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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 98 120
Rank change year-on-year +51 +22 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,991 716 668
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.36% 2.63% 2.05%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.61% 15.35% 15.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,282 466 462
10th Percentile £350 £338 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -8.64% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £713
90th Percentile £693 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 16 8
10th Percentile £16.03 £25.60 £21.25
25th Percentile £20.98 £31.64 £32.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £34.43 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% -31.82% +16.20%
75th Percentile £61.50 £47.00 £75.94
90th Percentile £74.88 £79.35 £97.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £37.49 £50.50
% change year-on-year +6.70% -25.76% +28.11%

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 8,090 4,664 4,283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.73% 17.14% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,126 3,052 2,626
10th Percentile £336 £300 £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 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 556 217 226
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £11.88
25th Percentile £17.36 £18.50 £14.55
Median hourly rate £36.07 £32.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.98% +16.07% -20.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £64.48
90th Percentile £77.75 £84.10 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.49 £30.00 £26.56
% change year-on-year +14.97% +12.95% -23.57%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +55 1,078 £525 -2.78% 1,288
North of England +36 277 £463 +2.78% 295
Midlands +34 216 £451 -6.83% 152
South East +28 204 £500 - 303
West Midlands +31 169 £450 -13.16% 108
North West +30 150 £500 +11.11% 197
Yorkshire +22 109 £450 - 69
South West +10 99 £500 +14.29% 141
East of England +22 83 £565 -6.46% 114
East Midlands +4 46 £484 +8.33% 44
North East -23 19 £520 +18.86% 30
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
1 125 (6.28%) Apache Airflow
2 96 (4.82%) Apache Spark
3 76 (3.82%) Apache
4 55 (2.76%) Confluence
5 47 (2.36%) SAS
6 44 (2.21%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.65%) Oracle Workflow
8 10 (0.50%) ArcGIS
8 10 (0.50%) CMS
8 10 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.10%) HCL Notes
12 2 (0.10%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.050%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.050%) GeoServer
13 1 (0.050%) Luigi
13 1 (0.050%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 146 (7.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (1.26%) Spreadsheet
3 19 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.80%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.10%) CATIA
8 1 (0.050%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.050%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.050%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.050%) Trello
8 1 (0.050%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 68 (3.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.70%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.60%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.50%) NEC Housing
6 9 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 8 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.40%) SAP MDG
7 8 (0.40%) Workday HCM
8 7 (0.35%) iTrent
8 7 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
9 6 (0.30%) Teamcenter
10 5 (0.25%) Maximo
10 5 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
11 4 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.20%) SAP HR
11 4 (0.20%) SAP MM
11 4 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 529 (26.57%) Azure
2 414 (20.79%) Power Platform
3 359 (18.03%) AWS
4 162 (8.14%) GCP
5 159 (7.99%) Azure Data Factory
6 155 (7.79%) Snowflake
7 132 (6.63%) dbt
8 112 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
9 103 (5.17%) Serverless
10 96 (4.82%) Amazon S3
