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 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 108 114
Rank change year-on-year +44 +6 +42
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,345 602 762
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.53% 2.46% 2.02%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.34% 15.88% 14.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 917 425 524
10th Percentile £350 £313 £359
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £536
Median % change year-on-year - -6.63% -2.64%
75th Percentile £594 £625 £675
90th Percentile £688 £725 £761
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 19 33
10th Percentile £13.95 £18.22 £13.81
25th Percentile £17.48 £22.99 £15.39
Median hourly rate £19.44 £31.64 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year -38.57% +46.21% -3.76%
75th Percentile £55.31 £34.73 £49.08
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.71 £60.15
UK median hourly rate £31.00 £31.64 £18.67
% change year-on-year -2.02% +69.52% -16.99%

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 6,614 3,790 5,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.38% 15.50% 14.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,283 2,456 3,412
10th Percentile £340 £265 £306
25th Percentile £413 £390 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.09% -3.90% -
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £705 £735 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 391 161 338
10th Percentile £15.31 £17.13 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £13.25
Median hourly rate £28.55 £32.50 £22.32
Median % change year-on-year -12.15% +45.64% -46.23%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.40 £65.71
UK median hourly rate £30.58 £32.00 £21.64
% change year-on-year -4.44% +47.87% -44.51%

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 29 March 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 29 March 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 29 March 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 +50 766 £525 - 272
North of England +4 161 £495 +10.37% 142
Midlands +7 145 £500 +7.53% 89
West Midlands +15 116 £510 +1.90% 59
South East +14 106 £450 -13.96% 145
North West 0 85 £475 +4.40% 65
South West +16 70 £500 -1.23% 54
East of England -24 53 £570 -5.00% 42
Yorkshire -40 50 £500 +81.82% 63
East Midlands -16 30 £450 +9.82% 30
North East - 26 £500 - 16
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
1 117 (8.70%) Apache Spark
2 73 (5.43%) Apache Airflow
3 56 (4.16%) Apache
4 45 (3.35%) SAS
5 33 (2.45%) Confluence
6 31 (2.30%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.67%) Appian
8 6 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.37%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.30%) CMS
11 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.22%) NetWeaver
11 3 (0.22%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.15%) GeoServer
12 2 (0.15%) Smallworld
13 1 (0.074%) Jupyter
Applications
1 124 (9.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.41%) MS Visio
5 18 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
6 13 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.22%) Trello
8 1 (0.074%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 44 (3.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.89%) Loan IQ
3 11 (0.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.52%) iTrent
5 7 (0.52%) NEC Housing
6 6 (0.45%) Finacle
6 6 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.45%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.45%) SAP MDG
6 6 (0.45%) SAP MM
6 6 (0.45%) SystmOne
7 5 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
7 5 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.30%) Actimize
8 4 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.30%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.30%) SAP PM
9 3 (0.22%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 429 (31.90%) Azure
2 358 (26.62%) Power Platform
3 255 (18.96%) AWS
4 177 (13.16%) Azure Data Factory
5 124 (9.22%) GCP
6 110 (8.18%) Snowflake
7 105 (7.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 88 (6.54%) dbt
9 86 (6.39%) Azure DevOps
10 72 (5.35%) Amazon S3
11 68 (5.06%) GitHub
12 60 (4.46%) Collibra
13 58 (4.31%) Serverless
14 39 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
15 34 (2.53%) Microsoft Purview
16 30 (2.23%) Power Automate
17 29 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
18 27 (2.01%) AWS CloudFormation
18 27 (2.01%) SaaS
19 20 (1.49%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.37%) VPN
2 4 (0.30%) Firewall
3 2 (0.15%) Broadband
3 2 (0.15%) DNS
3 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.15%) SSL
3 2 (0.15%) VoIP
4 1 (0.074%) 4G
4 1 (0.074%) 5G
4 1 (0.074%) HTTP
4 1 (0.074%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 344 (25.58%) Power BI
2 257 (19.11%) Data Warehouse
3 193 (14.35%) Metadata
4 128 (9.52%) Data Lake
5 92 (6.84%) SQL Server
6 90 (6.69%) Tableau
7 70 (5.20%) Delta Lake
8 67 (4.98%) Azure SQL Database
9 57 (4.24%) BigQuery
10 50 (3.72%) Big Data
10 50 (3.72%) NoSQL
10 50 (3.72%) Snowflake Schema
11 47 (3.49%) Relational Database
12 43 (3.20%) Amazon Redshift
13 41 (3.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 31 (2.30%) Pentaho
15 30 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
15 30 (2.23%) Star Schema
16 28 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
17 27 (2.01%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 131 (9.74%) Git
2 100 (7.43%) JIRA
3 56 (4.16%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.49%) ERwin
5 19 (1.41%) GitLab
6 17 (1.26%) MLflow
7 13 (0.97%) PowerDesigner
8 6 (0.45%) ER Studio
9 5 (0.37%) LSMW
9 5 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
9 5 (0.37%) Selenium
10 3 (0.22%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.22%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.15%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.15%) DBeaver
11 2 (0.15%) Postman
11 2 (0.15%) Zephyr
12 1 (0.074%) GCC
12 1 (0.074%) Hudson
General
1 445 (33.09%) Social Skills
2 401 (29.81%) Finance
3 318 (23.64%) Analytical Skills
4 148 (11.00%) Public Sector
5 107 (7.96%) Banking
6 44 (3.27%) Marketing
7 36 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
8 33 (2.45%) Retail
9 28 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 27 (2.01%) Legal
11 25 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (1.34%) Manufacturing
13 18 (1.34%) Publishing
14 17 (1.26%) Law
14 17 (1.26%) Telecoms
15 16 (1.19%) Financial Institution
15 16 (1.19%) Local Government
16 15 (1.12%) Military
16 15 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 370 (27.51%) Data Engineer
2 278 (20.67%) Analyst
3 171 (12.71%) Data Analyst
4 138 (10.26%) Senior
5 137 (10.19%) Lead
6 125 (9.29%) Architect
7 86 (6.39%) Business Analyst
8 77 (5.72%) Data Architect
9 66 (4.91%) Developer
10 56 (4.16%) Senior Data Engineer
11 52 (3.87%) Azure Engineer
12 43 (3.20%) Azure Data Engineer
13 42 (3.12%) Consultant
14 41 (3.05%) Data Business Analyst
15 33 (2.45%) Data Manager
16 26 (1.93%) Data Modeller
17 24 (1.78%) Principal Engineer
18 23 (1.71%) Data Migration Lead
18 23 (1.71%) Project Manager
18 23 (1.71%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (9.59%) PySpark
2 108 (8.03%) Kafka
3 42 (3.12%) REST
4 41 (3.05%) Pandas
5 25 (1.86%) Great Expectations
6 22 (1.64%) NumPy
6 22 (1.64%) scikit-learn
7 21 (1.56%) JSON
8 15 (1.12%) Web Services
9 13 (0.97%) OAuth
9 13 (0.97%) pytest
9 13 (0.97%) PyTorch
9 13 (0.97%) TensorFlow
10 12 (0.89%) Middleware
10 12 (0.89%) XML
11 11 (0.82%) Flask
11 11 (0.82%) GeoJSON
11 11 (0.82%) Matplotlib
12 10 (0.74%) Oracle Fusion
12 10 (0.74%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 118 (8.77%) Data Structures
2 96 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 72 (5.35%) Cloud Native
4 58 (4.31%) Management Information System
