Data Quality Contracts in Lancashire

Data Quality
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 13 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 7.43% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 54.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £438 - -
25th Percentile £440 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £463 - -
90th Percentile £504 - -
North West median daily rate £465 £510 £420
% change year-on-year -8.82% +21.43% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.98 - -
Median hourly rate £24.59 - -
75th Percentile £26.19 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £24.59 £14.27 -
% change year-on-year +72.34% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 24 22 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 13.71% 11.28% 16.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 12
10th Percentile £438 £494 £366
25th Percentile £447 £517 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £596 £520
Median % change year-on-year -18.48% +14.70% +12.43%
75th Percentile £577 £630 £653
90th Percentile £626 £961 £723
North West median daily rate £475 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -7.32% +7.89% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 17
10th Percentile - £11.46 £29.06
25th Percentile £13.50 - £29.30
Median hourly rate £19.04 £11.77 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.79% -72.31% +107.42%
75th Percentile £25.12 £15.48 £47.00
90th Percentile £25.76 £19.69 £49.52
North West median hourly rate £30.38 £12.84 £38.55
% change year-on-year +136.60% -66.69% +114.17%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in Lancashire

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in Lancashire

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in Lancashire

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire 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
Preston - 7 £447 - 16
Lancaster - 1 £530 -
Data Quality
North West

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (69.23%) Siemens NX
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (69.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Data Pipeline
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) GCP
1 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (7.69%) BigQuery
1 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (7.69%) Tableau
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
2 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Applications Engineer
1 8 (61.54%) Configuration Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) CAD Designer
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Designer
3 1 (7.69%) Logistics Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (69.23%) XML
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Data Governance
2 9 (69.23%) CAD
2 9 (69.23%) PLM
2 9 (69.23%) User Experience
3 2 (15.38%) Agile
3 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (15.38%) Data Cleansing
3 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (15.38%) Robotic Process Automation
4 1 (7.69%) Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (7.69%) Data Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) Data Management
4 1 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Information Architecture
4 1 (7.69%) Logistics
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (7.69%) Statistical Analysis
4 1 (7.69%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) SC Cleared
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Blue Prism
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Virgin Media