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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 174 172
Rank change year-on-year +62 -2 +70
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 334 228 307
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.18% 1.24% 1.38%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.72% 8.94% 9.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 153 223
10th Percentile £312 £305 £313
25th Percentile £400 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -7.77% +3.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £712 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -6.82% +0.92% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 7 4
10th Percentile £17.96 £15.57 £15.06
25th Percentile £19.71 £18.14 £15.16
Median hourly rate £31.64 £22.00 £23.11
Median % change year-on-year +43.82% -4.78% +64.92%
75th Percentile £34.23 £24.00 £35.28
90th Percentile £61.21 £41.90 £40.29
UK median hourly rate £31.64 £24.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +31.83% -31.43% +55.56%

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 2,626 2,551 3,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.16% 13.89% 14.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,660 1,456 2,095
10th Percentile £235 £234 £261
25th Percentile £363 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 273 202
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £13.33
25th Percentile £15.50 £13.52 £18.09
Median hourly rate £24.83 £25.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% -29.58% +61.36%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £64.69
90th Percentile £85.70 £70.00 £79.92
UK median hourly rate £26.93 £25.68 £39.51
% change year-on-year +4.84% -35.00% +58.04%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 3 August 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 +18 89 £450 -7.22% 114
South East +21 63 £468 -1.58% 150
Midlands +10 63 £463 -5.13% 84
North West +13 53 £460 -6.17% 77
East of England +28 42 £604 +15.05% 30
West Midlands -2 38 £500 -2.44% 54
South West +47 35 £425 -5.56% 51
Yorkshire +11 34 £425 +12.43% 28
Scotland +8 31 £430 -9.47% 35
East Midlands +6 22 £449 +6.41% 29
Northern Ireland - 14 £575 - 15
North East -2 3 £613 +147.47% 10
Wales 0 1 - - 8
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 26 (7.78%) Apache Spark
2 25 (7.49%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (5.39%) Apache
4 10 (2.99%) SharePoint
5 8 (2.40%) Confluence
6 3 (0.90%) IBM Domino
6 3 (0.90%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.60%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.30%) Luigi
8 1 (0.30%) MS Project Server
8 1 (0.30%) WebLogic
Applications
1 46 (13.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (6.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (5.09%) Siemens NX
4 7 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.90%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.30%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.30%) Maple
7 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.30%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 26 (7.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (5.39%) Teamcenter
3 5 (1.50%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (1.50%) SAP PM
4 4 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.60%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.60%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.30%) Maximo
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.30%) Primavera
6 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.30%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.30%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 74 (22.16%) Power Platform
2 56 (16.77%) Azure
3 55 (16.47%) AWS
4 30 (8.98%) GCP
4 30 (8.98%) Snowflake
5 18 (5.39%) Azure Data Factory
5 18 (5.39%) dbt
6 16 (4.79%) Cloud Computing
7 15 (4.49%) Amazon S3
7 15 (4.49%) Serverless
8 14 (4.19%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (3.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 11 (3.29%) PowerApps
11 9 (2.69%) Microsoft Purview
12 8 (2.40%) Amazon EMR
12 8 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (2.10%) GitHub
13 7 (2.10%) Power Automate
14 6 (1.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.60%) Firewall
1 2 (0.60%) Internet
2 1 (0.30%) Intranet
2 1 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (20.96%) Data Warehouse
2 69 (20.66%) Power BI
3 44 (13.17%) Tableau
4 27 (8.08%) Data Lake
5 22 (6.59%) Relational Database
6 20 (5.99%) Big Data
6 20 (5.99%) Hadoop
7 18 (5.39%) Metadata
8 16 (4.79%) NoSQL
9 15 (4.49%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (3.59%) Delta Lake
11 11 (3.29%) Oracle Database
11 11 (3.29%) SQL Server
12 10 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (2.69%) BigQuery
13 9 (2.69%) GIS
14 8 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
14 8 (2.40%) RDBMS
15 7 (2.10%) Looker
15 7 (2.10%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 12 (3.59%) JIRA
2 11 (3.29%) Git
3 6 (1.80%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.20%) GitLab
5 2 (0.60%) DBeaver
5 2 (0.60%) ERwin
6 1 (0.30%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.30%) Postman
6 1 (0.30%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.30%) Selenium
6 1 (0.30%) SpecFlow
General
1 146 (43.71%) Social Skills
