Data Quality Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Data Quality
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Data Quality skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 31 35
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 +10
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 2 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 0.81% 2.03% 1.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.17% 10.87% 8.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - £478 £507
25th Percentile £488 £492 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £513 £531
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% -3.53% +18.06%
75th Percentile £503 £563 £561
90th Percentile - £608 £566
South Wales median daily rate £495 £513 £531
% change year-on-year -3.41% -3.53% -7.61%

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 48 46 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 19.51% 18.70% 14.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 36 24
10th Percentile £196 £161 £166
25th Percentile £241 £199 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £456 £488
Median % change year-on-year -13.97% -6.41% -10.55%
75th Percentile £503 £544 £570
90th Percentile £529 £550 £650
South Wales median daily rate £413 £488 £463
% change year-on-year -15.38% +5.41% -11.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile - £21.91 -
25th Percentile - £22.53 £37.50
Median hourly rate £13.08 £24.80 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.26% -38.00% +194.93%
75th Percentile - £26.28 £42.50
90th Percentile - £26.41 -
South Wales median hourly rate £13.08 £25.36 £23.92
% change year-on-year -48.42% +6.04% +18.16%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Data Quality job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Data Quality
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

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

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
1 2 (100.00%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle