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 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 97 144 200
Rank change year-on-year +47 +56 -2
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 328 411 595
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.24% 1.69% 1.34%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.74% 13.69% 10.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 289 462
10th Percentile £340 £360 £313
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £725 £638 £625
90th Percentile £850 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 9
10th Percentile £10.35 £78.75 £9.92
25th Percentile £14.13 £80.63 -
Median hourly rate £17.63 £85.00 £10.49
Median % change year-on-year -79.26% +710.30% -58.46%
75th Percentile £23.38 £88.13 £21.17
90th Percentile £46.38 £89.25 £75.00
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
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 2,084 3,003 5,858
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.22% 12.35% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,455 2,182 4,167
10th Percentile £300 £330 £313
25th Percentile £413 £420 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £520 £510
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +1.96% +7.37%
75th Percentile £621 £630 £606
90th Percentile £750 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 68 131
10th Percentile £12.75 £17.50 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.00 £20.97 £18.88
Median hourly rate £24.00 £39.60 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.39% -11.01% +122.50%
75th Percentile £48.75 £59.46 £54.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £70.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.12 £35.00 £29.31
% change year-on-year -39.67% +19.41% +39.57%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 44 (13.41%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (12.80%) Apache
3 10 (3.05%) Apache Spark
3 10 (3.05%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.52%) Confluence
5 2 (0.61%) CMS
6 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.52%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.61%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.61%) Revit
5 2 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.30%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 7 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.91%) MIS ActiveH
2 3 (0.91%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.61%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.61%) ResourceLink
3 2 (0.61%) SAP MDG
3 2 (0.61%) Shopify
3 2 (0.61%) Siebel CRM
4 1 (0.30%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.30%) SAP GTS
4 1 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 65 (19.82%) AWS
2 55 (16.77%) Azure
3 47 (14.33%) dbt
3 47 (14.33%) Snowflake
4 37 (11.28%) Power Platform
5 20 (6.10%) GCP
6 11 (3.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (2.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 8 (2.44%) Azure Stack
8 8 (2.44%) Microsoft Purview
9 7 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (1.83%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (0.91%) Azure API Management
11 3 (0.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.91%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (0.91%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (0.91%) Matillion
11 3 (0.91%) NuGet
11 3 (0.91%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (19.21%) Data Warehouse
2 46 (14.02%) Data Lake
3 37 (11.28%) Amazon Athena
3 37 (11.28%) Apache Arrow
3 37 (11.28%) Apache Ignite
3 37 (11.28%) Dremio
3 37 (11.28%) Power BI
4 24 (7.32%) Metadata
5 23 (7.01%) Tableau
6 21 (6.40%) Big Data
7 18 (5.49%) SQL Server
8 14 (4.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (3.05%) Snowflake Schema
10 9 (2.74%) BigQuery
10 9 (2.74%) Relational Database
11 8 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (2.13%) Data Mining
12 7 (2.13%) Parquet
13 6 (1.83%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.83%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (3.05%) ERwin
2 8 (2.44%) JIRA
3 7 (2.13%) Git
4 6 (1.83%) MLflow
5 2 (0.61%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.61%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.61%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.61%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.30%) Deequ
6 1 (0.30%) GitLab
6 1 (0.30%) RStudio
6 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 113 (34.45%) Finance
2 112 (34.15%) Social Skills
3 72 (21.95%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (17.68%) Banking
5 47 (14.33%) Front Office
6 44 (13.41%) Investment Banking
