Data Quality Contract Job Trends in South London

Data Quality
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Data Quality skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 22 44
Rank change year-on-year -13 +22 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 6 14 3
As % of all contract jobs in South London 3.43% 6.90% 1.04%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.65% 43.75% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 3
10th Percentile £431 £493 £403
25th Percentile £451 £496 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £508 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% +19.41% +8.63%
75th Percentile £497 £556 £469
90th Percentile £609 £575 £488
London median daily rate £540 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -10.00% +2.13% +2.17%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 34 32 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 19.43% 15.76% 18.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 14 42
10th Percentile £229 £200 £357
25th Percentile £412 £358 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.21% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £501 £550
90th Percentile £647 £535 £575
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £65.94 £22.30
25th Percentile - £66.42 £37.38
Median hourly rate - £71.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - +9.50% -
75th Percentile - £76.77 £75.38
90th Percentile - £77.75 £80.10
London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -2.86% +7.69% +31.10%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Quality relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

Data Quality job vacancy trend in South London

Data Quality
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Data Quality.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in South London over the 6 months to 28 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in South London

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Data Quality.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 28 October 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
Croydon -5 3 £500 -0.10% 2
Bromley -9 2 £450 -21.74% 2
Data Quality
London

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (16.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Data Pipeline
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Metadata
2 2 (33.33%) Big Data
2 2 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 2 (33.33%) Hadoop
2 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (16.67%) DataStage
3 1 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Data Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Architect
3 1 (16.67%) QA Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Great Expectations
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) pytest
1 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Governance
1 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) AI
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Data Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (33.33%) Metadata Management
3 2 (33.33%) Use Case
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
4 1 (16.67%) Batch Processing
4 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) LLM
4 1 (16.67%) MLOps
4 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow