Data Quality Contracts in Hertfordshire

Data Quality
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 60 66
Rank change year-on-year +20 +6 -1
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 13 6 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 2.92% 0.85% 1.20%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 18.57% 10.91% 9.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 8
10th Percentile - £233 £488
25th Percentile £525 £263 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £325 £600
Median % change year-on-year +84.62% -45.83% -11.28%
75th Percentile £675 £388 £663
90th Percentile - £418 £700
East of England median daily rate £600 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -26.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
Median hourly rate £31.64 £24.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +31.83% - -
East of England median hourly rate £31.64 £24.00 £43.63
% change year-on-year +31.83% -44.99% +249.60%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 70 55 94
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 15.73% 7.80% 12.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 29 59
10th Percentile £195 £243 £273
25th Percentile £371 £275 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £345 £550
Median % change year-on-year +53.04% -37.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £438 £688
90th Percentile £645 £525 £828
East of England median daily rate £500 £405 £475
% change year-on-year +23.46% -14.74% +7.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 7
10th Percentile £16.32 £12.94 £19.78
25th Percentile £17.03 £14.41 £20.50
Median hourly rate £17.78 £15.37 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.66% -33.17% -14.81%
75th Percentile £31.64 £22.07 £56.38
90th Percentile £32.92 £25.00 £66.25
East of England median hourly rate £31.64 £24.00 £19.95
% change year-on-year +31.83% +20.30% +22.09%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in Hertfordshire

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in Hertfordshire

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in Hertfordshire

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 16 August 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
Stevenage +16 7 - - 1
Welwyn Garden City - 1 - -
Data Quality
East of England

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 6 (46.15%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Power Platform
3 2 (15.38%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) Tableau
2 7 (53.85%) Big Data
3 6 (46.15%) Hadoop
4 3 (23.08%) Power BI
5 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
5 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (7.69%) Metadata
5 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
5 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
5 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) ER Studio
1 1 (7.69%) ERwin
General
1 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Developer
2 6 (46.15%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 6 (46.15%) Data Science Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Data Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Gen AI Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Data Modeller
5 1 (7.69%) Excel Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Facilities Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) PMO Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) Principal Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Principal Data Architect
5 1 (7.69%) SQL Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) Matplotlib
1 8 (61.54%) NumPy
1 8 (61.54%) Pandas
1 8 (61.54%) PyTorch
1 8 (61.54%) scikit-learn
1 8 (61.54%) Seaborn
1 8 (61.54%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.69%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Data Analysis
1 11 (84.62%) Visualisation
2 9 (69.23%) Analytics
3 8 (61.54%) Artificial Intelligence
3 8 (61.54%) Data Munging
3 8 (61.54%) Data Science
3 8 (61.54%) Decision-Making
3 8 (61.54%) Generative AI
3 8 (61.54%) LLM
3 8 (61.54%) Machine Learning
4 6 (46.15%) Data Analytics
4 6 (46.15%) Predictive Analytics
4 6 (46.15%) Reinforcement Learning
4 6 (46.15%) Statistical Modelling
4 6 (46.15%) Time Series Forecasting
5 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
6 4 (30.77%) Feature Engineering
7 3 (23.08%) Facilities Management
7 3 (23.08%) Impact Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Python
1 8 (61.54%) R
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
1 4 (30.77%) Master's Degree
1 4 (30.77%) PhD
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) PMO