Data Quality Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Data Quality
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Data Quality skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 41 60
Rank change year-on-year +6 +19 +35
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 9 8 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 2.77% 2.17% 1.35%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.24% 17.02% 11.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 9
10th Percentile £272 £424 £390
25th Percentile £307 £441 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £500 £470
Median % change year-on-year -33.00% +6.38% -1.05%
75th Percentile £459 £570 £550
90th Percentile £522 £606 £603
South East median daily rate £461 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -16.14% +4.76% +10.53%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 68 47 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 20.92% 12.77% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 30 64
10th Percentile £260 £189 £264
25th Percentile £349 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £510
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% -4.36% +7.32%
75th Percentile £512 £558 £743
90th Percentile £532 £632 £1,124
South East median daily rate £500 £485 £525
% change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 0
10th Percentile £13.25 £17.26 -
25th Percentile £15.12 £20.31 -
Median hourly rate £15.25 £26.18 -
Median % change year-on-year -41.74% - -
75th Percentile £15.38 £31.85 -
90th Percentile - £34.79 -
South East median hourly rate £17.00 £53.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -68.22% +7.00% +194.12%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in Buckinghamshire

Data Quality
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Data Quality.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 28 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in Buckinghamshire

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Data Quality.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 28 September 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
Milton Keynes +4 8 £335 -25.56% 8
Newport Pagnell - 1 - -
Data Quality
South East

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 2 (22.22%) Alation
1 2 (22.22%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (22.22%) Metadata
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
1 3 (33.33%) Informatica Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Data Migration Tester
2 2 (22.22%) Data Quality Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Quality Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Migration Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Migration Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Informatica Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) ETL
1 5 (55.56%) Migration
2 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 3 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 3 (33.33%) ETL Development
3 2 (22.22%) Change Management
3 2 (22.22%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
3 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
3 2 (22.22%) Data Reconciliation
3 2 (22.22%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
3 2 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Programme Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Quality Management
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) Validation
4 1 (11.11%) Budgeting
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Informatica
2 2 (22.22%) Databricks
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint