Data Quality Contracts in the East Midlands

Data Quality
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 39 53 81
Rank change year-on-year +14 +28 +4
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 17 13 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 3.17% 1.68% 0.38%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.10% 15.66% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 3
10th Percentile £367 £256 £213
25th Percentile £368 £331 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £422 £425
Median % change year-on-year +6.05% -0.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £473 £533 £694
90th Percentile £488 £660 £848
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £18.68 £8.68 -
25th Percentile £19.40 £11.86 -
Median hourly rate £20.60 £19.18 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.43% - -
75th Percentile £21.80 £27.22 -
90th Percentile £22.52 £30.84 -
England median hourly rate £31.64 £22.56 £22.49
% change year-on-year +40.26% +0.32% +13.88%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 89 83 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 16.60% 10.74% 10.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 52 81
10th Percentile £168 £200 £231
25th Percentile £300 £255 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £391 £434 £415
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% +4.58% +3.75%
75th Percentile £476 £603 £538
90th Percentile £524 £623 £634
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 3
10th Percentile £14.50 £9.95 £25.00
25th Percentile £16.88 £12.75 £32.50
Median hourly rate £20.60 £23.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.25% -52.51% +192.31%
75th Percentile £25.19 £26.15 £60.00
90th Percentile £29.13 £34.48 £63.00
England median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
% change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Data Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in the East Midlands

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in the East Midlands

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in the East Midlands

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Nottinghamshire +8 5 - - 2
Northamptonshire -1 5 £447 +11.75% 3
Leicestershire +9 3 £424 -22.95% 3
Lincolnshire +2 1 - -
Derbyshire - 1 - - 3
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.88%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.88%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) GCP
2 5 (29.41%) Power Platform
3 4 (23.53%) Asana
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon S3
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (11.76%) Serverless
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.88%) dbt
5 1 (5.88%) Pulumi
5 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Power BI
2 3 (17.65%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (11.76%) Hadoop
3 2 (11.76%) Impala
3 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
3 2 (11.76%) Tableau
4 1 (5.88%) Apache Hive
4 1 (5.88%) Big Data
4 1 (5.88%) BigQuery
4 1 (5.88%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (5.88%) Data Mining
4 1 (5.88%) HBase
4 1 (5.88%) Spark SQL
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) JIRA
2 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) Git
3 1 (5.88%) PyCharm
General
1 10 (58.82%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Local Government
2 3 (17.65%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Marketing
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Data Engineer
1 4 (23.53%) IT Manager
1 4 (23.53%) IT Project Manager
1 4 (23.53%) Project Manager
2 3 (17.65%) Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Data Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Data Governance Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Data Governance Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Governance Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Junior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Performance Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Performance Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (5.88%) Middleware
2 1 (5.88%) REST
2 1 (5.88%) SOAP
2 1 (5.88%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Data Governance
2 9 (52.94%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (47.06%) Agile
4 7 (41.18%) Analytics
4 7 (41.18%) Data Analytics
5 6 (35.29%) Data Modelling
5 6 (35.29%) ETL
5 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (29.41%) Data Migration
6 5 (29.41%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (29.41%) Migration
6 5 (29.41%) Project Management
7 4 (23.53%) CRM
7 4 (23.53%) Data Analysis
7 4 (23.53%) Data Management
7 4 (23.53%) ERP
7 4 (23.53%) Risk Management
7 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (23.53%) Validation
7 4 (23.53%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) SQL
2 8 (47.06%) Python
3 3 (17.65%) Scala
4 2 (11.76%) Java
5 1 (5.88%) Apex Code
5 1 (5.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (5.88%) GDPR
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Databricks
1 1 (5.88%) JD Edwards
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.88%) Salesforce
1 1 (5.88%) SAP