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 10 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 86 55
Rank change year-on-year +23 -31 +26
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 8 7 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.31% 0.62% 2.20%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.56% 5.43% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 23
10th Percentile - £556 £461
25th Percentile £575 £624 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £688 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% +30.95% +4.74%
75th Percentile £613 £715 £627
90th Percentile £620 £721 £685
Berkshire median daily rate £523 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +10.11% -9.52% +7.69%

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 122 129 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 19.90% 11.46% 13.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 45 102
10th Percentile £384 £318 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -4.76% +13.51%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £720 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% +14.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.50
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -26.92%
75th Percentile - - £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £63.43 £30.00
% change year-on-year -3.05% +111.43% +42.86%

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
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 4 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 4 (50.00%) dbt
1 4 (50.00%) GCP
1 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (25.00%) OCI
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Collibra
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (50.00%) Power BI
2 4 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 4 (50.00%) Tableau
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
1 5 (62.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Data Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Telecoms Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Data Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Data Migration Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Migration Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) HR Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle HRMS Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle Payroll Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Validation
2 5 (62.50%) Data Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) Data Modelling
2 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
3 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (50.00%) Data Transformation
3 4 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 4 (50.00%) ETL
3 4 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 4 (50.00%) WFM
3 4 (50.00%) Workflow
4 2 (25.00%) Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Migration
5 1 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (12.50%) Data Privacy
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
1 4 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) Virgin Media