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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 97 117
Rank change year-on-year +50 +20 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 2,034 736 678
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.39% 2.65% 2.06%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.78% 15.38% 15.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,303 478 473
10th Percentile £353 £338 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% -7.73% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £713
90th Percentile £699 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £503 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.45% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 16 9
10th Percentile £15.39 £25.60 £21.25
25th Percentile £18.69 £31.64 £35.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £34.43 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% -8.19% -13.71%
75th Percentile £60.75 £47.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £79.35 £97.50
UK median hourly rate £30.89 £37.49 £36.25
% change year-on-year -17.62% +3.42% -8.04%

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 8,208 4,786 4,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.71% 17.20% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,174 3,121 2,605
10th Percentile £329 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £720 £757
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% -3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 578 230 220
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.03 £17.96 £15.13
Median hourly rate £33.98 £32.25 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.36% +9.32% -15.71%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.96 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £30.00 £26.68
% change year-on-year +10.00% +12.44% -23.77%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 +59 1,096 £525 -2.78% 1,021
North of England +37 281 £463 +2.78% 234
Midlands +27 222 £458 -8.45% 151
South East +40 209 £500 - 283
West Midlands +26 174 £451 -14.19% 110
North West +26 150 £525 +16.67% 158
Yorkshire +24 113 £450 -10.00% 58
South West +8 102 £500 +17.65% 107
East of England +22 87 £565 -6.53% 100
East Midlands +8 47 £481 +7.61% 41
North East -31 19 £520 +18.86% 20
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
1 126 (6.19%) Apache Airflow
2 92 (4.52%) Apache Spark
3 75 (3.69%) Apache
4 60 (2.95%) Confluence
5 47 (2.31%) SAS
6 43 (2.11%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
8 11 (0.54%) CMS
9 10 (0.49%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.098%) HCL Notes
13 2 (0.098%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.049%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.049%) GeoServer
14 1 (0.049%) Luigi
14 1 (0.049%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 155 (7.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (1.43%) Spreadsheet
3 26 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.74%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.098%) CATIA
8 1 (0.049%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.049%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.049%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.049%) Trello
8 1 (0.049%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 68 (3.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.69%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.59%) Aladdin
5 11 (0.54%) NEC Housing
6 10 (0.49%) Workday HCM
7 9 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 8 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
8 8 (0.39%) SAP MDG
9 7 (0.34%) iTrent
9 7 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
9 7 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
10 6 (0.29%) Maximo
10 6 (0.29%) SAP HR
10 6 (0.29%) Teamcenter
11 5 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
11 5 (0.25%) Shopify
12 4 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
12 4 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
12 4 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 526 (25.86%) Azure
2 423 (20.80%) Power Platform
3 363 (17.85%) AWS
4 169 (8.31%) GCP
5 159 (7.82%) Snowflake
6 154 (7.57%) Azure Data Factory
