Data Quality Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Quality
England > West Midlands

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

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 93 124
Rank change year-on-year +20 +31 -27
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 39 35 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.04% 1.58% 1.45%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.31% 9.46% 10.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 29 34
10th Percentile £350 £310 £352
25th Percentile £422 £350 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £410 £525
Median % change year-on-year +34.15% -21.90% +21.04%
75th Percentile £750 £538 £555
90th Percentile £813 £608 £675
England median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 293 370 510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.36% 16.67% 14.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 233 348
10th Percentile £259 £263 £263
25th Percentile £350 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £611 £588 £575
90th Percentile £788 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 17 7
10th Percentile £12.61 £11.90 £11.70
25th Percentile £13.18 £13.70 £12.58
Median hourly rate £14.00 £27.13 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.40% +59.59% +6.25%
75th Percentile £55.00 £28.75 £18.75
90th Percentile £58.75 £30.00 £20.00
England median hourly rate £23.00 £38.46 £28.50
% change year-on-year -40.20% +34.95% +35.71%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in the West Midlands

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in the West Midlands

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in the West Midlands

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in the West Midlands

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 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
Birmingham +14 15 £431 +23.21% 15
Warwickshire +7 14 £700 +27.27% 6
Coventry +12 3 £725 +38.10%
Staffordshire +7 2 £375 -26.47% 3
Worcestershire - 1 £550 - 3
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (5.13%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.56%) SAS
2 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.77%) Power Platform
2 4 (10.26%) AWS
3 3 (7.69%) Azure
3 3 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.56%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (2.56%) GCP
4 1 (2.56%) OCI
4 1 (2.56%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.56%) PowerApps
4 1 (2.56%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (30.77%) Power BI
2 7 (17.95%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (17.95%) Tableau
3 6 (15.38%) Metadata
4 2 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (5.13%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (5.13%) Big Data
4 2 (5.13%) Hadoop
4 2 (5.13%) MySQL
4 2 (5.13%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.56%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.56%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (2.56%) Data Vault
5 1 (2.56%) Impala
5 1 (2.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (2.56%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (2.56%) Pentaho
5 1 (2.56%) Presto
5 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) JIRA
2 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.56%) GitLab
2 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.64%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (23.08%) Finance
4 6 (15.38%) Automotive
5 5 (12.82%) Law
5 5 (12.82%) Retail
6 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (20.51%) Lead
2 7 (17.95%) Analyst
3 5 (12.82%) Architect
3 5 (12.82%) Consultant
3 5 (12.82%) Data Analyst
3 5 (12.82%) Data Architect
3 5 (12.82%) Data Consultant
3 5 (12.82%) Data Governance Consultant
3 5 (12.82%) Governance Consultant
4 4 (10.26%) Data Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Technical Leader
5 3 (7.69%) Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Business Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Data Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Data Migration Lead
6 2 (5.13%) Data Quality Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Financial Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Quality Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (2.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Data Structures
1 6 (15.38%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.13%) Algorithms
2 2 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (38.46%) Data Migration
1 15 (38.46%) Migration
2 14 (35.90%) Data Management
3 12 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
4 11 (28.21%) Data Governance
5 10 (25.64%) Roadmaps
6 9 (23.08%) Analytics
6 9 (23.08%) ETL
7 8 (20.51%) Data Design
7 8 (20.51%) Data Modelling
8 7 (17.95%) Data Architecture
9 6 (15.38%) Data Analytics
9 6 (15.38%) Data Cleansing
9 6 (15.38%) Data Integration
9 6 (15.38%) Decision-Making
9 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (12.82%) Coaching
10 5 (12.82%) Data Mapping
10 5 (12.82%) Mentoring
10 5 (12.82%) Scorecard
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.64%) SQL
2 7 (17.95%) Python
3 3 (7.69%) Java
4 1 (2.56%) HiveQL
4 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (30.77%) Informatica
2 6 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 5 (12.82%) Autodesk
4 3 (7.69%) Oracle
5 2 (5.13%) Facebook
5 2 (5.13%) Instagram
5 2 (5.13%) SAP
6 1 (2.56%) Denodo
6 1 (2.56%) Splunk
6 1 (2.56%) Talend
6 1 (2.56%) Teradata