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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 100 111
Rank change year-on-year +36 +11 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,442 615 753
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.58% 2.53% 2.02%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.07% 15.92% 14.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 991 425 521
10th Percentile £350 £325 £353
25th Percentile £413 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £590 £630 £675
90th Percentile £688 £725 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £531
% change year-on-year -2.58% -3.25% +0.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 19 30
10th Percentile £13.95 £18.22 £13.92
25th Percentile £17.20 £22.12 £15.39
Median hourly rate £31.25 £31.64 £22.56
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +40.26% +0.32%
75th Percentile £61.50 £34.73 £49.44
90th Percentile £82.33 £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 6,843 3,862 5,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.97% 15.87% 14.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,466 2,481 3,377
10th Percentile £336 £269 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £600 £630 £638
90th Percentile £705 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 430 160 350
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.78 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.27 £13.18
Median hourly rate £30.58 £34.75 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +52.75% -46.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £79.97 £79.11 £67.39
UK median hourly rate £33.12 £34.50 £21.12
% change year-on-year -4.00% +63.39% -44.07%

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 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 30 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 30 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 +47 796 £525 - 202
North of England +10 183 £480 +6.67% 95
Midlands +24 166 £500 +5.26% 78
West Midlands +25 130 £500 -4.76% 53
South East +19 116 £450 -11.98% 121
North West +14 104 £480 +3.23% 62
South West +18 81 £500 -4.76% 45
East of England -31 57 £581 -3.13% 31
Yorkshire -32 55 £488 +77.27% 23
East Midlands -8 37 £450 +0.67% 25
North East - 24 £475 - 11
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
1 113 (7.84%) Apache Spark
2 76 (5.27%) Apache Airflow
3 52 (3.61%) Apache
4 42 (2.91%) SAS
5 39 (2.70%) Confluence
6 37 (2.57%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.62%) Appian
8 6 (0.42%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.28%) CMS
9 4 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.21%) Apache Synapse
10 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.21%) NetWeaver
11 2 (0.14%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.14%) Smallworld
12 1 (0.069%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.069%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.069%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 131 (9.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 21 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
3 21 (1.46%) MS Visio
4 15 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.21%) Trello
6 1 (0.069%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 46 (3.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.90%) Loan IQ
3 10 (0.69%) iTrent
4 9 (0.62%) NEC Housing
4 9 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 8 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.42%) Finacle
6 6 (0.42%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.42%) SAP MDG
6 6 (0.42%) SAP MM
6 6 (0.42%) SystmOne
7 5 (0.35%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.35%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.28%) SAP PM
9 3 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 447 (31.00%) Azure
2 376 (26.07%) Power Platform
3 250 (17.34%) AWS
4 188 (13.04%) Azure Data Factory
5 123 (8.53%) GCP
6 113 (7.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 99 (6.87%) Snowflake
8 95 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
9 93 (6.45%) dbt
10 73 (5.06%) Amazon S3
11 66 (4.58%) GitHub
12 59 (4.09%) Collibra
13 56 (3.88%) Serverless
14 40 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
15 35 (2.43%) Microsoft Purview
16 33 (2.29%) Power Automate
17 29 (2.01%) AWS CloudFormation
18 27 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
19 25 (1.73%) SaaS
20 18 (1.25%) Amazon SQS
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%) VoIP
5 1 (0.069%) 4G
5 1 (0.069%) 5G
5 1 (0.069%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 360 (24.97%) Power BI
2 254 (17.61%) Data Warehouse
3 205 (14.22%) Metadata
4 145 (10.06%) Data Lake
5 107 (7.42%) Tableau
6 98 (6.80%) SQL Server
7 78 (5.41%) Delta Lake
8 64 (4.44%) Azure SQL Database
8 64 (4.44%) BigQuery
9 51 (3.54%) Big Data
10 50 (3.47%) Snowflake Schema
11 48 (3.33%) NoSQL
12 47 (3.26%) Relational Database
13 43 (2.98%) Amazon Redshift
14 40 (2.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 35 (2.43%) Amazon Athena
16 29 (2.01%) Star Schema
17 28 (1.94%) Power Query
18 27 (1.87%) OLAP
19 26 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 123 (8.53%) Git
2 108 (7.49%) JIRA
3 45 (3.12%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.32%) GitLab
5 18 (1.25%) ERwin
6 17 (1.18%) MLflow
7 12 (0.83%) 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 (0.069%) GCC
14 1 (0.069%) Hudson
14 1 (0.069%) RStudio
General
1 461 (31.97%) Social Skills
2 434 (30.10%) Finance
3 337 (23.37%) Analytical Skills
4 163 (11.30%) Public Sector
5 122 (8.46%) Banking
6 41 (2.84%) Marketing
7 39 (2.70%) Retail
8 38 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
9 30 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (2.01%) Legal
11 28 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
12 25 (1.73%) Local Government
13 22 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
14 21 (1.46%) Military
15 19 (1.32%) Law
16 17 (1.18%) Financial Institution
16 17 (1.18%) Manufacturing
16 17 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (0.97%) Investment Banking
18 13 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 385 (26.70%) Data Engineer
2 297 (20.60%) Analyst
3 176 (12.21%) Data Analyst
4 169 (11.72%) Senior
5 132 (9.15%) Lead
6 123 (8.53%) Architect
7 89 (6.17%) Business Analyst
8 77 (5.34%) Developer
9 73 (5.06%) Data Architect
10 70 (4.85%) Senior Data Engineer
11 48 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
11 48 (3.33%) Data Manager
12 47 (3.26%) Consultant
13 43 (2.98%) Azure Data Engineer
14 34 (2.36%) Data Business Analyst
15 29 (2.01%) Project Manager
16 27 (1.87%) Data Migration Lead
17 25 (1.73%) Data Scientist
18 24 (1.66%) Senior Analyst
19 22 (1.53%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (9.15%) PySpark
2 102 (7.07%) Kafka
3 45 (3.12%) Pandas
4 41 (2.84%) REST
5 31 (2.15%) Great Expectations
6 29 (2.01%) JSON
7 24 (1.66%) scikit-learn
8 19 (1.32%) NumPy
9 17 (1.18%) Web Services
10 16 (1.11%) PyTorch
11 15 (1.04%) Middleware
12 14 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
13 13 (0.90%) TensorFlow
14 12 (0.83%) OAuth
14 12 (0.83%) pytest
14 12 (0.83%) YAML
15 11 (0.76%) Flask
15 11 (0.76%) GeoJSON
15 11 (0.76%) XML
16 10 (0.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 120 (8.32%) Data Structures
2 101 (7.00%) Legacy Systems
3 76 (5.27%) Cloud Native
4 69 (4.79%) Onboarding
5 64 (4.44%) Management Information System
6 58 (4.02%) Product Ownership
7 43 (2.98%) CMDB
8 31 (2.15%) Reference Data
9 26 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
10 21 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
11 19 (1.32%) Clustering
11 19 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
11 19 (1.32%) NHS
12 17 (1.18%) AI Agents
13 16 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
14 15 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
15 13 (0.90%) Taxonomies
16 12 (0.83%) Fixed Income
17 11 (0.76%) Marketing Technology
17 11 (0.76%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 12 (0.83%) Linux
2 11 (0.76%) Unix
3 10 (0.69%) Windows
4 1 (0.069%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 634 (43.97%) Data Modelling
2 544 (37.73%) Analytics
3 499 (34.60%) Data Governance
4 476 (33.01%) ETL
5 451 (31.28%) Business Intelligence
6 430 (29.82%) Data Pipeline
7 334 (23.16%) Agile
8 326 (22.61%) Data Engineering
8 326 (22.61%) Validation
9 316 (21.91%) Migration
10 303 (21.01%) Problem-Solving
11 283 (19.63%) Decision-Making
12 271 (18.79%) CI/CD
13 230 (15.95%) AI
14 224 (15.53%) Data Architecture
15 213 (14.77%) Data Migration
16 211 (14.63%) Stakeholder Management
17 196 (13.59%) DevOps
18 192 (13.31%) Continuous Improvement
19 185 (12.83%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 720 (49.93%) SQL
2 440 (30.51%) Python
3 58 (4.02%) Scala
4 49 (3.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 41 (2.84%) Java
6 36 (2.50%) T-SQL
7 30 (2.08%) PL/SQL
8 23 (1.60%) C#
9 22 (1.53%) R
10 19 (1.32%) PowerShell
11 17 (1.18%) VBA
12 14 (0.97%) Bicep
13 13 (0.90%) JavaScript
14 11 (0.76%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.49%) Bash
16 5 (0.35%) TypeScript
17 4 (0.28%) ABAP
17 4 (0.28%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.28%) Korn
17 4 (0.28%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 266 (18.45%) Security Cleared
2 201 (13.94%) SC Cleared
3 83 (5.76%) Degree
4 49 (3.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (1.46%) Azure Certification
6 20 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (0.90%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.76%) DV Cleared
9 10 (0.69%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.35%) PhD
12 4 (0.28%) ACCA
12 4 (0.28%) CIMA
12 4 (0.28%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.28%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.28%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.21%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.21%) PMP
14 2 (0.14%) CFA
14 2 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (8.32%) GDPR
2 91 (6.31%) QA
3 33 (2.29%) Accessibility
4 25 (1.73%) PMO
5 17 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.11%) SLA
7 12 (0.83%) Solvency II
8 10 (0.69%) FINREP
9 9 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (0.55%) COREP
10 8 (0.55%) IFRS
11 6 (0.42%) Basel III
11 6 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.42%) NIST
11 6 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.35%) MiFID
13 4 (0.28%) BS7666
13 4 (0.28%) GRC
14 2 (0.14%) IFRS 9
14 2 (0.14%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 71 (4.92%) Docker
2 6 (0.42%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.35%) etcd
4 1 (0.069%) HDFS
4 1 (0.069%) RACF
4 1 (0.069%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 106 (7.35%) Terraform
2 78 (5.41%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.76%) Prometheus
4 10 (0.69%) Grafana
5 8 (0.55%) 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 (0.069%) Control-M
10 1 (0.069%) Istio
10 1 (0.069%) Nessus
10 1 (0.069%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 261 (18.10%) Databricks
2 237 (16.44%) Microsoft
3 115 (7.98%) SAP
4 102 (7.07%) Oracle
5 68 (4.72%) Salesforce
6 65 (4.51%) Informatica
7 60 (4.16%) ServiceNow
8 52 (3.61%) Google
9 42 (2.91%) Talend
10 27 (1.87%) Denodo
11 16 (1.11%) IBM
11 16 (1.11%) Workday
12 14 (0.97%) GoldenSource
13 12 (0.83%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.76%) Avaloq
15 10 (0.69%) NEC
16 9 (0.62%) Adobe
16 9 (0.62%) Automation Anywhere
16 9 (0.62%) ESRI
16 9 (0.62%) Sparx