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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 106 105
Rank change year-on-year +54 -1 +55
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,791 680 765
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.00% 2.50% 2.09%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.28% 14.99% 15.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,180 433 538
10th Percentile £350 £352 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £590 £638 £708
90th Percentile £675 £744 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 21 25
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.20 £14.13
25th Percentile £19.09 £23.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.42% +50.67% -32.26%
75th Percentile £60.75 £34.98 £42.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.70 £51.75
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £15.79
% change year-on-year +26.42% +100.38% -49.06%

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 7,694 4,535 4,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.19% 16.68% 13.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,939 2,937 3,094
10th Percentile £349 £271 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -3.85% -2.62%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £630
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 517 212 367
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.12 £11.07
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.87 £13.51
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.88 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.14% +27.52% -41.18%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £53.68
90th Percentile £82.25 £85.70 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £38.72 £30.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +29.07% +24.07% -38.66%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +65 934 £525 -4.55% 267
North of England +19 232 £475 +5.56% 99
Midlands +36 219 £475 +2.70% 83
West Midlands +33 178 £475 -5.00% 42
South East +26 176 £463 -5.13% 127
North West +6 128 £475 +4.40% 41
South West +27 102 £500 +17.65% 39
East of England +6 85 £565 -6.15% 20
Yorkshire -5 80 £463 +10.12% 37
East Midlands +9 41 £494 +9.72% 41
North East -16 25 £520 -15.10% 21
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 94 (5.25%) Apache Airflow
2 91 (5.08%) Apache Spark
3 63 (3.52%) Apache
4 55 (3.07%) Confluence
5 52 (2.90%) SAS
6 36 (2.01%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
7 9 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
8 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.28%) Appian
9 5 (0.28%) CMS
10 3 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.11%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.056%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.056%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.056%) Luigi
12 1 (0.056%) Mendix
12 1 (0.056%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 131 (7.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
3 18 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
6 15 (0.84%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.22%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.11%) CATIA
9 1 (0.056%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 65 (3.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.73%) NEC Housing
4 12 (0.67%) NetSuite
5 9 (0.50%) Loan IQ
5 9 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.45%) Sage X3
7 7 (0.39%) iTrent
7 7 (0.39%) SAP MDG
8 6 (0.34%) Aladdin
8 6 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
8 6 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 6 (0.34%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.28%) BambooHR
9 5 (0.28%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.22%) Maximo
10 4 (0.22%) SAP PM
11 3 (0.17%) Actimize
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 478 (26.69%) Azure
2 413 (23.06%) Power Platform
3 309 (17.25%) AWS
4 155 (8.65%) Azure Data Factory
5 135 (7.54%) GCP
6 128 (7.15%) Snowflake
7 119 (6.64%) dbt
8 97 (5.42%) Amazon S3
8 97 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
9 95 (5.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 83 (4.63%) Serverless
