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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 100 116
Rank change year-on-year +36 +16 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,420 620 744
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.57% 2.52% 2.00%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.08% 16.05% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 978 431 515
10th Percentile £350 £325 £355
25th Percentile £413 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £593 £625 £675
90th Percentile £675 £725 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £511 £535
% change year-on-year -2.20% -4.44% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 19 30
10th Percentile £13.95 £18.22 £13.92
25th Percentile £17.73 £22.12 £15.39
Median hourly rate £31.50 £31.64 £22.56
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% +40.26% +0.32%
75th Percentile £62.25 £34.73 £49.44
90th Percentile £82.40 £81.71 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £16.34
% change year-on-year +58.03% +93.69% -27.35%

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 6,736 3,863 5,315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.95% 15.70% 14.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,393 2,475 3,383
10th Percentile £340 £269 £301
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £605 £630 £638
90th Percentile £706 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 419 158 347
10th Percentile £14.02 £17.74 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.27 £13.00
Median hourly rate £30.58 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.63% +66.67% -50.59%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £79.92 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £34.50 £20.50
% change year-on-year -5.80% +68.29% -47.16%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 24 April 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 +50 788 £525 - 248
North of England +14 180 £495 +10.00% 110
Midlands +24 153 £500 +5.26% 70
West Midlands +20 118 £500 -4.76% 47
South East +15 116 £450 -12.20% 150
North West +11 100 £500 +7.53% 65
South West +16 82 £500 -4.76% 57
East of England -27 58 £581 -3.13% 51
Yorkshire -25 56 £495 +80.00% 33
East Midlands -16 36 £475 +15.92% 23
North East - 24 £475 - 14
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 (8.10%) Apache Spark
2 78 (5.49%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (3.80%) Apache
4 42 (2.96%) SAS
5 34 (2.39%) Confluence
5 34 (2.39%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.63%) Appian
7 6 (0.42%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.28%) CMS
8 4 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.21%) Apache Synapse
9 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.21%) NetWeaver
10 2 (0.14%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.14%) Smallworld
11 1 (0.070%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.070%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.070%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 124 (8.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
4 18 (1.27%) MS Visio
5 15 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.21%) Trello
7 1 (0.070%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 46 (3.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.85%) Loan IQ
3 10 (0.70%) iTrent
3 10 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.56%) NEC Housing
4 8 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.42%) Finacle
5 6 (0.42%) Sage X3
5 6 (0.42%) SAP MDG
5 6 (0.42%) SAP MM
5 6 (0.42%) SystmOne
6 5 (0.35%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.35%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.28%) SAP PM
8 3 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 449 (31.62%) Azure
2 368 (25.92%) Power Platform
3 258 (18.17%) AWS
4 187 (13.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 128 (9.01%) GCP
