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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 95 117
Rank change year-on-year +49 +22 +31
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 2,072 756 673
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.45% 2.72% 2.10%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.92% 15.72% 15.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,333 491 454
10th Percentile £353 £331 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -6.36% -
75th Percentile £615 £638 £713
90th Percentile £700 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £513 £511 £550
% change year-on-year +0.24% -7.05% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 12 10
10th Percentile £15.39 £18.55 £21.25
25th Percentile £17.57 £27.80 £35.00
Median hourly rate £30.14 £37.74 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.14% -14.24% +17.26%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.00 £86.06
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.38 £97.50
UK median hourly rate £29.96 £40.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year -25.56% +7.32% +5.25%

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 8,316 4,808 4,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.86% 17.33% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,212 3,139 2,459
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £718 £763
UK median daily rate £507 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.45% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 619 230 199
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £16.84 £17.83 £16.75
Median hourly rate £32.40 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% -7.14% -11.62%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.40 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.28 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.40 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +7.98% +9.09% -22.82%

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 30 September 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 +53 1,116 £525 -4.55% 1,583
North of England +37 288 £463 +1.37% 479
Midlands +34 219 £465 -7.00% 245
South East +34 212 £500 +8.40% 345
West Midlands +32 172 £465 -11.43% 168
North West +23 148 £525 +16.67% 287
South West +22 117 £500 +5.26% 167
Yorkshire +29 116 £450 -10.00% 141
East of England +10 72 £513 -15.15% 168
East Midlands +8 46 £450 +0.67% 77
North East -19 25 £520 +18.86% 52
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
1 130 (6.27%) Apache Airflow
2 92 (4.44%) Apache Spark
3 76 (3.67%) Apache
4 64 (3.09%) Confluence
5 46 (2.22%) SAS
6 45 (2.17%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.63%) CMS
7 13 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
8 11 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.39%) ArcGIS
10 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.19%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.097%) HCL Notes
13 2 (0.097%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.048%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.048%) GeoServer
14 1 (0.048%) Luigi
14 1 (0.048%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 157 (7.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
4 14 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.68%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.097%) CATIA
8 1 (0.048%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.048%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.048%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.048%) Trello
8 1 (0.048%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 67 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.72%) Aladdin
3 15 (0.72%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.58%) Workday HCM
5 11 (0.53%) NEC Housing
6 10 (0.48%) SAP MDG
6 10 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 8 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.39%) SAP HR
8 7 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
9 6 (0.29%) Maximo
9 6 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
9 6 (0.29%) Teamcenter
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
10 5 (0.24%) Shopify
11 4 (0.19%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 4 (0.19%) SAP MM
11 4 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 526 (25.39%) Azure
