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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 100 118
Rank change year-on-year +53 +18 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 2,044 737 676
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.41% 2.65% 2.05%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.85% 15.41% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,311 477 469
10th Percentile £353 £338 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £713
90th Percentile £694 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £503 £550
% change year-on-year -0.50% -8.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 16 9
10th Percentile £15.39 £25.60 £21.25
25th Percentile £18.69 £31.64 £35.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £34.43 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% -8.19% -13.71%
75th Percentile £60.75 £47.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £79.35 £97.50
UK median hourly rate £30.89 £37.49 £36.25
% change year-on-year -17.62% +3.42% -8.04%

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 8,227 4,784 4,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.73% 17.20% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,184 3,121 2,609
10th Percentile £331 £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 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £720 £756
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.48% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 226 219
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.96 £15.13
Median hourly rate £33.60 £31.82 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.59% +9.72% -17.14%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.11 £63.59
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.98 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £30.00 £26.68
% change year-on-year +10.00% +12.44% -22.67%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +60 1,105 £525 -4.55% 976
North of England +34 281 £463 +2.78% 240
Midlands +30 219 £451 -6.83% 151
South East +39 211 £500 - 298
West Midlands +36 172 £451 -13.11% 108
North West +25 149 £525 +16.67% 157
Yorkshire +24 114 £450 -5.26% 63
South West +2 103 £500 +14.29% 108
East of England +14 87 £565 -6.46% 100
East Midlands +11 46 £484 +8.33% 43
North East -32 19 £520 +18.86% 22
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
1 126 (6.16%) Apache Airflow
2 94 (4.60%) Apache Spark
3 76 (3.72%) Apache
4 60 (2.94%) Confluence
5 47 (2.30%) SAS
6 44 (2.15%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
8 11 (0.54%) ArcGIS
8 11 (0.54%) CMS
9 10 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.098%) HCL Notes
13 2 (0.098%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.049%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.049%) GeoServer
14 1 (0.049%) Luigi
14 1 (0.049%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 157 (7.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
3 26 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.78%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.24%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.098%) CATIA
8 1 (0.049%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.049%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.049%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.049%) Trello
8 1 (0.049%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 68 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.59%) Aladdin
5 11 (0.54%) NEC Housing
6 10 (0.49%) Workday HCM
7 9 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 8 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
8 8 (0.39%) SAP MDG
9 7 (0.34%) iTrent
9 7 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
9 7 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
10 6 (0.29%) Maximo
10 6 (0.29%) SAP HR
10 6 (0.29%) Teamcenter
11 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
11 5 (0.24%) Shopify
12 4 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
12 4 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
12 4 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 532 (26.03%) Azure
2 426 (20.84%) Power Platform
3 367 (17.95%) AWS
4 167 (8.17%) GCP
5 160 (7.83%) Snowflake
6 157 (7.68%) Azure Data Factory
7 134 (6.56%) dbt
8 111 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
9 104 (5.09%) Serverless
10 98 (4.79%) Amazon S3
11 93 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 83 (4.06%) AWS Lambda
12 83 (4.06%) GitHub
13 61 (2.98%) Collibra
14 60 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
15 48 (2.35%) SaaS
16 47 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
17 45 (2.20%) Power Automate
18 44 (2.15%) Azure Databricks
19 41 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.34%) Firewall
2 5 (0.24%) Broadband
2 5 (0.24%) SD-WAN
2 5 (0.24%) SNMP
2 5 (0.24%) WAN
2 5 (0.24%) Wireless
3 3 (0.15%) HTTP
4 2 (0.098%) DNS
4 2 (0.098%) SSL
5 1 (0.049%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.049%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.049%) Network Security
5 1 (0.049%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.049%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 399 (19.52%) Power BI
2 327 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
3 324 (15.85%) Metadata
4 173 (8.46%) Data Lake
5 115 (5.63%) Tableau
6 96 (4.70%) SQL Server
7 88 (4.31%) Delta Lake
8 86 (4.21%) BigQuery
9 83 (4.06%) Amazon Redshift
10 78 (3.82%) Relational Database
11 57 (2.79%) Amazon Athena
12 50 (2.45%) NoSQL
13 49 (2.40%) Big Data
14 43 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
15 38 (1.86%) Power Query
15 38 (1.86%) Star Schema
16 37 (1.81%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 37 (1.81%) Snowflake Schema
17 34 (1.66%) Looker
18 30 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 127 (6.21%) JIRA
2 113 (5.53%) Git
3 37 (1.81%) Jenkins
4 35 (1.71%) GitLab
5 14 (0.68%) ERwin
6 11 (0.54%) Selenium
7 10 (0.49%) ER Studio
7 10 (0.49%) MLflow
8 9 (0.44%) Eclipse
9 8 (0.39%) Postman
10 7 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.29%) Ant
11 6 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.24%) Newman
12 5 (0.24%) RStudio
12 5 (0.24%) Terragrunt
13 4 (0.20%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.20%) TestRail
13 4 (0.20%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.20%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 648 (31.70%) Social Skills
2 620 (30.33%) Finance
3 495 (24.22%) Analytical Skills
4 240 (11.74%) Public Sector
5 174 (8.51%) Banking
6 67 (3.28%) Retail
7 57 (2.79%) Manufacturing
8 55 (2.69%) Marketing
9 52 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
10 44 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
10 44 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
11 43 (2.10%) Local Government
12 39 (1.91%) Military
13 37 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 34 (1.66%) Legal
15 27 (1.32%) Law
16 25 (1.22%) Billing
17 24 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
18 23 (1.13%) Publishing
19 22 (1.08%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 445 (21.77%) Data Engineer
2 423 (20.69%) Analyst
3 243 (11.89%) Senior
4 241 (11.79%) Lead
5 231 (11.30%) Data Analyst
6 211 (10.32%) Architect
7 138 (6.75%) Data Architect
8 113 (5.53%) Senior Data Engineer
9 109 (5.33%) Business Analyst
10 106 (5.19%) Developer
11 84 (4.11%) Consultant
12 67 (3.28%) Administrator
13 65 (3.18%) Data Manager
14 49 (2.40%) Data Consultant
15 43 (2.10%) Data Business Analyst
16 36 (1.76%) Databricks Engineer
17 35 (1.71%) AWS Engineer
17 35 (1.71%) Lead Data Engineer
17 35 (1.71%) Python Engineer
18 32 (1.57%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (8.95%) PySpark
2 134 (6.56%) Terraform
3 79 (3.86%) Kafka
4 58 (2.84%) REST
5 44 (2.15%) JSON
6 33 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
7 26 (1.27%) Great Expectations
7 26 (1.27%) Pandas
8 23 (1.13%) XML
9 20 (0.98%) Middleware
9 20 (0.98%) Web Services
10 18 (0.88%) .NET
11 17 (0.83%) HTML
12 16 (0.78%) SOAP
13 14 (0.68%) pytest
14 13 (0.64%) OpenTelemetry
15 10 (0.49%) CSS
15 10 (0.49%) OAuth
15 10 (0.49%) OpenID
15 10 (0.49%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 186 (9.10%) Data Structures
2 134 (6.56%) Onboarding
3 108 (5.28%) Cloud Native
4 104 (5.09%) Legacy Systems
5 98 (4.79%) Product Ownership
6 93 (4.55%) Management Information System
7 59 (2.89%) CMDB
8 51 (2.50%) Reference Data
9 40 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
10 38 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
11 35 (1.71%) AI Agents
12 29 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
13 27 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
14 25 (1.22%) Taxonomies
15 23 (1.13%) NHS
16 22 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
17 21 (1.03%) Life Science
18 17 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
19 16 (0.78%) Algorithms
20 15 (0.73%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 25 (1.22%) Unix
2 20 (0.98%) Linux
3 13 (0.64%) Windows
4 1 (0.049%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.049%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 803 (39.29%) Data Modelling
2 725 (35.47%) Analytics
3 722 (35.32%) Data Governance
4 562 (27.50%) Data Pipeline
5 537 (26.27%) ETL
6 535 (26.17%) Validation
7 510 (24.95%) Business Intelligence
8 506 (24.76%) Stakeholder Management
9 495 (24.22%) Migration
10 465 (22.75%) Data Engineering
11 422 (20.65%) Agile
12 396 (19.37%) Decision-Making
13 393 (19.23%) AI
14 388 (18.98%) CI/CD
15 382 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
16 326 (15.95%) Continuous Improvement
17 305 (14.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 300 (14.68%) Data Architecture
19 294 (14.38%) Data Migration
20 281 (13.75%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 884 (43.25%) SQL
2 548 (26.81%) Python
3 59 (2.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 59 (2.89%) Java
4 42 (2.05%) PL/SQL
5 34 (1.66%) T-SQL
6 32 (1.57%) Scala
7 31 (1.52%) PowerShell
8 29 (1.42%) Shell Script
9 25 (1.22%) JavaScript
10 23 (1.13%) R
11 22 (1.08%) C#
12 17 (0.83%) Bash
13 13 (0.64%) Bicep
14 9 (0.44%) Apex Code
14 9 (0.44%) VBA
15 8 (0.39%) SOQL
15 8 (0.39%) TypeScript
16 6 (0.29%) Go
16 6 (0.29%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 327 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 252 (12.33%) SC Cleared
3 125 (6.12%) Degree
4 55 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (1.47%) Azure Certification
6 28 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (1.32%) DV Cleared
8 26 (1.27%) AWS Certification
9 20 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (0.88%) PMI Certification
11 17 (0.83%) Master's Degree
12 13 (0.64%) PMP
13 9 (0.44%) ACCA
13 9 (0.44%) CIMA
14 8 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 5 (0.24%) CIPD
16 5 (0.24%) PhD
16 5 (0.24%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (7.44%) QA
2 128 (6.26%) GDPR
3 38 (1.86%) Accessibility
4 34 (1.66%) PMO
5 22 (1.08%) SLA
6 21 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (0.73%) IFRS
7 15 (0.73%) NIST
8 14 (0.68%) GRC
8 14 (0.68%) NCSC
8 14 (0.68%) Solvency II
9 10 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
10 9 (0.44%) COREP
10 9 (0.44%) FINREP
11 8 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 7 (0.34%) IFRS 17
13 6 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 5 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
15 4 (0.20%) HIPAA
System Software
1 75 (3.67%) Docker
2 19 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.098%) etcd
3 2 (0.098%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.049%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 75 (3.67%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.68%) Grafana
3 13 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (0.59%) Ansible
5 9 (0.44%) Control-M
6 8 (0.39%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.20%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.20%) Kibana
7 4 (0.20%) SCCM
8 2 (0.098%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.049%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.049%) Istio
9 1 (0.049%) logstash
9 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.049%) Nexpose
9 1 (0.049%) Puppet
9 1 (0.049%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.049%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 386 (18.88%) Microsoft
2 300 (14.68%) Databricks
3 168 (8.22%) SAP
4 150 (7.34%) Oracle
5 91 (4.45%) ServiceNow
6 85 (4.16%) Informatica
7 78 (3.82%) Salesforce
8 63 (3.08%) Google
9 32 (1.57%) Workday
10 27 (1.32%) IBM
11 26 (1.27%) Adobe
11 26 (1.27%) Talend
12 23 (1.13%) Alteryx
13 22 (1.08%) Splunk
14 21 (1.03%) Palantir
15 16 (0.78%) Denodo
15 16 (0.78%) Foundry
16 12 (0.59%) Bloomberg
16 12 (0.59%) GoldenSource
16 12 (0.59%) Teradata