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 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 113 118
Rank change year-on-year +39 +5 +42
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,133 618 772
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.30% 2.41% 2.04%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.08% 16.32% 14.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 772 417 519
10th Percentile £336 £308 £375
25th Percentile £413 £393 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.66%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 16 40
10th Percentile £13.95 £19.74 £14.09
25th Percentile £17.73 £22.55 £15.39
Median hourly rate £18.50 £33.91 £27.47
Median % change year-on-year -45.44% +23.45% +22.15%
75th Percentile £30.75 £56.25 £49.50
90th Percentile £66.70 £95.63 £62.08
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £33.91 £22.82
% change year-on-year -17.42% +48.58% +1.49%

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 5,937 3,787 5,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.31% 14.77% 14.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,843 2,237 3,580
10th Percentile £325 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £611 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 147 308
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.88 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £20.10 £14.50
Median hourly rate £23.60 £30.00 £25.81
Median % change year-on-year -21.35% +16.23% -26.26%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.19
90th Percentile £69.06 £75.00 £73.05
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £27.35 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.78% +9.40% -23.08%

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 17 February 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 17 February 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 17 February 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 +36 675 £525 - 238
North of England +3 146 £475 +18.75% 99
Midlands -2 108 £500 +21.21% 81
West Midlands -6 84 £515 +5.53% 53
North West +4 79 £463 +8.82% 56
South East +6 77 £425 -27.66% 178
South West +23 66 £500 -1.23% 42
Yorkshire -25 44 £500 +138.10% 29
East of England -44 26 £650 +8.33% 41
East Midlands -14 25 £428 +20.08% 28
North East +10 24 £463 - 15
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 99 (8.74%) Apache Spark
2 60 (5.30%) Apache Airflow
3 45 (3.97%) Apache
4 32 (2.82%) SAS
5 24 (2.12%) Confluence
6 21 (1.85%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.79%) Appian
8 8 (0.71%) GeoServer
8 8 (0.71%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.71%) Smallworld
9 6 (0.53%) Oracle Application Server
10 3 (0.26%) NetWeaver
11 2 (0.18%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.18%) CMS
11 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.088%) Jupyter
Applications
1 98 (8.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.24%) MS Visio
5 13 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.26%) Trello
8 1 (0.088%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.088%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 39 (3.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 9 (0.79%) Loan IQ
4 7 (0.62%) NEC Housing
4 7 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.62%) SAP MDG
5 5 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.44%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.44%) SystmOne
6 4 (0.35%) Finacle
6 4 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.35%) SAP MM
7 3 (0.26%) Oracle SCM
7 3 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.26%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.26%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.26%) SAP MDG-F
7 3 (0.26%) SAP MDG-S
7 3 (0.26%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 362 (31.95%) Azure
2 281 (24.80%) Power Platform
3 227 (20.04%) AWS
4 137 (12.09%) Azure Data Factory
5 115 (10.15%) GCP
6 97 (8.56%) Snowflake
