Data Quality Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Quality
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 74 63 105
Rank change year-on-year -11 +42 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 23 48 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.71% 2.47% 1.43%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.75% 15.95% 8.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 44 31
10th Percentile £384 £378 £275
25th Percentile £440 £436 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £390
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +41.03% -25.71%
75th Percentile £548 £709 £534
90th Percentile £610 £813 £600
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 236 301 401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.55% 15.46% 16.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 209 259
10th Percentile £209 £260 £263
25th Percentile £350 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +8.93%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £595
90th Percentile £638 £793 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 30 10
10th Percentile - £11.91 £10.99
25th Percentile £14.70 £13.18 £12.50
Median hourly rate £28.18 £14.00 £16.10
Median % change year-on-year +101.29% -13.04% -5.29%
75th Percentile £30.38 £45.78 £23.02
90th Percentile £52.50 £58.75 £27.92
England median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
% change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in the West Midlands

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in the West Midlands

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in the West Midlands

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in the West Midlands

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham +17 14 £501 +14.40% 14
Staffordshire +3 2 £550 +46.67% 7
Worcestershire +1 2 £575 +4.55% 4
Coventry -1 2 £375 -37.50% 5
Warwickshire -12 2 - - 3
Walsall - 1 - - 1
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (8.70%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Azure
2 4 (17.39%) Power Platform
3 3 (13.04%) IaaS
3 3 (13.04%) PaaS
3 3 (13.04%) SaaS
4 2 (8.70%) AWS
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.35%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.35%) GCP
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (17.39%) Power BI
3 3 (13.04%) Metadata
4 2 (8.70%) Big Data
4 2 (8.70%) Data Lake
4 2 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (4.35%) Data Mart
5 1 (4.35%) MySQL
5 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.35%) SAP BW
5 1 (4.35%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (4.35%) Spark SQL
5 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
5 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) ERwin
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
1 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (39.13%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Finance
4 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Legal
6 1 (4.35%) Local Government
6 1 (4.35%) Military
6 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Data Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Lead
3 4 (17.39%) Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Data Architect
4 3 (13.04%) IT Manager
4 3 (13.04%) IT Project Manager
4 3 (13.04%) Project Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Data Migration Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Data Migration Lead
5 2 (8.70%) Migration Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Resilience Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Senior
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) IT Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Data Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Product Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Project Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.35%) FHIR
2 1 (4.35%) Kafka
2 1 (4.35%) PySpark
2 1 (4.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Data Structures
1 2 (8.70%) PMI
1 2 (8.70%) Replication
2 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) CMDB
2 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) ETL
2 10 (43.48%) Data Governance
3 9 (39.13%) Analytics
3 9 (39.13%) Data Management
3 9 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (34.78%) Data Architecture
4 8 (34.78%) Data Integration
4 8 (34.78%) Data Modelling
4 8 (34.78%) Migration
5 6 (26.09%) Decision-Making
6 5 (21.74%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (21.74%) Data Analysis
6 5 (21.74%) Data Mapping
6 5 (21.74%) Data Migration
6 5 (21.74%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (21.74%) Project Management
6 5 (21.74%) Workshop Facilitation
7 4 (17.39%) Agile
7 4 (17.39%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 4 (17.39%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) SQL
2 4 (17.39%) Python
3 1 (4.35%) Java
3 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) DV Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) Degree
3 2 (8.70%) PMI Certification
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.35%) CITP
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.35%) NVQ Level 3
4 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) PMO
2 1 (4.35%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (4.35%) COSHH
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Kibana
1 2 (8.70%) logstash
2 1 (4.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) SAP
3 2 (8.70%) Epicor
4 1 (4.35%) Databricks
4 1 (4.35%) Google
4 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.35%) Splunk