Data Quality Contracts in Cardiff

Data Quality
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 28 33 41
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 +15
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 2 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 1.25% 0.94% 1.48%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.53% 5.41% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £177 - £468
25th Percentile £191 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £221 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -57.90% +5.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £257 £538 £525
90th Percentile £275 - £533
South Wales median daily rate £221 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -57.90% +5.00% +23.46%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 19 37 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 11.88% 17.45% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 33 32
10th Percentile £186 £373 £212
25th Percentile £303 £494 £342
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £526 £501
Median % change year-on-year -25.78% +4.84% +5.53%
75th Percentile £438 £588 £578
90th Percentile £529 £663 £613
South Wales median daily rate £370 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -27.80% +2.50% -

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in Cardiff

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in Cardiff

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata Repository
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) SQL DBA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Database Security
2 1 (50.00%) Database Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy