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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 112 108
Rank change year-on-year +55 -4 +52
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,600 608 755
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.75% 2.48% 2.01%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.24% 15.24% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,057 385 526
10th Percentile £350 £346 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £694
90th Percentile £675 £725 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 20 28
10th Percentile £13.96 £18.22 £13.49
25th Percentile £17.20 £23.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £35.75 £31.64 £21.06
Median % change year-on-year +12.99% +50.26% -6.35%
75th Percentile £60.75 £34.99 £44.81
90th Percentile £81.78 £78.83 £58.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £15.80
% change year-on-year +26.42% +100.25% -29.73%

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 7,194 3,989 5,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.87% 16.27% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,659 2,558 3,206
10th Percentile £350 £268 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% -3.90% -
75th Percentile £608 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £509
% change year-on-year - -1.77% -3.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 462 169 382
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.26 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.77 £22.14 £12.88
Median hourly rate £35.50 £33.88 £23.90
Median % change year-on-year +4.78% +41.76% -43.76%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £83.78 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £32.50 £23.30
% change year-on-year +10.98% +39.51% -39.82%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +69 893 £520 -0.95% 252
North of England +11 185 £475 +5.56% 110
Midlands +23 182 £492 +6.80% 77
West Midlands +27 148 £495 +14.81% 54
South East +8 140 £463 -7.50% 157
North West +15 109 £475 +5.56% 71
South West +25 89 £500 +17.65% 45
East of England -11 68 £575 -4.49% 35
Yorkshire -32 49 £498 +24.38% 28
East Midlands -3 35 £450 -2.33% 23
North East -10 27 £475 -22.45% 12
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 93 (5.81%) Apache Spark
2 85 (5.31%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (3.06%) Apache
4 48 (3.00%) Confluence
5 43 (2.69%) SAS
6 37 (2.31%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.63%) Appian
8 8 (0.50%) ArcGIS
9 7 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.25%) CMS
12 3 (0.19%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
13 2 (0.13%) GeoServer
13 2 (0.13%) Smallworld
Applications
1 122 (7.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 19 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
3 18 (1.13%) MS Visio
4 17 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
5 16 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.13%) CATIA
7 2 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 47 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.75%) NEC Housing
3 10 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.56%) iTrent
4 9 (0.56%) Loan IQ
4 9 (0.56%) NetSuite
4 9 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.44%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.38%) Finacle
6 6 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.38%) SAP MM
7 5 (0.31%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 5 (0.31%) SystmOne
8 4 (0.25%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.25%) SAP PM
9 3 (0.19%) Actimize
9 3 (0.19%) Maximo
9 3 (0.19%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 457 (28.56%) Azure
2 387 (24.19%) Power Platform
3 278 (17.38%) AWS
4 173 (10.81%) Azure Data Factory
5 120 (7.50%) GCP
6 113 (7.06%) Snowflake
7 111 (6.94%) dbt
8 106 (6.63%) Azure DevOps
9 103 (6.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 87 (5.44%) Amazon S3
