Data Quality Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Quality
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 148 202
Rank change year-on-year +49 +54 -4
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 346 434 611
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.25% 1.67% 1.37%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.33% 13.83% 10.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 301 476
10th Percentile £350 £350 £316
25th Percentile £450 £450 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £644 £625
90th Percentile £813 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £535 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -0.56% -2.18% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 6
10th Percentile £10.35 £30.50 £10.21
25th Percentile £14.13 £48.13 -
Median hourly rate £17.63 £80.00 £10.49
Median % change year-on-year -77.96% +662.63% -55.22%
75th Percentile £23.38 £86.25 £58.87
90th Percentile £46.38 £88.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £16.34 £22.49 £18.50
% change year-on-year -27.35% +21.54% -7.50%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,257 3,139 5,879
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.68% 12.07% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,531 2,292 4,168
10th Percentile £313 £325 £313
25th Percentile £420 £415 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% +3.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £600
90th Percentile £750 £725 £694
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 63 117
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.54 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.00 £25.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £21.94 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.99% -3.37% +121.01%
75th Percentile £40.00 £61.88 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.35 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £20.80 £37.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year -44.53% +31.58% +35.55%

Data Quality
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Quality trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Quality
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Data Quality over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Data Quality over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

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 30 (8.67%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (6.94%) Apache
3 11 (3.18%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.31%) Apache Spark
5 7 (2.02%) Confluence
6 2 (0.58%) CMS
7 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.73%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.58%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.58%) Revit
Business Applications
1 9 (2.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.16%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.87%) MIS ActiveH
4 2 (0.58%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.58%) Primavera
4 2 (0.58%) ResourceLink
4 2 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.58%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.58%) Shopify
4 2 (0.58%) Siebel CRM
5 1 (0.29%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.29%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.29%) SAP GTS
5 1 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 54 (15.61%) Azure
2 50 (14.45%) AWS
3 42 (12.14%) Power Platform
4 35 (10.12%) Snowflake
5 33 (9.54%) dbt
6 20 (5.78%) GCP
7 12 (3.47%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (2.89%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (2.31%) Azure Stack
9 8 (2.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (1.73%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (1.45%) Collibra
12 3 (0.87%) Amazon S3
12 3 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.87%) Azure API Management
12 3 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.87%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (0.87%) NuGet
12 3 (0.87%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (19.36%) Data Warehouse
2 40 (11.56%) Power BI
3 30 (8.67%) Metadata
4 29 (8.38%) Data Lake
5 25 (7.23%) SQL Server
6 24 (6.94%) Amazon Athena
7 22 (6.36%) Apache Arrow
7 22 (6.36%) Apache Ignite
7 22 (6.36%) Dremio
8 21 (6.07%) Big Data
8 21 (6.07%) Tableau
9 16 (4.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 11 (3.18%) BigQuery
11 10 (2.89%) Snowflake Schema
12 9 (2.60%) Relational Database
13 8 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (2.02%) Parquet
15 6 (1.73%) Data Mining
15 6 (1.73%) NoSQL
15 6 (1.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 15 (4.34%) ERwin
2 12 (3.47%) JIRA
3 6 (1.73%) Git
3 6 (1.73%) MLflow
4 4 (1.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (0.87%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.58%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.58%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.58%) Visual Studio Team System
