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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 97 118
Rank change year-on-year +51 +21 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 2,075 748 685
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.46% 2.68% 2.09%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.03% 15.51% 15.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,336 489 469
10th Percentile £353 £333 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £613 £638 £713
90th Percentile £700 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £550
% change year-on-year +0.49% -7.27% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 12 10
10th Percentile £15.39 £18.55 £21.25
25th Percentile £17.45 £27.80 £35.00
Median hourly rate £30.27 £37.74 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.78% -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 8,291 4,822 4,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.81% 17.26% 13.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,198 3,149 2,530
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% -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £718 £763
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £504
% change year-on-year +1.00% -0.79% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 608 228 207
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £16.88 £17.96 £15.86
Median hourly rate £32.40 £32.50 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% -4.21% -5.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.83 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.40 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +7.98% +9.09% -22.54%

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 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 26 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 26 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 1,113 £525 -4.55% 1,710
North of England +48 287 £463 +1.37% 495
Midlands +32 220 £465 -7.00% 273
South East +36 216 £500 +8.11% 401
West Midlands +29 173 £475 -9.52% 193
North West +26 149 £525 +16.67% 302
Yorkshire +30 115 £450 -10.00% 144
South West +19 114 £500 +8.11% 165
East of England +5 78 £545 -9.84% 176
East Midlands +9 46 £450 +0.67% 80
North East -20 24 £491 +12.29% 49
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
1 129 (6.22%) Apache Airflow
2 94 (4.53%) Apache Spark
3 78 (3.76%) Apache
4 64 (3.08%) Confluence
5 48 (2.31%) SAS
6 45 (2.17%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.63%) CMS
7 13 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
8 11 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
9 9 (0.43%) 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 (0.096%) HCL Notes
13 2 (0.096%) 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
1 159 (7.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
4 15 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.67%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.29%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.096%) CATIA
9 1 (0.048%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.048%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.048%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.048%) Trello
9 1 (0.048%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 66 (3.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.72%) NetSuite
4 14 (0.67%) Aladdin
5 12 (0.58%) Workday HCM
6 11 (0.53%) NEC Housing
7 10 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 9 (0.43%) SAP MDG
9 8 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
9 8 (0.39%) SAP HR
10 7 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
11 6 (0.29%) Maximo
11 6 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
11 6 (0.29%) Teamcenter
12 5 (0.24%) iTrent
12 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
12 5 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
12 5 (0.24%) Shopify
13 4 (0.19%) IBM Planning Analytics
13 4 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 526 (25.35%) Azure
2 444 (21.40%) Power Platform
3 376 (18.12%) AWS
4 183 (8.82%) GCP
5 171 (8.24%) Snowflake
6 150 (7.23%) Azure Data Factory
7 136 (6.55%) dbt
8 108 (5.20%) Amazon S3
9 104 (5.01%) Azure DevOps
9 104 (5.01%) Serverless
10 91 (4.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 85 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
12 78 (3.76%) GitHub
13 71 (3.42%) Microsoft Purview
14 56 (2.70%) Collibra
15 51 (2.46%) Power Automate
16 46 (2.22%) SaaS
17 45 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
17 45 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
18 42 (2.02%) Azure Databricks
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 (0.096%) DNS
4 2 (0.096%) Network Security
4 2 (0.096%) 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
1 416 (20.05%) Power BI
2 342 (16.48%) Metadata
3 327 (15.76%) Data Warehouse
4 179 (8.63%) Data Lake
5 116 (5.59%) Tableau
6 96 (4.63%) BigQuery
7 89 (4.29%) SQL Server
8 85 (4.10%) Delta Lake
9 81 (3.90%) Amazon Redshift
10 79 (3.81%) Relational Database
11 67 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
12 51 (2.46%) NoSQL
13 43 (2.07%) Power Query
14 42 (2.02%) Big Data
15 38 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
16 35 (1.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 35 (1.69%) Looker
17 32 (1.54%) Snowflake Schema
18 31 (1.49%) Star Schema
19 29 (1.40%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 131 (6.31%) Git
1 131 (6.31%) JIRA
2 34 (1.64%) Jenkins
3 30 (1.45%) GitLab
4 12 (0.58%) ERwin
5 10 (0.48%) MLflow
5 10 (0.48%) Postman
6 9 (0.43%) Eclipse
6 9 (0.43%) ER Studio
6 9 (0.43%) Selenium
7 8 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
8 6 (0.29%) Ant
8 6 (0.29%) Newman
8 6 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (0.24%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.24%) RStudio
9 5 (0.24%) Terragrunt
10 4 (0.19%) Claude Code
10 4 (0.19%) TestRail
10 4 (0.19%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 659 (31.76%) Social Skills