6 113 (7.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 101 (7.11%) Snowflake
8 93 (6.55%) Azure DevOps
8 93 (6.55%) dbt
9 77 (5.42%) Amazon S3
10 72 (5.07%) GitHub
11 60 (4.23%) Serverless
12 58 (4.08%) Collibra
13 41 (2.89%) AWS Lambda
14 33 (2.32%) Microsoft Purview
14 33 (2.32%) Power Automate
15 31 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
16 30 (2.11%) AWS CloudFormation
17 24 (1.69%) SaaS
18 20 (1.41%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.49%) Firewall
2 5 (0.35%) VPN
3 3 (0.21%) HTTP
4 2 (0.14%) Broadband
4 2 (0.14%) DNS
4 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.14%) SSL
4 2 (0.14%) VoIP
5 1 (0.070%) 4G
5 1 (0.070%) 5G
5 1 (0.070%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 352 (24.79%) Power BI
2 260 (18.31%) Data Warehouse
3 202 (14.23%) Metadata
4 144 (10.14%) Data Lake
5 107 (7.54%) Tableau
6 99 (6.97%) SQL Server
7 76 (5.35%) Delta Lake
8 65 (4.58%) Azure SQL Database
8 65 (4.58%) BigQuery
9 54 (3.80%) Snowflake Schema
10 51 (3.59%) Big Data
11 49 (3.45%) NoSQL
12 48 (3.38%) Amazon Redshift
12 48 (3.38%) Relational Database
13 40 (2.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 37 (2.61%) Amazon Athena
15 28 (1.97%) OLAP
15 28 (1.97%) Star Schema
16 27 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
17 26 (1.83%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 124 (8.73%) Git
2 102 (7.18%) JIRA
3 48 (3.38%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.41%) ERwin
5 19 (1.34%) GitLab
6 16 (1.13%) MLflow
7 14 (0.99%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.49%) ER Studio
9 6 (0.42%) Selenium
10 5 (0.35%) LSMW
10 5 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
11 4 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.21%) Robot Framework
12 3 (0.21%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.21%) Zephyr
13 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.14%) Postman
14 1 (0.070%) GCC
14 1 (0.070%) Hudson
14 1 (0.070%) RStudio
General
1 459 (32.32%) Social Skills
2 423 (29.79%) Finance
3 338 (23.80%) Analytical Skills
4 159 (11.20%) Public Sector
5 114 (8.03%) Banking
6 41 (2.89%) Marketing
7 39 (2.75%) Retail
8 37 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
9 32 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 28 (1.97%) Legal
11 27 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
12 25 (1.76%) Local Government
13 22 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
14 20 (1.41%) Law
14 20 (1.41%) Military
15 18 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
16 17 (1.20%) Financial Institution
17 16 (1.13%) Manufacturing
18 13 (0.92%) Investment Banking
18 13 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 388 (27.32%) Data Engineer
2 289 (20.35%) Analyst
3 175 (12.32%) Data Analyst
4 165 (11.62%) Senior
5 128 (9.01%) Lead
6 124 (8.73%) Architect
7 88 (6.20%) Business Analyst
8 74 (5.21%) Developer
9 73 (5.14%) Data Architect
10 68 (4.79%) Senior Data Engineer
11 52 (3.66%) Azure Engineer
12 45 (3.17%) Data Manager
13 43 (3.03%) Azure Data Engineer
14 42 (2.96%) Consultant
15 36 (2.54%) Data Business Analyst
16 29 (2.04%) Project Manager
17 24 (1.69%) Data Migration Lead
18 23 (1.62%) AWS Engineer
18 23 (1.62%) Data Scientist
19 22 (1.55%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (9.30%) PySpark
2 103 (7.25%) Kafka
3 44 (3.10%) Pandas
3 44 (3.10%) REST
4 31 (2.18%) Great Expectations
5 29 (2.04%) JSON
6 24 (1.69%) scikit-learn
7 19 (1.34%) NumPy
8 17 (1.20%) Web Services
9 16 (1.13%) PyTorch
10 15 (1.06%) Middleware
10 15 (1.06%) OAuth
11 13 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
11 13 (0.92%) pytest
11 13 (0.92%) TensorFlow
11 13 (0.92%) XML
12 12 (0.85%) YAML
13 11 (0.77%) .NET
13 11 (0.77%) Flask
13 11 (0.77%) GeoJSON
Miscellaneous
1 115 (8.10%) Data Structures
2 102 (7.18%) Legacy Systems
3 74 (5.21%) Cloud Native
4 67 (4.72%) Onboarding
5 62 (4.37%) Management Information System
6 55 (3.87%) Product Ownership
7 43 (3.03%) CMDB
8 32 (2.25%) Reference Data
