Data Quality Contracts in the Thames Valley

Data Quality
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 72 100 108
Rank change year-on-year +28 +8 +30
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 30 45 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.99% 1.68% 1.47%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.90% 9.66% 9.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 25 30
10th Percentile £411 £380 £468
25th Percentile £450 £425 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £584 £488 £684
90th Percentile £713 £860 £784
South East median daily rate £511 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +7.63% -9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £24.43 -
South East median hourly rate - £24.43 £31.00
% change year-on-year - -21.19% +75.74%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 303 466 433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 20.05% 17.35% 14.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 246 261
10th Percentile £300 £180 £252
25th Percentile £412 £315 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £614 £575 £550
90th Percentile £688 £600 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 25 15
10th Percentile £29.62 £18.20 £18.50
25th Percentile £46.30 £22.50 £19.75
Median hourly rate £61.50 £27.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +123.62% +19.57% +9.52%
75th Percentile £66.56 £65.00 £38.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £66.50 £65.66
South East median hourly rate £46.30 £27.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year +68.36% -11.29% +47.44%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Data Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in the Thames Valley

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in the Thames Valley

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in the Thames Valley

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in the Thames Valley

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +27 20 £517 +8.74% 58
Buckinghamshire +8 8 £525 +13.51% 25
Oxfordshire +2 2 £425 -5.56% 28
Data Quality
South East

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (6.67%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (3.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (23.33%) Azure
2 3 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (6.67%) AWS
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (6.67%) OCI
3 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 2 (6.67%) SaaS
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Functions
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Storage
4 1 (3.33%) Collibra
4 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (3.33%) Serverless
4 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (26.67%) Data Lake
3 3 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (6.67%) Big Data
4 2 (6.67%) Hadoop
4 2 (6.67%) Metadata
4 2 (6.67%) Power BI
4 2 (6.67%) Tableau
5 1 (3.33%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (3.33%) Apache Hive
5 1 (3.33%) HBase
5 1 (3.33%) HDInsight
5 1 (3.33%) Impala
5 1 (3.33%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 13 (43.33%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
3 7 (23.33%) Telecoms
4 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 3 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (6.67%) Electronics
6 2 (6.67%) Finance
6 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
6 2 (6.67%) Marketing
7 1 (3.33%) Billing
7 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Architect
2 7 (23.33%) Analyst
3 6 (20.00%) Data Analyst
3 6 (20.00%) SIEM Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Data Architect
4 4 (13.33%) Data Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Senior
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Junior
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Telecoms Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Data Migration Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Lead
6 2 (6.67%) Migration Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Migration Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Oracle Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Tester
6 2 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Test Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) JSON
1 6 (20.00%) REST
2 4 (13.33%) PySpark
3 2 (6.67%) Gherkin
4 1 (3.33%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.33%) Kafka
4 1 (3.33%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Onboarding
2 6 (20.00%) CSOC
3 5 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.33%) CMDB
4 1 (3.33%) Data Fabric
4 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.33%) IoT
4 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
1 2 (6.67%) Unix
2 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (36.67%) Analytics
2 11 (36.67%) Process Improvement
3 9 (30.00%) Data Governance
4 7 (23.33%) Data Migration
4 7 (23.33%) Migration
5 6 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (20.00%) Incident Response
5 6 (20.00%) Security Operations
5 6 (20.00%) SIEM
5 6 (20.00%) Validation
5 6 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 5 (16.67%) Agile
6 5 (16.67%) Data Engineering
6 5 (16.67%) ETL
6 5 (16.67%) Machine Learning
6 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (13.33%) Data Analysis
7 4 (13.33%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) SQL
2 4 (13.33%) Python
3 2 (6.67%) R
4 1 (3.33%) ABAP
4 1 (3.33%) C#
4 1 (3.33%) Perl
4 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) GIAC
2 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Apache Flume
1 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) Databricks
3 3 (10.00%) SAP
4 2 (6.67%) Oracle
5 1 (3.33%) BMC
5 1 (3.33%) Google
5 1 (3.33%) Liquidlogic
5 1 (3.33%) Remedy
5 1 (3.33%) Splunk
5 1 (3.33%) StreamSets
5 1 (3.33%) Talend
5 1 (3.33%) Virgin Media