10 96 (4.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 84 (4.22%) AWS Lambda
12 82 (4.12%) GitHub
13 59 (2.96%) Microsoft Purview
14 58 (2.91%) Collibra
15 46 (2.31%) Azure Databricks
15 46 (2.31%) Power Automate
15 46 (2.31%) SaaS
16 45 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
17 39 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.45%) Firewall
2 5 (0.25%) SD-WAN
2 5 (0.25%) SNMP
2 5 (0.25%) WAN
2 5 (0.25%) Wireless
3 4 (0.20%) Broadband
4 3 (0.15%) HTTP
5 2 (0.10%) DNS
5 2 (0.10%) SSL
6 1 (0.050%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.050%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (0.050%) Network Security
6 1 (0.050%) OpenFlow
6 1 (0.050%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 389 (19.54%) Power BI
2 325 (16.32%) Data Warehouse
3 317 (15.92%) Metadata
4 172 (8.64%) Data Lake
5 112 (5.63%) Tableau
6 96 (4.82%) SQL Server
7 88 (4.42%) Delta Lake
8 83 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 83 (4.17%) BigQuery
9 77 (3.87%) Relational Database
10 54 (2.71%) Amazon Athena
11 52 (2.61%) NoSQL
12 50 (2.51%) Big Data
13 41 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
14 37 (1.86%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 36 (1.81%) Power Query
16 35 (1.76%) Snowflake Schema
16 35 (1.76%) Star Schema
17 33 (1.66%) Looker
18 29 (1.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 120 (6.03%) JIRA
2 111 (5.58%) Git
3 38 (1.91%) Jenkins
4 35 (1.76%) GitLab
5 14 (0.70%) ERwin
6 11 (0.55%) Selenium
7 10 (0.50%) ER Studio
7 10 (0.50%) MLflow
8 9 (0.45%) Eclipse
9 8 (0.40%) Postman
10 7 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.30%) Ant
11 6 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.25%) Newman
12 5 (0.25%) RStudio
12 5 (0.25%) Terragrunt
13 4 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
13 4 (0.20%) TestRail
13 4 (0.20%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.20%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 624 (31.34%) Social Skills
2 602 (30.24%) Finance
3 482 (24.21%) Analytical Skills
4 235 (11.80%) Public Sector
5 169 (8.49%) Banking
6 65 (3.26%) Retail
7 54 (2.71%) Marketing
8 52 (2.61%) Manufacturing
9 47 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
10 46 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
11 44 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
12 42 (2.11%) Local Government
13 37 (1.86%) Military
14 36 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 31 (1.56%) Legal
16 29 (1.46%) Law
17 24 (1.21%) Billing
17 24 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
18 21 (1.05%) Automotive
19 20 (1.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 434 (21.80%) Data Engineer
2 416 (20.89%) Analyst
3 237 (11.90%) Senior
4 232 (11.65%) Lead
5 229 (11.50%) Data Analyst
6 202 (10.15%) Architect
7 134 (6.73%) Data Architect
8 109 (5.47%) Business Analyst
9 106 (5.32%) Senior Data Engineer
10 103 (5.17%) Developer
11 78 (3.92%) Consultant
12 65 (3.26%) Data Manager
13 63 (3.16%) Administrator
14 45 (2.26%) Data Consultant
15 42 (2.11%) Data Business Analyst
16 35 (1.76%) Databricks Engineer
16 35 (1.76%) Lead Data Engineer
16 35 (1.76%) Python Engineer
17 33 (1.66%) AWS Engineer
18 32 (1.61%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (9.09%) PySpark
2 133 (6.68%) Terraform
3 87 (4.37%) Kafka
4 58 (2.91%) REST
5 45 (2.26%) JSON
6 31 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
7 28 (1.41%) Great Expectations
8 27 (1.36%) Pandas
9 23 (1.16%) XML
10 22 (1.10%) Web Services
11 21 (1.05%) Middleware
12 17 (0.85%) .NET
13 16 (0.80%) HTML
13 16 (0.80%) OpenTelemetry
13 16 (0.80%) SOAP
14 15 (0.75%) pytest
15 10 (0.50%) OAuth
15 10 (0.50%) OpenID
15 10 (0.50%) React
15 10 (0.50%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 179 (8.99%) Data Structures
2 134 (6.73%) Onboarding
3 109 (5.47%) Cloud Native
4 102 (5.12%) Legacy Systems
5 97 (4.87%) Product Ownership
6 88 (4.42%) Management Information System
7 62 (3.11%) CMDB
8 49 (2.46%) Reference Data
9 38 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
10 34 (1.71%) AI Agents
11 33 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
12 27 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
