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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 64 97
Rank change year-on-year -7 +33 +22
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 30 42 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.14% 2.22% 1.51%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.24% 14.53% 8.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 37 28
10th Percentile £336 £350 £293
25th Percentile £398 £425 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £600 £400
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% +50.00% -23.81%
75th Percentile £545 £750 £538
90th Percentile £600 £813 £611
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% -3.64%

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 245 289 385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.50% 15.27% 17.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 198 244
10th Percentile £220 £256 £263
25th Percentile £320 £341 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - +8.93%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £595
90th Percentile £628 £795 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 28 16
10th Percentile - £12.42 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.70 £13.18 £13.40
Median hourly rate £28.18 £14.00 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year +101.29% -44.39% +46.88%
75th Percentile £36.95 £27.34 £28.75
90th Percentile £54.75 £58.75 £29.38
England median hourly rate £35.00 £22.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +55.56% -40.00% +28.78%

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 18 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 18 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 +6 14 £501 +16.06% 15
Coventry +9 7 £375 -37.50% 3
Staffordshire +5 2 £550 +46.67% 13
Worcestershire +3 2 £575 +4.55% 4
Warwickshire -18 2 - - 20
Solihull - 2 £310 - 7
Walsall - 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 (6.67%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (16.67%) SAP PM
2 1 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (43.33%) Azure
2 7 (23.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 7 (23.33%) Power Platform
3 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 5 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 5 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (16.67%) Collibra
5 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (10.00%) IaaS
5 3 (10.00%) PaaS
5 3 (10.00%) SaaS
6 2 (6.67%) AWS
6 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (6.67%) GitHub
6 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.67%) Serverless
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon MSK
7 1 (3.33%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 7 (23.33%) Power BI
2 6 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (16.67%) Delta Lake
3 5 (16.67%) GIS
3 5 (16.67%) Oracle Database
4 4 (13.33%) NoSQL
5 3 (10.00%) Metadata
6 2 (6.67%) Big Data
6 2 (6.67%) Data Lake
6 2 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
7 1 (3.33%) Data Mart
7 1 (3.33%) MySQL
7 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (3.33%) SAP BW
7 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) ERwin
1 1 (3.33%) JIRA
1 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Legal
5 1 (3.33%) Local Government
5 1 (3.33%) Military
5 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Data Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Architect
2 6 (20.00%) Data Architect
3 5 (16.67%) Lead
4 4 (13.33%) Senior
4 4 (13.33%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Data Migration Specialist
5 3 (10.00%) IT Manager
5 3 (10.00%) IT Project Manager
5 3 (10.00%) Migration Specialist
5 3 (10.00%) Project Manager
6 2 (6.67%) Data Migration Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Data Migration Lead
6 2 (6.67%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Resilience Manager
6 2 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) IT Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Product Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) Kafka
2 2 (6.67%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.33%) FHIR
3 1 (3.33%) PySpark
3 1 (3.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) IoT
1 5 (16.67%) SCADA
2 4 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (10.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (6.67%) Data Structures
4 2 (6.67%) PMI
4 2 (6.67%) Replication
5 1 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (3.33%) CMDB
5 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) ETL
2 16 (53.33%) Data Governance
3 14 (46.67%) Analytics
4 12 (40.00%) Data Modelling
5 11 (36.67%) Data Integration
5 11 (36.67%) Data Management
5 11 (36.67%) Migration
6 10 (33.33%) Data Architecture
6 10 (33.33%) Data Mapping
7 9 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (26.67%) Data Migration
9 7 (23.33%) Artificial Intelligence
9 7 (23.33%) Data Engineering
9 7 (23.33%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (23.33%) Workshop Facilitation
10 6 (20.00%) Data Analysis
10 6 (20.00%) Decision-Making
10 6 (20.00%) Machine Learning
11 5 (16.67%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 13 (43.33%) SQL
2 9 (30.00%) Python
3 5 (16.67%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (6.67%) Bicep
5 1 (3.33%) Java
5 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) Degree
3 2 (6.67%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.33%) CITP
4 1 (3.33%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.33%) NVQ Level 3
4 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) GDPR
2 3 (10.00%) PMO
3 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (3.33%) COSHH
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Kibana
1 2 (6.67%) logstash
1 2 (6.67%) Terraform
2 1 (3.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (36.67%) Microsoft
2 9 (30.00%) SAP
3 6 (20.00%) Databricks
4 5 (16.67%) Informatica
4 5 (16.67%) Oracle
5 2 (6.67%) Epicor
6 1 (3.33%) Google
6 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.33%) Splunk