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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 112 106
Rank change year-on-year +61 -6 +55
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,669 619 765
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.85% 2.48% 2.04%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.66% 15.07% 15.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,098 391 534
10th Percentile £350 £350 £354
25th Percentile £413 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £590 £638 £688
90th Percentile £675 £725 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £519 £550
% change year-on-year -3.66% -5.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 20 26
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.22 £13.07
25th Percentile £17.62 £23.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year +26.42% +67.14% -15.81%
75th Percentile £60.75 £34.99 £42.50
90th Percentile £77.98 £78.83 £52.75
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £15.79
% change year-on-year +26.42% +100.38% -29.78%

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 7,365 4,107 5,046
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.00% 16.44% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,771 2,647 3,161
10th Percentile £350 £268 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £703 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 483 177 386
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £10.95
25th Percentile £19.33 £22.14 £12.84
Median hourly rate £36.07 £32.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +10.98% +36.55% -42.01%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.50 £50.80
90th Percentile £82.25 £84.15 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £31.70 £23.05
% change year-on-year +13.79% +37.56% -38.55%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +65 908 £520 -5.45% 274
North of England +11 200 £475 +5.56% 99
Midlands +36 199 £495 +6.99% 88
West Midlands +30 163 £495 +6.41% 51
South East +24 151 £471 -5.80% 162
North West +15 122 £475 +5.56% 58
South West +19 92 £500 +17.65% 34
East of England -11 73 £575 -4.80% 40
Yorkshire -29 52 £480 +20.00% 31
East Midlands +2 36 £475 +3.09% 37
North East -12 26 £475 -22.45% 11
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 90 (5.39%) Apache Spark
2 89 (5.33%) Apache Airflow
3 51 (3.06%) Apache
4 50 (3.00%) Confluence
5 49 (2.94%) SAS
6 35 (2.10%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.54%) Appian
7 9 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
8 8 (0.48%) ArcGIS
9 7 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.24%) CMS
11 3 (0.18%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.12%) GeoServer
12 2 (0.12%) Smallworld
13 1 (0.060%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.060%) Mendix
Applications
1 121 (7.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
3 18 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
4 16 (0.96%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.24%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.12%) CATIA
8 1 (0.060%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.060%) Trello
Business Applications
1 50 (3.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.78%) NEC Housing
3 11 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.54%) iTrent
4 9 (0.54%) Loan IQ
4 9 (0.54%) NetSuite
4 9 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.42%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.36%) Finacle
6 6 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 5 (0.30%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.30%) SAP MM
8 4 (0.24%) SAP PM
8 4 (0.24%) SystmOne
9 3 (0.18%) Aladdin
9 3 (0.18%) Maximo
9 3 (0.18%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.18%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 479 (28.70%) Azure
2 407 (24.39%) Power Platform
3 301 (18.03%) AWS
4 168 (10.07%) Azure Data Factory
5 129 (7.73%) GCP
6 121 (7.25%) Snowflake
7 118 (7.07%) dbt
8 108 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
9 105 (6.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 91 (5.45%) Amazon S3
11 82 (4.91%) Serverless
