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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 105 111
Rank change year-on-year +56 +6 +45
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,850 688 704
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.13% 2.50% 2.07%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.85% 14.64% 15.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,204 449 504
10th Percentile £354 £336 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £594 £638 £713
90th Percentile £675 £739 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 18 9
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.08 £23.30
25th Percentile £21.13 £21.65 £24.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.42% -20.90% +29.03%
75th Percentile £65.17 £34.85 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £61.24 £55.15
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £24.00
% change year-on-year +26.42% +31.83% -31.84%

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 7,757 4,701 4,598
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.30% 17.09% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,958 3,077 2,884
10th Percentile £350 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £610 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £506
% change year-on-year - -1.19% -3.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 522 215 299
10th Percentile £14.03 £15.12 £10.95
25th Percentile £19.69 £18.21 £14.43
Median hourly rate £38.86 £31.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.37% +14.55% -34.16%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £85.55 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.35 £25.60
% change year-on-year +46.25% +6.84% -32.63%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 29 July 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 +66 975 £525 -2.78% 406
North of England +19 239 £475 +5.56% 150
Midlands +36 219 £479 +4.36% 100
South East +27 187 £468 +0.11% 152
West Midlands +34 176 £484 -3.30% 68
North West +8 130 £475 +5.56% 70
South West +18 101 £500 +17.65% 65
East of England +11 88 £565 -6.53% 34
Yorkshire +4 85 £463 +9.47% 48
East Midlands +7 43 £466 +3.79% 32
North East -24 25 £520 -15.10% 34
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 98 (5.30%) Apache Spark
2 97 (5.24%) Apache Airflow
3 73 (3.95%) Apache
4 54 (2.92%) SAS
5 53 (2.86%) Confluence
6 35 (1.89%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
8 9 (0.49%) CMS
8 9 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
9 8 (0.43%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.22%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.16%) Appian
11 3 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.11%) HCL Notes
12 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.054%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.054%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.054%) Mendix
Applications
1 135 (7.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
3 17 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
5 14 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.70%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.22%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.11%) CATIA
9 1 (0.054%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.054%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 65 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.65%) NetSuite
4 11 (0.59%) NEC Housing
5 9 (0.49%) Aladdin
5 9 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.49%) Sage X3
5 9 (0.49%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.43%) SAP MDG
7 7 (0.38%) iTrent
8 6 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
8 6 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 5 (0.27%) BambooHR
9 5 (0.27%) Loan IQ
9 5 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.22%) Maximo
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.22%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
11 3 (0.16%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 494 (26.70%) Azure
2 413 (22.32%) Power Platform
3 317 (17.14%) AWS
4 156 (8.43%) Azure Data Factory
5 141 (7.62%) GCP
6 140 (7.57%) Snowflake
7 119 (6.43%) dbt
