Data Quality Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Quality
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 169 180 208
Rank change year-on-year +11 +28 -27
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 268 307 381
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.30% 1.34% 1.24%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.01% 9.04% 8.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 212 271
10th Percentile £314 £289 £225
25th Percentile £413 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +7.24%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £588
90th Percentile £715 £650 £683
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 4 16
10th Percentile £12.23 £15.06 £9.58
25th Percentile £12.25 £15.16 £10.35
Median hourly rate £15.79 £23.11 £15.35
Median % change year-on-year -31.66% +50.52% -18.24%
75th Percentile £23.41 £35.28 £21.82
90th Percentile £42.50 £40.29 £25.25
UK median hourly rate £15.80 £22.49 £19.00
% change year-on-year -29.73% +18.34% -9.52%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,976 3,395 4,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.44% 14.86% 14.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,752 2,236 3,089
10th Percentile £250 £230 £205
25th Percentile £363 £363 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £486 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +8.00% +5.88%
75th Percentile £583 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £678 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 192 210
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.16 £11.49
25th Percentile £12.72 £17.72 £15.13
Median hourly rate £18.27 £34.19 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -46.57% +52.68% +6.64%
75th Percentile £45.00 £63.23 £48.71
90th Percentile £68.75 £77.35 £68.78
UK median hourly rate £21.12 £35.00 £29.31
% change year-on-year -39.67% +19.41% +39.57%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 28 May 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 +39 81 £500 +5.26% 92
North West +34 62 £500 +11.11% 44
South East -12 62 £475 -9.52% 44
Midlands +34 49 £550 +33.33% 56
West Midlands +13 39 £550 +34.15% 34
East of England -8 31 £500 +2.56% 15
South West -1 24 £463 -7.50% 30
Yorkshire +16 20 £378 -24.40% 36
Scotland +30 12 £475 -5.00% 12
East Midlands +23 12 £422 -38.69% 22
Northern Ireland +11 8 - - 7
Wales +11 5 £525 +5.00% 4
North East +11 2 - - 13
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 (3.73%) SAS
2 8 (2.99%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.12%) Apache
3 3 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.12%) CMS
3 3 (1.12%) Confluence
3 3 (1.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 21 (7.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.61%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (2.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.12%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.37%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 10 (3.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.12%) ENOVIA
2 3 (1.12%) SAP PLM
2 3 (1.12%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.75%) ResourceLink
3 2 (0.75%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.75%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.75%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.37%) Lorenzo
4 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.37%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.37%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.37%) Shopify
4 1 (0.37%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 52 (19.40%) Power Platform
2 33 (12.31%) Azure
3 24 (8.96%) AWS
4 20 (7.46%) Snowflake
5 9 (3.36%) Power Automate
6 7 (2.61%) Amazon S3
6 7 (2.61%) Collibra
7 6 (2.24%) Azure Stack
7 6 (2.24%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (1.87%) GCP
9 4 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.49%) iPaaS
10 3 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (1.12%) GitHub
10 3 (1.12%) SaaS
11 2 (0.75%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.75%) dbt
11 2 (0.75%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.12%) Internet
2 1 (0.37%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (19.40%) Power BI
2 46 (17.16%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (10.45%) Tableau
4 17 (6.34%) Metadata
5 16 (5.97%) Data Lake
6 15 (5.60%) SQL Server
7 12 (4.48%) Big Data
7 12 (4.48%) Data Mining
8 9 (3.36%) Qlik Sense
8 9 (3.36%) Snowflake Schema
9 8 (2.99%) Hadoop
10 7 (2.61%) Ataccama
10 7 (2.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (2.24%) MySQL
12 5 (1.87%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (1.87%) Relational Database
13 4 (1.49%) MS Access
13 4 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (1.49%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 9 (3.36%) JIRA
2 8 (2.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (1.49%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.49%) LSMW
4 3 (1.12%) ERwin
4 3 (1.12%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.75%) Maven
5 2 (0.75%) NUnit
5 2 (0.75%) Selenium
6 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.37%) Git
6 1 (0.37%) GitLab
General
1 97 (36.19%) Social Skills
