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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 110 107
Rank change year-on-year +58 -3 +50
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,772 679 770
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.95% 2.51% 2.08%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.00% 15.13% 15.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,174 430 540
10th Percentile £350 £342 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £594 £638 £700
90th Percentile £675 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 23 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.20 £13.28
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.99 £15.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.42% +50.67% -10.10%
75th Percentile £60.75 £34.99 £42.50
90th Percentile £76.50 £73.71 £51.75
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £15.79
% change year-on-year +26.42% +100.38% -32.41%

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 7,703 4,488 5,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.19% 16.60% 13.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,955 2,912 3,131
10th Percentile £349 £280 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -4.31% -2.15%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £636
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 520 202 376
10th Percentile £14.23 £15.12 £11.03
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.87 £13.50
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.76 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.57% +27.04% -41.18%
75th Percentile £68.11 £64.69 £52.06
90th Percentile £81.94 £83.37 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £30.00 £24.09
% change year-on-year +20.23% +24.53% -38.89%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 10 July 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 +65 936 £525 -4.55% 373
North of England +12 224 £475 +5.56% 101
Midlands +37 219 £492 +6.12% 94
West Midlands +30 179 £492 -1.59% 51
South East +24 173 £467 -6.65% 158
North West +11 129 £475 +4.97% 54
South West +26 96 £500 +17.65% 39
East of England -5 80 £570 -5.00% 31
Yorkshire -11 70 £463 +10.12% 31
East Midlands +8 40 £500 +8.52% 43
North East -15 25 £498 -18.78% 16
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 93 (5.25%) Apache Spark
2 91 (5.14%) Apache Airflow
3 59 (3.33%) Apache
4 57 (3.22%) Confluence
5 51 (2.88%) SAS
6 36 (2.03%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
7 9 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
8 6 (0.34%) Appian
8 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.23%) CMS
10 3 (0.17%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.11%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.056%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.056%) Luigi
12 1 (0.056%) Mendix
Applications
1 133 (7.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 19 (1.07%) Microsoft Project
3 18 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
4 17 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (0.96%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.11%) CATIA
7 1 (0.056%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 62 (3.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.73%) NEC Housing
3 12 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.56%) Loan IQ
5 9 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.45%) iTrent
7 7 (0.40%) Sage X3
8 6 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
8 6 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.34%) SAP MDG
8 6 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 5 (0.28%) BambooHR
9 5 (0.28%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.23%) Aladdin
10 4 (0.23%) Maximo
10 4 (0.23%) SAP PM
10 4 (0.23%) Workday HCM
11 3 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 488 (27.54%) Azure
2 414 (23.36%) Power Platform
3 310 (17.49%) AWS
4 159 (8.97%) Azure Data Factory
5 132 (7.45%) GCP
6 123 (6.94%) Snowflake
7 119 (6.72%) dbt
8 101 (5.70%) Azure DevOps
9 99 (5.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 95 (5.36%) Amazon S3
