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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 86 69
Rank change year-on-year -7 -17 +34
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 34 10 45
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.01% 0.72% 2.31%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.36% 7.04% 14.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 8 25
10th Percentile £318 £164 £190
25th Percentile £381 £285 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £381 £475
Median % change year-on-year +31.15% -19.74% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £503 £538
90th Percentile £600 £509 £600
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.32
Median hourly rate - - £16.11
75th Percentile - - £16.90
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £32.94 £36.25 £37.53
% change year-on-year -9.13% -3.40% +120.74%

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 275 142 321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.29% 10.19% 16.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 88 180
10th Percentile £250 £231 £231
25th Percentile £356 £359 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £540 £575 £578
90th Percentile £607 £641 £652
England median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 3
10th Percentile £15.25 - £15.91
25th Percentile £17.48 - £16.79
Median hourly rate £22.14 £11.88 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +86.36% -42.05% +9.63%
75th Percentile - - £22.50
90th Percentile - - £22.65
England median hourly rate £30.00 £33.50 £35.63
% change year-on-year -10.45% -5.98% +43.73%

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 27 October 2025.

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 27 October 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
West Yorkshire +1 16 £500 +31.15% 19
South Yorkshire -14 15 £425 -15.00% 10
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 3 (8.82%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.88%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (11.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.94%) Maple
Business Applications
1 5 (14.71%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (35.29%) Power Platform
2 5 (14.71%) Azure
3 4 (11.76%) GCP
4 3 (8.82%) AWS
5 2 (5.88%) dbt
5 2 (5.88%) Power Automate
5 2 (5.88%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.94%) Alation
6 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.94%) Contentsquare
6 1 (2.94%) GitHub
6 1 (2.94%) Google Analytics
6 1 (2.94%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (2.94%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (35.29%) Power BI
2 6 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (11.76%) BigQuery
3 4 (11.76%) Tableau
4 3 (8.82%) Looker
5 2 (5.88%) Delta Lake
5 2 (5.88%) Metadata
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.94%) Ataccama
6 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.94%) Lumira
6 1 (2.94%) Spark SQL
6 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.94%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Git
General
1 14 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 11 (32.35%) Finance
3 9 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (20.59%) Public Sector
5 4 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.88%) Billing
6 2 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.88%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.94%) Banking
7 1 (2.94%) Legal
7 1 (2.94%) Local Government
7 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.94%) Marketing
7 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (50.00%) Analyst
2 16 (47.06%) Data Analyst
3 4 (11.76%) Lead
4 3 (8.82%) Data Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Financial Analyst
4 3 (8.82%) Report Analyst
4 3 (8.82%) SAP Analyst
4 3 (8.82%) Service Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Data Migration Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Engineering Specialist
5 2 (5.88%) Lead Data Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Migration Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Report Specialist
5 2 (5.88%) SAP Data Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Senior
5 2 (5.88%) Subject Matter Expert
6 1 (2.94%) Data Quality Business Analyst
6 1 (2.94%) Finance Business Analyst
6 1 (2.94%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) PySpark
2 1 (2.94%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Data Centre
2 4 (11.76%) Reference Data
3 3 (8.82%) CMDB
3 3 (8.82%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (8.82%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.88%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.88%) Mainframe
4 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.88%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.94%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.94%) NHS
5 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (38.24%) Business Intelligence
1 13 (38.24%) Visualisation
2 12 (35.29%) Data Governance
3 10 (29.41%) Data Visualisation
3 10 (29.41%) Migration
4 9 (26.47%) Analytics
5 8 (23.53%) Data Analysis
5 8 (23.53%) Data Migration
5 8 (23.53%) ETL
5 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (20.59%) Agile
6 7 (20.59%) Data Mapping
6 7 (20.59%) Data Modelling
6 7 (20.59%) Workflow
7 6 (17.65%) Decision-Making
8 5 (14.71%) Actionable Insight
8 5 (14.71%) Data Engineering
8 5 (14.71%) Data Management
9 4 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (11.76%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 18 (52.94%) SQL
2 8 (23.53%) Python
3 1 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.94%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (2.94%) GDPR
2 1 (2.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) SAP
2 5 (14.71%) Databricks
3 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 3 (8.82%) Google
5 1 (2.94%) Hotjar
5 1 (2.94%) Optimizely