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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 113 127
Rank change year-on-year +27 +14 +61
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 922 662 730
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.94% 2.27% 1.97%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.88% 16.14% 13.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 634 443 510
10th Percentile £334 £308 £363
25th Percentile £413 £400 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £625 £645 £675
90th Percentile £738 £751 £746
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 22
10th Percentile - £21.25 £20.07
25th Percentile £18.25 £26.25 £29.56
Median hourly rate £28.00 £37.50 £43.28
Median % change year-on-year -25.33% -13.35% +188.42%
75th Percentile £43.98 £93.75 £59.25
90th Percentile £65.30 £97.50 £64.95
UK median hourly rate £31.00 £35.13 £43.28
% change year-on-year -11.74% -18.84% +170.48%

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 5,461 4,102 5,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.39% 14.06% 14.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,542 2,401 3,589
10th Percentile £313 £275 £325
25th Percentile £406 £387 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -8.26% +3.81%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £706 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 285 160 212
10th Percentile £15.48 £14.70 £14.19
25th Percentile £17.69 £19.96 £20.05
Median hourly rate £25.15 £29.50 £35.79
Median % change year-on-year -14.75% -17.57% +59.07%
75th Percentile £57.00 £62.78 £65.63
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £83.39
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £27.50 £35.25
% change year-on-year -8.55% -21.99% +56.03%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 +26 542 £525 -4.55% 199
North of England -4 123 £473 +14.67% 74
Midlands +15 99 £513 +24.30% 47
West Midlands +4 72 £525 +7.58% 32
South East +3 72 £420 -31.43% 189
North West -11 68 £466 +13.03% 39
Yorkshire -13 45 £500 +53.85% 29
South West +15 42 £500 +2.56% 46
East Midlands -7 28 £430 +26.47% 14
East of England -27 17 £538 +7.50% 49
North East -2 11 £488 +96.97% 6
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 82 (8.89%) Apache Spark
2 57 (6.18%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (3.90%) SAS
4 34 (3.69%) Apache
5 16 (1.74%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.19%) Confluence
7 9 (0.98%) Oracle Application Server
8 6 (0.65%) GeoServer
8 6 (0.65%) Smallworld
9 4 (0.43%) Luigi
10 3 (0.33%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 96 (10.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (1.63%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.22%) Trello
7 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.11%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.11%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 38 (4.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 8 (0.87%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.65%) SAP MDG
6 5 (0.54%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.43%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.43%) Loan IQ
8 3 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.33%) Oracle SCM
8 3 (0.33%) SAP MDG-F
8 3 (0.33%) SAP MDG-M
8 3 (0.33%) SAP MDG-S
9 2 (0.22%) Actimize
9 2 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (0.22%) Maximo
9 2 (0.22%) NEC Housing
9 2 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.22%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 238 (25.81%) Azure
2 213 (23.10%) Power Platform
3 185 (20.07%) AWS
4 100 (10.85%) GCP
5 90 (9.76%) Snowflake
6 75 (8.13%) Azure Data Factory
7 51 (5.53%) dbt
8 47 (5.10%) Amazon S3
9 43 (4.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 43 (4.66%) Collibra
10 33 (3.58%) GitHub
11 31 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
12 27 (2.93%) Serverless
13 25 (2.71%) GitHub Actions
14 20 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (2.06%) Microsoft Purview
15 19 (2.06%) OCI
16 17 (1.84%) SaaS
17 14 (1.52%) Google Analytics
17 14 (1.52%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.54%) DNS
2 4 (0.43%) HTTP
3 2 (0.22%) Broadband
3 2 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.22%) Internet
3 2 (0.22%) SSL
3 2 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 207 (22.45%) Power BI
2 173 (18.76%) Data Warehouse
3 135 (14.64%) Metadata
4 70 (7.59%) Tableau
5 62 (6.72%) Data Lake
6 51 (5.53%) SQL Server
7 48 (5.21%) Big Data
7 48 (5.21%) Relational Database
8 41 (4.45%) NoSQL
9 39 (4.23%) Snowflake Schema
10 33 (3.58%) BigQuery
11 32 (3.47%) Azure SQL Database
11 32 (3.47%) Pentaho
12 31 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
13 28 (3.04%) Star Schema
14 27 (2.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 26 (2.82%) Delta Lake
16 22 (2.39%) Amazon Redshift
17 21 (2.28%) Amazon QuickSight
18 19 (2.06%) Looker
Development Applications
1 113 (12.26%) Git
2 66 (7.16%) JIRA
3 48 (5.21%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.95%) ERwin
5 15 (1.63%) PowerDesigner
6 11 (1.19%) ER Studio
7 8 (0.87%) DBeaver
8 4 (0.43%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (0.33%) GitLab
9 3 (0.33%) MLflow
9 3 (0.33%) Vite
9 3 (0.33%) webpack
10 2 (0.22%) LSMW
11 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.11%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.11%) Selenium
11 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 339 (36.77%) Social Skills
2 290 (31.45%) Finance
3 226 (24.51%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (10.30%) Public Sector
5 75 (8.13%) Banking
6 40 (4.34%) Marketing
7 22 (2.39%) Legal
8 21 (2.28%) Local Government
9 18 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (1.95%) Retail
10 15 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
10 15 (1.63%) Telecoms
11 14 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
11 14 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.30%) Military
13 11 (1.19%) Investment Banking
13 11 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
13 11 (1.19%) Publishing
14 10 (1.08%) Billing
Job Titles
1 217 (23.54%) Analyst
2 201 (21.80%) Data Engineer
3 134 (14.53%) Data Analyst
4 91 (9.87%) Architect
5 90 (9.76%) Lead
6 86 (9.33%) Senior
7 68 (7.38%) Business Analyst
8 58 (6.29%) Developer
9 54 (5.86%) Data Architect
10 39 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
11 35 (3.80%) Senior Data Engineer
12 33 (3.58%) Consultant
13 32 (3.47%) Azure Data Engineer
14 30 (3.25%) Data Business Analyst
14 30 (3.25%) Data Manager
15 25 (2.71%) Data Modeller
16 21 (2.28%) Governance Analyst
17 18 (1.95%) Financial Analyst
18 17 (1.84%) Salesforce Architect
19 16 (1.74%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (7.48%) PySpark
2 52 (5.64%) Kafka
3 25 (2.71%) XML
4 22 (2.39%) REST
5 14 (1.52%) Middleware
5 14 (1.52%) SOAP
6 13 (1.41%) Lightning Web Components
6 13 (1.41%) Visualforce
7 10 (1.08%) JSON
7 10 (1.08%) Pandas
8 9 (0.98%) HTML
9 8 (0.87%) Great Expectations
9 8 (0.87%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 7 (0.76%) Apache NiFi
10 7 (0.76%) RESTful
10 7 (0.76%) YAML
11 6 (0.65%) .NET
11 6 (0.65%) CSS
12 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Graph
12 5 (0.54%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 78 (8.46%) Data Structures
2 49 (5.31%) Legacy Systems
3 32 (3.47%) Analytical Mindset
4 28 (3.04%) Cloud Native
5 27 (2.93%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.71%) Management Information System
6 25 (2.71%) Product Ownership
7 18 (1.95%) Reference Data
8 17 (1.84%) CMDB
8 17 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (1.63%) Replication
10 13 (1.41%) NHS
11 12 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.19%) Data Centre
12 11 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
12 11 (1.19%) Reinsurance
13 10 (1.08%) Algorithms
14 9 (0.98%) Clustering
15 8 (0.87%) Derivative
15 8 (0.87%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.84%) Linux
2 4 (0.43%) Unix
3 2 (0.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (41.21%) Data Modelling
2 360 (39.05%) Data Governance
3 336 (36.44%) Analytics
4 292 (31.67%) Business Intelligence
5 284 (30.80%) ETL
6 274 (29.72%) Problem-Solving
7 227 (24.62%) Agile
8 225 (24.40%) Data Pipeline
9 182 (19.74%) Data Engineering
10 176 (19.09%) Migration
11 152 (16.49%) CI/CD
11 152 (16.49%) Data Management
12 144 (15.62%) Decision-Making
12 144 (15.62%) Validation
13 132 (14.32%) Data Analysis
13 132 (14.32%) Data Architecture
13 132 (14.32%) Data Integration
14 126 (13.67%) Data Migration
15 121 (13.12%) Visualisation
16 112 (12.15%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 449 (48.70%) SQL
2 287 (31.13%) Python
3 39 (4.23%) Scala
4 33 (3.58%) Java
5 31 (3.36%) R
6 20 (2.17%) JavaScript
7 18 (1.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 15 (1.63%) C#
8 15 (1.63%) T-SQL
9 14 (1.52%) PL/SQL
10 13 (1.41%) Apex Code
10 13 (1.41%) Bash
11 8 (0.87%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.76%) C++
12 7 (0.76%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.76%) VBA
13 4 (0.43%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.33%) ABAP
14 3 (0.33%) Korn
14 3 (0.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 131 (14.21%) Security Cleared
2 93 (10.09%) SC Cleared
3 83 (9.00%) Degree
4 35 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (3.04%) Master's Degree
6 16 (1.74%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.41%) DV Cleared
8 8 (0.87%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.43%) CCAB
10 4 (0.43%) PhD
11 3 (0.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.33%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.33%) PMP
11 3 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 2 (0.22%) ACCA
12 2 (0.22%) CIMA
12 2 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.11%) GIAC
13 1 (0.11%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (9.11%) GDPR
2 59 (6.40%) QA
3 43 (4.66%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 14 (1.52%) PMO
6 12 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (0.87%) IFRS
8 7 (0.76%) Basel III
9 6 (0.65%) SLA
10 5 (0.54%) ISO 19650
11 4 (0.43%) MiFID
11 4 (0.43%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.33%) FINREP
12 3 (0.33%) GRC
12 3 (0.33%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.33%) WCAG
13 2 (0.22%) CRD IV
13 2 (0.22%) EMIR
13 2 (0.22%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 54 (5.86%) Docker
2 8 (0.87%) zsh
3 4 (0.43%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 50 (5.42%) Kubernetes
2 41 (4.45%) Terraform
3 4 (0.43%) Control-M
3 4 (0.43%) vCenter Server
4 3 (0.33%) Hadoop YARN
4 3 (0.33%) Oozie
5 2 (0.22%) Ansible
5 2 (0.22%) Kibana
5 2 (0.22%) logstash
6 1 (0.11%) Grafana
6 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 150 (16.27%) Databricks
2 122 (13.23%) Microsoft
3 89 (9.65%) Oracle
4 65 (7.05%) SAP
5 46 (4.99%) Talend
6 45 (4.88%) Informatica
6 45 (4.88%) Salesforce
7 43 (4.66%) Google
8 30 (3.25%) Denodo
9 24 (2.60%) ServiceNow
10 13 (1.41%) Sparx
11 11 (1.19%) Alteryx
12 10 (1.08%) Palantir
13 9 (0.98%) Adobe
14 7 (0.76%) Foundry
15 6 (0.65%) ESRI
15 6 (0.65%) Guidewire
15 6 (0.65%) Intergraph
15 6 (0.65%) Workday
16 5 (0.54%) VMware