2 438 (21.14%) Power Platform
3 371 (17.91%) AWS
4 183 (8.83%) GCP
5 170 (8.20%) Snowflake
6 146 (7.05%) Azure Data Factory
7 138 (6.66%) dbt
8 107 (5.16%) Amazon S3
9 104 (5.02%) Serverless
10 103 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
11 92 (4.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 85 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
13 76 (3.67%) GitHub
14 72 (3.47%) Microsoft Purview
15 54 (2.61%) Collibra
16 51 (2.46%) Power Automate
17 47 (2.27%) SaaS
18 46 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
19 44 (2.12%) Azure Databricks
19 44 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.29%) Broadband
1 6 (0.29%) SD-WAN
1 6 (0.29%) WAN
2 5 (0.24%) Firewall
2 5 (0.24%) SNMP
2 5 (0.24%) Wireless
3 3 (0.14%) HTTP
4 2 (0.097%) DNS
4 2 (0.097%) Network Security
4 2 (0.097%) SSL
5 1 (0.048%) BGP
5 1 (0.048%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.048%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.048%) LAN
5 1 (0.048%) MPLS
5 1 (0.048%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.048%) OSPF
5 1 (0.048%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.048%) VLAN
5 1 (0.048%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 410 (19.79%) Power BI
2 340 (16.41%) Metadata
3 326 (15.73%) Data Warehouse
4 176 (8.49%) Data Lake
5 115 (5.55%) Tableau
6 98 (4.73%) BigQuery
7 85 (4.10%) SQL Server
8 84 (4.05%) Delta Lake
9 82 (3.96%) Amazon Redshift
10 78 (3.76%) Relational Database
11 67 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
12 51 (2.46%) NoSQL
13 47 (2.27%) Power Query
14 41 (1.98%) Big Data
15 38 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
16 36 (1.74%) Looker
17 34 (1.64%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 32 (1.54%) Snowflake Schema
19 30 (1.45%) Star Schema
20 28 (1.35%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 130 (6.27%) Git
2 128 (6.18%) JIRA
3 32 (1.54%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.50%) GitLab
5 12 (0.58%) ERwin
6 10 (0.48%) Postman
7 9 (0.43%) Eclipse
7 9 (0.43%) ER Studio
7 9 (0.43%) MLflow
7 9 (0.43%) Selenium
8 8 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (0.29%) Ant
9 6 (0.29%) Newman
9 6 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.24%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.24%) RStudio
10 5 (0.24%) Terragrunt
11 4 (0.19%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.19%) TestRail
11 4 (0.19%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 656 (31.66%) Social Skills
2 633 (30.55%) Finance
3 490 (23.65%) Analytical Skills
4 257 (12.40%) Public Sector
5 185 (8.93%) Banking
6 72 (3.47%) Retail
7 64 (3.09%) Manufacturing
8 54 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
9 52 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
9 52 (2.51%) Marketing
10 47 (2.27%) Local Government
11 44 (2.12%) Military
12 43 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
12 43 (2.08%) Legal
13 36 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 24 (1.16%) Billing
14 24 (1.16%) Front Office
14 24 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
15 23 (1.11%) Automotive
15 23 (1.11%) Law
Job Titles
1 437 (21.09%) Analyst
2 434 (20.95%) Data Engineer
3 255 (12.31%) Senior
4 238 (11.49%) Lead
5 229 (11.05%) Data Analyst
6 220 (10.62%) Architect
7 142 (6.85%) Data Architect
8 118 (5.69%) Business Analyst
8 118 (5.69%) Senior Data Engineer
9 117 (5.65%) Developer
10 87 (4.20%) Consultant
11 72 (3.47%) Administrator
12 64 (3.09%) Data Manager
13 51 (2.46%) Data Consultant
14 50 (2.41%) Data Business Analyst
15 40 (1.93%) Databricks Engineer
16 38 (1.83%) Senior Analyst
17 37 (1.79%) Lead Data Engineer
18 33 (1.59%) Databricks Data Engineer
18 33 (1.59%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (8.45%) PySpark
2 136 (6.56%) Terraform
3 72 (3.47%) Kafka
4 56 (2.70%) REST
5 42 (2.03%) JSON
6 34 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
7 25 (1.21%) Web Services
8 24 (1.16%) XML
9 22 (1.06%) Middleware
10 21 (1.01%) Great Expectations
10 21 (1.01%) Pandas
10 21 (1.01%) SOAP
11 18 (0.87%) HTML
12 16 (0.77%) .NET
13 14 (0.68%) pytest
14 12 (0.58%) OAuth
14 12 (0.58%) OpenID
15 11 (0.53%) CSS
15 11 (0.53%) OpenTelemetry
16 10 (0.48%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 185 (8.93%) Data Structures
2 132 (6.37%) Onboarding
3 117 (5.65%) Cloud Native
4 106 (5.12%) Product Ownership
5 98 (4.73%) Management Information System
6 96 (4.63%) Legacy Systems
7 58 (2.80%) CMDB
8 46 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
8 46 (2.22%) Reference Data
9 42 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
10 38 (1.83%) AI Agents
11 30 (1.45%) Taxonomies
12 27 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
12 27 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
13 23 (1.11%) NHS
14 22 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
15 21 (1.01%) Life Science
16 20 (0.97%) Algorithms
17 16 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
18 15 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 28 (1.35%) Unix
2 18 (0.87%) Linux
3 10 (0.48%) Windows
4 1 (0.048%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.048%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 811 (39.14%) Data Modelling
2 759 (36.63%) Analytics
3 731 (35.28%) Data Governance
4 565 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
5 557 (26.88%) Stakeholder Management
6 546 (26.35%) Validation
7 523 (25.24%) Business Intelligence
8 512 (24.71%) ETL
9 496 (23.94%) Migration
10 474 (22.88%) Data Engineering
11 428 (20.66%) Agile
12 423 (20.42%) AI
13 405 (19.55%) Decision-Making
14 384 (18.53%) CI/CD
15 371 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
16 333 (16.07%) Continuous Improvement
17 316 (15.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 298 (14.38%) Data Architecture
19 286 (13.80%) Data Migration
20 277 (13.37%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 896 (43.24%) SQL
2 555 (26.79%) Python
3 62 (2.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 58 (2.80%) Java
5 39 (1.88%) PL/SQL
6 33 (1.59%) Scala
7 32 (1.54%) T-SQL
8 31 (1.50%) Shell Script
9 29 (1.40%) JavaScript
10 27 (1.30%) PowerShell
11 23 (1.11%) R
12 22 (1.06%) C#
13 18 (0.87%) Bash
14 13 (0.63%) Bicep
15 9 (0.43%) Apex Code
15 9 (0.43%) Korn
15 9 (0.43%) TypeScript
16 8 (0.39%) SOQL
17 7 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
18 6 (0.29%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 330 (15.93%) Security Cleared
2 258 (12.45%) SC Cleared
3 132 (6.37%) Degree
4 49 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (1.45%) Azure Certification
5 30 (1.45%) DV Cleared
6 25 (1.21%) AWS Certification
6 25 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (1.11%) PMI Certification
8 21 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (0.97%) Master's Degree
10 19 (0.92%) PMP
11 12 (0.58%) ACCA
11 12 (0.58%) CIMA
12 8 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (0.39%) CISSP
13 7 (0.34%) CIPD
13 7 (0.34%) CISM
14 6 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (7.09%) QA
2 125 (6.03%) GDPR
3 41 (1.98%) Accessibility
4 36 (1.74%) PMO
5 23 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (1.11%) SLA
6 20 (0.97%) GRC
6 20 (0.97%) NIST
7 16 (0.77%) IFRS
8 15 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
9 14 (0.68%) NCSC
10 10 (0.48%) Solvency II
11 9 (0.43%) Basel III
12 8 (0.39%) IFRS 17
13 7 (0.34%) COBIT
14 6 (0.29%) COREP
14 6 (0.29%) FINREP
14 6 (0.29%) IFRS 9
14 6 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 68 (3.28%) Docker
2 19 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.097%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.048%) HDFS
4 1 (0.048%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 66 (3.19%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.68%) Grafana
2 14 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (0.53%) Ansible
4 8 (0.39%) Control-M
5 7 (0.34%) Kibana
6 4 (0.19%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.19%) SCCM
7 3 (0.14%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.097%) logstash
9 1 (0.048%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.048%) Argo
9 1 (0.048%) Istio
9 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.048%) Nexpose
9 1 (0.048%) Puppet
9 1 (0.048%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 405 (19.55%) Microsoft
2 306 (14.77%) Databricks
3 157 (7.58%) SAP
4 144 (6.95%) Oracle
5 97 (4.68%) ServiceNow
6 81 (3.91%) Informatica
7 74 (3.57%) Google
8 70 (3.38%) Salesforce
9 38 (1.83%) Workday
10 28 (1.35%) Adobe
11 27 (1.30%) IBM
12 22 (1.06%) Alteryx
12 22 (1.06%) Palantir
13 21 (1.01%) Splunk
14 19 (0.92%) Talend
15 18 (0.87%) Denodo
16 16 (0.77%) Foundry
17 13 (0.63%) Bloomberg
18 12 (0.58%) Ariba
18 12 (0.58%) Teradata