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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 100 113
Rank change year-on-year +51 +13 +41
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,909 716 673
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.18% 2.59% 2.03%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.93% 15.05% 15.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,239 461 476
10th Percentile £350 £338 £343
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £713
90th Percentile £688 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 18 9
10th Percentile £16.20 £20.18 £21.10
25th Percentile £21.12 £27.24 £24.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.56 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.87% -35.53% +28.11%
75th Percentile £60.75 £44.37 £51.75
90th Percentile £76.00 £61.24 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £33.11 £24.00
% change year-on-year +20.81% +37.96% -35.50%

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 7,978 4,758 4,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.48% 17.24% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,097 3,106 2,717
10th Percentile £338 £285 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £610 £619 £638
90th Percentile £719 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 540 229 267
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.44 £18.50 £13.69
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% +15.05% -21.43%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £62.63
90th Percentile £80.00 £86.05 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £28.18 £25.77
% change year-on-year +28.00% +9.37% -26.39%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +58 1,012 £525 - 862
North of England +39 251 £475 +5.56% 256
Midlands +27 227 £458 -8.45% 126
South East +27 201 £475 -2.56% 263
West Midlands +28 176 £451 -13.11% 97
North West +26 136 £500 +6.38% 150
Yorkshire +19 96 £454 +3.71% 66
South West +13 93 £500 +17.65% 107
East of England +28 90 £565 -4.24% 89
East Midlands +9 50 £484 +7.61% 29
North East -21 20 £520 -15.10% 41
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
1 113 (5.92%) Apache Airflow
2 94 (4.92%) Apache Spark
3 73 (3.82%) Apache
4 54 (2.83%) Confluence
5 50 (2.62%) SAS
6 41 (2.15%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
8 11 (0.58%) CMS
8 11 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
9 10 (0.52%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.16%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.10%) HCL Notes
13 2 (0.10%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.052%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.052%) GeoServer
14 1 (0.052%) Luigi
14 1 (0.052%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 141 (7.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (1.26%) Spreadsheet
3 20 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (0.79%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.26%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.10%) CATIA
8 1 (0.052%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.052%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.052%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 65 (3.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 11 (0.58%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.52%) NEC Housing
6 9 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 8 (0.42%) Workday HCM
8 7 (0.37%) iTrent
8 7 (0.37%) Sage X3
8 7 (0.37%) SAP MDG
9 6 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.26%) BambooHR
10 5 (0.26%) Loan IQ
10 5 (0.26%) Maximo
11 4 (0.21%) Finacle
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
11 4 (0.21%) Shopify
11 4 (0.21%) Teamcenter
11 4 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 506 (26.51%) Azure
2 412 (21.58%) Power Platform
3 342 (17.92%) AWS
4 158 (8.28%) Azure Data Factory
5 150 (7.86%) GCP
5 150 (7.86%) Snowflake
6 121 (6.34%) dbt
7 110 (5.76%) Azure DevOps
8 91 (4.77%) Serverless
9 90 (4.71%) Amazon S3
9 90 (4.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 75 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
10 75 (3.93%) GitHub
