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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 69 84
Rank change year-on-year -5 +15 +11
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 80 32 20
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.81% 2.38% 1.18%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.46% 13.91% 9.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 21 13
10th Percentile £395 £135 £169
25th Percentile £400 £295 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £420 £378
Median % change year-on-year +10.12% +11.11% -24.40%
75th Percentile £550 £513 £503
90th Percentile £588 £575 £581
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £31.50 -
25th Percentile £17.75 £31.54 -
Median hourly rate £18.50 £32.96 -
Median % change year-on-year -43.87% - -
75th Percentile £19.25 £34.38 -
90th Percentile - £34.43 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £21.00
% change year-on-year +26.42% +50.67% -32.26%

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 411 230 207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 14.46% 17.10% 12.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 157 127
10th Percentile £350 £240 £263
25th Percentile £425 £345 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £583
90th Percentile £669 £600 £647
England median daily rate £510 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +1.90% -3.85% -2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 15 6
10th Percentile £18.33 - -
25th Percentile £22.08 - -
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 - £29.35 £33.51
England median hourly rate £36.07 £31.88 £25.00
% change year-on-year +13.14% +27.52% -41.18%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +4 53 £443 +1.14% 23
South Yorkshire -33 17 £525 +51.08% 5
North Yorkshire - 5 £525 - 4
East Yorkshire - 3 - -
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 (5.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.75%) Confluence
3 2 (2.50%) Apache
3 2 (2.50%) SAS
4 1 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.25%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.25%) Primavera
2 1 (1.25%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.25%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 21 (26.25%) Power Platform
2 15 (18.75%) Azure
3 9 (11.25%) AWS
4 7 (8.75%) Snowflake
5 6 (7.50%) PowerApps
6 5 (6.25%) Azure AI
6 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (5.00%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (3.75%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (2.50%) Alation
9 2 (2.50%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.50%) Collibra
9 2 (2.50%) dbt
9 2 (2.50%) GCP
9 2 (2.50%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.50%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.50%) SaaS
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (21.25%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (20.00%) Power BI
3 15 (18.75%) SQL Server
4 8 (10.00%) Metadata
5 7 (8.75%) Tableau
6 5 (6.25%) Data Lake
7 4 (5.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 4 (5.00%) OLAP
8 3 (3.75%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (3.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (3.75%) Star Schema
9 2 (2.50%) Big Data
9 2 (2.50%) Oracle Database
9 2 (2.50%) Spark SQL
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (1.25%) Data Vault
10 1 (1.25%) Parquet
10 1 (1.25%) Power Query
10 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.25%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (3.75%) JIRA
3 1 (1.25%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.25%) ERwin
3 1 (1.25%) LSMW
3 1 (1.25%) PowerDesigner
General
1 32 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 23 (28.75%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (26.25%) Finance
4 10 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.00%) Law
6 3 (3.75%) Social Science
7 2 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.50%) Retail
8 1 (1.25%) Banking
8 1 (1.25%) Legal
8 1 (1.25%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (22.50%) Analyst
2 14 (17.50%) Data Engineer
2 14 (17.50%) Developer
3 10 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 10 (12.50%) Lead
4 9 (11.25%) Data Analyst
5 7 (8.75%) SQL Developer
6 5 (6.25%) Accountant
6 5 (6.25%) Project Accountant
7 4 (5.00%) Data Business Analyst
7 4 (5.00%) Data Migration Lead
7 4 (5.00%) Designer
7 4 (5.00%) Senior
7 4 (5.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Snowflake Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Data Warehouse Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Database Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Project Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) SAP Data Migration Lead
9 2 (2.50%) IFS Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.00%) Kafka
2 3 (3.75%) PySpark
3 2 (2.50%) Fluent Bit
3 2 (2.50%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (2.50%) REST
4 1 (1.25%) .NET
4 1 (1.25%) Apache Avro
4 1 (1.25%) FHIR
4 1 (1.25%) JSON
4 1 (1.25%) JSON Schema
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (1.25%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (1.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.50%) Data Structures
2 7 (8.75%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (7.50%) Onboarding
4 5 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 5 (6.25%) NHS
5 4 (5.00%) CMDB
5 4 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.75%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.75%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.50%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.50%) Taxonomies
8 1 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.25%) IoT
8 1 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.25%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.50%) Windows
2 1 (1.25%) Linux
2 1 (1.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (37.50%) ETL
2 27 (33.75%) Analytics
2 27 (33.75%) Data Governance
3 25 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
4 22 (27.50%) Business Intelligence
5 21 (26.25%) ERP
6 20 (25.00%) Migration
7 19 (23.75%) Data Modelling
8 18 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (21.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 17 (21.25%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (17.50%) Data Management
11 12 (15.00%) Data Migration
11 12 (15.00%) Master Data Management
11 12 (15.00%) Requirements Gathering
12 11 (13.75%) CI/CD
13 10 (12.50%) Data Integration
14 9 (11.25%) AI
14 9 (11.25%) Data Analysis
14 9 (11.25%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 29 (36.25%) SQL
2 8 (10.00%) Python
3 4 (5.00%) T-SQL
4 2 (2.50%) PL/SQL
4 2 (2.50%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (1.25%) C#
5 1 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.25%) Scala
5 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.25%) Degree
2 5 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.25%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.00%) GDPR
2 3 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 2 (2.50%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.25%) HL7
4 1 (1.25%) QA
4 1 (1.25%) SLA
4 1 (1.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (2.50%) etcd
Systems Management
1 3 (3.75%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.50%) Fluentd
2 2 (2.50%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.25%) Control-M
3 1 (1.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (23.75%) SAP
2 17 (21.25%) Microsoft
3 9 (11.25%) Databricks
4 8 (10.00%) Concur
5 6 (7.50%) Foundry
6 5 (6.25%) Oracle
7 4 (5.00%) Alteryx
7 4 (5.00%) Informatica
8 3 (3.75%) Splunk
9 2 (2.50%) IFS
9 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.25%) Adobe
10 1 (1.25%) Google
10 1 (1.25%) IBM
10 1 (1.25%) Palantir
10 1 (1.25%) Snow