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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 60 82
Rank change year-on-year +11 +22 +3
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 82 32 16
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.38% 2.45% 1.05%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.34% 14.29% 10.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 12 9
10th Percentile £410 £525 £333
25th Percentile £419 £534 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £605 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.15% +15.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £666 £563
90th Percentile £723 £675 £646
England median daily rate £513 £515 £560
% change year-on-year -0.49% -8.04% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 0
10th Percentile £31.37 - -
25th Percentile - £21.20 -
Median hourly rate £40.00 £21.40 -
Median % change year-on-year +86.92% - -
75th Percentile - £21.60 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.27 £37.74 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.78% +0.63% +6.19%

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 424 224 151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 17.48% 17.13% 9.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 100 64
10th Percentile £313 £212 £252
25th Percentile £410 £350 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £433
Median % change year-on-year - +15.61% -13.50%
75th Percentile £595 £591 £550
90th Percentile £711 £650 £605
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 43 20
10th Percentile £12.91 £13.50 £14.27
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.45 £15.55
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.49 £28.06
Median % change year-on-year +27.02% +12.22% -36.94%
75th Percentile £67.50 £88.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £91.50 £68.08
England median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £33.50
% change year-on-year - -2.99% -6.94%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 +4 35 £450 -29.41% 67
Suffolk - 13 £588 - 9
Cambridgeshire +12 12 £565 -6.53% 39
Essex -10 9 £575 - 26
Norfolk -7 8 £450 -14.29% 25
Bedfordshire -1 5 £502 -18.12% 15
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 (6.10%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.66%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.22%) Apache
3 1 (1.22%) Mendix
Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.22%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 20 (24.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (4.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.44%) Workday HCM
4 1 (1.22%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (1.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 19 (23.17%) Azure
2 15 (18.29%) Power Platform
3 13 (15.85%) AWS
4 8 (9.76%) GitHub
5 6 (7.32%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (6.10%) GCP
7 4 (4.88%) dbt
7 4 (4.88%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.66%) Azure Storage
8 3 (3.66%) Collibra
9 2 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.44%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.44%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.22%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (1.22%) ChatGPT
10 1 (1.22%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.22%) BGP
1 1 (1.22%) LAN
1 1 (1.22%) MPLS
1 1 (1.22%) Network Security
1 1 (1.22%) OSPF
1 1 (1.22%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.22%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.22%) VLAN
1 1 (1.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (19.51%) Metadata
2 14 (17.07%) Power BI
3 7 (8.54%) SQL Server
4 6 (7.32%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (3.66%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.44%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.44%) Power Query
7 2 (2.44%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.22%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.22%) Looker
8 1 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (9.76%) Git
2 4 (4.88%) Newman
2 4 (4.88%) Postman
3 3 (3.66%) JIRA
4 1 (1.22%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (24.39%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (23.17%) Manufacturing
3 11 (13.41%) Social Skills
4 9 (10.98%) Public Sector
5 8 (9.76%) Finance
6 7 (8.54%) Law
7 4 (4.88%) Local Government
8 3 (3.66%) Marketing
9 2 (2.44%) Retail
10 1 (1.22%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.22%) Automotive
10 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (30.49%) Analyst
2 17 (20.73%) Logistics Analyst
2 17 (20.73%) SAP Analyst
2 17 (20.73%) SAP Logistics Analyst
3 15 (18.29%) Data Engineer
3 15 (18.29%) Lead
4 6 (7.32%) Data Migration Lead
5 4 (4.88%) Developer
5 4 (4.88%) Head of AI
5 4 (4.88%) Python Engineer
6 3 (3.66%) Architect
6 3 (3.66%) Coordinator
6 3 (3.66%) Data Analyst
6 3 (3.66%) Databricks Data Engineer
6 3 (3.66%) Databricks Engineer
6 3 (3.66%) ICT Officer
7 2 (2.44%) Administrator
7 2 (2.44%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (2.44%) Designer
7 2 (2.44%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.32%) REST
2 5 (6.10%) XML
3 4 (4.88%) JSON
3 4 (4.88%) Pandas
3 4 (4.88%) pytest
3 4 (4.88%) XML Schema
4 3 (3.66%) Great Expectations
4 3 (3.66%) Kafka
5 2 (2.44%) PySpark
5 2 (2.44%) XSD
6 1 (1.22%) ADO
6 1 (1.22%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.22%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.32%) CMDB
2 5 (6.10%) AI Agents
2 5 (6.10%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.88%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.88%) Marketing Technology
4 3 (3.66%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.66%) Life Science
4 3 (3.66%) Reference Data
5 2 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.44%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.44%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.22%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.22%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.22%) Linux
1 1 (1.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (45.12%) Migration
2 28 (34.15%) Data Modelling
2 28 (34.15%) ETL
3 25 (30.49%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 25 (30.49%) Validation
4 23 (28.05%) Data Pipeline
5 21 (25.61%) Analytics
5 21 (25.61%) Data Governance
6 19 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (21.95%) Business Intelligence
7 18 (21.95%) Data Migration
8 17 (20.73%) Logistics
9 14 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (15.85%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (13.41%) AI
11 11 (13.41%) CI/CD
12 10 (12.20%) CRM
13 9 (10.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 8 (9.76%) Data Validation
14 8 (9.76%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 35 (42.68%) SQL
2 22 (26.83%) Python
3 5 (6.10%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.22%) Google Apps Script
5 1 (1.22%) Java
5 1 (1.22%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (17.07%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.76%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.44%) Degree
4 1 (1.22%) CCIE
4 1 (1.22%) CCNP
4 1 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.22%) JNCIP
4 1 (1.22%) JNCIS
4 1 (1.22%) PhD
4 1 (1.22%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.98%) QA
2 7 (8.54%) GDPR
3 4 (4.88%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (4.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (3.66%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.66%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.22%) PMO
5 1 (1.22%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.44%) Grafana
2 1 (1.22%) Ansible
2 1 (1.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (25.61%) SAP
2 14 (17.07%) Databricks
3 12 (14.63%) Microsoft
4 7 (8.54%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.66%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.44%) Adobe
6 2 (2.44%) Cisco
6 2 (2.44%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.44%) Google
6 2 (2.44%) Informatica
6 2 (2.44%) Talend
6 2 (2.44%) Workday
7 1 (1.22%) Braze
7 1 (1.22%) Infoblox
7 1 (1.22%) Juniper
7 1 (1.22%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (1.22%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.22%) Oracle
7 1 (1.22%) Planon
7 1 (1.22%) SolarWinds