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

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 156 216
Rank change year-on-year +59 +60 -29
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 334 384 573
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.27% 1.60% 1.29%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.38% 12.93% 9.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 269 444
10th Percentile £342 £350 £313
25th Percentile £450 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £738 £638 £625
90th Percentile £850 £714 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 11
10th Percentile £10.35 £78.75 £9.92
25th Percentile £14.13 £80.63 £10.49
Median hourly rate £17.63 £85.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -79.26% +372.22% -28.71%
75th Percentile £23.38 £88.13 £45.59
90th Percentile £46.38 £89.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £15.80 £22.49 £22.50
% change year-on-year -29.73% -0.07% +3.45%

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 2,039 2,969 5,827
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 13.86% 12.39% 13.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,424 2,146 4,171
10th Percentile £300 £325 £313
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £520 £512
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +1.66% +7.68%
75th Percentile £621 £630 £613
90th Percentile £750 £743 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -2.38% +0.96% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 70 130
10th Percentile £12.45 £17.50 £11.99
25th Percentile £14.00 £20.91 £19.31
Median hourly rate £23.50 £38.80 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.43% -12.81% +134.21%
75th Percentile £48.75 £59.27 £55.50
90th Percentile £66.00 £70.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £23.05 £37.50 £28.12
% change year-on-year -38.55% +33.38% +33.88%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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 47 (14.07%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (13.47%) Apache
3 11 (3.29%) Apache Spark
3 11 (3.29%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.80%) Confluence
5 2 (0.60%) CMS
6 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (3.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.80%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.60%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.60%) Revit
4 2 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.30%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 7 (2.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.50%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.90%) MIS ActiveH
4 2 (0.60%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.60%) ResourceLink
4 2 (0.60%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.60%) Shopify
4 2 (0.60%) Siebel CRM
5 1 (0.30%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.30%) SAP GTS
5 1 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 70 (20.96%) AWS
2 57 (17.07%) Azure
3 51 (15.27%) Snowflake
4 50 (14.97%) dbt
5 37 (11.08%) Power Platform
6 20 (5.99%) GCP
7 11 (3.29%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (2.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (2.40%) Azure Stack
9 8 (2.40%) Microsoft Purview
10 7 (2.10%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (1.80%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (0.90%) Azure API Management
12 3 (0.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.90%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (0.90%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (0.90%) Matillion
12 3 (0.90%) NuGet
12 3 (0.90%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (19.46%) Data Warehouse
2 50 (14.97%) Data Lake
3 40 (11.98%) Amazon Athena
3 40 (11.98%) Apache Arrow
3 40 (11.98%) Apache Ignite
3 40 (11.98%) Dremio
4 36 (10.78%) Power BI
5 24 (7.19%) Metadata
6 23 (6.89%) Tableau
7 22 (6.59%) Big Data
8 20 (5.99%) SQL Server
9 14 (4.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (2.99%) Snowflake Schema
11 9 (2.69%) BigQuery
12 8 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (2.40%) Relational Database
13 7 (2.10%) Data Mining
13 7 (2.10%) Hadoop
13 7 (2.10%) Parquet
14 6 (1.80%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (2.99%) ERwin
2 8 (2.40%) JIRA
3 6 (1.80%) Git
3 6 (1.80%) MLflow
4 2 (0.60%) ER Studio
4 2 (0.60%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.60%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.60%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.30%) Deequ
5 1 (0.30%) GitLab
5 1 (0.30%) RStudio
5 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 117 (35.03%) Finance
2 111 (33.23%) Social Skills