8 101 (5.46%) Azure DevOps
9 92 (4.97%) Amazon S3
10 90 (4.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 85 (4.59%) Serverless
12 73 (3.95%) GitHub
13 72 (3.89%) AWS Lambda
14 55 (2.97%) Collibra
15 40 (2.16%) Microsoft Purview
16 39 (2.11%) Power Automate
17 38 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
18 37 (2.00%) SaaS
19 31 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
20 25 (1.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.49%) Firewall
2 5 (0.27%) VPN
3 2 (0.11%) HTTP
4 1 (0.054%) 4G
4 1 (0.054%) 5G
4 1 (0.054%) Broadband
4 1 (0.054%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.054%) DNS
4 1 (0.054%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.054%) SNMP
4 1 (0.054%) SSH
4 1 (0.054%) SSL
4 1 (0.054%) WAN
4 1 (0.054%) Wireless
4 1 (0.054%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 391 (21.14%) Power BI
2 306 (16.54%) Data Warehouse
3 237 (12.81%) Metadata
4 165 (8.92%) Data Lake
5 120 (6.49%) Tableau
6 91 (4.92%) SQL Server
7 80 (4.32%) BigQuery
8 78 (4.22%) Delta Lake
9 71 (3.84%) Amazon Redshift
10 68 (3.68%) Relational Database
11 57 (3.08%) Amazon Athena
12 55 (2.97%) Big Data
13 42 (2.27%) Snowflake Schema
14 41 (2.22%) NoSQL
15 38 (2.05%) Power Query
15 38 (2.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 33 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
16 33 (1.78%) Star Schema
17 31 (1.68%) Looker
18 30 (1.62%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 118 (6.38%) JIRA
2 115 (6.22%) Git
3 45 (2.43%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.84%) GitLab
5 19 (1.03%) ERwin
6 12 (0.65%) ER Studio
7 11 (0.59%) MLflow
8 9 (0.49%) Eclipse
8 9 (0.49%) Postman
9 8 (0.43%) PowerDesigner
10 7 (0.38%) Selenium
10 7 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.32%) Ant
11 6 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.27%) Newman
12 5 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
13 4 (0.22%) LSMW
13 4 (0.22%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.22%) Zephyr
14 3 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 554 (29.95%) Finance
2 540 (29.19%) Social Skills
3 446 (24.11%) Analytical Skills
4 208 (11.24%) Public Sector
5 142 (7.68%) Banking
6 53 (2.86%) Marketing
7 51 (2.76%) Retail
8 46 (2.49%) Manufacturing
9 45 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
10 40 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
11 33 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 30 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
13 29 (1.57%) Local Government
14 27 (1.46%) Legal
14 27 (1.46%) Military
15 20 (1.08%) Law
16 19 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (0.97%) Publishing
18 17 (0.92%) Automotive
18 17 (0.92%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 425 (22.97%) Data Engineer
2 383 (20.70%) Analyst
3 214 (11.57%) Data Analyst
4 211 (11.41%) Senior
5 202 (10.92%) Lead
6 172 (9.30%) Architect
7 112 (6.05%) Data Architect
8 106 (5.73%) Business Analyst
9 105 (5.68%) Developer
10 89 (4.81%) Senior Data Engineer
11 64 (3.46%) Consultant
12 57 (3.08%) Data Manager
13 51 (2.76%) Administrator
14 45 (2.43%) Data Business Analyst
15 33 (1.78%) Azure Engineer
15 33 (1.78%) Data Consultant
16 31 (1.68%) Project Manager
17 30 (1.62%) AWS Engineer
17 30 (1.62%) Data Migration Lead
17 30 (1.62%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (7.68%) PySpark
2 91 (4.92%) Kafka
3 47 (2.54%) REST
4 44 (2.38%) JSON
5 40 (2.16%) Pandas
6 26 (1.41%) Great Expectations
7 24 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
7 24 (1.30%) Web Services
8 20 (1.08%) Middleware
9 18 (0.97%) XML
10 17 (0.92%) scikit-learn
11 15 (0.81%) HTML
12 14 (0.76%) SOAP
13 13 (0.70%) .NET
13 13 (0.70%) GeoJSON
13 13 (0.70%) OpenTelemetry
14 10 (0.54%) Matplotlib
14 10 (0.54%) OAuth
14 10 (0.54%) pytest
14 10 (0.54%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 162 (8.76%) Data Structures
2 107 (5.78%) Onboarding
3 104 (5.62%) Legacy Systems
4 98 (5.30%) Cloud Native
5 83 (4.49%) Product Ownership
6 65 (3.51%) Management Information System
7 53 (2.86%) CMDB
8 42 (2.27%) Reference Data
9 32 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
10 30 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
