IT contractors may see an increase in job opportunities as business struggle to resolve data quality issues, it has been claimed.

While identifying that a problem exists is relatively straightforward, rectifying the situation can be much more difficult, according to spend analysis firm Rosslyn Analytics.

According to the company's research, around a third of firms have a low level of confidence in the accuracy of their data, which hampers the decision-making process.

Lance Mercereau, director of marketing and public relations at Rosslyn Analytics, explained: "If you have got a process or a system in place that one - identifies it easily, [and] two - monitors who is actually putting the erroneous data into the system, then I think management is in a better position to remedy that."

Data governance in UK companies is found to be improving, however.

Research from Baseline Consulting recently found that two-thirds of companies now have data-governance processes in place.