12 77 (4.61%) GitHub
13 65 (3.89%) AWS Lambda
14 53 (3.18%) Collibra
15 39 (2.34%) Microsoft Purview
15 39 (2.34%) Power Automate
16 36 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
17 32 (1.92%) SaaS
18 22 (1.32%) PowerApps
19 21 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.48%) Firewall
2 5 (0.30%) VPN
3 2 (0.12%) HTTP
4 1 (0.060%) 4G
4 1 (0.060%) 5G
4 1 (0.060%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.060%) DNS
4 1 (0.060%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.060%) SNMP
4 1 (0.060%) SSH
4 1 (0.060%) WAN
4 1 (0.060%) Wireless
4 1 (0.060%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 389 (23.31%) Power BI
2 268 (16.06%) Data Warehouse
3 216 (12.94%) Metadata
4 169 (10.13%) Data Lake
5 106 (6.35%) Tableau
6 101 (6.05%) SQL Server
7 79 (4.73%) Delta Lake
8 69 (4.13%) BigQuery
9 68 (4.07%) Amazon Redshift
10 60 (3.59%) Relational Database
11 54 (3.24%) Amazon Athena
12 48 (2.88%) Big Data
12 48 (2.88%) Snowflake Schema
13 43 (2.58%) Azure SQL Database
14 38 (2.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 36 (2.16%) Power Query
16 35 (2.10%) NoSQL
17 33 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
18 25 (1.50%) Star Schema
19 23 (1.38%) Looker
Development Applications
1 118 (7.07%) JIRA
2 114 (6.83%) Git
3 44 (2.64%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.98%) GitLab
5 18 (1.08%) ERwin
6 14 (0.84%) MLflow
7 8 (0.48%) ER Studio
7 8 (0.48%) Postman
7 8 (0.48%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.42%) Eclipse
8 7 (0.42%) Selenium
8 7 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (0.36%) Ant
10 5 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
11 4 (0.24%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.24%) Zephyr
12 3 (0.18%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.18%) Newman
12 3 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.18%) Terragrunt
General
1 514 (30.80%) Finance
2 491 (29.42%) Social Skills
3 382 (22.89%) Analytical Skills
4 186 (11.14%) Public Sector
5 136 (8.15%) Banking
6 45 (2.70%) Marketing
7 43 (2.58%) Retail
8 38 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
9 37 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
10 34 (2.04%) Manufacturing
11 32 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 28 (1.68%) Local Government
13 26 (1.56%) Legal
14 25 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
15 20 (1.20%) Military
16 18 (1.08%) Law
17 17 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
18 15 (0.90%) Publishing
19 14 (0.84%) Financial Institution
20 13 (0.78%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 414 (24.81%) Data Engineer
2 340 (20.37%) Analyst
3 199 (11.92%) Data Analyst
4 194 (11.62%) Senior
5 176 (10.55%) Lead
6 145 (8.69%) Architect
7 88 (5.27%) Data Architect
8 86 (5.15%) Developer
9 84 (5.03%) Senior Data Engineer
10 82 (4.91%) Business Analyst
11 55 (3.30%) Consultant
12 51 (3.06%) Data Manager
13 40 (2.40%) Administrator
14 32 (1.92%) Data Business Analyst
14 32 (1.92%) Data Scientist
15 31 (1.86%) Data Migration Lead
16 30 (1.80%) Azure Engineer
16 30 (1.80%) Project Manager
17 27 (1.62%) AWS Engineer
17 27 (1.62%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (8.03%) PySpark
2 90 (5.39%) Kafka
3 48 (2.88%) Pandas
4 46 (2.76%) REST
5 36 (2.16%) JSON
6 28 (1.68%) Great Expectations
7 24 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
7 24 (1.44%) scikit-learn
8 22 (1.32%) Web Services
9 18 (1.08%) Middleware
9 18 (1.08%) XML
10 17 (1.02%) NumPy
11 15 (0.90%) pytest
12 14 (0.84%) PyTorch
12 14 (0.84%) SOAP
13 13 (0.78%) GeoJSON
14 12 (0.72%) HTML
15 11 (0.66%) OAuth
15 11 (0.66%) OpenTelemetry
15 11 (0.66%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 130 (7.79%) Data Structures
2 109 (6.53%) Legacy Systems
3 88 (5.27%) Onboarding
4 82 (4.91%) Cloud Native
5 65 (3.89%) Product Ownership
6 63 (3.77%) Management Information System
7 50 (3.00%) CMDB
8 34 (2.04%) Reference Data
9 30 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
10 29 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
11 26 (1.56%) AI Agents
12 23 (1.38%) NHS
13 22 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
13 22 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
13 22 (1.32%) Taxonomies
14 19 (1.14%) Clustering
15 13 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
15 13 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
15 13 (0.78%) Life Science
16 12 (0.72%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.66%) Unix
1 11 (0.66%) Windows
2 9 (0.54%) Linux
3 1 (0.060%) VMS
3 1 (0.060%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 685 (41.04%) Data Modelling
2 626 (37.51%) Analytics
3 525 (31.46%) Data Governance
4 498 (29.84%) ETL
5 483 (28.94%) Business Intelligence
6 479 (28.70%) Data Pipeline
7 396 (23.73%) Validation
8 388 (23.25%) Migration
9 376 (22.53%) Data Engineering
10 346 (20.73%) Agile
11 323 (19.35%) Decision-Making
12 317 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
13 316 (18.93%) CI/CD
14 299 (17.91%) AI
15 279 (16.72%) Stakeholder Management
16 250 (14.98%) Data Migration
17 238 (14.26%) Data Architecture
18 232 (13.90%) Continuous Improvement
19 231 (13.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 223 (13.36%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 770 (46.14%) SQL
2 473 (28.34%) Python
3 55 (3.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 51 (3.06%) Java
5 40 (2.40%) Scala
5 40 (2.40%) T-SQL
6 35 (2.10%) PL/SQL
7 28 (1.68%) PowerShell
8 18 (1.08%) VBA
9 16 (0.96%) C#
10 14 (0.84%) Bicep
11 13 (0.78%) R
12 11 (0.66%) JavaScript
12 11 (0.66%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.54%) Apex Code
13 9 (0.54%) Bash
14 8 (0.48%) TypeScript
15 7 (0.42%) SOQL
16 6 (0.36%) SOSL
17 5 (0.30%) Korn
Qualifications
1 289 (17.32%) Security Cleared
2 226 (13.54%) SC Cleared
3 97 (5.81%) Degree
4 62 (3.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 27 (1.62%) Azure Certification
6 23 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (0.96%) AWS Certification
7 16 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (0.90%) Master's Degree
9 9 (0.54%) DV Cleared
10 8 (0.48%) ACCA
10 8 (0.48%) CIMA
10 8 (0.48%) PMI Certification
11 7 (0.42%) SnowPro
12 6 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 6 (0.36%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.30%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 4 (0.24%) PhD
14 4 (0.24%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (8.51%) GDPR
2 103 (6.17%) QA
3 33 (1.98%) PMO
4 26 (1.56%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (1.08%) SLA
7 17 (1.02%) Solvency II
8 11 (0.66%) IFRS
8 11 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.48%) COREP
9 8 (0.48%) FINREP
10 7 (0.42%) GRC
10 7 (0.42%) NIST
11 5 (0.30%) NCSC
12 4 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.24%) BS7666
12 4 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.24%) GAAP
12 4 (0.24%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 70 (4.19%) Docker
2 11 (0.66%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.30%) etcd
4 1 (0.060%) HDFS
4 1 (0.060%) RACF
4 1 (0.060%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.060%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 124 (7.43%) Terraform
2 73 (4.37%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.78%) Grafana
4 11 (0.66%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.48%) Ansible
6 6 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.30%) Fluentd
7 5 (0.30%) SCCM
8 4 (0.24%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.24%) Kibana
9 1 (0.060%) Control-M
9 1 (0.060%) Istio
9 1 (0.060%) logstash
9 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.060%) Nessus
9 1 (0.060%) Nexpose
9 1 (0.060%) Puppet
9 1 (0.060%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.060%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 278 (16.66%) Microsoft
2 257 (15.40%) Databricks
3 125 (7.49%) Oracle
4 122 (7.31%) SAP
5 79 (4.73%) Salesforce
6 73 (4.37%) ServiceNow
7 71 (4.25%) Informatica
8 41 (2.46%) Google
9 34 (2.04%) Talend
10 23 (1.38%) Denodo
11 20 (1.20%) IBM
12 19 (1.14%) Palantir
13 18 (1.08%) Workday
14 16 (0.96%) OpenAI
15 15 (0.90%) GoldenSource
16 14 (0.84%) Adobe
16 14 (0.84%) NEC
17 12 (0.72%) Alteryx
17 12 (0.72%) Foundry
18 11 (0.66%) Avaloq