Data Quality Contracts

Data Quality
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 157 209
Rank change year-on-year +35 +52 -17
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 798 942 1,203
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.87% 1.62% 1.36%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.07% 12.13% 10.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 530 628 840
10th Percentile £357 £350 £315
25th Percentile £450 £432 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% -2.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £686 £639 £638
90th Percentile £800 £725 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £494
% change year-on-year - +1.27% +3.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 18 26
10th Percentile £12.25 £17.69 £9.23
25th Percentile £14.13 £21.24 £10.49
Median hourly rate £16.34 £22.49 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.35% +19.92% -10.29%
75th Percentile £42.50 £27.49 £24.35
90th Percentile £54.55 £55.29 £57.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.79 £23.50 £15.35
% change year-on-year -32.81% +53.09% -15.37%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,107 7,768 11,686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.28% 13.35% 13.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,884 5,332 7,995
10th Percentile £285 £281 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £514
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +2.24% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £740 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £479 £450
% change year-on-year +0.99% +6.44% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 380 235 315
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.29 £12.03
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.38 £17.13
Median hourly rate £21.06 £35.00 £32.37
Median % change year-on-year -39.84% +8.12% +54.14%
75th Percentile £45.00 £61.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £77.50 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.19 £32.94 £22.55
% change year-on-year -44.78% +46.12% +7.36%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in the UK

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in the UK

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in the UK

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in the UK

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Quality over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Quality in the UK

Data Quality
Top 17 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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 +45 730 £550 - 434
London +47 453 £575 - 213
Work from Home +55 328 £550 - 166
UK excluding London +39 284 £500 - 223
North of England +35 82 £500 +11.11% 64
South East -8 66 £475 -9.52% 47
North West +38 65 £500 +14.29% 35
Midlands +49 54 £550 +35.38% 53
West Midlands +33 43 £600 +50.00% 37
East of England -6 33 £500 - 21
South West +9 27 £475 -8.21% 22
Yorkshire +21 18 £434 -13.20% 23
Scotland +42 13 £481 -3.75% 8
East Midlands +33 13 £422 -0.82% 16
Northern Ireland +11 8 - - 6
Wales +18 5 £525 +5.00% 4
North East +13 2 - - 7

