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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 80 77
Rank change year-on-year +24 -3 +45
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 35 16 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.69% 1.05% 1.78%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.77% 10.60% 12.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 27
10th Percentile £525 £333 £415
25th Percentile £534 £388 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.14% +5.00% -26.20%
75th Percentile £666 £563 £600
90th Percentile £675 £646 £650
England median daily rate £513 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -8.89% +2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £24.33 - -
25th Percentile £29.03 - -
Median hourly rate £31.64 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £34.43 £37.50 £35.63
% change year-on-year -8.19% +5.25% +77.40%

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 222 151 261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 17.05% 9.93% 14.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 67 128
10th Percentile £212 £255 £274
25th Percentile £356 £322 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £495
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -14.14% +16.47%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £650 £598 £718
England median daily rate £500 £525 £539
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.60% +2.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 21 26
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.41 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.57 £14.99 £13.29
Median hourly rate £31.64 £25.00 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year +26.56% -25.93% +101.49%
75th Percentile £87.88 £63.75 £49.00
90th Percentile £91.50 £67.50 £66.88
England median hourly rate £32.50 £30.56 £37.50
% change year-on-year +6.35% -18.51% +66.67%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality 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 September 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 September 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
Hertfordshire +11 15 £638 +70.00% 12
Bedfordshire - 7 £613 - 4
Essex +1 5 - - 8
Norfolk - 5 £525 - 4
Cambridgeshire 0 3 £605 +3.33% 5
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 6 (17.14%) Apache Spark
2 4 (11.43%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.86%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (17.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.86%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 14 (40.00%) AWS
2 6 (17.14%) Azure
3 5 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 4 (11.43%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (11.43%) dbt
4 4 (11.43%) Power Platform
4 4 (11.43%) Serverless
4 4 (11.43%) Snowflake
5 3 (8.57%) IaaS
5 3 (8.57%) PaaS
5 3 (8.57%) SaaS
6 2 (5.71%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (5.71%) GCP
7 1 (2.86%) Alation
7 1 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (25.71%) RDBMS
2 9 (25.71%) Relational Database
3 8 (22.86%) Tableau
4 7 (20.00%) Big Data
5 6 (17.14%) Hadoop
6 4 (11.43%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (11.43%) Data Lake
6 4 (11.43%) Oracle Database
6 4 (11.43%) Power BI
7 3 (8.57%) Metadata
8 2 (5.71%) PowerCenter
8 2 (5.71%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (2.86%) Ataccama
9 1 (2.86%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (2.86%) Delta Lake
9 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
9 1 (2.86%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
9 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) ER Studio
1 1 (2.86%) ERwin
General
1 19 (54.29%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.00%) Finance
3 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.86%) Digital Health
5 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Developer
2 6 (17.14%) Architect
2 6 (17.14%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 6 (17.14%) Data Science Developer
3 4 (11.43%) Analyst
3 4 (11.43%) Data Analyst
3 4 (11.43%) Snowflake Architect
4 3 (8.57%) Consultant
4 3 (8.57%) Lead
4 3 (8.57%) Technical Leader
5 2 (5.71%) Data Consultant
5 2 (5.71%) Data Migration Consultant
5 2 (5.71%) Gen AI Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Migration Consultant
5 2 (5.71%) SAP Consultant
5 2 (5.71%) SAP Data Consultant
5 2 (5.71%) SAP Data Migration Consultant
5 2 (5.71%) SAP Migration Consultant
6 1 (2.86%) Business Intelligence Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Data Steward
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.86%) Matplotlib
1 8 (22.86%) NumPy
1 8 (22.86%) Pandas
1 8 (22.86%) PyTorch
1 8 (22.86%) scikit-learn
1 8 (22.86%) Seaborn
1 8 (22.86%) TensorFlow
2 3 (8.57%) REST
2 3 (8.57%) SOAP
3 1 (2.86%) Great Expectations
3 1 (2.86%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.71%) Algorithms
2 6 (17.14%) Life Science
3 1 (2.86%) Clustering
3 1 (2.86%) Data Fabric
3 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.86%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (54.29%) Analytics
2 15 (42.86%) Data Analysis
3 12 (34.29%) Visualisation
4 11 (31.43%) Artificial Intelligence
4 11 (31.43%) Machine Learning
4 11 (31.43%) Migration
5 10 (28.57%) Data Modelling
5 10 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (25.71%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (25.71%) Data Governance
6 9 (25.71%) Data Science
6 9 (25.71%) Decision-Making
6 9 (25.71%) ETL
6 9 (25.71%) Generative AI
6 9 (25.71%) LLM
7 8 (22.86%) Computer Science
7 8 (22.86%) Data Migration
7 8 (22.86%) Data Munging
8 7 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (20.00%) Reinforcement Learning
Programming Languages
1 13 (37.14%) SQL
2 12 (34.29%) Python
3 8 (22.86%) R
4 1 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.86%) Java
4 1 (2.86%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (25.71%) Degree
2 5 (14.29%) Master's Degree
2 5 (14.29%) PhD
3 4 (11.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (2.86%) GDPR
1 1 (2.86%) PMO
1 1 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (25.71%) SAP
2 4 (11.43%) Oracle
2 4 (11.43%) StreamSets
3 3 (8.57%) Databricks
3 3 (8.57%) Informatica
4 1 (2.86%) Ariba
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft