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 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 33 75 72
Rank change year-on-year +42 -3 +41
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 56 37 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 5.97% 1.94% 2.47%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 38.62% 22.98% 17.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 14 36
10th Percentile £399 £317 £218
25th Percentile £525 £413 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £539 £600
90th Percentile £684 £571 -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 2
10th Percentile £18.05 - £21.24
25th Percentile £19.71 £15.39 £24.97
Median hourly rate £31.64 £15.79 £31.57
Median % change year-on-year +100.38% -49.98% +294.56%
75th Percentile - £22.05 £37.79
90th Percentile £32.98 £29.52 £41.29
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 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 145 161 292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.46% 8.43% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 92 187
10th Percentile £310 £251 £185
25th Percentile £431 £363 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +34.15% -8.89% +5.14%
75th Percentile £659 £538 £600
90th Percentile £689 £600 £729
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 30 25
10th Percentile £17.63 £14.16 £12.27
25th Percentile £22.65 £14.43 £13.29
Median hourly rate £33.32 £15.79 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +111.02% -9.77% -36.36%
75th Percentile £73.44 £25.00 £44.53
90th Percentile £86.70 £37.90 £69.50
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 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 1 May 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 1 May 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 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
Hertfordshire +50 29 £650 +42.47% 3
Bedfordshire 0 17 £625 +25.00% 6
Essex +16 6 £320 -41.82% 3
Cambridgeshire +6 3 £400 -23.81% 13
Norfolk +3 1 - -
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 14 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (5.36%) Apache
2 3 (5.36%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.36%) Confluence
2 3 (5.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (23.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.57%) Workday HCM
3 1 (1.79%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 17 (30.36%) Azure
2 14 (25.00%) AWS
3 10 (17.86%) Power Platform
4 5 (8.93%) GCP
5 3 (5.36%) GitHub
6 2 (3.57%) dbt
6 2 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.57%) Snowflake
6 2 (3.57%) Vertex AI
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (39.29%) Tableau
2 15 (26.79%) Big Data
3 14 (25.00%) Hadoop
4 10 (17.86%) Power BI
5 5 (8.93%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (5.36%) BigQuery
6 3 (5.36%) Data Lake
7 2 (3.57%) Looker
7 2 (3.57%) Metadata
7 2 (3.57%) MySQL
7 2 (3.57%) RDBMS
7 2 (3.57%) Relational Database
7 2 (3.57%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.79%) MS Access
8 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) JIRA
2 1 (1.79%) ER Studio
2 1 (1.79%) ERwin
2 1 (1.79%) Git
General
1 22 (39.29%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 9 (16.07%) Finance
4 8 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (7.14%) Telecoms
6 3 (5.36%) Banking
7 2 (3.57%) Local Government
7 2 (3.57%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.57%) Retail
8 1 (1.79%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (35.71%) Developer
2 14 (25.00%) Data Science Developer
3 12 (21.43%) Senior
4 11 (19.64%) Senior Developer
5 10 (17.86%) Analyst
6 7 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 6 (10.71%) Data Analyst
8 5 (8.93%) Data Engineer
8 5 (8.93%) Lead
9 3 (5.36%) Architect
9 3 (5.36%) Risk Analyst
10 2 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
10 2 (3.57%) Consultant
10 2 (3.57%) Data Analytics Specialist
10 2 (3.57%) Data Architect
10 2 (3.57%) GCP Data Engineer
10 2 (3.57%) GCP Engineer
10 2 (3.57%) Gen AI Developer
10 2 (3.57%) SAP Financial Specialist
10 2 (3.57%) Workday Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (32.14%) NumPy
1 18 (32.14%) Pandas
2 16 (28.57%) Matplotlib
2 16 (28.57%) PyTorch
2 16 (28.57%) scikit-learn
2 16 (28.57%) Seaborn
2 16 (28.57%) TensorFlow
3 3 (5.36%) AngularJS
3 3 (5.36%) PySpark
3 3 (5.36%) React
4 2 (3.57%) Kafka
5 1 (1.79%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 19 (33.93%) Algorithms
2 13 (23.21%) Life Science
3 3 (5.36%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.36%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.57%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.57%) EPoS
5 1 (1.79%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Licensing
5 1 (1.79%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (58.93%) Analytics
2 26 (46.43%) Visualisation
3 23 (41.07%) Data Analysis
4 22 (39.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 22 (39.29%) Data Science
4 22 (39.29%) Machine Learning
5 21 (37.50%) Data Governance
6 19 (33.93%) Generative AI
6 19 (33.93%) LLM
7 18 (32.14%) Decision-Making
8 17 (30.36%) Reinforcement Learning
9 16 (28.57%) Data Analytics
9 16 (28.57%) Data Munging
9 16 (28.57%) Migration
10 15 (26.79%) Feature Engineering
11 14 (25.00%) Predictive Analytics
11 14 (25.00%) Statistical Modelling
11 14 (25.00%) Time Series Forecasting
12 13 (23.21%) Computer Science
12 13 (23.21%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (39.29%) Python
2 16 (28.57%) R
3 9 (16.07%) SQL
4 3 (5.36%) Java
4 3 (5.36%) VBA
5 2 (3.57%) PHP
6 1 (1.79%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 17 (30.36%) Degree
2 14 (25.00%) Master's Degree
3 12 (21.43%) PhD
4 2 (3.57%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.50%) GDPR
2 2 (3.57%) PMO
2 2 (3.57%) QA
3 1 (1.79%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.79%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (5.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (23.21%) SAP
2 7 (12.50%) Ariba
3 2 (3.57%) Anaplan
3 2 (3.57%) Google
3 2 (3.57%) Hyperion
3 2 (3.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.57%) Workday
4 1 (1.79%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.79%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.79%) OpenAI