Data Quality Contract Job Trends in the North West

Data Quality
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Data Quality skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 81 72
Rank change year-on-year +25 -9 +21
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 148 51 50
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.76% 2.33% 2.07%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.54% 15.18% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 39 34
10th Percentile £312 £322 £356
25th Percentile £425 £354 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £435
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +3.51% -8.47%
75th Percentile £600 £581 £503
90th Percentile £696 £750 £600
England median daily rate £520 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +0.97% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 1 0
10th Percentile £17.69 - -
25th Percentile £29.96 £30.00 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £32.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +71.88% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £34.00 -
90th Percentile £73.75 - -
England median hourly rate £35.14 £34.98 £44.00
% change year-on-year +0.44% -20.50% +17.26%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 603 336 302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.32% 15.35% 12.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 378 250 169
10th Percentile £295 £311 £313
25th Percentile £368 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -5.26% -2.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £556
90th Percentile £638 £663 £638
England median daily rate £513 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +2.50% -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 10 12
10th Percentile £17.69 £36.43 £12.60
25th Percentile £29.23 £50.94 £18.89
Median hourly rate £60.50 £63.40 £23.14
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% +174.04% -24.25%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.87 £33.28
90th Percentile £83.75 £71.68 £43.10
England median hourly rate £32.40 £32.50 £34.47
% change year-on-year -0.32% -5.70% -12.57%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Data Quality job vacancy trend in the North West

Data Quality
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in the North West over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in the North West

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Quality in the North West over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Quality in the North West

