Data Quality Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Quality
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 114 144 190
Rank change year-on-year +30 +46 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 283 314 332
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.22% 1.51% 1.38%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.74% 9.99% 9.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 195 224
10th Percentile £316 £325 £288
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.90% - -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £721 £673
UK median daily rate £513 £535 £528
% change year-on-year -4.07% +1.42% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 31 4
10th Percentile £18.21 - £21.00
25th Percentile £22.09 £12.25 £24.38
Median hourly rate £31.64 £15.79 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +100.38% -46.02% +67.14%
75th Percentile £34.31 £24.00 £35.28
90th Percentile £35.83 £42.50 £40.29
UK median hourly rate £31.64 £16.34 £22.49
% change year-on-year +93.69% -27.35% +21.54%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,060 3,142 3,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.14% 15.13% 14.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,297 1,830 2,400
10th Percentile £209 £252 £213
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £665 £680 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 309 180
10th Percentile £17.28 £10.95 £12.50
25th Percentile £24.18 £12.63 £18.21
Median hourly rate £40.78 £18.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +126.53% -50.34% +72.21%
75th Percentile £67.03 £43.75 £62.00
90th Percentile £79.92 £67.38 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £20.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.85% -44.53% +33.93%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in the UK excluding London

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in the UK excluding London

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in the UK excluding London

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in the UK excluding London

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Quality in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Quality in the UK excluding London

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +3 75 £450 -10.00% 276
East of England +42 56 £600 +20.00% 151
North West -8 45 £465 -8.82% 159
South East +20 42 £511 +7.63% 365
Midlands +4 41 £475 -11.63% 217
Scotland +28 35 £428 -9.89% 60
Yorkshire +17 30 £275 -27.25% 88
South West +45 28 £525 +2.44% 135
West Midlands -11 23 £525 -4.55% 125
East Midlands +14 17 £447 +6.05% 77
Northern Ireland -10 6 £425 - 31
Wales -2 2 £221 -57.90% 26
Data Quality
UK

