Data Quality Contracts in the South East

Data Quality
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 117 137 129
Rank change year-on-year +20 -8 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 42 68 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.40% 1.22% 1.64%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.20% 8.19% 10.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 38 58
10th Percentile £409 £296 £450
25th Percentile £450 £425 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.63% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £578 £544 £588
90th Percentile £660 £699 £706
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £29.50
Median hourly rate - £24.43 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year - -21.19% +75.74%
75th Percentile - - £32.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £31.64 £22.56 £22.49
% change year-on-year +40.26% +0.32% +13.88%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 512 830 886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.01% 14.93% 15.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 435 563
10th Percentile £200 £232 £200
25th Percentile £363 £361 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £638 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 65 43
10th Percentile £21.32 £10.82 £18.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £15.38 £19.00
Median hourly rate £46.30 £27.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.36% -11.29% +47.44%
75th Percentile £62.24 £48.75 £51.94
90th Percentile £77.27 £65.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
% change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Data Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in the South East

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in the South East

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in the South East

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in the South East

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley +28 30 £518 +9.00% 52
Berkshire +27 20 £517 +8.74% 39
Buckinghamshire +8 8 £525 +13.51% 5
West Sussex +11 4 £525 - 4
Hampshire +18 3 £500 +24.23% 15
Surrey +14 2 £538 +7.50% 8
Oxfordshire +2 2 £425 -5.56% 18
Kent +7 1 £500 - 2
East Sussex - 1 £375 - 2
Home Counties - 1 - -
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (4.76%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (2.38%) Maximo
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (2.38%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (21.43%) Azure
2 6 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 3 (7.14%) AWS
3 3 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (4.76%) OCI
4 2 (4.76%) SaaS
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (2.38%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.38%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.38%) Azure Storage
5 1 (2.38%) Collibra
5 1 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.38%) GitHub
5 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.38%) Serverless
5 1 (2.38%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (35.71%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (19.05%) Data Lake
3 6 (14.29%) Power BI
4 4 (9.52%) Metadata
5 3 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (4.76%) Big Data
6 2 (4.76%) Hadoop
6 2 (4.76%) Tableau
7 1 (2.38%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.38%) Apache Hive
7 1 (2.38%) DataStage
7 1 (2.38%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (2.38%) GIS
7 1 (2.38%) HBase
7 1 (2.38%) HDInsight
7 1 (2.38%) Impala
7 1 (2.38%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.38%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.76%) SpecFlow
2 1 (2.38%) Git
2 1 (2.38%) JIRA
General
1 15 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 7 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 4 (9.52%) Finance
4 4 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.76%) Billing
6 2 (4.76%) Electronics
6 2 (4.76%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.76%) Marketing
7 1 (2.38%) Advertising
7 1 (2.38%) Automotive
7 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.38%) Legal
7 1 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (21.43%) Architect
2 8 (19.05%) Analyst
3 6 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 6 (14.29%) SIEM Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Data Architect
4 5 (11.90%) Data Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Senior
6 3 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Data Migration Analyst
6 3 (7.14%) Junior
6 3 (7.14%) Lead
6 3 (7.14%) Migration Analyst
6 3 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Telecoms Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Automation Tester
7 2 (4.76%) Azure Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Data Migration Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Migration Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Automation Tester
7 2 (4.76%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.29%) JSON
1 6 (14.29%) REST
2 4 (9.52%) PySpark
3 2 (4.76%) Gherkin
4 1 (2.38%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.38%) Kafka
4 1 (2.38%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.43%) Onboarding
2 6 (14.29%) CSOC
3 5 (11.90%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (4.76%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.38%) CMDB
5 1 (2.38%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.38%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.38%) FMCG
5 1 (2.38%) IoT
5 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.38%) Taxonomies
5 1 (2.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Linux
1 2 (4.76%) Unix
1 2 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (40.48%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (35.71%) Analytics
2 15 (35.71%) Data Governance
3 11 (26.19%) Process Improvement
4 10 (23.81%) Agile
5 9 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (21.43%) ETL
5 9 (21.43%) Migration
6 8 (19.05%) Data Management
6 8 (19.05%) Data Migration
6 8 (19.05%) Data Modelling
6 8 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (16.67%) Data Engineering
8 6 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (14.29%) Data Integration
8 6 (14.29%) Incident Response
8 6 (14.29%) Security Operations
8 6 (14.29%) SIEM
8 6 (14.29%) Validation
8 6 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (38.10%) SQL
2 5 (11.90%) Python
3 2 (4.76%) PL/SQL
3 2 (4.76%) R
4 1 (2.38%) ABAP
4 1 (2.38%) C#
4 1 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (14.29%) GIAC
1 6 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.38%) Degree
3 1 (2.38%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) QA
2 2 (4.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (2.38%) Apache Flume
1 1 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.90%) Databricks
3 4 (9.52%) Oracle
3 4 (9.52%) SAP
4 3 (7.14%) Informatica
5 2 (4.76%) IBM
5 2 (4.76%) Splunk
5 2 (4.76%) Talend
6 1 (2.38%) Alteryx
6 1 (2.38%) BMC
6 1 (2.38%) Google
6 1 (2.38%) Liquidlogic
6 1 (2.38%) Remedy
6 1 (2.38%) StreamSets
6 1 (2.38%) Virgin Media