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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 102 112
Rank change year-on-year +53 +10 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,938 716 680
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.24% 2.60% 2.05%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.16% 15.17% 15.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,250 463 474
10th Percentile £350 £338 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £713
90th Percentile £688 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £508 £550
% change year-on-year -1.48% -7.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 18 9
10th Percentile £16.23 £20.18 £21.10
25th Percentile £21.13 £27.24 £24.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.56 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.87% -35.53% +15.75%
75th Percentile £61.50 £44.37 £51.75
90th Percentile £75.75 £61.24 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £33.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year +19.42% +39.56% -44.99%

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 8,020 4,721 4,382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.56% 17.14% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,083 3,088 2,706
10th Percentile £331 £285 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £610 £620 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 553 230 255
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £10.95
25th Percentile £17.57 £18.59 £13.26
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £26.68
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% +18.59% -24.85%
75th Percentile £68.75 £64.69 £62.83
90th Percentile £78.94 £85.90 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £30.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +20.23% +20.00% -28.57%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +59 1,030 £523 -0.48% 365
North of England +32 267 £475 +5.56% 142
Midlands +30 221 £465 -6.25% 79
South East +31 203 £475 - 96
West Midlands +22 174 £465 -10.32% 58
North West +17 146 £500 +5.82% 82
Yorkshire +27 102 £459 +6.38% 35
South West +4 93 £500 +17.65% 77
East of England +23 90 £565 -4.24% 44
East Midlands +9 46 £466 +3.79% 21
North East -26 20 £520 +18.86% 25
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
1 115 (5.93%) Apache Airflow
2 92 (4.75%) Apache Spark
3 71 (3.66%) Apache
4 54 (2.79%) Confluence
5 47 (2.43%) SAS
6 44 (2.27%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
8 11 (0.57%) CMS
9 10 (0.52%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.10%) HCL Notes
13 2 (0.10%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.052%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.052%) GeoServer
14 1 (0.052%) Luigi
14 1 (0.052%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 145 (7.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (1.34%) Spreadsheet
3 19 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.77%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.10%) CATIA
9 1 (0.052%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.052%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.052%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.052%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 67 (3.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.67%) Aladdin
3 13 (0.67%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.52%) NEC Housing
5 9 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 8 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.41%) Workday HCM
7 7 (0.36%) iTrent
7 7 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
7 7 (0.36%) SAP MDG
8 5 (0.26%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.26%) Maximo
8 5 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.26%) Sage X3
8 5 (0.26%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.21%) Loan IQ
9 4 (0.21%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.21%) Shopify
9 4 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 513 (26.47%) Azure
2 418 (21.57%) Power Platform
3 347 (17.91%) AWS
4 157 (8.10%) Azure Data Factory
5 151 (7.79%) Snowflake
6 150 (7.74%) GCP
7 124 (6.40%) dbt
8 109 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
9 94 (4.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 94 (4.85%) Serverless
10 93 (4.80%) Amazon S3
11 79 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
12 75 (3.87%) GitHub
13 55 (2.84%) Collibra
13 55 (2.84%) Microsoft Purview
14 44 (2.27%) Power Automate
14 44 (2.27%) SaaS
15 42 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
16 36 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
17 32 (1.65%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.46%) Firewall
2 5 (0.26%) VPN
3 3 (0.15%) HTTP
3 3 (0.15%) SD-WAN
3 3 (0.15%) SNMP
3 3 (0.15%) WAN
3 3 (0.15%) Wireless
4 2 (0.10%) Broadband
4 2 (0.10%) DNS
4 2 (0.10%) SSL
5 1 (0.052%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.052%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.052%) Network Security
5 1 (0.052%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.052%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 395 (20.38%) Power BI
2 321 (16.56%) Data Warehouse
3 298 (15.38%) Metadata
4 168 (8.67%) Data Lake
5 119 (6.14%) Tableau
6 94 (4.85%) SQL Server
7 84 (4.33%) Delta Lake
8 83 (4.28%) BigQuery
9 81 (4.18%) Amazon Redshift
10 77 (3.97%) Relational Database
11 54 (2.79%) Amazon Athena
12 50 (2.58%) Big Data
13 47 (2.43%) NoSQL
14 41 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
15 37 (1.91%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 37 (1.91%) Snowflake Schema
16 35 (1.81%) Star Schema
17 34 (1.75%) Looker
18 33 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 31 (1.60%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 119 (6.14%) JIRA
2 101 (5.21%) Git
3 39 (2.01%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.75%) GitLab
5 16 (0.83%) ERwin
6 11 (0.57%) ER Studio
7 10 (0.52%) MLflow
7 10 (0.52%) Selenium
8 9 (0.46%) Eclipse
9 8 (0.41%) Postman
10 7 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.31%) Ant
11 6 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.26%) Newman
12 5 (0.26%) PowerDesigner
13 4 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
13 4 (0.21%) RStudio
13 4 (0.21%) Terragrunt
13 4 (0.21%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.21%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 609 (31.42%) Social Skills
2 585 (30.19%) Finance
3 459 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
4 235 (12.13%) Public Sector
5 158 (8.15%) Banking
6 61 (3.15%) Retail
7 54 (2.79%) Marketing
8 50 (2.58%) Manufacturing
9 49 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
10 45 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
11 41 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
12 40 (2.06%) Local Government
13 36 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 33 (1.70%) Military
15 32 (1.65%) Legal
16 28 (1.44%) Law
17 24 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
18 21 (1.08%) Automotive
19 19 (0.98%) Front Office
20 18 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 421 (21.72%) Data Engineer
2 407 (21.00%) Analyst
3 224 (11.56%) Data Analyst
3 224 (11.56%) Senior
4 223 (11.51%) Lead
5 198 (10.22%) Architect
6 128 (6.60%) Data Architect
7 108 (5.57%) Business Analyst
8 102 (5.26%) Developer
9 99 (5.11%) Senior Data Engineer
10 76 (3.92%) Consultant
11 61 (3.15%) Data Manager
12 60 (3.10%) Administrator
13 43 (2.22%) Data Consultant
14 41 (2.12%) Data Business Analyst
15 34 (1.75%) Lead Data Engineer
15 34 (1.75%) Python Engineer
16 31 (1.60%) Project Manager
17 30 (1.55%) AWS Engineer
17 30 (1.55%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (8.72%) PySpark
2 126 (6.50%) Terraform
3 88 (4.54%) Kafka
4 53 (2.73%) REST
5 43 (2.22%) JSON
6 29 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
7 28 (1.44%) Pandas
8 26 (1.34%) Great Expectations
9 21 (1.08%) Web Services
10 20 (1.03%) XML
11 19 (0.98%) Middleware
12 16 (0.83%) HTML
13 14 (0.72%) .NET
13 14 (0.72%) SOAP
14 12 (0.62%) OpenTelemetry
14 12 (0.62%) pytest
15 10 (0.52%) SailPoint
15 10 (0.52%) SAML
16 9 (0.46%) CSS
16 9 (0.46%) React
Miscellaneous
1 169 (8.72%) Data Structures
2 121 (6.24%) Onboarding
3 102 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 101 (5.21%) Legacy Systems
5 93 (4.80%) Product Ownership
6 81 (4.18%) Management Information System
7 63 (3.25%) CMDB
8 49 (2.53%) Reference Data
