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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 54 77
Rank change year-on-year +16 +23 +3
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 17 13 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.95% 1.69% 0.40%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 18.68% 15.29% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 3
10th Percentile £367 £256 £213
25th Percentile £368 £331 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £422 £425
Median % change year-on-year +8.90% -0.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £488 £533 £694
90th Percentile £505 £660 £848
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
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 £21.12 £22.49
% change year-on-year +49.85% -6.09% -1.16%

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 91 85 98
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 15.80% 11.04% 9.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 56 71
10th Percentile £168 £200 £185
25th Percentile £320 £255 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £447 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.17% +5.06% +7.32%
75th Percentile £475 £600 £551
90th Percentile £525 £623 £638
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 3
10th Percentile £15.03 £9.95 £25.00
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.75 £32.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £23.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.15% -52.51% +192.31%
75th Percentile £31.76 £26.15 £60.00
90th Percentile £34.92 £34.48 £63.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £22.42 £37.50
% change year-on-year +56.11% -40.21% +28.78%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 19 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
Northamptonshire -5 5 £447 +11.75% 9
Leicestershire +8 3 £424 -22.95% 7
Nottinghamshire +1 3 - - 6
Derbyshire - 2 £463 - 5
Lincolnshire +1 1 - - 2
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 3 (17.65%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.88%) Luigi
2 1 (5.88%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (5.88%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (5.88%) Primavera
2 1 (5.88%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) GCP
3 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon S3
4 2 (11.76%) Asana
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 4 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (17.65%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (17.65%) Hadoop
2 3 (17.65%) Power BI
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 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) PyCharm
General
1 10 (58.82%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Local Government
3 3 (17.65%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Finance
4 2 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.88%) Marketing
5 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Data Engineer
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%) IT Manager
3 2 (11.76%) IT Project Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Project Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Data 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%) 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
3 1 (5.88%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Data Governance
2 7 (41.18%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (41.18%) ETL
2 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (35.29%) Agile
3 6 (35.29%) Analytics
3 6 (35.29%) Data Modelling
3 6 (35.29%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (29.41%) Data Analytics
4 5 (29.41%) Data Management
4 5 (29.41%) Validation
5 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (23.53%) Data Analysis
5 4 (23.53%) Data Engineering
5 4 (23.53%) Data Visualisation
5 4 (23.53%) Visualisation
6 3 (17.65%) Data Integration
6 3 (17.65%) Data Migration
6 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
6 3 (17.65%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) SQL
2 7 (41.18%) Python
3 3 (17.65%) Java
3 3 (17.65%) Scala
4 1 (5.88%) Apex Code
4 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
4 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
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 2 (11.76%) SAP
2 1 (5.88%) Databricks
2 1 (5.88%) Informatica
2 1 (5.88%) JD Edwards
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) Salesforce