11 71 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
12 70 (3.91%) GitHub
13 57 (3.18%) Collibra
14 41 (2.29%) Microsoft Purview
15 39 (2.18%) Power Automate
16 36 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
17 33 (1.84%) SaaS
18 25 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
18 25 (1.40%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.50%) Firewall
2 5 (0.28%) VPN
3 2 (0.11%) HTTP
4 1 (0.056%) 4G
4 1 (0.056%) 5G
4 1 (0.056%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.056%) DNS
4 1 (0.056%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.056%) SNMP
4 1 (0.056%) SSH
4 1 (0.056%) WAN
4 1 (0.056%) Wireless
4 1 (0.056%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 393 (21.94%) Power BI
2 285 (15.91%) Data Warehouse
3 225 (12.56%) Metadata
4 162 (9.05%) Data Lake
5 116 (6.48%) Tableau
6 92 (5.14%) SQL Server
7 78 (4.36%) BigQuery
7 78 (4.36%) Delta Lake
8 73 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
9 60 (3.35%) Relational Database
10 56 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
11 54 (3.02%) Big Data
12 43 (2.40%) Snowflake Schema
13 38 (2.12%) Power Query
14 35 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 34 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
16 32 (1.79%) Star Schema
17 31 (1.73%) NoSQL
18 28 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
19 27 (1.51%) Looker
Development Applications
1 123 (6.87%) JIRA
2 113 (6.31%) Git
3 42 (2.35%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.84%) GitLab
5 18 (1.01%) ERwin
6 13 (0.73%) MLflow
7 9 (0.50%) Eclipse
7 9 (0.50%) ER Studio
8 8 (0.45%) Postman
8 8 (0.45%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.39%) Selenium
9 7 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.34%) Ant
11 5 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
12 4 (0.22%) LSMW
12 4 (0.22%) Newman
12 4 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (0.22%) Zephyr
13 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.17%) Robot Framework
General
1 537 (29.98%) Finance
2 528 (29.48%) Social Skills
3 427 (23.84%) Analytical Skills
4 199 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 130 (7.26%) Banking
6 48 (2.68%) Marketing
6 48 (2.68%) Retail
7 44 (2.46%) Manufacturing
8 42 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
9 41 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
10 33 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 29 (1.62%) Local Government
12 27 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
13 26 (1.45%) Legal
14 22 (1.23%) Military
15 19 (1.06%) Law
16 17 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
16 17 (0.95%) Publishing
17 15 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
17 15 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 415 (23.17%) Data Engineer
2 385 (21.50%) Analyst
3 214 (11.95%) Data Analyst
4 203 (11.33%) Senior
5 201 (11.22%) Lead
6 158 (8.82%) Architect
7 103 (5.75%) Business Analyst
8 100 (5.58%) Data Architect
9 97 (5.42%) Developer
10 86 (4.80%) Senior Data Engineer
11 60 (3.35%) Consultant
12 56 (3.13%) Data Manager
13 48 (2.68%) Administrator
14 44 (2.46%) Data Business Analyst
15 32 (1.79%) Lead Data Engineer
15 32 (1.79%) Project Manager
16 30 (1.68%) Azure Engineer
16 30 (1.68%) Data Migration Lead
17 29 (1.62%) AWS Engineer
17 29 (1.62%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (7.26%) PySpark
2 92 (5.14%) Kafka
3 45 (2.51%) REST
4 41 (2.29%) Pandas
5 39 (2.18%) JSON
6 28 (1.56%) Great Expectations
7 24 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
8 21 (1.17%) Web Services
9 20 (1.12%) scikit-learn
10 17 (0.95%) XML
11 16 (0.89%) Middleware
12 14 (0.78%) SOAP
13 13 (0.73%) GeoJSON
13 13 (0.73%) HTML
13 13 (0.73%) OpenTelemetry
14 12 (0.67%) NumPy
15 11 (0.61%) pytest
15 11 (0.61%) PyTorch
16 10 (0.56%) .NET
16 10 (0.56%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 147 (8.21%) Data Structures
2 109 (6.09%) Legacy Systems
3 103 (5.75%) Onboarding
4 96 (5.36%) Cloud Native
5 69 (3.85%) Product Ownership
6 61 (3.41%) Management Information System
7 55 (3.07%) CMDB
8 34 (1.90%) Reference Data
9 33 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
10 30 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
11 29 (1.62%) AI Agents
12 26 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