9 38 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
10 28 (1.44%) AI Agents
10 28 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
11 26 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
12 25 (1.29%) Taxonomies
13 23 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
14 21 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
14 21 (1.08%) NHS
15 18 (0.93%) Life Science
16 17 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
17 16 (0.83%) SCADA
18 15 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 25 (1.29%) Unix
2 20 (1.03%) Linux
3 13 (0.67%) Windows
4 1 (0.052%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.052%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 764 (39.42%) Data Modelling
2 690 (35.60%) Data Governance
3 683 (35.24%) Analytics
4 543 (28.02%) Data Pipeline
5 534 (27.55%) ETL
6 504 (26.01%) Validation
7 498 (25.70%) Business Intelligence
8 467 (24.10%) Migration
9 437 (22.55%) Stakeholder Management
10 425 (21.93%) Data Engineering
11 401 (20.69%) Agile
12 368 (18.99%) Decision-Making
13 360 (18.58%) CI/CD
14 359 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
15 347 (17.91%) AI
16 301 (15.53%) Continuous Improvement
17 286 (14.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 284 (14.65%) Data Migration
19 279 (14.40%) Data Architecture
20 268 (13.83%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 837 (43.19%) SQL
2 519 (26.78%) Python
3 63 (3.25%) Java
4 55 (2.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 40 (2.06%) PL/SQL
6 34 (1.75%) T-SQL
7 33 (1.70%) PowerShell
7 33 (1.70%) Scala
8 29 (1.50%) Shell Script
9 24 (1.24%) JavaScript
10 20 (1.03%) C#
10 20 (1.03%) R
11 14 (0.72%) Bash
12 12 (0.62%) Bicep
13 11 (0.57%) VBA
14 9 (0.46%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.41%) SOQL
16 7 (0.36%) TypeScript
17 6 (0.31%) Go
17 6 (0.31%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 321 (16.56%) Security Cleared
2 245 (12.64%) SC Cleared
3 121 (6.24%) Degree
4 50 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (1.60%) Azure Certification
6 28 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (1.24%) AWS Certification
7 24 (1.24%) DV Cleared
8 19 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (0.88%) Master's Degree
10 16 (0.83%) PMI Certification
11 11 (0.57%) PMP
12 9 (0.46%) ACCA
12 9 (0.46%) CIMA
13 8 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 6 (0.31%) PhD
14 6 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 6 (0.31%) SnowPro
15 5 (0.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (7.43%) QA
2 134 (6.91%) GDPR
3 36 (1.86%) Accessibility
4 31 (1.60%) PMO
5 24 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.08%) SLA
7 15 (0.77%) IFRS
7 15 (0.77%) NIST
8 14 (0.72%) GRC
9 13 (0.67%) Solvency II
10 12 (0.62%) NCSC
11 9 (0.46%) COREP
11 9 (0.46%) FINREP
11 9 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.31%) IFRS 17
13 6 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 5 (0.26%) IFRS 9
15 4 (0.21%) BS7666
System Software
1 74 (3.82%) Docker
2 20 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.26%) etcd
4 2 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.052%) RACF
5 1 (0.052%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 78 (4.02%) Kubernetes
2 13 (0.67%) Grafana
3 11 (0.57%) Ansible
3 11 (0.57%) Prometheus
4 10 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.41%) Control-M
6 5 (0.26%) Fluentd
6 5 (0.26%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.21%) SCCM
8 3 (0.15%) Kibana
9 1 (0.052%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.052%) Istio
9 1 (0.052%) logstash
9 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.052%) Nessus
9 1 (0.052%) Nexpose
9 1 (0.052%) Puppet
9 1 (0.052%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.052%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 339 (17.49%) Microsoft
2 291 (15.02%) Databricks
3 162 (8.36%) SAP
4 136 (7.02%) Oracle
5 92 (4.75%) ServiceNow
6 85 (4.39%) Informatica
7 71 (3.66%) Salesforce
8 56 (2.89%) Google
9 30 (1.55%) Workday
10 26 (1.34%) IBM
10 26 (1.34%) Talend
11 24 (1.24%) Adobe
12 22 (1.14%) Alteryx
13 21 (1.08%) Palantir
14 20 (1.03%) Splunk
15 17 (0.88%) Denodo
16 15 (0.77%) Foundry
17 11 (0.57%) Bloomberg
17 11 (0.57%) ESRI
17 11 (0.57%) NEC