Data Quality Contracts

Data Quality
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 158 209
Rank change year-on-year +38 +51 -14
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 831 992 1,235
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.91% 1.66% 1.39%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.30% 12.43% 10.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 554 662 869
10th Percentile £350 £339 £318
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% -4.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £644 £638
90th Percentile £779 £742 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 16 29
10th Percentile £12.25 - £9.18
25th Percentile £14.13 £21.24 £10.49
Median hourly rate £16.34 £22.49 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.35% +21.54% -7.50%
75th Percentile £42.50 £29.69 £24.35
90th Percentile £54.55 £63.07 £54.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.79 £29.25 £17.50
% change year-on-year -46.02% +67.14% -3.51%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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 requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,250 7,982 11,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.34% 13.37% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,951 5,482 8,057
10th Percentile £295 £275 £290
25th Percentile £402 £409 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £619
90th Percentile £750 £738 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 383 225 301
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.21 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.70 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.00 £37.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% +33.93% +33.02%
75th Percentile £45.00 £62.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.38 £77.50 £67.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £36.25 £21.05
% change year-on-year -50.34% +72.21% -

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in the UK

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in the UK

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in the UK

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in the UK

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Quality over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Quality in the UK

Data Quality
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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
England +43 753 £550 +1.85% 346
London +39 448 £550 -3.51% 177
Work from Home +45 346 £535 -2.73% 142
UK excluding London +44 315 £500 - 177
North of England +40 92 £500 +17.65% 58
North West +31 70 £520 +23.81% 41
South East -7 68 £475 -9.52% 44
Midlands +50 60 £525 +34.62% 32
West Midlands +43 49 £550 +41.03% 19
East of England 0 38 £500 - 15
South West +4 29 £513 -0.97% 15
Yorkshire +25 21 £378 -25.15% 14
Scotland +36 19 £475 -5.00% 13
East Midlands +31 13 £422 -0.82% 12
Northern Ireland +13 8 - - 3
Wales +11 5 £525 +5.00% 5
North East +22 4 £466 +12.85% 4

