Data Quality Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Data Quality
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Data Quality skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 40 52
Rank change year-on-year +18 +12 +2
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 15 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 3.99% 1.81% 0.80%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 37.50% 31.25% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 2
10th Percentile - £441 £491
25th Percentile £558 £502 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £604 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% +12.37% +13.16%
75th Percentile £604 £605 £572
90th Percentile £608 £605 £574
East of England median daily rate £581 £604 £500
% change year-on-year -3.77% +20.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £17.84 -
25th Percentile £18.23 £17.91 -
Median hourly rate £18.47 £18.01 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% - -
75th Percentile £18.70 £18.12 -
90th Percentile - £18.18 -
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £15.79
% change year-on-year +26.42% +100.38% -49.98%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 40 16 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 10.64% 5.78% 8.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 10 22
10th Percentile - £250 £363
25th Percentile £513 £402 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £550 £410
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% +34.15% -4.65%
75th Percentile £675 £639 £415
90th Percentile - £650 £561
East of England median daily rate £525 £550 £410
% change year-on-year -4.55% +34.15% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 11
10th Percentile - £17.84 -
25th Percentile £13.57 £17.91 £14.16
Median hourly rate £14.37 £18.01 £15.14
Median % change year-on-year -20.24% +18.96% +11.49%
75th Percentile £16.05 £18.12 £25.00
90th Percentile £17.64 £18.18 -
East of England median hourly rate £18.50 £47.50 £15.79
% change year-on-year -61.05% +200.82% -10.89%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Data Quality job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Data Quality
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 15 May 2026. 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
Cambridge 0 9 £565 +41.25% 1
Huntingdon -2 5 £604 -0.08% 1
Peterborough +11 1 - - 1
Data Quality
East of England

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (26.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 4 (26.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Power BI
1 5 (33.33%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) JIRA
2 4 (26.67%) Git
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Consultant
1 5 (33.33%) Data Consultant
1 5 (33.33%) Data Migration Consultant
1 5 (33.33%) Migration Consultant
1 5 (33.33%) SAP Consultant
1 5 (33.33%) SAP Data Consultant
1 5 (33.33%) SAP Data Migration Consultant
1 5 (33.33%) SAP Migration Consultant
2 4 (26.67%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Data Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Data Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Excel Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Salesforce Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Business Data Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Data Migration Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Migration Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Data Visualisation Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Test Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Validation
2 10 (66.67%) Migration
3 9 (60.00%) Data Migration
4 8 (53.33%) Data Cleansing
4 8 (53.33%) Data Modelling
5 7 (46.67%) Data Validation
6 5 (33.33%) Analytics
6 5 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (33.33%) Data Extraction
6 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (33.33%) Visualisation
7 4 (26.67%) B2B
7 4 (26.67%) Data Governance
7 4 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (26.67%) ETL
8 3 (20.00%) Data Conversion
8 3 (20.00%) Data Deduplication
8 3 (20.00%) Model Validation
8 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
9 2 (13.33%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Python
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
1 4 (26.67%) VBA
2 1 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Databricks
1 5 (33.33%) SAP
2 4 (26.67%) Salesforce
3 3 (20.00%) Atlassian
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (13.33%) Dynatrace
4 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow