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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 53 86
Rank change year-on-year +17 +33 -11
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 86 39 17
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.96% 3.09% 1.06%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.96% 18.57% 12.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 16 9
10th Percentile £363 £525 £285
25th Percentile £413 £569 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £605 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.53% +9.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £604 £656 £600
90th Percentile £717 £675 £646
England median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 1
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.42% +31.83% -44.99%
England median hourly rate £40.00 £32.56 £44.00
% change year-on-year +22.87% -26.01% +18.25%

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 359 210 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 16.53% 16.63% 8.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 94 66
10th Percentile £353 £208 £254
25th Percentile £425 £345 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £405
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% +23.46% -14.74%
75th Percentile £600 £579 £547
90th Percentile £675 £650 £555
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 42 24
10th Percentile £12.90 £13.50 £14.41
25th Percentile £15.25 £17.03 £14.96
Median hourly rate £27.96 £31.64 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +29.14% +37.37%
75th Percentile £67.60 £88.00 £53.44
90th Percentile £80.00 £91.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £38.72 £31.64 £27.50
% change year-on-year +22.38% +15.05% -28.50%

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 14 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
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 14 August 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 14 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 +7 34 £450 -30.77% 17
Cambridgeshire +18 18 £578 -4.47% 10
Essex -13 11 £375 - 15
Suffolk - 11 £589 - 2
Norfolk -9 8 £450 -14.29% 4
Bedfordshire -3 4 £450 -30.77% 4
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 (5.81%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.16%) Apache
2 1 (1.16%) Mendix
2 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (10.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.16%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 20 (23.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (5.81%) Sage X3
3 4 (4.65%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 17 (19.77%) Power Platform
2 13 (15.12%) Azure
3 11 (12.79%) AWS
4 6 (6.98%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (6.98%) GitHub
5 5 (5.81%) GCP
6 4 (4.65%) Collibra
6 4 (4.65%) dbt
6 4 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (3.49%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.33%) SaaS
9 1 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.16%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (1.16%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (1.16%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
9 1 (1.16%) Azure Storage
9 1 (1.16%) Figma
9 1 (1.16%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (19.77%) Power BI
2 15 (17.44%) Metadata
3 8 (9.30%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (8.14%) Power Query
4 7 (8.14%) SQL Server
5 5 (5.81%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.81%) SAP Data Services
5 5 (5.81%) ZAP BI
6 3 (3.49%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.49%) Tableau
7 2 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.33%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.33%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.16%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (1.16%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (10.47%) Git
2 5 (5.81%) JIRA
3 4 (4.65%) Newman
3 4 (4.65%) Postman
4 1 (1.16%) Hudson
4 1 (1.16%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (27.91%) Manufacturing
2 22 (25.58%) Social Skills
3 16 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (17.44%) Finance
5 6 (6.98%) Law
6 5 (5.81%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.65%) Marketing
8 3 (3.49%) Automotive
9 1 (1.16%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.16%) Local Government
9 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (26.74%) Analyst
2 17 (19.77%) Logistics Analyst
2 17 (19.77%) SAP Analyst
2 17 (19.77%) SAP Logistics Analyst
3 16 (18.60%) Data Engineer
4 14 (16.28%) Lead
5 8 (9.30%) Developer
6 6 (6.98%) Consultant
6 6 (6.98%) Data Migration Lead
7 5 (5.81%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 5 (5.81%) Data Consultant
7 5 (5.81%) Head of AI
7 5 (5.81%) Migration Consultant
7 5 (5.81%) Power BI Developer
7 5 (5.81%) Report Developer
7 5 (5.81%) SAP Consultant
7 5 (5.81%) SAP Data Consultant
7 5 (5.81%) SAP Data Migration Consultant
7 5 (5.81%) SAP Migration Consultant
7 5 (5.81%) SQL BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.98%) REST
1 6 (6.98%) XML
2 5 (5.81%) JSON
3 4 (4.65%) Kafka
3 4 (4.65%) Pandas
3 4 (4.65%) pytest
3 4 (4.65%) XML Schema
4 3 (3.49%) Great Expectations
5 2 (2.33%) ADO
5 2 (2.33%) PySpark
5 2 (2.33%) XSD
6 1 (1.16%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.98%) Onboarding
2 5 (5.81%) AI Agents
3 4 (4.65%) CMDB
3 4 (4.65%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.49%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.49%) Life Science
4 3 (3.49%) Marketing Technology
4 3 (3.49%) Reference Data
5 2 (2.33%) Digital Media
5 2 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.33%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.16%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.16%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.16%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.16%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (50.00%) Migration
2 34 (39.53%) ETL
3 33 (38.37%) Validation
4 27 (31.40%) Analytics
4 27 (31.40%) Data Modelling
5 25 (29.07%) Data Governance
6 24 (27.91%) Data Migration
6 24 (27.91%) Data Pipeline
7 22 (25.58%) Business Intelligence
7 22 (25.58%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 19 (22.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 17 (19.77%) Data Validation
9 17 (19.77%) Logistics
10 13 (15.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (12.79%) AI
11 11 (12.79%) CRM
11 11 (12.79%) Data Cleansing
11 11 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (12.79%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (11.63%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 39 (45.35%) SQL
2 21 (24.42%) Python
3 7 (8.14%) VBA
4 6 (6.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (4.65%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.16%) Java
6 1 (1.16%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.98%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.33%) Degree
4 1 (1.16%) PhD
4 1 (1.16%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.14%) GDPR
1 7 (8.14%) QA
2 4 (4.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (3.49%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.33%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.16%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.16%) Grafana
1 1 (1.16%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.16%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (30.23%) SAP
2 15 (17.44%) Databricks
3 13 (15.12%) Microsoft
4 7 (8.14%) Salesforce
5 6 (6.98%) ServiceNow
6 5 (5.81%) Sage
7 3 (3.49%) Informatica
7 3 (3.49%) Talend
8 2 (2.33%) Adobe
8 2 (2.33%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.16%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.16%) Braze
9 1 (1.16%) Cisco
9 1 (1.16%) Google
9 1 (1.16%) IFS
9 1 (1.16%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.16%) Oracle
9 1 (1.16%) Planon