Data Quality Contract Job Trends in Lincolnshire

Data Quality
East Midlands > Lincolnshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lincolnshire requiring Data Quality skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 10 13
Rank change year-on-year -11 +3 +10
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 5 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Lincolnshire 3.27% 4.88% 1.96%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 31.25% 66.67% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £585 - -
25th Percentile £600 - £653
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 - £705
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.79%
75th Percentile £659 - £758
90th Percentile £669 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £475 £461 £400
% change year-on-year +3.09% +15.19% -41.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £18.20 -
East Midlands median hourly rate - £20.60 £7.85
% change year-on-year - +162.42% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Lincolnshire

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 Lincolnshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 16 3 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lincolnshire 10.46% 7.32% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 5
10th Percentile £206 - £324
25th Percentile £300 - £653
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 - £775
Median % change year-on-year - - +72.22%
75th Percentile £644 - £820
90th Percentile £680 - £823
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £400 £413
% change year-on-year +11.75% -3.03% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile - £20.08 £23.63
25th Percentile - £22.91 £26.49
Median hourly rate £16.13 £27.61 £31.62
Median % change year-on-year -41.58% -12.67% -
75th Percentile - £32.32 £37.12
90th Percentile - £35.14 £40.20
East Midlands median hourly rate £16.13 £21.75 £21.73
% change year-on-year -25.84% +0.09% -66.57%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Lincolnshire

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

Data Quality job vacancy trend in Lincolnshire

Data Quality
Daily Rate Trend in Lincolnshire

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

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

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Trend in Lincolnshire

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

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

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in Lincolnshire

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 Lincolnshire region over the 6 months to 30 June 2026. 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
Lincoln -8 4 £625 - 3
Data Quality
East Midlands

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lincolnshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) SAP Architect
3 1 (20.00%) SAP Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Data Architecture
1 4 (80.00%) Data Governance
1 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Data Integration
2 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (60.00%) ETL
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Data Management
4 1 (20.00%) Data Security
4 1 (20.00%) ERP
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) SAP