Data Quality Contracts in England

Data Quality
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 158 218
Rank change year-on-year +46 +60 -35
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 725 805 979
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.99% 1.67% 1.39%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.15% 12.54% 10.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 535 683
10th Percentile £350 £350 £313
25th Percentile £450 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £644 £638
90th Percentile £804 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 18 22
10th Percentile £13.71 £17.69 £9.23
25th Percentile £15.39 £21.24 £10.74
Median hourly rate £21.12 £22.49 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +8.36% -0.72%
75th Percentile £42.50 £27.49 £25.96
90th Percentile £56.75 £55.29 £60.85
UK median hourly rate £15.81 £22.49 £18.50
% change year-on-year -29.69% +21.54% -11.69%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,125 6,421 9,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.09% 13.33% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,289 4,357 6,302
10th Percentile £300 £290 £290
25th Percentile £408 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.31% +8.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 215 265
10th Percentile £10.95 £15.63 £12.02
25th Percentile £13.18 £20.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +27.12% +40.48%
75th Percentile £45.00 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £68.75 £79.90 £69.52
UK median hourly rate £21.06 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -39.84% +7.69% +54.76%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in England

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in England

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in England

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in England

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Quality in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Quality in England

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 16 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
London +53 452 £575 +0.88% 191
North of England +38 82 £500 +5.26% 79
North West +32 65 £500 +12.68% 39
South East -8 65 £475 -9.52% 43
Midlands +43 53 £550 +37.50% 52
West Midlands +35 42 £600 +50.00% 33
East of England -5 32 £500 - 18
South West +2 26 £475 -8.21% 20
Yorkshire +16 18 £434 -14.06% 31
East Midlands +22 13 £422 -0.82% 19
North East +11 2 - - 10
Data Quality
UK

