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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 101 116
Rank change year-on-year +36 +15 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,411 614 730
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.57% 2.50% 1.97%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.00% 15.94% 13.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 970 427 505
10th Percentile £350 £325 £351
25th Percentile £413 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £591 £625 £675
90th Percentile £675 £725 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £508 £533
% change year-on-year -1.48% -4.78% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 19 30
10th Percentile £13.95 £18.22 £13.92
25th Percentile £17.48 £22.12 £15.39
Median hourly rate £30.75 £31.64 £22.56
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +40.26% +0.32%
75th Percentile £63.00 £34.73 £49.44
90th Percentile £82.48 £81.71 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £16.34
% change year-on-year +58.03% +93.69% -27.35%

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 6,718 3,851 5,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.98% 15.71% 14.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,368 2,476 3,356
10th Percentile £340 £269 £304
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £608 £627 £638
90th Percentile £702 £735 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 418 155 343
10th Percentile £14.02 £17.69 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.21 £12.92
Median hourly rate £30.58 £34.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +64.29% -50.59%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.58 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £31.86 £32.96 £20.50
% change year-on-year -3.34% +60.78% -48.49%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 21 April 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 +48 788 £525 - 287
North of England +15 179 £495 +10.00% 143
Midlands +16 156 £500 +5.26% 91
West Midlands +20 122 £500 -4.76% 54
South East +14 113 £450 -11.98% 133
North West +4 99 £498 +6.99% 78
South West +17 80 £500 -1.23% 65
East of England -22 56 £575 -4.17% 44
Yorkshire -38 56 £495 +80.00% 53
East Midlands -17 35 £450 +9.82% 37
North East - 24 £475 - 14
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
1 118 (8.36%) Apache Spark
2 77 (5.46%) Apache Airflow
3 56 (3.97%) Apache
4 44 (3.12%) SAS
5 34 (2.41%) Confluence
6 33 (2.34%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.64%) Appian
8 6 (0.43%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.28%) CMS
9 4 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.21%) Apache Synapse
10 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.21%) NetWeaver
11 2 (0.14%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.14%) Smallworld
12 1 (0.071%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.071%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.071%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 125 (8.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
4 18 (1.28%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.21%) Trello
7 1 (0.071%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 46 (3.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.85%) Loan IQ
2 12 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 10 (0.71%) iTrent
4 8 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.57%) NEC Housing
4 8 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.43%) Finacle
5 6 (0.43%) Sage X3
5 6 (0.43%) SAP MDG
5 6 (0.43%) SAP MM
5 6 (0.43%) SystmOne
6 5 (0.35%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.35%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.28%) SAP PM
8 3 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 443 (31.40%) Azure
2 370 (26.22%) Power Platform
3 256 (18.14%) AWS
4 191 (13.54%) Azure Data Factory
5 125 (8.86%) GCP
6 114 (8.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 97 (6.87%) Snowflake
8 92 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
9 91 (6.45%) dbt
10 79 (5.60%) Amazon S3
11 71 (5.03%) GitHub
12 61 (4.32%) Serverless
13 60 (4.25%) Collibra
14 42 (2.98%) AWS Lambda
15 35 (2.48%) Microsoft Purview
16 32 (2.27%) Power Automate
17 31 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
18 30 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
19 20 (1.42%) Amazon SQS
19 20 (1.42%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.35%) Firewall
1 5 (0.35%) VPN
2 3 (0.21%) HTTP
3 2 (0.14%) Broadband
3 2 (0.14%) DNS
3 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.14%) SSL
3 2 (0.14%) VoIP
4 1 (0.071%) 4G
4 1 (0.071%) 5G
4 1 (0.071%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 354 (25.09%) Power BI
2 258 (18.28%) Data Warehouse
3 204 (14.46%) Metadata
4 144 (10.21%) Data Lake
5 104 (7.37%) Tableau
6 97 (6.87%) SQL Server
7 77 (5.46%) Delta Lake
8 69 (4.89%) Azure SQL Database
9 64 (4.54%) BigQuery
10 53 (3.76%) NoSQL
10 53 (3.76%) Snowflake Schema
11 47 (3.33%) Big Data
11 47 (3.33%) Relational Database
12 46 (3.26%) Amazon Redshift
13 40 (2.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 38 (2.69%) Amazon Athena
15 29 (2.06%) OLAP
16 28 (1.98%) Star Schema
17 27 (1.91%) Pentaho
17 27 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 126 (8.93%) Git
2 100 (7.09%) JIRA
3 50 (3.54%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.42%) ERwin
5 18 (1.28%) GitLab
6 17 (1.20%) MLflow
7 14 (0.99%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.50%) ER Studio
9 6 (0.43%) Selenium
10 5 (0.35%) LSMW
10 5 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
11 4 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.21%) Robot Framework
12 3 (0.21%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.21%) Zephyr
13 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.14%) Postman
14 1 (0.071%) GCC
14 1 (0.071%) Hudson
14 1 (0.071%) SonarQube
General
1 459 (32.53%) Social Skills
2 418 (29.62%) Finance
3 333 (23.60%) Analytical Skills
4 157 (11.13%) Public Sector
5 111 (7.87%) Banking
6 42 (2.98%) Marketing
7 39 (2.76%) Retail
8 37 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
9 31 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 28 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
11 26 (1.84%) Legal
12 23 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
12 23 (1.63%) Local Government
13 20 (1.42%) Law
14 19 (1.35%) Military
15 18 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
16 17 (1.20%) Financial Institution
16 17 (1.20%) Manufacturing
17 13 (0.92%) Investment Banking
17 13 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 390 (27.64%) Data Engineer
2 287 (20.34%) Analyst
3 175 (12.40%) Data Analyst
4 160 (11.34%) Senior
5 128 (9.07%) Lead
6 126 (8.93%) Architect
7 87 (6.17%) Business Analyst
8 76 (5.39%) Data Architect
9 70 (4.96%) Developer
10 67 (4.75%) Senior Data Engineer
11 56 (3.97%) Azure Engineer
12 46 (3.26%) Azure Data Engineer
13 44 (3.12%) Data Manager
14 42 (2.98%) Consultant
15 36 (2.55%) Data Business Analyst
16 26 (1.84%) Project Manager
17 25 (1.77%) Data Migration Lead
18 24 (1.70%) AWS Engineer
18 24 (1.70%) Principal Engineer
19 23 (1.63%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (9.71%) PySpark
2 104 (7.37%) Kafka
3 44 (3.12%) Pandas
4 43 (3.05%) REST
5 31 (2.20%) Great Expectations
6 29 (2.06%) JSON
7 24 (1.70%) scikit-learn
8 19 (1.35%) NumPy
9 16 (1.13%) PyTorch
10 15 (1.06%) Middleware
10 15 (1.06%) Web Services
11 13 (0.92%) OAuth
11 13 (0.92%) pytest
11 13 (0.92%) TensorFlow
11 13 (0.92%) XML
12 12 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
12 12 (0.85%) YAML
13 11 (0.78%) Flask
13 11 (0.78%) GeoJSON
14 10 (0.71%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 113 (8.01%) Data Structures
2 103 (7.30%) Legacy Systems
3 75 (5.32%) Cloud Native
4 66 (4.68%) Onboarding
5 61 (4.32%) Management Information System
6 55 (3.90%) Product Ownership
7 43 (3.05%) CMDB
8 30 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
8 30 (2.13%) Reference Data
9 21 (1.49%) Clustering
9 21 (1.49%) NHS
10 20 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
12 15 (1.06%) AI Agents
13 14 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
13 14 (0.99%) Taxonomies
14 13 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
15 12 (0.85%) Fixed Income
15 12 (0.85%) Reinsurance
16 11 (0.78%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 10 (0.71%) Linux
1 10 (0.71%) Unix
2 9 (0.64%) Windows
3 1 (0.071%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 624 (44.22%) Data Modelling
2 542 (38.41%) Analytics
3 495 (35.08%) Data Governance
4 476 (33.73%) ETL
5 447 (31.68%) Business Intelligence
6 429 (30.40%) Data Pipeline
7 325 (23.03%) Data Engineering
8 320 (22.68%) Agile
9 310 (21.97%) Validation
10 304 (21.55%) Migration
11 303 (21.47%) Problem-Solving
12 274 (19.42%) CI/CD
13 273 (19.35%) Decision-Making
14 228 (16.16%) Data Architecture
15 219 (15.52%) AI
16 208 (14.74%) Stakeholder Management
17 205 (14.53%) Data Migration
18 193 (13.68%) DevOps
19 187 (13.25%) Continuous Improvement
20 180 (12.76%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 719 (50.96%) SQL
2 447 (31.68%) Python
3 63 (4.46%) Scala
4 46 (3.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 45 (3.19%) Java
6 36 (2.55%) T-SQL
7 30 (2.13%) PL/SQL
8 28 (1.98%) C#
9 22 (1.56%) R
10 20 (1.42%) PowerShell
11 17 (1.20%) VBA
12 16 (1.13%) JavaScript
13 14 (0.99%) Bicep
14 10 (0.71%) Shell Script
15 9 (0.64%) Bash
16 5 (0.35%) TypeScript
17 4 (0.28%) ABAP
17 4 (0.28%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
18 3 (0.21%) PHP
Qualifications
1 261 (18.50%) Security Cleared
2 199 (14.10%) SC Cleared
3 78 (5.53%) Degree
4 45 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (1.49%) Azure Certification
5 21 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (0.85%) AWS Certification
6 12 (0.85%) Master's Degree
7 9 (0.64%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.28%) ACCA
9 4 (0.28%) CIMA
9 4 (0.28%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.28%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.28%) PhD
9 4 (0.28%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.14%) AAT
10 2 (0.14%) CFA
10 2 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (8.43%) GDPR
2 84 (5.95%) QA
3 33 (2.34%) Accessibility
4 24 (1.70%) PMO
5 15 (1.06%) SLA
6 14 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (0.92%) Solvency II
8 10 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (0.64%) FINREP
10 8 (0.57%) IFRS
11 7 (0.50%) COREP
12 6 (0.43%) Basel III
12 6 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.35%) MiFID
14 4 (0.28%) BS7666
14 4 (0.28%) GRC
15 3 (0.21%) NIST
16 2 (0.14%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.14%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 70 (4.96%) Docker
2 6 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.35%) etcd
4 1 (0.071%) HDFS
4 1 (0.071%) RACF
4 1 (0.071%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 112 (7.94%) Terraform
2 77 (5.46%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.71%) Prometheus
4 9 (0.64%) Grafana
5 6 (0.43%) Ansible
6 5 (0.35%) Fluentd
6 5 (0.35%) HP ALM
6 5 (0.35%) Kibana
7 4 (0.28%) SCCM
8 3 (0.21%) logstash
9 1 (0.071%) Control-M
9 1 (0.071%) Istio
9 1 (0.071%) Nessus
9 1 (0.071%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.071%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 268 (18.99%) Databricks
2 228 (16.16%) Microsoft
3 114 (8.08%) SAP
4 102 (7.23%) Oracle
5 68 (4.82%) Informatica
6 67 (4.75%) Salesforce
7 61 (4.32%) ServiceNow
8 54 (3.83%) Google
9 44 (3.12%) Talend
10 29 (2.06%) Denodo
11 16 (1.13%) Workday
12 13 (0.92%) GoldenSource
12 13 (0.92%) IBM
13 12 (0.85%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.78%) Avaloq
15 10 (0.71%) Sparx
16 9 (0.64%) Adobe
16 9 (0.64%) Automation Anywhere
16 9 (0.64%) ESRI
16 9 (0.64%) Palantir