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 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 50 99 114
Rank change year-on-year +49 +15 +44
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,904 720 671
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.18% 2.61% 2.01%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.96% 15.15% 15.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,244 468 484
10th Percentile £353 £348 £347
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £713
90th Percentile £688 £740 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 18 8
10th Percentile £16.17 £20.18 £21.03
25th Percentile £21.49 £27.24 £23.31
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.56 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.87% -26.01% +18.25%
75th Percentile £68.44 £44.37 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £61.24 £56.85
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £33.11 £23.00
% change year-on-year +20.81% +43.96% -41.65%

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 7,947 4,753 4,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.43% 17.20% 13.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,079 3,100 2,753
10th Percentile £340 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.05%
75th Percentile £609 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.57% -3.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 534 225 273
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £10.97
25th Percentile £18.77 £18.87 £14.41
Median hourly rate £38.72 £31.64 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.38% +15.05% -28.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £62.56
90th Percentile £80.00 £86.65 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £38.72 £28.18 £26.68
% change year-on-year +37.40% +5.62% -27.40%

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 14 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 14 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 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
London +61 1,005 £525 - 991
North of England +32 250 £475 +5.56% 209
Midlands +33 235 £479 -4.20% 108
South East +22 199 £475 -2.56% 227
West Midlands +30 185 £476 -8.20% 85
North West +21 136 £500 +8.70% 124
Yorkshire +16 94 £458 +4.57% 53
South West +2 91 £500 +17.65% 97
East of England +17 86 £565 -6.53% 75
East Midlands +10 49 £484 +7.97% 23
North East -25 21 £520 -15.10% 34
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
1 110 (5.78%) Apache Airflow
2 98 (5.15%) Apache Spark
3 76 (3.99%) Apache
4 58 (3.05%) SAS
5 52 (2.73%) Confluence
6 39 (2.05%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
8 10 (0.53%) CMS
8 10 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
9 9 (0.47%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.16%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.11%) HCL Notes
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.053%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.053%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.053%) Luigi
13 1 (0.053%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 136 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (1.31%) Spreadsheet
3 19 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (0.79%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.26%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.11%) CATIA
8 1 (0.053%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.053%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.053%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 65 (3.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 11 (0.58%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.53%) NEC Housing
6 9 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.42%) Sage X3
7 8 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 8 (0.42%) Workday HCM
8 7 (0.37%) iTrent
8 7 (0.37%) SAP MDG
9 6 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.26%) BambooHR
10 5 (0.26%) Loan IQ
11 4 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
11 4 (0.21%) Finacle
11 4 (0.21%) Maximo
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
11 4 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 505 (26.52%) Azure
2 410 (21.53%) Power Platform
3 334 (17.54%) AWS
4 161 (8.46%) Azure Data Factory
5 150 (7.88%) GCP
6 149 (7.83%) Snowflake
7 124 (6.51%) dbt
8 109 (5.72%) Azure DevOps
9 92 (4.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 88 (4.62%) Amazon S3
11 85 (4.46%) Serverless
12 73 (3.83%) AWS Lambda
12 73 (3.83%) GitHub
13 50 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
14 49 (2.57%) Collibra
15 41 (2.15%) Power Automate
16 38 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
16 38 (2.00%) SaaS
17 34 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
18 28 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.47%) Firewall
2 5 (0.26%) VPN
3 3 (0.16%) HTTP
4 2 (0.11%) DNS
4 2 (0.11%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.11%) SNMP
4 2 (0.11%) SSL
4 2 (0.11%) WAN
4 2 (0.11%) Wireless
5 1 (0.053%) 4G
5 1 (0.053%) 5G
5 1 (0.053%) Broadband
5 1 (0.053%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.053%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.053%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 387 (20.33%) Power BI
2 322 (16.91%) Data Warehouse
3 263 (13.81%) Metadata
4 166 (8.72%) Data Lake
5 113 (5.93%) Tableau
6 95 (4.99%) SQL Server
7 85 (4.46%) BigQuery
8 80 (4.20%) Delta Lake
9 74 (3.89%) Relational Database
10 72 (3.78%) Amazon Redshift
11 55 (2.89%) Amazon Athena
12 52 (2.73%) Big Data
13 49 (2.57%) NoSQL
14 42 (2.21%) Snowflake Schema
15 38 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 36 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
16 36 (1.89%) Power Query
17 34 (1.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 34 (1.79%) Star Schema
18 33 (1.73%) Looker
Development Applications
1 118 (6.20%) JIRA
2 115 (6.04%) Git
3 52 (2.73%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.79%) GitLab
5 16 (0.84%) ERwin
6 11 (0.58%) ER Studio
7 9 (0.47%) Eclipse
7 9 (0.47%) MLflow
7 9 (0.47%) Postman
7 9 (0.47%) Selenium
8 7 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (0.32%) Ant
9 6 (0.32%) PowerDesigner
9 6 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.26%) Newman
10 5 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
11 4 (0.21%) LSMW
11 4 (0.21%) Terragrunt
11 4 (0.21%) Visual Website Optimizer
11 4 (0.21%) Zephyr
General
1 583 (30.62%) Social Skills
2 568 (29.83%) Finance
3 449 (23.58%) Analytical Skills
4 220 (11.55%) Public Sector
5 153 (8.04%) Banking
6 58 (3.05%) Marketing
7 56 (2.94%) Retail
8 52 (2.73%) Manufacturing
9 48 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
10 43 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
11 38 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
12 36 (1.89%) Local Government
13 34 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 30 (1.58%) Military
15 28 (1.47%) Legal
16 25 (1.31%) Law
16 25 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
17 20 (1.05%) Automotive
17 20 (1.05%) Front Office
18 17 (0.89%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 439 (23.06%) Data Engineer
2 385 (20.22%) Analyst
3 218 (11.45%) Senior
4 217 (11.40%) Lead
5 216 (11.34%) Data Analyst
6 179 (9.40%) Architect
7 117 (6.14%) Data Architect
8 109 (5.72%) Business Analyst
9 108 (5.67%) Developer
10 92 (4.83%) Senior Data Engineer
11 68 (3.57%) Consultant
12 60 (3.15%) Data Manager
13 58 (3.05%) Administrator
14 44 (2.31%) Data Business Analyst
15 39 (2.05%) Data Consultant
16 36 (1.89%) Python Engineer
17 35 (1.84%) Lead Data Engineer
18 32 (1.68%) AWS Engineer
18 32 (1.68%) Data Migration Lead
19 30 (1.58%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (8.25%) PySpark
2 87 (4.57%) Kafka
3 48 (2.52%) REST
4 44 (2.31%) JSON
5 31 (1.63%) Pandas
6 29 (1.52%) Oracle Fusion
7 26 (1.37%) Great Expectations
8 21 (1.10%) Web Services
8 21 (1.10%) XML
9 20 (1.05%) Middleware
10 16 (0.84%) HTML
11 15 (0.79%) SOAP
12 14 (0.74%) .NET
13 12 (0.63%) OpenTelemetry
14 11 (0.58%) pytest
15 10 (0.53%) SailPoint
16 9 (0.47%) CSS
16 9 (0.47%) SAML
16 9 (0.47%) scikit-learn
17 8 (0.42%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 164 (8.61%) Data Structures
2 116 (6.09%) Onboarding
3 102 (5.36%) Legacy Systems
4 101 (5.30%) Cloud Native
5 88 (4.62%) Product Ownership
6 78 (4.10%) Management Information System
7 58 (3.05%) CMDB
8 45 (2.36%) Reference Data
9 37 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
10 28 (1.47%) AI Agents
10 28 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