4 58 (4.31%) Onboarding
5 47 (3.49%) Product Ownership
6 45 (3.35%) CMDB
7 35 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
8 31 (2.30%) Reference Data
9 21 (1.56%) NHS
10 20 (1.49%) Clustering
11 17 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
12 15 (1.12%) Taxonomies
13 12 (0.89%) Fixed Income
13 12 (0.89%) Reinsurance
14 11 (0.82%) AI Agents
14 11 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
14 11 (0.82%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 9 (0.67%) Linux
1 9 (0.67%) Unix
1 9 (0.67%) Windows
2 1 (0.074%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 609 (45.28%) Data Modelling
2 517 (38.44%) Analytics
3 479 (35.61%) Data Governance
4 475 (35.32%) ETL
5 446 (33.16%) Business Intelligence
6 397 (29.52%) Data Pipeline
7 316 (23.49%) Data Engineering
8 304 (22.60%) Problem-Solving
9 301 (22.38%) Agile
10 288 (21.41%) Validation
11 278 (20.67%) Migration
12 264 (19.63%) CI/CD
13 243 (18.07%) Decision-Making
14 225 (16.73%) Data Architecture
15 197 (14.65%) AI
15 197 (14.65%) Stakeholder Management
16 192 (14.28%) Data Migration
17 186 (13.83%) DevOps
18 182 (13.53%) Continuous Improvement
19 179 (13.31%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 698 (51.90%) SQL
2 432 (32.12%) Python
3 58 (4.31%) Scala
4 44 (3.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 39 (2.90%) Java
6 28 (2.08%) T-SQL
7 27 (2.01%) PL/SQL
8 26 (1.93%) C#
9 23 (1.71%) R
10 18 (1.34%) PowerShell
11 17 (1.26%) VBA
12 15 (1.12%) Bicep
13 14 (1.04%) JavaScript
14 10 (0.74%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.45%) Bash
16 4 (0.30%) ABAP
16 4 (0.30%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.30%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
16 4 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 251 (18.66%) Security Cleared
2 187 (13.90%) SC Cleared
3 71 (5.28%) Degree
4 43 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (1.26%) Azure Certification
7 13 (0.97%) AWS Certification
7 13 (0.97%) DV Cleared
8 12 (0.89%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.30%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.22%) ACCA
11 3 (0.22%) CIMA
11 3 (0.22%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.22%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.22%) PhD
12 2 (0.15%) AAT
12 2 (0.15%) CFA
12 2 (0.15%) PMP
12 2 (0.15%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (8.77%) GDPR
2 88 (6.54%) QA
3 35 (2.60%) Accessibility
4 24 (1.78%) PMO
5 14 (1.04%) Solvency II
6 13 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.89%) SLA
8 11 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 8 (0.59%) IFRS
11 7 (0.52%) FINREP
12 6 (0.45%) Basel III
12 6 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.37%) COREP
14 4 (0.30%) GRC
14 4 (0.30%) MiFID
15 3 (0.22%) BS7666
15 3 (0.22%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.22%) NIST
16 2 (0.15%) FATCA
System Software
1 72 (5.35%) Docker
2 6 (0.45%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.37%) etcd
4 1 (0.074%) HDFS
4 1 (0.074%) RACF
4 1 (0.074%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 101 (7.51%) Terraform
2 79 (5.87%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.74%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.37%) Ansible
4 5 (0.37%) Fluentd
4 5 (0.37%) Grafana
5 4 (0.30%) HP ALM
5 4 (0.30%) Kibana
5 4 (0.30%) SCCM
6 3 (0.22%) logstash
7 1 (0.074%) Control-M
7 1 (0.074%) Nessus
7 1 (0.074%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.074%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 258 (19.18%) Databricks
2 211 (15.69%) Microsoft
3 106 (7.88%) SAP
4 99 (7.36%) Oracle
5 73 (5.43%) Informatica
6 67 (4.98%) Salesforce
7 63 (4.68%) ServiceNow
8 57 (4.24%) Talend
9 53 (3.94%) Google
10 32 (2.38%) Denodo
11 12 (0.89%) OpenAI
11 12 (0.89%) Workday
12 11 (0.82%) GoldenSource
12 11 (0.82%) IBM
12 11 (0.82%) Palantir
13 10 (0.74%) Avaloq
14 9 (0.67%) Automation Anywhere
14 9 (0.67%) Foundry
14 9 (0.67%) Sparx
15 8 (0.59%) UiPath