9 27 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
10 21 (1.48%) Clustering
10 21 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (1.41%) NHS
12 18 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
13 17 (1.20%) AI Agents
14 16 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
15 14 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (0.99%) Taxonomies
16 12 (0.85%) Fixed Income
17 11 (0.77%) Marketing Technology
17 11 (0.77%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 12 (0.85%) Linux
2 11 (0.77%) Unix
3 10 (0.70%) Windows
4 1 (0.070%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 627 (44.15%) Data Modelling
2 550 (38.73%) Analytics
3 491 (34.58%) Data Governance
4 478 (33.66%) ETL
5 446 (31.41%) Business Intelligence
6 428 (30.14%) Data Pipeline
7 329 (23.17%) Data Engineering
8 324 (22.82%) Agile
9 314 (22.11%) Validation
10 311 (21.90%) Migration
11 301 (21.20%) Problem-Solving
12 281 (19.79%) Decision-Making
13 273 (19.23%) CI/CD
14 227 (15.99%) Data Architecture
15 225 (15.85%) AI
16 210 (14.79%) Data Migration
17 209 (14.72%) Stakeholder Management
18 193 (13.59%) DevOps
19 187 (13.17%) Continuous Improvement
20 178 (12.54%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 714 (50.28%) SQL
2 442 (31.13%) Python
3 59 (4.15%) Scala
4 45 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 44 (3.10%) Java
6 36 (2.54%) T-SQL
7 31 (2.18%) PL/SQL
8 27 (1.90%) C#
9 22 (1.55%) PowerShell
9 22 (1.55%) R
10 17 (1.20%) VBA
11 16 (1.13%) JavaScript
12 14 (0.99%) Bicep
13 11 (0.77%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.63%) Bash
15 5 (0.35%) TypeScript
16 4 (0.28%) ABAP
16 4 (0.28%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
17 3 (0.21%) PHP
Qualifications
1 260 (18.31%) Security Cleared
2 198 (13.94%) SC Cleared
3 79 (5.56%) Degree
4 46 (3.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (1.41%) Azure Certification
7 12 (0.85%) AWS Certification
7 12 (0.85%) Master's Degree
8 10 (0.70%) DV Cleared
9 7 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.28%) ACCA
10 4 (0.28%) CIMA
10 4 (0.28%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.28%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.28%) PhD
10 4 (0.28%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.14%) AAT
11 2 (0.14%) CFA
11 2 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (8.31%) GDPR
2 86 (6.06%) QA
3 28 (1.97%) Accessibility
4 24 (1.69%) PMO
5 16 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.06%) SLA
7 13 (0.92%) Solvency II
8 10 (0.70%) FINREP
9 9 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (0.56%) COREP
10 8 (0.56%) IFRS
11 6 (0.42%) Basel III
11 6 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.35%) MiFID
12 5 (0.35%) NIST
13 4 (0.28%) BS7666
13 4 (0.28%) GRC
14 2 (0.14%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.14%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 69 (4.86%) Docker
2 8 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.35%) etcd
4 1 (0.070%) HDFS
4 1 (0.070%) RACF
4 1 (0.070%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 110 (7.75%) Terraform
2 76 (5.35%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.77%) Prometheus
4 10 (0.70%) Grafana
5 8 (0.56%) Ansible
6 6 (0.42%) Kibana
7 5 (0.35%) Fluentd
7 5 (0.35%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.28%) SCCM
9 3 (0.21%) logstash
9 3 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.070%) Control-M
10 1 (0.070%) Istio
10 1 (0.070%) Nessus
10 1 (0.070%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 262 (18.45%) Databricks
2 234 (16.48%) Microsoft
3 115 (8.10%) SAP
4 102 (7.18%) Oracle
5 67 (4.72%) Informatica
5 67 (4.72%) Salesforce
6 60 (4.23%) ServiceNow
7 53 (3.73%) Google
8 42 (2.96%) Talend
9 27 (1.90%) Denodo
10 16 (1.13%) Workday
11 14 (0.99%) GoldenSource
11 14 (0.99%) IBM
12 12 (0.85%) OpenAI
13 11 (0.77%) Avaloq
14 10 (0.70%) Sparx
15 9 (0.63%) Adobe
15 9 (0.63%) Automation Anywhere
15 9 (0.63%) ESRI
15 9 (0.63%) NEC