Data Quality Contracts in England

Data Quality
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 109 162 217
Rank change year-on-year +53 +55 -28
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 751 752 947
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.00% 1.60% 1.35%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.82% 11.83% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 523 508 668
10th Percentile £350 £350 £313
25th Percentile £443 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £698 £638 £638
90th Percentile £850 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 18 20
10th Percentile £13.28 £19.26 £9.92
25th Percentile £15.39 £21.24 £17.91
Median hourly rate £21.00 £22.49 £23.68
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% -5.03% +12.74%
75th Percentile £42.50 £30.31 £54.75
90th Percentile £52.55 £55.29 £66.68
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
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,067 6,357 9,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.51% 13.52% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,193 4,313 6,338
10th Percentile £300 £300 £290
25th Percentile £406 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 382 229 265
10th Percentile £10.95 £15.17 £12.56
25th Percentile £12.88 £20.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £24.18 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.11% +54.55% +33.92%
75th Percentile £51.31 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.00 £69.40
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 England

Job postings citing Data Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in England

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in England.

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in England

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in England

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in England

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Data Quality in England

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England 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
London +62 487 £575 +4.55% 188
North of England +33 79 £489 +2.89% 77
South East -4 63 £475 -9.52% 42
North West +26 59 £500 +8.11% 44
Midlands +34 53 £538 +26.47% 39
West Midlands +28 43 £550 +33.33% 20
East of England -9 29 £500 -4.76% 8
South West -2 25 £450 -10.00% 28
Yorkshire +19 21 £378 -24.40% 25
East Midlands +16 12 £422 -38.69% 17
North East +8 2 - - 9
Data Quality
UK