7 83 (7.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 70 (6.18%) dbt
9 59 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
10 56 (4.94%) Amazon S3
11 49 (4.32%) Collibra
11 49 (4.32%) GitHub
12 47 (4.15%) Serverless
13 32 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
14 28 (2.47%) Microsoft Purview
15 24 (2.12%) Power Automate
16 23 (2.03%) SaaS
17 22 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
18 21 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
19 16 (1.41%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.26%) DNS
2 2 (0.18%) Broadband
2 2 (0.18%) HTTP
2 2 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
2 2 (0.18%) SSL
2 2 (0.18%) VoIP
3 1 (0.088%) 4G
3 1 (0.088%) 5G
3 1 (0.088%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 273 (24.10%) Power BI
2 210 (18.53%) Data Warehouse
3 173 (15.27%) Metadata
4 109 (9.62%) Data Lake
5 75 (6.62%) SQL Server
6 65 (5.74%) Tableau
7 58 (5.12%) Delta Lake
8 55 (4.85%) Azure SQL Database
9 52 (4.59%) Snowflake Schema
10 45 (3.97%) Big Data
11 43 (3.80%) NoSQL
12 42 (3.71%) BigQuery
13 41 (3.62%) Relational Database
14 33 (2.91%) Amazon Redshift
15 32 (2.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 30 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
17 27 (2.38%) Data Vault
18 23 (2.03%) Pentaho
19 22 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
19 22 (1.94%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 117 (10.33%) Git
2 78 (6.88%) JIRA
3 41 (3.62%) Jenkins
4 23 (2.03%) ERwin
5 17 (1.50%) PowerDesigner
6 13 (1.15%) MLflow
7 12 (1.06%) ER Studio
8 8 (0.71%) GitLab
9 5 (0.44%) DBeaver
10 3 (0.26%) LSMW
10 3 (0.26%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.18%) Browser DevTools
11 2 (0.18%) Postman
11 2 (0.18%) Selenium
12 1 (0.088%) Liquibase
12 1 (0.088%) Oracle Forms
12 1 (0.088%) RStudio
12 1 (0.088%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.088%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.088%) webpack
General
1 387 (34.16%) Social Skills
2 331 (29.21%) Finance
3 261 (23.04%) Analytical Skills
4 127 (11.21%) Public Sector
5 90 (7.94%) Banking
6 31 (2.74%) Marketing
7 28 (2.47%) Retail
8 27 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
9 24 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (1.68%) Legal
11 18 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (1.50%) Local Government
12 17 (1.50%) Publishing
13 15 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (1.32%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.32%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.15%) Military
15 12 (1.06%) Billing
16 11 (0.97%) Law
16 11 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 289 (25.51%) Data Engineer
2 249 (21.98%) Analyst
3 155 (13.68%) Data Analyst
4 116 (10.24%) Lead
4 116 (10.24%) Senior
5 112 (9.89%) Architect
6 70 (6.18%) Business Analyst
7 67 (5.91%) Data Architect
8 62 (5.47%) Developer
9 52 (4.59%) Senior Data Engineer
10 47 (4.15%) Azure Engineer
11 39 (3.44%) Azure Data Engineer
11 39 (3.44%) Consultant
12 36 (3.18%) Data Business Analyst
13 31 (2.74%) Data Modeller
14 26 (2.29%) Data Manager
15 21 (1.85%) Project Manager
16 20 (1.77%) Governance Analyst
17 18 (1.59%) Senior Analyst
18 17 (1.50%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (9.27%) PySpark
2 79 (6.97%) Kafka
3 36 (3.18%) REST
4 31 (2.74%) Pandas
5 20 (1.77%) NumPy
6 17 (1.50%) Great Expectations
6 17 (1.50%) scikit-learn
7 14 (1.24%) Middleware
8 13 (1.15%) XML
9 12 (1.06%) OAuth
9 12 (1.06%) Web Services
10 11 (0.97%) PyTorch
10 11 (0.97%) TensorFlow
11 10 (0.88%) Flask
11 10 (0.88%) Hugging Face
11 10 (0.88%) JSON
11 10 (0.88%) OpenAPI
11 10 (0.88%) pytest
11 10 (0.88%) SOAP
11 10 (0.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 104 (9.18%) Data Structures
2 85 (7.50%) Legacy Systems
3 46 (4.06%) Cloud Native
3 46 (4.06%) Management Information System
4 33 (2.91%) Analytical Mindset
4 33 (2.91%) Onboarding
5 32 (2.82%) Product Ownership
6 28 (2.47%) CMDB
7 23 (2.03%) Reference Data
