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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 32 71
Rank change year-on-year -22 +39 +4
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 56 55 40
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.64% 5.86% 2.10%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.82% 38.19% 23.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 40 17
10th Percentile £363 £399 £300
25th Percentile £459 £511 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +23.08% -2.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £506
90th Percentile £666 £680 £571
England median daily rate £500 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 10
10th Percentile - £18.05 -
25th Percentile £18.23 £19.71 £15.39
Median hourly rate £18.47 £31.64 £15.79
Median % change year-on-year -41.64% +100.38% -49.98%
75th Percentile £18.70 - £22.05
90th Percentile - £32.98 £29.52
England median hourly rate £28.25 £31.64 £24.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +31.83% +6.74%

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 333 144 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.71% 15.34% 8.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 79 99
10th Percentile £363 £295 £256
25th Percentile £463 £403 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £410
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +34.15% -8.89%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £538
90th Percentile £675 £684 £640
England median daily rate £505 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -0.98% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 22 30
10th Percentile £14.02 £17.63 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.69 £22.65 £14.41
Median hourly rate £18.50 £33.32 £15.79
Median % change year-on-year -44.48% +111.02% -9.77%
75th Percentile £20.35 £73.44 £24.75
90th Percentile £32.79 £86.70 £26.23
England median hourly rate £30.49 £34.50 £20.50
% change year-on-year -11.62% +68.29% -50.60%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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
Cambridgeshire +14 15 £590 +47.50% 9
Suffolk - 13 £621 - 4
Bedfordshire -14 9 £446 -25.73% 4
Essex -8 7 £375 +17.19% 11
Norfolk -20 7 £475 - 8
Hertfordshire -46 5 £650 - 8
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 2 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.79%) Apache
2 1 (1.79%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (17.86%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (10.71%) Sage X3
2 5 (8.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (3.57%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 11 (19.64%) Azure
3 5 (8.93%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (8.93%) GCP
4 4 (7.14%) AWS
4 4 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (7.14%) SaaS
5 2 (3.57%) Collibra
5 2 (3.57%) dbt
5 2 (3.57%) OCI
5 2 (3.57%) PaaS
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.79%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (1.79%) Boomi
6 1 (1.79%) GitHub
6 1 (1.79%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (25.00%) Metadata
1 14 (25.00%) Power BI
2 9 (16.07%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (10.71%) Power Query
3 6 (10.71%) SQL Server
3 6 (10.71%) ZAP BI
4 5 (8.93%) SAP Data Services
4 5 (8.93%) Tableau
5 4 (7.14%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (3.57%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.57%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.79%) Big Data
7 1 (1.79%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (1.79%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.79%) MySQL
7 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (10.71%) Git
2 5 (8.93%) JIRA
3 1 (1.79%) Hudson
3 1 (1.79%) Jenkins
General
1 25 (44.64%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.00%) Finance
3 6 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.71%) Manufacturing
4 3 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.57%) Automotive
5 2 (3.57%) Aviation
5 2 (3.57%) Marketing
6 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (16.07%) Developer
1 9 (16.07%) Lead
2 6 (10.71%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 6 (10.71%) Consultant
2 6 (10.71%) Data Engineer
2 6 (10.71%) Data Migration Lead
2 6 (10.71%) Power BI Developer
2 6 (10.71%) Report Developer
2 6 (10.71%) SQL BI Developer
2 6 (10.71%) SQL Developer
3 5 (8.93%) Architect
3 5 (8.93%) Data Consultant
3 5 (8.93%) Data Migration Consultant
3 5 (8.93%) Migration Consultant
3 5 (8.93%) SAP Consultant
3 5 (8.93%) SAP Data Consultant
3 5 (8.93%) SAP Data Migration Consultant
3 5 (8.93%) SAP Migration Consultant
4 4 (7.14%) Analyst
4 4 (7.14%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.93%) JSON
1 5 (8.93%) Kafka
1 5 (8.93%) REST
2 2 (3.57%) ADO
2 2 (3.57%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (3.57%) XML
3 1 (1.79%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.14%) Data Structures
1 4 (7.14%) Onboarding
1 4 (7.14%) Reference Data
2 3 (5.36%) AI Agents
2 3 (5.36%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.57%) Digital Media
3 2 (3.57%) Life Science
3 2 (3.57%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.79%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.79%) NHS
4 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.79%) SystemC
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (48.21%) Validation
2 26 (46.43%) Analytics
3 24 (42.86%) Data Governance
3 24 (42.86%) Data Modelling
3 24 (42.86%) ETL
4 22 (39.29%) Migration
5 20 (35.71%) Data Migration
6 19 (33.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 18 (32.14%) Business Intelligence
8 15 (26.79%) Data Validation
9 12 (21.43%) Data Cleansing
9 12 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
10 11 (19.64%) CRM
11 9 (16.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (16.07%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (14.29%) Data Architecture
12 8 (14.29%) Data Extraction
12 8 (14.29%) Data Lineage
12 8 (14.29%) Decision-Making
13 7 (12.50%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 22 (39.29%) SQL
2 10 (17.86%) VBA
3 7 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (8.93%) Python
5 4 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.79%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (8.93%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (3.57%) Degree
3 1 (1.79%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.14%) GDPR
2 2 (3.57%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.79%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (1.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.79%) Grafana
1 1 (1.79%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (23.21%) Databricks
3 7 (12.50%) Salesforce
3 7 (12.50%) SAP
4 6 (10.71%) Sage
5 4 (7.14%) Informatica
5 4 (7.14%) Talend
6 3 (5.36%) Atlassian
6 3 (5.36%) Oracle
7 2 (3.57%) Dynatrace
7 2 (3.57%) Google
7 2 (3.57%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.79%) Ariba
8 1 (1.79%) Cerner
8 1 (1.79%) IFS
8 1 (1.79%) MuleSoft