Data Quality Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Data Quality
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Data Quality skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 59 61
Rank change year-on-year +18 +2 +54
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 105 56 64
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.55% 3.21% 2.96%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.82% 18.86% 17.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 32 46
10th Percentile £315 £425 £450
25th Percentile £400 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £575
90th Percentile £738 £724 £680
Central London median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £17.23 - -
Central London median hourly rate £17.23 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 423 297 368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 18.34% 17.05% 17.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 193 264
10th Percentile £344 £375 £365
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £653 £713 £650
90th Percentile £763 £820 £750
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £19.23 - £16.78
25th Percentile £22.24 - £17.96
Median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.61
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +6.77% -
75th Percentile £52.25 - £22.65
90th Percentile £66.95 - £23.46
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £22.50 £23.40
% change year-on-year +16.04% -3.85% -6.40%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Quality relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Data Quality job vacancy trend in the City of London

Data Quality
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Quality.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in the City of London over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in the City of London

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Quality.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 14 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.81%) Apache
3 3 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.86%) Confluence
4 2 (1.90%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.95%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (12.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (3.81%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (5.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (4.76%) BambooHR
3 1 (0.95%) Actimize
3 1 (0.95%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.95%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 34 (32.38%) Azure
1 34 (32.38%) Power Platform
2 22 (20.95%) AWS
3 18 (17.14%) Snowflake
4 13 (12.38%) Azure Data Factory
5 11 (10.48%) dbt
6 9 (8.57%) Amazon S3
7 8 (7.62%) GCP
7 8 (7.62%) Prefect
7 8 (7.62%) Serverless
8 7 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (6.67%) Collibra
9 6 (5.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (5.71%) Dagster
10 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (2.86%) Amazon SageMaker
12 2 (1.90%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (1.90%) AWS Step Functions
12 2 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (1.90%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (29.52%) Power BI
2 19 (18.10%) Metadata
3 18 (17.14%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (11.43%) Tableau
5 10 (9.52%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (7.62%) SQL Server
7 7 (6.67%) Snowflake Schema
8 6 (5.71%) Data Lake
8 6 (5.71%) Looker
9 5 (4.76%) BigQuery
10 4 (3.81%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (3.81%) Relational Database
11 3 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (2.86%) Delta Lake
11 3 (2.86%) Star Schema
12 2 (1.90%) CockroachDB
12 2 (1.90%) Metadata Repository
12 2 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (1.90%) Semantic Layer
12 2 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (3.81%) Git
1 4 (3.81%) JIRA
2 2 (1.90%) GitLab
3 1 (0.95%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.95%) ERwin
3 1 (0.95%) MLflow
General
1 44 (41.90%) Finance
2 31 (29.52%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (25.71%) Social Skills
4 18 (17.14%) Banking
5 7 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.71%) Legal
7 4 (3.81%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.86%) Publishing
9 2 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.90%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.90%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.95%) Advertising
10 1 (0.95%) Front Office
10 1 (0.95%) Marketing
10 1 (0.95%) Military
10 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.95%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (26.67%) Analyst
1 28 (26.67%) Data Engineer
2 19 (18.10%) Data Analyst
3 9 (8.57%) Business Analyst
4 8 (7.62%) Architect
5 7 (6.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 7 (6.67%) Snowflake Engineer
6 6 (5.71%) Consultant
6 6 (5.71%) Data Architect
6 6 (5.71%) Lead
7 3 (2.86%) Azure Data Engineer
7 3 (2.86%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (2.86%) Data Quality Analyst
7 3 (2.86%) Quality Analyst
7 3 (2.86%) Risk Analyst
7 3 (2.86%) Senior
8 2 (1.90%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (1.90%) Configuration Engineer
8 2 (1.90%) Data Business Analyst
8 2 (1.90%) Data Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.43%) PySpark
2 6 (5.71%) Kafka
2 6 (5.71%) Pandas
3 4 (3.81%) GeoJSON
3 4 (3.81%) REST
3 4 (3.81%) scikit-learn
4 3 (2.86%) Matplotlib
4 3 (2.86%) NumPy
4 3 (2.86%) Polars
5 2 (1.90%) boto
5 2 (1.90%) Great Expectations
5 2 (1.90%) JSON
5 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (1.90%) Node.js
5 2 (1.90%) pytest
5 2 (1.90%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.90%) React
6 1 (0.95%) Next.js
6 1 (0.95%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.95%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.57%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (7.62%) Data Structures
3 6 (5.71%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.81%) Clustering
4 4 (3.81%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.86%) CMDB
5 3 (2.86%) Equities
5 3 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.86%) Reference Data
5 3 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.90%) Derivative
6 2 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.90%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.90%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.90%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.90%) NHS
6 2 (1.90%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.90%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (44.76%) Data Modelling
2 39 (37.14%) Analytics
3 38 (36.19%) Data Pipeline
4 35 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 35 (33.33%) Data Governance
5 34 (32.38%) Validation
6 31 (29.52%) Data Engineering
7 29 (27.62%) ETL
8 22 (20.95%) AI
9 18 (17.14%) Migration
10 17 (16.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 17 (16.19%) Use Case
11 16 (15.24%) Decision-Making
12 15 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
12 15 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
13 14 (13.33%) CI/CD
13 14 (13.33%) Data Analysis
13 14 (13.33%) Data Management
13 14 (13.33%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 52 (49.52%) SQL
2 47 (44.76%) Python
3 8 (7.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (4.76%) Java
5 2 (1.90%) Scala
5 2 (1.90%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.95%) C#
6 1 (0.95%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.95%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.95%) R
6 1 (0.95%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (15.24%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.48%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.52%) Degree
4 5 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.86%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.90%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.90%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.90%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.95%) ACCA
7 1 (0.95%) CBAP
7 1 (0.95%) CFA
7 1 (0.95%) CIMA
7 1 (0.95%) PMP
7 1 (0.95%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.38%) QA
2 11 (10.48%) GDPR
3 3 (2.86%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.90%) Basel III
4 2 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.90%) NIST
5 1 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.95%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.95%) HL7
5 1 (0.95%) PMO
5 1 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.95%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.86%) Terraform
2 2 (1.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (21.90%) Microsoft
2 21 (20.00%) Databricks
3 11 (10.48%) SAP
4 9 (8.57%) Informatica
5 6 (5.71%) Oracle
6 5 (4.76%) Workday
7 4 (3.81%) Google
7 4 (3.81%) Salesforce
7 4 (3.81%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.95%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.95%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (0.95%) Denodo
8 1 (0.95%) LexisNexis
8 1 (0.95%) Marketo
8 1 (0.95%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.95%) Pega
8 1 (0.95%) Qualtrics
8 1 (0.95%) Talend
8 1 (0.95%) VMware
8 1 (0.95%) Zerto