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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 98 116
Rank change year-on-year +48 +18 +35
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,902 712 668
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.16% 2.58% 2.02%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.78% 15.02% 15.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,237 459 475
10th Percentile £351 £338 £342
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -8.18% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £713
90th Percentile £688 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 18 9
10th Percentile £16.23 £20.18 £21.10
25th Percentile £22.16 £27.24 £24.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.56 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.87% -35.53% +44.29%
75th Percentile £65.31 £44.37 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £61.24 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £33.11 £24.00
% change year-on-year +20.81% +37.96% -27.27%

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 7,998 4,739 4,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.49% 17.16% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,103 3,085 2,722
10th Percentile £338 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £610 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 543 228 268
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.87 £13.96
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% +15.05% -21.43%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £62.59
90th Percentile £80.00 £87.33 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £28.18 £26.16
% change year-on-year +28.00% +7.71% -25.25%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 18 August 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 +58 1,001 £525 - 858
North of England +32 251 £475 +5.56% 240
Midlands +33 235 £477 -4.60% 131
South East +22 202 £475 -2.56% 254
West Midlands +36 184 £475 -8.39% 102
North West +18 137 £500 +6.38% 147
Yorkshire +9 95 £458 +4.57% 53
South West +6 90 £500 +17.65% 97
East of England +19 88 £565 -4.24% 88
East Midlands +10 50 £484 +7.97% 29
North East -22 20 £520 -15.10% 41
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
1 108 (5.68%) Apache Airflow
2 96 (5.05%) Apache Spark
3 74 (3.89%) Apache
4 57 (3.00%) SAS
5 52 (2.73%) Confluence
6 41 (2.16%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
8 11 (0.58%) CMS
8 11 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
9 9 (0.47%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.16%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.11%) HCL Notes
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.053%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.053%) GeoServer
13 1 (0.053%) Luigi
13 1 (0.053%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 136 (7.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (1.31%) Spreadsheet
3 19 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (0.79%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.26%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.11%) CATIA
8 1 (0.053%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.053%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.053%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 65 (3.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 11 (0.58%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.53%) NEC Housing
6 9 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 8 (0.42%) Workday HCM
8 7 (0.37%) iTrent
8 7 (0.37%) Sage X3
8 7 (0.37%) SAP MDG
9 6 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.26%) BambooHR
10 5 (0.26%) Loan IQ
11 4 (0.21%) Finacle
11 4 (0.21%) Maximo
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
11 4 (0.21%) Shopify
11 4 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
12 3 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 503 (26.45%) Azure
2 412 (21.66%) Power Platform
3 335 (17.61%) AWS
4 157 (8.25%) Azure Data Factory
5 149 (7.83%) GCP
6 146 (7.68%) Snowflake
7 123 (6.47%) dbt
8 109 (5.73%) Azure DevOps
9 91 (4.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 89 (4.68%) Amazon S3
