Data Quality Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Data Quality
England > East of England

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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 44 68
Rank change year-on-year -38 +24 +48
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 17 38 44
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.07% 3.49% 2.57%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.59% 21.47% 21.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 28 28
10th Percentile £446 £319 £299
25th Percentile £500 £396 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £515 £475
Median % change year-on-year +21.36% +8.42% +5.56%
75th Percentile £666 £675 £500
90th Percentile £668 £689 £518
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £79.17
Median % change year-on-year - -55.79% +346.03%
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
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 258 177 205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 16.21% 16.27% 11.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 88 109
10th Percentile £263 £271 £298
25th Percentile £413 £330 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £702
England median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 18 25
10th Percentile £16.41 £16.86 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.83 £27.75 £14.16
Median hourly rate £18.50 £45.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.56% +25.34% +105.98%
75th Percentile £20.09 £71.50 £46.75
90th Percentile £20.70 £75.00 £49.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -16.17% -9.09% +33.12%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Data Quality job vacancy trend in the East of England

Data Quality
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Quality.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in the East of England over the 6 months to 16 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in the East of England

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Quality.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 16 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
Bedfordshire -4 7 £500 -37.50% 9
Hertfordshire -36 4 £581 -3.13% 17
Cambridgeshire -4 2 - - 10
Suffolk - 2 £653 - 9
Essex -7 1 - - 9
Norfolk - 1 - - 9
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (17.65%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon S3
2 2 (11.76%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.88%) Alation
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) dbt
3 1 (5.88%) SaaS
3 1 (5.88%) Serverless
3 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Metadata
2 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.76%) Power BI
2 2 (11.76%) Tableau
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (5.88%) Ataccama
3 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.88%) Delta Lake
3 1 (5.88%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.88%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 11 (64.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Aviation
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Data Steward
2 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Administrator
3 1 (5.88%) Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Data Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Data Visualisation Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Lead
3 1 (5.88%) Lead Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Lead Data Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Project Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Senior
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Snowflake Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Great Expectations
1 1 (5.88%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Life Science
2 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.88%) NHS
2 1 (5.88%) Reference Data
2 1 (5.88%) SystemC
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Analytics
2 9 (52.94%) Data Governance
3 5 (29.41%) Data Engineering
3 5 (29.41%) Migration
3 5 (29.41%) Validation
4 4 (23.53%) Data Management
4 4 (23.53%) Data Modelling
4 4 (23.53%) Master Data Management
4 4 (23.53%) Metadata Management
4 4 (23.53%) Monte Carlo Method
4 4 (23.53%) Roadmaps
4 4 (23.53%) Use Case
5 3 (17.65%) Anomaly Detection
5 3 (17.65%) Data Design
5 3 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (17.65%) Data Privacy
5 3 (17.65%) Data Sharing
5 3 (17.65%) Machine Learning
5 3 (17.65%) Observability
5 3 (17.65%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.88%) PhD
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (5.88%) PMO
2 1 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Databricks
2 3 (17.65%) SAP
3 1 (5.88%) Ariba
3 1 (5.88%) Cerner
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) StreamSets