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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 101 114
Rank change year-on-year +51 +13 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,894 714 668
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.16% 2.58% 2.00%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.93% 15.05% 15.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,239 465 484
10th Percentile £356 £346 £347
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £713
90th Percentile £688 £742 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 19 8
10th Percentile £16.17 £18.14 £21.03
25th Percentile £21.49 £24.66 £23.31
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -27.27% +18.25%
75th Percentile £68.44 £43.98 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £58.74 £56.85
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £32.56 £23.00
% change year-on-year +22.87% +41.54% -41.65%

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 7,914 4,743 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.37% 17.16% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,062 3,098 2,761
10th Percentile £340 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £608 £620 £638
90th Percentile £715 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £505
% change year-on-year - -0.99% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 532 225 274
10th Percentile £14.01 £15.13 £10.99
25th Percentile £18.67 £18.50 £14.41
Median hourly rate £38.72 £31.64 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.38% +15.05% -30.40%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £62.54
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.55 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £38.72 £27.91 £26.56
% change year-on-year +38.73% +5.08% -29.64%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +56 999 £525 - 1,086
North of England +31 249 £475 +5.56% 274
Midlands +31 233 £488 -2.50% 142
South East +27 198 £473 -0.42% 256
West Midlands +36 184 £482 -6.99% 104
North West +19 134 £500 +8.70% 166
Yorkshire +14 94 £458 +4.57% 67
South West +10 92 £500 +17.65% 116
East of England +14 86 £565 -6.53% 91
East Midlands +11 48 £488 +9.06% 38
North East -23 22 £520 -15.10% 44
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
1 110 (5.81%) Apache Airflow
2 96 (5.07%) Apache Spark
3 76 (4.01%) Apache
4 58 (3.06%) SAS
5 53 (2.80%) Confluence
6 38 (2.01%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
8 10 (0.53%) CMS
8 10 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
9 9 (0.48%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.11%) HCL Notes
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.053%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.053%) GeoServer
13 1 (0.053%) Luigi
13 1 (0.053%) Mendix
Applications
1 135 (7.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
3 18 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
4 15 (0.79%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.11%) CATIA
7 1 (0.053%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.053%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.053%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 65 (3.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.69%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.53%) Aladdin
4 10 (0.53%) NEC Housing
5 9 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.42%) Sage X3
6 8 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 8 (0.42%) Workday HCM
7 7 (0.37%) iTrent
7 7 (0.37%) SAP MDG
8 6 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.26%) BambooHR
9 5 (0.26%) Loan IQ
10 4 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
10 4 (0.21%) Finacle
10 4 (0.21%) Maximo
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.21%) Shopify
10 4 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 500 (26.40%) Azure
2 409 (21.59%) Power Platform
3 331 (17.48%) AWS
4 159 (8.39%) Azure Data Factory
5 150 (7.92%) Snowflake
6 149 (7.87%) GCP
7 124 (6.55%) dbt
8 110 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
9 90 (4.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 87 (4.59%) Amazon S3
11 83 (4.38%) Serverless
12 73 (3.85%) GitHub
