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

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 54 53
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 -19
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 13 6 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 2.77% 1.23% 0.80%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.12% 14.63% 6.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 3
10th Percentile - £326 £540
25th Percentile £135 £345 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £348 £378 £700
Median % change year-on-year -8.07% -46.00% +40.00%
75th Percentile £484 - -
90th Percentile £554 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £364 £500
% change year-on-year +9.89% -27.20% -

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 68 41 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 14.50% 8.42% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 28 37
10th Percentile £237 £235 £330
25th Percentile £363 £373 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.47% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £541 £596 £625
90th Percentile £605 £640 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £503 £510
% change year-on-year -5.47% -1.47% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £12.63 £18.25
Median hourly rate - £12.75 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year - -37.80% +3.04%
75th Percentile - £12.88 £22.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £11.88 £21.00
% change year-on-year +86.36% -43.43% +12.30%

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 24 June 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 24 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
Sheffield +10 11 £400 +5.82% 6
Barnsley - 2 £295 -
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 8 (61.54%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (46.15%) Apache
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.69%) Maple
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) GCP
2 5 (38.46%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (38.46%) Power Platform
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Composer
3 2 (15.38%) dbt
4 1 (7.69%) Azure
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (38.46%) Flink
2 5 (38.46%) Power BI
3 4 (30.77%) Looker
4 2 (15.38%) BigQuery
4 2 (15.38%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (15.38%) Tableau
5 1 (7.69%) Delta Lake
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Data Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Data Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Engineering Specialist
3 2 (15.38%) Report Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (7.69%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) ETL
2 9 (69.23%) Workflow
3 7 (53.85%) Data Modelling
3 7 (53.85%) Visualisation
4 6 (46.15%) Agile
4 6 (46.15%) Data Management
4 6 (46.15%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (38.46%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (38.46%) Data Governance
5 5 (38.46%) Data Lineage
5 5 (38.46%) Decision-Making
5 5 (38.46%) Workflow Management
6 3 (23.08%) Data Analysis
6 3 (23.08%) Data Engineering
6 3 (23.08%) Data Strategy
6 3 (23.08%) Data Transformation
6 3 (23.08%) ETL Development
6 3 (23.08%) Technical Debt
7 2 (15.38%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) SQL
2 8 (61.54%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) Google
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Databricks