Data Quality Contracts in Essex

Data Quality
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 14 30 18
Rank change year-on-year +16 -12 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 6 2 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 7.50% 0.90% 7.53%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 42.86% 25.00% 40.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 10
10th Percentile £313 - £198
25th Percentile £314 - £212
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £550 £230
Median % change year-on-year -41.82% +139.13% -
75th Percentile £389 - £294
90th Percentile £483 - £302
East of England median daily rate £600 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +20.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £21.24
25th Percentile - - £24.97
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £31.57
75th Percentile - - £37.79
90th Percentile - - £41.29
East of England median hourly rate £31.64 £15.79 £31.57
% change year-on-year +100.38% -49.98% +294.56%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 14 8 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 17.50% 3.60% 18.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 20
10th Percentile £314 £340 £182
25th Percentile £315 £450 £212
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £550 £279
Median % change year-on-year -34.09% +97.03% -37.97%
75th Percentile £438 £613 £406
90th Percentile £497 £642 £628
East of England median daily rate £550 £410 £450
% change year-on-year +34.15% -8.89% +5.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £30.50 - £23.73
25th Percentile £31.25 - £31.19
Median hourly rate £32.50 - £43.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -31.42%
75th Percentile £33.75 - £44.08
90th Percentile £34.50 - £44.35
East of England median hourly rate £33.32 £15.79 £17.50
% change year-on-year +111.02% -9.77% -36.36%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Job postings citing Data Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in Essex

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in Essex.

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in Essex

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in Essex over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in Essex

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in Essex.

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in Essex

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex 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
Basildon - 3 £315 - 12
Benfleet - 1 - -
Chelmsford - 1 £325 - 10
Data Quality
East of England

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 3 (50.00%) Apache
1 3 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) dbt
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub
3 2 (33.33%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Power BI
2 3 (50.00%) BigQuery
2 3 (50.00%) Tableau
3 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (33.33%) Looker
3 2 (33.33%) MySQL
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) GCP Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (50.00%) PySpark
1 3 (50.00%) React
2 2 (33.33%) Kafka
2 2 (33.33%) NumPy
2 2 (33.33%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (50.00%) Data Security
3 3 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
3 3 (50.00%) Visualisation
4 2 (33.33%) Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Data Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (33.33%) Data Management
4 2 (33.33%) Data Science
4 2 (33.33%) DataOps
4 2 (33.33%) Open Source
4 2 (33.33%) Workflow
4 2 (33.33%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft