Data Quality Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Data Quality
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Data Quality skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 62 82
Rank change year-on-year -42 +20 +21
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 48 29 20
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.80% 2.69% 1.18%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.26% 17.58% 9.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 18 11
10th Percentile £283 £135 £313
25th Percentile £403 £263 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £400 £378
Median % change year-on-year +26.75% +5.82% -24.40%
75th Percentile £550 £484 £563
90th Percentile £589 £583 £600
England median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £32.96 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £21.06
% change year-on-year +26.42% +50.26% -6.35%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 362 165 207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.60% 15.29% 12.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 109 121
10th Percentile £349 £235 £265
25th Percentile £431 £285 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £505
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.94% -3.81%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £588
90th Percentile £684 £600 £650
England median daily rate £500 £506 £525
% change year-on-year -1.09% -3.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 10
10th Percentile £16.01 - -
25th Percentile £22.05 - £10.86
Median hourly rate £32.40 £22.14 £11.44
Median % change year-on-year +46.32% +93.53% -46.79%
75th Percentile £34.77 - £12.63
90th Percentile £36.61 £34.18 £21.32
England median hourly rate £33.55 £34.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year -2.75% +44.96% -44.00%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Quality relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Data Quality job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Data Quality
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Data Quality.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in Yorkshire

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Data Quality.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 June 2026. 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
West Yorkshire -8 29 £500 +21.95% 25
South Yorkshire -54 13 £514 +88.62% 8
East Yorkshire - 3 - - 7
North Yorkshire - 2 £613 - 4
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (8.33%) Confluence
2 3 (6.25%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.17%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.08%) Apache
4 1 (2.08%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.08%) SAP CO
2 1 (2.08%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.08%) SAP FI
2 1 (2.08%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (2.08%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 13 (27.08%) Power Platform
2 8 (16.67%) Azure
3 4 (8.33%) AWS
4 3 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (6.25%) OpenShift
4 3 (6.25%) Snowflake
5 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.17%) Power Automate
5 2 (4.17%) PowerApps
5 2 (4.17%) SaaS
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.08%) Azure AI
6 1 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.08%) dbt
6 1 (2.08%) Fivetran
6 1 (2.08%) GCP
6 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (25.00%) Power BI
2 9 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (10.42%) SQL Server
4 4 (8.33%) Data Lake
5 3 (6.25%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (6.25%) Metadata
5 3 (6.25%) OLAP
5 3 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (4.17%) Big Data
6 2 (4.17%) Spark SQL
6 2 (4.17%) Tableau
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (2.08%) Base SAS
7 1 (2.08%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.08%) Parquet
7 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.08%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (2.08%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 1 (2.08%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (10.42%) JIRA
2 1 (2.08%) ER Studio
2 1 (2.08%) ERwin
2 1 (2.08%) LSMW
2 1 (2.08%) PowerDesigner
General
1 18 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 12 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (22.92%) Finance
4 9 (18.75%) Public Sector
5 5 (10.42%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.17%) Banking
6 2 (4.17%) General Ledger
6 2 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.17%) Law
6 2 (4.17%) Retail
7 1 (2.08%) Legal
7 1 (2.08%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 11 (22.92%) Analyst
2 8 (16.67%) Developer
3 7 (14.58%) Lead
4 5 (10.42%) Data Analyst
5 4 (8.33%) Business Analyst
5 4 (8.33%) Data Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Data Migration Lead
6 3 (6.25%) Data Warehouse Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Database Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (6.25%) SAP Data Migration Lead
6 3 (6.25%) Senior
7 2 (4.17%) Agile Delivery Coach
7 2 (4.17%) Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Power Platform Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Business Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) ServiceNow Architect
7 2 (4.17%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.25%) Kafka
2 2 (4.17%) Fluent Bit
2 2 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (4.17%) PySpark
3 1 (2.08%) .NET
3 1 (2.08%) Apache Avro
3 1 (2.08%) JSON
3 1 (2.08%) JSON Schema
3 1 (2.08%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (2.08%) REST
3 1 (2.08%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.58%) Data Structures
2 5 (10.42%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (10.42%) Onboarding
3 4 (8.33%) CMDB
3 4 (8.33%) NHS
4 2 (4.17%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.08%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (31.25%) ETL
2 13 (27.08%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (25.00%) Agile
3 12 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 12 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 10 (20.83%) Analytics
4 10 (20.83%) ERP
4 10 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (18.75%) Migration
6 8 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (14.58%) AI
7 7 (14.58%) Data Modelling
8 6 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
8 6 (12.50%) Data Analysis
8 6 (12.50%) Visualisation
9 5 (10.42%) Data Migration
9 5 (10.42%) DevOps
9 5 (10.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 16 (33.33%) SQL
2 6 (12.50%) Python
3 4 (8.33%) T-SQL
4 2 (4.17%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (2.08%) C#
5 1 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.08%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (12.50%) Degree
2 3 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.08%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.17%) GDPR
1 2 (4.17%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 1 (2.08%) PMO
2 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (4.17%) etcd
Systems Management
1 2 (4.17%) Fluentd
1 2 (4.17%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (22.92%) Microsoft
2 9 (18.75%) SAP
3 3 (6.25%) Databricks
3 3 (6.25%) Oracle
3 3 (6.25%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.25%) Splunk
4 2 (4.17%) Adobe
4 2 (4.17%) IBM
4 2 (4.17%) Snow
5 1 (2.08%) Concur
5 1 (2.08%) Foundry
5 1 (2.08%) Planview