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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 78 91
Rank change year-on-year +14 +13 -9
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 92 32 14
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.21% 2.13% 0.92%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.35% 12.40% 7.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 21 12
10th Percentile £400 £303 £166
25th Percentile £411 £363 £282
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £438 £377
Median % change year-on-year +4.86% +16.20% -25.45%
75th Percentile £547 £525 £430
90th Percentile £588 £575 £503
England median daily rate £500 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.75 £31.76 -
Median hourly rate £18.50 £33.11 -
Median % change year-on-year -44.13% - -
75th Percentile £19.25 £34.46 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £32.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -27.27% +18.25%

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 431 258 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.03% 17.15% 12.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 172 112
10th Percentile £350 £235 £263
25th Percentile £423 £318 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £503
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.45% +0.50%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £588
90th Percentile £640 £600 £650
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 17 6
10th Percentile £18.33 £17.48 -
25th Percentile £24.22 - -
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 - £23.28 £33.51
England median hourly rate £38.72 £31.64 £27.50
% change year-on-year +22.38% +15.05% -30.40%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 +13 59 £450 - 51
South Yorkshire -19 19 £514 +24.61% 8
North Yorkshire - 7 £460 - 10
East Yorkshire - 2 - - 2
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 (4.35%) Apache Spark
1 4 (4.35%) Confluence
2 2 (2.17%) Apache
2 2 (2.17%) SAS
3 1 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.09%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (6.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (10.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.09%) Primavera
2 1 (1.09%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.09%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 27 (29.35%) Power Platform
2 20 (21.74%) Azure
3 9 (9.78%) AWS
4 7 (7.61%) Snowflake
5 6 (6.52%) PowerApps
6 5 (5.43%) Azure AI
6 5 (5.43%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Copilot
6 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (4.35%) Copilot Studio
7 4 (4.35%) GCP
8 2 (2.17%) Alation
8 2 (2.17%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.17%) Collibra
8 2 (2.17%) dbt
8 2 (2.17%) GitHub
8 2 (2.17%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.17%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.17%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (23.91%) Power BI
2 19 (20.65%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (18.48%) SQL Server
4 14 (15.22%) Metadata
5 9 (9.78%) Tableau
6 6 (6.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 5 (5.43%) Data Lake
8 4 (4.35%) OLAP
9 3 (3.26%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (3.26%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (3.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (3.26%) Star Schema
10 2 (2.17%) Big Data
10 2 (2.17%) Oracle Database
10 2 (2.17%) Spark SQL
11 1 (1.09%) Hadoop
11 1 (1.09%) Oracle Database 12c
11 1 (1.09%) Oracle ODI
11 1 (1.09%) Relational Database
11 1 (1.09%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 6 (6.52%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (4.35%) JIRA
3 2 (2.17%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.09%) ER Studio
4 1 (1.09%) ERwin
4 1 (1.09%) Git
4 1 (1.09%) LSMW
4 1 (1.09%) PowerDesigner
General
1 35 (38.04%) Social Skills
2 24 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (25.00%) Finance
4 11 (11.96%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.35%) Law
6 3 (3.26%) Social Science
7 2 (2.17%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.17%) Retail
8 1 (1.09%) Banking
8 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Legal
8 1 (1.09%) Local Government
8 1 (1.09%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (21.74%) Data Engineer
2 18 (19.57%) Developer
3 16 (17.39%) Analyst
4 11 (11.96%) Lead
5 9 (9.78%) Business Analyst
5 9 (9.78%) SQL Developer
6 8 (8.70%) Data Analyst
7 5 (5.43%) Accountant
7 5 (5.43%) Project Accountant
8 4 (4.35%) Administrator
8 4 (4.35%) Data Administrator
8 4 (4.35%) Data Business Analyst
8 4 (4.35%) Data Migration Lead
8 4 (4.35%) Designer
8 4 (4.35%) Senior
8 4 (4.35%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) Snowflake Engineer
9 3 (3.26%) Data Warehouse Developer
9 3 (3.26%) Database Developer
9 3 (3.26%) Project Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.35%) Kafka
2 3 (3.26%) PySpark
3 2 (2.17%) Fluent Bit
3 2 (2.17%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (2.17%) REST
4 1 (1.09%) .NET
4 1 (1.09%) Apache Avro
4 1 (1.09%) FHIR
4 1 (1.09%) JSON
4 1 (1.09%) JSON Schema
4 1 (1.09%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (1.09%) Pandas
4 1 (1.09%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (1.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.39%) Data Structures
2 9 (9.78%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (7.61%) Cloud Native
4 6 (6.52%) Onboarding
5 5 (5.43%) NHS
6 4 (4.35%) CMDB
6 4 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (3.26%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (3.26%) Management Information System
7 3 (3.26%) Product Ownership
7 3 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (2.17%) AI Agents
8 2 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (2.17%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.17%) Taxonomies
9 1 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.09%) IoT
9 1 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.09%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.17%) Windows
2 1 (1.09%) Linux
2 1 (1.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (38.04%) ETL
2 34 (36.96%) Analytics
2 34 (36.96%) Data Governance
3 33 (35.87%) Data Pipeline
4 30 (32.61%) Business Intelligence
5 29 (31.52%) Data Modelling
5 29 (31.52%) Migration
6 24 (26.09%) ERP
7 20 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (21.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 18 (19.57%) Data Management
8 18 (19.57%) Data Migration
9 17 (18.48%) Validation
10 16 (17.39%) CI/CD
10 16 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (16.30%) Master Data Management
12 14 (15.22%) Data Engineering
13 13 (14.13%) Data Analysis
14 12 (13.04%) Requirements Gathering
15 11 (11.96%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 37 (40.22%) SQL
2 12 (13.04%) Python
3 4 (4.35%) T-SQL
4 3 (3.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.17%) Java
5 2 (2.17%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.17%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (1.09%) C#
6 1 (1.09%) Scala
6 1 (1.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (10.87%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.61%) Degree
3 6 (6.52%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.17%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.09%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.09%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.52%) GDPR
2 3 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 2 (2.17%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.09%) HL7
4 1 (1.09%) QA
4 1 (1.09%) SLA
4 1 (1.09%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (2.17%) etcd
Systems Management
1 5 (5.43%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.17%) Fluentd
2 2 (2.17%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.09%) Control-M
3 1 (1.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 21 (22.83%) SAP
3 13 (14.13%) Databricks
4 8 (8.70%) Concur
5 6 (6.52%) Alteryx
5 6 (6.52%) Foundry
5 6 (6.52%) Oracle
6 4 (4.35%) Informatica
7 3 (3.26%) Splunk
8 2 (2.17%) IFS
8 2 (2.17%) Remedy
8 2 (2.17%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.09%) Adobe
9 1 (1.09%) Google
9 1 (1.09%) IBM
9 1 (1.09%) Palantir
9 1 (1.09%) Snow