7 136 (6.69%) dbt
8 108 (5.31%) Azure DevOps
9 104 (5.11%) Serverless
10 98 (4.82%) Amazon S3
11 93 (4.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 83 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
13 82 (4.03%) GitHub
14 60 (2.95%) Collibra
14 60 (2.95%) Microsoft Purview
15 48 (2.36%) SaaS
16 46 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
17 45 (2.21%) Power Automate
18 42 (2.06%) Azure Databricks
18 42 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.34%) Firewall
2 5 (0.25%) Broadband
2 5 (0.25%) SD-WAN
2 5 (0.25%) SNMP
2 5 (0.25%) WAN
2 5 (0.25%) Wireless
3 3 (0.15%) HTTP
4 2 (0.098%) DNS
4 2 (0.098%) SSL
5 1 (0.049%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.049%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.049%) Network Security
5 1 (0.049%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.049%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 396 (19.47%) Power BI
2 326 (16.03%) Data Warehouse
3 324 (15.93%) Metadata
4 174 (8.55%) Data Lake
5 110 (5.41%) Tableau
6 95 (4.67%) SQL Server
7 88 (4.33%) BigQuery
7 88 (4.33%) Delta Lake
8 82 (4.03%) Amazon Redshift
9 78 (3.83%) Relational Database
10 57 (2.80%) Amazon Athena
11 51 (2.51%) NoSQL
12 48 (2.36%) Big Data
13 43 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
14 40 (1.97%) Star Schema
15 39 (1.92%) Power Query
16 38 (1.87%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 37 (1.82%) Snowflake Schema
18 34 (1.67%) Looker
19 29 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 128 (6.29%) JIRA
2 114 (5.60%) Git
3 37 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 35 (1.72%) GitLab
5 13 (0.64%) ERwin
6 11 (0.54%) Selenium
7 10 (0.49%) ER Studio
7 10 (0.49%) MLflow
8 9 (0.44%) Eclipse
9 8 (0.39%) Postman
9 8 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.29%) Ant
10 6 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.25%) Newman
11 5 (0.25%) RStudio
11 5 (0.25%) Terragrunt
12 4 (0.20%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.20%) TestRail
12 4 (0.20%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.20%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 648 (31.86%) Social Skills
2 620 (30.48%) Finance
3 487 (23.94%) Analytical Skills
4 240 (11.80%) Public Sector
5 176 (8.65%) Banking
6 67 (3.29%) Retail
7 58 (2.85%) Manufacturing
8 55 (2.70%) Marketing
9 52 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
10 45 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
11 44 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
12 43 (2.11%) Local Government
13 40 (1.97%) Military
14 37 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 33 (1.62%) Legal
16 27 (1.33%) Law
17 25 (1.23%) Billing
18 24 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
19 22 (1.08%) Automotive
19 22 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 439 (21.58%) Data Engineer
2 422 (20.75%) Analyst
3 243 (11.95%) Senior
4 239 (11.75%) Lead
5 228 (11.21%) Data Analyst
6 213 (10.47%) Architect
7 139 (6.83%) Data Architect
8 112 (5.51%) Senior Data Engineer
9 110 (5.41%) Business Analyst
10 107 (5.26%) Developer
11 85 (4.18%) Consultant
12 66 (3.24%) Administrator
13 64 (3.15%) Data Manager
14 50 (2.46%) Data Consultant
15 43 (2.11%) Data Business Analyst
16 35 (1.72%) AWS Engineer
16 35 (1.72%) Databricks Engineer
16 35 (1.72%) Lead Data Engineer
17 34 (1.67%) Python Engineer
18 31 (1.52%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (8.95%) PySpark
2 134 (6.59%) Terraform
3 78 (3.83%) Kafka
4 58 (2.85%) REST
5 44 (2.16%) JSON
6 33 (1.62%) Oracle Fusion
7 26 (1.28%) Great Expectations
8 23 (1.13%) XML
9 22 (1.08%) Pandas
10 20 (0.98%) Middleware
10 20 (0.98%) Web Services
11 18 (0.88%) .NET
12 17 (0.84%) HTML
13 16 (0.79%) SOAP
14 14 (0.69%) pytest
15 12 (0.59%) OpenTelemetry
16 10 (0.49%) CSS
16 10 (0.49%) OAuth
16 10 (0.49%) OpenID
16 10 (0.49%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 186 (9.14%) Data Structures
2 133 (6.54%) Onboarding
3 109 (5.36%) Cloud Native
4 101 (4.97%) Legacy Systems
5 97 (4.77%) Product Ownership
6 94 (4.62%) Management Information System
7 58 (2.85%) CMDB
8 50 (2.46%) Reference Data
9 40 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
10 38 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
11 37 (1.82%) AI Agents
12 28 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
13 27 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
14 25 (1.23%) Taxonomies
15 23 (1.13%) NHS
16 22 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
17 21 (1.03%) Life Science
18 18 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
19 15 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
19 15 (0.74%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.18%) Unix
2 19 (0.93%) Linux
3 12 (0.59%) Windows
4 1 (0.049%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.049%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 803 (39.48%) Data Modelling
2 727 (35.74%) Analytics
2 727 (35.74%) Data Governance
3 557 (27.38%) Data Pipeline
4 535 (26.30%) ETL
5 531 (26.11%) Validation
6 509 (25.02%) Stakeholder Management
7 508 (24.98%) Business Intelligence
8 492 (24.19%) Migration
9 463 (22.76%) Data Engineering
10 418 (20.55%) Agile
11 398 (19.57%) AI
12 396 (19.47%) Decision-Making
13 384 (18.88%) CI/CD
14 383 (18.83%) Problem-Solving
15 323 (15.88%) Continuous Improvement
16 303 (14.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 297 (14.60%) Data Architecture
18 292 (14.36%) Data Migration
19 282 (13.86%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 875 (43.02%) SQL
2 544 (26.75%) Python
3 60 (2.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 60 (2.95%) Java
4 42 (2.06%) PL/SQL
5 34 (1.67%) T-SQL
6 32 (1.57%) Scala
7 31 (1.52%) PowerShell
8 28 (1.38%) Shell Script
9 25 (1.23%) JavaScript
10 22 (1.08%) C#
10 22 (1.08%) R
11 17 (0.84%) Bash
12 13 (0.64%) Bicep
13 9 (0.44%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.39%) SOQL
14 8 (0.39%) TypeScript
14 8 (0.39%) VBA
15 6 (0.29%) Go
15 6 (0.29%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 326 (16.03%) Security Cleared
2 250 (12.29%) SC Cleared
3 124 (6.10%) Degree
4 54 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (1.47%) Azure Certification
6 28 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (1.33%) DV Cleared
8 26 (1.28%) AWS Certification
9 21 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (0.88%) PMI Certification
11 16 (0.79%) Master's Degree
12 13 (0.64%) PMP
13 10 (0.49%) ACCA
13 10 (0.49%) CIMA
14 8 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 5 (0.25%) CIPD
16 5 (0.25%) PhD
16 5 (0.25%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (7.37%) QA
2 125 (6.15%) GDPR
3 40 (1.97%) Accessibility
4 32 (1.57%) PMO
5 22 (1.08%) SLA
6 21 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (0.79%) IFRS
8 15 (0.74%) NIST
9 14 (0.69%) GRC
9 14 (0.69%) NCSC
10 13 (0.64%) Solvency II
11 10 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
12 9 (0.44%) COREP
12 9 (0.44%) FINREP
13 8 (0.39%) IFRS 17
13 8 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 5 (0.25%) IFRS 9
16 5 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 75 (3.69%) Docker
2 19 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.098%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.049%) etcd
4 1 (0.049%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 74 (3.64%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.69%) Grafana
3 13 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (0.59%) Ansible
5 9 (0.44%) Control-M
6 7 (0.34%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.20%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.20%) Kibana
7 4 (0.20%) SCCM
8 1 (0.049%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.049%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.049%) Istio
8 1 (0.049%) logstash
8 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.049%) Nexpose
8 1 (0.049%) Puppet
8 1 (0.049%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.049%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 384 (18.88%) Microsoft
2 300 (14.75%) Databricks
3 167 (8.21%) SAP
4 149 (7.33%) Oracle
5 91 (4.47%) ServiceNow
6 84 (4.13%) Informatica
7 77 (3.79%) Salesforce
8 64 (3.15%) Google
9 32 (1.57%) Workday
10 27 (1.33%) IBM
11 26 (1.28%) Adobe
12 24 (1.18%) Talend
13 23 (1.13%) Alteryx
14 21 (1.03%) Palantir
14 21 (1.03%) Splunk
15 16 (0.79%) Denodo
15 16 (0.79%) Foundry
16 12 (0.59%) Bloomberg
16 12 (0.59%) GoldenSource
16 12 (0.59%) Teradata