Data Quality Specialist Contracts

Data Quality Specialist
UK

The median Data Quality Specialist daily rate in the UK is £513 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 693 863
Rank change year-on-year +116 +170 -172
Contract jobs requiring a Data Quality Specialist 9 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.009% 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.009% 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £481 - £420
25th Percentile £491 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £500
75th Percentile £528 - £550
90th Percentile £534 - £580
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

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 39,893 55,060 83,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.65% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,957 38,445 58,715
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,673 1,534 2,047
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.89
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +2.56%

Data Quality Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality Specialist in the UK

Data Quality Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Quality Specialist in the UK

Data Quality Specialist
Top 3 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 Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +113 9 £513 -
London - 9 £513 -
Work from Home - 3 £513 -

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, Data Quality Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 5 (55.56%) Data Governance
3 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (44.44%) CRM
3 4 (44.44%) Change Management
3 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 4 (44.44%) Data Management
3 4 (44.44%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 3 (33.33%) Legal
4 3 (33.33%) Informatica
4 3 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 3 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
5 2 (22.22%) Data Cleansing
5 2 (22.22%) Agile
5 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (22.22%) Scorecard
5 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
5 2 (22.22%) Ataccama
6 1 (11.11%) Customer Experience
6 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
6 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (11.11%) Collibra
6 1 (11.11%) Analytics
6 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
6 1 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements

Data Quality Specialist 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:

Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) SAP MDM
1 1 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Ataccama
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Legal
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Data Governance
2 4 (44.44%) Change Management
2 4 (44.44%) CRM
2 4 (44.44%) Data Management
2 4 (44.44%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Data Cleansing
4 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 2 (22.22%) Scorecard
5 1 (11.11%) Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Business Development
5 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (11.11%) Data Mapping
5 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
5 1 (11.11%) Document Management
5 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (11.11%) Quality Management
5 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Informatica
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) SAP