Data Quality Contract Job Trends in England

Data Quality
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Data Quality skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 100 114
Rank change year-on-year +51 +14 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,923 731 678
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.21% 2.63% 2.04%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.05% 15.31% 15.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 476 474
10th Percentile £350 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £713
90th Percentile £688 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 18 9
10th Percentile £16.23 £20.18 £21.10
25th Percentile £21.13 £27.24 £24.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.56 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.87% -35.53% +15.75%
75th Percentile £61.50 £44.37 £51.75
90th Percentile £75.75 £61.24 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £33.11 £24.00
% change year-on-year +20.81% +37.96% -44.99%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 7,997 4,776 4,379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.51% 17.22% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,086 3,129 2,705
10th Percentile £331 £285 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 550 229 255
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £10.95
25th Percentile £17.58 £18.50 £13.26
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £26.68
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% +18.59% -25.37%
75th Percentile £69.96 £63.75 £62.83
90th Percentile £80.00 £86.05 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +24.38% +16.00% -29.58%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Quality relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Data Quality job vacancy trend in England

Data Quality
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Quality.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in England over the 6 months to 24 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in England

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Quality.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Quality in England over the 6 months to 24 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Quality in England

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 24 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
London +55 1,021 £525 - 340
North of England +33 256 £463 +2.78% 162
Midlands +32 224 £458 -7.71% 99
South East +25 205 £500 - 203
West Midlands +32 177 £458 -11.72% 77
North West +16 141 £500 +5.26% 87
Yorkshire +23 96 £450 +2.86% 44
South West +6 94 £500 +17.65% 71
East of England +19 88 £565 -4.24% 50
East Midlands +12 46 £466 +3.79% 22
North East -24 20 £520 +18.86% 32
Data Quality
UK

