Data Quality Contracts in the Thames Valley

Data Quality
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 111 131
Rank change year-on-year +19 +20 -26
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 38 34 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.44% 1.19% 1.01%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.22% 8.33% 6.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 23 26
10th Percentile £355 £470 £391
25th Percentile £425 £479 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -1.41% +12.11%
75th Percentile £488 £569 £668
90th Percentile £603 £666 £734
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -9.52% +1.94% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £24.43 - -
South East median hourly rate £24.43 £15.21 £20.07
% change year-on-year +60.62% -24.22% +6.90%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 412 408 531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.62% 14.26% 14.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 236 333
10th Percentile £198 £306 £220
25th Percentile £316 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £564 £575 £588
90th Percentile £600 £675 £638
South East median daily rate £475 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 19 16
10th Percentile £18.20 £15.80 £10.26
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.50 £11.93
Median hourly rate £27.50 £23.00 £17.76
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% +29.54% -15.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.45 £22.00
90th Percentile £69.11 £73.72 £46.93
South East median hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -5.17% +38.10% -23.11%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in the Thames Valley

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in the Thames Valley

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in the Thames Valley

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in the Thames Valley

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 31 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
Berkshire -12 18 £475 -13.64% 6
Buckinghamshire +34 15 £463 -1.60% 9
Oxfordshire +11 5 £450 - 4
Data Quality
South East

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (5.26%) SAS
2 1 (2.63%) Apache
2 1 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.63%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.63%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) SAP CO
1 1 (2.63%) SAP FI
1 1 (2.63%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (23.68%) Power Platform
2 4 (10.53%) Azure
2 4 (10.53%) Snowflake
3 3 (7.89%) AWS
4 2 (5.26%) Amazon S3
4 2 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.63%) dbt
5 1 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.63%) GitHub
5 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.63%) Serverless
5 1 (2.63%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.68%) Power BI
2 7 (18.42%) Tableau
3 4 (10.53%) Data Lake
3 4 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (5.26%) Big Data
4 2 (5.26%) Impala
4 2 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.63%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.63%) PowerCenter
5 1 (2.63%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (2.63%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) ERwin
2 1 (2.63%) JIRA
General
1 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.16%) Telecoms
3 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Finance
5 1 (2.63%) Banking
5 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (34.21%) Analyst
1 13 (34.21%) Data Analyst
2 5 (13.16%) Master Data Analyst
3 4 (10.53%) Developer
3 4 (10.53%) Informatica Developer
3 4 (10.53%) Lead
4 2 (5.26%) Business Data Analyst
4 2 (5.26%) Data Manager
4 2 (5.26%) Data Modeller
5 1 (2.63%) Architect
5 1 (2.63%) Business Manager
5 1 (2.63%) Coordinator
5 1 (2.63%) Data Architect
5 1 (2.63%) ETL Analyst
5 1 (2.63%) Migration Manager
5 1 (2.63%) Performance Manager
5 1 (2.63%) Project Analyst
5 1 (2.63%) SAP Data Manager
5 1 (2.63%) SAP Data Migration Manager
5 1 (2.63%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.63%) D3.js
1 1 (2.63%) PySpark
1 1 (2.63%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.63%) Biopharmaceutical
1 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
1 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
1 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (44.74%) Data Governance
2 10 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (26.32%) Data Analysis
3 9 (23.68%) CRM
3 9 (23.68%) Data Integration
3 9 (23.68%) Decision-Making
4 8 (21.05%) Business Development
4 8 (21.05%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 7 (18.42%) Data Architecture
5 7 (18.42%) Data Modelling
6 6 (15.79%) Architectural Design
6 6 (15.79%) Customer Requirements
6 6 (15.79%) Information Management
6 6 (15.79%) Master Data Management
6 6 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
6 6 (15.79%) Product Information Management
7 5 (13.16%) Data Lineage
7 5 (13.16%) ETL
7 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (13.16%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.05%) SQL
2 5 (13.16%) Python
3 1 (2.63%) Java
3 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.63%) R
3 1 (2.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (5.26%) Degree
2 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.63%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.63%) QA
Vendors
1 12 (31.58%) Informatica
2 6 (15.79%) Salesforce
3 3 (7.89%) Facebook
3 3 (7.89%) Instagram
4 2 (5.26%) Cloudera
4 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.63%) Databricks
5 1 (2.63%) SAP