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 47 (5.66%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (4.69%) Apache
3 30 (3.61%) Apache Spark
4 28 (3.37%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.44%) Confluence
6 11 (1.32%) SAS
7 3 (0.36%) CMS
7 3 (0.36%) govService
7 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.12%) Luigi
Applications
1 56 (6.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 21 (2.53%) MS Visio
3 19 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (1.68%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.48%) SPSS
7 2 (0.24%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.24%) Revit
Business Applications
1 26 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.84%) SAP MDG
3 7 (0.84%) Siebel CRM
4 5 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.48%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.36%) ENOVIA
6 3 (0.36%) MIS ActiveH
6 3 (0.36%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.36%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.36%) SAP PLM
6 3 (0.36%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.24%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.24%) Primavera
7 2 (0.24%) ResourceLink
7 2 (0.24%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.24%) SAP MDM
7 2 (0.24%) Shopify
7 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 144 (17.33%) Azure
2 133 (16.00%) Power Platform
3 112 (13.48%) AWS
4 55 (6.62%) Snowflake
5 41 (4.93%) dbt
6 40 (4.81%) GCP
7 31 (3.73%) Azure Data Factory
8 24 (2.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 24 (2.89%) Collibra
9 22 (2.65%) Amazon S3
10 20 (2.41%) Microsoft Purview
11 15 (1.81%) Azure Stack
11 15 (1.81%) Serverless
12 13 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (1.44%) Amazon Kinesis
14 11 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
14 11 (1.32%) Power Automate
15 10 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
16 9 (1.08%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.20%) Internet
2 4 (0.48%) Intranet
3 1 (0.12%) DNS
3 1 (0.12%) Firewall
3 1 (0.12%) VLAN
3 1 (0.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (19.74%) Data Warehouse
2 131 (15.76%) Power BI
3 69 (8.30%) Metadata
4 67 (8.06%) Big Data
5 66 (7.94%) Data Lake
6 58 (6.98%) SQL Server
7 52 (6.26%) Tableau
8 32 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
9 28 (3.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 27 (3.25%) NoSQL
11 22 (2.65%) Apache Arrow
11 22 (2.65%) Apache Ignite
11 22 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
11 22 (2.65%) Dremio
12 21 (2.53%) Data Mining
13 20 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
13 20 (2.41%) Hadoop
14 19 (2.29%) Relational Database
15 17 (2.05%) Snowflake Schema
16 14 (1.68%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 29 (3.49%) ERwin
2 25 (3.01%) JIRA
3 17 (2.05%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 16 (1.93%) Git
5 6 (0.72%) MLflow
6 5 (0.60%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.60%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.48%) Deequ
7 4 (0.48%) GitLab
7 4 (0.48%) Visual Studio Team System
8 3 (0.36%) LSMW
8 3 (0.36%) Poetry
8 3 (0.36%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.24%) Maven
9 2 (0.24%) NUnit
9 2 (0.24%) Selenium
9 2 (0.24%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.12%) RStudio
General
1 290 (34.90%) Social Skills
2 214 (25.75%) Finance
3 192 (23.10%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (8.18%) Public Sector
5 58 (6.98%) Banking
6 37 (4.45%) Front Office
7 33 (3.97%) Retail
8 32 (3.85%) Investment Banking
9 29 (3.49%) Legal
10 27 (3.25%) Pharmaceutical
11 26 (3.13%) Marketing
12 25 (3.01%) Manufacturing
12 25 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
13 22 (2.65%) Local Government
14 19 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
14 19 (2.29%) Telecoms
15 14 (1.68%) Electronics
15 14 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 11 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
17 10 (1.20%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 210 (25.27%) Analyst
2 144 (17.33%) Data Analyst
3 127 (15.28%) Data Engineer
4 110 (13.24%) Architect
5 90 (10.83%) Data Architect
6 79 (9.51%) Lead
7 74 (8.90%) Senior
8 57 (6.86%) Developer
9 52 (6.26%) Business Analyst
10 47 (5.66%) Data Manager
11 45 (5.42%) Consultant
12 33 (3.97%) Data Business Analyst
13 30 (3.61%) Senior Analyst
14 27 (3.25%) Data Quality Analyst
15 26 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
16 25 (3.01%) Quality Analyst
17 23 (2.77%) Data Consultant
18 20 (2.41%) Governance Analyst
19 18 (2.17%) Migration Analyst
19 18 (2.17%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (4.45%) PySpark
2 29 (3.49%) JSON
2 29 (3.49%) Pandas
3 27 (3.25%) REST
4 25 (3.01%) NumPy
4 25 (3.01%) SciPy
5 22 (2.65%) gRPC
5 22 (2.65%) Protocol Buffers
5 22 (2.65%) XML
6 13 (1.56%) Kafka
7 12 (1.44%) Apache Avro
7 12 (1.44%) HTML
7 12 (1.44%) YAML
8 10 (1.20%) JSON Schema
8 10 (1.20%) Middleware
9 9 (1.08%) CSS
10 7 (0.84%) Great Expectations
10 7 (0.84%) SOAP
11 6 (0.72%) .NET
11 6 (0.72%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 55 (6.62%) Management Information System
2 50 (6.02%) Data Structures
3 33 (3.97%) Derivative
4 31 (3.73%) Equities
5 28 (3.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 26 (3.13%) NHS
6 26 (3.13%) Reference Data
7 24 (2.89%) Data Protection Act
7 24 (2.89%) Product Ownership
8 22 (2.65%) Fixed Income
8 22 (2.65%) Hedge funds
9 21 (2.53%) CMDB
10 20 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (1.81%) Wiki
12 14 (1.68%) Freedom of Information
13 13 (1.56%) Virtual Team
14 12 (1.44%) Onboarding
15 11 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
16 10 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
17 9 (1.08%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.68%) Unix
2 8 (0.96%) Linux
3 2 (0.24%) AIX
3 2 (0.24%) Windows
4 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (36.46%) Data Modelling
2 276 (33.21%) Data Governance
3 220 (26.47%) Data Management
4 193 (23.23%) Analytics
5 183 (22.02%) ETL
6 177 (21.30%) Business Intelligence
7 170 (20.46%) Problem-Solving
8 148 (17.81%) Migration
9 142 (17.09%) Agile
10 126 (15.16%) Data Analysis
10 126 (15.16%) Data Migration
11 115 (13.84%) Data Integration
12 105 (12.64%) Stakeholder Management
12 105 (12.64%) Visualisation
13 100 (12.03%) Data Architecture
14 90 (10.83%) Data Pipeline
15 82 (9.87%) Data Cleansing
15 82 (9.87%) Decision-Making
16 78 (9.39%) Data Strategy
16 78 (9.39%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 259 (31.17%) SQL
2 185 (22.26%) Python
3 63 (7.58%) Java
4 41 (4.93%) JavaScript
5 31 (3.73%) Scala
6 29 (3.49%) TypeScript
7 16 (1.93%) C#
8 15 (1.81%) T-SQL
9 12 (1.44%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.08%) R
11 6 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (0.72%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.60%) Apex Code
12 5 (0.60%) Bicep
12 5 (0.60%) Perl
12 5 (0.60%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.36%) VBA
14 2 (0.24%) Bash
14 2 (0.24%) XPath
14 2 (0.24%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 102 (12.27%) Degree
2 95 (11.43%) Security Cleared
3 89 (10.71%) SC Cleared
4 31 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (1.81%) Master's Degree
6 6 (0.72%) HNC
6 6 (0.72%) NVQ Level 3
7 5 (0.60%) PMP
8 4 (0.48%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (0.48%) PhD
9 3 (0.36%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.36%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.24%) IBM Certification
11 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.12%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.12%) ECDL
11 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (9.27%) QA
2 48 (5.78%) GDPR
3 12 (1.44%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.20%) SLA
5 9 (1.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (0.84%) GRC
6 7 (0.84%) PMO
7 4 (0.48%) MiFID
8 3 (0.36%) EMIR
9 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.24%) IFRS
9 2 (0.24%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.24%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 8 (0.96%) Docker
2 2 (0.24%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.24%) HDFS
2 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (1.44%) Terraform
2 8 (0.96%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.48%) Ansible
4 3 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.24%) Data Guard
5 2 (0.24%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.12%) Matomo
6 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 82 (9.87%) SAP
2 78 (9.39%) Informatica
3 70 (8.42%) Microsoft
4 65 (7.82%) Databricks
5 51 (6.14%) Oracle
6 30 (3.61%) Salesforce
7 19 (2.29%) Talend
8 18 (2.17%) Google
9 16 (1.93%) Alteryx
9 16 (1.93%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.68%) Sparx
11 10 (1.20%) Facebook
12 8 (0.96%) Instagram
13 7 (0.84%) Dataiku
13 7 (0.84%) IBM
13 7 (0.84%) Palantir
13 7 (0.84%) Siebel
13 7 (0.84%) Trillium
14 6 (0.72%) Ariba
14 6 (0.72%) Foundry