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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 108 108
Rank change year-on-year +56 0 +54
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,700 639 764
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.88% 2.51% 2.06%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.83% 15.18% 15.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 404 534
10th Percentile £350 £339 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £593 £638 £700
90th Percentile £675 £734 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 22 28
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.52 £13.49
25th Percentile £17.62 £23.69 £15.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.82 £21.06
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% +51.11% -6.35%
75th Percentile £60.75 £35.00 £42.50
90th Percentile £76.75 £76.21 £52.35
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.82 £15.80
% change year-on-year +25.71% +101.39% -29.73%

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 7,445 4,209 5,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.01% 16.50% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,803 2,726 3,143
10th Percentile £350 £270 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £712 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 496 183 380
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £11.00
25th Percentile £19.33 £21.60 £13.18
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.50 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +34.41% -42.11%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £82.08 £84.88 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £31.57 £23.80
% change year-on-year +14.27% +32.63% -36.95%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +64 911 £525 -3.67% 253
North of England +13 210 £475 +5.56% 90
Midlands +34 204 £498 +7.28% 79
West Midlands +34 166 £498 -0.50% 45
South East +19 162 £471 -5.80% 144
North West +11 126 £475 +4.97% 50
South West +20 91 £495 +16.47% 31
East of England -7 77 £575 -4.17% 33
Yorkshire -24 59 £471 +17.81% 28
East Midlands +6 38 £475 +3.09% 34
North East -12 25 £475 -22.45% 12
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 91 (5.35%) Apache Airflow
1 91 (5.35%) Apache Spark
2 55 (3.24%) Apache
3 50 (2.94%) Confluence
4 49 (2.88%) SAS
5 36 (2.12%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (0.47%) Appian
7 8 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.41%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.24%) CMS
10 3 (0.18%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.059%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.059%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.059%) Luigi
12 1 (0.059%) Mendix
12 1 (0.059%) Smallworld
Applications
1 123 (7.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
3 18 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
4 16 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (0.94%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.12%) CATIA
7 1 (0.059%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.059%) Trello
Business Applications
1 52 (3.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.76%) NEC Housing
3 12 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.65%) NetSuite
5 10 (0.59%) Loan IQ
6 9 (0.53%) iTrent
6 9 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.41%) Sage X3
8 6 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
8 6 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 5 (0.29%) BambooHR
9 5 (0.29%) Finacle
9 5 (0.29%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
10 4 (0.24%) SAP PM
11 3 (0.18%) Actimize
11 3 (0.18%) Aladdin
11 3 (0.18%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.18%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 477 (28.06%) Azure
2 404 (23.76%) Power Platform
3 305 (17.94%) AWS
4 160 (9.41%) Azure Data Factory
5 131 (7.71%) GCP
6 123 (7.24%) Snowflake
7 120 (7.06%) dbt
8 103 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
9 100 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 93 (5.47%) Amazon S3
