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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 60 76
Rank change year-on-year -34 +16 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 52 29 28
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.26% 3.06% 1.65%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.65% 19.86% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 21 19
10th Percentile £346 £135 £227
25th Percentile £404 £143 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £275 £400
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% -31.25% -21.57%
75th Percentile £544 £425 £525
90th Percentile £583 £475 £600
England median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £32.96 -
England median hourly rate £20.00 £31.64 £21.64
% change year-on-year -36.79% +46.21% -3.76%

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 355 146 216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.45% 15.42% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 102 119
10th Percentile £350 £201 £265
25th Percentile £435 £316 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £552 £588
90th Percentile £675 £625 £688
England median daily rate £510 £509 £525
% change year-on-year +0.25% -3.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 7
10th Percentile £14.75 - -
25th Percentile £15.25 - -
Median hourly rate £16.31 £22.14 £10.86
Median % change year-on-year -26.33% +103.87% -55.67%
75th Percentile £21.13 £25.14 £11.94
90th Percentile £26.98 £34.24 £15.03
England median hourly rate £28.55 £32.81 £21.38
% change year-on-year -12.98% +53.48% -49.70%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 -9 30 £500 +42.86% 40
South Yorkshire -51 17 £405 +179.31% 13
North Yorkshire - 2 £613 - 6
East Yorkshire - 2 - - 3
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 (5.77%) Apache Spark
1 3 (5.77%) Confluence
2 1 (1.92%) Apache
2 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (13.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.92%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.92%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.92%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.92%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.92%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 10 (19.23%) Power Platform
2 7 (13.46%) Azure
3 4 (7.69%) AWS
3 4 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (5.77%) OpenShift
4 3 (5.77%) Snowflake
5 2 (3.85%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (3.85%) SaaS
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.92%) Azure AI
6 1 (1.92%) dbt
6 1 (1.92%) Fivetran
6 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.92%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (17.31%) Power BI
2 5 (9.62%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (5.77%) Data Lake
3 3 (5.77%) Metadata
3 3 (5.77%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.85%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.85%) Tableau
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.92%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.92%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.92%) OLAP
5 1 (1.92%) Parquet
5 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.92%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (1.92%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.92%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (1.92%) ER Studio
2 1 (1.92%) ERwin
2 1 (1.92%) LSMW
2 1 (1.92%) PowerDesigner
General
1 16 (30.77%) Finance
2 11 (21.15%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (21.15%) Social Skills
3 7 (13.46%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (13.46%) Public Sector
4 6 (11.54%) Banking
5 5 (9.62%) General Ledger
6 3 (5.77%) Legal
7 2 (3.85%) Health Technology
7 2 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.85%) Law
8 1 (1.92%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 11 (21.15%) Analyst
2 9 (17.31%) Data Manager
3 6 (11.54%) Data Engineer
3 6 (11.54%) Lead
4 5 (9.62%) Business Analyst
4 5 (9.62%) Senior
5 4 (7.69%) Risk Manager
5 4 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (7.69%) Senior Business Analyst
6 3 (5.77%) Data Analyst
6 3 (5.77%) Data Migration Lead
6 3 (5.77%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (5.77%) Developer
6 3 (5.77%) Product Owner
6 3 (5.77%) SAP Data Migration Lead
7 2 (3.85%) Agile Coach
7 2 (3.85%) Agile Delivery Coach
7 2 (3.85%) Architect
7 2 (3.85%) Quality Manager
7 2 (3.85%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.77%) Kafka
2 2 (3.85%) FHIR
2 2 (3.85%) Fluent Bit
2 2 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.92%) .NET
3 1 (1.92%) Apache Avro
3 1 (1.92%) JSON
3 1 (1.92%) JSON Schema
3 1 (1.92%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (1.92%) REST
3 1 (1.92%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.46%) Onboarding
2 5 (9.62%) Data Structures
2 5 (9.62%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (7.69%) CMDB
3 4 (7.69%) NHS
4 3 (5.77%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.85%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.85%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.92%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (34.62%) Data Governance
2 17 (32.69%) Agile
3 14 (26.92%) Decision-Making
4 13 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (21.15%) ETL
6 10 (19.23%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (19.23%) Migration
7 9 (17.31%) ERP
8 8 (15.38%) Data Modelling
8 8 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (13.46%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (13.46%) Data Management
9 7 (13.46%) Regulatory Compliance
10 6 (11.54%) Business Analysis
10 6 (11.54%) Scrum
10 6 (11.54%) SDLC
11 5 (9.62%) Data Migration
11 5 (9.62%) Project Management
11 5 (9.62%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (9.62%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (21.15%) SQL
2 4 (7.69%) Python
3 2 (3.85%) Search Processing Language
3 2 (3.85%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.92%) C#
4 1 (1.92%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (9.62%) Degree
2 3 (5.77%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.92%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.85%) GDPR
1 2 (3.85%) QA
2 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 1 (1.92%) PMO
2 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.85%) Docker
1 2 (3.85%) etcd
Systems Management
1 4 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.85%) Fluentd
2 2 (3.85%) Prometheus
2 2 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (21.15%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.46%) SAP
3 3 (5.77%) Databricks
3 3 (5.77%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.77%) Splunk
4 2 (3.85%) Adobe
4 2 (3.85%) Brio
4 2 (3.85%) IBM
4 2 (3.85%) Oracle
4 2 (3.85%) Snow
5 1 (1.92%) Foundry
5 1 (1.92%) Planview