Data Quality Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Quality
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 167 185 217
Rank change year-on-year +18 +32 -29
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 270 283 370
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.27% 1.25% 1.22%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.03% 8.43% 8.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 198 266
10th Percentile £325 £288 £238
25th Percentile £419 £401 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +7.24%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £592
90th Percentile £713 £671 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 4 14
10th Percentile £12.20 £15.06 £9.92
25th Percentile £12.25 £15.16 £10.49
Median hourly rate £15.79 £23.11 £15.35
Median % change year-on-year -31.66% +50.52% -18.49%
75th Percentile £21.64 £35.28 £23.11
90th Percentile £42.50 £40.29 £25.75
UK median hourly rate £15.79 £22.49 £22.50
% change year-on-year -29.78% -0.07% -8.16%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,989 3,358 4,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.02% 14.80% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,712 2,194 3,095
10th Percentile £250 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £363 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £486 £455
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +6.81% +7.06%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £680 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 198 198
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.16 £11.50
25th Percentile £12.72 £18.02 £15.13
Median hourly rate £19.18 £37.50 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -48.87% +67.45% +7.67%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.69 £48.71
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.18 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £37.75 £27.73
% change year-on-year -36.95% +36.13% +32.05%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in the UK excluding London

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in the UK excluding London

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in the UK excluding London

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in the UK excluding London

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Quality in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Quality in the UK excluding London

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
North of England +33 79 £489 +2.89% 79
South East -4 63 £475 -9.52% 43
North West +26 59 £500 +8.11% 45
Midlands +34 53 £538 +26.47% 39
West Midlands +28 43 £550 +33.33% 20
East of England -9 29 £500 -4.76% 9
South West -2 25 £450 -10.00% 31
Yorkshire +19 21 £378 -24.40% 25
Scotland +43 12 £475 -5.00% 10
East Midlands +16 12 £422 -38.69% 17
Northern Ireland +1 8 - - 7
Wales +18 5 £525 +5.00% 7
North East +8 2 - - 10
Data Quality
UK

