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 6 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 29 21
Rank change year-on-year +18 -8 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 7 3 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 7.69% 1.33% 6.94%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 36.84% 27.27% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 10
10th Percentile £313 - £198
25th Percentile £314 - £212
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 £550 £230
Median % change year-on-year -42.73% +139.13% -
75th Percentile £326 - £294
90th Percentile £333 - £302
East of England median daily rate £605 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +20.90% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £43.63
East of England median hourly rate £31.64 £15.79 £43.63
% change year-on-year +100.38% -63.81% -

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 19 11 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 20.88% 4.87% 20.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 18
10th Percentile £314 £355 £208
25th Percentile £315 £475 £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £550 £308
Median % change year-on-year -34.09% +78.57% -37.78%
75th Percentile £425 £559 £471
90th Percentile £440 £603 £632
East of England median daily rate £525 £410 £445
% change year-on-year +28.05% -7.87% +2.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £31.00 £21.16 £43.72
25th Percentile £32.50 £28.92 £43.86
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.24 £44.08
Median % change year-on-year -19.06% -1.91% -18.48%
75th Percentile £55.00 £58.93 £44.31
90th Percentile £67.00 £67.52 £44.44
East of England median hourly rate £61.50 £15.79 £17.50
% change year-on-year +289.49% -9.77% -14.63%

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
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 6 June 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 - 5 £315 - 45
Benfleet - 1 - -
Chelmsford - 1 £325 - 44
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 5 (71.43%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (42.86%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) dbt
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
2 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 2 (28.57%) Snowflake
3 2 (28.57%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) BigQuery
1 3 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (42.86%) Power BI
1 3 (42.86%) Tableau
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (28.57%) Looker
2 2 (28.57%) MySQL
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Database
2 2 (28.57%) RDBMS
2 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
General
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Data Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) GCP Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Snowflake Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) AngularJS
1 3 (42.86%) PySpark
1 3 (42.86%) React
2 2 (28.57%) Kafka
2 2 (28.57%) NumPy
2 2 (28.57%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Data Engineering
1 5 (71.43%) Data Pipeline
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
2 3 (42.86%) Data Governance
2 3 (42.86%) Data Security
2 3 (42.86%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (42.86%) ETL
2 3 (42.86%) Technical Architecture
2 3 (42.86%) Visualisation
3 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Data Management
3 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
3 2 (28.57%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) Open Source
3 2 (28.57%) Workflow
3 2 (28.57%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) SQL
3 3 (42.86%) Java
4 2 (28.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
1 2 (28.57%) StreamSets