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 10 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 86 65
Rank change year-on-year -3 -21 +34
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 40 14 48
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.25% 1.03% 2.54%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.70% 10.00% 14.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 11 27
10th Percentile £335 £135 £197
25th Percentile £363 £164 £272
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £375 £445
Median % change year-on-year +32.27% -15.74% -10.99%
75th Percentile £525 £454 £538
90th Percentile £578 £503 £600
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
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 £32.00 £36.25 £39.96
% change year-on-year -11.72% -9.28% +135.06%

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 292 140 324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.40% 10.28% 17.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 86 181
10th Percentile £266 £214 £227
25th Percentile £357 £359 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £572 £575
90th Percentile £613 £644 £615
England median daily rate £500 £505 £539
% change year-on-year -0.99% -6.31% +2.67%
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% +2.83%
75th Percentile - - £22.50
90th Percentile - - £22.65
England median hourly rate £29.00 £30.67 £39.42
% change year-on-year -5.43% -22.21% +51.62%

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 10 November 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 10 November 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
South Yorkshire -9 23 £405 +50.00% 7
West Yorkshire -5 14 £500 +31.15% 25
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 (7.50%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.00%) Apache
2 2 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.50%) Maple
Business Applications
1 5 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.00%) Power Platform
2 6 (15.00%) Azure
3 4 (10.00%) GCP
4 3 (7.50%) AWS
5 2 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (5.00%) dbt
5 2 (5.00%) Power Automate
5 2 (5.00%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.50%) Alation
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.50%) Contentsquare
6 1 (2.50%) GitHub
6 1 (2.50%) Google Analytics
6 1 (2.50%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (2.50%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (30.00%) Power BI
2 6 (15.00%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (10.00%) BigQuery
3 4 (10.00%) Tableau
4 3 (7.50%) Looker
5 2 (5.00%) Data Lake
5 2 (5.00%) Delta Lake
5 2 (5.00%) Metadata
5 2 (5.00%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.50%) Ataccama
6 1 (2.50%) Lumira
6 1 (2.50%) Spark SQL
6 1 (2.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Git
General
1 13 (32.50%) Finance
2 12 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (7.50%) Banking
6 2 (5.00%) Billing
6 2 (5.00%) Health Technology
6 2 (5.00%) Legal
6 2 (5.00%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.50%) General Ledger
7 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.50%) Marketing
7 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (35.00%) Analyst
2 13 (32.50%) Data Analyst
3 6 (15.00%) Data Manager
4 4 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Financial Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Product Owner
5 3 (7.50%) Report Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Risk Manager
5 3 (7.50%) Service Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Data Quality Manager
6 2 (5.00%) Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Engineering Specialist
6 2 (5.00%) Lead
6 2 (5.00%) Quality Manager
6 2 (5.00%) Report Specialist
6 2 (5.00%) SAP Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) SAP Data Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Senior
6 2 (5.00%) Subject Matter Expert
7 1 (2.50%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.00%) PySpark
2 2 (5.00%) FHIR
3 1 (2.50%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 4 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.50%) CMDB
3 3 (7.50%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (7.50%) Onboarding
3 3 (7.50%) Reference Data
4 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.00%) Mainframe
4 2 (5.00%) NHS
5 1 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.50%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (37.50%) Data Governance
2 13 (32.50%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (32.50%) Visualisation
3 11 (27.50%) Agile
3 11 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
5 9 (22.50%) Analytics
5 9 (22.50%) Data Modelling
5 9 (22.50%) ETL
6 8 (20.00%) Data Management
6 8 (20.00%) Migration
7 7 (17.50%) Data Engineering
7 7 (17.50%) Decision-Making
8 6 (15.00%) Data Analysis
8 6 (15.00%) Data Migration
8 6 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (15.00%) Workflow
9 5 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
9 5 (12.50%) Data Mapping
10 4 (10.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 18 (45.00%) SQL
2 9 (22.50%) Python
3 1 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.50%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (2.50%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.50%) Databricks
3 5 (12.50%) SAP
4 3 (7.50%) Google
5 2 (5.00%) Brio
6 1 (2.50%) Hotjar
6 1 (2.50%) Optimizely