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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 65 86
Rank change year-on-year -36 +21 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 52 29 18
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.93% 2.61% 1.06%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.02% 17.26% 8.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 18 9
10th Percentile £283 £135 £288
25th Percentile £400 £263 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £378
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +5.82% -24.40%
75th Percentile £550 £484 £495
90th Percentile £588 £583 £600
England median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £32.96 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £21.06
% change year-on-year +26.42% +50.26% -6.35%

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 371 168 203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.75% 15.15% 11.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 108 115
10th Percentile £349 £235 £264
25th Percentile £425 £293 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £507
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -6.31% -3.43%
75th Percentile £588 £541 £591
90th Percentile £684 £600 £650
England median daily rate £500 £504 £525
% change year-on-year -0.79% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 12
10th Percentile £17.81 - -
25th Percentile £22.58 - £10.86
Median hourly rate £32.40 £22.14 £11.88
Median % change year-on-year +46.32% +86.36% -44.74%
75th Percentile £36.15 - £12.13
90th Percentile £36.61 £34.15 £17.73
England median hourly rate £33.55 £34.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year -2.75% +44.96% -44.00%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -12 32 £464 +13.11% 25
South Yorkshire -45 14 £514 +47.91% 5
East Yorkshire - 3 - - 6
North Yorkshire - 2 £613 - 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 4 (7.69%) Confluence
2 3 (5.77%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.85%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.92%) Apache
4 1 (1.92%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (11.54%) 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 6 (11.54%) 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 15 (28.85%) Power Platform
2 10 (19.23%) Azure
3 4 (7.69%) AWS
3 4 (7.69%) PowerApps
4 3 (5.77%) Azure AI
4 3 (5.77%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (5.77%) OpenShift
4 3 (5.77%) Snowflake
5 2 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.85%) Copilot Studio
5 2 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.85%) Power Automate
5 2 (3.85%) SaaS
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.92%) dbt
6 1 (1.92%) Fivetran
6 1 (1.92%) GCP
6 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (23.08%) Power BI
2 9 (17.31%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (9.62%) SQL Server
4 4 (7.69%) Data Lake
5 3 (5.77%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (5.77%) Metadata
5 3 (5.77%) OLAP
5 3 (5.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (3.85%) Big Data
6 2 (3.85%) Spark SQL
6 2 (3.85%) Tableau
7 1 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.92%) Base SAS
7 1 (1.92%) Data Vault
7 1 (1.92%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.92%) Parquet
7 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.92%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 1 (1.92%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (9.62%) JIRA
2 1 (1.92%) ER Studio
2 1 (1.92%) ERwin
2 1 (1.92%) LSMW
2 1 (1.92%) PowerDesigner
General
1 21 (40.38%) Social Skills
2 15 (28.85%) Finance
3 13 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (17.31%) Public Sector
5 5 (9.62%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (7.69%) Law
7 3 (5.77%) Social Science
8 2 (3.85%) Banking
8 2 (3.85%) General Ledger
8 2 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.85%) Retail
9 1 (1.92%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (21.15%) Analyst
2 8 (15.38%) Developer
3 7 (13.46%) Lead
4 5 (9.62%) Business Analyst
4 5 (9.62%) Data Analyst
5 4 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Data Migration Lead
6 3 (5.77%) Accountant
6 3 (5.77%) Data Warehouse Developer
6 3 (5.77%) Database Developer
6 3 (5.77%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (5.77%) Project Accountant
6 3 (5.77%) SAP Data Migration Lead
6 3 (5.77%) Senior
7 2 (3.85%) Architect
7 2 (3.85%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 2 (3.85%) Designer
7 2 (3.85%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (3.85%) Senior Business Analyst
7 2 (3.85%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.77%) Kafka
2 2 (3.85%) Fluent Bit
2 2 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (3.85%) PySpark
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%) Data Structures
2 6 (11.54%) Onboarding
3 5 (9.62%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (7.69%) CMDB
4 4 (7.69%) NHS
5 2 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.85%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.92%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (28.85%) ETL
2 14 (26.92%) Data Governance
3 13 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (23.08%) Agile
4 12 (23.08%) Decision-Making
4 12 (23.08%) ERP
4 12 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (21.15%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (19.23%) Analytics
6 10 (19.23%) Migration
7 9 (17.31%) Data Pipeline
8 8 (15.38%) AI
8 8 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (13.46%) Actionable Insight
9 7 (13.46%) Data Modelling
9 7 (13.46%) Requirements Gathering
9 7 (13.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (13.46%) Use Case
9 7 (13.46%) Visualisation
10 5 (9.62%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 16 (30.77%) SQL
2 6 (11.54%) Python
3 4 (7.69%) T-SQL
4 2 (3.85%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (1.92%) C#
5 1 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.92%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (13.46%) Degree
2 4 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.92%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 2 (3.85%) GDPR
2 2 (3.85%) QA
3 1 (1.92%) PMO
3 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.85%) etcd
Systems Management
1 2 (3.85%) Fluentd
1 2 (3.85%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (21.15%) SAP
3 3 (5.77%) Concur
3 3 (5.77%) Databricks
3 3 (5.77%) Foundry
3 3 (5.77%) Oracle
3 3 (5.77%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.77%) Splunk
4 2 (3.85%) Adobe
4 2 (3.85%) IBM
4 2 (3.85%) Snow
5 1 (1.92%) Planview