Data Quality Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Quality
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Data Quality skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Quality over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 101 146
Rank change year-on-year -2 +45 +47
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 246 346 435
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.48% 2.25% 1.68%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.55% 15.39% 13.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 255 301
10th Percentile £306 £350 £350
25th Percentile £375 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.08% -2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £589 £675 £644
90th Percentile £688 £813 £713
UK median daily rate £513 £531 £528
% change year-on-year -3.25% +0.57% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 3
10th Percentile £18.05 £10.35 £30.50
25th Percentile £19.74 £14.13 £48.13
Median hourly rate £26.32 £17.63 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.27% -77.96% +662.63%
75th Percentile £35.69 £23.38 £86.25
90th Percentile £59.33 £46.38 £88.50
UK median hourly rate £31.64 £16.34 £22.49
% change year-on-year +93.69% -27.35% +21.54%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

Data Quality falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,486 2,248 3,140
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.99% 14.62% 12.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,003 1,533 2,291
10th Percentile £282 £313 £325
25th Percentile £400 £420 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.97% +3.00%
75th Percentile £602 £623 £625
90th Percentile £713 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 78 63
10th Percentile £17.98 £12.75 £18.54
25th Percentile £23.13 £14.00 £25.50
Median hourly rate £39.00 £21.94 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.80% -48.99% -2.16%
75th Percentile £67.50 £40.00 £61.88
90th Percentile £87.15 £65.00 £72.35
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £21.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.29% -44.00% +33.93%

Data Quality
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Quality trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Quality
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Quality.

Data Quality daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Quality over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Data Quality daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Quality.

