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

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 55 40
Rank change year-on-year -4 -15 0
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 10 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.80% 0.47% 1.99%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.75% 6.06% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £317 - £540
25th Percentile £338 - £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £378 £700
Median % change year-on-year +12.43% -46.00% +40.00%
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile £595 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £413 £378 £700
% change year-on-year +9.13% -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 93 33 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 16.73% 7.80% 13.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 24 31
10th Percentile £266 £215 £350
25th Percentile £345 £432 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £506 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% -8.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £525 £622 £628
90th Percentile £592 £643 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £503 £550
% change year-on-year -5.47% -8.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.25
Median hourly rate - - £20.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.14%
75th Percentile - - £22.75
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £20.50
% change year-on-year - - +3.04%

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 5 August 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 6 (60.00%) Apache
1 6 (60.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 5 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Flink
2 2 (20.00%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (20.00%) Power BI
3 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Billing
4 1 (10.00%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Report Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (10.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Data Management
2 7 (70.00%) Visualisation
2 7 (70.00%) Workflow
3 6 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
3 6 (60.00%) ETL
4 5 (50.00%) Data Lineage
4 5 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 5 (50.00%) Workflow Management
5 4 (40.00%) Agile
5 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (20.00%) Budgeting
6 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (20.00%) Cost Management
6 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
6 2 (20.00%) Data Mapping
6 2 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (20.00%) ITIL
6 2 (20.00%) Service Management
6 2 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
7 1 (10.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Google
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Databricks