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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 59 76
Rank change year-on-year +20 +17 +6
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 85 36 20
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.84% 2.83% 1.29%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.37% 16.90% 14.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 13 10
10th Percentile £373 £525 £294
25th Percentile £438 £538 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +11.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £591
90th Percentile £691 £675 £646
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 1
10th Percentile £31.37 £19.16 -
25th Percentile - £21.20 -
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.42% +31.83% -44.99%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £33.11 £50.50
% change year-on-year +20.81% -34.44% +15.75%

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 380 213 138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 17.18% 16.77% 8.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 96 65
10th Percentile £350 £209 £253
25th Percentile £425 £356 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% +25.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £550
90th Percentile £675 £644 £615
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 42 21
10th Percentile £12.84 £13.50 £14.41
25th Percentile £14.76 £17.03 £14.99
Median hourly rate £27.96 £31.64 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +26.56% +25.31%
75th Percentile £66.88 £88.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £91.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £26.16
% change year-on-year +14.00% +20.94% -26.82%

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 28 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Quality in the East of England over the 6 months to 28 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Quality in the East of England

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 28 August 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
Hertfordshire +8 34 £435 -33.08% 24
Cambridgeshire +17 16 £597 -1.24% 26
Essex -9 11 £525 - 19
Suffolk - 10 £588 - 5
Norfolk -8 9 £450 -14.29% 8
Bedfordshire -1 5 £502 -13.53% 7
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 5 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.53%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.18%) Apache
3 1 (1.18%) Mendix
Applications
1 7 (8.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.18%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 20 (23.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (4.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.35%) Sage X3
4 1 (1.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 17 (20.00%) Azure
2 16 (18.82%) Power Platform
3 12 (14.12%) AWS
4 7 (8.24%) GitHub
5 6 (7.06%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (5.88%) GCP
7 4 (4.71%) Collibra
7 4 (4.71%) dbt
7 4 (4.71%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.53%) Azure Storage
8 3 (3.53%) Snowflake
9 2 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.35%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.35%) SaaS
10 1 (1.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.18%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (1.18%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
10 1 (1.18%) Boomi
10 1 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (17.65%) Metadata
1 15 (17.65%) Power BI
2 7 (8.24%) SQL Server
3 6 (7.06%) Relational Database
4 5 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (5.88%) SAP Data Services
5 4 (4.71%) Data Lake
5 4 (4.71%) Power Query
5 4 (4.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (3.53%) Tableau
7 2 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.35%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.35%) ZAP BI
8 1 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.18%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (1.18%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.18%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (1.18%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (8.24%) Git
2 4 (4.71%) JIRA
2 4 (4.71%) Newman
2 4 (4.71%) Postman
3 1 (1.18%) Hudson
3 1 (1.18%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (24.71%) Manufacturing
2 19 (22.35%) Social Skills
3 18 (21.18%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (15.29%) Finance
5 9 (10.59%) Public Sector
6 7 (8.24%) Law
7 4 (4.71%) Local Government
7 4 (4.71%) Marketing
8 2 (2.35%) Automotive
9 1 (1.18%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (31.76%) Analyst
2 17 (20.00%) Logistics Analyst
2 17 (20.00%) SAP Analyst
2 17 (20.00%) SAP Logistics Analyst
3 16 (18.82%) Lead
4 15 (17.65%) Data Engineer
5 6 (7.06%) Consultant
5 6 (7.06%) Data Migration Lead
6 5 (5.88%) Data Analyst
6 5 (5.88%) Data Consultant
6 5 (5.88%) Data Migration Consultant
6 5 (5.88%) Migration Consultant
6 5 (5.88%) SAP Consultant
6 5 (5.88%) SAP Data Consultant
6 5 (5.88%) SAP Data Migration Consultant
6 5 (5.88%) SAP Migration Consultant
7 4 (4.71%) Developer
7 4 (4.71%) Head of AI
7 4 (4.71%) Python Engineer
8 3 (3.53%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.06%) REST
2 5 (5.88%) XML
3 4 (4.71%) JSON
3 4 (4.71%) Kafka
3 4 (4.71%) Pandas
3 4 (4.71%) pytest
3 4 (4.71%) XML Schema
4 3 (3.53%) Great Expectations
5 2 (2.35%) PySpark
5 2 (2.35%) XSD
6 1 (1.18%) ADO
6 1 (1.18%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.06%) Onboarding
2 5 (5.88%) AI Agents
2 5 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.71%) CMDB
3 4 (4.71%) Marketing Technology
4 3 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.53%) Life Science
4 3 (3.53%) Reference Data
5 2 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.35%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.18%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.18%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.18%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.18%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.18%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.18%) Linux
1 1 (1.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (52.94%) Migration
2 32 (37.65%) Validation
3 30 (35.29%) ETL
4 26 (30.59%) Data Migration
4 26 (30.59%) Data Modelling
5 23 (27.06%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 22 (25.88%) Analytics
6 22 (25.88%) Data Pipeline
7 20 (23.53%) Data Governance
8 19 (22.35%) Business Intelligence
9 17 (20.00%) Logistics
10 16 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (18.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 15 (17.65%) Data Validation
12 13 (15.29%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (14.12%) Data Cleansing
14 11 (12.94%) AI
14 11 (12.94%) CRM
15 10 (11.76%) CI/CD
15 10 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 37 (43.53%) SQL
2 20 (23.53%) Python
3 4 (4.71%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.71%) VBA
4 3 (3.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.18%) Java
5 1 (1.18%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (15.29%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.24%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.35%) Degree
4 1 (1.18%) PhD
4 1 (1.18%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.59%) QA
2 7 (8.24%) GDPR
3 4 (4.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (3.53%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.53%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.18%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.18%) Grafana
1 1 (1.18%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (30.59%) SAP
2 14 (16.47%) Databricks
3 13 (15.29%) Microsoft
4 6 (7.06%) Salesforce
5 5 (5.88%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.53%) Informatica
6 3 (3.53%) Talend
7 2 (2.35%) Adobe
7 2 (2.35%) Sage
8 1 (1.18%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.18%) Braze
8 1 (1.18%) Cisco
8 1 (1.18%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.18%) Google
8 1 (1.18%) IFS
8 1 (1.18%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.18%) Oracle
8 1 (1.18%) Orchard
8 1 (1.18%) Planon