2 95 (28.44%) Analytical Skills
3 81 (24.25%) Finance
4 24 (7.19%) Public Sector
5 23 (6.89%) Banking
6 15 (4.49%) Organisational Skills
6 15 (4.49%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (3.89%) Pharmaceutical
8 10 (2.99%) Local Government
8 10 (2.99%) Marketing
9 8 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.40%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.80%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.50%) Automotive
11 5 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.20%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.90%) Billing
13 3 (0.90%) Front Office
13 3 (0.90%) Retail
14 2 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 90 (26.95%) Analyst
2 60 (17.96%) Data Analyst
3 59 (17.66%) Data Engineer
4 38 (11.38%) Senior
5 35 (10.48%) Lead
6 32 (9.58%) Architect
7 24 (7.19%) Developer
8 20 (5.99%) Data Architect
9 18 (5.39%) Business Analyst
10 16 (4.79%) Applications Engineer
10 16 (4.79%) Configuration Engineer
11 15 (4.49%) Consultant
11 15 (4.49%) Senior Data Engineer
12 11 (3.29%) Data Consultant
13 8 (2.40%) Data Migration Analyst
13 8 (2.40%) Data Science Developer
13 8 (2.40%) Migration Analyst
14 7 (2.10%) Applications Support
14 7 (2.10%) SAP Consultant
14 7 (2.10%) SAP Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.59%) Kafka
2 20 (5.99%) XML
3 13 (3.89%) REST
4 12 (3.59%) Pandas
5 11 (3.29%) NumPy
6 10 (2.99%) Matplotlib
6 10 (2.99%) PySpark
6 10 (2.99%) PyTorch
6 10 (2.99%) scikit-learn
6 10 (2.99%) Seaborn
6 10 (2.99%) TensorFlow
7 9 (2.69%) Lightning Web Components
8 8 (2.40%) SOAP
9 6 (1.80%) Apache NiFi
9 6 (1.80%) JSON
10 5 (1.50%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (1.50%) Middleware
10 5 (1.50%) Visualforce
11 3 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
12 2 (0.60%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.99%) Legacy Systems
2 19 (5.69%) Onboarding
3 17 (5.09%) Management Information System
4 15 (4.49%) Data Structures
5 13 (3.89%) Product Ownership
6 11 (3.29%) Algorithms
6 11 (3.29%) Life Science
7 10 (2.99%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.10%) CMDB
8 7 (2.10%) Replication
9 6 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.80%) IoT
9 6 (1.80%) Market Risk
9 6 (1.80%) Reference Data
9 6 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.50%) CSOC
10 5 (1.50%) Data Fabric
10 5 (1.50%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.80%) Linux
2 2 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (37.72%) Data Governance
2 111 (33.23%) Problem-Solving
3 109 (32.63%) Analytics
4 107 (32.04%) Data Modelling
5 96 (28.74%) ETL
6 89 (26.65%) Business Intelligence
7 75 (22.46%) Migration
8 72 (21.56%) Visualisation
9 70 (20.96%) Data Analysis
10 60 (17.96%) Data Pipeline
11 59 (17.66%) Data Management
12 57 (17.07%) Agile
12 57 (17.07%) Data Migration
13 54 (16.17%) Validation
14 53 (15.87%) Decision-Making
15 52 (15.57%) Data Engineering
16 42 (12.57%) Stakeholder Management
17 39 (11.68%) Data Integration
18 37 (11.08%) Data Security
19 33 (9.88%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 136 (40.72%) SQL
2 89 (26.65%) Python
3 20 (5.99%) R
4 12 (3.59%) Java
5 9 (2.69%) Apex Code
5 9 (2.69%) Scala
6 5 (1.50%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (1.20%) PL/SQL
8 3 (0.90%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.60%) Bicep
9 2 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.60%) Perl
9 2 (0.60%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.60%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.30%) Bash
10 1 (0.30%) C#
10 1 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 48 (14.37%) Degree
2 38 (11.38%) Security Cleared
3 25 (7.49%) Master's Degree
3 25 (7.49%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.99%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.80%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.80%) PhD
7 5 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.50%) GIAC
8 4 (1.20%) CCAB
8 4 (1.20%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.20%) PMP
9 3 (0.90%) ISEB
10 2 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.30%) ISACA
11 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (10.18%) GDPR
2 15 (4.49%) QA
3 7 (2.10%) PMO
4 6 (1.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.90%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.60%) GRC
7 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.30%) COSHH
8 1 (0.30%) EMIR
8 1 (0.30%) MiFID
8 1 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (2.69%) Docker
2 2 (0.60%) HDFS
3 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (2.69%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.40%) Terraform
3 5 (1.50%) Kibana
3 5 (1.50%) logstash
4 3 (0.90%) Grafana
5 2 (0.60%) Ansible
5 2 (0.60%) Hadoop YARN
5 2 (0.60%) Oozie
5 2 (0.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 51 (15.27%) Microsoft
2 45 (13.47%) SAP
3 29 (8.68%) Oracle
4 24 (7.19%) Databricks
5 18 (5.39%) Google
6 14 (4.19%) Informatica
7 12 (3.59%) Salesforce
8 9 (2.69%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.80%) Ariba
10 5 (1.50%) Liquidlogic
11 4 (1.20%) Talend
12 3 (0.90%) IBM
12 3 (0.90%) StreamSets
13 2 (0.60%) Adobe
13 2 (0.60%) Anaplan
13 2 (0.60%) Hyperion
13 2 (0.60%) OpenText
13 2 (0.60%) Splunk
13 2 (0.60%) Teradata
13 2 (0.60%) Virgin Media