Data Quality Contracts in the North of England

Data Quality
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 92 95 140
Rank change year-on-year +3 +45 -2
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 75 93 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.28% 1.95% 1.39%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.92% 12.48% 9.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 70 48
10th Percentile £143 £324 £288
25th Percentile £363 £425 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -2.30%
75th Percentile £513 £575 £521
90th Percentile £590 £647 £658
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £24.68 - -
25th Percentile £27.23 £14.13 -
Median hourly rate £32.81 £14.27 -
Median % change year-on-year +130.00% - -
75th Percentile £34.31 £41.57 -
90th Percentile £34.40 £57.88 -
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
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 471 745 813
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.29% 15.63% 13.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 418 493
10th Percentile £235 £320 £288
25th Percentile £371 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £698 £672 £650
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 85 40
10th Percentile £14.27 - £13.47
25th Percentile £22.14 £10.95 £29.30
Median hourly rate £24.67 £12.84 £38.55
Median % change year-on-year +92.15% -66.69% +106.15%
75th Percentile £39.69 £26.66 £49.08
90th Percentile £79.39 £48.75 £58.45
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in the North of England

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in the North of England

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in the North of England

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in the North of England

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West -8 45 £465 -8.82% 78
Yorkshire +17 30 £275 -27.25% 18
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 8 (10.67%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (9.33%) Apache
3 5 (6.67%) SharePoint
4 3 (4.00%) Apache Spark
4 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.33%) Confluence
5 1 (1.33%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (1.33%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (14.67%) Siemens NX
2 8 (10.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (14.67%) Teamcenter
2 8 (10.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (26.67%) Azure
2 17 (22.67%) Power Platform
3 14 (18.67%) GCP
4 9 (12.00%) AWS
5 7 (9.33%) Snowflake
6 5 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (6.67%) dbt
6 5 (6.67%) SaaS
7 4 (5.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (4.00%) IaaS
8 3 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (4.00%) PaaS
9 2 (2.67%) AWS Data Pipeline
9 2 (2.67%) Cloud Composer
10 1 (1.33%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.33%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (32.00%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (22.67%) Power BI
3 10 (13.33%) Tableau
4 6 (8.00%) BigQuery
4 6 (8.00%) NoSQL
5 5 (6.67%) Data Lake
5 5 (6.67%) Flink
5 5 (6.67%) Looker
5 5 (6.67%) Metadata
6 4 (5.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (5.33%) Big Data
6 4 (5.33%) Data Mining
6 4 (5.33%) Delta Lake
6 4 (5.33%) Hadoop
6 4 (5.33%) MySQL
6 4 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (4.00%) Data Vault
8 2 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.67%) QlikView
8 2 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (1.33%) ERwin
2 1 (1.33%) Flyway
2 1 (1.33%) JIRA
2 1 (1.33%) Liquibase
General
1 30 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.33%) Finance
3 8 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.33%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Automotive
8 1 (1.33%) Banking
8 1 (1.33%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.33%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 20 (26.67%) Analyst
2 17 (22.67%) Data Engineer
3 14 (18.67%) Data Analyst
4 10 (13.33%) Applications Engineer
4 10 (13.33%) Configuration Engineer
5 7 (9.33%) Developer
6 5 (6.67%) Junior
6 5 (6.67%) Junior Analyst
6 5 (6.67%) Junior Data Analyst
7 4 (5.33%) SQL Developer
8 3 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Data Migration Analyst
8 3 (4.00%) Data Scientist
8 3 (4.00%) Exchange Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Migration Analyst
8 3 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.67%) XML
2 4 (5.33%) Kafka
3 3 (4.00%) PySpark
4 2 (2.67%) ADO
4 2 (2.67%) PyTorch
4 2 (2.67%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.33%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.33%) JSON
5 1 (1.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.67%) Data Structures
2 6 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.33%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.67%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.67%) Life Science
5 2 (2.67%) NHS
6 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.33%) IoT
6 1 (1.33%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (41.33%) ETL
2 30 (40.00%) Data Governance
3 20 (26.67%) Data Management
3 20 (26.67%) Data Modelling
4 18 (24.00%) Data Pipeline
4 18 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (22.67%) Business Intelligence
6 16 (21.33%) Visualisation
7 14 (18.67%) Data Analysis
7 14 (18.67%) Migration
8 13 (17.33%) Agile
8 13 (17.33%) Decision-Making
9 12 (16.00%) Data Migration
10 11 (14.67%) Analytics
10 11 (14.67%) CAD
10 11 (14.67%) Data Strategy
10 11 (14.67%) PLM
10 11 (14.67%) User Experience
11 9 (12.00%) Data Engineering
11 9 (12.00%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 36 (48.00%) SQL
2 18 (24.00%) Python
3 4 (5.33%) R
4 2 (2.67%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.67%) Degree
3 7 (9.33%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.33%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.67%) Accessibility
1 5 (6.67%) PMO
1 5 (6.67%) QA
2 4 (5.33%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (1.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 14 (18.67%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.00%) Google
3 9 (12.00%) SAP
4 7 (9.33%) Databricks
5 6 (8.00%) Oracle
6 4 (5.33%) Informatica
7 3 (4.00%) Talend
8 2 (2.67%) Anaplan
8 2 (2.67%) Ariba
8 2 (2.67%) Blue Prism
8 2 (2.67%) Hyperion
9 1 (1.33%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.33%) Infoblox
9 1 (1.33%) Ping Identity
9 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.33%) Virgin Media