13 71 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
14 49 (2.59%) Collibra
14 49 (2.59%) Microsoft Purview
15 40 (2.11%) Power Automate
16 39 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
17 38 (2.01%) SaaS
18 34 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
19 27 (1.43%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.48%) Firewall
2 5 (0.26%) VPN
3 3 (0.16%) HTTP
4 2 (0.11%) DNS
4 2 (0.11%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.11%) SNMP
4 2 (0.11%) SSL
4 2 (0.11%) WAN
4 2 (0.11%) Wireless
5 1 (0.053%) 4G
5 1 (0.053%) 5G
5 1 (0.053%) Broadband
5 1 (0.053%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.053%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.053%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 387 (20.43%) Power BI
2 319 (16.84%) Data Warehouse
3 260 (13.73%) Metadata
4 167 (8.82%) Data Lake
5 113 (5.97%) Tableau
6 93 (4.91%) SQL Server
7 84 (4.44%) BigQuery
8 79 (4.17%) Delta Lake
9 74 (3.91%) Relational Database
10 71 (3.75%) Amazon Redshift
11 54 (2.85%) Amazon Athena
12 52 (2.75%) Big Data
13 48 (2.53%) NoSQL
14 41 (2.16%) Snowflake Schema
15 38 (2.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 36 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
16 36 (1.90%) Power Query
17 33 (1.74%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 33 (1.74%) Looker
18 32 (1.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 119 (6.28%) JIRA
2 115 (6.07%) Git
3 52 (2.75%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.80%) GitLab
5 16 (0.84%) ERwin
6 11 (0.58%) ER Studio
7 9 (0.48%) Eclipse
7 9 (0.48%) MLflow
7 9 (0.48%) Postman
8 8 (0.42%) Selenium
9 7 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.32%) Ant
10 6 (0.32%) PowerDesigner
10 6 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.26%) Newman
11 5 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
12 4 (0.21%) Terragrunt
12 4 (0.21%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.21%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 4 (0.21%) Zephyr
General
1 579 (30.57%) Social Skills
2 564 (29.78%) Finance
3 451 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
4 222 (11.72%) Public Sector
5 150 (7.92%) Banking
6 58 (3.06%) Marketing
7 55 (2.90%) Retail
8 50 (2.64%) Manufacturing
9 46 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
10 44 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
11 39 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
12 35 (1.85%) Local Government
13 32 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 30 (1.58%) Military
15 28 (1.48%) Legal
16 24 (1.27%) Law
16 24 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
17 19 (1.00%) Automotive
17 19 (1.00%) Front Office
18 17 (0.90%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 437 (23.07%) Data Engineer
2 385 (20.33%) Analyst
3 218 (11.51%) Data Analyst
3 218 (11.51%) Senior
4 215 (11.35%) Lead
5 179 (9.45%) Architect
6 117 (6.18%) Data Architect
7 108 (5.70%) Business Analyst
8 105 (5.54%) Developer
9 93 (4.91%) Senior Data Engineer
10 68 (3.59%) Consultant
11 59 (3.12%) Data Manager
12 58 (3.06%) Administrator
13 43 (2.27%) Data Business Analyst
14 38 (2.01%) Data Consultant
15 35 (1.85%) Python Engineer
16 33 (1.74%) Lead Data Engineer
17 31 (1.64%) AWS Engineer
17 31 (1.64%) Data Migration Lead
18 30 (1.58%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (7.97%) PySpark
2 86 (4.54%) Kafka
3 47 (2.48%) REST
4 44 (2.32%) JSON
5 33 (1.74%) Pandas
6 29 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
7 25 (1.32%) Great Expectations
8 21 (1.11%) Web Services
8 21 (1.11%) XML
9 20 (1.06%) Middleware
10 16 (0.84%) HTML
11 15 (0.79%) SOAP
12 14 (0.74%) .NET
13 12 (0.63%) OpenTelemetry
14 10 (0.53%) pytest
14 10 (0.53%) SailPoint
14 10 (0.53%) scikit-learn
15 9 (0.48%) CSS
15 9 (0.48%) SAML
16 8 (0.42%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 163 (8.61%) Data Structures
2 114 (6.02%) Onboarding
3 101 (5.33%) Cloud Native
3 101 (5.33%) Legacy Systems
4 87 (4.59%) Product Ownership
5 74 (3.91%) Management Information System
6 57 (3.01%) CMDB
7 45 (2.38%) Reference Data
8 35 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
9 28 (1.48%) AI Agents
9 28 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