3 73 (21.86%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (18.26%) Banking
5 50 (14.97%) Front Office
6 47 (14.07%) Investment Banking
7 25 (7.49%) Public Sector
8 14 (4.19%) Legal
9 12 (3.59%) Retail
10 10 (2.99%) Manufacturing
11 8 (2.40%) Marketing
11 8 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (2.40%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.50%) Electronics
12 5 (1.50%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.20%) Law
13 4 (1.20%) Publishing
14 3 (0.90%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 70 (20.96%) Analyst
2 54 (16.17%) Data Engineer
3 43 (12.87%) Architect
3 43 (12.87%) Data Analyst
3 43 (12.87%) Senior
4 41 (12.28%) Lead
5 38 (11.38%) Data Architect
6 30 (8.98%) AWS Engineer
7 26 (7.78%) Developer
8 25 (7.49%) Senior Software Engineer
8 25 (7.49%) Software Engineer
9 24 (7.19%) AWS Software Engineer
10 22 (6.59%) Business Analyst
11 20 (5.99%) Consultant
12 18 (5.39%) Technical Leader
13 13 (3.89%) Python Engineer
14 12 (3.59%) Java Engineer
14 12 (3.59%) Java Software Engineer
14 12 (3.59%) Python Software Engineer
14 12 (3.59%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (12.57%) Pandas
2 41 (12.28%) NumPy
3 40 (11.98%) gRPC
3 40 (11.98%) Protocol Buffers
3 40 (11.98%) SciPy
4 14 (4.19%) PySpark
5 13 (3.89%) JSON
6 12 (3.59%) REST
7 11 (3.29%) XML
8 7 (2.10%) Apache Avro
9 4 (1.20%) .NET
9 4 (1.20%) JSON Schema
9 4 (1.20%) YAML
10 3 (0.90%) .NET Core
10 3 (0.90%) EDI
10 3 (0.90%) GraphQL
10 3 (0.90%) Kafka
10 3 (0.90%) Middleware
10 3 (0.90%) SOAP
11 2 (0.60%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 46 (13.77%) Derivative
2 44 (13.17%) Equities
3 40 (11.98%) Fixed Income
3 40 (11.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 40 (11.98%) Hedge funds
4 16 (4.79%) Data Structures
5 14 (4.19%) Management Information System
6 12 (3.59%) Reference Data
7 11 (3.29%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (2.10%) NHS
10 7 (2.10%) Wiki
11 6 (1.80%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.50%) CMDB
12 5 (1.50%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.50%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.10%) Unix
2 5 (1.50%) Linux
3 2 (0.60%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (34.43%) Data Modelling
2 113 (33.83%) Data Governance
3 89 (26.65%) Agile
4 85 (25.45%) Analytics
4 85 (25.45%) Data Management
5 69 (20.66%) ETL
6 62 (18.56%) Problem-Solving
7 61 (18.26%) Business Intelligence
8 52 (15.57%) Asset Management
9 51 (15.27%) Software Engineering
10 50 (14.97%) Migration
11 48 (14.37%) Data Migration
12 45 (13.47%) Investment Management
13 44 (13.17%) Data Integration
14 42 (12.57%) Data Analysis
14 42 (12.57%) Stakeholder Management
15 40 (11.98%) Greeks
16 39 (11.68%) Data Cleansing
17 37 (11.08%) Data Architecture
18 35 (10.48%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 105 (31.44%) Python
2 92 (27.54%) SQL
3 55 (16.47%) Java
4 45 (13.47%) JavaScript
5 43 (12.87%) TypeScript
6 13 (3.89%) Scala
7 10 (2.99%) C#
8 5 (1.50%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.20%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.90%) Bash
10 3 (0.90%) Bicep
10 3 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.90%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.60%) R
11 2 (0.60%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.30%) Go
12 1 (0.30%) HiveQL
12 1 (0.30%) Perl
12 1 (0.30%) Tcl
12 1 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (11.98%) Degree
2 37 (11.08%) Security Cleared
3 36 (10.78%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.40%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.60%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.89%) GDPR
2 21 (6.29%) QA
3 7 (2.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.60%) GRC
5 2 (0.60%) IFRS
5 2 (0.60%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.60%) PMO
5 2 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.60%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (1.80%) Docker
2 3 (0.90%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.30%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (1.80%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.20%) Ansible
2 4 (1.20%) Terraform
3 2 (0.60%) Data Guard
3 2 (0.60%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.30%) Matomo
Vendors
1 33 (9.88%) Informatica
2 26 (7.78%) Databricks
3 24 (7.19%) Microsoft
4 21 (6.29%) Oracle
5 16 (4.79%) SAP
6 11 (3.29%) Google
7 9 (2.69%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.40%) Facebook
9 7 (2.10%) Sparx
10 6 (1.80%) Instagram
11 5 (1.50%) NEC
12 4 (1.20%) Ariba
13 3 (0.90%) Foundry
13 3 (0.90%) Palantir
13 3 (0.90%) Phenom
13 3 (0.90%) Splunk
13 3 (0.90%) Teradata
14 2 (0.60%) Adobe
14 2 (0.60%) Liquidlogic
14 2 (0.60%) MuleSoft