Data Quality Analyst Contracts

Data Quality Analyst
UK

The median Data Quality Analyst daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 559 685 810
Rank change year-on-year +126 +125 -147
Contract jobs requiring a Data Quality Analyst 27 31 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.062% 0.051% 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.054% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 17 31
10th Percentile - £253 £305
25th Percentile £450 £325 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £470 £575
90th Percentile £600 £565 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £425 £368
% change year-on-year +11.76% +15.65% -18.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £10.26
25th Percentile - - £12.18
Median hourly rate - - £16.49
75th Percentile - - £21.43
90th Percentile - - £23.72
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £16.49
% change year-on-year - - -21.49%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,501 57,364 85,821
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.55% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,442 40,011 60,276
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £748 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,615 1,620 2,120
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.33 £15.47
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.77 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.12% +117.95% +2.63%

Data Quality Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Data Quality Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality Analyst in the UK

Data Quality Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Quality Analyst.

Daily rate trend for Data Quality Analyst in the UK

Data Quality Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality Analyst over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality Analyst in the UK

Data Quality Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Quality Analyst.

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality Analyst in the UK

Data Quality Analyst
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Quality Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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
England +110 23 £500 +15.94% 4
UK excluding London +71 16 £475 +11.76% 2
London +106 10 £575 +27.78% 2
North of England +39 9 £488 +14.71%
North West +27 9 £488 +11.43%
Work from Home +125 7 £450 +9.09% 1
Scotland +42 3 £452 +6.24%
South West - 3 - -
East of England - 1 £425 -

Data Quality Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Data Quality Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Data Quality Analyst in the job title.

1 27 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 23 (85.19%) SQL
3 16 (59.26%) Data Management
3 16 (59.26%) Data Governance
4 13 (48.15%) Data Analysis
5 12 (44.44%) Power BI
5 12 (44.44%) Power Platform
6 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
7 10 (37.04%) Snowflake
7 10 (37.04%) QA
7 10 (37.04%) SAP
7 10 (37.04%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
9 8 (29.63%) Data Lake
9 8 (29.63%) Pharmaceutical
9 8 (29.63%) Finance
10 7 (25.93%) Quality Management
10 7 (25.93%) Python
10 7 (25.93%) SQL Server
10 7 (25.93%) SAS
10 7 (25.93%) Trillium
10 7 (25.93%) Qlik Sense
10 7 (25.93%) Alteryx
10 7 (25.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 7 (25.93%) Data Architecture
10 7 (25.93%) Collibra
10 7 (25.93%) Ataccama
10 7 (25.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (25.93%) Power Automate
10 7 (25.93%) Dataiku

Data Quality Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (25.93%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 12 (44.44%) Power Platform
2 10 (37.04%) Snowflake
3 7 (25.93%) Collibra
3 7 (25.93%) Power Automate
4 2 (7.41%) Azure
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Pipelines
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (44.44%) Power BI
2 8 (29.63%) Data Lake
3 7 (25.93%) Ataccama
3 7 (25.93%) Qlik Sense
3 7 (25.93%) SQL Server
4 6 (22.22%) Data Mining
5 3 (11.11%) Metadata
6 2 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 8 (29.63%) Finance
2 8 (29.63%) Pharmaceutical
3 7 (25.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 3 (11.11%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (59.26%) Data Governance
1 16 (59.26%) Data Management
2 13 (48.15%) Data Analysis
3 10 (37.04%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
5 7 (25.93%) Data Architecture
5 7 (25.93%) Quality Management
6 6 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (22.22%) Visualisation
7 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (11.11%) Agile
8 3 (11.11%) Business Process Improvement
8 3 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (11.11%) Data Categorisation
8 3 (11.11%) Decision-Making
8 3 (11.11%) Information Governance
8 3 (11.11%) Process Improvement
8 3 (11.11%) Product Management
8 3 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 23 (85.19%) SQL
2 7 (25.93%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 10 (37.04%) QA
3 1 (3.70%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) SAP
2 7 (25.93%) Alteryx
2 7 (25.93%) Dataiku
2 7 (25.93%) Trillium
3 2 (7.41%) Databricks
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft