Data Quality Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Data Quality
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Data Quality skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 - 15
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 5 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 4.27% - 3.23%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.67% - 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £415 - -
25th Percentile £428 - £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -26.47%
75th Percentile - - £413
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £468 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -6.50% -2.44% +7.89%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 30 2 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 25.64% 3.33% 17.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 7
10th Percentile £332 - £359
25th Percentile £405 - £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.93%
75th Percentile £469 - £528
90th Percentile £780 - £594
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £450 £510
% change year-on-year - -11.76% -1.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile - - £13.03
25th Percentile £19.50 - £15.13
Median hourly rate £20.00 £30.00 £24.92
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +20.41% -9.40%
75th Percentile £20.50 - £33.93
90th Percentile - - £50.72
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.62 £30.00 £15.30
% change year-on-year -31.28% +96.08% -44.36%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Data Quality job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Data Quality
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

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

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 27 July 2026. 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
Uttoxeter - 3 £450 -
Lichfield - 1 - -
Stafford - 1 - - 1
Data Quality
West Midlands

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Delta Lake
1 3 (60.00%) Spark SQL
1 3 (60.00%) Tableau
2 2 (40.00%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Video\Live Streaming
2 1 (20.00%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Change Data Capture
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (60.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (60.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Business Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Data Lineage
3 2 (40.00%) Data Management
3 2 (40.00%) Observability
3 2 (40.00%) Runbook
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Facilities Management
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft