Data Quality Analyst Contracts

Data Quality Analyst
UK

The median Data Quality Analyst daily rate in the UK is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 542 549 643
Rank change year-on-year +7 +94 +177
Contract jobs requiring a Data Quality Analyst 8 25 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.058% 0.064%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.062% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 20 23
10th Percentile £351 £450 £207
25th Percentile £391 £463 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £483 £581 £581
90th Percentile £564 £600 £695
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £500 £460
% change year-on-year -15.00% +8.70% +130.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 29,261 40,308 53,403
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.00% 92.99% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,659 25,937 37,084
10th Percentile £287 £285 £313
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,318 2,814 1,558
10th Percentile £13.75 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.65 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £38.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.47% -10.47% +70.13%
75th Percentile £55.25 £63.31 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.90 £74.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £39.55
% change year-on-year -37.13% +1.14% +96.47%

Data Quality Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Data Quality Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality Analyst in the UK

Data Quality Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Quality Analyst.

Daily rate trend for Data Quality Analyst in the UK

Data Quality Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality Analyst over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality Analyst in the UK

Data Quality Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Quality Analyst.

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality Analyst in the UK

Data Quality Analyst
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Quality Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 5 July 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
England +37 8 £425 -15.00% 30
UK excluding London +35 6 £425 -15.00% 18
South East +37 3 £425 -15.00% 4
London +36 2 £425 -22.73% 11
North of England -2 2 £481 -1.28% 4
North West -4 1 £350 -28.21% 2
North East - 1 £613 -
East of England - 1 - - 2

Data Quality Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 5 July 2025, Data Quality Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Data Quality Analyst in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Databricks
3 3 (37.50%) IBM Domino
3 3 (37.50%) Customer-Centricity
3 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
3 3 (37.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
4 2 (25.00%) Data Management
5 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Quality Management
5 1 (12.50%) Validation
5 1 (12.50%) Python
5 1 (12.50%) CRM
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
5 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (12.50%) Fund Management
5 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 1 (12.50%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (12.50%) Data Validation
5 1 (12.50%) Fund Accounting
5 1 (12.50%) Data Entry
5 1 (12.50%) R
5 1 (12.50%) Tableau
5 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
5 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (12.50%) Customer Insight
5 1 (12.50%) Talend

Data Quality Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (37.50%) IBM Domino
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Metadata
1 1 (12.50%) Tableau
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Fabric
1 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Customer-Centricity
1 3 (37.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
2 2 (25.00%) Data Management
2 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (12.50%) CRM
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Insight
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (12.50%) Data Entry
3 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
3 1 (12.50%) Data Privacy
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
3 1 (12.50%) Data Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Fund Accounting
3 1 (12.50%) Fund Management
3 1 (12.50%) Metadata Management
3 1 (12.50%) Quality Management
3 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Talend