Data Quality
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 51 (6.39%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (5.64%) Apache
3 30 (3.76%) Apache Spark
4 25 (3.13%) SharePoint
5 10 (1.25%) Confluence
5 10 (1.25%) SAS
6 3 (0.38%) CMS
6 3 (0.38%) govService
7 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
Applications
1 58 (7.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.63%) MS Visio
3 20 (2.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (1.63%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.50%) SPSS
8 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.25%) Revit
Business Applications
1 20 (2.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.00%) SAP MDG
4 7 (0.88%) Siebel CRM
5 5 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.38%) ENOVIA
6 3 (0.38%) MIS ActiveH
6 3 (0.38%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.38%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.38%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.38%) SAP PLM
6 3 (0.38%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.25%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.25%) ResourceLink
7 2 (0.25%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.25%) Shopify
7 2 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.13%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 142 (17.79%) Azure
2 125 (15.66%) Power Platform
3 112 (14.04%) AWS
4 59 (7.39%) Snowflake
5 45 (5.64%) dbt
6 39 (4.89%) GCP
7 32 (4.01%) Azure Data Factory
8 26 (3.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 24 (3.01%) Collibra
10 19 (2.38%) Microsoft Purview
11 18 (2.26%) Amazon S3
12 15 (1.88%) Azure Stack
13 14 (1.75%) Serverless
14 11 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (1.38%) Power Automate
15 10 (1.25%) Amazon Kinesis
15 10 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
15 10 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
16 9 (1.13%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.25%) Internet
2 4 (0.50%) Intranet
3 1 (0.13%) DNS
3 1 (0.13%) Firewall
3 1 (0.13%) VLAN
3 1 (0.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (20.43%) Data Warehouse
2 125 (15.66%) Power BI
3 75 (9.40%) Data Lake
4 65 (8.15%) Metadata
5 64 (8.02%) Big Data
6 55 (6.89%) Tableau
7 51 (6.39%) SQL Server
8 36 (4.51%) Amazon Athena
9 28 (3.51%) Apache Arrow
9 28 (3.51%) Apache Ignite
9 28 (3.51%) Dremio
10 27 (3.38%) NoSQL
11 25 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 24 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
12 24 (3.01%) Data Mining
13 20 (2.51%) Relational Database
14 17 (2.13%) Parquet
14 17 (2.13%) Snowflake Schema
15 16 (2.01%) Hadoop
16 15 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 29 (3.63%) ERwin
2 23 (2.88%) JIRA
3 15 (1.88%) Git
3 15 (1.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (0.75%) MLflow
5 5 (0.63%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.50%) Deequ
6 4 (0.50%) GitLab
6 4 (0.50%) Visual Studio Team System
7 3 (0.38%) LSMW
7 3 (0.38%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.38%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.25%) Maven
8 2 (0.25%) NUnit
8 2 (0.25%) Poetry
8 2 (0.25%) Selenium
8 2 (0.25%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.13%) RStudio
General
1 282 (35.34%) Social Skills
2 217 (27.19%) Finance
3 187 (23.43%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (8.02%) Public Sector
5 63 (7.89%) Banking
6 45 (5.64%) Front Office
7 38 (4.76%) Investment Banking
8 33 (4.14%) Retail
9 30 (3.76%) Legal
10 26 (3.26%) Marketing
11 24 (3.01%) Local Government
11 24 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
12 22 (2.76%) Manufacturing
12 22 (2.76%) Pharmaceutical
13 18 (2.26%) Telecoms
14 17 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
15 14 (1.75%) Electronics
16 12 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 11 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
18 10 (1.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 192 (24.06%) Analyst
2 127 (15.91%) Data Analyst
3 122 (15.29%) Data Engineer
4 107 (13.41%) Architect
5 88 (11.03%) Data Architect
6 75 (9.40%) Lead
7 71 (8.90%) Senior
8 56 (7.02%) Developer
9 50 (6.27%) Business Analyst
10 44 (5.51%) Consultant
10 44 (5.51%) Data Manager
11 32 (4.01%) Data Business Analyst
12 29 (3.63%) AWS Engineer
13 24 (3.01%) Data Consultant
13 24 (3.01%) Data Quality Analyst
13 24 (3.01%) Senior Analyst
14 22 (2.76%) Quality Analyst
15 19 (2.38%) Governance Analyst
16 17 (2.13%) Governance Manager
16 17 (2.13%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (4.76%) PySpark
2 33 (4.14%) Pandas
3 30 (3.76%) JSON
3 30 (3.76%) SciPy
4 29 (3.63%) NumPy
5 28 (3.51%) gRPC
5 28 (3.51%) Protocol Buffers
6 27 (3.38%) REST
7 23 (2.88%) XML
8 14 (1.75%) Apache Avro
9 11 (1.38%) HTML
9 11 (1.38%) Kafka
9 11 (1.38%) YAML
10 10 (1.25%) JSON Schema
10 10 (1.25%) Middleware
11 9 (1.13%) CSS
12 7 (0.88%) SOAP
13 6 (0.75%) .NET
13 6 (0.75%) Great Expectations
14 5 (0.63%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 56 (7.02%) Management Information System
2 44 (5.51%) Data Structures
3 39 (4.89%) Derivative
4 37 (4.64%) Equities
5 34 (4.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 29 (3.63%) Fixed Income
6 29 (3.63%) Hedge funds
7 26 (3.26%) NHS
7 26 (3.26%) Reference Data
8 24 (3.01%) Product Ownership
9 23 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
9 23 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
10 20 (2.51%) CMDB
11 14 (1.75%) Wiki
12 12 (1.50%) Freedom of Information
13 11 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (1.38%) Onboarding
13 11 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (1.38%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.75%) Unix
2 7 (0.88%) Linux
3 2 (0.25%) AIX
3 2 (0.25%) Windows
4 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (36.84%) Data Modelling
2 272 (34.09%) Data Governance
3 218 (27.32%) Data Management
4 193 (24.19%) Analytics
5 174 (21.80%) ETL
6 172 (21.55%) Business Intelligence
7 166 (20.80%) Problem-Solving
8 152 (19.05%) Agile
9 137 (17.17%) Migration
10 119 (14.91%) Data Migration
11 116 (14.54%) Data Analysis
12 113 (14.16%) Data Integration
13 105 (13.16%) Visualisation
14 101 (12.66%) Data Architecture
15 95 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
16 92 (11.53%) Data Pipeline
17 83 (10.40%) Data Cleansing
18 78 (9.77%) Decision-Making
19 76 (9.52%) Data Strategy
20 73 (9.15%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 255 (31.95%) SQL
2 191 (23.93%) Python
3 70 (8.77%) Java
4 47 (5.89%) JavaScript
5 35 (4.39%) TypeScript
6 31 (3.88%) Scala
7 17 (2.13%) T-SQL
8 16 (2.01%) C#
9 11 (1.38%) PowerShell
10 10 (1.25%) R
11 7 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.75%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.63%) Apex Code
13 5 (0.63%) Perl
14 4 (0.50%) Bicep
14 4 (0.50%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.50%) VBA
15 3 (0.38%) Bash
16 2 (0.25%) XPath
16 2 (0.25%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 100 (12.53%) Degree
2 90 (11.28%) Security Cleared
3 83 (10.40%) SC Cleared
4 34 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (1.88%) Master's Degree
6 6 (0.75%) HNC
6 6 (0.75%) NVQ Level 3
6 6 (0.75%) PMP
7 5 (0.63%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.50%) PhD
9 3 (0.38%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.38%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.25%) IBM Certification
11 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.13%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.13%) ECDL
11 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (8.77%) QA
2 48 (6.02%) GDPR
3 12 (1.50%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.25%) SLA
5 9 (1.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (0.88%) GRC
6 7 (0.88%) PMO
7 3 (0.38%) IFRS
7 3 (0.38%) IFRS 17
7 3 (0.38%) MiFID
7 3 (0.38%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.25%) EMIR
9 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (0.88%) Docker
2 2 (0.25%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.25%) HDFS
2 2 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (1.50%) Terraform
2 7 (0.88%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.50%) Ansible
4 3 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.25%) Data Guard
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.13%) Matomo
6 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 75 (9.40%) Informatica
2 74 (9.27%) SAP
3 68 (8.52%) Databricks
4 65 (8.15%) Microsoft
5 45 (5.64%) Oracle
6 29 (3.63%) Salesforce
7 17 (2.13%) Google
8 16 (2.01%) Alteryx
8 16 (2.01%) Talend
9 14 (1.75%) ServiceNow
9 14 (1.75%) Sparx
10 10 (1.25%) Facebook
11 8 (1.00%) Instagram
12 7 (0.88%) Dataiku
12 7 (0.88%) IBM
12 7 (0.88%) Palantir
12 7 (0.88%) Siebel
12 7 (0.88%) Trillium
13 6 (0.75%) Foundry
14 5 (0.63%) Varonis