Data Quality Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Data Quality
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Data Quality skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 33 29
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +7
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 2 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 1.01% 0.43% 2.36%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.25% 5.00% 15.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £488 - -
25th Percentile £506 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -15.00% +171.00%
75th Percentile £581 £438 £525
90th Percentile £593 - -
North West median daily rate £450 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% +46.15%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 32 20 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 16.08% 8.51% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 9 18
10th Percentile £224 £171 £146
25th Percentile £292 £213 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £450 £413
Median % change year-on-year -1.39% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £544 £500 £519
90th Percentile £659 £600 £532
North West median daily rate £450 £463 £478
% change year-on-year -2.70% -3.14% +0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £18.25 -
25th Percentile - £18.57 £16.25
Median hourly rate - £19.13 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +9.30% +76.41%
75th Percentile - £19.67 £18.75
90th Percentile - £19.98 -
North West median hourly rate £63.40 £23.14 £29.15
% change year-on-year +174.04% -20.63% -57.78%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Data Quality job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Data Quality
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 11 October 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
Liverpool - 1 £600 - 5
Data Quality
North West

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) dbt
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google