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (3.70%) SAS
2 9 (3.33%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.48%) Confluence
4 3 (1.11%) Apache
4 3 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.11%) CMS
4 3 (1.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 21 (7.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.59%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.11%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.37%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 8 (2.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.11%) ENOVIA
2 3 (1.11%) SAP PLM
2 3 (1.11%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.74%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.74%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.74%) ResourceLink
3 2 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.74%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.74%) SAP MDG
3 2 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.37%) Lorenzo
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 53 (19.63%) Power Platform
2 37 (13.70%) Azure
3 31 (11.48%) AWS
4 22 (8.15%) Snowflake
5 11 (4.07%) Amazon S3
6 9 (3.33%) Power Automate
7 7 (2.59%) Collibra
7 7 (2.59%) GCP
8 6 (2.22%) Azure Stack
8 6 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.48%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (1.48%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (1.48%) dbt
10 4 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.48%) GitHub
10 4 (1.48%) iPaaS
11 3 (1.11%) Amazon MSK
11 3 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.74%) DAB
2 1 (0.37%) Internet
2 1 (0.37%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (19.63%) Power BI
2 49 (18.15%) Data Warehouse
3 30 (11.11%) Tableau
4 18 (6.67%) Data Lake
5 17 (6.30%) SQL Server
6 15 (5.56%) Metadata
7 13 (4.81%) Big Data
8 12 (4.44%) Data Mining
9 10 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (3.70%) Hadoop
9 10 (3.70%) Qlik Sense
10 9 (3.33%) MySQL
10 9 (3.33%) Snowflake Schema
10 9 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (2.59%) Ataccama
12 6 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (2.22%) Relational Database
13 5 (1.85%) BusinessObjects
13 5 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
14 4 (1.48%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 10 (3.70%) JIRA
2 8 (2.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (1.48%) ERwin
3 4 (1.48%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.48%) LSMW
4 3 (1.11%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.74%) Maven
5 2 (0.74%) NUnit
5 2 (0.74%) Selenium
6 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.37%) GitLab
General
1 102 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 52 (19.26%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (17.78%) Finance
4 22 (8.15%) Public Sector
5 17 (6.30%) Pharmaceutical
6 13 (4.81%) Legal
6 13 (4.81%) Local Government
7 12 (4.44%) Retail
8 11 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.59%) Law
9 7 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.22%) Automotive
10 6 (2.22%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.85%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.48%) Billing
12 4 (1.48%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.11%) Banking
13 3 (1.11%) Electronics
13 3 (1.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 76 (28.15%) Analyst
2 52 (19.26%) Data Analyst
3 30 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 29 (10.74%) Architect
5 27 (10.00%) Lead
6 23 (8.52%) Data Architect
7 22 (8.15%) Developer
8 21 (7.78%) Senior
9 15 (5.56%) Data Manager
10 14 (5.19%) Data Quality Analyst
10 14 (5.19%) Quality Analyst
11 13 (4.81%) Senior Analyst
12 10 (3.70%) AWS Data Engineer
12 10 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (3.70%) QA Analyst
13 9 (3.33%) Administrator
13 9 (3.33%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
13 9 (3.33%) Senior QA Analyst
13 9 (3.33%) Senior Quality Analyst
14 8 (2.96%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.93%) PySpark
2 9 (3.33%) HTML
2 9 (3.33%) REST
3 6 (2.22%) CSS
3 6 (2.22%) JSON
3 6 (2.22%) XML
4 4 (1.48%) Apache Avro
4 4 (1.48%) BAPI
4 4 (1.48%) Kafka
5 3 (1.11%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.11%) LDAP
5 3 (1.11%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (1.11%) Middleware
5 3 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (1.11%) RESTful
5 3 (1.11%) Visualforce
6 2 (0.74%) .NET
6 2 (0.74%) React Native
7 1 (0.37%) D3.js
7 1 (0.37%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 41 (15.19%) Management Information System
2 19 (7.04%) Legacy Systems
2 19 (7.04%) NHS
3 16 (5.93%) Data Structures
4 10 (3.70%) CMDB
5 9 (3.33%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.59%) Reference Data
7 6 (2.22%) Freedom of Information
7 6 (2.22%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.48%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.48%) e-Health
8 4 (1.48%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.11%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.74%) Housing Association
11 1 (0.37%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.37%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.37%) Industry 4.0
11 1 (0.37%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.59%) Unix
2 6 (2.22%) Linux
3 2 (0.74%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (26.67%) Data Governance
2 69 (25.56%) Data Management
3 66 (24.44%) Business Intelligence
4 63 (23.33%) Data Modelling
5 55 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (18.89%) Analytics
7 50 (18.52%) Migration
8 49 (18.15%) ETL
9 43 (15.93%) Data Analysis
10 42 (15.56%) Data Migration
11 40 (14.81%) Data Architecture
12 34 (12.59%) Agile
13 32 (11.85%) Data Cleansing
13 32 (11.85%) Decision-Making
13 32 (11.85%) Visualisation
14 31 (11.48%) Stakeholder Management
15 30 (11.11%) Data Integration
16 27 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
17 23 (8.52%) Data Lineage
17 23 (8.52%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 78 (28.89%) SQL
2 55 (20.37%) Python
3 15 (5.56%) Java
4 9 (3.33%) JavaScript
5 7 (2.59%) Scala
5 7 (2.59%) T-SQL
6 5 (1.85%) R
7 4 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (1.48%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.11%) Apex Code
8 3 (1.11%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.74%) C#
9 2 (0.74%) Perl
9 2 (0.74%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.74%) VBA
10 1 (0.37%) HiveQL
10 1 (0.37%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 33 (12.22%) Degree
2 26 (9.63%) Security Cleared
3 23 (8.52%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.22%) HNC
5 6 (2.22%) NVQ Level 3
6 4 (1.48%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.74%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.74%) IBM Certification
8 2 (0.74%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.74%) PMP
9 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.37%) PhD
9 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (12.22%) QA
2 8 (2.96%) GDPR
3 5 (1.85%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.11%) GRC
5 2 (0.74%) SLA
6 1 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.37%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (0.74%) Docker
1 2 (0.74%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.37%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (0.74%) Data Guard
2 2 (0.74%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.74%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.37%) Ansible
Vendors
1 38 (14.07%) SAP
2 34 (12.59%) Informatica
3 26 (9.63%) Microsoft
4 13 (4.81%) Oracle
4 13 (4.81%) Salesforce
5 12 (4.44%) Alteryx
6 10 (3.70%) Databricks
7 9 (3.33%) Facebook
8 7 (2.59%) Dataiku
8 7 (2.59%) Instagram
8 7 (2.59%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.59%) Trillium
9 5 (1.85%) Autodesk
10 4 (1.48%) IFS
10 4 (1.48%) Liquidlogic
11 3 (1.11%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 2 (0.74%) Cloudera
12 2 (0.74%) HubSpot
12 2 (0.74%) Sparx
12 2 (0.74%) Splunk