Data Quality Contracts in Birmingham

Data Quality
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 36 53 58
Rank change year-on-year +17 +5 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 14 14 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.68% 1.81% 1.88%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.90% 12.96% 14.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 14
10th Percentile £403 £310 £275
25th Percentile £440 £356 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £438 £350
Median % change year-on-year +14.40% +25.00% -30.00%
75th Percentile £538 £456 -
90th Percentile £568 £500 £398
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £550 £390
% change year-on-year -4.55% +41.03% -25.71%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 67 108 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.84% 13.97% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 78 66
10th Percentile £300 £259 £263
25th Percentile £425 £264 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £419
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +4.48% -11.84%
75th Percentile £544 £538 £588
90th Percentile £620 £733 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +8.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 8
10th Percentile - £11.06 £10.96
25th Percentile - £12.30 £12.13
Median hourly rate £14.70 £13.50 £13.35
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% +1.12% -33.25%
75th Percentile £29.00 £14.00 £20.85
90th Percentile £43.10 £55.00 £29.51
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.18 £14.00 £16.10
% change year-on-year +101.29% -13.04% -5.29%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in Birmingham

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in Birmingham

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in Birmingham

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in Birmingham

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) IaaS
2 3 (21.43%) PaaS
2 3 (21.43%) SaaS
3 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.14%) AWS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (14.29%) Big Data
2 2 (14.29%) Metadata
2 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 2 (14.29%) Power BI
3 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.14%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) ERwin
1 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Finance
4 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Legal
5 1 (7.14%) Military
5 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Architect
1 3 (21.43%) Data Architect
1 3 (21.43%) IT Manager
1 3 (21.43%) IT Project Manager
1 3 (21.43%) Lead
1 3 (21.43%) Project Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Data Migration Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Migration Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Resilience Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Business IT Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Business Performance Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Data Migration Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Data Modeller
3 1 (7.14%) IT Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Lead Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Lead Data Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Product Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Project Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) FHIR
1 1 (7.14%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) PMI
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (7.14%) CMDB
2 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) ETL
2 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (42.86%) Data Management
3 6 (42.86%) Migration
4 5 (35.71%) Data Governance
4 5 (35.71%) Data Integration
4 5 (35.71%) Project Management
5 4 (28.57%) Analytics
5 4 (28.57%) Data Architecture
5 4 (28.57%) Workshop Facilitation
6 3 (21.43%) Business Continuity
6 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (21.43%) Data Mapping
6 3 (21.43%) Data Migration
6 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
6 3 (21.43%) Decision-Making
6 3 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (21.43%) ITIL
6 3 (21.43%) Requirements Workshops
6 3 (21.43%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) PMI Certification
3 1 (7.14%) CITP
3 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) PMO
2 1 (7.14%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
1 3 (21.43%) SAP
2 2 (14.29%) Epicor
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.14%) Splunk