Data Quality Contracts in Berkshire

Data Quality
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 100 83
Rank change year-on-year +27 -17 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 20 24 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.71% 1.21% 1.77%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.62% 6.92% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 18 21
10th Percentile £450 £403 £470
25th Percentile £450 £463 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% -13.64% -6.38%
75th Percentile £569 £497 £750
90th Percentile £620 £950 £784
South East median daily rate £511 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +7.63% -9.52% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 208 347 250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 17.73% 17.49% 13.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 168 128
10th Percentile £313 £245 £339
25th Percentile £450 £323 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £602
90th Percentile £684 £600 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 12
10th Percentile £43.00 £20.80 £18.50
25th Percentile £58.94 £24.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £61.50 £65.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.39% +217.07% -2.61%
75th Percentile £71.09 £70.18 £34.50
90th Percentile £89.00 £74.57 £70.73
South East median hourly rate £46.30 £27.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year +68.36% -11.29% +47.44%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in Berkshire

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in Berkshire

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in Berkshire

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in Berkshire

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Reading +32 10 £451 -7.64% 35
Wokingham -6 6 £523 +10.11%
Bracknell +16 1 £454 -49.56% 1
Data Quality
South East

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (5.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (10.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (10.00%) OCI
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Storage
4 1 (5.00%) Collibra
4 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.00%) Serverless
4 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) Data Lake
2 4 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (15.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (10.00%) Big Data
4 2 (10.00%) Hadoop
5 1 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (5.00%) Apache Hive
5 1 (5.00%) HBase
5 1 (5.00%) HDInsight
5 1 (5.00%) Impala
5 1 (5.00%) Metadata
5 1 (5.00%) Power BI
5 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 10 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (10.00%) Electronics
4 2 (10.00%) Finance
4 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (10.00%) Marketing
5 1 (5.00%) Billing
5 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) SIEM Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Data Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Junior
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Automation Tester
4 2 (10.00%) Data Migration Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Migration Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Automation Tester
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Test Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Tester
4 2 (10.00%) Test Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) JSON
1 6 (30.00%) REST
2 4 (20.00%) PySpark
3 2 (10.00%) Gherkin
4 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
4 1 (5.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 6 (30.00%) CSOC
3 5 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (5.00%) CMDB
4 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.00%) IoT
4 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
1 2 (10.00%) Unix
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (45.00%) Analytics
2 9 (45.00%) Process Improvement
3 6 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (30.00%) Incident Response
3 6 (30.00%) Security Operations
3 6 (30.00%) SIEM
3 6 (30.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 5 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 5 (25.00%) ETL
4 5 (25.00%) Migration
4 5 (25.00%) Validation
5 4 (20.00%) Data Governance
5 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (15.00%) Data Integration
6 3 (15.00%) Data Management
6 3 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (15.00%) Data Validation
6 3 (15.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) SQL
2 2 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) C#
3 1 (5.00%) Perl
3 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) GIAC
2 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Flume
1 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) Databricks
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle
3 2 (10.00%) SAP
4 1 (5.00%) BMC
4 1 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) Remedy
4 1 (5.00%) Splunk
4 1 (5.00%) StreamSets
4 1 (5.00%) Virgin Media