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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 165 221
Rank change year-on-year +45 +56 -26
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 812 888 1,163
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.89% 1.58% 1.33%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.55% 11.71% 10.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 543 596 817
10th Percentile £350 £350 £314
25th Percentile £443 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £638
90th Percentile £800 £719 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 18 23
10th Percentile £12.25 £19.26 £9.92
25th Percentile £14.13 £21.24 £10.49
Median hourly rate £15.80 £22.49 £21.17
Median % change year-on-year -29.73% +6.21% -2.67%
75th Percentile £37.98 £30.31 £26.50
90th Percentile £52.35 £55.29 £61.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.79 £23.11 £15.35
% change year-on-year -31.66% +50.52% -15.37%

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 5,992 7,585 11,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.92% 13.53% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,782 5,156 7,966
10th Percentile £280 £289 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +1.35% +9.05%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £486 £454
% change year-on-year -2.26% +7.17% +6.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 406 244 308
10th Percentile £10.98 £13.29 £12.05
25th Percentile £13.20 £18.65 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.42 £37.50 £28.12
Median % change year-on-year -40.21% +33.38% +33.88%
75th Percentile £47.81 £63.23 £49.44
90th Percentile £69.44 £77.50 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.97 £36.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year -47.67% +64.77% +6.41%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +41 738 £550 +4.76% 451
London +64 475 £575 +3.60% 204
Work from Home +58 327 £550 +4.27% 172
UK excluding London +19 269 £488 -2.50% 250
North of England +35 81 £500 +5.26% 90
South East -12 63 £475 -9.52% 46
North West +31 62 £500 +8.11% 47
Midlands +35 49 £550 +31.34% 44
West Midlands +19 39 £550 +33.74% 25
East of England -10 31 £500 +2.56% 17
South West 0 24 £463 -7.50% 32
Yorkshire +21 20 £378 -24.40% 32
Scotland +31 12 £475 -5.00% 10
East Midlands +21 12 £422 -38.69% 19
Northern Ireland +6 8 - - 9
Wales +15 5 £525 +5.00% 4
North East +11 2 - - 12

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 57 (7.02%) Apache
2 55 (6.77%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (4.19%) Apache Spark
4 22 (2.71%) SharePoint
5 10 (1.23%) Confluence
5 10 (1.23%) SAS
6 3 (0.37%) CMS
6 3 (0.37%) govService
7 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.12%) IIS
8 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.12%) nginx
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 54 (6.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.46%) MS Visio
3 18 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (1.35%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.62%) SPSS
8 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.25%) Revit
Business Applications
1 21 (2.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.99%) SAP MDG
4 5 (0.62%) Siebel CRM
5 3 (0.37%) ENOVIA
5 3 (0.37%) MIS ActiveH
5 3 (0.37%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.37%) SAP PLM
5 3 (0.37%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.25%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.25%) ResourceLink
6 2 (0.25%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.25%) Shopify
6 2 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.12%) Lorenzo
7 1 (0.12%) OPENHousing
7 1 (0.12%) SystmOne
7 1 (0.12%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 151 (18.60%) Azure
2 130 (16.01%) Power Platform
3 127 (15.64%) AWS
4 72 (8.87%) Snowflake
5 52 (6.40%) dbt
6 39 (4.80%) GCP
7 33 (4.06%) Azure Data Factory
7 33 (4.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 21 (2.59%) Collibra
9 20 (2.46%) Amazon S3
10 18 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
11 17 (2.09%) Serverless
12 15 (1.85%) Azure Stack
13 13 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
15 11 (1.35%) Power Automate
16 10 (1.23%) Azure API Management
17 9 (1.11%) Amazon Kinesis
18 8 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.99%) Internet
2 3 (0.37%) 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 (20.20%) Data Warehouse
2 130 (16.01%) Power BI
3 86 (10.59%) Data Lake
4 63 (7.76%) Big Data
5 61 (7.51%) Tableau
6 59 (7.27%) Metadata
7 46 (5.67%) SQL Server
8 42 (5.17%) Amazon Athena
9 37 (4.56%) Apache Arrow
9 37 (4.56%) Apache Ignite
9 37 (4.56%) Dremio
10 30 (3.69%) NoSQL
11 24 (2.96%) Azure SQL Database
11 24 (2.96%) Data Mining
11 24 (2.96%) Relational Database
12 23 (2.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 21 (2.59%) Snowflake Schema
14 19 (2.34%) Hadoop
15 16 (1.97%) MySQL
15 16 (1.97%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 23 (2.83%) ERwin
2 22 (2.71%) JIRA
3 18 (2.22%) Git
4 15 (1.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 6 (0.74%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.74%) MLflow
6 4 (0.49%) Deequ
6 4 (0.49%) GitLab
6 4 (0.49%) LSMW
6 4 (0.49%) Postman
6 4 (0.49%) Visual Studio Team System
7 3 (0.37%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.37%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.25%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.25%) Maven
8 2 (0.25%) NUnit
8 2 (0.25%) Selenium
8 2 (0.25%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.12%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.12%) RStudio
