Data Quality Contracts in Northern Ireland

Data Quality
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 19 24
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 +2
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 10 8 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 5.24% 4.52% 1.72%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.41% 34.78% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 3
10th Percentile £473 - £586
25th Percentile £513 - £596
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +101.61%
75th Percentile £606 - £653
90th Percentile £607 - £663
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.45% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £12.25 -
UK median hourly rate £31.64 £15.79 £22.49
% change year-on-year +100.38% -29.78% -0.07%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 49 23 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 25.65% 12.99% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 10 17
10th Percentile £263 £167 £212
25th Percentile £300 £184 £252
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £325 £375
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -13.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £594 £497 £510
90th Percentile £608 £569 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +0.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.78 - -
Median hourly rate £15.05 £12.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% - -
75th Percentile £22.21 £24.18 -
90th Percentile £24.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £31.64 £23.65 £35.50
% change year-on-year +33.78% -33.38% +29.09%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Data Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in Northern Ireland

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in Northern Ireland

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in Northern Ireland

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in Northern Ireland.

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in Northern Ireland

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
County Antrim 0 10 £588 - 19
Data Quality
UK

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 2 (20.00%) GIS
1 2 (20.00%) Metadata
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (20.00%) Power BI
1 2 (20.00%) Tableau
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 7 (70.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (60.00%) Banking
2 6 (60.00%) Finance
3 3 (30.00%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Front Office
5 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Analyst
2 6 (60.00%) Data Analyst
3 4 (40.00%) Market Risk Analyst
3 4 (40.00%) Risk Analyst
3 4 (40.00%) Risk Data Analyst
4 3 (30.00%) Senior
4 3 (30.00%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (30.00%) Senior Data Analyst
5 2 (20.00%) Business Data Analyst
5 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
5 2 (20.00%) Senior Risk Analyst
6 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (10.00%) Banking Analyst
6 1 (10.00%) Credit Analyst
6 1 (10.00%) Credit Risk Analyst
6 1 (10.00%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (10.00%) Project Analyst
6 1 (10.00%) Senior Credit Risk Analyst
6 1 (10.00%) SQL Data Analyst
6 1 (10.00%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Market Risk
2 2 (20.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (10.00%) Credit Risk
3 1 (10.00%) Equities
3 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (10.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Data Analysis
1 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Project Management
3 4 (40.00%) Business Analysis
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) Change Management
4 3 (30.00%) Data Governance
4 3 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (20.00%) Data Science
5 2 (20.00%) ETL
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (10.00%) Critical Thinking
6 1 (10.00%) Data Lineage
6 1 (10.00%) Decision Intelligence
6 1 (10.00%) Model Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
1 4 (40.00%) Master's Degree
2 3 (30.00%) ISEB
2 3 (30.00%) PMI Certification
2 3 (30.00%) PMP
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) PMO
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Fujitsu