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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
1 113 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
2 93 (4.84%) Apache Spark
3 71 (3.69%) Apache
4 54 (2.81%) Confluence
5 49 (2.55%) SAS
6 41 (2.13%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
8 11 (0.57%) CMS
9 10 (0.52%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.16%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.10%) HCL Notes
13 2 (0.10%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.052%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.052%) GeoServer
14 1 (0.052%) Luigi
14 1 (0.052%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 139 (7.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
3 19 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.78%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.10%) CATIA
9 1 (0.052%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.052%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.052%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 67 (3.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.62%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.52%) NEC Housing
6 9 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 8 (0.42%) Workday HCM
8 7 (0.36%) iTrent
8 7 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
8 7 (0.36%) SAP MDG
9 5 (0.26%) BambooHR
9 5 (0.26%) Maximo
9 5 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
9 5 (0.26%) Sage X3
10 4 (0.21%) Loan IQ
10 4 (0.21%) Shopify
10 4 (0.21%) Teamcenter
10 4 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
11 3 (0.16%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 509 (26.47%) Azure
2 415 (21.58%) Power Platform
3 346 (17.99%) AWS
4 157 (8.16%) Azure Data Factory
5 151 (7.85%) Snowflake
6 150 (7.80%) GCP
7 125 (6.50%) dbt
8 110 (5.72%) Azure DevOps
9 94 (4.89%) Serverless
10 93 (4.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 92 (4.78%) Amazon S3
12 78 (4.06%) AWS Lambda
13 73 (3.80%) GitHub
14 55 (2.86%) Collibra
14 55 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
15 44 (2.29%) SaaS
16 42 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
17 41 (2.13%) Power Automate
18 35 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
19 30 (1.56%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.47%) Firewall
2 5 (0.26%) VPN
3 3 (0.16%) HTTP
4 2 (0.10%) Broadband
4 2 (0.10%) DNS
4 2 (0.10%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.10%) SNMP
4 2 (0.10%) SSL
4 2 (0.10%) WAN
4 2 (0.10%) Wireless
5 1 (0.052%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.052%) Network Security
5 1 (0.052%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.052%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 394 (20.49%) Power BI
2 322 (16.74%) Data Warehouse
3 289 (15.03%) Metadata
4 166 (8.63%) Data Lake
5 115 (5.98%) Tableau
6 97 (5.04%) SQL Server
7 84 (4.37%) BigQuery
8 82 (4.26%) Delta Lake
9 79 (4.11%) Amazon Redshift
10 76 (3.95%) Relational Database
11 54 (2.81%) Amazon Athena
12 52 (2.70%) Big Data
13 49 (2.55%) NoSQL
14 41 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
15 37 (1.92%) Snowflake Schema
16 36 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 36 (1.87%) Star Schema
17 35 (1.82%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 34 (1.77%) Looker
19 30 (1.56%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 117 (6.08%) JIRA
2 103 (5.36%) Git
3 41 (2.13%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.77%) GitLab
5 15 (0.78%) ERwin
6 10 (0.52%) ER Studio
6 10 (0.52%) MLflow
6 10 (0.52%) Selenium
7 9 (0.47%) Eclipse
8 8 (0.42%) Postman
9 7 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.31%) Ant
10 6 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.26%) Newman
11 5 (0.26%) PowerDesigner
12 4 (0.21%) LSMW
12 4 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
12 4 (0.21%) Terragrunt
12 4 (0.21%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.21%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 599 (31.15%) Social Skills
2 577 (30.01%) Finance
3 451 (23.45%) Analytical Skills
4 229 (11.91%) Public Sector
5 157 (8.16%) Banking
6 61 (3.17%) Retail
7 54 (2.81%) Marketing
8 50 (2.60%) Manufacturing
9 48 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
10 46 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
11 41 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
12 39 (2.03%) Local Government
13 36 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 32 (1.66%) Legal
14 32 (1.66%) Military
15 27 (1.40%) Law
16 25 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
17 21 (1.09%) Automotive
18 18 (0.94%) Billing
18 18 (0.94%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 425 (22.10%) Data Engineer
2 395 (20.54%) Analyst
3 225 (11.70%) Lead
4 224 (11.65%) Senior
5 216 (11.23%) Data Analyst
6 198 (10.30%) Architect
7 129 (6.71%) Data Architect
8 106 (5.51%) Business Analyst
9 101 (5.25%) Developer
10 99 (5.15%) Senior Data Engineer
11 74 (3.85%) Consultant
12 60 (3.12%) Administrator
