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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 99 153
Rank change year-on-year -1 +54 +59
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 265 337 383
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.61% 2.31% 1.59%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.74% 16.98% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 263 281
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £409 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £600 £738 £638
90th Percentile £700 £850 £725
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £534
% change year-on-year -5.45% +3.04% -2.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 2
10th Percentile £17.93 £10.35 £78.75
25th Percentile £18.12 £14.13 £80.63
Median hourly rate £22.27 £17.63 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.30% -79.26% +359.46%
75th Percentile £28.49 £23.38 £88.13
90th Percentile £32.40 £46.38 £89.25
UK median hourly rate £31.64 £15.80 £22.92
% change year-on-year +100.25% -31.07% +4.98%

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 1,684 1,985 3,049
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 16.56% 13.61% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,142 1,400 2,217
10th Percentile £310 £300 £338
25th Percentile £400 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -4.03% +0.68%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -0.10% -4.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 69 79
10th Percentile £14.78 £12.00 £17.50
25th Percentile £19.40 £14.00 £20.94
Median hourly rate £34.48 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.92% -28.57% -9.50%
75th Percentile £67.50 £53.75 £59.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £67.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £23.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year +26.05% -36.53% +38.89%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 14 (5.28%) Apache Spark
2 10 (3.77%) Apache
2 10 (3.77%) Confluence
3 9 (3.40%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.89%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.75%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.38%) CMS
6 1 (0.38%) MS Project Server
6 1 (0.38%) SAS
6 1 (0.38%) WebLogic
Applications
1 27 (10.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.02%) Siemens NX
3 7 (2.64%) MS Visio
4 6 (2.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.51%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.02%) SAP S/4HANA
1 8 (3.02%) Teamcenter
2 5 (1.89%) SAP MDG
3 4 (1.51%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (1.13%) SAP HR
4 3 (1.13%) SAP PM
5 2 (0.75%) Maximo
5 2 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.38%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.38%) Murex MxG2000
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.38%) Primavera
6 1 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.38%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 62 (23.40%) Azure
2 50 (18.87%) AWS
3 39 (14.72%) Power Platform
4 24 (9.06%) Azure Data Factory
5 20 (7.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 16 (6.04%) Snowflake
7 15 (5.66%) GCP
8 14 (5.28%) Collibra
9 13 (4.91%) dbt
9 13 (4.91%) Microsoft Purview
10 12 (4.53%) GitHub
11 11 (4.15%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (4.15%) Serverless
12 10 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (3.40%) Amazon S3
14 6 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (2.26%) Salsify
14 6 (2.26%) SuccessFactors
15 5 (1.89%) Alation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.51%) DNS
1 4 (1.51%) HTTP
2 1 (0.38%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (22.64%) Data Warehouse
2 37 (13.96%) Power BI
3 32 (12.08%) Data Lake
4 29 (10.94%) Metadata
5 21 (7.92%) SQL Server
6 20 (7.55%) Big Data
7 18 (6.79%) Tableau
8 14 (5.28%) NoSQL
9 13 (4.91%) Relational Database
10 12 (4.53%) Delta Lake
11 10 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (3.02%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (3.02%) Hadoop
13 7 (2.64%) MySQL
13 7 (2.64%) SAP Data Services
14 6 (2.26%) BigQuery
14 6 (2.26%) Oracle Database
14 6 (2.26%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (2.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 5 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 15 (5.66%) JIRA
2 11 (4.15%) Git
3 9 (3.40%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.02%) ERwin
5 6 (2.26%) ER Studio
6 5 (1.89%) REST Assured
7 4 (1.51%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (1.51%) Vite
7 4 (1.51%) webpack
8 2 (0.75%) LSMW
8 2 (0.75%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.38%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.38%) Flyway
9 1 (0.38%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 112 (42.26%) Social Skills
2 74 (27.92%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (24.53%) Finance
4 26 (9.81%) Banking
5 21 (7.92%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.40%) Retail
8 8 (3.02%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (3.02%) Local Government
