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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 85 92
Rank change year-on-year +32 +7 -10
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 113 34 14
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.93% 2.24% 0.94%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.62% 13.49% 8.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 23 12
10th Percentile - £328 £166
25th Percentile £400 £381 £282
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £377
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +32.80% -25.45%
75th Percentile £520 £538 £430
90th Percentile £588 £600 £503
England median daily rate £510 £510 £550
% change year-on-year - -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.39 - -
Median hourly rate £16.44 - -
75th Percentile £17.48 - -
90th Percentile £18.54 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £34.43 £37.50
% change year-on-year +16.18% -8.19% -4.87%

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 441 252 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.33% 16.62% 11.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 173 110
10th Percentile £350 £235 £263
25th Percentile £413 £325 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £517
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -12.96% +3.40%
75th Percentile £571 £538 £594
90th Percentile £638 £600 £650
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 11 6
10th Percentile £16.60 - -
25th Percentile £22.50 £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 £33.98 £32.50 £31.12
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.43% -12.66%

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 15 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 15 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 +18 73 £450 -7.69% 93
South Yorkshire -23 25 £463 +8.82% 24
North Yorkshire - 7 £460 - 6
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 (5.31%) 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 6 (5.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (10.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.88%) Cerner Millennium
2 1 (0.88%) Primavera
2 1 (0.88%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.88%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 32 (28.32%) Power Platform
2 26 (23.01%) Azure
3 12 (10.62%) AWS
4 9 (7.96%) GCP
4 9 (7.96%) Snowflake
5 6 (5.31%) PowerApps
6 5 (4.42%) Azure AI
6 5 (4.42%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (4.42%) Azure Databricks
6 5 (4.42%) Collibra
6 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Copilot
6 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (3.54%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (2.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.65%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.77%) Alation
9 2 (1.77%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.77%) GitHub
9 2 (1.77%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (25.66%) Metadata
2 27 (23.89%) Power BI
3 23 (20.35%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (15.93%) SQL Server
5 9 (7.96%) Tableau
6 6 (5.31%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 5 (4.42%) BigQuery
7 5 (4.42%) Data Lake
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%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.77%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (1.77%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (1.77%) SAP BW
10 2 (1.77%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (6.19%) JIRA
2 6 (5.31%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (1.77%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.88%) Git
4 1 (0.88%) LSMW
4 1 (0.88%) MLflow
General
1 42 (37.17%) Social Skills
2 29 (25.66%) Finance
3 27 (23.89%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (18.58%) 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 27 (23.89%) Data Engineer
2 17 (15.04%) Analyst
2 17 (15.04%) Developer
3 12 (10.62%) Lead
4 11 (9.73%) Architect
5 9 (7.96%) Business Analyst
5 9 (7.96%) Data Analyst
6 8 (7.08%) SQL Developer
7 7 (6.19%) Administrator
7 7 (6.19%) Data Administrator
7 7 (6.19%) Data Architect
7 7 (6.19%) ServiceNow Architect
8 6 (5.31%) Senior
9 5 (4.42%) Accountant
9 5 (4.42%) Project Accountant
10 4 (3.54%) Data Business Analyst
10 4 (3.54%) Data Migration Lead
10 4 (3.54%) Designer
10 4 (3.54%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (3.54%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.42%) PySpark
2 3 (2.65%) FHIR
2 3 (2.65%) Kafka
3 2 (1.77%) JSON
3 2 (1.77%) REST
3 2 (1.77%) Terraform
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%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.04%) Data Structures
2 11 (9.73%) Cloud Native
3 8 (7.08%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (6.19%) CMDB
5 6 (5.31%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (5.31%) NHS
6 5 (4.42%) Data Fabric
6 5 (4.42%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.54%) Housing Association
8 3 (2.65%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.65%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.77%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.77%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.77%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.77%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.88%) Linux
1 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (41.59%) Data Governance
2 46 (40.71%) Analytics
3 45 (39.82%) Data Modelling
4 42 (37.17%) ETL
5 41 (36.28%) Data Pipeline
6 34 (30.09%) Business Intelligence
7 31 (27.43%) Migration
8 27 (23.89%) Data Engineering
8 27 (23.89%) Stakeholder Management
9 23 (20.35%) ERP
10 22 (19.47%) Data Management
10 22 (19.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 22 (19.47%) Validation
11 20 (17.70%) CI/CD
11 20 (17.70%) Data Architecture
11 20 (17.70%) Master Data Management
11 20 (17.70%) Metadata Management
11 20 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (15.93%) Data Migration
13 17 (15.04%) AI
Programming Languages
1 45 (39.82%) SQL
2 20 (17.70%) 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%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (17.70%) 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%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.88%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.19%) GDPR
2 3 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 3 (2.65%) SNOMED CT
3 2 (1.77%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.88%) HL7
4 1 (0.88%) PMO
4 1 (0.88%) QA
4 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 31 (27.43%) Microsoft
2 23 (20.35%) SAP
3 16 (14.16%) Databricks
4 9 (7.96%) ServiceNow
5 8 (7.08%) Concur
5 8 (7.08%) Foundry
6 7 (6.19%) Oracle
7 6 (5.31%) Alteryx
8 5 (4.42%) Google
9 4 (3.54%) Informatica
9 4 (3.54%) Northgate
10 3 (2.65%) Palantir
11 2 (1.77%) IFS
11 2 (1.77%) Remedy
12 1 (0.88%) Adobe
12 1 (0.88%) Brio
12 1 (0.88%) Cerner
12 1 (0.88%) IBM
12 1 (0.88%) Snow
12 1 (0.88%) Splunk