Data Quality Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Data Quality Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Quality Analyst daily rate in England is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 525 570
Rank change year-on-year +34 +45 +169
Contract jobs requiring a Data Quality Analyst 10 8 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.036% 0.024% 0.071%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.039% 0.026% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 21
10th Percentile £340 £419 £163
25th Percentile £363 £447 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% -7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £488 £525 £650
90th Percentile £566 £570 £695
UK median daily rate £425 £488 £525
% change year-on-year -12.82% -7.14% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £20.07
Median % change year-on-year - +74.39% -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £20.07
% change year-on-year - +74.39% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 25,358 30,404 39,813
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.33% 93.00% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,368 19,004 27,789
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,358 1,484 1,356
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.59 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.33 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% +3.20% +71.00%
75th Percentile £54.00 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.88
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.01% +68.77%

Data Quality Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Data Quality Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality Analyst in England

Data Quality Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Quality Analyst job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Quality Analyst job vacancies in England

Data Quality Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality Analyst in England over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality Analyst in England

Data Quality Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Quality Analyst job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Quality Analyst job vacancies in England

Data Quality Analyst
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Quality Analyst within the 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
London +25 4 £425 -20.93% 6
North of England - 3 £481 - 1
South East +24 2 - - 8
East of England +5 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - -
North East - 1 £613 -
North West - 1 £350 - 1
Data Quality Analyst
UK

Data Quality Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, Data Quality Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Data Quality Analyst in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (40.00%) SQL
4 3 (30.00%) Data Governance
4 3 (30.00%) Databricks
4 3 (30.00%) Customer-Centricity
4 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (30.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (20.00%) Finance
5 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
6 1 (10.00%) Data Validation
6 1 (10.00%) Fund Accounting
6 1 (10.00%) Data Entry
6 1 (10.00%) Visualisation
6 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (10.00%) Validation
6 1 (10.00%) Agile
6 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
6 1 (10.00%) Data Management
6 1 (10.00%) Information Management
6 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis
6 1 (10.00%) CRM
6 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
6 1 (10.00%) Quality Management
6 1 (10.00%) Change Management
6 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
6 1 (10.00%) Risk Management

Data Quality Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (10.00%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) CMDB
1 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) PropTech
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Customer-Centricity
1 3 (30.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (30.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (10.00%) Agile
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (10.00%) CAFM
3 1 (10.00%) Change Management
3 1 (10.00%) CRM
3 1 (10.00%) Data Entry
3 1 (10.00%) Data Validation
3 1 (10.00%) Facilities Management
3 1 (10.00%) Fund Accounting
3 1 (10.00%) Quality Management
3 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (10.00%) Validation
3 1 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft