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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 106 115
Rank change year-on-year +57 +9 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,890 689 698
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.15% 2.50% 2.07%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.87% 14.66% 15.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,233 450 500
10th Percentile £351 £337 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £590 £638 £713
90th Percentile £685 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 18 9
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.08 £23.30
25th Percentile £21.13 £21.65 £24.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.42% -20.90% +29.03%
75th Percentile £65.17 £34.85 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £61.24 £55.15
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £30.75
% change year-on-year +26.42% +2.89% -12.67%

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 7,918 4,700 4,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.40% 17.03% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,070 3,070 2,833
10th Percentile £340 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £607 £622 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £501
% change year-on-year - -0.17% -4.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 533 216 290
10th Percentile £14.05 £15.12 £10.95
25th Percentile £19.46 £18.22 £14.41
Median hourly rate £38.72 £30.75 £27.09
Median % change year-on-year +25.94% +13.49% -35.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.06 £60.94
90th Percentile £82.18 £85.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.35 £25.00
% change year-on-year +46.25% +9.40% -35.42%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +66 1,000 £525 -2.78% 609
North of England +26 244 £475 +5.56% 182
Midlands +36 228 £471 +1.89% 125
South East +28 190 £465 -0.53% 185
West Midlands +34 182 £475 -5.00% 92
North West +11 132 £475 +3.26% 99
South West +21 101 £500 +17.65% 72
East of England +12 88 £565 -6.46% 55
Yorkshire +10 88 £455 +7.06% 52
East Midlands +8 46 £450 +0.33% 33
North East -17 25 £520 -15.10% 33
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
1 106 (5.61%) Apache Airflow
2 99 (5.24%) Apache Spark
3 79 (4.18%) Apache
4 55 (2.91%) Confluence
4 55 (2.91%) SAS
5 35 (1.85%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
7 10 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
8 9 (0.48%) ArcGIS
8 9 (0.48%) CMS
9 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.16%) Appian
10 3 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.11%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.053%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.053%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.053%) Mendix
Applications
1 139 (7.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
3 18 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.74%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.11%) CATIA
8 1 (0.053%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.053%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 66 (3.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.63%) NEC Housing
3 12 (0.63%) NetSuite
4 9 (0.48%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.48%) Sage X3
4 9 (0.48%) Workday HCM
5 8 (0.42%) SAP MDG
6 7 (0.37%) iTrent
7 6 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 5 (0.26%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.26%) Loan IQ
8 5 (0.26%) Maximo
8 5 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
9 4 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
9 4 (0.21%) Finacle
9 4 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.21%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 500 (26.46%) Azure
2 418 (22.12%) Power Platform
3 325 (17.20%) AWS
4 159 (8.41%) Azure Data Factory
5 149 (7.88%) GCP
6 146 (7.72%) Snowflake
7 127 (6.72%) dbt
8 105 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
9 93 (4.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 92 (4.87%) Amazon S3
11 84 (4.44%) Serverless
12 77 (4.07%) GitHub
13 72 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
14 53 (2.80%) Collibra
15 43 (2.28%) Microsoft Purview
16 40 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
17 39 (2.06%) Power Automate
18 38 (2.01%) SaaS
19 33 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
20 26 (1.38%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.48%) Firewall
2 5 (0.26%) VPN
3 2 (0.11%) HTTP
3 2 (0.11%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.11%) SNMP
3 2 (0.11%) WAN
3 2 (0.11%) Wireless
4 1 (0.053%) 4G
4 1 (0.053%) 5G
4 1 (0.053%) Broadband
4 1 (0.053%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.053%) DNS
4 1 (0.053%) SSH
4 1 (0.053%) SSL
4 1 (0.053%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 396 (20.95%) Power BI
2 315 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 242 (12.80%) Metadata
4 169 (8.94%) Data Lake
5 120 (6.35%) Tableau
6 91 (4.81%) SQL Server
7 86 (4.55%) BigQuery
8 80 (4.23%) Delta Lake
9 73 (3.86%) Amazon Redshift
10 68 (3.60%) Relational Database
11 57 (3.02%) Amazon Athena
12 54 (2.86%) Big Data
13 43 (2.28%) Snowflake Schema
14 41 (2.17%) NoSQL
15 38 (2.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 37 (1.96%) Power Query
17 33 (1.75%) Looker
17 33 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
18 32 (1.69%) Star Schema
19 30 (1.59%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 121 (6.40%) JIRA
2 117 (6.19%) Git
3 50 (2.65%) Jenkins
4 36 (1.90%) GitLab
5 19 (1.01%) ERwin
6 12 (0.63%) ER Studio
7 11 (0.58%) MLflow
8 9 (0.48%) Eclipse
8 9 (0.48%) Postman
9 8 (0.42%) PowerDesigner
10 7 (0.37%) Selenium
10 7 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.32%) Ant
11 6 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.26%) Newman
12 5 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
13 4 (0.21%) LSMW
13 4 (0.21%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.21%) Zephyr
14 3 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 566 (29.95%) Finance
2 561 (29.68%) Social Skills
3 453 (23.97%) Analytical Skills
4 213 (11.27%) Public Sector
5 146 (7.72%) Banking
6 56 (2.96%) Marketing
7 53 (2.80%) Retail
8 48 (2.54%) Manufacturing
9 45 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
10 42 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
11 33 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 32 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
13 30 (1.59%) Local Government
14 28 (1.48%) Military
15 27 (1.43%) Legal
16 20 (1.06%) Law
17 19 (1.01%) Financial Institution
17 19 (1.01%) Front Office
17 19 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
18 18 (0.95%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 434 (22.96%) Data Engineer
2 394 (20.85%) Analyst
3 220 (11.64%) Senior
4 219 (11.59%) Data Analyst
5 208 (11.01%) Lead
6 176 (9.31%) Architect
7 115 (6.08%) Data Architect
8 112 (5.93%) Business Analyst
9 106 (5.61%) Developer
10 91 (4.81%) Senior Data Engineer
11 67 (3.54%) Consultant
12 58 (3.07%) Data Manager
13 51 (2.70%) Administrator
14 46 (2.43%) Data Business Analyst
15 34 (1.80%) Azure Engineer
15 34 (1.80%) Data Consultant
16 33 (1.75%) Python Engineer
17 31 (1.64%) Lead Data Engineer
17 31 (1.64%) Project Manager
18 30 (1.59%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (7.72%) PySpark
2 92 (4.87%) Kafka
3 47 (2.49%) REST
4 44 (2.33%) JSON
5 40 (2.12%) Pandas
6 26 (1.38%) Great Expectations
6 26 (1.38%) Oracle Fusion
7 24 (1.27%) Web Services
8 20 (1.06%) Middleware
9 18 (0.95%) XML
10 17 (0.90%) scikit-learn
11 15 (0.79%) HTML
12 14 (0.74%) SOAP
13 13 (0.69%) .NET
13 13 (0.69%) GeoJSON
13 13 (0.69%) OpenTelemetry
14 10 (0.53%) Apache Beam
14 10 (0.53%) OAuth
14 10 (0.53%) pytest
14 10 (0.53%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 166 (8.78%) Data Structures
2 108 (5.71%) Onboarding
3 106 (5.61%) Legacy Systems
4 101 (5.34%) Cloud Native
5 88 (4.66%) Product Ownership
6 69 (3.65%) Management Information System
7 54 (2.86%) CMDB
8 42 (2.22%) Reference Data
9 32 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
10 31 (1.64%) AI Agents
11 30 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
12 25 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
12 25 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
12 25 (1.32%) Taxonomies
13 23 (1.22%) NHS
14 20 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
15 19 (1.01%) Clustering
16 16 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
16 16 (0.85%) Life Science
17 15 (0.79%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.06%) Unix
2 19 (1.01%) Linux
3 12 (0.63%) Windows
4 1 (0.053%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.053%) VMS
4 1 (0.053%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 749 (39.63%) Data Modelling
2 690 (36.51%) Analytics
3 634 (33.54%) Data Governance
4 545 (28.84%) Data Pipeline
5 534 (28.25%) ETL
6 506 (26.77%) Business Intelligence
7 469 (24.81%) Validation
8 435 (23.02%) Migration
9 415 (21.96%) Data Engineering
10 398 (21.06%) Agile
11 355 (18.78%) CI/CD
11 355 (18.78%) Decision-Making
12 352 (18.62%) Stakeholder Management
13 340 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
14 327 (17.30%) AI
15 289 (15.29%) Continuous Improvement
16 279 (14.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 271 (14.34%) Data Migration
18 265 (14.02%) Data Architecture
19 252 (13.33%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 839 (44.39%) SQL
2 518 (27.41%) Python
3 66 (3.49%) Java
4 55 (2.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 42 (2.22%) Scala
6 38 (2.01%) PL/SQL
7 34 (1.80%) PowerShell
7 34 (1.80%) T-SQL
8 25 (1.32%) Shell Script
9 21 (1.11%) C#
10 19 (1.01%) JavaScript
11 18 (0.95%) VBA
12 16 (0.85%) R
13 12 (0.63%) Bash
13 12 (0.63%) Bicep
14 11 (0.58%) TypeScript
15 10 (0.53%) Apex Code
16 7 (0.37%) SOQL
17 6 (0.32%) Search Processing Language
17 6 (0.32%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 323 (17.09%) Security Cleared
2 246 (13.02%) SC Cleared
3 115 (6.08%) Degree
4 63 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (1.64%) Azure Certification
6 27 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (1.22%) DV Cleared
8 20 (1.06%) Master's Degree
9 18 (0.95%) AWS Certification
9 18 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (0.69%) PMI Certification
11 9 (0.48%) PMP
12 8 (0.42%) ACCA
12 8 (0.42%) CIMA
13 6 (0.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 6 (0.32%) SnowPro
14 5 (0.26%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.26%) PhD
15 4 (0.21%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (7.30%) GDPR
2 135 (7.14%) QA
3 35 (1.85%) Accessibility
4 33 (1.75%) PMO
5 23 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (0.85%) Solvency II
7 15 (0.79%) SLA
8 12 (0.63%) IFRS
8 12 (0.63%) NIST
9 10 (0.53%) COREP
9 10 (0.53%) FINREP
9 10 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.48%) GRC
11 8 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.37%) NCSC
13 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.21%) BS7666
14 4 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.21%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.21%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 82 (4.34%) Docker
2 20 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.26%) etcd
4 1 (0.053%) HDFS
4 1 (0.053%) RACF
4 1 (0.053%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.053%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 125 (6.61%) Terraform
2 87 (4.60%) Kubernetes
3 14 (0.74%) Grafana
4 11 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 10 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.48%) Ansible
7 5 (0.26%) Control-M
7 5 (0.26%) Fluentd
7 5 (0.26%) HP ALM
7 5 (0.26%) SCCM
8 4 (0.21%) Kibana
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
1 301 (15.93%) Microsoft
2 276 (14.60%) Databricks
3 161 (8.52%) SAP
4 132 (6.98%) Oracle
5 83 (4.39%) Informatica
6 77 (4.07%) Salesforce
7 75 (3.97%) ServiceNow
8 52 (2.75%) Google
9 37 (1.96%) Talend
10 30 (1.59%) Workday
11 24 (1.27%) Denodo
12 23 (1.22%) Adobe
13 22 (1.16%) Palantir
14 21 (1.11%) IBM
15 19 (1.01%) Alteryx
16 18 (0.95%) Foundry
16 18 (0.95%) Splunk
17 14 (0.74%) Sage
18 13 (0.69%) GoldenSource
18 13 (0.69%) NEC