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 5 October 2026. 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
Manchester +12 101 £500 +8.11% 200
Cheshire +23 27 £525 +48.31% 41
Lancashire -29 7 £585 +30.00% 46
Merseyside -5 6 £695 +26.36% 43
Cumbria -29 4 - - 8
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (3.38%) Confluence
1 5 (3.38%) SAS
2 4 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 15 (10.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.35%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (6.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.03%) Sage X3
2 3 (2.03%) Teamcenter
3 2 (1.35%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.68%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.68%) ENOVIA
4 1 (0.68%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (0.68%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.68%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.68%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 39 (26.35%) Power Platform
2 31 (20.95%) Azure
3 24 (16.22%) AWS
4 15 (10.14%) GCP
5 10 (6.76%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (6.76%) Serverless
6 9 (6.08%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (4.73%) Amazon S3
7 7 (4.73%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (4.73%) Snowflake
8 6 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (4.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (4.05%) Power Automate
9 5 (3.38%) Amazon SageMaker
9 5 (3.38%) Azure AKS
9 5 (3.38%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (3.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (3.38%) PowerApps
9 5 (3.38%) Vertex AI
10 4 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.38%) SD-WAN
1 5 (3.38%) SNMP
1 5 (3.38%) WAN
1 5 (3.38%) Wireless
2 1 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (0.68%) DNS
2 1 (0.68%) Firewall
2 1 (0.68%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (25.00%) Power BI
2 23 (15.54%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (13.51%) Metadata
4 13 (8.78%) Data Lake
5 9 (6.08%) Tableau
6 8 (5.41%) BigQuery
7 7 (4.73%) DataStage
8 6 (4.05%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (4.05%) Db2
8 6 (4.05%) Relational Database
9 5 (3.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (3.38%) Star Schema
10 4 (2.70%) SQL Server
11 3 (2.03%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (2.03%) Data Vault
11 3 (2.03%) DynamoDB
11 3 (2.03%) Power Query
11 3 (2.03%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (1.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (8.78%) JIRA
2 5 (3.38%) Git
3 1 (0.68%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.68%) GitLab
3 1 (0.68%) Postman
3 1 (0.68%) TestRail
3 1 (0.68%) Toad
3 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 55 (37.16%) Finance
1 55 (37.16%) Social Skills
2 39 (26.35%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (10.81%) Banking
4 11 (7.43%) Manufacturing
5 10 (6.76%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.70%) Law
7 4 (2.70%) Retail
8 3 (2.03%) Automotive
8 3 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.03%) Military
9 2 (1.35%) Marketing
9 2 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.68%) Billing
10 1 (0.68%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.68%) Local Government
10 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (16.22%) Data Engineer
2 22 (14.86%) Analyst
3 15 (10.14%) Senior
4 14 (9.46%) Data Analyst
5 11 (7.43%) Consultant
5 11 (7.43%) Data Manager
5 11 (7.43%) Developer
6 9 (6.08%) Architect
7 8 (5.41%) Senior Data Engineer
8 7 (4.73%) Coordinator
8 7 (4.73%) Data Consultant
8 7 (4.73%) Lead
9 6 (4.05%) Business Analyst
10 5 (3.38%) Administrator
10 5 (3.38%) Data Architect
10 5 (3.38%) DataStage Developer
11 4 (2.70%) Data Administrator
11 4 (2.70%) Project Coordinator
11 4 (2.70%) Senior Manager
12 3 (2.03%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.84%) PySpark
2 15 (10.14%) Terraform
3 5 (3.38%) Langfuse
4 4 (2.70%) Pandas
5 3 (2.03%) JSON
6 2 (1.35%) Great Expectations
6 2 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.68%) ADO
7 1 (0.68%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.68%) Kafka
7 1 (0.68%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.68%) RESTful
7 1 (0.68%) Spring
7 1 (0.68%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.68%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.46%) Data Structures
1 14 (9.46%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (7.43%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (6.08%) Onboarding
4 8 (5.41%) CMDB
4 8 (5.41%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.05%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.38%) AI Agents
6 5 (3.38%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.03%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.35%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.35%) FMCG
9 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.73%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (38.51%) Data Modelling
2 52 (35.14%) Analytics
3 45 (30.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 43 (29.05%) ETL
5 42 (28.38%) Business Intelligence
6 41 (27.70%) Data Pipeline
7 40 (27.03%) Data Governance
8 38 (25.68%) AI
9 36 (24.32%) Migration
10 33 (22.30%) Problem-Solving
10 33 (22.30%) Validation
11 30 (20.27%) Data Analysis
12 27 (18.24%) Agile
13 26 (17.57%) Visualisation
14 25 (16.89%) Data Integration
14 25 (16.89%) Decision-Making
15 24 (16.22%) Data Engineering
16 21 (14.19%) Change Management
16 21 (14.19%) Data Migration
17 20 (13.51%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 71 (47.97%) SQL
2 44 (29.73%) Python
3 7 (4.73%) Shell Script
4 6 (4.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (4.05%) PL/SQL
5 5 (3.38%) PowerShell
5 5 (3.38%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.03%) Search Processing Language
7 2 (1.35%) R
7 2 (1.35%) Scala
8 1 (0.68%) Java
8 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.81%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.41%) Degree
4 3 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.35%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.68%) ACCA
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.68%) CISSP
6 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.68%) CRISC
6 1 (0.68%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (0.68%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.68%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.68%) PhD
6 1 (0.68%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.41%) QA
2 7 (4.73%) PMO
3 6 (4.05%) GRC
4 5 (3.38%) GDPR
5 3 (2.03%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.03%) NCSC
5 3 (2.03%) NIST
5 3 (2.03%) SLA
6 1 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.68%) COBIT
6 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.35%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (2.70%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.35%) Grafana
3 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (18.24%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.16%) SAP
3 13 (8.78%) Oracle
4 11 (7.43%) Databricks
5 10 (6.76%) ServiceNow
6 9 (6.08%) IBM
7 7 (4.73%) Splunk
8 6 (4.05%) Informatica
8 6 (4.05%) Teradata
9 5 (3.38%) Google
9 5 (3.38%) OpenAI
9 5 (3.38%) Salesforce
10 3 (2.03%) Alteryx
10 3 (2.03%) Sage
10 3 (2.03%) Siemens
11 2 (1.35%) Adobe
11 2 (1.35%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.35%) VMware
12 1 (0.68%) IFS
12 1 (0.68%) SevOne