11 81 (4.76%) Serverless
12 73 (4.29%) GitHub
13 66 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
14 55 (3.24%) Collibra
15 41 (2.41%) Microsoft Purview
16 38 (2.24%) Power Automate
17 35 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
18 32 (1.88%) SaaS
19 25 (1.47%) PowerApps
20 22 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.47%) Firewall
2 5 (0.29%) VPN
3 2 (0.12%) HTTP
4 1 (0.059%) 4G
4 1 (0.059%) 5G
4 1 (0.059%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.059%) DNS
4 1 (0.059%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.059%) SNMP
4 1 (0.059%) SSH
4 1 (0.059%) WAN
4 1 (0.059%) Wireless
4 1 (0.059%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 384 (22.59%) Power BI
2 269 (15.82%) Data Warehouse
3 216 (12.71%) Metadata
4 165 (9.71%) Data Lake
5 108 (6.35%) Tableau
6 99 (5.82%) SQL Server
7 79 (4.65%) Delta Lake
8 73 (4.29%) BigQuery
9 71 (4.18%) Amazon Redshift
10 61 (3.59%) Relational Database
11 55 (3.24%) Amazon Athena
12 50 (2.94%) Big Data
13 47 (2.76%) Snowflake Schema
14 37 (2.18%) Azure SQL Database
15 35 (2.06%) NoSQL
15 35 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
15 35 (2.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 34 (2.00%) Power Query
17 27 (1.59%) Star Schema
18 24 (1.41%) Looker
Development Applications
1 119 (7.00%) JIRA
2 112 (6.59%) Git
3 43 (2.53%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.94%) GitLab
5 18 (1.06%) ERwin
6 14 (0.82%) MLflow
7 9 (0.53%) Eclipse
8 8 (0.47%) ER Studio
8 8 (0.47%) Postman
8 8 (0.47%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.41%) Selenium
9 7 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.35%) Ant
11 5 (0.29%) Rational DOORS
12 4 (0.24%) LSMW
12 4 (0.24%) Robot Framework
12 4 (0.24%) Zephyr
13 3 (0.18%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.18%) Terragrunt
General
1 525 (30.88%) Finance
2 501 (29.47%) Social Skills
3 393 (23.12%) Analytical Skills
4 189 (11.12%) Public Sector
5 136 (8.00%) Banking
6 46 (2.71%) Marketing
7 45 (2.65%) Retail
8 40 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
9 38 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
9 38 (2.24%) Manufacturing
10 33 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 29 (1.71%) Local Government
12 28 (1.65%) Legal
13 26 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
14 19 (1.12%) Military
15 18 (1.06%) Law
16 17 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
17 15 (0.88%) Publishing
18 14 (0.82%) Financial Institution
19 13 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 409 (24.06%) Data Engineer
2 354 (20.82%) Analyst
3 203 (11.94%) Data Analyst
4 198 (11.65%) Senior
5 179 (10.53%) Lead
6 146 (8.59%) Architect
7 90 (5.29%) Data Architect
8 89 (5.24%) Developer
9 88 (5.18%) Business Analyst
10 83 (4.88%) Senior Data Engineer
11 57 (3.35%) Consultant
12 54 (3.18%) Data Manager
13 43 (2.53%) Administrator
14 34 (2.00%) Data Business Analyst
15 32 (1.88%) Project Manager
16 31 (1.82%) Data Scientist
17 30 (1.76%) Data Migration Lead
18 29 (1.71%) Azure Engineer
18 29 (1.71%) Data Consultant
19 28 (1.65%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (7.71%) PySpark
2 92 (5.41%) Kafka
3 46 (2.71%) Pandas
4 45 (2.65%) REST
5 38 (2.24%) JSON
6 28 (1.65%) Great Expectations
7 24 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
8 23 (1.35%) scikit-learn
9 22 (1.29%) Web Services
10 19 (1.12%) XML
11 18 (1.06%) Middleware
12 16 (0.94%) NumPy
13 14 (0.82%) pytest
13 14 (0.82%) PyTorch
13 14 (0.82%) SOAP
14 13 (0.76%) GeoJSON
15 12 (0.71%) HTML
16 11 (0.65%) OpenTelemetry
16 11 (0.65%) TensorFlow
17 10 (0.59%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 135 (7.94%) Data Structures
2 110 (6.47%) Legacy Systems
3 94 (5.53%) Onboarding
4 81 (4.76%) Cloud Native
5 65 (3.82%) Management Information System
6 64 (3.76%) Product Ownership
7 54 (3.18%) CMDB
8 34 (2.00%) Reference Data
9 31 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
10 30 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
11 29 (1.71%) AI Agents
12 24 (1.41%) Taxonomies
13 23 (1.35%) NHS
14 22 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
