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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 106 110
Rank change year-on-year +56 +4 +45
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,848 695 715
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.09% 2.52% 2.07%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.65% 14.82% 15.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,218 452 511
10th Percentile £350 £343 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £594 £638 £713
90th Percentile £675 £744 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 18 12
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.08 £14.77
25th Percentile £20.87 £21.65 £23.13
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +26.42% -18.35% +25.00%
75th Percentile £60.75 £34.85 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £61.24 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £24.00
% change year-on-year +26.42% +31.83% -22.58%

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 7,813 4,689 4,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.28% 17.00% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,016 3,067 2,940
10th Percentile £346 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -1.69%
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 521 214 309
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.12 £10.95
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.29 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.72 £31.64 £26.56
Median % change year-on-year +22.38% +19.13% -37.51%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £85.60 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £38.86 £27.59 £25.00
% change year-on-year +40.87% +10.34% -34.21%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +62 971 £525 -4.55% 371
North of England +21 237 £475 +5.56% 129
Midlands +36 223 £468 +1.85% 86
South East +17 182 £464 -2.37% 157
West Midlands +42 180 £468 -6.50% 58
North West +12 130 £475 +5.56% 58
South West +23 104 £500 +17.65% 62
East of England +7 88 £565 -6.61% 27
Yorkshire 0 83 £463 +9.47% 40
East Midlands +8 43 £466 +3.79% 28
North East -21 25 £520 -15.10% 32
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
1 100 (5.41%) Apache Spark
2 99 (5.36%) Apache Airflow
3 75 (4.06%) Apache
4 55 (2.98%) Confluence
5 52 (2.81%) SAS
6 36 (1.95%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
8 9 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
9 8 (0.43%) ArcGIS
10 7 (0.38%) CMS
11 4 (0.22%) Appian
11 4 (0.22%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.11%) HCL Notes
12 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.054%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.054%) Luigi
13 1 (0.054%) Mendix
Applications
1 134 (7.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
3 18 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.70%) 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 64 (3.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.92%) 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 (0.43%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.43%) SAP MDG
5 8 (0.43%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.38%) iTrent
6 7 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 6 (0.32%) Loan IQ
7 6 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.27%) BambooHR
9 4 (0.22%) Maximo
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.22%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
10 3 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 496 (26.84%) Azure
2 416 (22.51%) Power Platform
3 323 (17.48%) AWS
4 159 (8.60%) Azure Data Factory
5 143 (7.74%) GCP
6 136 (7.36%) Snowflake
7 124 (6.71%) dbt
8 103 (5.57%) Azure DevOps
9 99 (5.36%) Amazon S3
10 94 (5.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 86 (4.65%) Serverless
12 74 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
13 73 (3.95%) GitHub
14 57 (3.08%) Collibra
15 41 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
15 41 (2.22%) Power Automate
16 38 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
16 38 (2.06%) SaaS
17 31 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
18 27 (1.46%) 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
1 394 (21.32%) Power BI
2 300 (16.23%) Data Warehouse
3 238 (12.88%) Metadata
4 167 (9.04%) Data Lake
5 115 (6.22%) Tableau
6 91 (4.92%) SQL Server
7 82 (4.44%) BigQuery
8 80 (4.33%) Delta Lake
9 77 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
10 67 (3.63%) Relational Database
11 59 (3.19%) Amazon Athena
12 55 (2.98%) Big Data
13 42 (2.27%) Snowflake Schema
14 41 (2.22%) NoSQL
15 38 (2.06%) Power Query
16 37 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 33 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
17 33 (1.79%) Star Schema
18 29 (1.57%) Looker
19 28 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 121 (6.55%) JIRA
2 114 (6.17%) Git
3 43 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.84%) GitLab
5 20 (1.08%) ERwin
6 13 (0.70%) ER Studio
7 12 (0.65%) MLflow
8 9 (0.49%) Eclipse
8 9 (0.49%) Postman
9 8 (0.43%) PowerDesigner
10 7 (0.38%) Selenium
10 7 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.32%) 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
1 556 (30.09%) Finance
2 552 (29.87%) Social Skills
3 446 (24.13%) Analytical Skills
4 206 (11.15%) Public Sector
