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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 50 80
Rank change year-on-year +8 +30 -5
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 84 46 29
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.76% 3.76% 1.60%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.89% 22.66% 16.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 24 12
10th Percentile £363 £473 £303
25th Percentile £450 £547 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £602 £513
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +17.46% -6.82%
75th Percentile £618 £675 £572
90th Percentile £718 - £641
England median daily rate £500 £524 £550
% change year-on-year -4.58% -4.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 8
10th Percentile - £18.01 -
25th Percentile - £18.97 £15.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £26.52 £15.79
Median % change year-on-year +50.83% +67.95% -63.81%
75th Percentile - £31.64 £18.15
90th Percentile - - £24.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £31.82 £21.00
% change year-on-year +25.71% +51.52% -32.26%

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 367 203 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 16.41% 16.58% 9.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 97 88
10th Percentile £363 £220 £243
25th Percentile £450 £341 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £410
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +21.95% -13.68%
75th Percentile £625 £580 £525
90th Percentile £713 £660 £570
England median daily rate £510 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +2.00% -3.85% -2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 40 37
10th Percentile £12.91 £13.50 £14.35
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.92 £14.99
Median hourly rate £22.72 £31.57 £15.98
Median % change year-on-year -28.02% +97.53% -12.20%
75th Percentile £66.88 £87.63 £25.00
90th Percentile £74.78 £91.50 £65.25
England median hourly rate £36.07 £31.76 £25.00
% change year-on-year +13.57% +27.04% -41.18%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +1 28 £475 -26.92% 9
Cambridgeshire +20 20 £590 -2.32% 5
Suffolk - 12 £590 -
Essex -11 10 £375 +19.05% 1
Norfolk -11 8 £450 -14.29% 3
Bedfordshire -12 6 £450 -25.00%
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 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.19%) Apache
2 1 (1.19%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.19%) Mendix
Applications
1 11 (13.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.19%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 20 (23.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (7.14%) Sage X3
3 5 (5.95%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (2.38%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 17 (20.24%) Power Platform
2 13 (15.48%) Azure
3 7 (8.33%) AWS
4 6 (7.14%) GCP
5 5 (5.95%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (5.95%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (5.95%) GitHub
6 4 (4.76%) Collibra
6 4 (4.76%) SaaS
7 3 (3.57%) dbt
7 3 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.38%) OCI
8 2 (2.38%) PaaS
8 2 (2.38%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.19%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (1.19%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.19%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
9 1 (1.19%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.24%) Power BI
2 15 (17.86%) Metadata
3 10 (11.90%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (9.52%) Power Query
4 8 (9.52%) SQL Server
5 6 (7.14%) ZAP BI
6 5 (5.95%) SAP Data Services
7 4 (4.76%) Data Lake
8 3 (3.57%) Tableau
9 2 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (2.38%) BigQuery
9 2 (2.38%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (1.19%) Big Data
10 1 (1.19%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.19%) MySQL
10 1 (1.19%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (9.52%) Git
2 7 (8.33%) JIRA
3 3 (3.57%) Newman
3 3 (3.57%) Postman
4 1 (1.19%) Hudson
4 1 (1.19%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (28.57%) Manufacturing
1 24 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 17 (20.24%) Finance
3 9 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.57%) Marketing
5 2 (2.38%) Automotive
6 1 (1.19%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 24 (28.57%) Analyst
2 17 (20.24%) Logistics Analyst
2 17 (20.24%) SAP Analyst
2 17 (20.24%) SAP Logistics Analyst
3 13 (15.48%) Lead
4 12 (14.29%) Data Engineer
5 9 (10.71%) Developer
6 6 (7.14%) Architect
6 6 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 6 (7.14%) Consultant
6 6 (7.14%) Data Migration Lead
6 6 (7.14%) Power BI Developer
6 6 (7.14%) Report Developer
6 6 (7.14%) SQL BI Developer
6 6 (7.14%) SQL Developer
7 5 (5.95%) Data Consultant
7 5 (5.95%) Head of AI
7 5 (5.95%) Migration Consultant
7 5 (5.95%) Salesforce Analyst
7 5 (5.95%) SAP Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.14%) REST
2 5 (5.95%) JSON
2 5 (5.95%) Kafka
2 5 (5.95%) XML
3 3 (3.57%) Pandas
3 3 (3.57%) pytest
3 3 (3.57%) XML Schema
4 2 (2.38%) ADO
4 2 (2.38%) Great Expectations
4 2 (2.38%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (2.38%) XSD
5 1 (1.19%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.19%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.14%) Data Structures
1 6 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 5 (5.95%) AI Agents
3 3 (3.57%) CMDB
3 3 (3.57%) Life Science
3 3 (3.57%) Marketing Technology
3 3 (3.57%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.57%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.38%) Digital Media
4 2 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.19%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.19%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.19%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (47.62%) Migration
2 31 (36.90%) Validation
3 30 (35.71%) ETL
4 28 (33.33%) Analytics
5 27 (32.14%) Data Governance
5 27 (32.14%) Data Modelling
6 23 (27.38%) Business Intelligence
7 21 (25.00%) Data Migration
7 21 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
8 20 (23.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 17 (20.24%) Data Validation
9 17 (20.24%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 17 (20.24%) Logistics
10 13 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (15.48%) Data Cleansing
11 12 (14.29%) CRM
11 12 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (13.10%) AI
13 10 (11.90%) Data Architecture
13 10 (11.90%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 32 (38.10%) SQL
2 13 (15.48%) Python
3 10 (11.90%) VBA
4 7 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.19%) Java
6 1 (1.19%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.57%) Degree
3 2 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.38%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.19%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.19%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.19%) PhD
4 1 (1.19%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.52%) GDPR
2 4 (4.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (3.57%) HIPAA
3 3 (3.57%) QA
4 2 (2.38%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.19%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.19%) Grafana
1 1 (1.19%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.19%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (30.95%) SAP
2 17 (20.24%) Microsoft
3 14 (16.67%) Databricks
4 9 (10.71%) Salesforce
5 6 (7.14%) Sage
6 5 (5.95%) ServiceNow
7 4 (4.76%) Informatica
7 4 (4.76%) Oracle
7 4 (4.76%) Talend
8 3 (3.57%) Atlassian
9 2 (2.38%) Adobe
9 2 (2.38%) Dynatrace
9 2 (2.38%) Google
10 1 (1.19%) Braze
10 1 (1.19%) IFS
10 1 (1.19%) MuleSoft