11 82 (4.63%) Serverless
12 72 (4.06%) GitHub
13 69 (3.89%) AWS Lambda
14 58 (3.27%) Collibra
15 42 (2.37%) Microsoft Purview
16 37 (2.09%) Power Automate
17 36 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
18 33 (1.86%) SaaS
19 24 (1.35%) PowerApps
20 23 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.51%) Firewall
2 5 (0.28%) VPN
3 2 (0.11%) HTTP
4 1 (0.056%) 4G
4 1 (0.056%) 5G
4 1 (0.056%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.056%) DNS
4 1 (0.056%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.056%) SNMP
4 1 (0.056%) SSH
4 1 (0.056%) WAN
4 1 (0.056%) Wireless
4 1 (0.056%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 394 (22.23%) Power BI
2 278 (15.69%) Data Warehouse
3 221 (12.47%) Metadata
4 162 (9.14%) Data Lake
5 114 (6.43%) Tableau
6 94 (5.30%) SQL Server
7 82 (4.63%) Delta Lake
8 74 (4.18%) BigQuery
9 73 (4.12%) Amazon Redshift
10 61 (3.44%) Relational Database
11 56 (3.16%) Amazon Athena
12 55 (3.10%) Big Data
13 44 (2.48%) Snowflake Schema
14 37 (2.09%) Power Query
15 36 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 35 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
17 34 (1.92%) NoSQL
18 32 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
19 29 (1.64%) Star Schema
20 25 (1.41%) Looker
Development Applications
1 127 (7.17%) JIRA
2 114 (6.43%) Git
3 44 (2.48%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.92%) GitLab
5 18 (1.02%) ERwin
6 13 (0.73%) MLflow
7 9 (0.51%) Eclipse
7 9 (0.51%) Postman
8 8 (0.45%) ER Studio
8 8 (0.45%) PowerDesigner
8 8 (0.45%) Selenium
9 7 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.34%) Ant
11 5 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
12 4 (0.23%) LSMW
12 4 (0.23%) Newman
12 4 (0.23%) Robot Framework
12 4 (0.23%) Zephyr
13 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 541 (30.53%) Finance
2 526 (29.68%) Social Skills
3 422 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
4 198 (11.17%) Public Sector
5 136 (7.67%) Banking
6 51 (2.88%) Retail
7 48 (2.71%) Marketing
8 42 (2.37%) Manufacturing
8 42 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
9 41 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
10 33 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 30 (1.69%) Legal
12 29 (1.64%) Local Government
13 27 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
14 21 (1.19%) Military
15 20 (1.13%) Law
16 17 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
17 16 (0.90%) Publishing
18 15 (0.85%) Telecoms
19 14 (0.79%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 421 (23.76%) Data Engineer
2 378 (21.33%) Analyst
3 213 (12.02%) Data Analyst
4 206 (11.63%) Senior
5 196 (11.06%) Lead
6 152 (8.58%) Architect
7 99 (5.59%) Business Analyst
8 94 (5.30%) Data Architect
9 93 (5.25%) Developer
10 89 (5.02%) Senior Data Engineer
11 61 (3.44%) Consultant
12 54 (3.05%) Data Manager
13 44 (2.48%) Administrator
14 39 (2.20%) Data Business Analyst
15 32 (1.81%) Azure Engineer
16 31 (1.75%) Data Scientist
16 31 (1.75%) Lead Data Engineer
16 31 (1.75%) Project Manager
17 30 (1.69%) Data Consultant
17 30 (1.69%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (7.62%) PySpark
2 94 (5.30%) Kafka
3 42 (2.37%) Pandas
3 42 (2.37%) REST
4 41 (2.31%) JSON
5 28 (1.58%) Great Expectations
6 24 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
7 20 (1.13%) scikit-learn
7 20 (1.13%) Web Services
8 19 (1.07%) XML
9 17 (0.96%) Middleware
10 14 (0.79%) SOAP
11 13 (0.73%) GeoJSON
11 13 (0.73%) HTML
11 13 (0.73%) NumPy
11 13 (0.73%) OpenTelemetry
12 12 (0.68%) pytest
13 11 (0.62%) PyTorch
14 10 (0.56%) Matplotlib
15 9 (0.51%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 139 (7.84%) Data Structures
2 110 (6.21%) Legacy Systems
3 103 (5.81%) Onboarding
4 94 (5.30%) Cloud Native
5 65 (3.67%) Product Ownership
6 62 (3.50%) Management Information System
7 57 (3.22%) CMDB
8 32 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
8 32 (1.81%) Reference Data
9 31 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
10 29 (1.64%) AI Agents
11 24 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