11 28 (1.51%) AI Agents
12 25 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
12 25 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
12 25 (1.35%) Taxonomies
13 23 (1.24%) NHS
14 20 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
15 18 (0.97%) Clustering
16 16 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
16 16 (0.86%) Life Science
17 15 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.03%) Linux
1 19 (1.03%) Unix
2 13 (0.70%) Windows
3 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.054%) VMS
3 1 (0.054%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 734 (39.68%) Data Modelling
2 672 (36.32%) Analytics
3 622 (33.62%) Data Governance
4 534 (28.86%) Data Pipeline
5 526 (28.43%) ETL
6 500 (27.03%) Business Intelligence
7 460 (24.86%) Validation
8 426 (23.03%) Migration
9 407 (22.00%) Data Engineering
10 384 (20.76%) Agile
11 343 (18.54%) CI/CD
11 343 (18.54%) Decision-Making
12 335 (18.11%) Stakeholder Management
13 331 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
14 315 (17.03%) AI
15 280 (15.14%) Continuous Improvement
16 272 (14.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 264 (14.27%) Data Migration
18 257 (13.89%) Data Architecture
19 251 (13.57%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 820 (44.32%) SQL
2 501 (27.08%) Python
3 63 (3.41%) Java
4 56 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 40 (2.16%) Scala
6 38 (2.05%) PL/SQL
7 34 (1.84%) T-SQL
8 33 (1.78%) PowerShell
9 23 (1.24%) Shell Script
10 21 (1.14%) C#
11 18 (0.97%) JavaScript
11 18 (0.97%) VBA
12 14 (0.76%) R
13 12 (0.65%) Bicep
14 11 (0.59%) Bash
14 11 (0.59%) TypeScript
15 10 (0.54%) Apex Code
16 7 (0.38%) SOQL
17 6 (0.32%) Cypher
17 6 (0.32%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 315 (17.03%) Security Cleared
2 241 (13.03%) SC Cleared
3 111 (6.00%) Degree
4 63 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (1.62%) Azure Certification
6 24 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (1.24%) DV Cleared
8 18 (0.97%) Master's Degree
8 18 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (0.92%) AWS Certification
10 13 (0.70%) PMI Certification
11 9 (0.49%) PMP
12 8 (0.43%) ACCA
12 8 (0.43%) CIMA
13 6 (0.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 6 (0.32%) SnowPro
14 5 (0.27%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.27%) PhD
15 4 (0.22%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (7.35%) GDPR
2 131 (7.08%) QA
3 35 (1.89%) Accessibility
4 33 (1.78%) PMO
5 22 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (0.86%) Solvency II
7 15 (0.81%) SLA
8 11 (0.59%) IFRS
8 11 (0.59%) NIST
9 10 (0.54%) COREP
9 10 (0.54%) FINREP
9 10 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (0.43%) GRC
11 7 (0.38%) NCSC
12 4 (0.22%) BS7666
12 4 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.22%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.22%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 74 (4.00%) Docker
2 20 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.27%) etcd
4 1 (0.054%) HDFS
4 1 (0.054%) RACF
4 1 (0.054%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.054%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 121 (6.54%) Terraform
2 78 (4.22%) Kubernetes
3 14 (0.76%) Grafana
4 11 (0.59%) Prometheus
5 10 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.49%) Ansible
7 5 (0.27%) Fluentd
7 5 (0.27%) HP ALM
7 5 (0.27%) SCCM
8 4 (0.22%) Control-M
8 4 (0.22%) Kibana
9 1 (0.054%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.054%) Istio
9 1 (0.054%) logstash
9 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.054%) Nessus
9 1 (0.054%) Nexpose
9 1 (0.054%) Puppet
9 1 (0.054%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.054%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 292 (15.78%) Microsoft
2 273 (14.76%) Databricks
3 156 (8.43%) SAP
4 128 (6.92%) Oracle
5 83 (4.49%) Informatica
6 75 (4.05%) Salesforce
6 75 (4.05%) ServiceNow
7 47 (2.54%) Google
8 36 (1.95%) Talend
9 29 (1.57%) Workday
10 23 (1.24%) Denodo
11 22 (1.19%) Adobe
12 21 (1.14%) Palantir
13 20 (1.08%) IBM
14 19 (1.03%) Alteryx
15 17 (0.92%) Foundry
16 15 (0.81%) Splunk
17 14 (0.76%) Sage
18 13 (0.70%) GoldenSource
19 12 (0.65%) NEC