8 20 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (1.77%) NHS
9 19 (1.68%) Reinsurance
10 18 (1.59%) Clustering
11 14 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (1.24%) Replication
12 12 (1.06%) Taxonomies
13 10 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (0.79%) Data Centre
14 9 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
15 8 (0.71%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.32%) Linux
2 5 (0.44%) Unix
3 3 (0.26%) Windows
4 1 (0.088%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 487 (42.98%) Data Modelling
2 443 (39.10%) Analytics
3 408 (36.01%) Data Governance
4 368 (32.48%) ETL
5 362 (31.95%) Business Intelligence
6 300 (26.48%) Data Pipeline
7 273 (24.10%) Problem-Solving
8 258 (22.77%) Agile
9 254 (22.42%) Data Engineering
10 217 (19.15%) Migration
11 206 (18.18%) Validation
12 195 (17.21%) CI/CD
13 188 (16.59%) Decision-Making
14 181 (15.98%) Data Architecture
15 166 (14.65%) AI
16 161 (14.21%) Data Management
17 160 (14.12%) Stakeholder Management
18 150 (13.24%) Data Integration
19 149 (13.15%) Data Analysis
20 147 (12.97%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 567 (50.04%) SQL
2 361 (31.86%) Python
3 49 (4.32%) Scala
4 27 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 27 (2.38%) Java
5 25 (2.21%) PL/SQL
6 22 (1.94%) R
7 21 (1.85%) C#
8 20 (1.77%) T-SQL
9 16 (1.41%) JavaScript
10 12 (1.06%) Bicep
11 11 (0.97%) Bash
12 10 (0.88%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.79%) PowerShell
14 8 (0.71%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.71%) VBA
15 7 (0.62%) C++
15 7 (0.62%) TypeScript
16 4 (0.35%) ABAP
16 4 (0.35%) Korn
Qualifications
1 194 (17.12%) Security Cleared
2 143 (12.62%) SC Cleared
3 69 (6.09%) Degree
4 30 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 27 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.32%) DV Cleared
6 15 (1.32%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.15%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.06%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.26%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 3 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.18%) AAT
11 2 (0.18%) ACCA
11 2 (0.18%) CFA
11 2 (0.18%) CIMA
11 2 (0.18%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.18%) PhD
11 2 (0.18%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (8.47%) GDPR
2 67 (5.91%) QA
3 43 (3.80%) Accessibility
4 19 (1.68%) PMO
5 13 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
5 13 (1.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 11 (0.97%) SLA
7 10 (0.88%) Solvency II
8 7 (0.62%) Basel III
9 6 (0.53%) IFRS
10 5 (0.44%) ISO 19650
10 5 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.35%) FINREP
12 3 (0.26%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.26%) MiFID
12 3 (0.26%) NIST
12 3 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.18%) GRC
13 2 (0.18%) HL7
13 2 (0.18%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 57 (5.03%) Docker
2 6 (0.53%) zsh
3 5 (0.44%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.18%) HDFS
5 1 (0.088%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 77 (6.80%) Terraform
2 56 (4.94%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.35%) Kibana
3 4 (0.35%) SCCM
4 3 (0.26%) Grafana
4 3 (0.26%) logstash
4 3 (0.26%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.18%) Ansible
6 1 (0.088%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.088%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.088%) Oozie
6 1 (0.088%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 216 (19.06%) Databricks
2 168 (14.83%) Microsoft
3 85 (7.50%) Oracle
4 75 (6.62%) SAP
5 55 (4.85%) Informatica
6 54 (4.77%) Salesforce
7 44 (3.88%) Google
8 43 (3.80%) ServiceNow
9 41 (3.62%) Talend
10 22 (1.94%) Denodo
11 14 (1.24%) Sparx
12 13 (1.15%) Palantir
13 12 (1.06%) OpenAI
14 9 (0.79%) Alteryx
14 9 (0.79%) Automation Anywhere
15 8 (0.71%) Avaloq
15 8 (0.71%) ESRI
15 8 (0.71%) Foundry
15 8 (0.71%) Intergraph
15 8 (0.71%) UiPath