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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 96 115
Rank change year-on-year +50 +19 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 2,104 765 673
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.55% 2.74% 2.09%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.35% 15.53% 15.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,338 493 452
10th Percentile £352 £334 £338
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £713
90th Percentile £725 £750 £850
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 13 9
10th Percentile £16.33 - £21.25
25th Percentile £18.69 £18.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £35.14 £34.98 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.44% -6.72% +5.25%
75th Percentile £57.94 £44.75 £97.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £74.75 -
UK median hourly rate £29.98 £40.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year -25.05% +10.34% +2.65%

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 8,300 4,926 4,215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.94% 17.65% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,170 3,209 2,442
10th Percentile £325 £300 £296
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -2.44% -5.09%
75th Percentile £618 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £713 £750
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +0.10% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 655 244 197
10th Percentile £13.95 £15.13 £13.16
25th Percentile £16.60 £17.69 £18.13
Median hourly rate £32.40 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% -7.14% -2.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.49 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.29 £82.10 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.27 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +0.90% +9.09% -22.82%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +47 1,148 £534 -2.95% 1,622
North of England +51 285 £463 +1.37% 435
Midlands +31 220 £458 -8.45% 220
South East +28 210 £500 +11.11% 313
West Midlands +32 175 £470 -10.05% 154
North West +26 145 £525 +16.67% 263
South West +32 118 £500 +5.26% 144
Yorkshire +41 115 £450 -10.00% 119
East of England +24 77 £465 -23.08% 162
East Midlands +12 44 £430 -3.80% 66
North East -19 26 £520 +18.86% 54
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
1 137 (6.51%) Apache Airflow
2 101 (4.80%) Apache Spark
3 84 (3.99%) Apache
4 65 (3.09%) Confluence
5 48 (2.28%) SAS
6 46 (2.19%) SharePoint
7 14 (0.67%) CMS
8 13 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
9 11 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.33%) ArcGIS
10 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.19%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.095%) HCL Notes
13 2 (0.095%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.048%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.048%) GeoServer
14 1 (0.048%) nginx
14 1 (0.048%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 163 (7.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (1.62%) 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 5 (0.24%) 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 67 (3.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.81%) Aladdin
4 15 (0.71%) NetSuite
5 12 (0.57%) Workday HCM
6 11 (0.52%) NEC Housing
7 10 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
7 10 (0.48%) SAP MDG
7 10 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 9 (0.43%) 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 Assets
12 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
12 5 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
12 5 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 535 (25.43%) Azure
2 451 (21.44%) Power Platform
3 382 (18.16%) AWS
4 190 (9.03%) GCP
5 184 (8.75%) Snowflake
6 139 (6.61%) Azure Data Factory
7 137 (6.51%) dbt
8 106 (5.04%) Amazon S3
8 106 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
9 105 (4.99%) Serverless
10 86 (4.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 83 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
12 81 (3.85%) GitHub
13 71 (3.37%) Microsoft Purview
14 57 (2.71%) Collibra
15 52 (2.47%) SaaS
16 49 (2.33%) Power Automate
17 48 (2.28%) Dynamics 365
18 47 (2.23%) 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%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.048%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.048%) LAN
5 1 (0.048%) MPLS
5 1 (0.048%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.048%) OSPF
5 1 (0.048%) SMS
5 1 (0.048%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.048%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 422 (20.06%) Power BI
2 348 (16.54%) Metadata
3 327 (15.54%) Data Warehouse
4 180 (8.56%) Data Lake
5 114 (5.42%) Tableau
6 101 (4.80%) BigQuery
7 87 (4.13%) Delta Lake
7 87 (4.13%) SQL Server
8 85 (4.04%) Amazon Redshift
9 80 (3.80%) Relational Database
10 60 (2.85%) Amazon Athena
11 54 (2.57%) NoSQL
12 52 (2.47%) Power Query
13 42 (2.00%) Big Data
14 39 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
15 35 (1.66%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 35 (1.66%) Looker
16 32 (1.52%) Star Schema
17 30 (1.43%) Semantic Layer
18 29 (1.38%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 138 (6.56%) Git
2 132 (6.27%) JIRA
3 35 (1.66%) 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 (31.80%) Social Skills
2 650 (30.89%) Finance
3 496 (23.57%) Analytical Skills
4 259 (12.31%) Public Sector
5 198 (9.41%) Banking
6 75 (3.56%) Retail
7 68 (3.23%) Manufacturing
8 56 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
9 55 (2.61%) Marketing
10 53 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
11 46 (2.19%) Local Government
12 45 (2.14%) Military
13 44 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
14 43 (2.04%) Legal
15 33 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 29 (1.38%) Front Office
17 25 (1.19%) Billing
17 25 (1.19%) Investment Banking
17 25 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
18 23 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 447 (21.25%) Analyst
2 435 (20.67%) Data Engineer
3 260 (12.36%) Senior
4 254 (12.07%) Lead
5 230 (10.93%) Data Analyst
6 229 (10.88%) Architect
7 148 (7.03%) Data Architect
8 124 (5.89%) Business Analyst
9 121 (5.75%) Senior Data Engineer
10 115 (5.47%) Developer
11 103 (4.90%) Consultant
12 75 (3.56%) Administrator
13 61 (2.90%) 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 (1.85%) Lead Data Engineer
18 34 (1.62%) AWS Engineer
18 34 (1.62%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (8.46%) PySpark
2 140 (6.65%) Terraform
3 82 (3.90%) Kafka
4 60 (2.85%) REST
5 39 (1.85%) JSON
6 36 (1.71%) Oracle Fusion
7 25 (1.19%) Web Services
8 24 (1.14%) Middleware
8 24 (1.14%) XML
9 23 (1.09%) Pandas
10 21 (1.00%) SOAP
11 18 (0.86%) 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
1 200 (9.51%) Data Structures
2 129 (6.13%) Onboarding
3 120 (5.70%) Cloud Native
4 111 (5.28%) Management Information System
5 106 (5.04%) Product Ownership
6 97 (4.61%) Legacy Systems
7 63 (2.99%) CMDB
8 52 (2.47%) Reference Data
9 45 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
10 44 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
11 38 (1.81%) AI Agents
12 36 (1.71%) Taxonomies
13 26 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
13 26 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
14 23 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
15 22 (1.05%) Algorithms
16 21 (1.00%) NHS
17 20 (0.95%) Life Science
18 15 (0.71%) Distributed Computing
18 15 (0.71%) Low-Code
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
1 838 (39.83%) Data Modelling
2 761 (36.17%) Analytics
3 736 (34.98%) Data Governance
4 582 (27.66%) Stakeholder Management
5 574 (27.28%) Data Pipeline
6 569 (27.04%) Validation
7 534 (25.38%) Business Intelligence
8 521 (24.76%) ETL
9 504 (23.95%) Migration
10 491 (23.34%) Data Engineering
11 438 (20.82%) Agile
12 436 (20.72%) AI
13 413 (19.63%) Decision-Making
14 400 (19.01%) CI/CD
15 380 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
16 342 (16.25%) Continuous Improvement
17 320 (15.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 300 (14.26%) Data Architecture
19 296 (14.07%) Data Migration
20 283 (13.45%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 913 (43.39%) SQL
2 571 (27.14%) Python
3 66 (3.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 61 (2.90%) Java
5 41 (1.95%) PL/SQL
6 32 (1.52%) Shell Script
7 31 (1.47%) JavaScript
8 29 (1.38%) PowerShell
9 28 (1.33%) Scala
10 26 (1.24%) R
10 26 (1.24%) T-SQL
11 23 (1.09%) C#
12 19 (0.90%) Bash
13 16 (0.76%) Bicep
14 10 (0.48%) 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%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 343 (16.30%) Security Cleared
2 269 (12.79%) SC Cleared
3 133 (6.32%) Degree
4 49 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 35 (1.66%) DV Cleared
6 30 (1.43%) AWS Certification
7 29 (1.38%) Azure Certification
8 25 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (1.09%) PMI Certification
10 20 (0.95%) Master's Degree
10 20 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (0.90%) PMP
12 14 (0.67%) ACCA
12 14 (0.67%) 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%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (6.99%) QA
2 125 (5.94%) GDPR
3 42 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 41 (1.95%) 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%) Actionable Recommendations
8 16 (0.76%) IFRS
9 14 (0.67%) NCSC
10 10 (0.48%) Solvency II
11 9 (0.43%) Basel III
12 8 (0.38%) IFRS 17
13 7 (0.33%) COBIT
13 7 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.29%) IFRS 9
15 5 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 5 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 70 (3.33%) 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 69 (3.28%) 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%) 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 (19.96%) Microsoft
2 319 (15.16%) Databricks
3 154 (7.32%) Oracle
3 154 (7.32%) SAP
4 103 (4.90%) ServiceNow
5 85 (4.04%) Informatica
6 82 (3.90%) Google
7 70 (3.33%) Salesforce
8 34 (1.62%) Workday
9 27 (1.28%) Adobe
10 26 (1.24%) IBM
11 22 (1.05%) Alteryx
11 22 (1.05%) Palantir
12 21 (1.00%) Denodo
12 21 (1.00%) Splunk
12 21 (1.00%) Talend
13 16 (0.76%) Foundry
14 12 (0.57%) Ariba
14 12 (0.57%) Bloomberg
15 11 (0.52%) NEC