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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 98 115
Rank change year-on-year +52 +17 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 2,100 765 682
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.54% 2.72% 2.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.35% 15.50% 15.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,333 492 459
10th Percentile £353 £335 £340
25th Percentile £425 £413 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% -7.73% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £713
90th Percentile £725 £750 £850
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +3.00% -9.09% +0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 13 10
10th Percentile £16.03 - £21.25
25th Percentile £18.69 £18.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £35.14 £34.98 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.44% -20.50% +23.49%
75th Percentile £60.75 £44.75 £86.06
90th Percentile £72.54 £74.75 £97.50
UK median hourly rate £29.98 £40.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -25.05% +6.67% +6.19%

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 8,284 4,935 4,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.92% 17.56% 13.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,162 3,203 2,471
10th Percentile £325 £300 £295
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% -2.44% -5.09%
75th Percentile £618 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £716 £751
UK median daily rate £507 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.35% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 650 244 201
10th Percentile £13.92 £15.13 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.60 £17.69 £18.03
Median hourly rate £32.20 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -7.14% -9.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.49 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.14 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +0.45% +9.09% -22.68%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +49 1,148 £531 -3.41% 1,877
North of England +52 286 £463 - 488
Midlands +32 217 £458 -8.45% 241
South East +30 209 £500 +11.11% 324
West Midlands +28 171 £465 -11.00% 167
North West +24 145 £525 +16.67% 299
South West +35 118 £500 +5.26% 162
Yorkshire +38 116 £450 -10.00% 137
East of England +18 76 £465 -23.08% 156
East Midlands +4 45 £450 +0.67% 74
North East -20 26 £520 +18.86% 52
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
1 136 (6.48%) Apache Airflow
2 99 (4.71%) Apache Spark
3 83 (3.95%) Apache
4 64 (3.05%) Confluence
5 45 (2.14%) SAS
5 45 (2.14%) SharePoint
6 14 (0.67%) CMS
7 13 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
8 11 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
9 7 (0.33%) ArcGIS
9 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.19%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.095%) HCL Notes
12 2 (0.095%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.048%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.048%) Luigi
13 1 (0.048%) nginx
13 1 (0.048%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 161 (7.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
4 15 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.62%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.29%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.095%) CATIA
9 1 (0.048%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.048%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.048%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.048%) Trello
9 1 (0.048%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 66 (3.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.76%) Aladdin
4 15 (0.71%) NetSuite
5 12 (0.57%) Workday HCM
6 11 (0.52%) NEC Housing
7 10 (0.48%) SAP MDG
7 10 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 9 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
9 8 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
9 8 (0.38%) SAP HR
10 7 (0.33%) Integrated Workplace Management System
11 6 (0.29%) Maximo
11 6 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
11 6 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
11 6 (0.29%) Teamcenter
12 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
12 5 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
12 5 (0.24%) SAP MM
12 5 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 531 (25.29%) Azure
2 452 (21.52%) Power Platform
3 382 (18.19%) AWS
4 190 (9.05%) GCP
5 181 (8.62%) Snowflake
6 137 (6.52%) Azure Data Factory
6 137 (6.52%) dbt
7 108 (5.14%) Amazon S3
8 106 (5.05%) Serverless
9 105 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
10 85 (4.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 84 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
12 81 (3.86%) GitHub
13 71 (3.38%) Microsoft Purview
14 55 (2.62%) Collibra
15 51 (2.43%) SaaS
16 50 (2.38%) Power Automate
17 47 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
18 46 (2.19%) Azure Databricks
19 45 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.29%) Broadband
1 6 (0.29%) Firewall
1 6 (0.29%) SD-WAN
1 6 (0.29%) WAN
2 5 (0.24%) SNMP
2 5 (0.24%) Wireless
3 3 (0.14%) DNS
3 3 (0.14%) HTTP
3 3 (0.14%) Network Security
4 2 (0.095%) SSL
5 1 (0.048%) BGP
5 1 (0.048%) LAN
5 1 (0.048%) MPLS
5 1 (0.048%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.048%) OSPF
5 1 (0.048%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.048%) SMS
5 1 (0.048%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.048%) VLAN
5 1 (0.048%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 423 (20.14%) Power BI
2 348 (16.57%) Metadata
3 328 (15.62%) Data Warehouse
4 178 (8.48%) Data Lake
5 114 (5.43%) Tableau
6 100 (4.76%) BigQuery
7 85 (4.05%) Amazon Redshift
7 85 (4.05%) Delta Lake
7 85 (4.05%) SQL Server
8 80 (3.81%) Relational Database
9 62 (2.95%) Amazon Athena
10 53 (2.52%) NoSQL
11 50 (2.38%) Power Query
12 42 (2.00%) Big Data
13 38 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
14 35 (1.67%) Looker
15 34 (1.62%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 31 (1.48%) Star Schema
17 30 (1.43%) Semantic Layer
18 28 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 134 (6.38%) Git
2 131 (6.24%) JIRA
3 33 (1.57%) Jenkins
4 32 (1.52%) GitLab
5 12 (0.57%) Postman
6 10 (0.48%) ERwin
7 9 (0.43%) Eclipse
7 9 (0.43%) MLflow
8 8 (0.38%) Selenium
8 8 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
9 7 (0.33%) ER Studio
9 7 (0.33%) Newman
10 6 (0.29%) Ant
10 6 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.24%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.24%) RStudio
11 5 (0.24%) Terragrunt
12 4 (0.19%) Claude Code
12 4 (0.19%) TestRail
12 4 (0.19%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 669 (31.86%) Social Skills
2 648 (30.86%) Finance
3 499 (23.76%) Analytical Skills
4 260 (12.38%) Public Sector
5 196 (9.33%) Banking
6 75 (3.57%) Retail
7 69 (3.29%) Manufacturing
8 55 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
9 54 (2.57%) Marketing
10 53 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
11 47 (2.24%) Local Government
12 46 (2.19%) Military
13 44 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
14 43 (2.05%) Legal
15 34 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 29 (1.38%) Front Office
17 25 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
18 24 (1.14%) Billing
18 24 (1.14%) Investment Banking
19 23 (1.10%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 445 (21.19%) Analyst
2 434 (20.67%) Data Engineer
3 261 (12.43%) Senior
4 254 (12.10%) Lead
5 228 (10.86%) Architect
6 227 (10.81%) Data Analyst
7 148 (7.05%) Data Architect
8 124 (5.90%) Business Analyst
9 121 (5.76%) Senior Data Engineer
10 116 (5.52%) Developer
11 102 (4.86%) Consultant
12 74 (3.52%) Administrator
13 63 (3.00%) Data Manager
14 54 (2.57%) Data Business Analyst
15 53 (2.52%) Data Consultant
16 40 (1.90%) Databricks Engineer
16 40 (1.90%) Senior Analyst
17 39 (1.86%) Lead Data Engineer
18 35 (1.67%) AWS Engineer
19 34 (1.62%) Databricks Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (8.48%) PySpark
2 141 (6.71%) Terraform
3 80 (3.81%) Kafka
4 60 (2.86%) REST
5 39 (1.86%) JSON
6 36 (1.71%) Oracle Fusion
7 25 (1.19%) Web Services
8 24 (1.14%) XML
9 23 (1.10%) Middleware
9 23 (1.10%) Pandas
10 21 (1.00%) SOAP
11 19 (0.90%) Great Expectations
12 17 (0.81%) HTML
13 16 (0.76%) .NET
13 16 (0.76%) OAuth
14 15 (0.71%) OpenID
14 15 (0.71%) pytest
15 11 (0.52%) OAuth2
15 11 (0.52%) Playwright
15 11 (0.52%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 198 (9.43%) Data Structures
2 130 (6.19%) Onboarding
3 119 (5.67%) Cloud Native
4 107 (5.10%) Management Information System
4 107 (5.10%) Product Ownership
5 96 (4.57%) Legacy Systems
6 63 (3.00%) CMDB
7 50 (2.38%) Reference Data
8 44 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
9 43 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
10 39 (1.86%) AI Agents
11 34 (1.62%) Taxonomies
12 27 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
13 26 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
14 23 (1.10%) Algorithms
14 23 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
15 21 (1.00%) NHS
16 20 (0.95%) Life Science
17 15 (0.71%) Low-Code
18 14 (0.67%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 28 (1.33%) Unix
2 20 (0.95%) Linux
3 11 (0.52%) Windows
4 1 (0.048%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.048%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 834 (39.71%) Data Modelling
2 763 (36.33%) Analytics
3 732 (34.86%) Data Governance
4 580 (27.62%) Stakeholder Management
5 570 (27.14%) Data Pipeline
6 569 (27.10%) Validation
7 534 (25.43%) Business Intelligence
8 518 (24.67%) ETL
9 500 (23.81%) Migration
10 488 (23.24%) Data Engineering
11 438 (20.86%) Agile
11 438 (20.86%) AI
12 418 (19.90%) Decision-Making
13 397 (18.90%) CI/CD
14 378 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
15 342 (16.29%) Continuous Improvement
16 322 (15.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 303 (14.43%) Data Architecture
18 293 (13.95%) Data Migration
19 285 (13.57%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 909 (43.29%) SQL
2 570 (27.14%) Python
3 65 (3.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 62 (2.95%) Java
5 42 (2.00%) PL/SQL
6 32 (1.52%) Shell Script
7 31 (1.48%) JavaScript
8 30 (1.43%) Scala
9 29 (1.38%) PowerShell
10 26 (1.24%) R
10 26 (1.24%) T-SQL
11 23 (1.10%) C#
12 19 (0.90%) Bash
13 16 (0.76%) Bicep
14 11 (0.52%) TypeScript
15 9 (0.43%) Apex Code
16 8 (0.38%) Korn
16 8 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.38%) SOQL
17 6 (0.29%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 340 (16.19%) Security Cleared
2 266 (12.67%) SC Cleared
3 134 (6.38%) Degree
4 49 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (1.62%) DV Cleared
6 29 (1.38%) Azure Certification
7 27 (1.29%) AWS Certification
8 26 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (1.10%) PMI Certification
10 20 (0.95%) Master's Degree
10 20 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (0.90%) PMP
12 13 (0.62%) ACCA
12 13 (0.62%) CIMA
13 9 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (0.43%) CISSP
14 8 (0.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.38%) CISM
14 8 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.33%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (7.00%) QA
2 120 (5.71%) GDPR
3 43 (2.05%) Accessibility
4 40 (1.90%) PMO
5 22 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.00%) GRC
6 21 (1.00%) NIST
7 20 (0.95%) SLA
8 16 (0.76%) IFRS
9 15 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (0.67%) NCSC
11 10 (0.48%) Solvency II
12 9 (0.43%) Basel III
13 8 (0.38%) IFRS 17
14 7 (0.33%) COBIT
14 7 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.29%) IFRS 9
16 5 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 5 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 5 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 67 (3.19%) Docker
2 21 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.095%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.048%) HDFS
4 1 (0.048%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 66 (3.14%) Kubernetes
2 15 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
3 14 (0.67%) Grafana
4 13 (0.62%) Ansible
5 8 (0.38%) Control-M
5 8 (0.38%) Kibana
6 5 (0.24%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.19%) SCCM
8 3 (0.14%) logstash
9 2 (0.095%) Argo
9 2 (0.095%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.048%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.048%) Istio
10 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.048%) Nexpose
10 1 (0.048%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.048%) Puppet
10 1 (0.048%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 420 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 315 (15.00%) Databricks
3 155 (7.38%) SAP
4 152 (7.24%) Oracle
5 102 (4.86%) ServiceNow
6 85 (4.05%) Informatica
7 83 (3.95%) Google
8 70 (3.33%) Salesforce
9 34 (1.62%) Workday
10 27 (1.29%) Adobe
11 26 (1.24%) IBM
12 22 (1.05%) Alteryx
12 22 (1.05%) Palantir
13 21 (1.00%) Splunk
14 19 (0.90%) Denodo
14 19 (0.90%) Talend
15 16 (0.76%) Foundry
16 12 (0.57%) Ariba
16 12 (0.57%) Bloomberg
17 11 (0.52%) NEC