8 8 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.64%) Investment Banking
9 7 (2.64%) Marketing
9 7 (2.64%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.89%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.51%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.51%) Legal
11 4 (1.51%) Military
11 4 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.13%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 68 (25.66%) Analyst
2 60 (22.64%) Data Engineer
3 41 (15.47%) Data Analyst
4 27 (10.19%) Lead
5 20 (7.55%) Business Analyst
6 19 (7.17%) Architect
7 18 (6.79%) Consultant
8 14 (5.28%) Senior
9 12 (4.53%) Azure Data Engineer
9 12 (4.53%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (4.53%) Developer
10 11 (4.15%) Data Architect
11 10 (3.77%) Data Modeller
12 9 (3.40%) Data Consultant
12 9 (3.40%) Senior Data Engineer
13 8 (3.02%) Applications Engineer
13 8 (3.02%) Configuration Engineer
14 6 (2.26%) Data Business Analyst
14 6 (2.26%) Data Manager
14 6 (2.26%) Data Steward
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.91%) Kafka
2 12 (4.53%) PySpark
3 10 (3.77%) XML
4 7 (2.64%) CSS
4 7 (2.64%) HTML
4 7 (2.64%) React
5 6 (2.26%) Pandas
6 5 (1.89%) AngularJS
6 5 (1.89%) Gherkin
6 5 (1.89%) NumPy
7 4 (1.51%) Apache NiFi
7 4 (1.51%) GatsbyJS
7 4 (1.51%) HTML5
7 4 (1.51%) Jest
7 4 (1.51%) Matplotlib
7 4 (1.51%) Next.js
7 4 (1.51%) Parceljs
7 4 (1.51%) React Native
7 4 (1.51%) Sass
7 4 (1.51%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.68%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (4.53%) Data Structures
2 12 (4.53%) Management Information System
3 9 (3.40%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.26%) Data Fabric
4 6 (2.26%) Life Science
4 6 (2.26%) Marketing Technology
4 6 (2.26%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.26%) Reference Data
5 5 (1.89%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.51%) CMDB
6 4 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.51%) IoT
7 3 (1.13%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.13%) Market Risk
7 3 (1.13%) Omics
7 3 (1.13%) Smart Meter
7 3 (1.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.26%) Linux
2 1 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (47.92%) Data Governance
2 89 (33.58%) ETL
3 85 (32.08%) Data Modelling
4 74 (27.92%) Analytics
5 72 (27.17%) Problem-Solving
6 66 (24.91%) Migration
7 63 (23.77%) Data Management
8 60 (22.64%) Business Intelligence
9 49 (18.49%) Data Migration
9 49 (18.49%) Data Pipeline
10 44 (16.60%) Data Engineering
10 44 (16.60%) Validation
11 43 (16.23%) Stakeholder Management
12 41 (15.47%) Visualisation
13 38 (14.34%) Data Architecture
14 37 (13.96%) Data Cleansing
15 36 (13.58%) Decision-Making
16 35 (13.21%) Agile
17 34 (12.83%) Data Analysis
18 33 (12.45%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 111 (41.89%) SQL
2 83 (31.32%) Python
3 13 (4.91%) Scala
4 11 (4.15%) Java
5 9 (3.40%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.02%) R
7 5 (1.89%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.75%) C#
8 2 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.75%) Perl
8 2 (0.75%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.38%) ABAP
9 1 (0.38%) Bicep
9 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.38%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.38%) PHP
9 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 34 (12.83%) Security Cleared
2 32 (12.08%) Degree
3 29 (10.94%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.64%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.89%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.13%) PhD
9 2 (0.75%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.75%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.75%) PMP
10 1 (0.38%) CBAP
10 1 (0.38%) CITP
10 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.30%) GDPR
2 21 (7.92%) Accessibility
3 20 (7.55%) QA
4 4 (1.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (1.51%) WCAG
5 2 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.75%) FATCA
5 2 (0.75%) MiFID
5 2 (0.75%) PMO
5 2 (0.75%) SNOMED CT
6 1 (0.38%) AIFMD
6 1 (0.38%) EMIR
6 1 (0.38%) GxP
6 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.38%) LOINC
6 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.38%) SLA
6 1 (0.38%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.38%) UCITS
System Software
1 9 (3.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (4.53%) Terraform
2 11 (4.15%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.38%) Grafana
3 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 36 (13.58%) Databricks
2 27 (10.19%) Informatica
3 24 (9.06%) SAP
4 19 (7.17%) Microsoft
5 18 (6.79%) Oracle
6 13 (4.91%) Google
7 6 (2.26%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.89%) Liquidlogic
8 5 (1.89%) Talend
9 4 (1.51%) Amplitude
9 4 (1.51%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.13%) Alteryx
10 3 (1.13%) Teradata
11 2 (0.75%) MicroStrategy
11 2 (0.75%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.75%) Snow
11 2 (0.75%) Workday
12 1 (0.38%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.38%) Murex
12 1 (0.38%) Remedy