Data Quality Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Quality
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 68 96 120
Rank change year-on-year +28 +24 -15
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 43 33 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.11% 1.49% 1.60%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.38% 9.14% 10.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 27 38
10th Percentile £350 £313 £354
25th Percentile £423 £350 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £413 £525
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -21.43% +22.09%
75th Percentile £750 £538 £626
90th Percentile £813 £663 £679
England median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 299 361 533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.64% 16.31% 14.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 231 370
10th Percentile £255 £270 £270
25th Percentile £338 £363 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £478
Median % change year-on-year - +4.71% +15.76%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £575
90th Percentile £798 £680 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 16 6
10th Percentile £11.83 £11.75 £11.50
25th Percentile £13.20 £13.40 £12.54
Median hourly rate £14.60 £27.32 £14.83
Median % change year-on-year -46.55% +84.19% -4.32%
75th Percentile £49.73 £28.75 £19.38
90th Percentile £58.75 £30.00 £20.00
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in the West Midlands

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in the West Midlands

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in the West Midlands

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in the West Midlands

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham +12 16 £438 +25.00% 8
Warwickshire +4 15 £700 +21.74% 3
Staffordshire +7 4 £375 -26.47% 1
Coventry +11 3 £725 +56.76%
Worcestershire - 1 £550 - 3
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (4.65%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.33%) SAS
2 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.33%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 13 (30.23%) Power Platform
2 6 (13.95%) AWS
3 4 (9.30%) Azure
4 3 (6.98%) Amazon EMR
4 3 (6.98%) Amazon Kinesis
4 3 (6.98%) Amazon MSK
4 3 (6.98%) Amazon S3
4 3 (6.98%) AWS CodePipeline
4 3 (6.98%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (4.65%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.33%) GCP
6 1 (2.33%) Matillion
6 1 (2.33%) OCI
6 1 (2.33%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.33%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (30.23%) Power BI
2 9 (20.93%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (18.60%) Tableau
4 6 (13.95%) Metadata
5 5 (11.63%) MySQL
5 5 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (9.30%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (9.30%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (6.98%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (4.65%) Big Data
8 2 (4.65%) Hadoop
8 2 (4.65%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (4.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (2.33%) Apache Hive
9 1 (2.33%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (2.33%) Data Vault
9 1 (2.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (2.33%) Oracle ODI
9 1 (2.33%) Pentaho
9 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (4.65%) JIRA
2 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.33%) GitLab
2 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (34.88%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.26%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (23.26%) Finance
3 6 (13.95%) Automotive
4 5 (11.63%) Law
4 5 (11.63%) Retail
5 3 (6.98%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (18.60%) Analyst
1 8 (18.60%) Lead
2 7 (16.28%) Data Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) Data Analyst
4 5 (11.63%) Architect
4 5 (11.63%) Consultant
4 5 (11.63%) Data Architect
4 5 (11.63%) Data Consultant
4 5 (11.63%) Data Governance Consultant
4 5 (11.63%) Governance Consultant
5 4 (9.30%) Technical Leader
6 3 (6.98%) AWS Data Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Business Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Data Business Analyst
7 2 (4.65%) Data Migration Lead
7 2 (4.65%) Data Quality Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
7 2 (4.65%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.98%) RESTful
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.60%) Data Structures
2 6 (13.95%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.65%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (37.21%) Data Management
1 16 (37.21%) Data Migration
1 16 (37.21%) Migration
2 13 (30.23%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (27.91%) ETL
4 11 (25.58%) Analytics
4 11 (25.58%) Data Governance
5 10 (23.26%) Roadmaps
6 9 (20.93%) Data Design
6 9 (20.93%) Data Modelling
7 7 (16.28%) Data Architecture
7 7 (16.28%) Data Integration
8 6 (13.95%) Data Analytics
8 6 (13.95%) Data Cleansing
8 6 (13.95%) Data Mapping
8 6 (13.95%) Decision-Making
8 6 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (11.63%) Data Extraction
9 5 (11.63%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (11.63%) Scorecard
Programming Languages
1 14 (32.56%) SQL
2 10 (23.26%) Python
3 5 (11.63%) Java
4 3 (6.98%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.33%) HiveQL
5 1 (2.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.65%) Degree
2 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (2.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (30.23%) Informatica
2 6 (13.95%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.63%) Autodesk
4 3 (6.98%) Oracle
4 3 (6.98%) SAP
5 2 (4.65%) Facebook
5 2 (4.65%) Instagram
6 1 (2.33%) Denodo
6 1 (2.33%) Splunk
6 1 (2.33%) Talend
6 1 (2.33%) Teradata