12 60 (3.12%) Data Manager
13 41 (2.13%) Data Consultant
14 40 (2.08%) Data Business Analyst
15 36 (1.87%) Lead Data Engineer
15 36 (1.87%) Python Engineer
16 31 (1.61%) Azure Engineer
17 30 (1.56%) AWS Engineer
17 30 (1.56%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (8.79%) PySpark
2 125 (6.50%) Terraform
3 87 (4.52%) Kafka
4 53 (2.76%) REST
5 43 (2.24%) JSON
6 30 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
7 28 (1.46%) Pandas
8 26 (1.35%) Great Expectations
9 21 (1.09%) Web Services
10 20 (1.04%) XML
11 19 (0.99%) Middleware
12 16 (0.83%) HTML
13 14 (0.73%) .NET
13 14 (0.73%) SOAP
14 12 (0.62%) OpenTelemetry
14 12 (0.62%) pytest
15 10 (0.52%) SailPoint
15 10 (0.52%) SAML
16 9 (0.47%) CSS
16 9 (0.47%) React
Miscellaneous
1 166 (8.63%) Data Structures
2 120 (6.24%) Onboarding
3 102 (5.30%) Cloud Native
4 100 (5.20%) Legacy Systems
5 92 (4.78%) Product Ownership
6 79 (4.11%) Management Information System
7 58 (3.02%) CMDB
8 46 (2.39%) Reference Data
9 36 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
10 27 (1.40%) AI Agents
10 27 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
11 26 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
12 24 (1.25%) Taxonomies
13 23 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
14 21 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
14 21 (1.09%) NHS
15 17 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
15 17 (0.88%) Life Science
16 16 (0.83%) SCADA
17 15 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.25%) Unix
2 20 (1.04%) Linux
3 13 (0.68%) Windows
4 1 (0.052%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.052%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 756 (39.31%) Data Modelling
2 684 (35.57%) Analytics
3 676 (35.15%) Data Governance
4 542 (28.19%) Data Pipeline
5 531 (27.61%) ETL
6 498 (25.90%) Business Intelligence
6 498 (25.90%) Validation
7 467 (24.28%) Migration
8 427 (22.20%) Data Engineering
9 422 (21.94%) Stakeholder Management
10 401 (20.85%) Agile
11 366 (19.03%) Decision-Making
12 360 (18.72%) CI/CD
13 353 (18.36%) Problem-Solving
14 343 (17.84%) AI
15 299 (15.55%) Continuous Improvement
16 284 (14.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 283 (14.72%) Data Migration
18 276 (14.35%) Data Architecture
19 263 (13.68%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 833 (43.32%) SQL
2 514 (26.73%) Python
3 63 (3.28%) Java
4 55 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 40 (2.08%) PL/SQL
6 34 (1.77%) T-SQL
7 33 (1.72%) PowerShell
7 33 (1.72%) Scala
8 28 (1.46%) Shell Script
9 24 (1.25%) JavaScript
10 20 (1.04%) C#
11 18 (0.94%) R
12 13 (0.68%) Bash
13 12 (0.62%) Bicep
14 11 (0.57%) VBA
15 9 (0.47%) Apex Code
16 8 (0.42%) SOQL
17 7 (0.36%) TypeScript
18 6 (0.31%) Go
18 6 (0.31%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 316 (16.43%) Security Cleared
2 240 (12.48%) SC Cleared
3 119 (6.19%) Degree
4 48 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (1.61%) Azure Certification
6 29 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (1.25%) AWS Certification
7 24 (1.25%) DV Cleared
8 19 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (0.83%) Master's Degree
10 14 (0.73%) PMI Certification
11 9 (0.47%) ACCA
11 9 (0.47%) CIMA
11 9 (0.47%) PMP
12 8 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 6 (0.31%) SnowPro
14 5 (0.26%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (7.44%) QA
2 134 (6.97%) GDPR
3 35 (1.82%) Accessibility
4 31 (1.61%) PMO
5 24 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.09%) SLA
7 15 (0.78%) NIST
8 14 (0.73%) GRC
8 14 (0.73%) IFRS
9 13 (0.68%) Solvency II
10 12 (0.62%) NCSC
11 9 (0.47%) COREP
11 9 (0.47%) FINREP
11 9 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 5 (0.26%) IFRS 17
13 5 (0.26%) IFRS 9
14 4 (0.21%) BS7666
System Software
1 76 (3.95%) Docker
2 20 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.26%) etcd
4 2 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.052%) RACF
5 1 (0.052%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 81 (4.21%) Kubernetes
2 13 (0.68%) Grafana
3 11 (0.57%) Ansible
3 11 (0.57%) Prometheus
4 10 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.42%) Control-M
6 5 (0.26%) Fluentd
6 5 (0.26%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.21%) SCCM
8 3 (0.16%) Kibana
9 1 (0.052%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.052%) Istio
9 1 (0.052%) logstash
9 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.052%) Nessus
9 1 (0.052%) Nexpose
9 1 (0.052%) Puppet
9 1 (0.052%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.052%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 336 (17.47%) Microsoft
2 288 (14.98%) Databricks
3 163 (8.48%) SAP
4 137 (7.12%) Oracle
5 86 (4.47%) Informatica
6 84 (4.37%) ServiceNow
7 72 (3.74%) Salesforce
8 56 (2.91%) Google
9 29 (1.51%) Workday
10 27 (1.40%) Talend
11 25 (1.30%) IBM
12 24 (1.25%) Adobe
13 22 (1.14%) Alteryx
14 21 (1.09%) Palantir
15 19 (0.99%) Denodo
15 19 (0.99%) Splunk
16 17 (0.88%) Foundry
17 11 (0.57%) Bloomberg
17 11 (0.57%) ESRI
17 11 (0.57%) NEC