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 52 (7.17%) Apache Airflow
2 47 (6.48%) Apache
3 27 (3.72%) Apache Spark
4 23 (3.17%) SharePoint
5 10 (1.38%) Confluence
5 10 (1.38%) SAS
6 3 (0.41%) CMS
6 3 (0.41%) govService
7 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
Applications
1 54 (7.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.90%) MS Visio
3 19 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (1.79%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.55%) SPSS
8 2 (0.28%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.28%) Revit
Business Applications
1 19 (2.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.83%) SAP MDG
4 5 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.55%) Siebel CRM
6 3 (0.41%) ENOVIA
6 3 (0.41%) MIS ActiveH
6 3 (0.41%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.41%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.41%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.41%) SAP PLM
6 3 (0.41%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.28%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.28%) ResourceLink
7 2 (0.28%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.28%) Shopify
7 2 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.14%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 126 (17.38%) Azure
2 117 (16.14%) Power Platform
3 105 (14.48%) AWS
4 59 (8.14%) Snowflake
5 45 (6.21%) dbt
6 35 (4.83%) GCP
7 32 (4.41%) Azure Data Factory
8 25 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 24 (3.31%) Collibra
10 16 (2.21%) Microsoft Purview
11 13 (1.79%) Amazon S3
11 13 (1.79%) Azure Stack
12 12 (1.66%) Serverless
13 11 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (1.38%) Amazon Kinesis
14 10 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
14 10 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
14 10 (1.38%) Power Automate
15 9 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (1.24%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.24%) Internet
2 4 (0.55%) Intranet
3 1 (0.14%) DNS
3 1 (0.14%) Firewall
3 1 (0.14%) VLAN
3 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (19.72%) Data Warehouse
2 117 (16.14%) Power BI
3 77 (10.62%) Data Lake
4 56 (7.72%) Metadata
5 55 (7.59%) Tableau
6 53 (7.31%) Big Data
7 48 (6.62%) SQL Server
8 38 (5.24%) Amazon Athena
9 31 (4.28%) Apache Arrow
9 31 (4.28%) Apache Ignite
9 31 (4.28%) Dremio
10 27 (3.72%) NoSQL
11 24 (3.31%) Azure SQL Database
11 24 (3.31%) Data Mining
12 22 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 19 (2.62%) Relational Database
14 14 (1.93%) MySQL
14 14 (1.93%) Qlik Sense
14 14 (1.93%) Snowflake Schema
15 13 (1.79%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 28 (3.86%) ERwin
2 20 (2.76%) JIRA
3 15 (2.07%) Git
4 14 (1.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (0.69%) MLflow
6 4 (0.55%) Deequ
6 4 (0.55%) Visual Studio Team System
7 3 (0.41%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.41%) LSMW
8 2 (0.28%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.28%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.14%) GitLab
9 1 (0.14%) Poetry
9 1 (0.14%) RStudio
9 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 253 (34.90%) Social Skills
2 207 (28.55%) Finance
3 168 (23.17%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (8.97%) Banking
5 59 (8.14%) Public Sector
6 48 (6.62%) Front Office
7 40 (5.52%) Investment Banking
8 33 (4.55%) Retail
9 26 (3.59%) Marketing
10 24 (3.31%) Local Government
11 23 (3.17%) Pharmaceutical
12 20 (2.76%) Manufacturing
12 20 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (2.48%) Legal
13 18 (2.48%) Telecoms
14 15 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
15 14 (1.93%) Electronics
16 11 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 10 (1.38%) Law
18 9 (1.24%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 183 (25.24%) Analyst
2 120 (16.55%) Data Analyst
3 111 (15.31%) Data Engineer
4 99 (13.66%) Architect
5 81 (11.17%) Data Architect
6 73 (10.07%) Senior
7 71 (9.79%) Lead
8 46 (6.34%) Business Analyst
8 46 (6.34%) Developer
9 42 (5.79%) Data Manager
10 40 (5.52%) Consultant
11 30 (4.14%) AWS Engineer
12 28 (3.86%) Data Business Analyst
13 24 (3.31%) Senior Analyst
14 23 (3.17%) Data Quality Analyst
15 22 (3.03%) Data Consultant
16 21 (2.90%) Quality Analyst
17 19 (2.62%) Governance Analyst
18 18 (2.48%) AWS Software Engineer
18 18 (2.48%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (4.83%) Pandas
2 32 (4.41%) NumPy
2 32 (4.41%) SciPy
3 31 (4.28%) gRPC
3 31 (4.28%) Protocol Buffers
4 30 (4.14%) PySpark
5 25 (3.45%) JSON
5 25 (3.45%) REST
6 17 (2.34%) XML
7 11 (1.52%) HTML
7 11 (1.52%) Kafka
7 11 (1.52%) YAML
8 10 (1.38%) Apache Avro
8 10 (1.38%) JSON Schema
9 9 (1.24%) CSS
10 8 (1.10%) Middleware
11 7 (0.97%) SOAP
12 5 (0.69%) GraphQL
12 5 (0.69%) RESTful
12 5 (0.69%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 55 (7.59%) Management Information System
2 42 (5.79%) Data Structures
3 41 (5.66%) Derivative
4 40 (5.52%) Equities
5 37 (5.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 33 (4.55%) Fixed Income
6 33 (4.55%) Hedge funds
7 24 (3.31%) Reference Data
8 22 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
8 22 (3.03%) Product Ownership
9 21 (2.90%) NHS
10 20 (2.76%) CMDB
11 14 (1.93%) Wiki
12 12 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (1.52%) Virtual Team
14 10 (1.38%) Onboarding
15 8 (1.10%) Cloud Native
16 7 (0.97%) Algorithms
17 6 (0.83%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.93%) Unix
2 2 (0.28%) Linux
2 2 (0.28%) Windows
3 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (36.00%) Data Modelling
2 245 (33.79%) Data Governance
3 198 (27.31%) Data Management
4 181 (24.97%) Analytics
5 165 (22.76%) Business Intelligence
6 158 (21.79%) ETL
7 148 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
8 145 (20.00%) Agile
9 135 (18.62%) Migration
10 117 (16.14%) Data Migration
11 112 (15.45%) Data Analysis
12 100 (13.79%) Data Integration
13 97 (13.38%) Visualisation
14 95 (13.10%) Data Architecture
15 87 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
16 85 (11.72%) Data Pipeline
17 80 (11.03%) Data Cleansing
18 75 (10.34%) Decision-Making
19 68 (9.38%) Data Lineage
20 67 (9.24%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 240 (33.10%) SQL
2 180 (24.83%) Python
3 67 (9.24%) Java
4 49 (6.76%) JavaScript
5 38 (5.24%) TypeScript
6 29 (4.00%) Scala
7 17 (2.34%) T-SQL
8 14 (1.93%) C#
9 11 (1.52%) PowerShell
10 10 (1.38%) R
11 5 (0.69%) Apex Code
11 5 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.55%) Bash
12 4 (0.55%) Bicep
12 4 (0.55%) VBA
13 3 (0.41%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.28%) Perl
14 2 (0.28%) XPath
14 2 (0.28%) XQuery
15 1 (0.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 86 (11.86%) Degree
2 75 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 68 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 28 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.93%) Master's Degree
6 6 (0.83%) PMP
7 5 (0.69%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.55%) PhD
9 3 (0.41%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.41%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.28%) IBM Certification
11 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.14%) CISA
11 1 (0.14%) CISM
11 1 (0.14%) CISSP
11 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.14%) ECDL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (7.45%) QA
2 43 (5.93%) GDPR
3 12 (1.66%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.24%) SLA
5 7 (0.97%) PMO
6 5 (0.69%) GRC
7 4 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.41%) MiFID
9 2 (0.28%) EMIR
9 2 (0.28%) IFRS
9 2 (0.28%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 6 (0.83%) Docker
2 2 (0.28%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.28%) HDFS
3 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (1.52%) Terraform
2 6 (0.83%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.55%) Ansible
4 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.14%) Matomo
5 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 71 (9.79%) SAP
2 69 (9.52%) Informatica
3 63 (8.69%) Databricks
4 60 (8.28%) Microsoft
5 39 (5.38%) Oracle
6 29 (4.00%) Salesforce
7 17 (2.34%) Google
8 16 (2.21%) Alteryx
9 14 (1.93%) ServiceNow
9 14 (1.93%) Sparx
10 13 (1.79%) Talend
11 10 (1.38%) Facebook
12 8 (1.10%) Instagram
13 7 (0.97%) Dataiku
13 7 (0.97%) IBM
13 7 (0.97%) Palantir
13 7 (0.97%) Trillium
14 6 (0.83%) Foundry
15 5 (0.69%) Okta
15 5 (0.69%) Varonis