10 24 (1.27%) NHS
10 24 (1.27%) Taxonomies
11 23 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
13 16 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
14 15 (0.79%) Marketing Technology
14 15 (0.79%) SCADA
15 14 (0.74%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.06%) Unix
2 19 (1.00%) Linux
3 12 (0.63%) Windows
4 1 (0.053%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.053%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 754 (39.81%) Data Modelling
2 684 (36.11%) Analytics
3 655 (34.58%) Data Governance
4 550 (29.04%) Data Pipeline
5 544 (28.72%) ETL
6 497 (26.24%) Business Intelligence
7 480 (25.34%) Validation
8 455 (24.02%) Migration
9 414 (21.86%) Data Engineering
10 404 (21.33%) Agile
11 377 (19.90%) Stakeholder Management
12 358 (18.90%) CI/CD
13 356 (18.80%) Decision-Making
14 352 (18.59%) Problem-Solving
15 324 (17.11%) AI
16 296 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
17 288 (15.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 285 (15.05%) Data Migration
19 267 (14.10%) Data Architecture
20 254 (13.41%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 833 (43.98%) SQL
2 512 (27.03%) Python
3 63 (3.33%) Java
4 56 (2.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 38 (2.01%) Scala
6 35 (1.85%) PL/SQL
7 34 (1.80%) T-SQL
8 33 (1.74%) PowerShell
9 24 (1.27%) Shell Script
10 22 (1.16%) JavaScript
11 20 (1.06%) C#
12 16 (0.84%) VBA
13 14 (0.74%) R
14 13 (0.69%) Bash
15 12 (0.63%) Bicep
16 10 (0.53%) Apex Code
17 9 (0.48%) TypeScript
18 8 (0.42%) SOQL
19 6 (0.32%) Search Processing Language
19 6 (0.32%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 322 (17.00%) Security Cleared
2 248 (13.09%) SC Cleared
3 114 (6.02%) Degree
4 58 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (1.69%) Azure Certification
6 29 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (1.32%) DV Cleared
8 22 (1.16%) AWS Certification
9 19 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (0.90%) Master's Degree
11 14 (0.74%) PMI Certification
12 10 (0.53%) PMP
13 8 (0.42%) ACCA
13 8 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.42%) CIMA
14 6 (0.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 6 (0.32%) SnowPro
15 5 (0.26%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (7.44%) QA
2 137 (7.23%) GDPR
3 33 (1.74%) Accessibility
4 28 (1.48%) PMO
5 24 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (0.74%) Solvency II
7 13 (0.69%) IFRS
8 12 (0.63%) GRC
8 12 (0.63%) SLA
9 11 (0.58%) NIST
10 10 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.48%) COREP
11 9 (0.48%) FINREP
12 8 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.37%) NCSC
14 6 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 5 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 4 (0.21%) HIPAA
16 4 (0.21%) IFRS 17
16 4 (0.21%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 85 (4.49%) Docker
2 20 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.26%) etcd
4 2 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.053%) RACF
5 1 (0.053%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 121 (6.39%) Terraform
2 91 (4.80%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.69%) Grafana
4 11 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 10 (0.53%) Ansible
6 9 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.32%) Control-M
8 5 (0.26%) Fluentd
8 5 (0.26%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.21%) Kibana
9 4 (0.21%) SCCM
10 1 (0.053%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.053%) Istio
10 1 (0.053%) logstash
10 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.053%) Nessus
10 1 (0.053%) Nexpose
10 1 (0.053%) Puppet
10 1 (0.053%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.053%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 319 (16.84%) Microsoft
2 277 (14.63%) Databricks
3 162 (8.55%) SAP
4 138 (7.29%) Oracle
5 82 (4.33%) Informatica
6 80 (4.22%) ServiceNow
7 76 (4.01%) Salesforce
8 56 (2.96%) Google
9 35 (1.85%) Talend
10 29 (1.53%) Workday
11 27 (1.43%) Denodo
12 26 (1.37%) Adobe
13 22 (1.16%) IBM
14 21 (1.11%) Palantir
15 19 (1.00%) Alteryx
15 19 (1.00%) Splunk
16 17 (0.90%) Foundry
17 13 (0.69%) Sage
18 12 (0.63%) Bloomberg
19 11 (0.58%) NEC