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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 52 81
Rank change year-on-year +11 +29 -7
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 87 41 20
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.97% 3.25% 1.24%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.90% 19.62% 13.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 18 11
10th Percentile £363 £503 £303
25th Percentile £413 £541 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £602 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +14.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £604 £650 £581
90th Percentile £715 £675 £645
England median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 2
Median hourly rate £40.00 £26.52 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.83% +10.50% -44.99%
England median hourly rate £40.00 £31.82 £37.50
% change year-on-year +25.71% -15.15% +13.64%

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 364 209 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 16.61% 16.57% 9.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 95 73
10th Percentile £361 £209 £252
25th Percentile £431 £331 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £410
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +21.95% -13.68%
75th Percentile £602 £575 £525
90th Percentile £683 £650 £558
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 41 25
10th Percentile £12.91 £13.50 £14.41
25th Percentile £16.33 £16.92 £14.88
Median hourly rate £27.96 £31.64 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +31.83% +34.57%
75th Percentile £66.88 £88.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £91.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.00 £31.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +23.81% +14.55% -32.99%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 +6 34 £463 -28.85% 21
Cambridgeshire +21 20 £578 -4.47% 14
Suffolk - 11 £589 - 2
Essex -14 10 £375 +19.05% 11
Norfolk -8 8 £450 -14.29% 5
Bedfordshire -6 4 £450 -26.83% 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 5 (5.75%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.15%) Apache
2 1 (1.15%) Mendix
Applications
1 12 (13.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.15%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 20 (22.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (6.90%) Sage X3
3 4 (4.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (2.30%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (1.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 17 (19.54%) Power Platform
2 12 (13.79%) Azure
3 9 (10.34%) AWS
4 6 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (6.90%) GitHub
5 5 (5.75%) GCP
6 4 (4.60%) Collibra
6 4 (4.60%) dbt
6 4 (4.60%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (4.60%) SaaS
7 3 (3.45%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.30%) OCI
8 2 (2.30%) PaaS
9 1 (1.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.15%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (1.15%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.15%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
9 1 (1.15%) Boomi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (19.54%) Power BI
2 15 (17.24%) Metadata
3 9 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (9.20%) Power Query
5 7 (8.05%) SQL Server
6 6 (6.90%) ZAP BI
7 5 (5.75%) SAP Data Services
8 3 (3.45%) Data Lake
8 3 (3.45%) Relational Database
8 3 (3.45%) Tableau
9 2 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (2.30%) BigQuery
9 2 (2.30%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (1.15%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (1.15%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (10.34%) Git
2 7 (8.05%) JIRA
3 4 (4.60%) Newman
3 4 (4.60%) Postman
4 1 (1.15%) Hudson
4 1 (1.15%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (27.59%) Manufacturing
1 24 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 18 (20.69%) Finance
3 13 (14.94%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.60%) Law
5 3 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.45%) Marketing
5 3 (3.45%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.30%) Automotive
7 1 (1.15%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (28.74%) Analyst
2 17 (19.54%) Logistics Analyst
2 17 (19.54%) SAP Analyst
2 17 (19.54%) SAP Logistics Analyst
3 14 (16.09%) Data Engineer
4 13 (14.94%) Lead
5 9 (10.34%) Developer
6 6 (6.90%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 6 (6.90%) Consultant
6 6 (6.90%) Data Migration Lead
6 6 (6.90%) Power BI Developer
6 6 (6.90%) Report Developer
6 6 (6.90%) SQL BI Developer
6 6 (6.90%) SQL Developer
7 5 (5.75%) Data Consultant
7 5 (5.75%) Data Migration Consultant
7 5 (5.75%) Salesforce Analyst
7 5 (5.75%) SAP Data Consultant
7 5 (5.75%) SAP Data Migration Consultant
7 5 (5.75%) SAP Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.90%) REST
1 6 (6.90%) XML
2 5 (5.75%) JSON
3 4 (4.60%) Kafka
3 4 (4.60%) Pandas
3 4 (4.60%) pytest
3 4 (4.60%) XML Schema
4 3 (3.45%) Great Expectations
5 2 (2.30%) ADO
5 2 (2.30%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (2.30%) XSD
6 1 (1.15%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.15%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.90%) Data Structures
1 6 (6.90%) Onboarding
2 5 (5.75%) AI Agents
3 4 (4.60%) CMDB
4 3 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.45%) Life Science
4 3 (3.45%) Marketing Technology
4 3 (3.45%) Reference Data
5 2 (2.30%) Digital Media
5 2 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.30%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.15%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.15%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.15%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.15%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (49.43%) Migration
2 34 (39.08%) Validation
3 33 (37.93%) ETL
4 30 (34.48%) Data Modelling
5 28 (32.18%) Analytics
6 25 (28.74%) Data Governance
7 24 (27.59%) Data Migration
8 23 (26.44%) Data Pipeline
9 22 (25.29%) Business Intelligence
9 22 (25.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 20 (22.99%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 18 (20.69%) Data Validation
12 17 (19.54%) Logistics
13 14 (16.09%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (14.94%) Data Cleansing
15 11 (12.64%) AI
15 11 (12.64%) CRM
15 11 (12.64%) Stakeholder Management
16 10 (11.49%) CI/CD
16 10 (11.49%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 37 (42.53%) SQL
2 19 (21.84%) Python
3 10 (11.49%) VBA
4 7 (8.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (4.60%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.15%) Java
6 1 (1.15%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (11.49%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.60%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.15%) Degree
4 1 (1.15%) PhD
4 1 (1.15%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.05%) GDPR
2 6 (6.90%) QA
3 4 (4.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (3.45%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.30%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.15%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.15%) Grafana
1 1 (1.15%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (29.89%) SAP
2 16 (18.39%) Microsoft
3 15 (17.24%) Databricks
4 9 (10.34%) Salesforce
5 6 (6.90%) Sage
5 6 (6.90%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.45%) Atlassian
6 3 (3.45%) Informatica
6 3 (3.45%) Oracle
6 3 (3.45%) Talend
7 2 (2.30%) Adobe
7 2 (2.30%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.15%) Braze
8 1 (1.15%) Cisco
8 1 (1.15%) Google
8 1 (1.15%) IFS
8 1 (1.15%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.15%) Planon