11 24 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
11 24 (1.26%) NHS
11 24 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
11 24 (1.26%) Taxonomies
12 21 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
13 16 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
14 15 (0.79%) Marketing Technology
14 15 (0.79%) SCADA
15 14 (0.74%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.05%) Unix
2 19 (1.00%) Linux
3 12 (0.63%) Windows
4 1 (0.053%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.053%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 759 (39.86%) Data Modelling
2 689 (36.19%) Analytics
3 659 (34.61%) Data Governance
4 552 (28.99%) Data Pipeline
5 547 (28.73%) ETL
6 499 (26.21%) Business Intelligence
7 485 (25.47%) Validation
8 456 (23.95%) Migration
9 417 (21.90%) Data Engineering
10 408 (21.43%) Agile
11 383 (20.12%) Stakeholder Management
12 363 (19.07%) CI/CD
13 358 (18.80%) Decision-Making
13 358 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
14 329 (17.28%) AI
15 302 (15.86%) Continuous Improvement
16 288 (15.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 286 (15.02%) Data Migration
18 269 (14.13%) Data Architecture
19 257 (13.50%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 842 (44.22%) SQL
2 513 (26.94%) Python
3 64 (3.36%) Java
4 57 (2.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 38 (2.00%) Scala
6 37 (1.94%) PL/SQL
7 35 (1.84%) T-SQL
8 33 (1.73%) PowerShell
9 24 (1.26%) Shell Script
10 23 (1.21%) JavaScript
11 20 (1.05%) C#
12 16 (0.84%) VBA
13 14 (0.74%) R
14 12 (0.63%) Bash
14 12 (0.63%) Bicep
15 10 (0.53%) Apex Code
16 9 (0.47%) TypeScript
17 8 (0.42%) SOQL
18 6 (0.32%) Cypher
18 6 (0.32%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 319 (16.75%) Security Cleared
2 245 (12.87%) SC Cleared
3 117 (6.14%) Degree
4 55 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (1.68%) Azure Certification
6 29 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (1.31%) DV Cleared
8 22 (1.16%) AWS Certification
9 19 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (0.89%) Master's Degree
11 14 (0.74%) PMI Certification
12 10 (0.53%) PMP
13 8 (0.42%) ACCA
13 8 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.42%) CIMA
14 6 (0.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 6 (0.32%) SnowPro
15 5 (0.26%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (7.51%) QA
2 135 (7.09%) GDPR
3 33 (1.73%) Accessibility
4 28 (1.47%) PMO
5 24 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.68%) IFRS
6 13 (0.68%) Solvency II
7 12 (0.63%) GRC
7 12 (0.63%) SLA
8 11 (0.58%) NIST
9 10 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.47%) COREP
10 9 (0.47%) FINREP
11 8 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.37%) NCSC
13 6 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 5 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 4 (0.21%) BS7666
15 4 (0.21%) IFRS 17
15 4 (0.21%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 86 (4.52%) Docker
2 20 (1.05%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.26%) etcd
4 2 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.053%) RACF
5 1 (0.053%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 123 (6.46%) Terraform
2 91 (4.78%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.68%) Grafana
4 11 (0.58%) Ansible
4 11 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 9 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.37%) Control-M
7 5 (0.26%) Fluentd
7 5 (0.26%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.21%) Kibana
8 4 (0.21%) SCCM
9 1 (0.053%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.053%) Istio
9 1 (0.053%) logstash
9 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.053%) Nessus
9 1 (0.053%) Nexpose
9 1 (0.053%) Puppet
9 1 (0.053%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.053%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 323 (16.96%) Microsoft
2 284 (14.92%) Databricks
3 161 (8.46%) SAP
4 141 (7.41%) Oracle
5 83 (4.36%) Informatica
6 81 (4.25%) ServiceNow
7 76 (3.99%) Salesforce
8 56 (2.94%) Google
9 35 (1.84%) Talend
10 29 (1.52%) Workday
11 27 (1.42%) Denodo
12 26 (1.37%) Adobe
13 23 (1.21%) IBM
14 21 (1.10%) Palantir
15 20 (1.05%) Alteryx
16 19 (1.00%) Splunk
17 17 (0.89%) Foundry
18 13 (0.68%) Sage
19 12 (0.63%) Bloomberg
20 11 (0.58%) NEC