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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 114 120
Rank change year-on-year +29 +6 +54
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 954 620 715
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.02% 2.27% 1.99%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.54% 15.88% 13.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 663 411 497
10th Percentile £338 £306 £363
25th Percentile £413 £399 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +0.27%
75th Percentile £622 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +0.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 22
10th Percentile - £21.25 £20.07
25th Percentile £18.25 £23.75 £29.56
Median hourly rate £19.75 £35.00 £43.28
Median % change year-on-year -43.57% -19.13% +92.47%
75th Percentile £40.16 £95.63 £59.25
90th Percentile £68.73 £97.50 £64.95
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £43.28
% change year-on-year -20.00% -19.13% +92.47%

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 5,439 3,904 5,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.24% 14.27% 14.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,541 2,269 3,432
10th Percentile £313 £263 £320
25th Percentile £410 £381 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £546
Median % change year-on-year - -8.47% +4.05%
75th Percentile £614 £635 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 153 216
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.70 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.30 £17.67
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.21 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.75% -8.45% +36.08%
75th Percentile £61.25 £64.73 £61.38
90th Percentile £71.87 £75.00 £81.56
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.28% -10.77% +36.74%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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 8 January 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 +24 574 £525 - 208
North of England -6 122 £473 +16.43% 73
Midlands +11 98 £515 +26.77% 69
West Midlands -2 71 £525 +7.58% 51
South East -6 67 £423 -26.52% 176
North West -8 64 £463 +8.82% 33
South West +16 46 £500 +2.56% 41
Yorkshire -15 45 £500 +53.85% 27
East Midlands -9 28 £430 +23.56% 18
East of England -36 16 £581 +12.86% 52
North East -2 14 £475 +91.92% 13
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 89 (9.33%) Apache Spark
2 55 (5.77%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (3.88%) SAS
4 34 (3.56%) Apache
5 18 (1.89%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.57%) Confluence
7 8 (0.84%) GeoServer
7 8 (0.84%) Smallworld
8 7 (0.73%) Oracle Application Server
9 3 (0.31%) Appian
9 3 (0.31%) Luigi
9 3 (0.31%) NetWeaver
10 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.10%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 93 (9.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.47%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.31%) Trello
8 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.10%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 37 (3.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 7 (0.73%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.63%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.63%) SAP MDG
5 4 (0.42%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.42%) Loan IQ
5 4 (0.42%) SystmOne
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle SCM
6 3 (0.31%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.31%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.31%) SAP MDG-F
6 3 (0.31%) SAP MDG-M
6 3 (0.31%) SAP MDG-S
7 2 (0.21%) Actimize
7 2 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.21%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 277 (29.04%) Azure
2 221 (23.17%) Power Platform
3 188 (19.71%) AWS
4 96 (10.06%) Azure Data Factory
5 94 (9.85%) GCP
6 82 (8.60%) Snowflake
7 59 (6.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 51 (5.35%) Amazon S3
8 51 (5.35%) dbt
9 46 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
10 43 (4.51%) Collibra
11 42 (4.40%) GitHub
12 30 (3.14%) Serverless
13 27 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
14 21 (2.20%) Microsoft Purview
15 19 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
16 18 (1.89%) OCI
17 16 (1.68%) SaaS
18 15 (1.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
19 13 (1.36%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.31%) DNS
2 2 (0.21%) Broadband
2 2 (0.21%) HTTP
2 2 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
2 2 (0.21%) SSL
2 2 (0.21%) VoIP
3 1 (0.10%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (22.64%) Power BI
2 181 (18.97%) Data Warehouse
3 154 (16.14%) Metadata
4 82 (8.60%) Data Lake
5 62 (6.50%) SQL Server
6 61 (6.39%) Tableau
7 46 (4.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 45 (4.72%) Big Data
9 43 (4.51%) NoSQL
9 43 (4.51%) Relational Database
10 42 (4.40%) Snowflake Schema
11 35 (3.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 33 (3.46%) Pentaho
13 32 (3.35%) Delta Lake
14 31 (3.25%) BigQuery
15 28 (2.94%) Star Schema
16 26 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
17 22 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
18 20 (2.10%) Amazon QuickSight
18 20 (2.10%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 118 (12.37%) Git
2 71 (7.44%) JIRA
3 47 (4.93%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.89%) ERwin
5 15 (1.57%) PowerDesigner
6 11 (1.15%) ER Studio
7 7 (0.73%) MLflow
8 6 (0.63%) DBeaver
9 3 (0.31%) LSMW
10 2 (0.21%) Browser DevTools
10 2 (0.21%) GitLab
10 2 (0.21%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.10%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.10%) Deequ
11 1 (0.10%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.10%) Selenium
11 1 (0.10%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.10%) Vite
11 1 (0.10%) webpack
General
1 323 (33.86%) Social Skills
2 284 (29.77%) Finance
3 215 (22.54%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (10.69%) Public Sector
5 81 (8.49%) Banking
6 37 (3.88%) Marketing
7 21 (2.20%) Retail
8 20 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
9 19 (1.99%) Legal
10 16 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (1.68%) Local Government
11 14 (1.47%) Military
12 13 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (1.15%) Investment Banking
13 11 (1.15%) Publishing
13 11 (1.15%) Telecoms
14 10 (1.05%) Billing
14 10 (1.05%) Manufacturing
14 10 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 223 (23.38%) Data Engineer
2 215 (22.54%) Analyst
3 133 (13.94%) Data Analyst
4 96 (10.06%) Architect
5 95 (9.96%) Lead
6 88 (9.22%) Senior
7 67 (7.02%) Business Analyst
8 57 (5.97%) Data Architect
8 57 (5.97%) Developer
9 42 (4.40%) Azure Engineer
10 41 (4.30%) Senior Data Engineer
11 35 (3.67%) Azure Data Engineer
12 31 (3.25%) Consultant
12 31 (3.25%) Data Business Analyst
13 26 (2.73%) Data Manager
14 25 (2.62%) Data Modeller
15 22 (2.31%) Governance Analyst
16 17 (1.78%) Project Manager
16 17 (1.78%) Salesforce Architect
16 17 (1.78%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (9.01%) PySpark
2 58 (6.08%) Kafka
3 32 (3.35%) REST
4 21 (2.20%) XML
5 17 (1.78%) Pandas
6 16 (1.68%) Middleware
7 14 (1.47%) SOAP
8 13 (1.36%) Lightning Web Components
8 13 (1.36%) Visualforce
9 10 (1.05%) Great Expectations
9 10 (1.05%) NumPy
10 9 (0.94%) JSON
11 8 (0.84%) RESTful
12 7 (0.73%) HTML
12 7 (0.73%) OAuth
12 7 (0.73%) PyTorch
12 7 (0.73%) YAML
13 6 (0.63%) .NET
13 6 (0.63%) Apache NiFi
13 6 (0.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 86 (9.01%) Data Structures
2 57 (5.97%) Legacy Systems
3 30 (3.14%) Analytical Mindset
3 30 (3.14%) Cloud Native
3 30 (3.14%) Onboarding
4 29 (3.04%) Management Information System
4 29 (3.04%) Product Ownership
5 19 (1.99%) CMDB
6 18 (1.89%) Reference Data
7 17 (1.78%) NHS
8 15 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.47%) Replication
10 13 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (1.36%) Reinsurance
11 11 (1.15%) Clustering
11 11 (1.15%) Data Centre
11 11 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
12 9 (0.94%) Algorithms
12 9 (0.94%) Distributed Computing
13 7 (0.73%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.78%) Linux
2 4 (0.42%) Unix
3 2 (0.21%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 408 (42.77%) Data Modelling
2 366 (38.36%) Data Governance
3 355 (37.21%) Analytics
4 310 (32.49%) ETL
5 303 (31.76%) Business Intelligence
6 254 (26.62%) Problem-Solving
7 250 (26.21%) Data Pipeline
8 238 (24.95%) Agile
9 198 (20.75%) Data Engineering
10 180 (18.87%) Migration
11 164 (17.19%) CI/CD
12 152 (15.93%) Validation
13 149 (15.62%) Decision-Making
14 148 (15.51%) Data Architecture
15 146 (15.30%) Data Management
16 139 (14.57%) Data Integration
17 135 (14.15%) Data Analysis
18 129 (13.52%) Data Migration
19 123 (12.89%) DevOps
20 119 (12.47%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 477 (50.00%) SQL
2 300 (31.45%) Python
3 40 (4.19%) Scala
4 27 (2.83%) R
5 25 (2.62%) Java
6 20 (2.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 20 (2.10%) PL/SQL
7 19 (1.99%) T-SQL
8 17 (1.78%) C#
9 15 (1.57%) JavaScript
10 13 (1.36%) Apex Code
10 13 (1.36%) Bash
11 9 (0.94%) Bicep
12 8 (0.84%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.73%) C++
14 6 (0.63%) PowerShell
15 5 (0.52%) TypeScript
15 5 (0.52%) VBA
16 4 (0.42%) ABAP
17 3 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 153 (16.04%) Security Cleared
2 112 (11.74%) SC Cleared
3 71 (7.44%) Degree
4 33 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (1.99%) Master's Degree
6 15 (1.57%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.36%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.15%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.31%) PhD
11 3 (0.31%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.31%) PMP
11 3 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 3 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.21%) AAT
12 2 (0.21%) ACCA
12 2 (0.21%) CCAB
12 2 (0.21%) CFA
12 2 (0.21%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (9.01%) GDPR
2 59 (6.18%) QA
3 40 (4.19%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 14 (1.47%) PMO
6 12 (1.26%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (0.84%) SLA
8 7 (0.73%) Basel III
8 7 (0.73%) IFRS
9 5 (0.52%) ISO 19650
10 4 (0.42%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.31%) FINREP
11 3 (0.31%) MiFID
12 2 (0.21%) CRD IV
12 2 (0.21%) EMIR
12 2 (0.21%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.21%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.21%) NIST
13 1 (0.10%) GRC
13 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
System Software
1 60 (6.29%) Docker
2 8 (0.84%) zsh
3 5 (0.52%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.31%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 57 (5.97%) Kubernetes
2 46 (4.82%) Terraform
3 3 (0.31%) Hadoop YARN
3 3 (0.31%) Oozie
4 2 (0.21%) Ansible
4 2 (0.21%) Control-M
4 2 (0.21%) Kibana
4 2 (0.21%) logstash
4 2 (0.21%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.10%) Grafana
5 1 (0.10%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.10%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.10%) Puppet
Vendors
1 172 (18.03%) Databricks
2 135 (14.15%) Microsoft
3 88 (9.22%) Oracle
4 63 (6.60%) SAP
5 47 (4.93%) Salesforce
6 45 (4.72%) Talend
7 44 (4.61%) Informatica
8 37 (3.88%) Google
9 34 (3.56%) ServiceNow
10 31 (3.25%) Denodo
11 13 (1.36%) Alteryx
11 13 (1.36%) Sparx
12 12 (1.26%) Palantir
13 9 (0.94%) Adobe
14 8 (0.84%) ESRI
14 8 (0.84%) Intergraph
15 7 (0.73%) Foundry
15 7 (0.73%) Workday
16 6 (0.63%) Guidewire
17 5 (0.52%) IBM