11 24 (1.35%) Taxonomies
12 23 (1.30%) NHS
13 22 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
14 17 (0.96%) Clustering
15 16 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
15 16 (0.90%) Life Science
16 14 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
17 13 (0.73%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 12 (0.68%) Unix
1 12 (0.68%) Windows
2 11 (0.62%) Linux
3 1 (0.056%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.056%) VMS
3 1 (0.056%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 707 (39.90%) Data Modelling
2 638 (36.00%) Analytics
3 579 (32.67%) Data Governance
4 509 (28.72%) Data Pipeline
5 508 (28.67%) ETL
6 491 (27.71%) Business Intelligence
7 433 (24.44%) Validation
8 413 (23.31%) Migration
9 391 (22.07%) Data Engineering
10 363 (20.49%) Agile
11 342 (19.30%) Decision-Making
12 339 (19.13%) Problem-Solving
13 328 (18.51%) CI/CD
14 307 (17.33%) Stakeholder Management
15 306 (17.27%) AI
16 263 (14.84%) Continuous Improvement
17 256 (14.45%) Data Migration
17 256 (14.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 242 (13.66%) Data Management
19 233 (13.15%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 787 (44.41%) SQL
2 481 (27.14%) Python
3 58 (3.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 57 (3.22%) Java
5 44 (2.48%) Scala
6 36 (2.03%) T-SQL
7 31 (1.75%) PL/SQL
8 29 (1.64%) PowerShell
9 18 (1.02%) C#
9 18 (1.02%) VBA
10 14 (0.79%) Shell Script
11 13 (0.73%) JavaScript
11 13 (0.73%) R
12 11 (0.62%) Bicep
13 10 (0.56%) Apex Code
13 10 (0.56%) Bash
13 10 (0.56%) TypeScript
14 7 (0.40%) SOQL
15 6 (0.34%) SOSL
16 5 (0.28%) Go
Qualifications
1 298 (16.82%) Security Cleared
2 227 (12.81%) SC Cleared
3 106 (5.98%) Degree
4 70 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 29 (1.64%) Azure Certification
6 23 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (1.07%) DV Cleared
8 18 (1.02%) AWS Certification
9 15 (0.85%) Master's Degree
10 13 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (0.62%) PMI Certification
12 7 (0.40%) ACCA
12 7 (0.40%) CIMA
12 7 (0.40%) PMP
12 7 (0.40%) SnowPro
13 6 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.34%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.28%) ISTQB
14 5 (0.28%) PhD
14 5 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (8.41%) GDPR
2 123 (6.94%) QA
3 34 (1.92%) PMO
4 29 (1.64%) Accessibility
5 21 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (1.02%) Solvency II
7 16 (0.90%) SLA
8 11 (0.62%) IFRS
8 11 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.45%) COREP
9 8 (0.45%) FINREP
9 8 (0.45%) GRC
10 7 (0.40%) NIST
11 6 (0.34%) NCSC
12 4 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.23%) GAAP
12 4 (0.23%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.23%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 70 (3.95%) Docker
2 11 (0.62%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.28%) etcd
4 1 (0.056%) HDFS
4 1 (0.056%) RACF
4 1 (0.056%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.056%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 127 (7.17%) Terraform
2 75 (4.23%) Kubernetes
3 14 (0.79%) Grafana
4 12 (0.68%) Prometheus
5 9 (0.51%) Ansible
6 6 (0.34%) SCCM
6 6 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.28%) Fluentd
7 5 (0.28%) Kibana
8 4 (0.23%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.11%) logstash
10 1 (0.056%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.056%) Control-M
10 1 (0.056%) Istio
10 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.056%) Nessus
10 1 (0.056%) Nexpose
10 1 (0.056%) Puppet
10 1 (0.056%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.056%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 280 (15.80%) Microsoft
2 268 (15.12%) Databricks
3 141 (7.96%) SAP
4 124 (7.00%) Oracle
5 79 (4.46%) Salesforce
6 77 (4.35%) Informatica
7 74 (4.18%) ServiceNow
8 43 (2.43%) Google
9 34 (1.92%) Talend
10 22 (1.24%) Denodo
11 20 (1.13%) Workday
12 19 (1.07%) IBM
12 19 (1.07%) Palantir
13 16 (0.90%) Alteryx
13 16 (0.90%) Foundry
14 15 (0.85%) Adobe
15 14 (0.79%) NEC
16 12 (0.68%) GoldenSource
17 11 (0.62%) OpenAI
17 11 (0.62%) Splunk