Data Quality Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Data Quality
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Data Quality skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 27 30
Rank change year-on-year +11 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 12 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 6.12% 1.14% 0.56%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 44.44% 11.76% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £356 - -
25th Percentile £449 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +36.84%
75th Percentile £573 - -
90th Percentile £649 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £578 £605 £645
% change year-on-year -4.47% -6.28% +35.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £17.80 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £18.47 £18.01 -
% change year-on-year +2.53% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 27 17 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 13.78% 9.66% 17.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 15
10th Percentile £404 £231 £280
25th Percentile £507 £250 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £325 £410
Median % change year-on-year +73.85% -20.73% -13.68%
75th Percentile £656 £414 £458
90th Percentile £675 £447 £610
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £573 £360 £410
% change year-on-year +59.03% -12.20% -8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £17.80 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - -28.80% +49.08%
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £18.47 £18.01 £25.00
% change year-on-year +2.53% -27.96% +88.11%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Quality relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Data Quality job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Data Quality
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in Cambridge over the 6 months to 1 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in Cambridge

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Power Platform
2 4 (33.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Git
1 5 (41.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Data Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Excel Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Salesforce Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Business Data Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Data Migration Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Migration Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) ADO
2 1 (8.33%) FastAPI
2 1 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (16.67%) CMDB
3 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 8 (66.67%) Validation
3 6 (50.00%) Analytics
3 6 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (41.67%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (41.67%) Data Governance
4 5 (41.67%) ETL
4 5 (41.67%) Visualisation
5 4 (33.33%) B2B
5 4 (33.33%) Data Migration
5 4 (33.33%) Migration
6 3 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
6 3 (25.00%) Data Conversion
6 3 (25.00%) Data Deduplication
6 3 (25.00%) Model Validation
7 2 (16.67%) Data Lineage
7 2 (16.67%) Data Transformation
7 2 (16.67%) Data Validation
7 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) SQL
3 4 (33.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) PhD
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Databricks
2 4 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 4 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 3 (25.00%) Atlassian
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (16.67%) Dynatrace
5 1 (8.33%) Cisco