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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 35 57
Rank change year-on-year -31 +22 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 40 49 53
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.09% 4.91% 2.78%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.31% 31.41% 26.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 39 26
10th Percentile £363 £319 £300
25th Percentile £424 £400 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +26.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £500
90th Percentile £666 £684 £564
England median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 10
10th Percentile - £18.01 -
25th Percentile £18.23 £21.58 £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 - £33.32 £29.52
England median hourly rate £18.94 £31.64 £22.82
% change year-on-year -40.15% +38.65% +1.49%

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 325 156 198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 16.95% 15.65% 10.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 90 121
10th Percentile £303 £259 £258
25th Percentile £419 £371 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £534 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.98% +12.37% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £600
90th Percentile £675 £691 £675
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 24 31
10th Percentile £16.12 £17.43 -
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.49 £14.16
Median hourly rate £18.50 £31.64 £15.79
Median % change year-on-year -41.53% +100.38% -10.34%
75th Percentile £20.09 £72.81 £25.00
90th Percentile £32.79 £84.10 £37.25
England median hourly rate £26.11 £32.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -18.41% +30.61% -40.96%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 +3 13 £590 +47.50% 12
Bedfordshire -10 9 £471 -21.56% 1
Essex -8 6 £375 +18.11% 3
Hertfordshire -43 6 £594 -6.86% 8
Suffolk - 5 £653 - 1
Norfolk - 1 - - 4
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 (2.50%) Apache
1 1 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (22.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (15.00%) Sage X3
2 2 (5.00%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.00%) Power Platform
2 6 (15.00%) Azure
3 4 (10.00%) SaaS
4 2 (5.00%) OCI
4 2 (5.00%) PaaS
5 1 (2.50%) AWS
5 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (30.00%) Power BI
2 8 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (15.00%) Metadata
3 6 (15.00%) Power Query
3 6 (15.00%) ZAP BI
4 5 (12.50%) SAP Data Services
5 4 (10.00%) Tableau
6 2 (5.00%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (5.00%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.50%) Big Data
7 1 (2.50%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (2.50%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.50%) MySQL
7 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) JIRA
2 3 (7.50%) Git
3 1 (2.50%) Hudson
General
1 25 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 13 (32.50%) Finance
3 6 (15.00%) Manufacturing
4 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.50%) Aviation
5 3 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.50%) Automotive
6 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Marketing
6 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (20.00%) Developer
2 6 (15.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 6 (15.00%) Consultant
2 6 (15.00%) Power BI Developer
2 6 (15.00%) Report Developer
2 6 (15.00%) SQL BI Developer
2 6 (15.00%) SQL Developer
3 5 (12.50%) Data Consultant
3 5 (12.50%) Data Migration Consultant
3 5 (12.50%) Migration Consultant
3 5 (12.50%) SAP Consultant
3 5 (12.50%) SAP Data Consultant
3 5 (12.50%) SAP Data Migration Consultant
3 5 (12.50%) SAP Migration Consultant
4 4 (10.00%) Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) Architect
4 4 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) Sage Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Data Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Excel Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.50%) ADO
2 1 (2.50%) JSON
2 1 (2.50%) Kafka
2 1 (2.50%) REST
2 1 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.00%) Life Science
3 1 (2.50%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.50%) Digital Media
3 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.50%) NHS
3 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.50%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.50%) SystemC
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (57.50%) Validation
2 22 (55.00%) Analytics
3 17 (42.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 15 (37.50%) Data Governance
5 14 (35.00%) Data Validation
6 13 (32.50%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (32.50%) Migration
7 12 (30.00%) Data Modelling
8 11 (27.50%) Data Migration
8 11 (27.50%) ETL
9 9 (22.50%) Data Cleansing
10 8 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (20.00%) Data Extraction
11 7 (17.50%) Data Analysis
11 7 (17.50%) Data Lineage
11 7 (17.50%) Requirements Gathering
11 7 (17.50%) User Experience
12 6 (15.00%) Kalman Filter
12 6 (15.00%) Roadmaps
12 6 (15.00%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.00%) SQL
2 9 (22.50%) VBA
3 7 (17.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (7.50%) Python
5 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (5.00%) Degree
1 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.50%) DBS Check
2 1 (2.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.50%) PMO
Vendors
1 10 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (20.00%) Databricks
3 7 (17.50%) SAP
4 6 (15.00%) Sage
5 4 (10.00%) Salesforce
6 3 (7.50%) Atlassian
6 3 (7.50%) Oracle
7 1 (2.50%) Ariba
7 1 (2.50%) Cerner
7 1 (2.50%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.50%) Google
7 1 (2.50%) IFS
7 1 (2.50%) Informatica
7 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.50%) Talend