Data Quality Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Data Quality
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Data Quality skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 56 54
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 15 4 18
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 2.05% 0.66% 2.00%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.36% 5.97% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 14
10th Percentile £363 £308 £167
25th Percentile £400 £375 £227
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £288
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +56.52% -42.50%
75th Percentile - £491 £513
90th Percentile £525 £498 £598
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £406 £288
% change year-on-year +23.08% +41.30% -42.50%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 132 67 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 18.08% 11.07% 15.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 45 95
10th Percentile £350 £313 £244
25th Percentile £400 £359 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £539 £594 £597
90th Percentile £600 £733 £680
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.00 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.57 - £16.11
% change year-on-year - - -10.62%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Quality relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Data Quality job vacancy trend in Leeds

Data Quality
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Data Quality.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in Leeds over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in Leeds

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Data Quality.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.67%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Power Platform
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (20.00%) AWS
4 2 (13.33%) GCP
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (6.67%) Contentsquare
5 1 (6.67%) Google Analytics
5 1 (6.67%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) Power BI
2 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (13.33%) Tableau
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (6.67%) BigQuery
3 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
3 1 (6.67%) Looker
3 1 (6.67%) Star Schema
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (33.33%) General Ledger
3 4 (26.67%) Banking
3 4 (26.67%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (13.33%) Health Technology
6 1 (6.67%) Legal
6 1 (6.67%) Marketing
6 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Analyst
2 6 (40.00%) Senior
3 5 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (26.67%) Business Analyst
4 4 (26.67%) Data Analyst
4 4 (26.67%) Senior Business Analyst
5 3 (20.00%) Data Engineer
6 2 (13.33%) SAP Analyst
6 2 (13.33%) SAP Data Analyst
7 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 1 (6.67%) Data Centre Manager
7 1 (6.67%) Data Centre Project Manager
7 1 (6.67%) Developer
7 1 (6.67%) Lead
7 1 (6.67%) Lead Data Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Power BI Developer
7 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
7 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Analyst
7 1 (6.67%) Senior Manager
7 1 (6.67%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) FHIR
1 2 (13.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (13.33%) NHS
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Agile
1 8 (53.33%) Data Governance
2 7 (46.67%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (40.00%) Migration
3 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 4 (26.67%) Backlog Refinement
5 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
5 4 (26.67%) Decision-Making
5 4 (26.67%) ETL
5 4 (26.67%) MoSCoW
5 4 (26.67%) Process Improvement
5 4 (26.67%) Regulatory Change
5 4 (26.67%) Regulatory Compliance
5 4 (26.67%) SDLC
5 4 (26.67%) Six Sigma
5 4 (26.67%) Traceability Matrix
5 4 (26.67%) User Stories
5 4 (26.67%) Workflow
5 4 (26.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) SQL
2 5 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Databricks
2 2 (13.33%) Brio
2 2 (13.33%) SAP
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Hotjar
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Optimizely