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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 39 84
Rank change year-on-year -2 +45 -5
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 78 52 29
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.46% 4.66% 1.51%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.55% 26.67% 17.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 27 11
10th Percentile £363 £366 £303
25th Percentile £450 £531 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £644 £675 £581
90th Percentile £695 - £645
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 9
10th Percentile - £18.05 -
25th Percentile - £19.71 £15.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £15.79
Median % change year-on-year +26.42% +100.38% -63.81%
75th Percentile - - £16.20
90th Percentile - £32.98 £24.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £31.82 £21.06
% change year-on-year +25.71% +51.11% -6.35%

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 362 195 167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 16.05% 17.46% 8.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 97 87
10th Percentile £363 £225 £240
25th Percentile £450 £315 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £410
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +21.95% -13.68%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £516
90th Percentile £675 £675 £593
England median daily rate £505 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 35 37
10th Percentile £13.63 £13.50 £14.35
25th Percentile £16.64 £17.40 £14.99
Median hourly rate £20.35 £31.64 £15.79
Median % change year-on-year -35.68% +100.38% -7.85%
75th Percentile £58.75 £87.75 £25.00
90th Percentile £73.60 £91.50 £65.25
England median hourly rate £36.00 £32.00 £24.43
% change year-on-year +12.50% +30.99% -42.52%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -13 25 £475 -26.92% 18
Cambridgeshire +16 17 £597 -1.16% 12
Suffolk - 14 £653 - 1
Essex -12 10 £375 +19.05% 8
Norfolk -15 8 £450 -14.29% 3
Bedfordshire -19 4 £438 -27.08% 2
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 4 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.28%) Apache
2 1 (1.28%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.28%) Mendix
Applications
1 10 (12.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.28%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 16 (20.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (7.69%) Sage X3
3 5 (6.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (2.56%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 15 (19.23%) Azure
2 14 (17.95%) Power Platform
3 7 (8.97%) AWS
4 6 (7.69%) GCP
5 5 (6.41%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (6.41%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (6.41%) GitHub
6 4 (5.13%) Collibra
6 4 (5.13%) SaaS
7 3 (3.85%) dbt
7 3 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.56%) OCI
8 2 (2.56%) PaaS
8 2 (2.56%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.28%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (1.28%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.28%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (1.28%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (19.23%) Metadata
2 14 (17.95%) Power BI
3 10 (12.82%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (10.26%) SQL Server
5 7 (8.97%) Power Query
6 6 (7.69%) ZAP BI
7 5 (6.41%) SAP Data Services
8 4 (5.13%) Data Lake
9 3 (3.85%) Tableau
10 2 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (2.56%) BigQuery
10 2 (2.56%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (1.28%) Big Data
11 1 (1.28%) Hadoop
11 1 (1.28%) MySQL
11 1 (1.28%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (7.69%) Git
1 6 (7.69%) JIRA
2 3 (3.85%) Newman
2 3 (3.85%) Postman
3 1 (1.28%) Hudson
3 1 (1.28%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (29.49%) Social Skills
2 21 (26.92%) Manufacturing
3 16 (20.51%) Finance
4 8 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.85%) Marketing
6 2 (2.56%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 20 (25.64%) Analyst
2 14 (17.95%) Logistics Analyst
2 14 (17.95%) SAP Analyst
2 14 (17.95%) SAP Logistics Analyst
3 12 (15.38%) Lead
4 10 (12.82%) Data Engineer
5 8 (10.26%) Developer
6 6 (7.69%) Architect
6 6 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 6 (7.69%) Consultant
6 6 (7.69%) Data Migration Lead
6 6 (7.69%) Power BI Developer
6 6 (7.69%) Report Developer
6 6 (7.69%) SQL BI Developer
6 6 (7.69%) SQL Developer
7 5 (6.41%) Data Consultant
7 5 (6.41%) Migration Consultant
7 5 (6.41%) Salesforce Analyst
7 5 (6.41%) SAP Data Migration Consultant
7 5 (6.41%) SAP Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.41%) JSON
1 5 (6.41%) Kafka
1 5 (6.41%) REST
1 5 (6.41%) XML
2 3 (3.85%) Pandas
2 3 (3.85%) pytest
2 3 (3.85%) XML Schema
3 2 (2.56%) ADO
3 2 (2.56%) Great Expectations
3 2 (2.56%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (2.56%) XSD
4 1 (1.28%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.28%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.69%) Data Structures
1 6 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 5 (6.41%) AI Agents
3 3 (3.85%) Marketing Technology
3 3 (3.85%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.56%) CMDB
4 2 (2.56%) Digital Media
4 2 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.56%) Life Science
4 2 (2.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.28%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.28%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.28%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (46.15%) Migration
2 29 (37.18%) Validation
3 28 (35.90%) ETL
4 25 (32.05%) Analytics
4 25 (32.05%) Data Modelling
5 24 (30.77%) Data Governance
6 21 (26.92%) Data Migration
7 20 (25.64%) Business Intelligence
7 20 (25.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 19 (24.36%) Data Pipeline
9 17 (21.79%) Data Validation
10 14 (17.95%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 14 (17.95%) Logistics
11 13 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
12 12 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (15.38%) CRM
12 12 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (14.10%) AI
14 10 (12.82%) Data Architecture
14 10 (12.82%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 29 (37.18%) SQL
2 10 (12.82%) Python
2 10 (12.82%) VBA
3 7 (8.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (5.13%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.28%) Java
5 1 (1.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (8.97%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.85%) Degree
3 2 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.28%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.28%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.28%) PhD
4 1 (1.28%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.28%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.26%) GDPR
2 4 (5.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (3.85%) HIPAA
3 3 (3.85%) QA
4 2 (2.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.28%) Grafana
1 1 (1.28%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.28%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (26.92%) SAP
2 16 (20.51%) Microsoft
3 14 (17.95%) Databricks
4 9 (11.54%) Salesforce
5 6 (7.69%) Sage
6 4 (5.13%) Informatica
6 4 (5.13%) Oracle
6 4 (5.13%) ServiceNow
6 4 (5.13%) Talend
7 3 (3.85%) Atlassian
8 2 (2.56%) Adobe
8 2 (2.56%) Dynatrace
8 2 (2.56%) Google
9 1 (1.28%) Braze
9 1 (1.28%) IFS
9 1 (1.28%) MuleSoft