11 53 (2.78%) Collibra
11 53 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
12 42 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
12 42 (2.20%) Power Automate
12 42 (2.20%) SaaS
13 35 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
14 31 (1.62%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.47%) Firewall
2 5 (0.26%) VPN
3 3 (0.16%) HTTP
4 2 (0.10%) Broadband
4 2 (0.10%) DNS
4 2 (0.10%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.10%) SNMP
4 2 (0.10%) SSL
4 2 (0.10%) WAN
4 2 (0.10%) Wireless
5 1 (0.052%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.052%) Network Security
5 1 (0.052%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.052%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 390 (20.43%) Power BI
2 321 (16.82%) Data Warehouse
3 277 (14.51%) Metadata
4 166 (8.70%) Data Lake
5 114 (5.97%) Tableau
6 95 (4.98%) SQL Server
7 84 (4.40%) BigQuery
8 83 (4.35%) Delta Lake
9 75 (3.93%) Amazon Redshift
10 73 (3.82%) Relational Database
11 52 (2.72%) Amazon Athena
12 50 (2.62%) Big Data
13 49 (2.57%) NoSQL
14 39 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
14 39 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
15 35 (1.83%) Power Query
16 34 (1.78%) Looker
16 34 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 34 (1.78%) Star Schema
17 33 (1.73%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 116 (6.08%) JIRA
2 106 (5.55%) Git
3 43 (2.25%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.73%) GitLab
5 15 (0.79%) ERwin
6 10 (0.52%) ER Studio
7 9 (0.47%) Eclipse
7 9 (0.47%) MLflow
7 9 (0.47%) Selenium
8 8 (0.42%) Postman
9 7 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.31%) Ant
10 6 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.26%) Newman
11 5 (0.26%) PowerDesigner
12 4 (0.21%) LSMW
12 4 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
12 4 (0.21%) Terragrunt
12 4 (0.21%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.21%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 595 (31.17%) Social Skills
2 574 (30.07%) Finance
3 450 (23.57%) Analytical Skills
4 226 (11.84%) Public Sector
5 156 (8.17%) Banking
6 60 (3.14%) Retail
7 54 (2.83%) Marketing
8 51 (2.67%) Manufacturing
9 49 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
10 44 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
11 40 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
12 39 (2.04%) Local Government
13 36 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 32 (1.68%) Legal
15 31 (1.62%) Military
16 27 (1.41%) Law
16 27 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
17 21 (1.10%) Automotive
18 19 (1.00%) Front Office
19 17 (0.89%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 427 (22.37%) Data Engineer
2 394 (20.64%) Analyst
3 222 (11.63%) Senior
4 221 (11.58%) Lead
5 217 (11.37%) Data Analyst
6 189 (9.90%) Architect
7 122 (6.39%) Data Architect
8 107 (5.61%) Business Analyst
9 105 (5.50%) Developer
10 97 (5.08%) Senior Data Engineer
11 69 (3.61%) Consultant
12 60 (3.14%) Data Manager
13 58 (3.04%) Administrator
14 41 (2.15%) Data Business Analyst
15 39 (2.04%) Data Consultant
16 37 (1.94%) Python Engineer
17 35 (1.83%) Lead Data Engineer
18 31 (1.62%) Azure Engineer
18 31 (1.62%) Data Migration Lead
18 31 (1.62%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (8.64%) PySpark
2 125 (6.55%) Terraform
3 87 (4.56%) Kafka
4 52 (2.72%) REST
5 44 (2.30%) JSON
6 30 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
7 29 (1.52%) Pandas
8 25 (1.31%) Great Expectations
9 21 (1.10%) Web Services
9 21 (1.10%) XML
10 19 (1.00%) Middleware
11 16 (0.84%) HTML
12 14 (0.73%) .NET
12 14 (0.73%) SOAP
13 12 (0.63%) OpenTelemetry
14 11 (0.58%) pytest
15 10 (0.52%) SailPoint
15 10 (0.52%) SAML
16 9 (0.47%) CSS
17 8 (0.42%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 161 (8.43%) Data Structures
2 119 (6.23%) Onboarding
3 103 (5.40%) Cloud Native
4 99 (5.19%) Legacy Systems
5 89 (4.66%) Product Ownership
6 80 (4.19%) Management Information System
7 59 (3.09%) CMDB
8 44 (2.30%) Reference Data
9 37 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
10 28 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
11 27 (1.41%) AI Agents
