Data Quality Contracts in Reading

Data Quality
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 50 82 63
Rank change year-on-year +32 -19 +17
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 10 9 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.68% 0.76% 2.31%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.87% 5.08% 19.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 19
10th Percentile - £436 £467
25th Percentile £450 £453 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.64% -11.32% -19.41%
75th Percentile £575 £557 £719
90th Percentile £605 £658 £784
Berkshire median daily rate £517 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +8.74% -13.64% -6.38%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 92 177 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 15.41% 14.85% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 85 77
10th Percentile £308 £313 £363
25th Percentile £363 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +7.36%
75th Percentile £578 £575 £625
90th Percentile £600 - £723
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £23.80
25th Percentile - - £31.75
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +221.43%
75th Percentile - - £60.38
90th Percentile - - £69.60
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £65.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year -5.39% +217.07% -2.61%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in Reading

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in Reading

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in Reading

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in Reading

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) OCI
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Storage
4 1 (10.00%) Collibra
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (10.00%) Apache Hive
3 1 (10.00%) Big Data
3 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (10.00%) HBase
3 1 (10.00%) HDInsight
3 1 (10.00%) Impala
3 1 (10.00%) Metadata
3 1 (10.00%) Power BI
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Electronics
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (20.00%) Marketing
3 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Data Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Junior
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
1 3 (30.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Automation Tester
2 2 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Data Migration Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Migration Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Automation Tester
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Tester
2 2 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) PySpark
2 2 (20.00%) Gherkin
3 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (10.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) IoT
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Analytics
2 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (40.00%) Validation
3 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (30.00%) Data Migration
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) ETL
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (20.00%) Data Integration
4 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (20.00%) Data Validation
4 2 (20.00%) Data-Driven Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) System Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) Perl
2 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Flume
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Databricks
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 2 (20.00%) SAP
4 1 (10.00%) Google
4 1 (10.00%) Splunk
4 1 (10.00%) StreamSets
4 1 (10.00%) Virgin Media