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 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 108 115
Rank change year-on-year +37 +7 +41
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,196 613 770
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.39% 2.42% 2.03%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.43% 16.03% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 822 425 515
10th Percentile £344 £309 £363
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £748 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 16 40
10th Percentile £13.95 £19.74 £14.09
25th Percentile £17.98 £23.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £18.94 £33.91 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.15% +41.27% +6.74%
75th Percentile £36.75 £56.25 £44.15
90th Percentile £76.13 £95.63 £61.75
UK median hourly rate £29.25 £33.91 £21.00
% change year-on-year -13.74% +61.45% -6.60%

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 6,154 3,825 5,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.43% 15.11% 14.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,975 2,327 3,550
10th Percentile £331 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £601 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £516
% change year-on-year - -3.01% -1.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 156 342
10th Percentile £15.60 £15.50 £11.95
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.81 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.77 £32.66 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year -21.08% +26.74% -26.39%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £78.40 £72.44
UK median hourly rate £27.69 £31.76 £25.00
% change year-on-year -12.81% +27.04% -23.17%

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 2 March 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 2 March 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 2 March 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 +34 697 £525 - 255
North of England +3 143 £475 +15.15% 128
Midlands +2 126 £510 +9.68% 98
West Midlands +5 101 £515 +8.19% 71
South East +5 89 £450 -14.29% 143
North West -1 75 £460 +2.22% 63
South West +26 66 £500 -4.76% 56
Yorkshire -37 45 £500 +81.82% 44
East of England -37 33 £565 -5.83% 26
East Midlands -19 26 £447 +20.00% 27
North East - 23 £475 - 23
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
1 107 (8.95%) Apache Spark
2 63 (5.27%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (4.18%) Apache
4 45 (3.76%) SAS
5 26 (2.17%) Confluence
6 21 (1.76%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.75%) Appian
8 8 (0.67%) GeoServer
8 8 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.67%) Smallworld
9 5 (0.42%) Oracle Application Server
10 3 (0.25%) CMS
10 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.25%) NetWeaver
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.084%) Jupyter
Applications
1 101 (8.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
4 14 (1.17%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.25%) Trello
7 1 (0.084%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 38 (3.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 11 (0.92%) Loan IQ
4 8 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.59%) NEC Housing
6 6 (0.50%) SAP MDG
7 5 (0.42%) Finacle
7 5 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.42%) SAP MM
7 5 (0.42%) SystmOne
8 4 (0.33%) Actimize
8 4 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.33%) Sage X3
9 3 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
9 3 (0.25%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.25%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.25%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.25%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 381 (31.86%) Azure
2 303 (25.33%) Power Platform
3 230 (19.23%) AWS
4 149 (12.46%) Azure Data Factory
5 117 (9.78%) GCP
6 105 (8.78%) Snowflake
7 87 (7.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 77 (6.44%) dbt
9 64 (5.35%) Azure DevOps
10 58 (4.85%) Amazon S3
11 50 (4.18%) Collibra
12 49 (4.10%) GitHub
12 49 (4.10%) Serverless
13 32 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
14 31 (2.59%) Microsoft Purview
15 25 (2.09%) Power Automate
15 25 (2.09%) SaaS
16 23 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
17 19 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
18 17 (1.42%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.17%) Broadband
1 2 (0.17%) DNS
1 2 (0.17%) Hyperconnected
1 2 (0.17%) SSL
1 2 (0.17%) VoIP
2 1 (0.084%) 4G
2 1 (0.084%) 5G
2 1 (0.084%) HTTP
2 1 (0.084%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 292 (24.41%) Power BI
2 225 (18.81%) Data Warehouse
3 175 (14.63%) Metadata
4 113 (9.45%) Data Lake
5 80 (6.69%) SQL Server
6 69 (5.77%) Tableau
7 60 (5.02%) Delta Lake
8 59 (4.93%) Azure SQL Database
9 53 (4.43%) Snowflake Schema
10 49 (4.10%) Big Data
11 47 (3.93%) BigQuery
12 46 (3.85%) Relational Database
13 45 (3.76%) NoSQL
14 38 (3.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 34 (2.84%) Amazon Redshift
16 32 (2.68%) Pentaho
17 28 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
18 26 (2.17%) Data Vault
19 24 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
20 23 (1.92%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 134 (11.20%) Git
2 88 (7.36%) JIRA
3 52 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.84%) ERwin
5 17 (1.42%) PowerDesigner
6 13 (1.09%) MLflow
7 11 (0.92%) ER Studio
8 10 (0.84%) GitLab
9 4 (0.33%) DBeaver
9 4 (0.33%) LSMW
10 3 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.25%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.17%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.17%) Postman
11 2 (0.17%) Selenium
12 1 (0.084%) git-flow
12 1 (0.084%) Oracle Forms
12 1 (0.084%) RStudio
12 1 (0.084%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.084%) Visual Studio
General
