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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 104 109
Rank change year-on-year +54 +5 +47
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,835 688 729
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.08% 2.51% 2.09%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.62% 14.84% 15.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,210 448 519
10th Percentile £350 £348 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £516 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.15% -6.14% -
75th Percentile £590 £638 £713
90th Percentile £675 £745 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 18 14
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.08 £14.51
25th Percentile £20.78 £21.65 £16.66
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +26.42% +2.89% -0.81%
75th Percentile £60.75 £34.85 £49.44
90th Percentile £77.50 £61.24 £51.75
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £21.00
% change year-on-year +26.42% +50.67% -32.26%

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 7,769 4,637 4,759
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.28% 16.95% 13.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,987 3,031 2,987
10th Percentile £345 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £610 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 516 212 318
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.12 £11.03
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.72 £31.64 £26.16
Median % change year-on-year +22.38% +20.94% -38.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £85.70 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £28.18 £25.00
% change year-on-year +41.94% +12.72% -35.42%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 +63 961 £525 -2.78% 440
North of England +26 236 £475 +5.56% 158
Midlands +36 223 £468 +1.08% 94
South East +27 181 £463 -5.13% 172
West Midlands +34 180 £468 -6.50% 54
North West +12 129 £475 +5.56% 72
South West +19 103 £500 +17.65% 71
East of England +12 88 £565 -6.61% 30
Yorkshire +2 83 £463 +9.47% 49
East Midlands +12 43 £466 +3.44% 39
North East -14 25 £520 -15.10% 38
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 98 (5.34%) Apache Airflow
1 98 (5.34%) Apache Spark
2 72 (3.92%) Apache
3 55 (3.00%) Confluence
4 52 (2.83%) SAS
5 37 (2.02%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
7 9 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
8 7 (0.38%) ArcGIS
8 7 (0.38%) CMS
9 4 (0.22%) Appian
9 4 (0.22%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
10 2 (0.11%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.054%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.054%) Luigi
11 1 (0.054%) Mendix
Applications
1 133 (7.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
3 18 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.71%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.22%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.11%) CATIA
9 1 (0.054%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.054%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 65 (3.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.65%) NEC Housing
3 12 (0.65%) NetSuite
4 9 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.49%) Sage X3
5 8 (0.44%) SAP MDG
5 8 (0.44%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.38%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.38%) iTrent
6 7 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 6 (0.33%) Loan IQ
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.27%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.27%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.22%) Maximo
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.22%) SAP PM
9 4 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 492 (26.81%) Azure
2 414 (22.56%) Power Platform
3 318 (17.33%) AWS
4 159 (8.66%) Azure Data Factory
5 141 (7.68%) GCP
6 132 (7.19%) Snowflake
7 123 (6.70%) dbt
8 102 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
9 98 (5.34%) Amazon S3
10 94 (5.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 84 (4.58%) Serverless
12 72 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
12 72 (3.92%) GitHub
13 57 (3.11%) Collibra
14 41 (2.23%) Microsoft Purview
14 41 (2.23%) Power Automate
15 38 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
15 38 (2.07%) SaaS
16 31 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
17 27 (1.47%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.49%) Firewall
2 5 (0.27%) VPN
3 2 (0.11%) HTTP
4 1 (0.054%) 4G
4 1 (0.054%) 5G
4 1 (0.054%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.054%) DNS
4 1 (0.054%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.054%) SNMP
4 1 (0.054%) SSH
4 1 (0.054%) SSL
4 1 (0.054%) WAN
4 1 (0.054%) Wireless
4 1 (0.054%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 392 (21.36%) Power BI
2 298 (16.24%) Data Warehouse
3 237 (12.92%) Metadata
4 167 (9.10%) Data Lake
5 116 (6.32%) Tableau
6 90 (4.90%) SQL Server
7 81 (4.41%) BigQuery
8 78 (4.25%) Delta Lake
9 76 (4.14%) Amazon Redshift
10 65 (3.54%) Relational Database
11 57 (3.11%) Amazon Athena
12 55 (3.00%) Big Data
13 41 (2.23%) Snowflake Schema
14 39 (2.13%) NoSQL
15 37 (2.02%) Power Query
15 37 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 33 (1.80%) Star Schema
17 32 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
18 30 (1.63%) Looker
19 28 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 119 (6.49%) JIRA
2 113 (6.16%) Git
3 43 (2.34%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.85%) GitLab
5 20 (1.09%) ERwin
6 13 (0.71%) ER Studio
7 12 (0.65%) MLflow
8 9 (0.49%) Eclipse
8 9 (0.49%) Postman
9 8 (0.44%) PowerDesigner
10 7 (0.38%) Selenium
10 7 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.33%) Ant
12 5 (0.27%) Newman
12 5 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
12 5 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
13 4 (0.22%) LSMW
13 4 (0.22%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.22%) Zephyr
14 3 (0.16%) Robot Framework
General
1 548 (29.86%) Finance
2 545 (29.70%) Social Skills
3 441 (24.03%) Analytical Skills
4 205 (11.17%) Public Sector
5 137 (7.47%) Banking
6 52 (2.83%) Marketing
7 48 (2.62%) Retail
8 45 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
8 45 (2.45%) Manufacturing
9 39 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
10 33 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 31 (1.69%) Local Government
12 30 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
13 26 (1.42%) Legal
14 23 (1.25%) Military
15 21 (1.14%) Law
16 19 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
17 17 (0.93%) Publishing
18 16 (0.87%) Automotive
18 16 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 415 (22.62%) Data Engineer
2 386 (21.04%) Analyst
3 220 (11.99%) Data Analyst
4 205 (11.17%) Senior
5 200 (10.90%) Lead
6 172 (9.37%) Architect
7 110 (5.99%) Data Architect
8 105 (5.72%) Business Analyst
9 103 (5.61%) Developer
10 87 (4.74%) Senior Data Engineer
11 64 (3.49%) Consultant
12 56 (3.05%) Data Manager
13 50 (2.72%) Administrator
14 47 (2.56%) Data Business Analyst
15 33 (1.80%) Azure Engineer
16 32 (1.74%) Data Consultant
17 30 (1.63%) Data Migration Lead
17 30 (1.63%) Data Scientist
17 30 (1.63%) Lead Data Engineer
17 30 (1.63%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (7.63%) PySpark
2 91 (4.96%) Kafka
3 49 (2.67%) REST
4 44 (2.40%) JSON
5 41 (2.23%) Pandas
6 29 (1.58%) Great Expectations
7 24 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
7 24 (1.31%) Web Services
8 20 (1.09%) Middleware
9 18 (0.98%) scikit-learn
9 18 (0.98%) XML
10 15 (0.82%) SOAP
11 14 (0.76%) HTML
12 13 (0.71%) GeoJSON
12 13 (0.71%) OpenTelemetry
13 11 (0.60%) .NET
13 11 (0.60%) pytest
14 10 (0.54%) Matplotlib
14 10 (0.54%) NumPy
14 10 (0.54%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 164 (8.94%) Data Structures
2 107 (5.83%) Legacy Systems
2 107 (5.83%) Onboarding
3 98 (5.34%) Cloud Native
4 78 (4.25%) Product Ownership
5 65 (3.54%) Management Information System
6 56 (3.05%) CMDB
7 41 (2.23%) Reference Data
8 32 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
9 29 (1.58%) AI Agents
9 29 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
10 26 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
11 24 (1.31%) Taxonomies
