Data Quality Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Data Quality
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Data Quality skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 55 58
Rank change year-on-year -27 +3 +68
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 17 31 48
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.06% 2.71% 2.82%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.69% 17.42% 21.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 25 32
10th Percentile £441 £337 £300
25th Percentile £475 £399 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £656 £650 £515
90th Percentile £668 £675 £575
England median daily rate £500 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £79.17
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.50 £43.28
% change year-on-year -25.33% -13.35% +188.42%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 254 178 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.88% 15.56% 13.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 86 112
10th Percentile £231 £261 £300
25th Percentile £400 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +13.51%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £600
90th Percentile £661 £669 £698
England median daily rate £500 £500 £545
% change year-on-year - -8.26% +3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 17 28
10th Percentile £14.10 £13.85 £13.29
25th Percentile £16.70 £16.23 £14.16
Median hourly rate £18.50 £25.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.00% -43.82% +151.13%
75th Percentile £20.00 £31.12 £47.31
90th Percentile £53.50 £51.00 £61.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £29.50 £35.79
% change year-on-year -14.75% -17.57% +59.07%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Data Quality job vacancy trend in the East of England

Data Quality
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Quality.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in the East of England over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in the East of England

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Quality.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Bedfordshire +3 7 £500 -25.93% 3
Hertfordshire -37 5 £581 +16.25% 18
Essex -4 3 - - 8
Cambridgeshire -6 2 - - 13
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (17.65%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) Amazon S3
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (11.76%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) dbt
3 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
3 2 (11.76%) Serverless
3 2 (11.76%) Snowflake
4 1 (5.88%) Alation
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Metadata
2 3 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle Database
3 2 (11.76%) Power BI
3 2 (11.76%) RDBMS
3 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 2 (11.76%) Tableau
4 1 (5.88%) Ataccama
4 1 (5.88%) Big Data
4 1 (5.88%) Delta Lake
4 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.88%) Power Query
4 1 (5.88%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 12 (70.59%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Aviation
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Architect
1 3 (17.65%) Data Steward
2 2 (11.76%) Developer
2 2 (11.76%) Snowflake Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Administrator
3 1 (5.88%) Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Data Science Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Data Visualisation Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Project Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Senior
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Great Expectations
1 1 (5.88%) Matplotlib
1 1 (5.88%) NumPy
1 1 (5.88%) Pandas
1 1 (5.88%) PySpark
1 1 (5.88%) PyTorch
1 1 (5.88%) scikit-learn
1 1 (5.88%) Seaborn
1 1 (5.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Life Science
2 2 (11.76%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.88%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Analytics
2 8 (47.06%) Data Governance
3 6 (35.29%) Data Engineering
3 6 (35.29%) Migration
4 4 (23.53%) AI
4 4 (23.53%) Data Management
4 4 (23.53%) Data Modelling
4 4 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (23.53%) Machine Learning
4 4 (23.53%) Master Data Management
4 4 (23.53%) Metadata Management
4 4 (23.53%) Monte Carlo Method
4 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (23.53%) Validation
5 3 (17.65%) Anomaly Detection
5 3 (17.65%) Data Design
5 3 (17.65%) Data Privacy
5 3 (17.65%) Data Sharing
5 3 (17.65%) Observability
5 3 (17.65%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) SQL
2 3 (17.65%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (5.88%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Master's Degree
2 2 (11.76%) PhD
3 1 (5.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (5.88%) GDPR
1 1 (5.88%) PMO
1 1 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Databricks
1 3 (17.65%) SAP
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle
2 2 (11.76%) StreamSets
3 1 (5.88%) Ariba
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft