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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 69 65
Rank change year-on-year -15 -4 +41
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 45 14 46
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.34% 1.38% 2.63%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.90% 12.61% 15.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 13 24
10th Percentile £340 £137 £215
25th Percentile £381 £143 £277
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £275 £460
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% -40.22% -8.00%
75th Percentile £531 £406 £550
90th Percentile £600 £478 £598
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
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 £19.50 £35.00 £46.06
% change year-on-year -44.29% -24.00% +104.83%

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 302 111 290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.73% 10.96% 16.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 72 170
10th Percentile £304 £213 £265
25th Percentile £374 £313 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £456
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -1.37% -8.75%
75th Percentile £559 £550 £562
90th Percentile £650 £699 £600
England median daily rate £500 £500 £541
% change year-on-year - -7.62% +3.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 7
10th Percentile £14.03 - -
25th Percentile £15.25 - -
Median hourly rate £18.73 - £10.86
Median % change year-on-year - - -49.49%
75th Percentile £22.49 - £11.94
90th Percentile £27.74 - £14.49
England median hourly rate £26.11 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -12.97% -7.69% +31.10%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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
South Yorkshire -34 23 £402 +177.24% 7
West Yorkshire -10 18 £500 +31.15% 16
North Yorkshire - 1 £700 - 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 2 (4.44%) Apache Spark
1 2 (4.44%) Confluence
2 1 (2.22%) Apache
2 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.22%) SAP CO
2 1 (2.22%) SAP FI
2 1 (2.22%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 11 (24.44%) Power Platform
2 6 (13.33%) Azure
3 4 (8.89%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (6.67%) AWS
5 1 (2.22%) Alation
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.22%) GCP
5 1 (2.22%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.22%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (24.44%) Power BI
2 3 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.44%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.44%) Metadata
3 2 (4.44%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.44%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.22%) Ataccama
4 1 (2.22%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.22%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.22%) Spark SQL
4 1 (2.22%) Star Schema
4 1 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 20 (44.44%) Finance
2 12 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (24.44%) Social Skills
4 7 (15.56%) Banking
5 6 (13.33%) Public Sector
6 5 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (11.11%) General Ledger
7 4 (8.89%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (6.67%) Legal
9 2 (4.44%) Billing
9 2 (4.44%) Health Technology
9 2 (4.44%) Retail Banking
10 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (37.78%) Analyst
2 12 (26.67%) Data Analyst
3 8 (17.78%) Data Manager
4 5 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 5 (11.11%) Senior
4 5 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (8.89%) Risk Manager
5 4 (8.89%) Senior Business Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) Data Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Financial Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) Product Owner
6 3 (6.67%) Report Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) Service Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Agile Coach
7 2 (4.44%) Agile Delivery Coach
7 2 (4.44%) Data Quality Manager
7 2 (4.44%) Quality Manager
7 2 (4.44%) Subject Matter Expert
8 1 (2.22%) Delivery Manager
8 1 (2.22%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.67%) PySpark
2 2 (4.44%) FHIR
3 1 (2.22%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.89%) CMDB
2 4 (8.89%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.67%) Reference Data
4 2 (4.44%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.44%) Mainframe
4 2 (4.44%) NHS
5 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.00%) Data Governance
2 17 (37.78%) Agile
3 12 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
4 11 (24.44%) Decision-Making
4 11 (24.44%) Migration
4 11 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (22.22%) Data Management
6 8 (17.78%) Visualisation
7 7 (15.56%) Data Analysis
7 7 (15.56%) Data Visualisation
7 7 (15.56%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 7 (15.56%) Regulatory Compliance
7 7 (15.56%) Workflow
8 6 (13.33%) Business Analysis
8 6 (13.33%) Data Modelling
8 6 (13.33%) SDLC
9 5 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (11.11%) Data Mapping
9 5 (11.11%) Data Migration
9 5 (11.11%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 13 (28.89%) SQL
2 6 (13.33%) Python
3 1 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 4 (8.89%) Degree
2 1 (2.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) QA
2 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.22%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (2.22%) GDPR
2 1 (2.22%) PMO
2 1 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (4.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (15.56%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.33%) Databricks
3 3 (6.67%) SAP
4 2 (4.44%) Brio
4 2 (4.44%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.22%) Adobe
5 1 (2.22%) IBM
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle
5 1 (2.22%) Planview
5 1 (2.22%) Snow