Data Quality Contracts in Sheffield

Data Quality
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 38 50 53
Rank change year-on-year +12 +3 -23
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 12 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 3.76% 1.32% 0.66%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.08% 9.26% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £135 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £378 £700
Median % change year-on-year +5.82% -46.00% +36.59%
75th Percentile £450 - -
90th Percentile £545 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £145 £378 £700
% change year-on-year -61.64% -46.00% +40.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 52 54 79
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 16.30% 14.25% 17.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 39 52
10th Percentile £135 £330 £389
25th Percentile £388 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £564 £588 £600
90th Percentile £625 £645 £698
South Yorkshire median daily rate £504 £438 £525
% change year-on-year +15.09% -16.67% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £14.13
25th Percentile - - £18.44
Median hourly rate - - £25.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.96%
75th Percentile - - £32.94
90th Percentile - - £37.18
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £12.75 £25.75
% change year-on-year - -50.49% +13.71%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in Sheffield

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in Sheffield

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in Sheffield

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in Sheffield

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (41.67%) Apache
1 5 (41.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) GCP
2 5 (41.67%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Composer
4 2 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Flink
2 4 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (25.00%) Power BI
4 2 (16.67%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (16.67%) Looker
5 1 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Data Management
1 8 (66.67%) ETL
2 6 (50.00%) Workflow
3 5 (41.67%) Data Lineage
3 5 (41.67%) Data Modelling
3 5 (41.67%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (41.67%) Visualisation
3 5 (41.67%) Workflow Management
4 4 (33.33%) Agile
4 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (25.00%) Data Analysis
5 3 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 3 (25.00%) Data Strategy
5 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (25.00%) ETL Development
5 3 (25.00%) Migration
5 3 (25.00%) Technical Debt
6 1 (8.33%) Change Management
6 1 (8.33%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) SQL
2 5 (41.67%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Google
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle