Data Quality Contracts in the North West

Data Quality
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 75 67 97
Rank change year-on-year -8 +30 +33
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 45 71 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.29% 2.58% 1.88%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.61% 14.79% 12.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 56 35
10th Percentile £406 £393 £288
25th Percentile £438 £454 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £510 £420
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +21.43% +1.82%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £488
90th Percentile £626 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.98 £14.13 -
Median hourly rate £24.59 £14.27 -
Median % change year-on-year +72.34% - -
75th Percentile £26.19 £41.57 -
90th Percentile - £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 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 271 480 471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.77% 17.42% 14.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 265 293
10th Percentile £271 £325 £289
25th Percentile £375 £425 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +7.89% +2.70%
75th Percentile £587 £598 £588
90th Percentile £700 £694 £650
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 71 32
10th Percentile £13.50 - £24.44
25th Percentile £16.20 £10.95 £30.23
Median hourly rate £30.38 £12.84 £38.55
Median % change year-on-year +136.60% -66.69% +114.17%
75th Percentile £65.31 £26.66 £48.38
90th Percentile £84.33 £43.75 £66.05
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in the North West

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in the North West

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in the North West

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend 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 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
Manchester +1 21 £455 -17.27% 46
Lancashire - 13 £450 - 27
Cumbria +3 8 £449 -9.03% 1
Cheshire -20 6 £603 +20.50% 13
Merseyside - 3 £488 - 7
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.22%) Apache
4 1 (2.22%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (24.44%) Siemens NX
2 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (24.44%) Teamcenter
2 4 (8.89%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (40.00%) Azure
2 9 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 7 (15.56%) AWS
3 7 (15.56%) Snowflake
4 4 (8.89%) dbt
4 4 (8.89%) GCP
5 3 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (6.67%) IaaS
5 3 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (6.67%) PaaS
5 3 (6.67%) SaaS
6 1 (2.22%) AWS Data Pipeline
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.22%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (20.00%) Power BI
3 7 (15.56%) Tableau
4 5 (11.11%) Data Lake
4 5 (11.11%) Metadata
4 5 (11.11%) NoSQL
5 4 (8.89%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (8.89%) Big Data
5 4 (8.89%) Data Mining
5 4 (8.89%) Hadoop
5 4 (8.89%) MySQL
5 4 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (6.67%) BigQuery
6 3 (6.67%) Delta Lake
7 2 (4.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (4.44%) Data Vault
8 1 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (2.22%) Apache Hive
8 1 (2.22%) HBase
8 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (2.22%) ERwin
2 1 (2.22%) Flyway
2 1 (2.22%) Liquibase
General
1 15 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (15.56%) Finance
3 4 (8.89%) Manufacturing
4 3 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.22%) Automotive
5 1 (2.22%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.22%) Law
5 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (26.67%) Data Engineer
2 10 (22.22%) Applications Engineer
2 10 (22.22%) Configuration Engineer
3 6 (13.33%) Analyst
4 5 (11.11%) Data Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Data Scientist
5 3 (6.67%) Exchange Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Data Analytics Specialist
6 2 (4.44%) Lead
6 2 (4.44%) Migration Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
6 2 (4.44%) SAP Financial Specialist
6 2 (4.44%) Senior
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (24.44%) XML
2 4 (8.89%) Kafka
3 3 (6.67%) PySpark
4 2 (4.44%) ADO
4 2 (4.44%) PyTorch
4 2 (4.44%) TensorFlow
5 1 (2.22%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (2.22%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Management Information System
1 4 (8.89%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.44%) Algorithms
2 2 (4.44%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.44%) Life Science
3 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.22%) IoT
3 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.22%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (44.44%) Data Governance
2 13 (28.89%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (26.67%) Data Modelling
3 12 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
4 11 (24.44%) CAD
4 11 (24.44%) ETL
4 11 (24.44%) PLM
4 11 (24.44%) User Experience
5 10 (22.22%) Data Management
6 9 (20.00%) Analytics
6 9 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (17.78%) CI/CD
8 7 (15.56%) Agile
8 7 (15.56%) Data Engineering
8 7 (15.56%) Visualisation
9 6 (13.33%) Data Visualisation
10 5 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (11.11%) Data Migration
10 5 (11.11%) Machine Learning
10 5 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 18 (40.00%) SQL
2 11 (24.44%) Python
3 3 (6.67%) R
4 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.56%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.33%) Degree
4 3 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 4 (8.89%) PMO
2 4 (8.89%) QA
3 1 (2.22%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (24.44%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.56%) Databricks
3 4 (8.89%) Informatica
3 4 (8.89%) Oracle
3 4 (8.89%) SAP
4 3 (6.67%) Talend
5 2 (4.44%) Anaplan
5 2 (4.44%) Ariba
5 2 (4.44%) Blue Prism
5 2 (4.44%) Google
5 2 (4.44%) Hyperion
6 1 (2.22%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.22%) Infoblox
6 1 (2.22%) Ping Identity
6 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.22%) Virgin Media