13 23 (1.28%) NHS
13 23 (1.28%) Taxonomies
14 22 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
15 17 (0.95%) Clustering
16 16 (0.89%) Life Science
17 15 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
17 15 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
18 13 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 16 (0.89%) Unix
2 15 (0.84%) Linux
3 12 (0.67%) Windows
4 1 (0.056%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.056%) VMS
4 1 (0.056%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 714 (39.87%) Data Modelling
2 638 (35.62%) Analytics
3 588 (32.83%) Data Governance
4 514 (28.70%) Data Pipeline
5 510 (28.48%) ETL
6 490 (27.36%) Business Intelligence
7 441 (24.62%) Validation
8 427 (23.84%) Migration
9 392 (21.89%) Data Engineering
10 364 (20.32%) Agile
11 342 (19.10%) Decision-Making
12 332 (18.54%) Problem-Solving
13 329 (18.37%) CI/CD
14 317 (17.70%) Stakeholder Management
15 303 (16.92%) AI
16 262 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
16 262 (14.63%) Data Migration
17 258 (14.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 242 (13.51%) Data Architecture
18 242 (13.51%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 790 (44.11%) SQL
2 480 (26.80%) Python
3 57 (3.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 57 (3.18%) Java
4 41 (2.29%) Scala
5 34 (1.90%) T-SQL
6 33 (1.84%) PL/SQL
7 30 (1.68%) PowerShell
8 18 (1.01%) C#
8 18 (1.01%) Shell Script
8 18 (1.01%) VBA
9 13 (0.73%) JavaScript
9 13 (0.73%) R
10 12 (0.67%) Bicep
11 10 (0.56%) Apex Code
11 10 (0.56%) Bash
11 10 (0.56%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.39%) SOQL
13 6 (0.34%) SOSL
14 5 (0.28%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 302 (16.86%) Security Cleared
2 228 (12.73%) SC Cleared
3 107 (5.97%) Degree
4 69 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (1.68%) Azure Certification
6 22 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (1.12%) DV Cleared
8 18 (1.01%) AWS Certification
9 15 (0.84%) Master's Degree
9 15 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (0.67%) PMI Certification
11 8 (0.45%) PMP
12 7 (0.39%) ACCA
12 7 (0.39%) CIMA
12 7 (0.39%) SnowPro
13 6 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.34%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 5 (0.28%) PhD
15 4 (0.22%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (8.15%) GDPR
2 123 (6.87%) QA
3 34 (1.90%) PMO
4 32 (1.79%) Accessibility
5 22 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (0.95%) Solvency II
7 15 (0.84%) SLA
8 11 (0.61%) IFRS
9 10 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.50%) COREP
10 9 (0.50%) FINREP
10 9 (0.50%) NIST
11 8 (0.45%) GRC
12 6 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.34%) NCSC
13 4 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.22%) GAAP
13 4 (0.22%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.22%) IFRS 17
13 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 67 (3.74%) Docker
2 17 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.28%) etcd
4 1 (0.056%) HDFS
4 1 (0.056%) RACF
4 1 (0.056%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.056%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 125 (6.98%) Terraform
2 73 (4.08%) Kubernetes
3 14 (0.78%) Grafana
4 12 (0.67%) Prometheus
5 9 (0.50%) Ansible
6 7 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.28%) Fluentd
7 5 (0.28%) HP ALM
7 5 (0.28%) SCCM
8 4 (0.22%) Control-M
8 4 (0.22%) Kibana
9 1 (0.056%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.056%) Istio
9 1 (0.056%) logstash
9 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.056%) Nessus
9 1 (0.056%) Nexpose
9 1 (0.056%) Puppet
9 1 (0.056%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.056%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 285 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 265 (14.80%) Databricks
3 149 (8.32%) SAP
4 124 (6.92%) Oracle
5 84 (4.69%) Informatica
6 79 (4.41%) Salesforce
7 73 (4.08%) ServiceNow
8 47 (2.62%) Google
9 33 (1.84%) Talend
10 24 (1.34%) Workday
11 20 (1.12%) Denodo
11 20 (1.12%) IBM
11 20 (1.12%) Palantir
12 18 (1.01%) Alteryx
13 16 (0.89%) Adobe
13 16 (0.89%) Foundry
14 14 (0.78%) NEC
15 13 (0.73%) GoldenSource
16 12 (0.67%) Sage
16 12 (0.67%) Splunk