Data Quality Contracts in the North East

Data Quality
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 32 33
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +31
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 3 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 1.04% 1.67% 0.73%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.12% 11.43% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £449 £170 -
25th Percentile £508 £199 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £248 £500
Median % change year-on-year +147.47% -50.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £628 £296 -
90th Percentile £634 £326 -
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - +0.46%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 49 35 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 17.01% 14.58% 15.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 22 24
10th Percentile £236 £166 £291
25th Percentile £439 £330 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £408 £400
Median % change year-on-year +13.80% +1.88% -27.27%
75th Percentile £565 £480 £488
90th Percentile £646 £595 £500
England median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £18.73 £16.70
25th Percentile £13.37 £19.44 £17.50
Median hourly rate £13.49 £21.25 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.52% +8.97% +11.43%
75th Percentile £13.61 £22.44 £26.13
90th Percentile - £22.78 £32.70
England median hourly rate £31.64 £27.50 £36.75
% change year-on-year +15.05% -25.17% +54.74%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in the North East

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in the North East

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in the North East over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in the North East

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in the North East

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
Tyne and Wear -1 3 £613 +77.54% 6
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Google Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Google Tag Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (33.33%) Looker
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Quality Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Freedom of Information
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google