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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 80 85
Rank change year-on-year +24 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 109 33 14
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.81% 2.16% 0.94%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.12% 13.10% 8.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 25 12
10th Percentile - £312 £166
25th Percentile £400 £363 £282
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £377
Median % change year-on-year - +19.52% -25.45%
75th Percentile £528 £538 £430
90th Percentile £588 £600 £503
England median daily rate £502 £505 £561
% change year-on-year -0.54% -10.02% +2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £15.63 - -
25th Percentile £15.98 £31.76 -
Median hourly rate £17.47 £33.11 -
Median % change year-on-year -47.24% - -
75th Percentile £18.81 £34.46 -
90th Percentile £19.07 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £34.43 £50.50
% change year-on-year +16.18% -31.82% +16.20%

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 434 252 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.17% 16.52% 11.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 175 111
10th Percentile £350 £235 £263
25th Percentile £413 £317 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £517
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -12.96% +3.40%
75th Percentile £573 £538 £594
90th Percentile £648 £600 £650
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 11 6
10th Percentile £18.53 £17.48 -
25th Percentile £24.87 £19.81 -
Median hourly rate £32.40 £22.14 £11.88
Median % change year-on-year +46.32% +86.36% -43.43%
75th Percentile £36.61 - £16.67
90th Percentile - £25.00 £33.51
England median hourly rate £36.07 £32.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +10.98% +16.07% -20.00%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 +19 71 £450 -5.26% 41
South Yorkshire -15 22 £495 +16.47% 9
North Yorkshire - 7 £460 - 3
East Yorkshire - 2 - - 1
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 (3.67%) Apache Spark
1 4 (3.67%) Confluence
2 3 (2.75%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (1.83%) Apache
3 2 (1.83%) SAS
3 2 (1.83%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 7 (6.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (11.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.92%) Cerner Millennium
2 1 (0.92%) Primavera
2 1 (0.92%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.92%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 32 (29.36%) Power Platform
2 25 (22.94%) Azure
3 11 (10.09%) AWS
4 9 (8.26%) Snowflake
5 6 (5.50%) PowerApps
6 5 (4.59%) Azure AI
6 5 (4.59%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (4.59%) Azure Databricks
6 5 (4.59%) GCP
6 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Copilot
6 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (3.67%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (2.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.83%) Alation
9 2 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.83%) Collibra
9 2 (1.83%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.83%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.92%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (24.77%) Power BI
2 25 (22.94%) Metadata
3 21 (19.27%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (16.51%) SQL Server
5 9 (8.26%) Tableau
6 6 (5.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 5 (4.59%) Data Lake
7 5 (4.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (3.67%) OLAP
8 4 (3.67%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (2.75%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (2.75%) Metadata Repository
9 3 (2.75%) Star Schema
10 2 (1.83%) Big Data
10 2 (1.83%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (1.83%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (1.83%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.83%) SAP BW
10 2 (1.83%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (5.50%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (4.59%) JIRA
3 2 (1.83%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.92%) Git
4 1 (0.92%) LSMW
4 1 (0.92%) MLflow
General
1 40 (36.70%) Social Skills
2 27 (24.77%) Analytical Skills
2 27 (24.77%) Finance
3 22 (20.18%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.67%) Law
4 4 (3.67%) Retail
5 3 (2.75%) Social Science
6 2 (1.83%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.92%) Banking
7 1 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.92%) Legal
7 1 (0.92%) Local Government
7 1 (0.92%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.92%) Military
7 1 (0.92%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (21.10%) Data Engineer
2 19 (17.43%) Analyst
3 17 (15.60%) Developer
4 11 (10.09%) Architect
4 11 (10.09%) Lead
5 10 (9.17%) Data Analyst
6 9 (8.26%) Business Analyst
7 8 (7.34%) SQL Developer
8 7 (6.42%) Data Architect
8 7 (6.42%) ServiceNow Architect
9 6 (5.50%) Senior
10 5 (4.59%) Accountant
10 5 (4.59%) Administrator
10 5 (4.59%) Data Administrator
10 5 (4.59%) Project Accountant
11 4 (3.67%) Data Business Analyst
11 4 (3.67%) Data Migration Lead
11 4 (3.67%) Designer
11 4 (3.67%) Senior Data Engineer
11 4 (3.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.59%) Kafka
1 5 (4.59%) PySpark
2 3 (2.75%) FHIR
3 2 (1.83%) Fluent Bit
3 2 (1.83%) JSON
3 2 (1.83%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (1.83%) REST
3 2 (1.83%) Terraform
4 1 (0.92%) Apache Avro
4 1 (0.92%) JSON Schema
4 1 (0.92%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (0.92%) Pandas
4 1 (0.92%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.68%) Data Structures
2 10 (9.17%) Cloud Native
3 9 (8.26%) CMDB
4 8 (7.34%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (5.50%) NHS
6 5 (4.59%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.67%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.67%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.75%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.75%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.83%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.83%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.92%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.92%) Housing Association
10 1 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.92%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.83%) Windows
2 1 (0.92%) Linux
2 1 (0.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (40.37%) Data Governance
2 43 (39.45%) Analytics
3 41 (37.61%) ETL
4 39 (35.78%) Data Modelling
4 39 (35.78%) Data Pipeline
5 35 (32.11%) Business Intelligence
6 31 (28.44%) Migration
7 24 (22.02%) ERP
7 24 (22.02%) Stakeholder Management
8 23 (21.10%) Data Management
9 22 (20.18%) Validation
10 21 (19.27%) Data Engineering
10 21 (19.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 20 (18.35%) Master Data Management
12 19 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (16.51%) Data Architecture
13 18 (16.51%) Data Migration
13 18 (16.51%) Metadata Management
14 17 (15.60%) CI/CD
15 16 (14.68%) AI
Programming Languages
1 42 (38.53%) SQL
2 17 (15.60%) Python
3 4 (3.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (2.75%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.83%) Java
5 2 (1.83%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.83%) Scala
5 2 (1.83%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (0.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (17.43%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.84%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.34%) Degree
4 2 (1.83%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.92%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.92%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.92%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.42%) GDPR
2 3 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 3 (2.75%) SNOMED CT
3 2 (1.83%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.92%) HL7
4 1 (0.92%) PMO
4 1 (0.92%) QA
4 1 (0.92%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.83%) etcd
Systems Management
1 5 (4.59%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.83%) Fluentd
2 2 (1.83%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.92%) Control-M
Vendors
1 27 (24.77%) Microsoft
2 23 (21.10%) SAP
3 16 (14.68%) Databricks
4 9 (8.26%) ServiceNow
5 8 (7.34%) Concur
5 8 (7.34%) Foundry
6 7 (6.42%) Oracle
7 6 (5.50%) Alteryx
8 4 (3.67%) Informatica
9 3 (2.75%) Palantir
9 3 (2.75%) Splunk
10 2 (1.83%) Google
10 2 (1.83%) IFS
10 2 (1.83%) Remedy
11 1 (0.92%) Adobe
11 1 (0.92%) Brio
11 1 (0.92%) Cerner
11 1 (0.92%) IBM
11 1 (0.92%) Northgate
11 1 (0.92%) Snow