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 24 (8.48%) Apache Spark
2 15 (5.30%) Apache
2 15 (5.30%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (4.59%) Confluence
3 13 (4.59%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.35%) Luigi
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.35%) SAS
Applications
1 28 (9.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (3.89%) Siemens NX
3 7 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.77%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.35%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.35%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 21 (7.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (3.89%) Teamcenter
3 3 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.71%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.71%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.35%) Maximo
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.35%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 64 (22.61%) Azure
2 54 (19.08%) Power Platform
3 53 (18.73%) AWS
4 29 (10.25%) GCP
5 15 (5.30%) Snowflake
6 12 (4.24%) SaaS
7 11 (3.89%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (3.89%) dbt
8 9 (3.18%) Amazon S3
9 8 (2.83%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (2.47%) PaaS
10 7 (2.47%) Serverless
11 6 (2.12%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (2.12%) IaaS
12 5 (1.77%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (1.41%) Asana
13 4 (1.41%) GitHub
13 4 (1.41%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.35%) Internet
2 1 (0.35%) Intranet
2 1 (0.35%) Skype
2 1 (0.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (23.67%) Data Warehouse
2 53 (18.73%) Power BI
3 39 (13.78%) Tableau
4 27 (9.54%) Big Data
5 24 (8.48%) Hadoop
6 23 (8.13%) Metadata
7 20 (7.07%) Data Lake
8 11 (3.89%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (3.89%) NoSQL
9 10 (3.53%) BigQuery
9 10 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (3.18%) MySQL
11 8 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (2.83%) SQL Server
12 7 (2.47%) Looker
12 7 (2.47%) Relational Database
13 6 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (2.12%) Data Mining
14 5 (1.77%) Flink
14 5 (1.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (6.71%) JIRA
2 10 (3.53%) Git
3 3 (1.06%) ERwin
3 3 (1.06%) GitLab
4 2 (0.71%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.71%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.35%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.35%) Flyway
5 1 (0.35%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.35%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 114 (40.28%) Social Skills
2 83 (29.33%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (17.31%) Finance
4 32 (11.31%) Public Sector
5 13 (4.59%) Telecoms
6 10 (3.53%) Pharmaceutical
7 9 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.83%) Banking
9 7 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.47%) Local Government
9 7 (2.47%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.12%) Marketing
10 6 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.77%) Retail
12 4 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.06%) Electronics
14 2 (0.71%) Automotive
14 2 (0.71%) Billing
14 2 (0.71%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.71%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 71 (25.09%) Analyst
2 46 (16.25%) Data Engineer
3 41 (14.49%) Data Analyst
4 33 (11.66%) Senior
5 29 (10.25%) Developer
6 27 (9.54%) Architect
7 23 (8.13%) Lead
8 19 (6.71%) Data Architect
9 15 (5.30%) Business Analyst
9 15 (5.30%) Senior Data Engineer
10 14 (4.95%) Consultant
10 14 (4.95%) Data Science Developer
11 11 (3.89%) Project Manager
11 11 (3.89%) Senior Developer
12 10 (3.53%) Applications Engineer
12 10 (3.53%) Configuration Engineer
13 9 (3.18%) Junior
14 7 (2.47%) Applications Support
14 7 (2.47%) IT Manager
14 7 (2.47%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.71%) Pandas
2 18 (6.36%) NumPy
2 18 (6.36%) PyTorch
2 18 (6.36%) TensorFlow
3 16 (5.65%) Matplotlib
3 16 (5.65%) scikit-learn
3 16 (5.65%) Seaborn
4 13 (4.59%) PySpark
5 11 (3.89%) Kafka
5 11 (3.89%) XML
6 7 (2.47%) JSON
6 7 (2.47%) REST
7 5 (1.77%) Apache NiFi
8 4 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (1.06%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.06%) React
10 2 (0.71%) ADO
10 2 (0.71%) Gherkin
11 1 (0.35%) .NET
11 1 (0.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.13%) Algorithms
2 18 (6.36%) Onboarding
3 17 (6.01%) Management Information System
4 16 (5.65%) Data Structures
5 13 (4.59%) Life Science
6 11 (3.89%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.47%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.47%) CMDB
8 6 (2.12%) CSOC
8 6 (2.12%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.77%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.41%) Replication
11 3 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 2 (0.71%) IoT
12 2 (0.71%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.41%) Linux
2 3 (1.06%) Unix
3 2 (0.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (38.16%) Data Governance
2 93 (32.86%) Analytics
3 83 (29.33%) Problem-Solving
4 82 (28.98%) ETL
5 68 (24.03%) Data Modelling
6 65 (22.97%) Visualisation
7 64 (22.61%) Data Management
8 63 (22.26%) Business Intelligence
8 63 (22.26%) Data Analysis
9 61 (21.55%) Migration
10 51 (18.02%) Decision-Making
11 49 (17.31%) Agile
12 44 (15.55%) Data Pipeline
13 42 (14.84%) Data Migration
14 40 (14.13%) Machine Learning
15 39 (13.78%) Data Science
16 36 (12.72%) Stakeholder Management
17 35 (12.37%) Data Analytics
18 32 (11.31%) Artificial Intelligence
18 32 (11.31%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 104 (36.75%) SQL
2 66 (23.32%) Python
3 22 (7.77%) R
4 7 (2.47%) Java
5 4 (1.41%) PL/SQL
5 4 (1.41%) VBA
6 3 (1.06%) Scala
6 3 (1.06%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.71%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.71%) PHP
8 1 (0.35%) ABAP
8 1 (0.35%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.35%) Bash
8 1 (0.35%) C#
8 1 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.35%) Perl
8 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (15.90%) Degree
2 29 (10.25%) Security Cleared
3 18 (6.36%) SC Cleared
4 17 (6.01%) Master's Degree
5 12 (4.24%) PhD
6 7 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.12%) GIAC
8 5 (1.77%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.77%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.41%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.41%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.71%) PMP
12 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.35%) CITP
12 1 (0.35%) ISACA
12 1 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.35%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.77%) GDPR
2 21 (7.42%) QA
3 9 (3.18%) PMO
4 5 (1.77%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.77%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.35%) COSHH
6 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (1.41%) Docker
2 2 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.35%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (2.12%) Terraform
2 4 (1.41%) Kibana
2 4 (1.41%) logstash
3 3 (1.06%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.71%) Ansible
4 2 (0.71%) Grafana
5 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 39 (13.78%) Microsoft
2 30 (10.60%) SAP
3 18 (6.36%) Google
4 16 (5.65%) Databricks
4 16 (5.65%) Oracle
5 8 (2.83%) Informatica
5 8 (2.83%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.47%) Ariba
7 5 (1.77%) Talend
8 3 (1.06%) Alteryx
8 3 (1.06%) Splunk
9 2 (0.71%) Anaplan
9 2 (0.71%) Blue Prism
9 2 (0.71%) Epicor
9 2 (0.71%) Hyperion
9 2 (0.71%) IBM
9 2 (0.71%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.71%) Remedy
9 2 (0.71%) Virgin Media
9 2 (0.71%) Workday