14 22 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
15 18 (1.06%) Clustering
16 14 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
16 14 (0.82%) Life Science
17 13 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
18 12 (0.71%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.65%) Unix
1 11 (0.65%) Windows
2 9 (0.53%) Linux
3 1 (0.059%) VMS
3 1 (0.059%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 683 (40.18%) Data Modelling
2 625 (36.76%) Analytics
3 540 (31.76%) Data Governance
4 498 (29.29%) ETL
5 482 (28.35%) Data Pipeline
6 479 (28.18%) Business Intelligence
7 406 (23.88%) Validation
8 397 (23.35%) Migration
9 380 (22.35%) Data Engineering
10 352 (20.71%) Agile
11 329 (19.35%) Decision-Making
12 320 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
13 313 (18.41%) CI/CD
14 308 (18.12%) AI
15 289 (17.00%) Stakeholder Management
16 253 (14.88%) Data Migration
17 240 (14.12%) Continuous Improvement
17 240 (14.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 235 (13.82%) Data Architecture
19 227 (13.35%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 769 (45.24%) SQL
2 471 (27.71%) Python
3 53 (3.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 53 (3.12%) Java
4 42 (2.47%) Scala
5 38 (2.24%) T-SQL
6 33 (1.94%) PL/SQL
7 28 (1.65%) PowerShell
8 18 (1.06%) VBA
9 17 (1.00%) C#
10 12 (0.71%) Bicep
10 12 (0.71%) JavaScript
10 12 (0.71%) R
10 12 (0.71%) Shell Script
11 10 (0.59%) Bash
12 9 (0.53%) Apex Code
13 8 (0.47%) TypeScript
14 7 (0.41%) SOQL
15 6 (0.35%) SOSL
16 5 (0.29%) Korn
Qualifications
1 287 (16.88%) Security Cleared
2 225 (13.24%) SC Cleared
3 101 (5.94%) Degree
4 62 (3.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (1.65%) Azure Certification
6 23 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (1.00%) AWS Certification
8 15 (0.88%) Master's Degree
9 14 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (0.59%) PMI Certification
11 9 (0.53%) DV Cleared
12 8 (0.47%) ACCA
12 8 (0.47%) CIMA
13 7 (0.41%) SnowPro
14 6 (0.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (0.35%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.35%) PMP
15 5 (0.29%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.29%) PhD
15 5 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (8.71%) GDPR
2 105 (6.18%) QA
3 33 (1.94%) PMO
4 28 (1.65%) Accessibility
5 21 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.00%) SLA
6 17 (1.00%) Solvency II
7 11 (0.65%) IFRS
7 11 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (0.47%) COREP
8 8 (0.47%) FINREP
8 8 (0.47%) GRC
9 7 (0.41%) NIST
10 5 (0.29%) NCSC
11 4 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.24%) GAAP
11 4 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.24%) IFRS 17
11 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 69 (4.06%) Docker
2 10 (0.59%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.29%) etcd
4 1 (0.059%) HDFS
4 1 (0.059%) RACF
4 1 (0.059%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.059%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 125 (7.35%) Terraform
2 72 (4.24%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.76%) Grafana
4 11 (0.65%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.47%) Ansible
6 6 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.29%) Fluentd
7 5 (0.29%) SCCM
8 4 (0.24%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.24%) Kibana
9 1 (0.059%) Control-M
9 1 (0.059%) Istio
9 1 (0.059%) logstash
9 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.059%) Nessus
9 1 (0.059%) Nexpose
9 1 (0.059%) Puppet
9 1 (0.059%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.059%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 278 (16.35%) Microsoft
2 257 (15.12%) Databricks
3 126 (7.41%) SAP
4 122 (7.18%) Oracle
5 79 (4.65%) Salesforce
6 74 (4.35%) Informatica
6 74 (4.35%) ServiceNow
7 42 (2.47%) Google
8 33 (1.94%) Talend
9 22 (1.29%) Denodo
10 19 (1.12%) IBM
10 19 (1.12%) Palantir
11 17 (1.00%) Workday
12 15 (0.88%) Adobe
12 15 (0.88%) Foundry
13 14 (0.82%) Alteryx
13 14 (0.82%) GoldenSource
13 14 (0.82%) NEC
13 14 (0.82%) OpenAI
14 10 (0.59%) ESRI