11 78 (4.88%) Serverless
12 77 (4.81%) GitHub
13 61 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
14 54 (3.38%) Collibra
15 38 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
16 34 (2.13%) Power Automate
17 33 (2.06%) Microsoft Purview
18 31 (1.94%) SaaS
19 22 (1.38%) AWS CloudFormation
20 20 (1.25%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.44%) Firewall
2 5 (0.31%) VPN
3 2 (0.13%) HTTP
4 1 (0.063%) 4G
4 1 (0.063%) 5G
4 1 (0.063%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 370 (23.13%) Power BI
2 257 (16.06%) Data Warehouse
3 208 (13.00%) Metadata
4 166 (10.38%) Data Lake
5 104 (6.50%) Tableau
6 102 (6.38%) SQL Server
7 79 (4.94%) Delta Lake
8 67 (4.19%) BigQuery
9 61 (3.81%) Amazon Redshift
10 56 (3.50%) Relational Database
11 50 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
12 49 (3.06%) Big Data
13 48 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
14 46 (2.88%) Snowflake Schema
15 38 (2.38%) NoSQL
16 37 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 35 (2.19%) Power Query
18 30 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
19 28 (1.75%) Star Schema
20 24 (1.50%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 117 (7.31%) JIRA
2 114 (7.13%) Git
3 44 (2.75%) Jenkins
4 30 (1.88%) GitLab
5 17 (1.06%) ERwin
6 15 (0.94%) MLflow
7 8 (0.50%) Postman
7 8 (0.50%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.44%) ER Studio
8 7 (0.44%) Selenium
9 6 (0.38%) Eclipse
9 6 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
10 5 (0.31%) Ant
10 5 (0.31%) LSMW
10 5 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
11 4 (0.25%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 4 (0.25%) Zephyr
12 3 (0.19%) Newman
12 3 (0.19%) Terragrunt
General
1 490 (30.63%) Finance
2 472 (29.50%) Social Skills
3 362 (22.63%) Analytical Skills
4 169 (10.56%) Public Sector
5 131 (8.19%) Banking
6 44 (2.75%) Marketing
7 41 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
8 40 (2.50%) Retail
9 35 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
10 30 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 26 (1.63%) Manufacturing
12 25 (1.56%) Local Government
13 24 (1.50%) Legal
14 22 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
15 19 (1.19%) Military
16 18 (1.13%) Law
17 17 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
18 14 (0.88%) Financial Institution
18 14 (0.88%) Publishing
19 13 (0.81%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 408 (25.50%) Data Engineer
2 328 (20.50%) Analyst
3 189 (11.81%) Data Analyst
4 183 (11.44%) Senior
5 167 (10.44%) Lead
6 126 (7.88%) Architect
7 83 (5.19%) Business Analyst
8 82 (5.13%) Senior Data Engineer
9 81 (5.06%) Developer
10 75 (4.69%) Data Architect
11 55 (3.44%) Consultant
12 52 (3.25%) Data Manager
13 38 (2.38%) Administrator
14 33 (2.06%) Azure Engineer
15 32 (2.00%) Data Business Analyst
15 32 (2.00%) Data Migration Lead
16 31 (1.94%) Project Manager
17 30 (1.88%) Azure Data Engineer
18 28 (1.75%) AWS Engineer
19 27 (1.69%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (8.00%) PySpark
2 90 (5.63%) Kafka
3 52 (3.25%) Pandas
4 47 (2.94%) REST
5 34 (2.13%) JSON
6 30 (1.88%) Great Expectations
7 25 (1.56%) scikit-learn
8 22 (1.38%) Oracle Fusion
8 22 (1.38%) Web Services
9 20 (1.25%) NumPy
10 17 (1.06%) Middleware
10 17 (1.06%) XML
11 16 (1.00%) pytest
12 15 (0.94%) PyTorch
13 13 (0.81%) GeoJSON
14 12 (0.75%) HTML
14 12 (0.75%) OAuth
14 12 (0.75%) SOAP
14 12 (0.75%) TensorFlow
15 11 (0.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 123 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 111 (6.94%) Legacy Systems
3 83 (5.19%) Cloud Native
4 82 (5.13%) Onboarding
5 62 (3.88%) Product Ownership
6 57 (3.56%) Management Information System
7 47 (2.94%) CMDB
8 35 (2.19%) Reference Data
9 28 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
10 27 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
11 24 (1.50%) AI Agents
12 22 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
12 22 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
13 19 (1.19%) Clustering
14 18 (1.13%) NHS
15 16 (1.00%) Life Science
15 16 (1.00%) Taxonomies
16 15 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
17 12 (0.75%) Fixed Income
18 11 (0.69%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.69%) Unix
1 11 (0.69%) Windows
2 9 (0.56%) Linux
3 1 (0.063%) VMS
3 1 (0.063%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 666 (41.63%) Data Modelling
2 599 (37.44%) Analytics
3 509 (31.81%) Data Governance
4 492 (30.75%) ETL
5 465 (29.06%) Data Pipeline
6 458 (28.63%) Business Intelligence
7 378 (23.63%) Validation
8 364 (22.75%) Migration
9 354 (22.13%) Data Engineering
10 333 (20.81%) Agile
11 307 (19.19%) Decision-Making
12 304 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
13 298 (18.63%) CI/CD
14 284 (17.75%) AI
15 255 (15.94%) Stakeholder Management
16 243 (15.19%) Data Migration
17 224 (14.00%) Data Architecture
18 223 (13.94%) Continuous Improvement
19 214 (13.38%) DevOps
19 214 (13.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 759 (47.44%) SQL
2 462 (28.88%) Python
3 54 (3.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 49 (3.06%) Java
5 44 (2.75%) Scala
6 41 (2.56%) T-SQL
7 36 (2.25%) PL/SQL
8 25 (1.56%) PowerShell
9 18 (1.13%) C#
10 16 (1.00%) VBA
11 14 (0.88%) Bicep
12 13 (0.81%) R
13 10 (0.63%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.56%) JavaScript
15 8 (0.50%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.50%) Bash
16 7 (0.44%) TypeScript
17 6 (0.38%) SOQL
18 5 (0.31%) Korn
18 5 (0.31%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 271 (16.94%) Security Cleared
2 214 (13.38%) SC Cleared
3 88 (5.50%) Degree
4 59 (3.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 25 (1.56%) Azure Certification
6 20 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (0.88%) AWS Certification
8 13 (0.81%) Master's Degree
8 13 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (0.50%) ACCA
9 8 (0.50%) CIMA
9 8 (0.50%) DV Cleared
9 8 (0.50%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.38%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.31%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.31%) SnowPro
12 4 (0.25%) PhD
12 4 (0.25%) PMP
12 4 (0.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (8.44%) GDPR
2 106 (6.63%) QA
3 36 (2.25%) PMO
4 23 (1.44%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.06%) SLA
7 16 (1.00%) Solvency II
8 11 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.63%) IFRS
10 8 (0.50%) COREP
10 8 (0.50%) FINREP
11 7 (0.44%) NIST
12 6 (0.38%) GRC
13 4 (0.25%) BS7666
13 4 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.25%) GAAP
13 4 (0.25%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 3 (0.19%) Basel III
14 3 (0.19%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 67 (4.19%) Docker
2 8 (0.50%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.31%) etcd
4 1 (0.063%) HDFS
4 1 (0.063%) RACF
4 1 (0.063%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 121 (7.56%) Terraform
2 70 (4.38%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.63%) Grafana
3 10 (0.63%) Prometheus
4 8 (0.50%) Ansible
5 6 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.31%) Fluentd
6 5 (0.31%) SCCM
7 4 (0.25%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.25%) Kibana
8 1 (0.063%) Control-M
8 1 (0.063%) Istio
8 1 (0.063%) logstash
8 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.063%) Nessus
8 1 (0.063%) Nexpose
8 1 (0.063%) Puppet
8 1 (0.063%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 262 (16.38%) Microsoft
2 255 (15.94%) Databricks
3 119 (7.44%) Oracle
3 119 (7.44%) SAP
4 75 (4.69%) Salesforce
5 66 (4.13%) ServiceNow
6 62 (3.88%) Informatica
7 41 (2.56%) Google
8 32 (2.00%) Talend
9 23 (1.44%) Denodo
10 20 (1.25%) IBM
11 17 (1.06%) OpenAI
11 17 (1.06%) Workday
12 15 (0.94%) GoldenSource
13 13 (0.81%) Adobe
13 13 (0.81%) NEC
14 11 (0.69%) Avaloq
14 11 (0.69%) ESRI
14 11 (0.69%) Foundry
14 11 (0.69%) Palantir