2 633 (30.51%) Finance
3 491 (23.66%) Analytical Skills
4 253 (12.19%) Public Sector
5 187 (9.01%) Banking
6 70 (3.37%) Retail
7 63 (3.04%) Manufacturing
8 54 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
8 54 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
9 52 (2.51%) Marketing
10 47 (2.27%) Local Government
11 45 (2.17%) Military
12 43 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
12 43 (2.07%) Legal
13 36 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 25 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
15 24 (1.16%) Billing
15 24 (1.16%) Law
16 23 (1.11%) Automotive
16 23 (1.11%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 440 (21.20%) Data Engineer
2 431 (20.77%) Analyst
3 253 (12.19%) Senior
4 242 (11.66%) Lead
5 227 (10.94%) Data Analyst
6 220 (10.60%) Architect
7 142 (6.84%) Data Architect
8 118 (5.69%) Senior Data Engineer
9 116 (5.59%) Business Analyst
10 115 (5.54%) Developer
11 83 (4.00%) Consultant
12 71 (3.42%) Administrator
13 65 (3.13%) Data Manager
14 50 (2.41%) Data Business Analyst
15 49 (2.36%) Data Consultant
16 40 (1.93%) Databricks Engineer
17 37 (1.78%) Lead Data Engineer
17 37 (1.78%) Senior Analyst
18 34 (1.64%) AWS Engineer
18 34 (1.64%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (8.48%) PySpark
2 139 (6.70%) Terraform
3 74 (3.57%) Kafka
4 56 (2.70%) REST
5 43 (2.07%) JSON
6 33 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
7 25 (1.20%) Web Services
8 24 (1.16%) XML
9 22 (1.06%) Great Expectations
10 21 (1.01%) SOAP
11 20 (0.96%) Middleware
11 20 (0.96%) Pandas
12 18 (0.87%) HTML
13 16 (0.77%) .NET
14 14 (0.67%) pytest
15 12 (0.58%) OAuth
15 12 (0.58%) OpenID
16 11 (0.53%) CSS
16 11 (0.53%) OpenTelemetry
17 10 (0.48%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 185 (8.92%) Data Structures
2 134 (6.46%) Onboarding
3 121 (5.83%) Cloud Native
4 107 (5.16%) Product Ownership
5 98 (4.72%) Management Information System
6 96 (4.63%) Legacy Systems
7 61 (2.94%) CMDB
8 48 (2.31%) Reference Data
9 44 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
10 39 (1.88%) AI Agents
10 39 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
11 30 (1.45%) Taxonomies
12 27 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
12 27 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
13 23 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
13 23 (1.11%) NHS
14 21 (1.01%) Life Science
15 19 (0.92%) Algorithms
16 16 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
16 16 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 28 (1.35%) Unix
2 17 (0.82%) Linux
3 10 (0.48%) Windows
4 1 (0.048%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.048%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 822 (39.61%) Data Modelling
2 764 (36.82%) Analytics
3 738 (35.57%) Data Governance
4 571 (27.52%) Data Pipeline
5 556 (26.80%) Stakeholder Management
6 543 (26.17%) Validation
7 529 (25.49%) Business Intelligence
8 522 (25.16%) ETL
9 491 (23.66%) Migration
10 473 (22.80%) Data Engineering
11 429 (20.67%) Agile
12 426 (20.53%) AI
13 401 (19.33%) Decision-Making
14 388 (18.70%) CI/CD
15 378 (18.22%) Problem-Solving
16 339 (16.34%) Continuous Improvement
17 316 (15.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 301 (14.51%) Data Architecture
19 284 (13.69%) Data Migration
20 278 (13.40%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 903 (43.52%) SQL
2 558 (26.89%) Python
3 61 (2.94%) 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 (1.49%) Shell Script
9 30 (1.45%) PowerShell
10 29 (1.40%) JavaScript
11 24 (1.16%) R
12 23 (1.11%) C#
13 17 (0.82%) 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%) VBA
18 6 (0.29%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 326 (15.71%) Security Cleared
2 255 (12.29%) SC Cleared
3 132 (6.36%) Degree
4 49 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (1.45%) Azure Certification
5 30 (1.45%) DV Cleared
6 25 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (1.16%) AWS Certification
8 23 (1.11%) PMI Certification
9 21 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (0.96%) Master's Degree
11 19 (0.92%) PMP
12 13 (0.63%) ACCA
12 13 (0.63%) CIMA
13 8 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.39%) CISSP
14 7 (0.34%) CIPD
14 7 (0.34%) CISM
15 6 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (7.08%) QA
2 126 (6.07%) GDPR
3 41 (1.98%) Accessibility
4 36 (1.73%) PMO
5 26 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (1.11%) SLA
7 20 (0.96%) GRC
7 20 (0.96%) NIST
8 16 (0.77%) IFRS
9 14 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
9 14 (0.67%) NCSC
10 10 (0.48%) Solvency II
11 8 (0.39%) Basel III
11 8 (0.39%) IFRS 17
12 7 (0.34%) COBIT
12 7 (0.34%) COREP
12 7 (0.34%) FINREP
13 6 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 6 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 70 (3.37%) Docker
2 19 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.096%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.048%) HDFS
4 1 (0.048%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 68 (3.28%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.67%) Grafana
2 14 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (0.48%) Ansible
4 8 (0.39%) Control-M
5 6 (0.29%) Kibana
6 4 (0.19%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.19%) SCCM
7 3 (0.14%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.048%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.048%) Istio
8 1 (0.048%) logstash
8 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.048%) Nexpose
8 1 (0.048%) Puppet
8 1 (0.048%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 405 (19.52%) Microsoft
2 306 (14.75%) Databricks
3 156 (7.52%) SAP
4 144 (6.94%) Oracle
5 98 (4.72%) ServiceNow
6 82 (3.95%) Informatica
7 73 (3.52%) Google
8 69 (3.33%) Salesforce
9 39 (1.88%) Workday
10 28 (1.35%) Adobe
11 26 (1.25%) IBM
12 23 (1.11%) Alteryx
13 22 (1.06%) Palantir
13 22 (1.06%) Talend
14 21 (1.01%) Splunk
15 20 (0.96%) Denodo
16 17 (0.82%) Foundry
17 13 (0.63%) Bloomberg
18 12 (0.58%) Teradata
19 11 (0.53%) NEC