Data Quality Contracts in Bedfordshire

Data Quality
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire 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 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 32 13
Rank change year-on-year +3 -19 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 9 3 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 3.85% 1.44% 11.41%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.64% 10.00% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 15
10th Percentile £550 - £463
25th Percentile £569 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £622 - £600
90th Percentile £639 - -
East of England median daily rate £590 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +7.27% +10.00% -26.06%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 66 30 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 28.21% 14.35% 22.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 9 22
10th Percentile £86 £179 £296
25th Percentile £500 £400 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £560 £588
90th Percentile £650 £635 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £405 £475
% change year-on-year +23.46% -14.74% +7.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 1
10th Percentile £52.50 £36.19 -
25th Percentile £82.50 £43.44 -
Median hourly rate £88.00 £57.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.04% +4.55% -20.00%
75th Percentile £91.50 £67.50 -
90th Percentile - £73.75 -
East of England median hourly rate £31.64 £24.00 £19.95
% change year-on-year +31.83% +20.30% +22.09%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in Bedfordshire

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in Bedfordshire

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in Bedfordshire

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 18 August 2025. 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
Luton -3 6 £580 -3.33% 3
Leighton Buzzard - 1 - -
Data Quality
East of England

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 1 (11.11%) IBM Domino
Business Applications
1 8 (88.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (11.11%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
1 2 (22.22%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Data Lake
1 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (22.22%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) Metadata
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Finance
3 3 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (22.22%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Data Analytics Specialist
1 2 (22.22%) SAP Financial Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Data Quality Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Quality Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Life Science
2 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 1 (11.11%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Analytics
2 6 (66.67%) Data Design
2 6 (66.67%) Data Governance
3 4 (44.44%) Migration
4 3 (33.33%) Matrix Organization
4 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
5 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
5 2 (22.22%) Impact Assessments
5 2 (22.22%) Inventory Management
5 2 (22.22%) Logistics
5 2 (22.22%) Profit Centre Accounting
5 2 (22.22%) Record to Report
5 2 (22.22%) Use Case
5 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Work Breakdown Structure
6 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning
6 1 (11.11%) Ontologies
6 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) PMO
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) SAP
2 3 (33.33%) Ariba
3 2 (22.22%) Anaplan
3 2 (22.22%) Hyperion
4 1 (11.11%) Databricks