12 23 (1.25%) NHS
12 23 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
13 18 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
14 17 (0.93%) Clustering
15 16 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
15 16 (0.87%) Life Science
16 14 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.04%) Linux
1 19 (1.04%) Unix
2 13 (0.71%) Windows
3 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.054%) VMS
3 1 (0.054%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 724 (39.46%) Data Modelling
2 655 (35.69%) Analytics
3 609 (33.19%) Data Governance
4 523 (28.50%) Data Pipeline
5 520 (28.34%) ETL
6 497 (27.08%) Business Intelligence
7 457 (24.90%) Validation
8 433 (23.60%) Migration
9 399 (21.74%) Data Engineering
10 376 (20.49%) Agile
11 341 (18.58%) Decision-Making
12 338 (18.42%) CI/CD
13 335 (18.26%) Problem-Solving
14 331 (18.04%) Stakeholder Management
15 310 (16.89%) AI
16 270 (14.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 267 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
18 266 (14.50%) Data Migration
19 253 (13.79%) Data Architecture
20 251 (13.68%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 820 (44.69%) SQL
2 494 (26.92%) Python
3 63 (3.43%) Java
4 55 (3.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 42 (2.29%) Scala
6 36 (1.96%) PL/SQL
7 34 (1.85%) T-SQL
8 32 (1.74%) PowerShell
9 23 (1.25%) Shell Script
10 21 (1.14%) C#
11 19 (1.04%) VBA
12 16 (0.87%) JavaScript
13 13 (0.71%) R
14 12 (0.65%) Bicep
15 11 (0.60%) Bash
16 10 (0.54%) Apex Code
16 10 (0.54%) TypeScript
17 7 (0.38%) SOQL
18 6 (0.33%) Cypher
18 6 (0.33%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 311 (16.95%) Security Cleared
2 236 (12.86%) SC Cleared
3 113 (6.16%) Degree
4 67 (3.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (1.63%) Azure Certification
6 24 (1.31%) DV Cleared
7 23 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (0.98%) Master's Degree
9 17 (0.93%) AWS Certification
9 17 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (0.71%) PMI Certification
11 9 (0.49%) PMP
12 7 (0.38%) ACCA
12 7 (0.38%) CIMA
12 7 (0.38%) SnowPro
13 6 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.33%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 5 (0.27%) PhD
15 4 (0.22%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (7.74%) GDPR
2 127 (6.92%) QA
3 34 (1.85%) PMO
4 33 (1.80%) Accessibility
5 23 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (0.87%) Solvency II
7 15 (0.82%) SLA
8 11 (0.60%) IFRS
9 10 (0.54%) NIST
9 10 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.49%) COREP
10 9 (0.49%) FINREP
11 8 (0.44%) GRC
12 7 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.38%) NCSC
13 4 (0.22%) BS7666
13 4 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.22%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.22%) IFRS 17
13 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 70 (3.81%) Docker
2 19 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.27%) etcd
4 1 (0.054%) HDFS
4 1 (0.054%) RACF
4 1 (0.054%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.054%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 125 (6.81%) Terraform
2 75 (4.09%) Kubernetes
3 14 (0.76%) Grafana
4 11 (0.60%) Prometheus
5 9 (0.49%) Ansible
5 9 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.27%) Fluentd
6 5 (0.27%) HP ALM
6 5 (0.27%) SCCM
7 4 (0.22%) Control-M
7 4 (0.22%) Kibana
8 1 (0.054%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.054%) Istio
8 1 (0.054%) logstash
8 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.054%) Nessus
8 1 (0.054%) Nexpose
8 1 (0.054%) Puppet
8 1 (0.054%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.054%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 292 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 272 (14.82%) Databricks
3 151 (8.23%) SAP
4 125 (6.81%) Oracle
5 85 (4.63%) Informatica
6 77 (4.20%) Salesforce
7 74 (4.03%) ServiceNow
8 48 (2.62%) Google
9 34 (1.85%) Talend
10 27 (1.47%) Workday
11 21 (1.14%) Adobe
11 21 (1.14%) Denodo
11 21 (1.14%) Palantir
12 20 (1.09%) IBM
13 18 (0.98%) Alteryx
14 17 (0.93%) Foundry
15 15 (0.82%) Splunk
16 14 (0.76%) Sage
17 13 (0.71%) NEC
18 12 (0.65%) GoldenSource