11 84 (4.42%) Serverless
12 73 (3.84%) AWS Lambda
13 72 (3.79%) GitHub
14 52 (2.73%) Collibra
14 52 (2.73%) Microsoft Purview
15 42 (2.21%) Power Automate
16 39 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
16 39 (2.05%) SaaS
17 35 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
18 31 (1.63%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.47%) Firewall
2 5 (0.26%) VPN
3 3 (0.16%) HTTP
4 2 (0.11%) Broadband
4 2 (0.11%) DNS
4 2 (0.11%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.11%) SNMP
4 2 (0.11%) SSL
4 2 (0.11%) WAN
4 2 (0.11%) Wireless
5 1 (0.053%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.053%) Network Security
5 1 (0.053%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.053%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 390 (20.50%) Power BI
2 320 (16.82%) Data Warehouse
3 271 (14.25%) Metadata
4 166 (8.73%) Data Lake
5 114 (5.99%) Tableau
6 96 (5.05%) SQL Server
7 83 (4.36%) BigQuery
8 77 (4.05%) Delta Lake
9 74 (3.89%) Relational Database
10 72 (3.79%) Amazon Redshift
11 53 (2.79%) Amazon Athena
12 51 (2.68%) Big Data
13 49 (2.58%) NoSQL
14 40 (2.10%) Snowflake Schema
15 38 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
16 37 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 35 (1.84%) Power Query
17 35 (1.84%) Star Schema
18 34 (1.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
19 33 (1.74%) Looker
Development Applications
1 118 (6.20%) JIRA
2 111 (5.84%) Git
3 51 (2.68%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.79%) GitLab
5 16 (0.84%) ERwin
6 11 (0.58%) ER Studio
7 9 (0.47%) Eclipse
7 9 (0.47%) MLflow
7 9 (0.47%) Selenium
8 8 (0.42%) Postman
9 7 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.32%) Ant
10 6 (0.32%) PowerDesigner
10 6 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.26%) Newman
11 5 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
12 4 (0.21%) Terragrunt
12 4 (0.21%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.21%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 4 (0.21%) Zephyr
General
1 589 (30.97%) Social Skills
2 572 (30.07%) Finance
3 450 (23.66%) Analytical Skills
4 221 (11.62%) Public Sector
5 155 (8.15%) Banking
6 58 (3.05%) Retail
7 55 (2.89%) Marketing
8 50 (2.63%) Manufacturing
9 48 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
10 43 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
11 39 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
12 37 (1.95%) Local Government
13 36 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 32 (1.68%) Legal
15 30 (1.58%) Military
16 27 (1.42%) Law
16 27 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
17 20 (1.05%) Automotive
18 19 (1.00%) Front Office
19 17 (0.89%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 433 (22.77%) Data Engineer
2 387 (20.35%) Analyst
3 219 (11.51%) Senior
4 217 (11.41%) Lead
5 212 (11.15%) Data Analyst
6 182 (9.57%) Architect
7 120 (6.31%) Data Architect
8 106 (5.57%) Business Analyst
9 105 (5.52%) Developer
10 93 (4.89%) Senior Data Engineer
11 69 (3.63%) Consultant
12 60 (3.15%) Data Manager
13 58 (3.05%) Administrator
14 40 (2.10%) Data Business Analyst
15 39 (2.05%) Data Consultant
16 36 (1.89%) Python Engineer
17 35 (1.84%) Lead Data Engineer
18 32 (1.68%) Data Migration Lead
19 30 (1.58%) Azure Engineer
19 30 (1.58%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (8.31%) PySpark
2 86 (4.52%) Kafka
3 47 (2.47%) REST
4 44 (2.31%) JSON
5 30 (1.58%) Oracle Fusion
6 28 (1.47%) Pandas
7 25 (1.31%) Great Expectations
8 21 (1.10%) Web Services
8 21 (1.10%) XML
9 19 (1.00%) Middleware
10 16 (0.84%) HTML
11 14 (0.74%) .NET
11 14 (0.74%) SOAP
12 12 (0.63%) OpenTelemetry
13 11 (0.58%) pytest
14 10 (0.53%) SailPoint
15 9 (0.47%) CSS
15 9 (0.47%) SAML
16 8 (0.42%) React
16 8 (0.42%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 166 (8.73%) Data Structures
2 116 (6.10%) Onboarding
3 102 (5.36%) Legacy Systems
4 101 (5.31%) Cloud Native
5 88 (4.63%) Product Ownership
6 79 (4.15%) Management Information System
7 59 (3.10%) CMDB
8 44 (2.31%) Reference Data
9 37 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
10 28 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
11 27 (1.42%) AI Agents
