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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 138 127
Rank change year-on-year +33 -11 +44
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 49 62 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.60% 1.09% 1.55%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.50% 8.38% 10.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 31 60
10th Percentile £375 £350 £450
25th Percentile £402 £425 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £588
90th Percentile £615 £688 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £15.04
25th Percentile - - £15.11
Median hourly rate - £24.43 £15.21
Median % change year-on-year - +60.62% -24.22%
75th Percentile - - £23.86
90th Percentile - - £29.04
England median hourly rate £31.64 £18.93 £22.49
% change year-on-year +67.14% -15.81% -7.66%

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 516 740 839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.88% 12.96% 14.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 373 529
10th Percentile £200 £259 £200
25th Percentile £356 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £648 £662 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 71 49
10th Percentile £15.12 £10.82 £15.21
25th Percentile £15.13 £16.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £24.91 £27.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.44% -42.11% +137.50%
75th Percentile £61.68 £60.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £75.29 £70.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £32.50 £24.00 £39.42
% change year-on-year +35.42% -39.12% +46.00%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +17 28 £511 +7.63% 50
Berkshire +26 16 £517 +8.74% 26
Hampshire +28 7 £402 -33.00% 27
West Sussex +12 7 £525 - 9
Oxfordshire +5 6 £425 -5.56% 12
Buckinghamshire +1 6 £513 -2.38% 13
Surrey +20 4 £588 +46.88% 16
Kent +1 1 - - 13
East Sussex - 1 £375 - 5
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 3 (6.12%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.08%) IBM Domino
3 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.04%) Confluence
3 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (4.08%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (4.08%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (2.04%) Maximo
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (2.04%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (24.49%) Azure
2 7 (14.29%) AWS
3 6 (12.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 6 (12.24%) Power Platform
4 5 (10.20%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (8.16%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (6.12%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (6.12%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (6.12%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (6.12%) Serverless
6 3 (6.12%) Snowflake
7 2 (4.08%) dbt
7 2 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (4.08%) GCP
7 2 (4.08%) OCI
8 1 (2.04%) Collibra
8 1 (2.04%) GitHub
8 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (2.04%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (36.73%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (20.41%) Data Lake
3 6 (12.24%) Power BI
4 3 (6.12%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (6.12%) NoSQL
4 3 (6.12%) Relational Database
4 3 (6.12%) Tableau
5 2 (4.08%) Metadata
5 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.04%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (2.04%) DataStage
6 1 (2.04%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (2.04%) GIS
6 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (2.04%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (2.04%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (2.04%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (8.16%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.04%) Git
2 1 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 22 (44.90%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (36.73%) Social Skills
3 6 (12.24%) Telecoms
4 4 (8.16%) Finance
5 3 (6.12%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.08%) Banking
6 2 (4.08%) Billing
6 2 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.08%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.04%) Automotive
7 1 (2.04%) Legal
7 1 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (36.73%) Analyst
2 11 (22.45%) Data Analyst
3 8 (16.33%) Architect
3 8 (16.33%) Data Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) Data Architect
4 6 (12.24%) Senior
5 5 (10.20%) Business IT Analyst
5 5 (10.20%) Business Support Analyst
5 5 (10.20%) Business Systems Analyst
5 5 (10.20%) IT Analyst
5 5 (10.20%) IT Support
5 5 (10.20%) IT Support Analyst
5 5 (10.20%) SIEM Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Support Analyst
5 5 (10.20%) Systems Analyst
5 5 (10.20%) Systems Support
5 5 (10.20%) Systems Support Analyst
6 4 (8.16%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Data Migration Analyst
7 3 (6.12%) Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.20%) JSON
1 5 (10.20%) REST
2 3 (6.12%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.33%) Onboarding
2 5 (10.20%) CSOC
3 4 (8.16%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (6.12%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.12%) Product Ownership
4 3 (6.12%) Smart Meter
5 2 (4.08%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.04%) CMDB
6 1 (2.04%) Data Fabric
6 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.04%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.12%) Linux
2 1 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (48.98%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (40.82%) Analytics
3 19 (38.78%) Data Modelling
4 18 (36.73%) Data Governance
5 13 (26.53%) Business Intelligence
5 13 (26.53%) ETL
6 11 (22.45%) Agile
6 11 (22.45%) Data Engineering
6 11 (22.45%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (20.41%) Process Improvement
7 10 (20.41%) Validation
8 9 (18.37%) Data Integration
9 8 (16.33%) Migration
9 8 (16.33%) Visualisation
10 7 (14.29%) Customer-Centricity
10 7 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (14.29%) Data Security
11 6 (12.24%) Actionable Insight
11 6 (12.24%) Decision-Making
11 6 (12.24%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 22 (44.90%) SQL
2 12 (24.49%) Python
3 4 (8.16%) R
4 3 (6.12%) Java
4 3 (6.12%) Scala
5 2 (4.08%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (10.20%) GIAC
1 5 (10.20%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.16%) Degree
3 3 (6.12%) AWS Certification
3 3 (6.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.08%) Master's Degree
4 2 (4.08%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.04%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (2.04%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.04%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.04%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.04%) GDPR
2 1 (2.04%) QA
System Software
1 4 (8.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.16%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.20%) Databricks
2 5 (10.20%) Liquidlogic
2 5 (10.20%) Oracle
3 3 (6.12%) Informatica
4 2 (4.08%) IBM
4 2 (4.08%) Talend
5 1 (2.04%) BMC
5 1 (2.04%) IFS
5 1 (2.04%) Remedy
5 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.04%) Splunk
5 1 (2.04%) Virgin Media