2 53 (19.78%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (19.03%) Finance
4 24 (8.96%) Public Sector
5 17 (6.34%) Pharmaceutical
6 13 (4.85%) Legal
6 13 (4.85%) Retail
7 11 (4.10%) Local Government
8 9 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.99%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.61%) Law
11 6 (2.24%) Automotive
11 6 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.24%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.49%) Banking
12 4 (1.49%) Billing
12 4 (1.49%) Electronics
12 4 (1.49%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.49%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 76 (28.36%) Analyst
2 54 (20.15%) Data Analyst
3 30 (11.19%) Lead
4 28 (10.45%) Architect
5 24 (8.96%) Data Engineer
6 23 (8.58%) Data Architect
7 22 (8.21%) Developer
8 19 (7.09%) Senior
9 16 (5.97%) Data Manager
10 14 (5.22%) Data Quality Analyst
10 14 (5.22%) Quality Analyst
10 14 (5.22%) Senior Analyst
11 10 (3.73%) QA Analyst
12 9 (3.36%) Administrator
12 9 (3.36%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
12 9 (3.36%) Senior QA Analyst
12 9 (3.36%) Senior Quality Analyst
13 8 (2.99%) AWS Data Engineer
13 8 (2.99%) AWS Engineer
13 8 (2.99%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.22%) PySpark
2 9 (3.36%) HTML
2 9 (3.36%) REST
3 7 (2.61%) CSS
4 6 (2.24%) JSON
4 6 (2.24%) XML
5 4 (1.49%) Apache Avro
5 4 (1.49%) BAPI
6 3 (1.12%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.12%) Kafka
6 3 (1.12%) LDAP
6 3 (1.12%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (1.12%) Middleware
6 3 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (1.12%) Visualforce
7 2 (0.75%) .NET
7 2 (0.75%) React Native
7 2 (0.75%) RESTful
8 1 (0.37%) React
8 1 (0.37%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 40 (14.93%) Management Information System
2 20 (7.46%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (6.72%) NHS
4 16 (5.97%) Data Structures
5 12 (4.48%) CMDB
6 9 (3.36%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.99%) Reference Data
8 6 (2.24%) Freedom of Information
8 6 (2.24%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.49%) e-Health
9 4 (1.49%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.12%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.12%) e-Learning
11 2 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
12 1 (0.37%) Biopharmaceutical
12 1 (0.37%) Industry 4.0
12 1 (0.37%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.87%) Unix
2 4 (1.49%) Linux
3 2 (0.75%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (27.99%) Data Governance
2 69 (25.75%) Data Management
3 64 (23.88%) Business Intelligence
4 61 (22.76%) Data Modelling
5 51 (19.03%) Migration
6 50 (18.66%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (17.54%) Analytics
8 43 (16.04%) Data Analysis
8 43 (16.04%) ETL
9 42 (15.67%) Data Migration
10 40 (14.93%) Data Architecture
11 31 (11.57%) Agile
11 31 (11.57%) Data Cleansing
11 31 (11.57%) Data Integration
11 31 (11.57%) Decision-Making
11 31 (11.57%) Stakeholder Management
11 31 (11.57%) Visualisation
12 26 (9.70%) Data Strategy
13 23 (8.58%) Data Lineage
13 23 (8.58%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 70 (26.12%) SQL
2 48 (17.91%) Python
3 13 (4.85%) Java
4 8 (2.99%) JavaScript
5 7 (2.61%) Scala
6 6 (2.24%) T-SQL
7 4 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (1.49%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.49%) R
8 3 (1.12%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.75%) C#
9 2 (0.75%) Perl
9 2 (0.75%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.75%) VBA
10 1 (0.37%) HiveQL
10 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.37%) Tcl
10 1 (0.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (11.57%) Degree
2 27 (10.07%) Security Cleared
3 24 (8.96%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.24%) HNC
4 6 (2.24%) NVQ Level 3
5 5 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.75%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.75%) IBM Certification
7 2 (0.75%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.75%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.75%) PMP
8 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.37%) PhD
8 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (12.31%) QA
2 9 (3.36%) GDPR
3 5 (1.87%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.12%) GRC
5 2 (0.75%) SLA
6 1 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.37%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (0.75%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.37%) Docker
2 1 (0.37%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (0.75%) Data Guard
2 2 (0.75%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.37%) Ansible
3 1 (0.37%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 41 (15.30%) SAP
2 32 (11.94%) Informatica
3 23 (8.58%) Microsoft
4 13 (4.85%) Salesforce
5 12 (4.48%) Alteryx
6 11 (4.10%) Oracle
7 9 (3.36%) Facebook
8 8 (2.99%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.61%) Dataiku
9 7 (2.61%) Instagram
9 7 (2.61%) Trillium
10 6 (2.24%) Databricks
11 5 (1.87%) Autodesk
12 4 (1.49%) IFS
12 4 (1.49%) Liquidlogic
13 3 (1.12%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 2 (0.75%) Cloudera
14 2 (0.75%) Google
14 2 (0.75%) IBM
14 2 (0.75%) Splunk