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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 57 73
Rank change year-on-year +29 +16 +14
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 147 71 54
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.81% 4.12% 2.54%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 32.17% 20.06% 15.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 53 34
10th Percentile £399 £303 £378
25th Percentile £431 £404 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -11.36% -9.65%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £666
90th Percentile £775 £770 £768
Central London median daily rate £550 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +12.82% -11.36% -12.00%

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 457 354 357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.16% 20.53% 16.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 251 204
10th Percentile £350 £338 £350
25th Percentile £458 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.38%
75th Percentile £675 £706 £650
90th Percentile £775 £838 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £34.00 -
Central London median hourly rate £30.41 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.56% -2.86% -

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 15 October 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 13 (8.84%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (7.48%) Apache
3 10 (6.80%) Apache Spark
4 5 (3.40%) Confluence
5 3 (2.04%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.36%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.68%) CMS
7 1 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.68%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (7.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.04%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.36%) SAP MDG
2 2 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.68%) Advent Moxy
3 1 (0.68%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
3 1 (0.68%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.68%) Maximo
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.68%) SAP R/3
3 1 (0.68%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 47 (31.97%) Azure
2 27 (18.37%) AWS
3 24 (16.33%) Power Platform
4 21 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 17 (11.56%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (9.52%) dbt
6 14 (9.52%) Snowflake
7 12 (8.16%) GCP
7 12 (8.16%) Serverless
8 11 (7.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (6.80%) Amazon S3
9 10 (6.80%) GitHub
10 9 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (4.76%) Collibra
12 6 (4.08%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (4.08%) SaaS
13 5 (3.40%) Alation
14 4 (2.72%) Azure Databricks
14 4 (2.72%) Azure Stack
14 4 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.36%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (23.81%) Metadata
2 27 (18.37%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (16.33%) Power BI
4 16 (10.88%) Data Lake
5 7 (4.76%) Delta Lake
6 6 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (4.08%) BigQuery
6 6 (4.08%) Relational Database
7 5 (3.40%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (3.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 5 (3.40%) SQL Server
7 5 (3.40%) Star Schema
8 4 (2.72%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (2.72%) Ataccama
8 4 (2.72%) Data Hub
8 4 (2.72%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (2.04%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.04%) Tableau
10 2 (1.36%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (4.76%) Git
2 6 (4.08%) JIRA
3 4 (2.72%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (1.36%) GitLab
5 1 (0.68%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.68%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.68%) MLflow
General
1 54 (36.73%) Finance
2 47 (31.97%) Social Skills
3 41 (27.89%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (14.97%) Banking
5 11 (7.48%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.44%) Front Office
7 7 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (4.08%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (3.40%) Investment Banking
9 5 (3.40%) Marketing
10 4 (2.72%) Legal
11 3 (2.04%) Advertising
11 3 (2.04%) Back Office
11 3 (2.04%) Retail
12 2 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.36%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.36%) Military
12 2 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (25.17%) Analyst
2 35 (23.81%) Data Engineer
3 23 (15.65%) Data Analyst
4 21 (14.29%) Architect
5 19 (12.93%) Senior
6 16 (10.88%) Business Analyst
6 16 (10.88%) Data Architect
7 13 (8.84%) Lead
8 11 (7.48%) Senior Data Engineer
9 8 (5.44%) Consultant
9 8 (5.44%) Data Business Analyst
9 8 (5.44%) Developer
10 7 (4.76%) Data Manager
11 6 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (4.08%) Senior Analyst
12 5 (3.40%) AWS Data Engineer
13 4 (2.72%) Administrator
13 4 (2.72%) Business Intelligence Architect
13 4 (2.72%) Financial Analyst
13 4 (2.72%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (14.29%) PySpark
2 11 (7.48%) Terraform
3 6 (4.08%) Kafka
4 4 (2.72%) JSON
4 4 (2.72%) Middleware
4 4 (2.72%) REST
5 3 (2.04%) Web Services
6 2 (1.36%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (1.36%) PCRE
6 2 (1.36%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.36%) Regular Expression
6 2 (1.36%) SOAP
6 2 (1.36%) XML
7 1 (0.68%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.68%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.68%) DCOM
7 1 (0.68%) Great Expectations
7 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.68%) Shiny
7 1 (0.68%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.24%) Data Structures
2 12 (8.16%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.80%) Onboarding
4 9 (6.12%) Product Ownership
5 8 (5.44%) Management Information System
6 6 (4.08%) Reference Data
7 4 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.36%) CMDB
9 2 (1.36%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.36%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.36%) FMCG
9 2 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.36%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.36%) Life Science
9 2 (1.36%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.36%) NHS
9 2 (1.36%) PropTech
9 2 (1.36%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.36%) Linux
1 2 (1.36%) Unix
1 2 (1.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (48.30%) Data Governance
2 67 (45.58%) Analytics
2 67 (45.58%) Data Modelling
3 46 (31.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 42 (28.57%) Validation
5 41 (27.89%) Agile
5 41 (27.89%) Data Pipeline
5 41 (27.89%) Migration
6 40 (27.21%) Data Engineering
7 37 (25.17%) ETL
8 36 (24.49%) Business Intelligence
8 36 (24.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 32 (21.77%) CI/CD
10 30 (20.41%) AI
11 28 (19.05%) Data Migration
12 25 (17.01%) DevOps
13 24 (16.33%) Data Architecture
13 24 (16.33%) Metadata Management
13 24 (16.33%) Translating Business Requirements
14 23 (15.65%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 73 (49.66%) SQL
2 53 (36.05%) Python
3 7 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (4.08%) Java
4 6 (4.08%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.72%) PL/SQL
5 4 (2.72%) Scala
6 3 (2.04%) Korn
7 2 (1.36%) Bicep
7 2 (1.36%) LookML
7 2 (1.36%) Perl
7 2 (1.36%) R
8 1 (0.68%) Bash
8 1 (0.68%) C#
8 1 (0.68%) SOQL
8 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (10.20%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.48%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.12%) Degree
4 4 (2.72%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.04%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.04%) PMP
6 2 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.36%) CAPM
6 2 (1.36%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.68%) ACCA
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.68%) CBAP
7 1 (0.68%) CIMA
7 1 (0.68%) CSPO
7 1 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.12%) QA
2 5 (3.40%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.40%) GDPR
3 2 (1.36%) PMO
4 1 (0.68%) Basel III
4 1 (0.68%) EMIR
4 1 (0.68%) GRC
4 1 (0.68%) IFRS
4 1 (0.68%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 19770
4 1 (0.68%) MiFID
4 1 (0.68%) NCSC
4 1 (0.68%) PSD2
System Software
1 3 (2.04%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.68%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 38 (25.85%) Microsoft
2 27 (18.37%) Databricks
3 11 (7.48%) Oracle
4 10 (6.80%) Informatica
4 10 (6.80%) SAP
5 6 (4.08%) Google
6 5 (3.40%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.40%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.72%) IBM
8 3 (2.04%) Palantir
8 3 (2.04%) Talend
9 2 (1.36%) Adobe
9 2 (1.36%) JD Edwards
9 2 (1.36%) Lotus
9 2 (1.36%) Splunk
9 2 (1.36%) Workday
10 1 (0.68%) Advent
10 1 (0.68%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.68%) Foundry
10 1 (0.68%) VMware