General
1 277 (34.11%) Social Skills
2 221 (27.22%) Finance
3 185 (22.78%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (9.61%) Banking
5 61 (7.51%) Public Sector
6 57 (7.02%) Front Office
7 49 (6.03%) Investment Banking
8 30 (3.69%) Legal
9 26 (3.20%) Retail
10 22 (2.71%) Local Government
11 21 (2.59%) Marketing
11 21 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (2.46%) Pharmaceutical
13 16 (1.97%) Manufacturing
14 13 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (1.48%) Telecoms
16 11 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 11 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
17 10 (1.23%) Financial Institution
17 10 (1.23%) Law
Job Titles
1 205 (25.25%) Analyst
2 132 (16.26%) Data Analyst
3 122 (15.02%) Data Engineer
4 103 (12.68%) Architect
5 83 (10.22%) Data Architect
6 82 (10.10%) Senior
7 73 (8.99%) Lead
8 65 (8.00%) Developer
9 47 (5.79%) Business Analyst
10 46 (5.67%) Consultant
11 36 (4.43%) AWS Engineer
12 33 (4.06%) Data Manager
13 29 (3.57%) Data Business Analyst
14 28 (3.45%) Senior Analyst
15 26 (3.20%) Data Consultant
16 25 (3.08%) Data Quality Analyst
17 23 (2.83%) Quality Analyst
18 22 (2.71%) AWS Software Engineer
18 22 (2.71%) Senior Software Engineer
18 22 (2.71%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (5.17%) Pandas
2 39 (4.80%) NumPy
2 39 (4.80%) PySpark
3 37 (4.56%) gRPC
3 37 (4.56%) Protocol Buffers
3 37 (4.56%) SciPy
4 29 (3.57%) JSON
5 27 (3.33%) REST
6 23 (2.83%) XML
7 14 (1.72%) Apache Avro
7 14 (1.72%) Kafka
8 11 (1.35%) HTML
9 10 (1.23%) JSON Schema
9 10 (1.23%) YAML
10 9 (1.11%) CSS
10 9 (1.11%) Middleware
11 7 (0.86%) SOAP
12 6 (0.74%) .NET
13 5 (0.62%) RESTful
13 5 (0.62%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 60 (7.39%) Management Information System
2 48 (5.91%) Derivative
3 44 (5.42%) Data Structures
4 43 (5.30%) Equities
4 43 (5.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 41 (5.05%) Fixed Income
5 41 (5.05%) Hedge funds
6 28 (3.45%) Product Ownership
7 27 (3.33%) NHS
8 26 (3.20%) Reference Data
9 25 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
10 20 (2.46%) CMDB
11 15 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (1.48%) Freedom of Information
15 11 (1.35%) Virtual Team
16 10 (1.23%) Onboarding
17 8 (0.99%) Cloud Native
17 8 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.35%) Unix
2 6 (0.74%) Linux
3 2 (0.25%) AIX
3 2 (0.25%) Windows
4 1 (0.12%) VMS
4 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (36.21%) Data Modelling
2 253 (31.16%) Data Governance
3 209 (25.74%) Data Management
4 203 (25.00%) Analytics
5 177 (21.80%) ETL
6 171 (21.06%) Business Intelligence
7 165 (20.32%) Agile
8 164 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
9 138 (17.00%) Migration
10 123 (15.15%) Data Analysis
11 116 (14.29%) Data Migration
12 110 (13.55%) Data Integration
13 105 (12.93%) Visualisation
14 95 (11.70%) Data Pipeline
14 95 (11.70%) Stakeholder Management
15 93 (11.45%) Data Architecture
16 92 (11.33%) Data Cleansing
17 74 (9.11%) Computer Science
17 74 (9.11%) Decision-Making
18 70 (8.62%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 263 (32.39%) SQL
2 211 (25.99%) Python
3 80 (9.85%) Java
4 58 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 45 (5.54%) TypeScript
6 31 (3.82%) Scala
7 16 (1.97%) C#
7 16 (1.97%) T-SQL
8 11 (1.35%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.23%) R
10 7 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (0.86%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.62%) Apex Code
11 5 (0.62%) Perl
12 4 (0.49%) Bash
12 4 (0.49%) Bicep
12 4 (0.49%) VBA
13 2 (0.25%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.25%) Tcl
13 2 (0.25%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 105 (12.93%) Degree
2 92 (11.33%) Security Cleared
3 83 (10.22%) SC Cleared
4 38 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.22%) Master's Degree
6 6 (0.74%) DV Cleared
6 6 (0.74%) HNC
6 6 (0.74%) NVQ Level 3
6 6 (0.74%) PMP
7 4 (0.49%) Numerate Degree
7 4 (0.49%) PhD
8 3 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.25%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.25%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.25%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.12%) CRISC
10 1 (0.12%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (8.25%) QA
2 42 (5.17%) GDPR
3 12 (1.48%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 8 (0.99%) SLA
6 7 (0.86%) GRC
6 7 (0.86%) PMO
7 3 (0.37%) MiFID
8 2 (0.25%) EMIR
8 2 (0.25%) IFRS
8 2 (0.25%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.25%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.12%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (1.48%) Docker
2 3 (0.37%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (0.25%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.25%) HDFS
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (1.72%) Terraform
2 8 (0.99%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.49%) Ansible
3 4 (0.49%) Podman
4 3 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.25%) Data Guard
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.12%) Matomo
6 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 74 (9.11%) SAP
2 67 (8.25%) Informatica
3 65 (8.00%) Databricks
3 65 (8.00%) Microsoft
4 48 (5.91%) Oracle
5 31 (3.82%) Salesforce
6 18 (2.22%) Google
7 16 (1.97%) Alteryx
8 15 (1.85%) ServiceNow
9 14 (1.72%) Talend
10 10 (1.23%) Facebook
11 8 (0.99%) Instagram
11 8 (0.99%) Sparx
12 7 (0.86%) Dataiku
12 7 (0.86%) IBM
12 7 (0.86%) Palantir
12 7 (0.86%) Trillium
13 6 (0.74%) Foundry
14 5 (0.62%) Autodesk
14 5 (0.62%) Siebel