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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 92 79
Rank change year-on-year +4 -13 +29
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 32 13 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.07% 0.86% 1.85%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.75% 7.51% 12.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 11 18
10th Percentile £338 £164 £173
25th Percentile £400 £319 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £378 £505
Median % change year-on-year +32.28% -25.15% +1.00%
75th Percentile £538 £454 £592
90th Percentile £600 £503 £623
England median daily rate £513 £555 £550
% change year-on-year -7.66% +0.91% -
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 £40.49 £37.50 £35.63
% change year-on-year +7.97% +5.25% +77.40%

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 251 173 316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.26% 11.50% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 109 172
10th Percentile £235 £303 £275
25th Percentile £317 £378 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £517 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.03% +3.40% -
75th Percentile £538 £594 £578
90th Percentile £600 £650 £664
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 6
10th Percentile - - £14.24
25th Percentile £17.48 - £16.05
Median hourly rate £22.14 £11.88 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +86.36% -43.43% +12.30%
75th Percentile - £16.67 £42.42
90th Percentile - £33.51 £50.55
England median hourly rate £32.50 £31.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year +4.43% -17.01% +66.67%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Data Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +2 18 £500 +31.15% 13
South Yorkshire -4 12 £425 +12.43%
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (9.38%) Apache
3 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.13%) Maple
Business Applications
1 5 (15.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (34.38%) Power Platform
2 5 (15.63%) Azure
2 5 (15.63%) GCP
3 3 (9.38%) AWS
4 2 (6.25%) dbt
4 2 (6.25%) Power Automate
4 2 (6.25%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.13%) Alation
5 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.13%) Contentsquare
5 1 (3.13%) GitHub
5 1 (3.13%) Google Analytics
5 1 (3.13%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (3.13%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (34.38%) Power BI
2 6 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (12.50%) BigQuery
3 4 (12.50%) Tableau
4 3 (9.38%) Delta Lake
4 3 (9.38%) Looker
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.13%) Ataccama
5 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.13%) Data Vault
5 1 (3.13%) Flink
5 1 (3.13%) Lumira
5 1 (3.13%) Metadata
5 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.13%) Parquet
5 1 (3.13%) Spark SQL
5 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.00%) Finance
3 7 (21.88%) Public Sector
4 6 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Billing
6 1 (3.13%) Legal
6 1 (3.13%) Local Government
6 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.13%) Marketing
6 1 (3.13%) Retail
6 1 (3.13%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (50.00%) Analyst
2 13 (40.63%) Data Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Lead
4 3 (9.38%) Business Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Data Migration Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Financial Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Migration Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) SAP Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Service Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Data Business Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Engineering Specialist
5 2 (6.25%) Lead Data Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Report Specialist
5 2 (6.25%) SAP Data Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Senior
6 1 (3.13%) Data Migration Business Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Lead Data Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) SAP Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) PySpark
2 1 (3.13%) Great Expectations
2 1 (3.13%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (9.38%) CMDB
2 3 (9.38%) Data Centre
2 3 (9.38%) Reference Data
3 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.25%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.13%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.13%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.13%) NHS
4 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
1 12 (37.50%) Data Governance
1 12 (37.50%) Visualisation
2 9 (28.13%) Analytics
2 9 (28.13%) ETL
2 9 (28.13%) Migration
3 8 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 8 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 8 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 8 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (21.88%) Agile
4 7 (21.88%) Workflow
5 5 (15.63%) Actionable Insight
5 5 (15.63%) Data Analysis
5 5 (15.63%) Data Engineering
5 5 (15.63%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (15.63%) Data Transformation
6 4 (12.50%) Data Analytics
6 4 (12.50%) Data Mapping
6 4 (12.50%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 18 (56.25%) SQL
2 9 (28.13%) Python
3 1 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (3.13%) Degree
1 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) GDPR
1 2 (6.25%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.13%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (3.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) SAP
2 5 (15.63%) Databricks
3 4 (12.50%) Google
3 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.13%) Hotjar
4 1 (3.13%) Optimizely