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 62 (8.26%) Apache
2 58 (7.72%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (4.66%) Apache Spark
4 21 (2.80%) SharePoint
5 13 (1.73%) Confluence
6 10 (1.33%) SAS
7 3 (0.40%) CMS
7 3 (0.40%) govService
8 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.13%) IIS
9 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.13%) nginx
Applications
1 48 (6.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.66%) MS Visio
3 15 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (1.46%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.67%) SPSS
7 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.27%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.27%) Revit
Business Applications
1 17 (2.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.80%) SAP MDG
3 6 (0.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 5 (0.67%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.40%) ENOVIA
5 3 (0.40%) MIS ActiveH
5 3 (0.40%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.40%) SAP PLM
5 3 (0.40%) Siebel CRM
5 3 (0.40%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.27%) ResourceLink
6 2 (0.27%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.27%) Shopify
7 1 (0.13%) Lorenzo
7 1 (0.13%) OPENHousing
7 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.13%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 146 (19.44%) Azure
2 137 (18.24%) AWS
3 126 (16.78%) Power Platform
4 77 (10.25%) Snowflake
5 54 (7.19%) dbt
6 35 (4.66%) Azure Data Factory
7 33 (4.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 33 (4.39%) GCP
8 21 (2.80%) Amazon S3
9 20 (2.66%) Collibra
10 17 (2.26%) Microsoft Purview
10 17 (2.26%) Serverless
11 13 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (1.73%) Azure Stack
12 12 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (1.60%) Cloud Computing
13 11 (1.46%) Amazon Kinesis
14 10 (1.33%) Azure API Management
14 10 (1.33%) Power Automate
15 8 (1.07%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.80%) Internet
2 3 (0.40%) DAB
2 3 (0.40%) Intranet
3 2 (0.27%) Firewall
4 1 (0.13%) DNS
4 1 (0.13%) VLAN
4 1 (0.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (21.30%) Data Warehouse
2 126 (16.78%) Power BI
3 98 (13.05%) Data Lake
4 64 (8.52%) Tableau
5 56 (7.46%) Big Data
6 51 (6.79%) Amazon Athena
7 48 (6.39%) Metadata
8 46 (6.13%) SQL Server
9 43 (5.73%) Apache Arrow
9 43 (5.73%) Apache Ignite
9 43 (5.73%) Dremio
10 36 (4.79%) NoSQL
11 27 (3.60%) Relational Database
12 24 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
12 24 (3.20%) Data Mining
13 21 (2.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 20 (2.66%) Hadoop
14 20 (2.66%) MySQL
14 20 (2.66%) Snowflake Schema
15 15 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 23 (3.06%) ERwin
2 21 (2.80%) JIRA
3 19 (2.53%) Git
4 14 (1.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (0.67%) MLflow
6 4 (0.53%) Deequ
6 4 (0.53%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.53%) LSMW
6 4 (0.53%) Postman
6 4 (0.53%) Visual Studio Team System
7 2 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.27%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.13%) GitLab
8 1 (0.13%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.13%) RStudio
8 1 (0.13%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 267 (35.55%) Social Skills
2 211 (28.10%) Finance
3 170 (22.64%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (11.05%) Banking
5 63 (8.39%) Front Office
6 55 (7.32%) Investment Banking
7 54 (7.19%) Public Sector
8 24 (3.20%) Local Government
8 24 (3.20%) Retail
9 20 (2.66%) Pharmaceutical
10 19 (2.53%) Marketing
11 17 (2.26%) Legal
11 17 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (1.46%) Telecoms
14 10 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 10 (1.33%) Law
14 10 (1.33%) Manufacturing
15 9 (1.20%) Publishing
16 7 (0.93%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 203 (27.03%) Analyst
2 126 (16.78%) Data Analyst
3 120 (15.98%) Data Engineer
4 96 (12.78%) Architect
5 91 (12.12%) Senior
6 76 (10.12%) Data Architect
7 72 (9.59%) Lead
8 54 (7.19%) Developer
9 47 (6.26%) Business Analyst
10 42 (5.59%) Consultant
11 41 (5.46%) AWS Engineer
12 30 (3.99%) Data Manager
13 28 (3.73%) Senior Analyst
14 27 (3.60%) Senior Software Engineer
14 27 (3.60%) Software Engineer
15 26 (3.46%) AWS Software Engineer
15 26 (3.46%) Data Business Analyst
16 24 (3.20%) Data Consultant
16 24 (3.20%) Data Quality Analyst
17 22 (2.93%) Quality Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (6.13%) Pandas
2 44 (5.86%) NumPy
3 43 (5.73%) gRPC
3 43 (5.73%) Protocol Buffers
3 43 (5.73%) SciPy
4 38 (5.06%) PySpark
5 26 (3.46%) JSON
6 24 (3.20%) REST
7 19 (2.53%) XML
8 16 (2.13%) Kafka
9 11 (1.46%) HTML
10 10 (1.33%) Apache Avro
10 10 (1.33%) JSON Schema
10 10 (1.33%) YAML
11 8 (1.07%) CSS
11 8 (1.07%) RESTful
12 7 (0.93%) Middleware
12 7 (0.93%) SOAP
13 6 (0.80%) .NET
14 5 (0.67%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 59 (7.86%) Management Information System
2 54 (7.19%) Derivative
3 49 (6.52%) Fixed Income
3 49 (6.52%) Hedge funds
4 48 (6.39%) Equities
4 48 (6.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 42 (5.59%) Data Structures
6 30 (3.99%) Product Ownership
7 24 (3.20%) Reference Data
8 23 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
9 22 (2.93%) NHS
10 18 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (1.86%) CMDB
12 11 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.46%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.33%) Onboarding
14 8 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (1.07%) Cloud Native
15 7 (0.93%) Algorithms
16 6 (0.80%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.60%) Unix
2 3 (0.40%) Linux
2 3 (0.40%) Windows
3 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (35.69%) Data Modelling
2 234 (31.16%) Data Governance
3 205 (27.30%) Analytics
4 193 (25.70%) Data Management
5 174 (23.17%) Agile
6 171 (22.77%) ETL
7 168 (22.37%) Business Intelligence
8 157 (20.91%) Problem-Solving
9 132 (17.58%) Migration
10 125 (16.64%) Data Analysis
11 112 (14.91%) Data Migration
12 104 (13.85%) Visualisation
13 102 (13.58%) Data Integration
14 99 (13.18%) Data Pipeline
15 94 (12.52%) Data Cleansing
16 92 (12.25%) Data Architecture
17 91 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
18 74 (9.85%) Data Engineering
18 74 (9.85%) Decision-Making
19 70 (9.32%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 267 (35.55%) SQL
2 223 (29.69%) Python
3 84 (11.19%) Java
4 63 (8.39%) JavaScript
5 50 (6.66%) TypeScript
6 31 (4.13%) Scala
7 18 (2.40%) T-SQL
8 12 (1.60%) C#
8 12 (1.60%) PowerShell
9 11 (1.46%) R
10 6 (0.80%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.67%) Apex Code
11 5 (0.67%) Bash
11 5 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.53%) Bicep
12 4 (0.53%) VBA
13 2 (0.27%) Go
13 2 (0.27%) Perl
13 2 (0.27%) XPath
13 2 (0.27%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 95 (12.65%) Degree
2 80 (10.65%) Security Cleared
3 69 (9.19%) SC Cleared
4 36 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.53%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.07%) DV Cleared
7 6 (0.80%) PMP
8 4 (0.53%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (0.53%) PhD
9 3 (0.40%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.27%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.27%) IBM Certification
11 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.13%) CISA
11 1 (0.13%) CISM
11 1 (0.13%) CRISC
11 1 (0.13%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (6.79%) QA
2 37 (4.93%) GDPR
3 12 (1.60%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.20%) SLA
5 6 (0.80%) PMO
6 5 (0.67%) GRC
7 4 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.40%) EMIR
8 3 (0.40%) MiFID
9 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.13%) IFRS
10 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 13 (1.73%) Docker
2 2 (0.27%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.27%) HDFS
2 2 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (2.00%) Terraform
2 9 (1.20%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.53%) Ansible
3 4 (0.53%) Podman
4 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.13%) Matomo
5 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 72 (9.59%) Databricks
2 67 (8.92%) Informatica
3 66 (8.79%) SAP
4 62 (8.26%) Microsoft
5 46 (6.13%) Oracle
6 28 (3.73%) Salesforce
7 17 (2.26%) Alteryx
8 14 (1.86%) Google
9 11 (1.46%) Talend
10 10 (1.33%) Facebook
10 10 (1.33%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.33%) Sparx
11 8 (1.07%) Instagram
11 8 (1.07%) Palantir
12 7 (0.93%) Dataiku
12 7 (0.93%) Foundry
12 7 (0.93%) IBM
12 7 (0.93%) Trillium
13 6 (0.80%) Bloomberg
14 5 (0.67%) Autodesk