7 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.29%) Deequ
7 1 (0.29%) GitLab
7 1 (0.29%) RStudio
General
1 119 (34.39%) Social Skills
2 105 (30.35%) Finance
3 84 (24.28%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (12.14%) Banking
5 33 (9.54%) Front Office
6 30 (8.67%) Investment Banking
7 29 (8.38%) Public Sector
8 18 (5.20%) Retail
9 16 (4.62%) Manufacturing
10 14 (4.05%) Telecoms
11 13 (3.76%) Legal
11 13 (3.76%) Marketing
12 11 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (2.89%) Electronics
13 10 (2.89%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (1.45%) Publishing
16 4 (1.16%) Financial Institution
17 3 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 84 (24.28%) Analyst
2 59 (17.05%) Data Engineer
3 56 (16.18%) Data Analyst
4 47 (13.58%) Architect
5 42 (12.14%) Data Architect
6 41 (11.85%) Lead
7 34 (9.83%) Senior
8 25 (7.23%) Developer
9 23 (6.65%) Business Analyst
10 20 (5.78%) Consultant
11 19 (5.49%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (3.76%) Data Manager
12 13 (3.76%) Lead Data Engineer
13 12 (3.47%) AWS Software Engineer
13 12 (3.47%) Data Business Analyst
13 12 (3.47%) Senior Software Engineer
13 12 (3.47%) Software Engineer
13 12 (3.47%) Technical Leader
14 11 (3.18%) Senior Analyst
15 10 (2.89%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.65%) Pandas
2 22 (6.36%) gRPC
2 22 (6.36%) NumPy
2 22 (6.36%) Protocol Buffers
2 22 (6.36%) SciPy
3 16 (4.62%) PySpark
4 12 (3.47%) JSON
4 12 (3.47%) REST
5 10 (2.89%) XML
6 7 (2.02%) Apache Avro
7 4 (1.16%) JSON Schema
7 4 (1.16%) Middleware
7 4 (1.16%) YAML
8 3 (0.87%) .NET
8 3 (0.87%) .NET Core
8 3 (0.87%) EDI
8 3 (0.87%) GraphQL
8 3 (0.87%) SOAP
9 2 (0.58%) Kafka
9 2 (0.58%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.09%) Derivative
2 27 (7.80%) Equities
3 22 (6.36%) Fixed Income
3 22 (6.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 22 (6.36%) Hedge funds
4 20 (5.78%) Data Structures
5 13 (3.76%) Data Protection Act
5 13 (3.76%) Reference Data
6 12 (3.47%) Management Information System
6 12 (3.47%) Wiki
7 10 (2.89%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (2.02%) NHS
9 7 (2.02%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.02%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.73%) CMDB
10 6 (1.73%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.45%) Life Science
12 4 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.73%) Unix
2 2 (0.58%) AIX
2 2 (0.58%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (39.31%) Data Modelling
2 123 (35.55%) Data Governance
3 87 (25.14%) Analytics
3 87 (25.14%) Data Management
4 73 (21.10%) Business Intelligence
5 72 (20.81%) ETL
6 69 (19.94%) Agile
7 68 (19.65%) Problem-Solving
8 55 (15.90%) Migration
9 53 (15.32%) Data Integration
10 51 (14.74%) Data Migration
11 47 (13.58%) Data Analysis
11 47 (13.58%) Stakeholder Management
12 43 (12.43%) Data Architecture
13 40 (11.56%) Visualisation
14 39 (11.27%) Data Cleansing
15 36 (10.40%) Decision-Making
15 36 (10.40%) Master Data Management
16 35 (10.12%) Data Strategy
17 33 (9.54%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 101 (29.19%) SQL
2 86 (24.86%) Python
3 35 (10.12%) Java
4 28 (8.09%) JavaScript
5 26 (7.51%) TypeScript
6 12 (3.47%) Scala
7 8 (2.31%) C#
8 6 (1.73%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.16%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.87%) Bicep
11 2 (0.58%) Bash
11 2 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.58%) R
11 2 (0.58%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.29%) HiveQL
12 1 (0.29%) Perl
12 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.29%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 41 (11.85%) Security Cleared
2 40 (11.56%) SC Cleared
3 38 (10.98%) Degree
4 12 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.73%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.58%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.29%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.94%) GDPR
1 24 (6.94%) QA
2 7 (2.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 4 (1.16%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.87%) PMO
5 2 (0.58%) GRC
5 2 (0.58%) IFRS
5 2 (0.58%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.58%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (1.16%) Docker
2 2 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.29%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (1.45%) Terraform
2 4 (1.16%) Ansible
2 4 (1.16%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.58%) Data Guard
3 2 (0.58%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.29%) Matomo
Vendors
1 38 (10.98%) Informatica
2 26 (7.51%) Databricks
2 26 (7.51%) Microsoft
3 24 (6.94%) SAP
4 23 (6.65%) Oracle
5 13 (3.76%) Google
6 12 (3.47%) Sparx
7 10 (2.89%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.31%) Facebook
9 6 (1.73%) Ariba
9 6 (1.73%) Instagram
10 4 (1.16%) NEC
11 3 (0.87%) Foundry
11 3 (0.87%) Palantir
11 3 (0.87%) Phenom
11 3 (0.87%) Splunk
11 3 (0.87%) Talend
11 3 (0.87%) Teradata
12 2 (0.58%) Cloudera
12 2 (0.58%) ServiceNow