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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 85 90
Rank change year-on-year +32 +5 -9
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 115 34 12
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.02% 2.10% 0.82%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.84% 12.88% 7.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 23 10
10th Percentile - £318 £164
25th Percentile £400 £381 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £377
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +32.80% -24.70%
75th Percentile £537 £538 £478
90th Percentile £575 £600 £505
England median daily rate £520 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +1.46% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.39 - -
Median hourly rate £16.44 - -
75th Percentile £18.36 - -
90th Percentile £23.15 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £34.98 £44.00
% change year-on-year +14.35% -20.50% +17.26%

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 445 264 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.57% 16.30% 10.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 178 101
10th Percentile £350 £235 £250
25th Percentile £413 £338 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.54% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £555 £538 £584
90th Percentile £644 £600 £645
England median daily rate £515 £500 £518
% change year-on-year +3.00% -3.47% -4.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 11 5
10th Percentile £15.39 - -
25th Percentile £19.69 £17.48 -
Median hourly rate £32.40 £22.14 £11.88
Median % change year-on-year +46.32% +86.36% -42.05%
75th Percentile £36.61 - -
90th Percentile - - £34.00
England median hourly rate £32.40 £32.50 £34.47
% change year-on-year -0.32% -5.70% -12.57%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 +32 70 £450 -10.00% 104
South Yorkshire -16 28 £513 +36.67% 35
North Yorkshire - 9 £460 - 11
East Yorkshire - 1 - - 9
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 6 (5.22%) Confluence
2 4 (3.48%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.61%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (1.74%) Apache
4 2 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.74%) SAS
4 2 (1.74%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (9.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.87%) Cerner Millennium
2 1 (0.87%) Primavera
2 1 (0.87%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 31 (26.96%) Power Platform
2 27 (23.48%) Azure
3 15 (13.04%) GCP
4 11 (9.57%) AWS
5 8 (6.96%) Snowflake
6 6 (5.22%) PowerApps
7 5 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (4.35%) Azure Databricks
7 5 (4.35%) Collibra
7 5 (4.35%) GitHub
7 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (3.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (3.48%) Amazon S3
8 4 (3.48%) Azure AI
8 4 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.48%) Copilot Studio
8 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.87%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (27.83%) Metadata
2 27 (23.48%) Power BI
3 23 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (14.78%) SQL Server
5 8 (6.96%) BigQuery
6 7 (6.09%) Tableau
7 6 (5.22%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 5 (4.35%) Data Lake
8 5 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (3.48%) Semantic Layer
10 3 (2.61%) Metadata Repository
10 3 (2.61%) OLAP
10 3 (2.61%) SAP BW
11 2 (1.74%) Big Data
11 2 (1.74%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (1.74%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.74%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (1.74%) Spark SQL
11 2 (1.74%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (7.83%) JIRA
2 6 (5.22%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (1.74%) Applitools
3 2 (1.74%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.74%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.74%) JMeter
3 2 (1.74%) Newman
3 2 (1.74%) Postman
3 2 (1.74%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.87%) Git
4 1 (0.87%) MLflow
General
1 40 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 35 (30.43%) Finance
3 27 (23.48%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (17.39%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.35%) Retail
6 4 (3.48%) Banking
6 4 (3.48%) Publishing
7 2 (1.74%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.74%) Law
7 2 (1.74%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.74%) Social Science
8 1 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.87%) Local Government
8 1 (0.87%) Military
8 1 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.87%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (22.61%) Data Engineer
2 16 (13.91%) Analyst
3 15 (13.04%) Developer
4 13 (11.30%) Architect
5 12 (10.43%) Lead
6 10 (8.70%) Business Analyst
7 9 (7.83%) Data Analyst
8 8 (6.96%) Administrator
8 8 (6.96%) Data Administrator
8 8 (6.96%) Senior
9 7 (6.09%) Data Architect
9 7 (6.09%) SQL Developer
10 6 (5.22%) ServiceNow Architect
11 5 (4.35%) Accountant
11 5 (4.35%) Project Accountant
12 4 (3.48%) Data Business Analyst
12 4 (3.48%) Designer
12 4 (3.48%) Senior Data Engineer
12 4 (3.48%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 4 (3.48%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.35%) PySpark
2 4 (3.48%) Terraform
3 3 (2.61%) FHIR
4 2 (1.74%) Kafka
4 2 (1.74%) Playwright
4 2 (1.74%) pytest
4 2 (1.74%) REST
5 1 (0.87%) JSON
5 1 (0.87%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (0.87%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.52%) Data Structures
2 15 (13.04%) Cloud Native
3 10 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (6.96%) CMDB
5 6 (5.22%) AI Agents
5 6 (5.22%) Product Ownership
6 5 (4.35%) Data Fabric
6 5 (4.35%) Housing Association
6 5 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.35%) NHS
7 4 (3.48%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (3.48%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.61%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.74%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.74%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.87%) IoT
10 1 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.87%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.87%) Linux
1 1 (0.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (44.35%) Data Governance
2 50 (43.48%) Analytics
3 46 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 41 (35.65%) Data Pipeline
5 39 (33.91%) ETL
6 34 (29.57%) Business Intelligence
6 34 (29.57%) Data Engineering
7 30 (26.09%) Migration
8 29 (25.22%) Stakeholder Management
9 25 (21.74%) Validation
10 24 (20.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 23 (20.00%) CI/CD
11 23 (20.00%) Data Management
11 23 (20.00%) Metadata Management
12 22 (19.13%) Data Integration
13 21 (18.26%) AI
14 20 (17.39%) Agile
14 20 (17.39%) Data Architecture
14 20 (17.39%) Master Data Management
15 19 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 48 (41.74%) SQL
2 24 (20.87%) Python
3 4 (3.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (1.74%) C#
4 2 (1.74%) Java
4 2 (1.74%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.74%) PL/SQL
4 2 (1.74%) T-SQL
4 2 (1.74%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.87%) Scala
5 1 (0.87%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (16.52%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.17%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.09%) Degree
4 2 (1.74%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.87%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.87%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.87%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.22%) GDPR
2 4 (3.48%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.61%) SNOMED CT
4 2 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (0.87%) HL7
5 1 (0.87%) PMO
5 1 (0.87%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (2.61%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.87%) Control-M
Vendors
1 32 (27.83%) Microsoft
2 20 (17.39%) SAP
3 19 (16.52%) Databricks
4 9 (7.83%) Google
4 9 (7.83%) ServiceNow
5 8 (6.96%) Concur
6 7 (6.09%) Foundry
7 6 (5.22%) Alteryx
7 6 (5.22%) Oracle
8 5 (4.35%) Northgate
9 4 (3.48%) Informatica
10 3 (2.61%) Palantir
11 2 (1.74%) IFS
11 2 (1.74%) OutSystems
11 2 (1.74%) Remedy
12 1 (0.87%) Brio
12 1 (0.87%) Cerner
12 1 (0.87%) Splunk