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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 109 116
Rank change year-on-year +47 +7 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,384 603 741
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.58% 2.47% 1.98%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.66% 15.99% 14.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 948 426 513
10th Percentile £350 £313 £350
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £590 £625 £663
90th Percentile £676 £725 £773
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £528
% change year-on-year - -5.21% -1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 19 32
10th Percentile £13.95 £18.22 £14.13
25th Percentile £17.48 £22.99 £15.39
Median hourly rate £24.00 £31.64 £22.82
Median % change year-on-year -24.15% +38.65% +1.49%
75th Percentile £63.00 £34.73 £49.71
90th Percentile £83.20 £81.71 £60.95
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £31.64 £20.47
% change year-on-year -0.44% +54.57% -8.96%

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 6,700 3,771 5,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.33% 15.47% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,353 2,444 3,388
10th Percentile £340 £266 £305
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £509 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.25% -3.10% -
75th Percentile £613 £629 £638
90th Percentile £713 £735 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 400 155 338
10th Percentile £14.23 £17.45 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £13.18
Median hourly rate £29.77 £32.81 £21.38
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% +53.48% -49.70%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.13 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £30.79 £32.25 £20.80
% change year-on-year -4.53% +55.03% -47.99%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +49 777 £525 - 272
North of England -3 171 £495 +10.00% 142
Midlands +10 152 £500 +8.23% 89
West Midlands +15 120 £510 +7.14% 59
South East +9 108 £450 -13.96% 145
North West +5 93 £478 +4.95% 65
South West +24 75 £500 -1.23% 54
East of England -21 57 £575 -4.17% 42
Yorkshire -30 52 £500 +81.82% 63
East Midlands -16 33 £450 +9.82% 30
North East - 26 £500 - 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
1 120 (8.67%) Apache Spark
2 75 (5.42%) Apache Airflow
3 58 (4.19%) Apache
4 47 (3.40%) SAS
5 32 (2.31%) Confluence
5 32 (2.31%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.65%) Appian
7 6 (0.43%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.29%) CMS
9 3 (0.22%) Apache Synapse
9 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.22%) NetWeaver
9 3 (0.22%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.14%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.14%) Smallworld
11 1 (0.072%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.072%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 126 (9.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.37%) MS Visio
5 18 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.22%) Trello
8 1 (0.072%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 45 (3.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.87%) Loan IQ
3 11 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (0.65%) iTrent
5 8 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.51%) NEC Housing
7 6 (0.43%) Finacle
7 6 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.43%) Sage X3
7 6 (0.43%) SAP MDG
7 6 (0.43%) SAP MM
7 6 (0.43%) SystmOne
8 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.29%) Actimize
9 4 (0.29%) BambooHR
9 4 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
9 4 (0.29%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.29%) SAP PM
10 3 (0.22%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 437 (31.58%) Azure
2 365 (26.37%) Power Platform
3 262 (18.93%) AWS
4 182 (13.15%) Azure Data Factory
5 125 (9.03%) GCP
6 109 (7.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 107 (7.73%) Snowflake
8 96 (6.94%) dbt
9 87 (6.29%) Azure DevOps
10 76 (5.49%) Amazon S3
11 68 (4.91%) GitHub
12 59 (4.26%) Collibra
12 59 (4.26%) Serverless
13 40 (2.89%) AWS Lambda
14 34 (2.46%) Microsoft Purview
15 30 (2.17%) Power Automate
16 29 (2.10%) AWS CloudFormation
16 29 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
17 25 (1.81%) SaaS
18 20 (1.45%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.36%) VPN
2 4 (0.29%) Firewall
3 2 (0.14%) Broadband
3 2 (0.14%) DNS
3 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.14%) SSL
3 2 (0.14%) VoIP
4 1 (0.072%) 4G
4 1 (0.072%) 5G
4 1 (0.072%) HTTP
4 1 (0.072%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 350 (25.29%) Power BI
2 258 (18.64%) Data Warehouse
3 194 (14.02%) Metadata
4 132 (9.54%) Data Lake
5 96 (6.94%) Tableau
6 92 (6.65%) SQL Server
7 73 (5.27%) Delta Lake
8 68 (4.91%) Azure SQL Database
9 57 (4.12%) BigQuery
10 53 (3.83%) Snowflake Schema
11 50 (3.61%) NoSQL
12 47 (3.40%) Big Data
13 44 (3.18%) Amazon Redshift
14 43 (3.11%) Relational Database
15 41 (2.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 36 (2.60%) Amazon Athena
17 32 (2.31%) Pentaho
18 29 (2.10%) Star Schema
19 28 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
20 27 (1.95%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 134 (9.68%) Git
2 102 (7.37%) JIRA
3 57 (4.12%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.37%) ERwin
4 19 (1.37%) GitLab
5 17 (1.23%) MLflow
6 12 (0.87%) PowerDesigner
7 6 (0.43%) Selenium
8 5 (0.36%) ER Studio
8 5 (0.36%) LSMW
8 5 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
9 4 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.22%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.22%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.22%) Zephyr
11 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.14%) DBeaver
11 2 (0.14%) Postman
12 1 (0.072%) GCC
12 1 (0.072%) Hudson
General
1 455 (32.88%) Social Skills
2 404 (29.19%) Finance
3 325 (23.48%) Analytical Skills
4 150 (10.84%) Public Sector
5 110 (7.95%) Banking
6 45 (3.25%) Marketing
7 38 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
8 35 (2.53%) Retail
9 30 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
11 27 (1.95%) Legal
12 21 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.37%) Law
14 17 (1.23%) Financial Institution
14 17 (1.23%) Local Government
14 17 (1.23%) Manufacturing
14 17 (1.23%) Military
14 17 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
14 17 (1.23%) Telecoms
15 16 (1.16%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 387 (27.96%) Data Engineer
2 286 (20.66%) Analyst
3 178 (12.86%) Data Analyst
4 149 (10.77%) Senior
5 131 (9.47%) Lead
6 127 (9.18%) Architect
7 86 (6.21%) Business Analyst
8 77 (5.56%) Data Architect
9 66 (4.77%) Developer
10 61 (4.41%) Senior Data Engineer
11 52 (3.76%) Azure Engineer
12 42 (3.03%) Azure Data Engineer
13 41 (2.96%) Consultant
14 39 (2.82%) Data Business Analyst
14 39 (2.82%) Data Manager
15 25 (1.81%) Data Migration Lead
16 24 (1.73%) Data Modeller
16 24 (1.73%) Principal Engineer
16 24 (1.73%) Project Manager
17 23 (1.66%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (9.61%) PySpark
2 110 (7.95%) Kafka
3 45 (3.25%) Pandas
4 43 (3.11%) REST
5 27 (1.95%) Great Expectations
6 25 (1.81%) JSON
7 24 (1.73%) scikit-learn
8 22 (1.59%) NumPy
9 15 (1.08%) PyTorch
9 15 (1.08%) Web Services
10 13 (0.94%) Middleware
10 13 (0.94%) OAuth
10 13 (0.94%) pytest
10 13 (0.94%) TensorFlow
10 13 (0.94%) XML
11 11 (0.79%) Flask
11 11 (0.79%) GeoJSON
11 11 (0.79%) Matplotlib
12 10 (0.72%) Oracle Fusion
12 10 (0.72%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 118 (8.53%) Data Structures
2 97 (7.01%) Legacy Systems
3 71 (5.13%) Cloud Native
4 63 (4.55%) Onboarding
5 62 (4.48%) Management Information System
6 49 (3.54%) Product Ownership
7 45 (3.25%) CMDB
8 32 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
9 31 (2.24%) Reference Data
10 22 (1.59%) NHS
11 20 (1.45%) Clustering
12 18 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
13 16 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
14 15 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
14 15 (1.08%) Taxonomies
15 14 (1.01%) AI Agents
15 14 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
16 12 (0.87%) Fixed Income
16 12 (0.87%) Reinsurance
17 11 (0.79%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 9 (0.65%) Linux
1 9 (0.65%) Unix
1 9 (0.65%) Windows
2 1 (0.072%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 623 (45.01%) Data Modelling
2 534 (38.58%) Analytics
3 489 (35.33%) Data Governance
4 482 (34.83%) ETL
5 454 (32.80%) Business Intelligence
6 419 (30.27%) Data Pipeline
7 322 (23.27%) Data Engineering
8 313 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
9 310 (22.40%) Agile
10 299 (21.60%) Validation
11 286 (20.66%) Migration
12 272 (19.65%) CI/CD
13 254 (18.35%) Decision-Making
14 227 (16.40%) Data Architecture
15 207 (14.96%) AI
16 205 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
17 194 (14.02%) Data Migration
18 189 (13.66%) Continuous Improvement
19 187 (13.51%) DevOps
20 184 (13.29%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 715 (51.66%) SQL
2 442 (31.94%) Python
3 61 (4.41%) Scala
4 43 (3.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 40 (2.89%) Java
6 32 (2.31%) T-SQL
7 27 (1.95%) C#
8 26 (1.88%) PL/SQL
9 23 (1.66%) R
10 19 (1.37%) PowerShell
11 17 (1.23%) VBA
12 15 (1.08%) Bicep
12 15 (1.08%) JavaScript
13 9 (0.65%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.58%) Bash
15 4 (0.29%) ABAP
15 4 (0.29%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.29%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
15 4 (0.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 256 (18.50%) Security Cleared
2 192 (13.87%) SC Cleared
3 74 (5.35%) Degree
4 44 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (1.30%) Azure Certification
7 13 (0.94%) DV Cleared
8 12 (0.87%) AWS Certification
9 11 (0.79%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.29%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.29%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.22%) ACCA
12 3 (0.22%) CIMA
12 3 (0.22%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.22%) PhD
13 2 (0.14%) AAT
13 2 (0.14%) CFA
13 2 (0.14%) PMP
13 2 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (8.53%) GDPR
2 87 (6.29%) QA
3 35 (2.53%) Accessibility
4 24 (1.73%) PMO
5 16 (1.16%) SLA
6 14 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (0.94%) Solvency II
8 10 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 9 (0.65%) FINREP
10 8 (0.58%) IFRS
11 7 (0.51%) COREP
12 6 (0.43%) Basel III
12 6 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.36%) MiFID
14 4 (0.29%) BS7666
14 4 (0.29%) GRC
15 3 (0.22%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.22%) NIST
16 2 (0.14%) FATCA
System Software
1 73 (5.27%) Docker
2 6 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.36%) etcd
4 1 (0.072%) HDFS
4 1 (0.072%) RACF
4 1 (0.072%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 107 (7.73%) Terraform
2 81 (5.85%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.72%) Prometheus
4 8 (0.58%) Grafana
5 5 (0.36%) Ansible
5 5 (0.36%) Fluentd
5 5 (0.36%) HP ALM
6 4 (0.29%) Kibana
6 4 (0.29%) SCCM
7 3 (0.22%) logstash
8 1 (0.072%) Control-M
8 1 (0.072%) Nessus
8 1 (0.072%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.072%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 265 (19.15%) Databricks
2 220 (15.90%) Microsoft
3 112 (8.09%) SAP
4 103 (7.44%) Oracle
5 72 (5.20%) Informatica
6 70 (5.06%) Salesforce
7 63 (4.55%) ServiceNow
8 57 (4.12%) Talend
9 51 (3.68%) Google
10 33 (2.38%) Denodo
11 14 (1.01%) Workday
12 13 (0.94%) GoldenSource
13 12 (0.87%) IBM
13 12 (0.87%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.79%) Palantir
15 10 (0.72%) Avaloq
16 9 (0.65%) Adobe
16 9 (0.65%) ESRI
16 9 (0.65%) Foundry
16 9 (0.65%) Sparx