Data Quality Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Data Quality
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring Data Quality skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 20 22
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 6 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 3.53% 0.89% 2.34%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.95% 5.00% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile £416 - £204
25th Percentile £428 - £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £205
75th Percentile £464 - £304
90th Percentile £469 - £481
Hampshire median daily rate £450 £410 £402
% change year-on-year +9.76% +1.87% -26.82%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 43 20 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 25.29% 17.86% 7.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 12 9
10th Percentile £256 £175 £205
25th Percentile £340 £255 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £394 £488
Median % change year-on-year +20.63% -19.23% +14.71%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £588
90th Percentile £580 £644 £590
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £513 £535
% change year-on-year +7.32% -4.21% +17.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £35.60 - -
25th Percentile £38.00 - £72.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile £64.00 - £77.50
90th Percentile £88.00 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £40.00 £24.66 £37.50
% change year-on-year +62.21% -34.24% +36.85%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Data Quality job vacancy trend in Southampton

Data Quality
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Trend in Southampton

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (33.33%) Eloqua
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 3 (50.00%) Data Mining
2 3 (50.00%) OLAP
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle OLAP
General
1 3 (50.00%) Marketing
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Analyst
1 4 (66.67%) Data Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Data Business Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Data Manager
4 1 (16.67%) Business Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Marketing Technology
2 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) Data Management
2 4 (66.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 4 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (66.67%) Data Analysis
2 4 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 4 (66.67%) Data Ingestion
2 4 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 4 (66.67%) Information Governance
2 4 (66.67%) Migration
2 4 (66.67%) Prototyping
2 4 (66.67%) Use Case
2 4 (66.67%) User Stories
2 4 (66.67%) Workshop Facilitation
3 3 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (50.00%) Product Backlog
3 3 (50.00%) Requirements Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (50.00%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) PMO
2 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Adobe
2 2 (33.33%) IFS
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 2 (33.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud