Data Quality Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Data Quality
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Data Quality skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 81 95
Rank change year-on-year +11 +14 +52
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 97 44 33
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 3.09% 1.91% 1.27%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.25% 11.46% 9.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 29 23
10th Percentile £404 £299 £415
25th Percentile £422 £313 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £413 £500
Median % change year-on-year +24.61% -17.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £540 £544 £600
90th Percentile £641 £653 £640
England median daily rate £510 £510 £550
% change year-on-year - -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £20.43 - -
25th Percentile £22.19 - £27.75
Median hourly rate £25.25 - £30.50
75th Percentile £28.19 - £33.25
90th Percentile £29.88 - -
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.50 £43.28
% change year-on-year -25.33% -13.35% +188.42%

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 504 384 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.04% 16.67% 13.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 240 257
10th Percentile £307 £213 £313
25th Percentile £400 £336 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £572 £575 £588
90th Percentile £673 £638 £688
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 20 17
10th Percentile £12.63 £12.83 £11.51
25th Percentile £16.00 £14.70 £13.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.60 £17.95
Median % change year-on-year +4.87% +3.62% -8.75%
75th Percentile £27.50 £37.50 £34.50
90th Percentile £32.89 £52.50 £64.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £35.79
% change year-on-year -16.17% -16.18% +57.32%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Data Quality job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Data Quality
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in the Midlands

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Quality in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 16 December 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 +5 70 £525 +7.58% 30
East Midlands 0 27 £439 +28.97% 7
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 31 (31.96%) SAS
2 8 (8.25%) Apache Spark
3 7 (7.22%) Apache
4 5 (5.15%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.03%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.03%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (15.46%) Azure
2 12 (12.37%) AWS
3 10 (10.31%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 10 (10.31%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 7 (7.22%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (6.19%) GCP
5 6 (6.19%) Power Platform
6 5 (5.15%) Snowflake
7 3 (3.09%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (3.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (2.06%) Collibra
8 2 (2.06%) SaaS
9 1 (1.03%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.03%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (1.03%) dbt
9 1 (1.03%) GitHub
9 1 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.03%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.03%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (30.93%) Pentaho
2 14 (14.43%) Metadata
3 12 (12.37%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (7.22%) Hadoop
4 7 (7.22%) Oracle Database
4 7 (7.22%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 6 (6.19%) Big Data
5 6 (6.19%) Power BI
6 5 (5.15%) Apache Hive
6 5 (5.15%) NoSQL
7 4 (4.12%) Data Lake
7 4 (4.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (3.09%) HBase
8 3 (3.09%) Relational Database
8 3 (3.09%) Tableau
9 2 (2.06%) Delta Lake
10 1 (1.03%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.03%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 33 (34.02%) Git
2 29 (29.90%) Jenkins
2 29 (29.90%) JIRA
3 1 (1.03%) Deequ
3 1 (1.03%) MLflow
General
1 30 (30.93%) Social Skills
2 20 (20.62%) Finance
3 12 (12.37%) Marketing
4 11 (11.34%) Public Sector
5 10 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (9.28%) Banking
7 2 (2.06%) Law
7 2 (2.06%) Military
7 2 (2.06%) Retail
8 1 (1.03%) Billing
8 1 (1.03%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.03%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.03%) Legal
8 1 (1.03%) Local Government
8 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.03%) Publishing
8 1 (1.03%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (25.77%) Data Engineer
2 17 (17.53%) Architect
3 10 (10.31%) Salesforce Architect
4 8 (8.25%) Lead
5 7 (7.22%) Senior
6 6 (6.19%) SAS Engineer
7 5 (5.15%) Delivery Manager
7 5 (5.15%) Developer
8 4 (4.12%) Azure Data Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Data Architect
8 4 (4.12%) Data Manager
9 3 (3.09%) Analyst
9 3 (3.09%) Denodo Engineer
9 3 (3.09%) Hadoop Developer
9 3 (3.09%) Scala Developer
9 3 (3.09%) Senior Data Engineer
9 3 (3.09%) Technical Architect
10 2 (2.06%) Consultant
10 2 (2.06%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.34%) REST
2 10 (10.31%) Lightning Web Components
2 10 (10.31%) Middleware
2 10 (10.31%) Visualforce
3 9 (9.28%) SOAP
4 6 (6.19%) Kafka
5 3 (3.09%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (3.09%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (3.09%) XML
6 1 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.03%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.31%) Management Information System
2 8 (8.25%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.15%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.09%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.09%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (3.09%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.06%) NHS
6 1 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.03%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.03%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.06%) Linux
1 2 (2.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (56.70%) Data Modelling
2 52 (53.61%) Agile
2 52 (53.61%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (51.55%) Analytics
3 50 (51.55%) Data Pipeline
4 42 (43.30%) ETL
5 40 (41.24%) Business Intelligence
6 37 (38.14%) CI/CD
7 35 (36.08%) Scrum
8 34 (35.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (35.05%) DevOps
9 33 (34.02%) Data Integration
10 30 (30.93%) Test Automation
11 29 (29.90%) Data Governance
12 28 (28.87%) Data Analytics
12 28 (28.87%) Data Virtualisation
13 27 (27.84%) Deployment Automation
14 26 (26.80%) Business Analytics
15 18 (18.56%) Mentoring
16 17 (17.53%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 53 (54.64%) SQL
2 12 (12.37%) Python
3 10 (10.31%) Apex Code
4 6 (6.19%) Scala
5 3 (3.09%) Java
6 1 (1.03%) R
6 1 (1.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (32.99%) Security Cleared
2 26 (26.80%) SC Cleared
3 11 (11.34%) Degree
4 6 (6.19%) Master's Degree
5 5 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.09%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.09%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (1.03%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.03%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.40%) GDPR
2 11 (11.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 5 (5.15%) ISO 19650
4 3 (3.09%) QA
5 2 (2.06%) PMO
5 2 (2.06%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (30.93%) Docker
2 3 (3.09%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 30 (30.93%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.09%) Hadoop YARN
2 3 (3.09%) Oozie
3 1 (1.03%) Kibana
3 1 (1.03%) logstash
3 1 (1.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (34.02%) Talend
2 29 (29.90%) Denodo
3 28 (28.87%) Oracle
4 12 (12.37%) Salesforce
5 8 (8.25%) Databricks
5 8 (8.25%) Microsoft
6 6 (6.19%) Informatica
7 2 (2.06%) Ab Initio
7 2 (2.06%) OneTrust
7 2 (2.06%) Palantir
7 2 (2.06%) SAP
7 2 (2.06%) Unisys
8 1 (1.03%) Adobe
8 1 (1.03%) Google
8 1 (1.03%) Sparx