Data Quality Contracts in the North of England

Data Quality
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 107 140 167
Rank change year-on-year +33 +27 -31
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 79 62 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.63% 1.14% 1.20%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.40% 8.08% 8.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 42 60
10th Percentile £325 £288 £207
25th Percentile £425 £350 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year +2.89% +7.95% -12.00%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £538
90th Percentile £634 £650 £600
England median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile - - £9.64
25th Percentile £14.13 - £9.92
Median hourly rate £14.27 - £21.17
75th Percentile £41.57 - £25.25
90th Percentile £57.88 - £26.50
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 of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 693 767 968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.30% 14.09% 13.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 467 703
10th Percentile £313 £295 £197
25th Percentile £413 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £593 £578 £575
90th Percentile £670 £650 £639
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 48 55
10th Percentile - £17.24 £11.36
25th Percentile £10.95 £26.84 £15.93
Median hourly rate £12.00 £35.00 £22.29
Median % change year-on-year -65.71% +57.02% +28.47%
75th Percentile £26.66 £47.25 £61.88
90th Percentile £48.75 £56.59 £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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in the North of England

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in the North of England

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in the North of England

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in the North of England

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Data Quality in the North of England

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West +26 59 £500 +8.11% 45
Yorkshire +19 21 £378 -24.40% 25
North East +8 2 - - 10
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 7 (8.86%) Apache Spark
2 6 (7.59%) SAS
3 2 (2.53%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.53%) ResourceLink
2 2 (2.53%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.27%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.27%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 16 (20.25%) Power Platform
2 15 (18.99%) Azure
3 12 (15.19%) AWS
3 12 (15.19%) Snowflake
4 6 (7.59%) Amazon S3
4 6 (7.59%) Azure Stack
4 6 (7.59%) Collibra
4 6 (7.59%) Microsoft Purview
4 6 (7.59%) Power Automate
5 4 (5.06%) GCP
6 3 (3.80%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.27%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (1.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.27%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.53%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (27.85%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (20.25%) Power BI
3 11 (13.92%) Data Lake
4 10 (12.66%) SQL Server
5 8 (10.13%) Qlik Sense
6 7 (8.86%) Hadoop
6 7 (8.86%) Snowflake Schema
7 6 (7.59%) Ataccama
8 5 (6.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (6.33%) Data Mining
8 5 (6.33%) Tableau
9 4 (5.06%) Big Data
9 4 (5.06%) Relational Database
9 4 (5.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (3.80%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (3.80%) Delta Lake
10 3 (3.80%) HBase
10 3 (3.80%) MySQL
10 3 (3.80%) SAP BW
10 3 (3.80%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 6 (7.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (3.80%) LSMW
3 2 (2.53%) JIRA
4 1 (1.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 48 (60.76%) Social Skills
2 17 (21.52%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (13.92%) Pharmaceutical
4 8 (10.13%) Finance
4 8 (10.13%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.53%) Banking
5 2 (2.53%) Health Technology
5 2 (2.53%) Legal
5 2 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.53%) Publishing
5 2 (2.53%) Retail
6 1 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.27%) Law
6 1 (1.27%) Local Government
6 1 (1.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 23 (29.11%) Analyst
2 15 (18.99%) Data Analyst
2 15 (18.99%) Senior
3 14 (17.72%) Architect
4 12 (15.19%) Lead
5 10 (12.66%) Data Engineer
5 10 (12.66%) Senior Analyst
6 9 (11.39%) Data Architect
6 9 (11.39%) Data Quality Analyst
6 9 (11.39%) QA Analyst
6 9 (11.39%) Quality Analyst
7 8 (10.13%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
7 8 (10.13%) Senior QA Analyst
7 8 (10.13%) Senior Quality Analyst
8 6 (7.59%) Developer
8 6 (7.59%) Software Asset Manager
8 6 (7.59%) Software Manager
9 5 (6.33%) Business Analyst
10 4 (5.06%) Senior Data Engineer
11 3 (3.80%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.59%) JSON
1 6 (7.59%) REST
1 6 (7.59%) XML
2 5 (6.33%) PySpark
3 4 (5.06%) Kafka
4 3 (3.80%) AngularJS
4 3 (3.80%) BAPI
4 3 (3.80%) CSS
4 3 (3.80%) HTML
4 3 (3.80%) LDAP
5 2 (2.53%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.92%) Management Information System
2 10 (12.66%) CMDB
3 9 (11.39%) NHS
4 7 (8.86%) Data Structures
4 7 (8.86%) Reference Data
5 6 (7.59%) Product Ownership
5 6 (7.59%) Virtual Team
6 4 (5.06%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.53%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.27%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.27%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.27%) Industry 4.0
8 1 (1.27%) Life Science
8 1 (1.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (36.71%) Data Governance
1 29 (36.71%) Data Modelling
2 27 (34.18%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (29.11%) Data Management
4 19 (24.05%) Business Intelligence
4 19 (24.05%) Data Analysis
5 17 (21.52%) Agile
6 16 (20.25%) Data Architecture
7 15 (18.99%) Analytics
7 15 (18.99%) Data Cleansing
7 15 (18.99%) ETL
8 14 (17.72%) Data Pipeline
9 12 (15.19%) Change Management
9 12 (15.19%) Visualisation
10 11 (13.92%) Data Lineage
10 11 (13.92%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (12.66%) Data Engineering
12 9 (11.39%) Computer Science
12 9 (11.39%) Data Integration
12 9 (11.39%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 27 (34.18%) SQL
2 24 (30.38%) Python
3 5 (6.33%) Java
4 4 (5.06%) Scala
5 3 (3.80%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.80%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.80%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.53%) Perl
7 1 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.27%) Tcl
7 1 (1.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (16.46%) Degree
2 12 (15.19%) SC Cleared
2 12 (15.19%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.80%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.53%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.27%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (18.99%) QA
2 4 (5.06%) GDPR
3 3 (3.80%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.80%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (1.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.80%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (20.25%) SAP
2 7 (8.86%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.59%) Alteryx
3 6 (7.59%) Dataiku
3 6 (7.59%) Trillium
4 5 (6.33%) Informatica
5 4 (5.06%) Databricks
5 4 (5.06%) Facebook
6 3 (3.80%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.53%) Google
7 2 (2.53%) Instagram
8 1 (1.27%) BMC
8 1 (1.27%) Brio
8 1 (1.27%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.27%) Foundry
8 1 (1.27%) Intel
8 1 (1.27%) Liquidlogic
8 1 (1.27%) Palantir
8 1 (1.27%) Splunk
8 1 (1.27%) Teradata