Data Quality hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Quality over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Data Quality hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (3.66%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.85%) Apache
2 7 (2.85%) Confluence
3 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.22%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.81%) SAS
5 1 (0.41%) CMS
Applications
1 28 (11.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.85%) MS Visio
3 5 (2.03%) Siemens NX
4 4 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (3.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.03%) SAP MDG
2 5 (2.03%) Teamcenter
3 3 (1.22%) SAP HR
4 2 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.41%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.41%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.41%) Maximo
5 1 (0.41%) Murex MxG2000
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.41%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.41%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 52 (21.14%) Azure
2 44 (17.89%) Power Platform
3 37 (15.04%) AWS
4 19 (7.72%) GCP
5 11 (4.47%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (4.07%) Snowflake
7 8 (3.25%) Amazon S3
7 8 (3.25%) SuccessFactors
8 7 (2.85%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (2.85%) Collibra
8 7 (2.85%) dbt
8 7 (2.85%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (2.85%) Microsoft Purview
8 7 (2.85%) Serverless
9 5 (2.03%) Alation
9 5 (2.03%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (2.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (2.03%) GitHub
9 5 (2.03%) SaaS
9 5 (2.03%) Salsify
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.41%) DNS
2 1 (0.41%) HTTP
2 1 (0.41%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (24.80%) Data Warehouse
2 44 (17.89%) Power BI
3 30 (12.20%) Data Lake
4 19 (7.72%) Tableau
5 18 (7.32%) Metadata
6 17 (6.91%) Big Data
6 17 (6.91%) SQL Server
7 14 (5.69%) NoSQL
8 10 (4.07%) Relational Database
9 9 (3.66%) BigQuery
9 9 (3.66%) Looker
9 9 (3.66%) Power Query
10 8 (3.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (2.44%) Hadoop
11 6 (2.44%) SAP Data Services
11 6 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (2.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (1.63%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (5.69%) JIRA
2 9 (3.66%) ERwin
3 5 (2.03%) ER Studio
3 5 (2.03%) Git
4 3 (1.22%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.22%) MLflow
4 3 (1.22%) REST Assured
5 2 (0.81%) LSMW
5 2 (0.81%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.41%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.41%) Flyway
6 1 (0.41%) GitLab
6 1 (0.41%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.41%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.41%) Vite
6 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 89 (36.18%) Social Skills
2 67 (27.24%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (18.29%) Finance
4 26 (10.57%) Public Sector
5 18 (7.32%) Banking
6 10 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (3.25%) Marketing
8 7 (2.85%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.85%) Retail
9 6 (2.44%) Legal
9 6 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.03%) Investment Banking
10 5 (2.03%) Local Government
11 4 (1.63%) Front Office
11 4 (1.63%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.63%) Military
11 4 (1.63%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.22%) Billing
Job Titles
1 63 (25.61%) Analyst
2 57 (23.17%) Data Engineer
3 41 (16.67%) Data Analyst
4 23 (9.35%) Lead
5 19 (7.72%) Architect
6 16 (6.50%) Consultant
7 15 (6.10%) Business Analyst
8 12 (4.88%) Data Architect
8 12 (4.88%) Senior
9 11 (4.47%) Data Consultant
10 10 (4.07%) Data Modeller
10 10 (4.07%) Developer
11 9 (3.66%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (3.66%) Data Steward
12 8 (3.25%) Data Business Analyst
12 8 (3.25%) Senior Data Engineer
13 7 (2.85%) Junior
14 6 (2.44%) Administrator
14 6 (2.44%) Azure Data Engineer
14 6 (2.44%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.47%) Kafka
2 8 (3.25%) PySpark
3 7 (2.85%) XML
4 6 (2.44%) React
4 6 (2.44%) REST
5 5 (2.03%) Plotly
5 5 (2.03%) SOAP
6 3 (1.22%) Gherkin
6 3 (1.22%) PyTorch
6 3 (1.22%) scikit-learn
6 3 (1.22%) TensorFlow
7 2 (0.81%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.81%) BAPI
7 2 (0.81%) JSON
7 2 (0.81%) NumPy
7 2 (0.81%) Pandas
8 1 (0.41%) CSS
8 1 (0.41%) HTML
8 1 (0.41%) HTML5
8 1 (0.41%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.28%) Legacy Systems
1 13 (5.28%) Management Information System
2 8 (3.25%) Data Structures
3 6 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.03%) Life Science
4 5 (2.03%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.63%) Data Fabric
5 4 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (1.63%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.63%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.22%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.22%) Market Risk
6 3 (1.22%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (1.22%) NHS
6 3 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.22%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.81%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.81%) CMDB
7 2 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.81%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.22%) Linux
2 1 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (47.15%) Data Governance
2 79 (32.11%) ETL
3 71 (28.86%) Data Management
4 68 (27.64%) Data Modelling
5 65 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
6 63 (25.61%) Analytics
7 58 (23.58%) Migration
8 56 (22.76%) Business Intelligence
9 44 (17.89%) Data Pipeline
10 43 (17.48%) Data Analysis
11 41 (16.67%) Data Migration
12 40 (16.26%) Data Cleansing
12 40 (16.26%) Data Engineering
12 40 (16.26%) Stakeholder Management
12 40 (16.26%) Visualisation
13 37 (15.04%) Validation
14 35 (14.23%) Data Integration
15 34 (13.82%) Decision-Making
16 32 (13.01%) Data Visualisation
17 29 (11.79%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 89 (36.18%) SQL
2 69 (28.05%) Python
3 9 (3.66%) Scala
4 7 (2.85%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.44%) Java
5 6 (2.44%) T-SQL
6 5 (2.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (1.63%) R
8 2 (0.81%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.41%) ABAP
9 1 (0.41%) C#
9 1 (0.41%) C++
9 1 (0.41%) PHP
9 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.41%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.41%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (15.04%) Degree
2 30 (12.20%) Security Cleared
3 28 (11.38%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.85%) PMI Certification
6 6 (2.44%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.44%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.44%) PMP
7 4 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.22%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.81%) CBAP
9 2 (0.81%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.41%) CAPM
10 1 (0.41%) CITP
10 1 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.41%) MBA
10 1 (0.41%) PgMP
10 1 (0.41%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.13%) GDPR
2 17 (6.91%) Accessibility
3 13 (5.28%) QA
4 4 (1.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.22%) PMO
6 2 (0.81%) EMIR
6 2 (0.81%) MiFID
6 2 (0.81%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.41%) LOINC
7 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.41%) SLA
7 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (3.66%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (3.66%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.25%) Terraform
3 2 (0.81%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.41%) Ansible
Vendors
1 28 (11.38%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.76%) Databricks
3 22 (8.94%) SAP
4 16 (6.50%) Informatica
5 14 (5.69%) Google
6 11 (4.47%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.44%) Oracle
8 5 (2.03%) Alteryx
9 3 (1.22%) Ariba
9 3 (1.22%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.22%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.22%) Splunk
10 2 (0.81%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.81%) MicroStrategy
10 2 (0.81%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.81%) New Relic
10 2 (0.81%) Remedy
10 2 (0.81%) Sparx
11 1 (0.41%) Amplitude
11 1 (0.41%) Liquidlogic