Data Quality Contracts in the East of England

Data Quality
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 84 79
Rank change year-on-year +44 -5 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 52 29 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 4.71% 1.51% 2.22%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 26.94% 17.37% 15.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 11 37
10th Percentile £366 £303 £219
25th Percentile £531 £441 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £581 £600
90th Percentile - £645 £620
England median daily rate £525 £550 £539
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.09% -2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 1
10th Percentile £18.05 - -
25th Percentile £19.71 £15.39 -
Median hourly rate £31.64 £15.79 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year +100.38% -63.81% +249.60%
75th Percentile - £16.20 -
90th Percentile £32.98 £24.00 -
England median hourly rate £31.82 £21.06 £22.49
% change year-on-year +51.11% -6.35% -4.01%

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 193 167 278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 17.48% 8.68% 14.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 88 169
10th Percentile £225 £243 £204
25th Percentile £315 £330 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £410 £475
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -13.68% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £511 £600
90th Percentile £675 £591 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 36 22
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.34 £12.10
25th Percentile £17.40 £14.96 £13.29
Median hourly rate £31.64 £15.79 £17.14
Median % change year-on-year +100.38% -7.85% -36.54%
75th Percentile £87.75 £25.00 £58.72
90th Percentile £91.50 £65.63 £79.75
England median hourly rate £32.25 £24.18 £42.50
% change year-on-year +33.37% -43.11% +60.38%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in the East of England

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 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in the East of England

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in the East of England

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Quality in the East of England over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Quality in the East of England

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 2 July 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 +36 18 £650 +42.47% 36
Bedfordshire 0 15 £600 +9.09% 24
Essex +20 9 £315 -42.73% 33
Cambridgeshire +15 5 £604 -6.36% 43
Norfolk 0 5 £525 +71.29% 14
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 11 (21.15%) Apache Spark
2 6 (11.54%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (5.77%) Apache
4 1 (1.92%) IBM Domino
4 1 (1.92%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.92%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 17 (32.69%) AWS
2 14 (26.92%) Azure
3 10 (19.23%) Power Platform
4 5 (9.62%) dbt
4 5 (9.62%) GCP
4 5 (9.62%) Snowflake
5 3 (5.77%) Amazon S3
5 3 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (5.77%) GitHub
5 3 (5.77%) IaaS
5 3 (5.77%) PaaS
5 3 (5.77%) SaaS
5 3 (5.77%) Serverless
6 2 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.85%) Vertex AI
7 1 (1.92%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (30.77%) Tableau
2 12 (23.08%) Big Data
2 12 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (21.15%) Hadoop
4 10 (19.23%) Power BI
5 8 (15.38%) RDBMS
5 8 (15.38%) Relational Database
6 6 (11.54%) Data Lake
7 3 (5.77%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (5.77%) BigQuery
7 3 (5.77%) Oracle Database
8 2 (3.85%) Looker
8 2 (3.85%) Metadata
8 2 (3.85%) MySQL
8 2 (3.85%) PowerCenter
8 2 (3.85%) SAP Data Services
8 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.92%) ER Studio
1 1 (1.92%) ERwin
1 1 (1.92%) Git
General
1 23 (44.23%) Social Skills
2 13 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (21.15%) Finance
4 8 (15.38%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (5.77%) Banking
6 2 (3.85%) Local Government
6 2 (3.85%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.92%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (25.00%) Developer
2 11 (21.15%) Data Science Developer
3 8 (15.38%) Lead
4 7 (13.46%) Analyst
5 6 (11.54%) Architect
5 6 (11.54%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 6 (11.54%) Data Analyst
5 6 (11.54%) Senior
6 5 (9.62%) Data Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.77%) Consultant
7 3 (5.77%) Snowflake Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Technical Leader
8 2 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Data Analytics Specialist
8 2 (3.85%) GCP Data Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) GCP Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Gen AI Developer
8 2 (3.85%) SAP Financial Specialist
8 2 (3.85%) SAP Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (28.85%) NumPy
1 15 (28.85%) Pandas
2 13 (25.00%) Matplotlib
2 13 (25.00%) PyTorch
2 13 (25.00%) scikit-learn
2 13 (25.00%) Seaborn
2 13 (25.00%) TensorFlow
3 3 (5.77%) AngularJS
3 3 (5.77%) PySpark
3 3 (5.77%) React
3 3 (5.77%) REST
3 3 (5.77%) SOAP
4 2 (3.85%) Kafka
5 1 (1.92%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 13 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 13 (25.00%) Life Science
2 3 (5.77%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.85%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.85%) EPoS
4 1 (1.92%) Clustering
4 1 (1.92%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Licensing
4 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.92%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (63.46%) Analytics
2 22 (42.31%) Data Analysis
3 21 (40.38%) Visualisation
4 18 (34.62%) Data Governance
4 18 (34.62%) Migration
5 16 (30.77%) Data Science
5 16 (30.77%) Decision-Making
6 14 (26.92%) Artificial Intelligence
6 14 (26.92%) Business Intelligence
6 14 (26.92%) Machine Learning
7 13 (25.00%) Computer Science
7 13 (25.00%) Data Analytics
7 13 (25.00%) Data Munging
7 13 (25.00%) Generative AI
7 13 (25.00%) LLM
8 11 (21.15%) Data Design
8 11 (21.15%) Predictive Analytics
8 11 (21.15%) Reinforcement Learning
8 11 (21.15%) Statistical Modelling
8 11 (21.15%) Time Series Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 21 (40.38%) Python
2 17 (32.69%) SQL
3 13 (25.00%) R
4 4 (7.69%) Java
5 2 (3.85%) PHP
6 1 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.92%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (30.77%) Degree
2 11 (21.15%) Master's Degree
3 9 (17.31%) PhD
4 4 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.85%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.92%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.54%) GDPR
2 3 (5.77%) PMO
3 1 (1.92%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.92%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (5.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (30.77%) SAP
2 7 (13.46%) Ariba
3 3 (5.77%) Informatica
3 3 (5.77%) Oracle
3 3 (5.77%) StreamSets
4 2 (3.85%) Anaplan
4 2 (3.85%) Google
4 2 (3.85%) Hyperion
4 2 (3.85%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.92%) Databricks
5 1 (1.92%) OpenAI