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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 149 200
Rank change year-on-year +48 +51 -3
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 320 417 600
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.18% 1.70% 1.35%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.21% 13.94% 10.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 289 461
10th Percentile £346 £350 £313
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £725 £638 £625
90th Percentile £850 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 8
10th Percentile £10.35 £30.50 £9.92
25th Percentile £14.13 £48.13 £10.35
Median hourly rate £17.63 £80.00 £10.49
Median % change year-on-year -77.96% +662.63% -58.46%
75th Percentile £23.38 £86.25 £33.38
90th Percentile £46.38 £88.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £15.81 £22.49 £19.00
% change year-on-year -29.69% +18.34% -9.52%

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 2,104 2,992 5,912
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.31% 12.20% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,455 2,174 4,205
10th Percentile £304 £325 £313
25th Percentile £414 £420 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% +1.96% +7.37%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £606
90th Percentile £750 £737 £700
UK median daily rate £509 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -3.05% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 68 130
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.20 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.00 £23.02 £20.00
Median hourly rate £23.75 £39.60 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.03% -11.01% +128.21%
75th Percentile £48.75 £60.94 £54.00
90th Percentile £66.25 £71.98 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.12 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -39.67% +16.67% +42.86%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 40 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (11.25%) Apache
3 10 (3.13%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.50%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.56%) Confluence
6 2 (0.63%) CMS
7 1 (0.31%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (4.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.56%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.63%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.63%) Revit
5 2 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.94%) MIS ActiveH
3 3 (0.94%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.63%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.63%) ResourceLink
4 2 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.63%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.63%) Shopify
4 2 (0.63%) Siebel CRM
5 1 (0.31%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.31%) SAP GTS
5 1 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 60 (18.75%) AWS
2 54 (16.88%) Azure
3 43 (13.44%) dbt
3 43 (13.44%) Snowflake
4 38 (11.88%) Power Platform
5 18 (5.63%) GCP
6 11 (3.44%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (2.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 8 (2.50%) Azure Stack
8 8 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (1.88%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.25%) Collibra
12 3 (0.94%) Azure API Management
12 3 (0.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (0.94%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (0.94%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (0.94%) Matillion
12 3 (0.94%) NuGet
12 3 (0.94%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.31%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (19.38%) Data Warehouse
2 42 (13.13%) Data Lake
3 38 (11.88%) Power BI
4 34 (10.63%) Amazon Athena
4 34 (10.63%) Apache Arrow
4 34 (10.63%) Apache Ignite
4 34 (10.63%) Dremio
5 27 (8.44%) Metadata
6 24 (7.50%) Tableau
7 20 (6.25%) Big Data
8 19 (5.94%) SQL Server
9 14 (4.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (3.13%) Snowflake Schema
11 9 (2.81%) Relational Database
12 8 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (2.50%) BigQuery
13 7 (2.19%) Data Mining
13 7 (2.19%) Parquet
14 6 (1.88%) NoSQL
15 5 (1.56%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 12 (3.75%) ERwin
2 8 (2.50%) JIRA
3 7 (2.19%) Git
4 6 (1.88%) MLflow
5 2 (0.63%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.63%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.63%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.31%) Deequ
6 1 (0.31%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.31%) GitLab
6 1 (0.31%) RStudio
6 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio
General
1 112 (35.00%) Finance
2 111 (34.69%) Social Skills