5 141 (7.63%) Banking
6 52 (2.81%) Marketing
7 48 (2.60%) Retail
8 45 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
8 45 (2.44%) Manufacturing
9 39 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
10 33 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 31 (1.68%) Local Government
12 30 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
13 27 (1.46%) Legal
14 23 (1.24%) Military
15 21 (1.14%) Law
16 20 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
17 17 (0.92%) Front Office
17 17 (0.92%) Publishing
18 16 (0.87%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 422 (22.84%) Data Engineer
2 387 (20.94%) Analyst
3 220 (11.90%) Data Analyst
4 208 (11.26%) Senior
5 201 (10.88%) Lead
6 174 (9.42%) Architect
7 112 (6.06%) Data Architect
8 105 (5.68%) Business Analyst
9 103 (5.57%) Developer
10 89 (4.82%) Senior Data Engineer
11 63 (3.41%) Consultant
12 56 (3.03%) Data Manager
13 50 (2.71%) Administrator
14 47 (2.54%) Data Business Analyst
15 33 (1.79%) Azure Engineer
16 32 (1.73%) Data Consultant
17 31 (1.68%) AWS Engineer
17 31 (1.68%) Lead Data Engineer
18 30 (1.62%) Azure Data Engineer
18 30 (1.62%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (7.68%) PySpark
2 92 (4.98%) Kafka
3 49 (2.65%) REST
4 44 (2.38%) JSON
5 41 (2.22%) Pandas
6 28 (1.52%) Great Expectations
7 24 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
7 24 (1.30%) Web Services
8 20 (1.08%) Middleware
9 18 (0.97%) scikit-learn
9 18 (0.97%) XML
10 15 (0.81%) SOAP
11 14 (0.76%) HTML
12 13 (0.70%) GeoJSON
12 13 (0.70%) OpenTelemetry
13 12 (0.65%) .NET
14 11 (0.60%) pytest
15 10 (0.54%) Matplotlib
15 10 (0.54%) NumPy
15 10 (0.54%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 164 (8.87%) Data Structures
2 106 (5.74%) Onboarding
3 105 (5.68%) Legacy Systems
4 99 (5.36%) Cloud Native
5 80 (4.33%) Product Ownership
6 66 (3.57%) Management Information System
7 56 (3.03%) CMDB
8 42 (2.27%) Reference Data
9 32 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
10 29 (1.57%) AI Agents
10 29 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
11 26 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
12 25 (1.35%) Taxonomies
13 23 (1.24%) NHS
13 23 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
14 19 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
15 17 (0.92%) Clustering
16 16 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
16 16 (0.87%) Life Science
17 14 (0.76%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.03%) Linux
1 19 (1.03%) Unix
2 13 (0.70%) Windows
3 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.054%) VMS
3 1 (0.054%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 729 (39.45%) Data Modelling
2 663 (35.88%) Analytics
3 614 (33.23%) Data Governance
4 530 (28.68%) Data Pipeline
5 524 (28.35%) ETL
6 499 (27.00%) Business Intelligence
7 458 (24.78%) Validation
8 432 (23.38%) Migration
9 405 (21.92%) Data Engineering
10 380 (20.56%) Agile
11 344 (18.61%) Decision-Making
12 342 (18.51%) CI/CD
13 336 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
13 336 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
14 314 (16.99%) AI
15 276 (14.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 272 (14.72%) Continuous Improvement
17 266 (14.39%) Data Migration
18 257 (13.91%) Data Architecture
19 252 (13.64%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 825 (44.64%) SQL
2 502 (27.16%) Python
3 63 (3.41%) Java
4 56 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 42 (2.27%) Scala
6 36 (1.95%) PL/SQL
7 34 (1.84%) T-SQL
8 32 (1.73%) PowerShell
9 23 (1.24%) Shell Script
10 22 (1.19%) C#
11 19 (1.03%) VBA
12 16 (0.87%) JavaScript
13 14 (0.76%) R
14 12 (0.65%) Bicep
15 11 (0.60%) Bash
15 11 (0.60%) TypeScript
16 10 (0.54%) Apex Code
17 7 (0.38%) SOQL
18 6 (0.32%) Cypher
18 6 (0.32%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 312 (16.88%) Security Cleared
2 237 (12.82%) SC Cleared
3 112 (6.06%) Degree
4 67 (3.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (1.62%) Azure Certification
6 24 (1.30%) DV Cleared
7 23 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (0.97%) Master's Degree
9 17 (0.92%) AWS Certification
9 17 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (0.70%) PMI Certification
11 9 (0.49%) PMP
12 8 (0.43%) ACCA
12 8 (0.43%) CIMA
13 6 (0.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.32%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 6 (0.32%) SnowPro
14 5 (0.27%) PhD
15 4 (0.22%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (7.63%) GDPR
2 128 (6.93%) QA
3 34 (1.84%) PMO
4 33 (1.79%) Accessibility
5 23 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (0.87%) Solvency II
7 15 (0.81%) 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 (0.43%) 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 73 (3.95%) Docker
2 19 (1.03%) 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 (6.76%) Terraform
2 77 (4.17%) 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
1 293 (15.85%) Microsoft
2 275 (14.88%) Databricks
3 151 (8.17%) SAP
4 125 (6.76%) Oracle
5 85 (4.60%) Informatica
6 76 (4.11%) Salesforce
7 74 (4.00%) ServiceNow
8 48 (2.60%) Google
9 34 (1.84%) Talend
10 27 (1.46%) Workday
11 21 (1.14%) Adobe
11 21 (1.14%) Denodo
11 21 (1.14%) Palantir
12 20 (1.08%) IBM
13 18 (0.97%) Alteryx
14 17 (0.92%) Foundry
15 15 (0.81%) Splunk
16 14 (0.76%) Sage
17 13 (0.70%) NEC
18 12 (0.65%) Bloomberg