1 402 (33.61%) Social Skills
2 342 (28.60%) Finance
3 274 (22.91%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (10.87%) Public Sector
5 97 (8.11%) Banking
6 39 (3.26%) Marketing
7 29 (2.42%) Retail
8 28 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
9 25 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 21 (1.76%) Legal
11 19 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (1.51%) Manufacturing
13 17 (1.42%) Publishing
14 15 (1.25%) Local Government
14 15 (1.25%) Telecoms
15 14 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
16 13 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
17 12 (1.00%) Billing
17 12 (1.00%) Military
18 11 (0.92%) Law
Job Titles
1 324 (27.09%) Data Engineer
2 259 (21.66%) Analyst
3 162 (13.55%) Data Analyst
4 123 (10.28%) Senior
5 122 (10.20%) Lead
6 118 (9.87%) Architect
7 76 (6.35%) Business Analyst
8 71 (5.94%) Data Architect
9 61 (5.10%) Developer
10 55 (4.60%) Senior Data Engineer
11 49 (4.10%) Azure Engineer
12 41 (3.43%) Azure Data Engineer
13 40 (3.34%) Data Business Analyst
14 38 (3.18%) Consultant
15 28 (2.34%) Data Modeller
16 23 (1.92%) Data Manager
17 21 (1.76%) Senior Analyst
18 20 (1.67%) Governance Analyst
18 20 (1.67%) Project Manager
19 18 (1.51%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (9.28%) PySpark
2 82 (6.86%) Kafka
3 34 (2.84%) REST
4 33 (2.76%) Pandas
5 20 (1.67%) NumPy
6 17 (1.42%) Great Expectations
6 17 (1.42%) scikit-learn
7 12 (1.00%) Middleware
7 12 (1.00%) OAuth
7 12 (1.00%) Web Services
7 12 (1.00%) XML
8 11 (0.92%) Flask
8 11 (0.92%) PyTorch
8 11 (0.92%) TensorFlow
9 10 (0.84%) JSON
9 10 (0.84%) OpenAPI
9 10 (0.84%) pytest
9 10 (0.84%) RESTful
9 10 (0.84%) YAML
10 9 (0.75%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 106 (8.86%) Data Structures
2 86 (7.19%) Legacy Systems
3 53 (4.43%) Cloud Native
4 49 (4.10%) Management Information System
5 40 (3.34%) Onboarding
6 35 (2.93%) Analytical Mindset
7 34 (2.84%) Product Ownership
8 30 (2.51%) CMDB
9 25 (2.09%) Reference Data
10 20 (1.67%) Clustering
11 19 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
11 19 (1.59%) NHS
12 17 (1.42%) Reinsurance
13 14 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
14 13 (1.09%) Replication
14 13 (1.09%) Taxonomies
15 11 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
16 9 (0.75%) AI Agents
16 9 (0.75%) Algorithms
16 9 (0.75%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 10 (0.84%) Linux
2 5 (0.42%) Unix
3 3 (0.25%) Windows
4 1 (0.084%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 528 (44.15%) Data Modelling
2 481 (40.22%) Analytics
3 430 (35.95%) Data Governance
4 405 (33.86%) ETL
5 397 (33.19%) Business Intelligence
6 338 (28.26%) Data Pipeline
7 282 (23.58%) Agile
8 281 (23.49%) Problem-Solving
9 274 (22.91%) Data Engineering
10 228 (19.06%) Migration
11 221 (18.48%) Validation
12 220 (18.39%) CI/CD
13 204 (17.06%) Decision-Making
14 191 (15.97%) Data Architecture
15 173 (14.46%) AI
15 173 (14.46%) Stakeholder Management
16 165 (13.80%) Data Integration
17 160 (13.38%) DevOps
18 158 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
19 157 (13.13%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 620 (51.84%) SQL
2 385 (32.19%) Python
3 55 (4.60%) Scala
4 33 (2.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 30 (2.51%) Java
6 26 (2.17%) PL/SQL
7 24 (2.01%) R
8 23 (1.92%) T-SQL
9 20 (1.67%) C#
10 15 (1.25%) JavaScript
11 12 (1.00%) Bicep
12 10 (0.84%) Shell Script
12 10 (0.84%) VBA
13 9 (0.75%) PowerShell
14 8 (0.67%) Bash
15 6 (0.50%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.50%) TypeScript
16 5 (0.42%) C++
17 4 (0.33%) ABAP
18 3 (0.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 215 (17.98%) Security Cleared
2 160 (13.38%) SC Cleared
3 71 (5.94%) Degree
4 35 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 25 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.25%) DV Cleared
6 15 (1.25%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.17%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.00%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.25%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.17%) AAT
11 2 (0.17%) ACCA
11 2 (0.17%) CFA
11 2 (0.17%) CIMA
11 2 (0.17%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.17%) PhD
11 2 (0.17%) PMP
11 2 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.084%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (8.36%) GDPR
2 76 (6.35%) QA
3 43 (3.60%) Accessibility
4 20 (1.67%) PMO
5 12 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
6 11 (0.92%) SLA
7 10 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 10 (0.84%) Solvency II
8 7 (0.59%) Basel III
8 7 (0.59%) IFRS
9 5 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.33%) FINREP
10 4 (0.33%) ISO 19650
10 4 (0.33%) MiFID
11 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.25%) NIST
11 3 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.17%) COREP
12 2 (0.17%) EMIR
12 2 (0.17%) HL7
System Software
1 71 (5.94%) Docker
2 5 (0.42%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.25%) zsh
4 1 (0.084%) HDFS
4 1 (0.084%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 84 (7.02%) Terraform
2 71 (5.94%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.33%) Kibana
3 4 (0.33%) SCCM
4 3 (0.25%) Ansible
4 3 (0.25%) Grafana
4 3 (0.25%) logstash
4 3 (0.25%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.084%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.084%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 229 (19.15%) Databricks
2 181 (15.13%) Microsoft
3 93 (7.78%) Oracle
4 78 (6.52%) SAP
5 63 (5.27%) Informatica
6 60 (5.02%) Salesforce
7 53 (4.43%) Talend
8 47 (3.93%) ServiceNow
9 44 (3.68%) Google
10 33 (2.76%) Denodo
11 13 (1.09%) Palantir
12 12 (1.00%) OpenAI
13 11 (0.92%) Sparx
14 10 (0.84%) Foundry
15 9 (0.75%) Automation Anywhere
15 9 (0.75%) Avaloq
16 8 (0.67%) ESRI
16 8 (0.67%) Intergraph
16 8 (0.67%) UiPath
16 8 (0.67%) Workday