13 26 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
14 24 (1.21%) Taxonomies
15 22 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
15 22 (1.10%) NHS
16 18 (0.90%) Life Science
17 17 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
18 16 (0.80%) Algorithms
18 16 (0.80%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.31%) Unix
2 20 (1.00%) Linux
3 14 (0.70%) Windows
4 1 (0.050%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.050%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 788 (39.58%) Data Modelling
2 716 (35.96%) Data Governance
3 709 (35.61%) Analytics
4 554 (27.83%) Data Pipeline
5 535 (26.87%) ETL
6 517 (25.97%) Validation
7 500 (25.11%) Business Intelligence
8 478 (24.01%) Migration
9 471 (23.66%) Stakeholder Management
10 453 (22.75%) Data Engineering
11 413 (20.74%) Agile
12 384 (19.29%) AI
13 382 (19.19%) Decision-Making
14 379 (19.04%) CI/CD
15 370 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
16 308 (15.47%) Continuous Improvement
17 295 (14.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 293 (14.72%) Data Architecture
19 288 (14.47%) Data Migration
20 276 (13.86%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 862 (43.29%) SQL
2 541 (27.17%) Python
3 60 (3.01%) Java
4 57 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 40 (2.01%) PL/SQL
6 34 (1.71%) Scala
6 34 (1.71%) T-SQL
7 32 (1.61%) PowerShell
8 29 (1.46%) Shell Script
9 25 (1.26%) JavaScript
10 22 (1.10%) C#
11 21 (1.05%) R
12 17 (0.85%) Bash
13 15 (0.75%) Bicep
14 9 (0.45%) Apex Code
14 9 (0.45%) VBA
15 8 (0.40%) Search Processing Language
15 8 (0.40%) SOQL
15 8 (0.40%) TypeScript
16 6 (0.30%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 326 (16.37%) Security Cleared
2 252 (12.66%) SC Cleared
3 122 (6.13%) Degree
4 54 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (1.41%) Azure Certification
5 28 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (1.31%) DV Cleared
7 25 (1.26%) AWS Certification
8 20 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 18 (0.90%) Master's Degree
10 16 (0.80%) PMI Certification
11 11 (0.55%) PMP
12 9 (0.45%) ACCA
12 9 (0.45%) CIMA
13 8 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 6 (0.30%) PhD
14 6 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 6 (0.30%) SnowPro
15 5 (0.25%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (7.38%) QA
2 131 (6.58%) GDPR
3 38 (1.91%) Accessibility
4 31 (1.56%) PMO
5 23 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (1.10%) SLA
7 15 (0.75%) NIST
8 14 (0.70%) GRC
8 14 (0.70%) IFRS
8 14 (0.70%) NCSC
8 14 (0.70%) Solvency II
9 9 (0.45%) COREP
9 9 (0.45%) FINREP
10 8 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (0.30%) IFRS 17
12 6 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 5 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
14 4 (0.20%) Basel III
System Software
1 76 (3.82%) Docker
2 19 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.25%) etcd
4 2 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.050%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 78 (3.92%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.70%) Grafana
3 13 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (0.60%) Ansible
5 11 (0.55%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.45%) Control-M
7 5 (0.25%) Fluentd
8 4 (0.20%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.20%) Kibana
8 4 (0.20%) SCCM
9 1 (0.050%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.050%) Istio
9 1 (0.050%) logstash
9 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.050%) Nessus
9 1 (0.050%) Nexpose
9 1 (0.050%) Puppet
9 1 (0.050%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.050%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 364 (18.28%) Microsoft
2 298 (14.97%) Databricks
3 163 (8.19%) SAP
4 143 (7.18%) Oracle
5 90 (4.52%) ServiceNow
6 86 (4.32%) Informatica
7 74 (3.72%) Salesforce
8 61 (3.06%) Google
9 28 (1.41%) Workday
10 26 (1.31%) Talend
11 25 (1.26%) Adobe
12 24 (1.21%) IBM
13 23 (1.16%) Alteryx
13 23 (1.16%) Splunk
14 21 (1.05%) Palantir
15 16 (0.80%) Denodo
16 15 (0.75%) Foundry
17 12 (0.60%) Bloomberg
17 12 (0.60%) GoldenSource
17 12 (0.60%) Teradata