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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 87 89
Rank change year-on-year +32 +2 -11
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 113 33 12
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.93% 2.13% 0.80%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.86% 13.10% 7.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 22 10
10th Percentile - £315 £164
25th Percentile £400 £372 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £377
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +32.80% -25.45%
75th Percentile £534 £538 £478
90th Percentile £581 £600 £512
England median daily rate £513 £513 £555
% change year-on-year - -7.66% +0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.39 - -
Median hourly rate £16.44 - -
75th Percentile £17.48 - -
90th Percentile £18.36 - -
England median hourly rate £30.89 £40.49 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.72% +7.97% +5.25%

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 437 252 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.22% 16.28% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 172 104
10th Percentile £361 £235 £278
25th Percentile £413 £315 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £455 £512
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% -11.13% +2.40%
75th Percentile £569 £538 £589
90th Percentile £641 £600 £650
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 11 6
10th Percentile £15.39 - -
25th Percentile £20.85 £17.48 -
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 - - £33.51
England median hourly rate £33.00 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year +1.54% -1.72% -8.14%

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 21 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 21 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 +22 72 £450 -10.00% 83
South Yorkshire -17 26 £481 +28.33% 23
North Yorkshire - 8 £460 - 6
East Yorkshire - 1 - - 8
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 (5.31%) Confluence
2 4 (3.54%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.65%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (1.77%) Apache
4 2 (1.77%) SAS
4 2 (1.77%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (9.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.88%) Cerner Millennium
2 1 (0.88%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 31 (27.43%) Power Platform
2 27 (23.89%) Azure
3 12 (10.62%) GCP
4 11 (9.73%) AWS
5 7 (6.19%) Snowflake
6 6 (5.31%) PowerApps
7 5 (4.42%) Azure AI
7 5 (4.42%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (4.42%) Azure Databricks
7 5 (4.42%) Collibra
7 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Copilot
7 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (3.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (3.54%) Amazon S3
8 4 (3.54%) Copilot Studio
8 4 (3.54%) GitHub
9 3 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (26.55%) Metadata
2 26 (23.01%) Power BI
3 24 (21.24%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (15.93%) SQL Server
5 8 (7.08%) Tableau
6 6 (5.31%) BigQuery
6 6 (5.31%) Data Lake
6 6 (5.31%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 5 (4.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (3.54%) OLAP
8 4 (3.54%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (2.65%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (2.65%) Metadata Repository
9 3 (2.65%) Star Schema
10 2 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.77%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (1.77%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.77%) SAP BW
10 2 (1.77%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (7.08%) JIRA
2 6 (5.31%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (1.77%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.88%) Applitools
4 1 (0.88%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.88%) Git
4 1 (0.88%) JMeter
4 1 (0.88%) MLflow
4 1 (0.88%) Newman
4 1 (0.88%) Postman
4 1 (0.88%) REST Assured
General
1 43 (38.05%) Social Skills
2 32 (28.32%) Finance
3 27 (23.89%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (17.70%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.54%) Publishing
5 4 (3.54%) Retail
6 3 (2.65%) Banking
6 3 (2.65%) Law
6 3 (2.65%) Social Science
7 2 (1.77%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Legal
8 1 (0.88%) Local Government
8 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.88%) Military
8 1 (0.88%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (24.78%) Data Engineer
2 17 (15.04%) Developer
3 15 (13.27%) Analyst
4 11 (9.73%) Architect
4 11 (9.73%) Lead
5 9 (7.96%) Business Analyst
6 8 (7.08%) Administrator
6 8 (7.08%) Data Administrator
6 8 (7.08%) Data Analyst
6 8 (7.08%) SQL Developer
7 7 (6.19%) Data Architect
7 7 (6.19%) Senior
8 6 (5.31%) ServiceNow Architect
9 5 (4.42%) Accountant
9 5 (4.42%) Project Accountant
10 4 (3.54%) Data Business Analyst
10 4 (3.54%) Designer
10 4 (3.54%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (3.54%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 4 (3.54%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.42%) PySpark
2 3 (2.65%) FHIR
2 3 (2.65%) Kafka
2 3 (2.65%) Terraform
3 2 (1.77%) JSON
3 2 (1.77%) REST
4 1 (0.88%) Apache Avro
4 1 (0.88%) JSON Schema
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (0.88%) Pandas
4 1 (0.88%) Playwright
4 1 (0.88%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (0.88%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.93%) Data Structures
2 13 (11.50%) Cloud Native
3 8 (7.08%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (6.19%) CMDB
4 7 (6.19%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (5.31%) NHS
6 5 (4.42%) AI Agents
6 5 (4.42%) Data Fabric
6 5 (4.42%) Housing Association
6 5 (4.42%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.54%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.77%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.77%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.77%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.88%) IoT
10 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.88%) Linux
1 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (44.25%) Analytics
2 48 (42.48%) Data Governance
3 46 (40.71%) Data Modelling
4 43 (38.05%) Data Pipeline
5 41 (36.28%) ETL
6 33 (29.20%) Business Intelligence
7 31 (27.43%) Data Engineering
8 30 (26.55%) Migration
9 27 (23.89%) Stakeholder Management
10 24 (21.24%) Validation
11 23 (20.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 22 (19.47%) CI/CD
12 22 (19.47%) Data Management
13 21 (18.58%) Metadata Management
14 20 (17.70%) AI
14 20 (17.70%) Data Architecture
14 20 (17.70%) ERP
14 20 (17.70%) Master Data Management
14 20 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
15 19 (16.81%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 47 (41.59%) SQL
2 23 (20.35%) Python
3 4 (3.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (2.65%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.77%) Java
5 2 (1.77%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.77%) Scala
6 1 (0.88%) C#
6 1 (0.88%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (16.81%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.39%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.08%) Degree
4 2 (1.77%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.88%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.31%) GDPR
2 3 (2.65%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 3 (2.65%) SNOMED CT
3 1 (0.88%) HL7
3 1 (0.88%) PMO
3 1 (0.88%) QA
3 1 (0.88%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (2.65%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.88%) Control-M
Vendors
1 32 (28.32%) Microsoft
2 20 (17.70%) SAP
3 17 (15.04%) Databricks
4 8 (7.08%) Concur
4 8 (7.08%) Foundry
4 8 (7.08%) ServiceNow
5 7 (6.19%) Google
6 6 (5.31%) Alteryx
6 6 (5.31%) Oracle
7 5 (4.42%) Northgate
8 4 (3.54%) Informatica
9 3 (2.65%) Palantir
10 2 (1.77%) IFS
10 2 (1.77%) Remedy
10 2 (1.77%) Splunk
11 1 (0.88%) Brio
11 1 (0.88%) Cerner
11 1 (0.88%) OutSystems