3 73 (22.81%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (16.88%) Banking
5 44 (13.75%) Front Office
6 41 (12.81%) Investment Banking
7 26 (8.13%) Public Sector
8 15 (4.69%) Retail
9 13 (4.06%) Legal
10 12 (3.75%) Manufacturing
11 10 (3.13%) Marketing
11 10 (3.13%) Telecoms
12 8 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (2.19%) Electronics
14 5 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (1.25%) Financial Institution
15 4 (1.25%) Law
15 4 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (1.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 68 (21.25%) Analyst
2 51 (15.94%) Data Engineer
3 43 (13.44%) Architect
4 41 (12.81%) Data Analyst
5 38 (11.88%) Data Architect
5 38 (11.88%) Lead
6 36 (11.25%) Senior
7 25 (7.81%) AWS Engineer
8 23 (7.19%) Developer
9 21 (6.56%) Business Analyst
10 20 (6.25%) AWS Software Engineer
10 20 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
10 20 (6.25%) Software Engineer
11 18 (5.63%) Consultant
12 16 (5.00%) Technical Leader
13 11 (3.44%) Data Business Analyst
13 11 (3.44%) Lead Data Engineer
13 11 (3.44%) Python Engineer
14 10 (3.13%) Java Engineer
14 10 (3.13%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (10.94%) Pandas
2 34 (10.63%) gRPC
2 34 (10.63%) NumPy
2 34 (10.63%) Protocol Buffers
2 34 (10.63%) SciPy
3 14 (4.38%) PySpark
4 12 (3.75%) JSON
4 12 (3.75%) REST
5 10 (3.13%) XML
6 7 (2.19%) Apache Avro
7 4 (1.25%) JSON Schema
7 4 (1.25%) Middleware
7 4 (1.25%) YAML
8 3 (0.94%) .NET
8 3 (0.94%) .NET Core
8 3 (0.94%) EDI
8 3 (0.94%) GraphQL
8 3 (0.94%) SOAP
9 2 (0.63%) Node.js
9 2 (0.63%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 40 (12.50%) Derivative
2 38 (11.88%) Equities
3 34 (10.63%) Fixed Income
3 34 (10.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 34 (10.63%) Hedge funds
4 16 (5.00%) Data Structures
5 13 (4.06%) Reference Data
6 12 (3.75%) Management Information System
7 10 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (3.13%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.81%) Wiki
9 8 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (2.19%) NHS
11 6 (1.88%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.56%) CMDB
12 5 (1.56%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.56%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.56%) Unix
2 3 (0.94%) Linux
3 2 (0.63%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (35.63%) Data Modelling
2 113 (35.31%) Data Governance
3 84 (26.25%) Data Management
4 81 (25.31%) Agile
5 79 (24.69%) Analytics
6 65 (20.31%) ETL
7 64 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
8 61 (19.06%) Problem-Solving
9 49 (15.31%) Migration
10 48 (15.00%) Data Integration
10 48 (15.00%) Data Migration
11 45 (14.06%) Software Engineering
12 44 (13.75%) Asset Management
13 42 (13.13%) Data Analysis
14 41 (12.81%) Stakeholder Management
15 39 (12.19%) Data Architecture
16 37 (11.56%) Data Cleansing
16 37 (11.56%) Investment Management
17 36 (11.25%) Visualisation
18 34 (10.63%) Greeks
Programming Languages
1 92 (28.75%) Python
2 87 (27.19%) SQL
3 47 (14.69%) Java
4 40 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 38 (11.88%) TypeScript
6 11 (3.44%) Scala
7 7 (2.19%) C#
8 5 (1.56%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.25%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.94%) Bash
10 3 (0.94%) Bicep
10 3 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.63%) R
11 2 (0.63%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.31%) HiveQL
12 1 (0.31%) Perl
12 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.31%) Tcl
12 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (11.56%) Degree
2 36 (11.25%) Security Cleared
3 35 (10.94%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.88%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.63%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.19%) GDPR
2 20 (6.25%) QA
3 7 (2.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (1.25%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.94%) PMO
6 2 (0.63%) GRC
6 2 (0.63%) IFRS
6 2 (0.63%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.63%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (1.25%) Docker
2 3 (0.94%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.31%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (1.25%) Ansible
1 4 (1.25%) Kubernetes
1 4 (1.25%) Terraform
2 2 (0.63%) Data Guard
2 2 (0.63%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.31%) Matomo
Vendors
1 34 (10.63%) Informatica
2 24 (7.50%) Databricks
3 23 (7.19%) Microsoft
4 18 (5.63%) Oracle
4 18 (5.63%) SAP
5 10 (3.13%) Google
6 9 (2.81%) Salesforce
6 9 (2.81%) Sparx
7 8 (2.50%) Facebook
8 6 (1.88%) Instagram
9 3 (0.94%) Ariba
9 3 (0.94%) Foundry
9 3 (0.94%) NEC
9 3 (0.94%) Palantir
9 3 (0.94%) Phenom
9 3 (0.94%) Splunk
9 3 (0.94%) Teradata
10 2 (0.63%) Adobe
10 2 (0.63%) Liquidlogic
10 2 (0.63%) Siebel