12 26 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
13 24 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
13 24 (1.26%) Taxonomies
14 22 (1.15%) NHS
15 21 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
16 17 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
16 17 (0.89%) Life Science
17 16 (0.84%) SCADA
18 15 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.05%) Unix
2 19 (1.00%) Linux
3 13 (0.68%) Windows
4 1 (0.052%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.052%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 749 (39.24%) Data Modelling
2 691 (36.20%) Analytics
3 668 (34.99%) Data Governance
4 542 (28.39%) Data Pipeline
5 529 (27.71%) ETL
6 497 (26.03%) Business Intelligence
7 492 (25.77%) Validation
8 453 (23.73%) Migration
9 426 (22.32%) Data Engineering
10 411 (21.53%) Stakeholder Management
11 402 (21.06%) Agile
12 365 (19.12%) Decision-Making
13 357 (18.70%) CI/CD
14 353 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
15 340 (17.81%) AI
16 300 (15.72%) Continuous Improvement
17 287 (15.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 276 (14.46%) Data Migration
19 269 (14.09%) Data Architecture
20 259 (13.57%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 832 (43.58%) SQL
2 516 (27.03%) Python
3 64 (3.35%) Java
4 55 (2.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 39 (2.04%) PL/SQL
6 36 (1.89%) Scala
7 34 (1.78%) T-SQL
8 33 (1.73%) PowerShell
9 24 (1.26%) Shell Script
10 23 (1.20%) JavaScript
11 20 (1.05%) C#
12 17 (0.89%) R
13 14 (0.73%) VBA
14 13 (0.68%) Bash
15 12 (0.63%) Bicep
16 9 (0.47%) Apex Code
17 8 (0.42%) TypeScript
18 7 (0.37%) SOQL
19 6 (0.31%) Go
19 6 (0.31%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 312 (16.34%) Security Cleared
2 238 (12.47%) SC Cleared
3 118 (6.18%) Degree
4 52 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (1.68%) Azure Certification
6 29 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (1.31%) DV Cleared
8 22 (1.15%) AWS Certification
9 19 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (0.84%) Master's Degree
11 14 (0.73%) PMI Certification
12 10 (0.52%) PMP
13 8 (0.42%) ACCA
13 8 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.42%) CIMA
14 6 (0.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 6 (0.31%) SnowPro
15 5 (0.26%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (7.28%) QA
2 135 (7.07%) GDPR
3 35 (1.83%) Accessibility
4 30 (1.57%) PMO
5 24 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (0.84%) SLA
7 13 (0.68%) GRC
7 13 (0.68%) IFRS
7 13 (0.68%) Solvency II
8 11 (0.58%) NIST
9 9 (0.47%) COREP
9 9 (0.47%) FINREP
9 9 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.42%) NCSC
11 6 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 4 (0.21%) BS7666
12 4 (0.21%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.21%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 77 (4.03%) Docker
2 20 (1.05%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.26%) etcd
4 2 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.052%) RACF
5 1 (0.052%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 83 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 13 (0.68%) Grafana
3 11 (0.58%) Prometheus
4 10 (0.52%) Ansible
4 10 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.37%) Control-M
6 5 (0.26%) Fluentd
6 5 (0.26%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.21%) SCCM
8 3 (0.16%) Kibana
9 1 (0.052%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.052%) Istio
9 1 (0.052%) logstash
9 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.052%) Nessus
9 1 (0.052%) Nexpose
9 1 (0.052%) Puppet
9 1 (0.052%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.052%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 335 (17.55%) Microsoft
2 284 (14.88%) Databricks
3 161 (8.43%) SAP
4 134 (7.02%) Oracle
5 84 (4.40%) ServiceNow
6 82 (4.30%) Informatica
7 71 (3.72%) Salesforce
8 55 (2.88%) Google
9 29 (1.52%) Workday
10 27 (1.41%) Talend
11 24 (1.26%) Adobe
11 24 (1.26%) IBM
12 22 (1.15%) Denodo
12 22 (1.15%) Palantir
13 21 (1.10%) Alteryx
14 19 (1.00%) Splunk
15 18 (0.94%) Foundry
16 11 (0.58%) Bloomberg
16 11 (0.58%) ESRI
16 11 (0.58%) Sage