3 (0.96%) SAP PLM
2 3 (0.96%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.64%) Primavera
3 2 (0.64%) ResourceLink
3 2 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.64%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.64%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.32%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.32%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.32%) Shopify
4 1 (0.32%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 57 (18.21%) Power Platform
2 34 (10.86%) Azure
3 30 (9.58%) AWS
4 21 (6.71%) Snowflake
5 10 (3.19%) Amazon S3
6 9 (2.88%) Microsoft Purview
6 9 (2.88%) Power Automate
7 7 (2.24%) Collibra
7 7 (2.24%) GCP
8 6 (1.92%) Azure Stack
9 5 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.60%) Serverless
10 4 (1.28%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.28%) iPaaS
11 3 (0.96%) AWS CodeCommit
11 3 (0.96%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (0.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (0.96%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.96%) Internet
2 1 (0.32%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (18.21%) Power BI
2 48 (15.34%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (9.27%) Tableau
4 25 (7.99%) Metadata
5 19 (6.07%) Data Lake
6 17 (5.43%) Big Data
7 16 (5.11%) SQL Server
8 11 (3.51%) Hadoop
9 9 (2.88%) Data Mining
9 9 (2.88%) Qlik Sense
9 9 (2.88%) Snowflake Schema
10 7 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (2.24%) Ataccama
10 7 (2.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (1.92%) MySQL
11 6 (1.92%) Relational Database
12 5 (1.60%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (1.60%) MS Access
12 5 (1.60%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 10 (3.19%) JIRA
2 9 (2.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 6 (1.92%) ERwin
4 4 (1.28%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.28%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.96%) LSMW
6 2 (0.64%) Maven
6 2 (0.64%) NUnit
6 2 (0.64%) Selenium
7 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.32%) Git
7 1 (0.32%) GitLab
General
1 110 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 63 (20.13%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (18.85%) Finance
4 32 (10.22%) Public Sector
5 23 (7.35%) Pharmaceutical
6 16 (5.11%) Retail
7 14 (4.47%) Legal
7 14 (4.47%) Manufacturing
8 10 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (3.19%) Telecoms
9 8 (2.56%) Automotive
9 8 (2.56%) Local Government
9 8 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.24%) Electronics
10 7 (2.24%) Marketing
11 6 (1.92%) Law
12 4 (1.28%) Banking
12 4 (1.28%) Billing
12 4 (1.28%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 95 (30.35%) Analyst
2 71 (22.68%) Data Analyst
3 41 (13.10%) Lead
4 34 (10.86%) Architect
5 32 (10.22%) Data Engineer
6 29 (9.27%) Data Architect
7 28 (8.95%) Senior
8 23 (7.35%) Data Manager
9 22 (7.03%) Developer
9 22 (7.03%) Senior Analyst
10 16 (5.11%) Data Quality Analyst
10 16 (5.11%) Quality Analyst
11 12 (3.83%) Senior Data Analyst
12 10 (3.19%) AWS Data Engineer
12 10 (3.19%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (3.19%) QA Analyst
12 10 (3.19%) SAP Analyst
13 9 (2.88%) Data Governance Manager
13 9 (2.88%) Governance Manager
13 9 (2.88%) Senior Quality Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.11%) PySpark
2 10 (3.19%) HTML
2 10 (3.19%) REST
3 7 (2.24%) CSS
3 7 (2.24%) JSON
4 6 (1.92%) XML
5 5 (1.60%) Kafka
6 4 (1.28%) Apache Avro
7 3 (0.96%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.96%) BAPI
7 3 (0.96%) LDAP
7 3 (0.96%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (0.96%) Middleware
7 3 (0.96%) Visualforce
8 2 (0.64%) .NET
8 2 (0.64%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (0.64%) React Native
9 1 (0.32%) Apache Beam
9 1 (0.32%) Express.js
9 1 (0.32%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 39 (12.46%) Management Information System
2 22 (7.03%) Data Structures
3 17 (5.43%) NHS
4 15 (4.79%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (4.15%) CMDB
6 12 (3.83%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.56%) Freedom of Information
7 8 (2.56%) Reference Data
7 8 (2.56%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.60%) Life Science
9 5 (1.60%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.28%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.28%) e-Health
10 4 (1.28%) Wiki
11 3 (0.96%) e-Learning
12 2 (0.64%) BBC
12 2 (0.64%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.60%) Unix
2 4 (1.28%) Linux
3 2 (0.64%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (32.91%) Data Governance
2 83 (26.52%) Data Management
3 75 (23.96%) Data Modelling
4 66 (21.09%) Business Intelligence
5 55 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (16.93%) Migration
7 52 (16.61%) Analytics
8 50 (15.97%) Data Architecture
9 49 (15.65%) Data Analysis
10 47 (15.02%) ETL
11 43 (13.74%) Data Integration
12 42 (13.42%) Data Migration
12 42 (13.42%) Stakeholder Management
13 40 (12.78%) Decision-Making
14 36 (11.50%) Agile
15 32 (10.22%) Data Cleansing
15 32 (10.22%) Data Strategy
16 31 (9.90%) Visualisation
17 29 (9.27%) Data Pipeline
18 28 (8.95%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 79 (25.24%) SQL
2 55 (17.57%) Python
3 15 (4.79%) Java
4 10 (3.19%) Scala
5 8 (2.56%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.92%) T-SQL
7 4 (1.28%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.28%) R
8 3 (0.96%) Apex Code
8 3 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.64%) C#
9 2 (0.64%) Perl
9 2 (0.64%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.32%) HiveQL
10 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 39 (12.46%) Degree
2 33 (10.54%) Security Cleared
3 31 (9.90%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.92%) HNC
5 6 (1.92%) NVQ Level 3
6 3 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.64%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.64%) IBM Certification
7 2 (0.64%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.64%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.64%) PMP
8 1 (0.32%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.32%) PhD
8 1 (0.32%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (11.82%) QA
2 10 (3.19%) GDPR
3 4 (1.28%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.96%) GRC
5 2 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.64%) SLA
6 1 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.32%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (0.64%) Docker
1 2 (0.64%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.32%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (0.64%) Data Guard
2 2 (0.64%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.64%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.32%) Ansible
Vendors
1 51 (16.29%) SAP
2 43 (13.74%) Informatica
3 25 (7.99%) Microsoft
4 14 (4.47%) Alteryx
5 13 (4.15%) Oracle
6 11 (3.51%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.88%) Databricks
7 9 (2.88%) Facebook
7 9 (2.88%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.24%) Dataiku
8 7 (2.24%) Instagram
8 7 (2.24%) Trillium
9 5 (1.60%) Autodesk
10 4 (1.28%) Ariba
10 4 (1.28%) IFS
10 4 (1.28%) Sparx
11 3 (0.96%) Google
11 3 (0.96%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 3 (0.96%) Talend
11 3 (0.96%) Teradata