Data Quality Contracts in the Midlands

Data Quality
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 70 74 129
Rank change year-on-year +4 +55 +15
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 41 59 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.14% 2.14% 1.10%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.50% 15.36% 7.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 50 34
10th Percentile £367 £349 £258
25th Percentile £412 £425 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £390
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +37.82% -21.01%
75th Percentile £542 £700 £536
90th Percentile £598 £813 £626
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £18.68 £8.68 -
25th Percentile £19.40 £11.86 -
Median hourly rate £20.60 £19.18 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.43% - -
75th Percentile £21.80 £27.22 -
90th Percentile £22.52 £30.84 -
England median hourly rate £31.64 £22.56 £22.49
% change year-on-year +40.26% +0.32% +13.88%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 328 384 520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.14% 13.93% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 263 341
10th Percentile £196 £254 £250
25th Percentile £318 £354 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £539 £613 £588
90th Percentile £600 £756 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 44 13
10th Percentile - £11.34 £11.30
25th Percentile £14.70 £13.00 £12.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £14.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.40% -28.75% +17.28%
75th Percentile £30.38 £27.92 £27.13
90th Percentile £44.20 £58.75 £51.02
England median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
% change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in the Midlands

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in the Midlands

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in the Midlands

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in the Midlands

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands -11 23 £525 -4.55% 35
East Midlands +14 17 £447 +6.05% 14
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (4.88%) Apache
1 2 (4.88%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.44%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.44%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (31.71%) Azure
2 9 (21.95%) Power Platform
3 8 (19.51%) AWS
4 6 (14.63%) GCP
5 4 (9.76%) Asana
6 3 (7.32%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (7.32%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (7.32%) Amazon S3
6 3 (7.32%) IaaS
6 3 (7.32%) PaaS
6 3 (7.32%) SaaS
7 2 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (4.88%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (4.88%) Serverless
7 2 (4.88%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.44%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (2.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (2.44%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.95%) Power BI
2 8 (19.51%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (9.76%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (9.76%) NoSQL
4 3 (7.32%) Big Data
4 3 (7.32%) Metadata
4 3 (7.32%) Tableau
5 2 (4.88%) Data Lake
5 2 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (4.88%) Hadoop
5 2 (4.88%) Impala
5 2 (4.88%) Spark SQL
5 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.44%) Data Mart
6 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (2.44%) MySQL
6 1 (2.44%) SAP BW
6 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (12.20%) JIRA
2 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.44%) ERwin
3 1 (2.44%) Git
3 1 (2.44%) PyCharm
3 1 (2.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (41.46%) Social Skills
2 12 (29.27%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (17.07%) Finance
4 5 (12.20%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (9.76%) Local Government
5 4 (9.76%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Legal
7 1 (2.44%) Marketing
7 1 (2.44%) Military
7 1 (2.44%) Retail
7 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (24.39%) Data Engineer
2 7 (17.07%) IT Manager
2 7 (17.07%) IT Project Manager
2 7 (17.07%) Project Manager
3 6 (14.63%) Architect
4 5 (12.20%) Lead
4 5 (12.20%) Senior
5 4 (9.76%) Analyst
5 4 (9.76%) Data Architect
5 4 (9.76%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Data Manager
7 2 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Data Migration Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Data Migration Lead
7 2 (4.88%) Migration Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Performance Analyst
7 2 (4.88%) Resilience Manager
8 1 (2.44%) Cloud Architect
8 1 (2.44%) Salesforce Architect
8 1 (2.44%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.32%) Kafka
2 2 (4.88%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (4.88%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.44%) FHIR
3 1 (2.44%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (2.44%) Middleware
3 1 (2.44%) PySpark
3 1 (2.44%) REST
3 1 (2.44%) RESTful
3 1 (2.44%) SOAP
3 1 (2.44%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.32%) Cloud Native
1 3 (7.32%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (4.88%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.88%) PMI
2 2 (4.88%) Replication
3 1 (2.44%) CMDB
3 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (48.78%) Data Governance
2 18 (43.90%) ETL
3 17 (41.46%) Analytics
4 15 (36.59%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (34.15%) Business Intelligence
5 14 (34.15%) Data Modelling
5 14 (34.15%) Migration
6 13 (31.71%) Data Management
7 12 (29.27%) Agile
7 12 (29.27%) Data Integration
8 11 (26.83%) Data Migration
9 10 (24.39%) Data Analytics
9 10 (24.39%) Project Management
10 9 (21.95%) Data Analysis
10 9 (21.95%) Data Pipeline
10 9 (21.95%) Decision-Making
11 8 (19.51%) Data Architecture
11 8 (19.51%) Visualisation
12 6 (14.63%) Data Security
12 6 (14.63%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (41.46%) SQL
2 12 (29.27%) Python
3 3 (7.32%) Java
3 3 (7.32%) Scala
4 1 (2.44%) Apex Code
4 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (14.63%) Degree
2 5 (12.20%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.32%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.88%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.88%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.44%) CITP
5 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.44%) NVQ Level 3
5 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) PMO
2 2 (4.88%) GDPR
3 1 (2.44%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.44%) COSHH
3 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.88%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.88%) Kibana
1 2 (4.88%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.88%) logstash
2 1 (2.44%) Grafana
2 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.20%) SAP
3 2 (4.88%) Databricks
3 2 (4.88%) Epicor
4 1 (2.44%) Google
4 1 (2.44%) JD Edwards
4 1 (2.44%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.44%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.44%) Splunk