Data Quality Contracts in South Yorkshire

Data Quality
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 31 50 54
Rank change year-on-year +19 +4 -19
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 17 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 4.56% 1.31% 0.56%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 26.56% 10.00% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 2
10th Percentile - £326 -
25th Percentile £135 £345 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £145 £378 £700
Median % change year-on-year -61.64% -46.00% +40.00%
75th Percentile £406 - -
90th Percentile £470 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £275 £378 £505
% change year-on-year -27.25% -25.15% +6.32%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 64 60 79
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 17.16% 13.13% 14.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 44 52
10th Percentile £135 £315 £389
25th Percentile £368 £388 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £438 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.09% -16.67% +16.67%
75th Percentile £569 £588 £600
90th Percentile £614 £639 £698
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.33% -7.18% +18.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £14.13
25th Percentile - £12.63 £18.44
Median hourly rate - £12.75 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year - -50.49% +13.71%
75th Percentile - £12.88 £32.94
90th Percentile - - £37.18
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £10.93 £28.86
% change year-on-year +102.56% -62.13% +28.74%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in South Yorkshire

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in South Yorkshire

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in South Yorkshire

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in South Yorkshire

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield +12 12 £400 +5.82% 10
Rotherham - 5 £145 -
Data Quality
Yorkshire

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (29.41%) Apache
1 5 (29.41%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) GCP
2 5 (29.41%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Composer
4 2 (11.76%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (29.41%) Flink
2 5 (29.41%) Looker
3 3 (17.65%) BigQuery
3 3 (17.65%) Power BI
4 2 (11.76%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Analyst
1 8 (47.06%) Data Analyst
2 5 (29.41%) Junior
2 5 (29.41%) Junior Analyst
2 5 (29.41%) Junior Data Analyst
3 4 (23.53%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Applications Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) ETL
2 9 (52.94%) Data Management
3 8 (47.06%) Data Analysis
3 8 (47.06%) Data Governance
3 8 (47.06%) Data Strategy
3 8 (47.06%) Decision-Making
3 8 (47.06%) ETL Development
3 8 (47.06%) Technical Debt
4 6 (35.29%) Workflow
5 5 (29.41%) Data Lineage
5 5 (29.41%) Data Modelling
5 5 (29.41%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (29.41%) Visualisation
5 5 (29.41%) Workflow Management
6 4 (23.53%) Agile
6 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (17.65%) Migration
8 1 (5.88%) Change Management
8 1 (5.88%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) SQL
2 5 (29.41%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Google
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle