Data Quality Contracts in the North West

Data Quality
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Data Quality skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Quality over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 103 145
Rank change year-on-year +26 +42 -19
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 59 47 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.11% 1.56% 0.92%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.29% 10.44% 6.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 32 28
10th Percentile £400 £288 £161
25th Percentile £446 £306 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £400
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +15.63% -20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £478
90th Percentile £638 £649 £547
England median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - £9.37
25th Percentile £14.13 - £9.58
Median hourly rate £14.27 - £9.92
75th Percentile £41.57 - -
90th Percentile £57.88 - -
England median hourly rate £21.00 £22.49 £23.68
% change year-on-year -6.60% -5.03% +12.74%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North West

Data Quality falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 444 450 576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.90% 14.94% 14.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 288 426
10th Percentile £325 £302 £208
25th Percentile £425 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +2.70% +3.93%
75th Percentile £598 £575 £588
90th Percentile £694 £650 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 35 35
10th Percentile - £19.00 £10.50
25th Percentile £10.95 £29.65 £12.02
Median hourly rate £12.00 £37.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -68.00% -25.74% +220.63%
75th Percentile £30.44 £47.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £43.75 £74.80 £77.50
England median hourly rate £24.18 £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -43.11% +54.55% +33.92%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in the North West

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in the North West

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in the North West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in the North West

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in the North West

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Quality in the North West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Quality in the North West

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Manchester +28 34 £550 +15.79% 23
Cheshire -7 18 £475 +35.71% 6
Cumbria - 6 £493 - 1
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 6 (10.17%) Apache Spark
1 6 (10.17%) SAS
2 1 (1.69%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.39%) ResourceLink
3 1 (1.69%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.69%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.69%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 12 (20.34%) Azure
2 11 (18.64%) Power Platform
3 10 (16.95%) Snowflake
4 6 (10.17%) AWS
4 6 (10.17%) Azure Stack
4 6 (10.17%) Collibra
4 6 (10.17%) Microsoft Purview
4 6 (10.17%) Power Automate
5 3 (5.08%) Amazon S3
5 3 (5.08%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.39%) GCP
7 1 (1.69%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (1.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.69%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (25.42%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (18.64%) Power BI
3 10 (16.95%) Data Lake
4 8 (13.56%) SQL Server
5 7 (11.86%) Snowflake Schema
6 6 (10.17%) Ataccama
6 6 (10.17%) Hadoop
6 6 (10.17%) Qlik Sense
7 5 (8.47%) Data Mining
8 4 (6.78%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (5.08%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (5.08%) Big Data
9 3 (5.08%) HBase
9 3 (5.08%) MySQL
9 3 (5.08%) SAP BW
9 3 (5.08%) SAP Data Services
10 2 (3.39%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (3.39%) Delta Lake
10 2 (3.39%) Metadata
11 1 (1.69%) Presto
Development Applications
1 6 (10.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (5.08%) LSMW
General
1 37 (62.71%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.64%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (16.95%) Pharmaceutical
4 5 (8.47%) Finance
4 5 (8.47%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.39%) Banking
5 2 (3.39%) Legal
5 2 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.39%) Retail
6 1 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Law
6 1 (1.69%) Local Government
6 1 (1.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 16 (27.12%) Analyst
2 13 (22.03%) Architect
3 12 (20.34%) Data Analyst
3 12 (20.34%) Senior
4 11 (18.64%) Lead
5 9 (15.25%) Data Architect
5 9 (15.25%) Data Quality Analyst
5 9 (15.25%) QA Analyst
5 9 (15.25%) Quality Analyst
5 9 (15.25%) Senior Analyst
6 8 (13.56%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
6 8 (13.56%) Senior QA Analyst
6 8 (13.56%) Senior Quality Analyst
7 7 (11.86%) Data Engineer
8 6 (10.17%) Software Asset Manager
8 6 (10.17%) Software Manager
9 3 (5.08%) AWS Data Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Senior Data Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.17%) JSON
1 6 (10.17%) REST
1 6 (10.17%) XML
2 3 (5.08%) BAPI
2 3 (5.08%) Kafka
3 2 (3.39%) React Native
4 1 (1.69%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.86%) CMDB
1 7 (11.86%) Reference Data
2 6 (10.17%) Data Structures
2 6 (10.17%) Management Information System
2 6 (10.17%) Product Ownership
2 6 (10.17%) Virtual Team
3 4 (6.78%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (5.08%) NHS
5 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.69%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.69%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (1.69%) Life Science
6 1 (1.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (45.76%) Data Governance
2 21 (35.59%) Data Management
3 18 (30.51%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (28.81%) Data Modelling
5 15 (25.42%) Data Architecture
6 14 (23.73%) Data Cleansing
7 13 (22.03%) Business Intelligence
7 13 (22.03%) Data Analysis
8 11 (18.64%) Agile
8 11 (18.64%) Analytics
8 11 (18.64%) Data Lineage
8 11 (18.64%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (15.25%) Mentoring
9 9 (15.25%) Quality Management
10 8 (13.56%) Data Pipeline
10 8 (13.56%) Data Strategy
10 8 (13.56%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 8 (13.56%) ETL
11 7 (11.86%) Data Protection
11 7 (11.86%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 19 (32.20%) SQL
2 15 (25.42%) Python
3 5 (8.47%) Java
4 4 (6.78%) Scala
5 2 (3.39%) Perl
6 1 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (20.34%) SC Cleared
1 12 (20.34%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.86%) Degree
3 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.64%) QA
2 2 (3.39%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.39%) GDPR
Vendors
1 14 (23.73%) SAP
2 6 (10.17%) Alteryx
2 6 (10.17%) Dataiku
2 6 (10.17%) Trillium
3 5 (8.47%) Informatica
4 4 (6.78%) Facebook
5 3 (5.08%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.39%) Databricks
6 2 (3.39%) Google
6 2 (3.39%) Instagram
7 1 (1.69%) BMC
7 1 (1.69%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.69%) Liquidlogic
7 1 (1.69%) Splunk
7 1 (1.69%) Teradata