7 25 (7.62%) Public Sector
8 14 (4.27%) Legal
9 13 (3.96%) Retail
10 10 (3.05%) Manufacturing
11 8 (2.44%) Marketing
11 8 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (2.44%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.52%) Electronics
12 5 (1.52%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.22%) Law
13 4 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (21.04%) Analyst
2 54 (16.46%) Data Engineer
3 42 (12.80%) Architect
3 42 (12.80%) Data Analyst
4 39 (11.89%) Lead
4 39 (11.89%) Senior
5 37 (11.28%) Data Architect
6 28 (8.54%) AWS Engineer
7 25 (7.62%) Developer
8 22 (6.71%) AWS Software Engineer
8 22 (6.71%) Senior Software Engineer
8 22 (6.71%) Software Engineer
9 21 (6.40%) Business Analyst
10 20 (6.10%) Consultant
11 17 (5.18%) Technical Leader
12 12 (3.66%) Python Engineer
13 11 (3.35%) Data Modeller
13 11 (3.35%) Java Software Engineer
13 11 (3.35%) Lead Data Engineer
13 11 (3.35%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (11.89%) Pandas
2 38 (11.59%) NumPy
3 37 (11.28%) gRPC
3 37 (11.28%) Protocol Buffers
3 37 (11.28%) SciPy
4 14 (4.27%) PySpark
5 12 (3.66%) JSON
5 12 (3.66%) REST
6 10 (3.05%) XML
7 7 (2.13%) Apache Avro
8 4 (1.22%) JSON Schema
8 4 (1.22%) YAML
9 3 (0.91%) .NET
9 3 (0.91%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.91%) EDI
9 3 (0.91%) GraphQL
9 3 (0.91%) Kafka
9 3 (0.91%) Middleware
9 3 (0.91%) SOAP
10 2 (0.61%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 43 (13.11%) Derivative
2 41 (12.50%) Equities
3 37 (11.28%) Fixed Income
3 37 (11.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 37 (11.28%) Hedge funds
4 16 (4.88%) Data Structures
5 12 (3.66%) Management Information System
5 12 (3.66%) Reference Data
6 10 (3.05%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.13%) NHS
9 7 (2.13%) Wiki
10 6 (1.83%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.52%) CMDB
11 5 (1.52%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.52%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.52%) Unix
2 3 (0.91%) Linux
3 2 (0.61%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (34.76%) Data Modelling
2 111 (33.84%) Data Governance
3 84 (25.61%) Agile
4 83 (25.30%) Data Management
5 82 (25.00%) Analytics
6 67 (20.43%) ETL
7 61 (18.60%) Business Intelligence
8 60 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
9 50 (15.24%) Migration
10 48 (14.63%) Data Migration
10 48 (14.63%) Software Engineering
11 47 (14.33%) Asset Management
12 44 (13.41%) Data Integration
13 43 (13.11%) Stakeholder Management
14 42 (12.80%) Data Analysis
15 40 (12.20%) Investment Management
16 39 (11.89%) Data Cleansing
17 37 (11.28%) Greeks
18 36 (10.98%) Data Architecture
19 35 (10.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 102 (31.10%) Python
2 91 (27.74%) SQL
3 51 (15.55%) Java
4 43 (13.11%) JavaScript
5 41 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 12 (3.66%) Scala
7 9 (2.74%) C#
8 5 (1.52%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.22%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.91%) Bash
10 3 (0.91%) Bicep
10 3 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.91%) R
11 2 (0.61%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.30%) Go
12 1 (0.30%) HiveQL
12 1 (0.30%) Perl
12 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.30%) Tcl
12 1 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (12.20%) Degree
2 37 (11.28%) Security Cleared
3 36 (10.98%) SC Cleared
4 14 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.44%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.61%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.40%) GDPR
2 20 (6.10%) QA
3 7 (2.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (0.91%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.91%) PMO
5 2 (0.61%) GRC
5 2 (0.61%) IFRS
5 2 (0.61%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.61%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (1.83%) Docker
2 3 (0.91%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.30%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (1.83%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.22%) Ansible
2 4 (1.22%) Terraform
3 2 (0.61%) Data Guard
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.30%) Matomo
Vendors
1 32 (9.76%) Informatica
2 25 (7.62%) Databricks
3 22 (6.71%) Microsoft
4 19 (5.79%) Oracle
5 17 (5.18%) SAP
6 11 (3.35%) Google
7 9 (2.74%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.44%) Facebook
9 7 (2.13%) Sparx
10 6 (1.83%) Instagram
11 4 (1.22%) Ariba
12 3 (0.91%) Foundry
12 3 (0.91%) NEC
12 3 (0.91%) Palantir
12 3 (0.91%) Phenom
12 3 (0.91%) Splunk
12 3 (0.91%) Teradata
13 2 (0.61%) Adobe
13 2 (0.61%) Liquidlogic
13 2 (0.61%) MuleSoft