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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 82 93
Rank change year-on-year +28 +11 +45
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 67 46 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.82% 2.19% 2.04%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.65% 13.33% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 28 47
10th Percentile £294 £356 £390
25th Percentile £406 £484 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +2.13%
75th Percentile £628 £675 £700
90th Percentile £758 £758 £788
Central London median daily rate £500 £550 £603
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.71% +9.55%

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 341 345 457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.45% 16.39% 15.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 201 346
10th Percentile £321 £350 £400
25th Percentile £413 £463 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £713 £675 £700
90th Percentile £838 £751 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £595
% change year-on-year -0.05% -7.52% +2.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £23.83 £16.60 -
25th Percentile £26.57 £17.50 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £20.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% - -
75th Percentile £56.75 £22.50 -
90th Percentile £75.95 £23.40 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £25.18 -
% change year-on-year +35.03% - -

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Data Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality 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 19 September 2025.

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 and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.97%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.48%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.99%) Luigi
4 1 (1.49%) Apache
4 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (20.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.49%) SAP HR
1 1 (1.49%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 21 (31.34%) Azure
2 16 (23.88%) AWS
3 11 (16.42%) Collibra
3 11 (16.42%) Power Platform
4 8 (11.94%) Snowflake
5 7 (10.45%) Microsoft Purview
6 6 (8.96%) GCP
7 5 (7.46%) Amazon S3
7 5 (7.46%) GitHub
8 4 (5.97%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (4.48%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.99%) Alation
10 2 (2.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (2.99%) Cloud Composer
10 2 (2.99%) Cloud Functions
10 2 (2.99%) dbt
10 2 (2.99%) Google Compute Engine
10 2 (2.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (2.99%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (19.40%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (14.93%) Metadata
2 10 (14.93%) Power BI
3 8 (11.94%) Data Lake
4 7 (10.45%) Relational Database
5 6 (8.96%) Delta Lake
6 4 (5.97%) Amazon QuickSight
6 4 (5.97%) Big Data
6 4 (5.97%) Snowflake Schema
6 4 (5.97%) Tableau
7 3 (4.48%) DataStage
7 3 (4.48%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.99%) BigQuery
8 2 (2.99%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.99%) MongoDB
8 2 (2.99%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.99%) Power Query
8 2 (2.99%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (7.46%) Git
2 2 (2.99%) JIRA
3 1 (1.49%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.49%) Terragrunt
General
1 30 (44.78%) Finance
2 20 (29.85%) Social Skills
3 18 (26.87%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (17.91%) Banking
5 4 (5.97%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.48%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.99%) Retail
8 1 (1.49%) Back Office
8 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.49%) Marketing
8 1 (1.49%) Military
8 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (34.33%) Data Engineer
2 21 (31.34%) Analyst
3 14 (20.90%) Data Analyst
4 7 (10.45%) Architect
4 7 (10.45%) Business Analyst
5 6 (8.96%) Data Architect
5 6 (8.96%) Senior
6 5 (7.46%) Azure Data Engineer
6 5 (7.46%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (7.46%) Data Manager
7 4 (5.97%) Developer
7 4 (5.97%) Financial Analyst
7 4 (5.97%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.48%) Data Business Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) Senior Data Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) AWS Data Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) Finance Business Analyst
9 2 (2.99%) GCP Data Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) GCP Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) Reinsurance Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.46%) XML
2 4 (5.97%) PySpark
3 3 (4.48%) CSS
3 3 (4.48%) Flask
3 3 (4.48%) HTML
3 3 (4.48%) Pandas
4 2 (2.99%) Kafka
5 1 (1.49%) .NET
5 1 (1.49%) ADO
5 1 (1.49%) JSON
5 1 (1.49%) Node.js
5 1 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.49%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.48%) Onboarding
1 3 (4.48%) Pricing Data
2 2 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (2.99%) Reinsurance
2 2 (2.99%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.49%) CMDB
3 1 (1.49%) Credit Risk
3 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (1.49%) FMCG
3 1 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.49%) IoT
3 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.49%) Market Risk
3 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.49%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (44.78%) Data Governance
1 30 (44.78%) Data Modelling
2 24 (35.82%) ETL
3 23 (34.33%) Analytics
4 19 (28.36%) Data Analysis
5 18 (26.87%) Business Intelligence
6 17 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (20.90%) Migration
8 13 (19.40%) Agile
8 13 (19.40%) Data Engineering
8 13 (19.40%) Decision-Making
9 12 (17.91%) Data Integration
9 12 (17.91%) Data Pipeline
10 10 (14.93%) Data Ingestion
10 10 (14.93%) Data Transformation
11 9 (13.43%) Actionable Insight
11 9 (13.43%) Data Cleansing
11 9 (13.43%) Data Migration
11 9 (13.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 8 (11.94%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 34 (50.75%) SQL
2 26 (38.81%) Python
3 7 (10.45%) Java
3 7 (10.45%) Scala
4 3 (4.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (4.48%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.99%) R
5 2 (2.99%) VBA
6 1 (1.49%) C#
6 1 (1.49%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.49%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (13.43%) Degree
2 7 (10.45%) Security Cleared
3 6 (8.96%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.49%) ACCA
6 1 (1.49%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.96%) GDPR
2 2 (2.99%) PMO
3 1 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.49%) QA
3 1 (1.49%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (4.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.97%) Terraform
2 3 (4.48%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.49%) Grafana
3 1 (1.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (20.90%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.93%) Databricks
3 9 (13.43%) Informatica
4 3 (4.48%) Bloomberg
4 3 (4.48%) Cloudera
4 3 (4.48%) Oracle
5 2 (2.99%) Google
5 2 (2.99%) SAP
6 1 (1.49%) Adobe
6 1 (1.49%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.49%) Marketo
6 1 (1.49%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.49%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (1.49%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.49%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.49%) Workday