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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 65 79
Rank change year-on-year +14 +14 +2
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 75 32 17
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.10% 2.41% 1.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.81% 13.56% 10.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 13 10
10th Percentile £395 £520 £305
25th Percentile £413 £525 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £604 £413
Median % change year-on-year -16.97% +46.42% -13.16%
75th Percentile £614 £663 £550
90th Percentile £720 £675 £646
England median daily rate £520 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +0.97% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 1 0
10th Percentile £35.69 - -
25th Percentile - £21.20 -
Median hourly rate £40.00 £21.40 -
Median % change year-on-year +86.92% - -
75th Percentile - £21.60 -
90th Percentile £67.50 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £34.98 £44.00
% change year-on-year +14.35% -20.50% +17.26%

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 421 236 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 17.40% 17.77% 10.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 111 72
10th Percentile £308 £225 £263
25th Percentile £400 £350 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £433
Median % change year-on-year - +15.61% -13.50%
75th Percentile £600 £580 £550
90th Percentile £725 £650 £611
England median daily rate £513 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +2.50% -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 43 21
10th Percentile £13.52 £13.50 £14.42
25th Percentile £16.13 £16.45 £15.98
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.49 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.02% +25.96% -43.82%
75th Percentile £67.50 £88.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £79.40 £91.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £32.40 £32.74 £34.47
% change year-on-year -1.04% -5.02% -12.77%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 +5 39 £450 -28.00% 69
Cambridgeshire +10 11 £565 -6.53% 43
Essex -13 9 £575 - 25
Suffolk - 7 £750 - 9
Bedfordshire -4 6 £502 -18.12% 18
Norfolk -10 3 £450 -14.29% 21
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 (5.33%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.67%) Apache
4 1 (1.33%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.33%) Mendix
Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.33%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 20 (26.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (5.33%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 2 (2.67%) Workday HCM
4 1 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (24.00%) Power Platform
2 14 (18.67%) Azure
3 10 (13.33%) AWS
4 7 (9.33%) GitHub
5 4 (5.33%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.00%) Azure Storage
6 3 (4.00%) GCP
7 2 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.67%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.67%) Collibra
7 2 (2.67%) dbt
7 2 (2.67%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.67%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.33%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
8 1 (1.33%) ChatGPT
8 1 (1.33%) Figma
8 1 (1.33%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.33%) BGP
1 1 (1.33%) LAN
1 1 (1.33%) MPLS
1 1 (1.33%) Network Security
1 1 (1.33%) OSPF
1 1 (1.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.33%) VLAN
1 1 (1.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (22.67%) Power BI
2 10 (13.33%) Metadata
3 6 (8.00%) Relational Database
4 4 (5.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.67%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.67%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.67%) Power Query
5 2 (2.67%) Semantic Layer
5 2 (2.67%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.33%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.33%) Flink
6 1 (1.33%) Looker
6 1 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (6.67%) Git
2 4 (5.33%) Newman
2 4 (5.33%) Postman
3 2 (2.67%) JIRA
General
1 19 (25.33%) Manufacturing
2 18 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (12.00%) Public Sector
3 9 (12.00%) Social Skills
4 8 (10.67%) Finance
4 8 (10.67%) Law
5 4 (5.33%) Local Government
6 3 (4.00%) Marketing
7 2 (2.67%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.67%) Retail
8 1 (1.33%) Automotive
8 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (33.33%) Analyst
2 17 (22.67%) Logistics Analyst
2 17 (22.67%) SAP Analyst
2 17 (22.67%) SAP Logistics Analyst
3 13 (17.33%) Data Engineer
3 13 (17.33%) Lead
4 4 (5.33%) Developer
4 4 (5.33%) Python Engineer
5 3 (4.00%) Architect
5 3 (4.00%) Coordinator
5 3 (4.00%) Data Analyst
5 3 (4.00%) Databricks Data Engineer
5 3 (4.00%) Databricks Engineer
5 3 (4.00%) Head of AI
5 3 (4.00%) ICT Officer
6 2 (2.67%) Administrator
6 2 (2.67%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (2.67%) Senior
7 1 (1.33%) Business Analyst
7 1 (1.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.67%) XML
2 4 (5.33%) Pandas
2 4 (5.33%) pytest
2 4 (5.33%) XML Schema
3 3 (4.00%) Great Expectations
3 3 (4.00%) REST
4 2 (2.67%) XSD
5 1 (1.33%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.33%) JSON
5 1 (1.33%) Kafka
5 1 (1.33%) PySpark
5 1 (1.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.00%) CMDB
2 5 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.33%) AI Agents
4 3 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (4.00%) Life Science
5 2 (2.67%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (2.67%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.67%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.67%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.33%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.33%) Linux
1 1 (1.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (40.00%) Migration
2 25 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 22 (29.33%) Data Modelling
3 22 (29.33%) Validation
4 19 (25.33%) Business Intelligence
4 19 (25.33%) Data Governance
5 18 (24.00%) Analytics
5 18 (24.00%) Data Pipeline
5 18 (24.00%) ETL
5 18 (24.00%) Logistics
6 17 (22.67%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (14.67%) Data Migration
8 11 (14.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 10 (13.33%) Decision-Making
10 9 (12.00%) AI
10 9 (12.00%) CI/CD
10 9 (12.00%) Knowledge Transfer
11 8 (10.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (10.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 27 (36.00%) SQL
2 21 (28.00%) Python
3 2 (2.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.33%) Google Apps Script
4 1 (1.33%) Java
4 1 (1.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (14.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.67%) Degree
4 1 (1.33%) CCIE
4 1 (1.33%) CCNP
4 1 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.33%) JNCIP
4 1 (1.33%) JNCIS
4 1 (1.33%) PhD
4 1 (1.33%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.00%) QA
2 5 (6.67%) GDPR
3 4 (5.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (4.00%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (2.67%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.33%) PMO
6 1 (1.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.33%) Ansible
1 1 (1.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 21 (28.00%) SAP
2 11 (14.67%) Microsoft
3 10 (13.33%) Databricks
4 6 (8.00%) ServiceNow
5 4 (5.33%) Planon
6 3 (4.00%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.67%) Adobe
7 2 (2.67%) Cisco
7 2 (2.67%) Google
7 2 (2.67%) Workday
8 1 (1.33%) Braze
8 1 (1.33%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.33%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.33%) Juniper
8 1 (1.33%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (1.33%) Oracle
8 1 (1.33%) Orchard
8 1 (1.33%) Remedy
8 1 (1.33%) SolarWinds