12 24 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
12 24 (1.26%) Taxonomies
13 22 (1.16%) NHS
13 22 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
14 21 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
15 16 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
15 16 (0.84%) Life Science
16 15 (0.79%) SCADA
17 14 (0.74%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.05%) Unix
2 19 (1.00%) Linux
3 12 (0.63%) Windows
4 1 (0.053%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.053%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 754 (39.64%) Data Modelling
2 696 (36.59%) Analytics
3 668 (35.12%) Data Governance
4 545 (28.65%) Data Pipeline
5 538 (28.29%) ETL
6 498 (26.18%) Business Intelligence
7 485 (25.50%) Validation
8 451 (23.71%) Migration
9 422 (22.19%) Data Engineering
10 406 (21.35%) Agile
11 397 (20.87%) Stakeholder Management
12 363 (19.09%) Problem-Solving
13 362 (19.03%) Decision-Making
14 357 (18.77%) CI/CD
15 331 (17.40%) AI
16 304 (15.98%) Continuous Improvement
17 285 (14.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 279 (14.67%) Data Migration
19 267 (14.04%) Data Architecture
20 258 (13.56%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 834 (43.85%) SQL
2 507 (26.66%) Python
3 63 (3.31%) Java
4 55 (2.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 38 (2.00%) PL/SQL
6 36 (1.89%) Scala
7 34 (1.79%) T-SQL
8 33 (1.74%) PowerShell
9 24 (1.26%) Shell Script
10 23 (1.21%) JavaScript
11 21 (1.10%) C#
12 15 (0.79%) R
13 14 (0.74%) VBA
14 13 (0.68%) Bash
15 12 (0.63%) Bicep
16 9 (0.47%) Apex Code
17 8 (0.42%) TypeScript
18 7 (0.37%) SOQL
19 6 (0.32%) Go
19 6 (0.32%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 317 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 242 (12.72%) SC Cleared
3 118 (6.20%) Degree
4 53 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (1.68%) Azure Certification
6 28 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (1.31%) DV Cleared
8 22 (1.16%) AWS Certification
9 19 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (0.89%) Master's Degree
11 14 (0.74%) PMI Certification
12 10 (0.53%) PMP
13 8 (0.42%) ACCA
13 8 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.42%) CIMA
14 6 (0.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 6 (0.32%) SnowPro
15 5 (0.26%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (7.41%) QA
2 138 (7.26%) GDPR
3 35 (1.84%) Accessibility
4 28 (1.47%) PMO
5 24 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.68%) GRC
6 13 (0.68%) IFRS
6 13 (0.68%) Solvency II
7 12 (0.63%) SLA
8 11 (0.58%) NIST
9 9 (0.47%) COREP
9 9 (0.47%) FINREP
9 9 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.42%) NCSC
11 7 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.21%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.21%) IFRS 17
13 4 (0.21%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 84 (4.42%) Docker
2 20 (1.05%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.26%) etcd
4 2 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.053%) RACF
5 1 (0.053%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 120 (6.31%) Terraform
2 90 (4.73%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.68%) Grafana
4 11 (0.58%) Ansible
4 11 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 10 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.37%) Control-M
7 5 (0.26%) Fluentd
7 5 (0.26%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.21%) SCCM
9 3 (0.16%) Kibana
10 1 (0.053%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.053%) Istio
10 1 (0.053%) logstash
10 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.053%) Nessus
10 1 (0.053%) Nexpose
10 1 (0.053%) Puppet
10 1 (0.053%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.053%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 329 (17.30%) Microsoft
2 277 (14.56%) Databricks
3 161 (8.46%) SAP
4 141 (7.41%) Oracle
5 84 (4.42%) Informatica
6 83 (4.36%) ServiceNow
7 73 (3.84%) Salesforce
8 57 (3.00%) Google
9 35 (1.84%) Talend
10 29 (1.52%) Workday
11 27 (1.42%) Denodo
12 24 (1.26%) Adobe
13 23 (1.21%) IBM
14 22 (1.16%) Palantir
15 21 (1.10%) Alteryx
16 19 (1.00%) Splunk
17 18 (0.95%) Foundry
18 12 (0.63%) Sage
19 11 (0.58%) Bloomberg
19 11 (0.58%) NEC